Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Disco Stu said: I liked Seth MacFarlane when I was a young teen as well so I won't judge you too harshly He's somebody I clearly have a lot in common with, judging by his love of film scores and science education (like Cosmos), but I think I grew out of liking him as an entertainer. I like him. Family Guy occasionally gets a cheap laugh or two out of me and he has good taste in film music. That's enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Wow. I never realized until Disco Stu mentioned it that MacFarlane was into great orchestral film scores! Cool! I knew he liked Sinatra and big bands of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Oh yeah, I mean he was a speaker at Williams' AFI Award ceremony last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Oh yeah, I mean he was a speaker at Williams' AFI Award ceremony last year. Oh right I kind of remember that now. This article I just found is great: http://projectorandorchestra.com/scoring-the-cosmos-a-conversation-with-alan-silvestri-and-seth-macfarlane/ MacFarlane has some views on film scores that I'm sure a lot of people here would heartily agree with! A true fan. I've never watched Family Guy or Ted so I don't really know MacFarlane as an actor -- mostly as a musician (which, it seems, is something that happened later; he made his money off animation and acting and then did personal projects he'd always wanted to do and, I would presume, finally had the means to do). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,275 Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Family Guy includes lot of John Williams jokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Haha love those, thanks for pointing them out @Jay. In terms of MacFarlane -- any Williams fan is a cool person IMO. That's really all that needs to be said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodex 557 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Any chance we can get a thread like this for Rogue One, with a complete score breakdown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,275 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Not by me! crumbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Incanus 5,713 Posted January 4, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2017 4 hours ago, Demodex said: Any chance we can get a thread like this for Rogue One, with a complete score breakdown? Not from a JWFAN. Will, crumbs, DarthDementous and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodex 557 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 4, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2017 Try www.mgfan.com I hear they're breaking down the score note by note (warning: I have not actually tried that URL and cannot be held responsible for what it may lead to) Cerebral Cortex, crumbs and Will 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 33 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Try www.mgfan.com I hear they're breaking down the score note by note (warning: I have not actually tried that URL and cannot be held responsible for what it may lead to) LOL it's some Japanese site, which seems to be about lectures on job training, or something along those lines. (Google Translate was my friend.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 It's a Japanese Michael Giacchino fansite! Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 9 minutes ago, crumbs said: It's a Japanese Michael Giacchino fansite! Yes! The job training lectures they give are for learning Giacchino's techniques so they can write pastiche scores! Some Japanese person is the next Michael Giacchino who is the next John Williams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 8 hours ago, Will said: Michael Giacchino who is the next John Williams! How dare you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Every time I see this thread bumped, I'm quickly disappointed to find no new unreleased music. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Seriously though. Some people had to wait for 16 years before any new music from Star Wars was released. And 20 years before they had all of it. The OST of TFA was released just over a year ago. A FYC promo with a substantial amount of unreleased music about a week after that. We have nothing to complain about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 3 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Seriously though. Some people had to wait for 16 years before any new music from Star Wars was released. And 20 years before they had all of it. The OST of TFA was released just over a year ago. A FYC promo with a substantial amount of unreleased music about a week after that. We have nothing to complain about. Indeed. Entitled and spoiled generation is entitled and spoiled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I'm a millennial. We don't wait for stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Instant gratification is not much of a gratification at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I don't know, I'd be pretty instantly gratified with a 10CD set of The Force Awakens in front of me. For at least twenty minutes, I guess. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Well I waited two bloody decades for The Lost World! Doesn't mean everything should take that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 It does! The old ways are better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,294 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 One pony? Now you're just being crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 3 hours ago, crumbs said: Wrong. Stefan is right. That felt gross to say, I need a shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I'm usually right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Stefancos said: How dare you! I was joking (I assume you realized that but just to be clear). 7 hours ago, BloodBoal said: In-fucking-deed! Waiting years and years for unreleased music to finally be given an official release makes you enjoy it a lot more than if you had it a few months after the film's release! I've come to quickly realise that as we get more and more sessions leak just a few months after a film's release. You don't even get the chance to say "Oh, I so wish that bit had been release" that you can already get it! Of course, kids could never understand that. Remember a time when we had to wait like a year for a film to be given a home video release? Ah, those were the times... I actually think about this sometimes. There are all these expanded releases coming out but they don't make me as excited as they should ... because in many cases I've barely heard the score at all! I don't have any "grails." I'm not familiar with the scores. I wasn't around when they came out, and just became a fan recently. So the only expansions that I think I would really get through-the-roof excited about are TFA and The BFG, simply because I'm most familiar with those scores since I was a fan when they came out. That's not to say I don't appreciate other expansions a lot, but it's just not quite the same. Sometimes I feel like I actually kind of missed out on the "fun" of waiting decades for extra Lost World music, extra SW music, etc. Of course, many would say they'd love to have that problem, I'm sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I would not call it fun perse, but it's certainly more special to hear new music after you have lived with a score for years or decades. We live in a disposable culture. You buy an iPhone for 800 bucks, 2 years later it's redundant and you get rid of it. I tend to not think of Williams' music like that. And actually like the idea that 20 years from now we might still be getting unreleased music. Not Mr. Big and DarthDementous 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Just now, Stefancos said: I would not call it fun perse, but it's certainly more special to hear new music after you have lived with a score for years or decades. But just the experience of discussing the cues you want and searching for information on them can be a little like a treasure hunt, which is kind of fun, at least in my limited experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Oh absolutely. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 17 hours ago, Will said: There are all these expanded releases coming out but they don't make me as excited as they should ... because in many cases I've barely heard the score at all! I don't have any "grails." I haven't really thought about this before, but I feel like my last grail was released this December. When I got into film music, we didn't have releases like Hook, Back to the Future, Conan the Barbarian and The Lost World . Heck, even stuff like the LotR Complete Recordings were a distant dream. Not to mention the frequent session leaks that we're seeing these days. I sometimes feel like I've become saturated by the amount of music available and it takes something really big to get me into buying soundtracks again (like last year's Back to the Future trilogy or this year's Jurassic Park collection). Maybe I should make a new wishlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Something just becomes less holy if there's a complete sessions leak out there. Can you imagine if we were still listening to only the original soundtrack album of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and a complete score release was announced tomorrow? Or if the Star Wars video games hadn't used all that unreleased prequel music and we were still listening to the albums with the incomplete Battle of Coruscant and that glorious fanfare from It Can't Be never coming to its resolution and we'd still be wanting that music? I remember recording Jurassic Park off a VHS copy onto a cassette, complete with dialogue and sound effects, just to listen to the music. I knew a CD must be out there, but local stores just didn't have it and there was no online shopping to get it. And DVD wasn't even around, so no ripping the rear channels either. You just had to make do with the stereo mixdown. Jesus Christ. I'm fucking old. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Yeah I actually tried to record the end credits from JP that way back in the day. Didn't succeed very well with my tape recorder though. Those were happy innocent times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, BloodBoal said: Ah, yes, putting the tape recorder near the TV speakers to get the music... The good old days! We had a cassette deck hooked up to the VHS to record directly from the source. Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Spoiled brat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARDSTRAUSS68 107 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 We had surround sound, I would take disconnect the front and center speakers. the record from the back two so I could get more of the soundtrack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Our first DVD player had the option to switch the audio output between 2Ch and 5.1Ch. We didn't have surround, but if you set the player to 5.1Ch, it would send only the front left and right channels to the TV speakers via the SCART cable. I used to play the LotR movies that way to be able to listen to the full thing, even though that still meant listening through many sound effects, volume changes and some (brief) stretches without any score. RICHARDSTRAUSS68 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 34 minutes ago, Mr. Breathmask said: Jesus Christ. I'm fucking old. What do you think I feel like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Nearly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Drunk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Impotent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 14 minutes ago, Mr. Breathmask said: Drunk? Not yet... 9 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Impotent? No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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