Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Out of morbid curiosity, I re-listened to the pop-duet from A.I. I like the singers' performance but the triumphant tone and cloying lyrics make it near-unlistenable in any context, much less after a (Spielberg/)Kubrick film. They made the right decision to use the wordless rendition of the theme over the credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Not Mr. Big said: Out of morbid curiosity, I re-listened to the pop-duet from A.I. I like the singers' performance but the triumphant tone and cloying lyrics make it near-unlistenable in any context, much less after a (Spielberg/)Kubrick film. They made the right decision to use the wordless rendition of the theme over the credits. Neither version of the song was meant to be in the film. They were recorded specifically for the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 That wicked bass line has been refusing to leave my head. It goes to show once again, Shore's knack for setting the ancient and unknown to music. It's why there could have been no better living match for Tolkien! Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Never could get into this score. It's funny, because I know it's been said Shore was basically asked to do his LOTR sound again for this video game, but most of it doesn't sound like it, to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 5 minutes ago, BloodBoal said: Never could get into this score. It's funny, because I know it's been said Shore was basically asked to do his LOTR sound again for this video game, but most of it doesn't sound like it, to me. He obviously didn't want to do a mere retread so he seems to have stayed away from the clear thematic approach with SUN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I wasn't taking about the thematic approach or anything like that. Really just the sound of the music itself. It doesn't remind me of LOTR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Just now, BloodBoal said: I wasn't taking about the thematic approach or anything like that. Really just the sound of the music itself. It doesn't remind me of LOTR. To me it sounds like LotR in parts (just like e.g. A History of Violence does) but mostly Shore is really doing something different in the orchestra and choir idiom. It is perhaps more the general Shore-isms that are also found in LotR that are more closer to the point. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,363 Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 it's more of a "cousin" score to LOTR than a "sister" score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Just now, Jay said: it's more of a "cousin" score to LOTR than a "sister" score Yeah that is a good way of putting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 4 hours ago, BloodBoal said: Never could get into this score. It's funny, because I know it's been said Shore was basically asked to do his LOTR sound again for this video game, but most of it doesn't sound like it, to me. Are you deaf? It very obviously is like LOTR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 It takes the more abstract features of LOTR and its soundscape and applies it to a smaller ensemble in a "tone poem"-esque fashion (as Inky often nicely puts it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 It's LOTR's sister score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 The entering the great hall theme from Sorcerer's Stone running through my head on a loop, making me feel very festive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,363 Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 I always tend to want to listen to that score in the wintertime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 It's more Christmas to me than Home Alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 12 hours ago, Disco Stu said: The entering the great hall theme from Sorcerer's Stone running through my head on a loop, making me feel very festive. The Philosopher's Stone is perhaps due to its release date back in 2001 very much connected to Christmas for me as well even though most of the film isn't even set during holiday season. There is something warm and fuzzy and festive about it though. I listened to the Call of the Champions album yesterday and now that Olympic fanfare is stuck in my head. Especially the wintery sleigh bells, chimes and brass parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,363 Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 Rey's Theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 The Mexico Theme from "Extreme Prejudice" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I'm not taking the piss I promise, but after listening to the Rogue One OST 4 times today, the melody I have running through my head over and over is.....the Yorktown theme from Star Trek Beyond (the score I've been listening to the past 2 days before R1 came out). It's so good, as time passes it's really cementing itself as one of Giacchino's 4 or 5 best themes ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,363 Posted December 16, 2016 Author Share Posted December 16, 2016 Have you heard the concert arrangement of it on the Varese Deluxe Edition? It's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Just now, Jay said: Have you heard the concert arrangement of it on the Varese Deluxe Edition? It's great! Yup! Got my copy on Wednesday. It was on repeat Wednesday night and all day yesterday! It's a really great release and a great score. I just wish that Yorktown theme had been woven a little more throughout the score! Either way, that concert arrangement has a sure place on an eventual Best of Giacchino compilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,363 Posted December 16, 2016 Author Share Posted December 16, 2016 The film was too busy with action for most of it to stop and reflect (which about the only way the theme would play) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I would have liked to hear his attempt at a creating a more action-oriented statement of it but, yeah it probably wouldn't have been good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I've just been discovering his work lately pub. He seems pretty talented, though he draws a lot from The Thin Red Line (as most Malick films demand). This has also been in circling in my head lately too: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Yeah. Catches my interest, thanks. KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Oddly, Rey's Theme. Odd, as it began to rebound in my head after coming out of Rogue One this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Kat's theme and Kat and Casper theme from Casper. 1:53- 3:11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 On 12/26/2016 at 6:51 PM, Strangways said: Oddly, Rey's Theme. Odd, as it began to rebound in my head after coming out of Rogue One this afternoon. Like anti-bodies to Gia's lesser work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I have had a small incidental melody from Bringing Joey Home and Bonding from War Horse playing in my head for two days, which is pretty irritating when it is the silly comedic woodwind music that underscores an angry goose in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Make it stop! Maaaake it stoooop!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Garrison Family Theme from JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 POOLSIDE from PENELOPE (OST) Pure lounge. Pure Williams. Pure brilliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 This...all night long...again and again... Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 27 minutes ago, KK said: This...all night long...again and again... Sick bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 With KK looking on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 This bit from 8:36 - 8:43 has been playing on repeat in my head all day today and it's beginning to drive me nuts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 7 hours ago, Stefancos said: Sick bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I love how this piece alternates between tragedy and hopeful yearning. An "elegiac lullaby" of sorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Can't remember if I already posted about this, but I recently discovered this and it's absolutely stunning. The rest of the score doesn't seem to be anything special, but this one cue is an absolute masterpiece. I recently got the chance to start watching the film (inspiring me to check out the rejected score). I think that in context the Strauss piece works better for the opening and the bone-breaking, but I think this piece is way better musically (at least as compared to the part of the Strauss work used in the film, which of course isn't much). 1:00 on is just perfection. 1:07-1:23 has some absolutely stunning harmonies. Just ... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Alex North, not anything special? Banned for life, I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Never listened to him. You know his work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 1 hour ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: Alex North, not anything special? Banned for life, I say. Have him stripped and flung out into the pack of wolves, I say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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