natedog 7 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Hello people, one composer i haven't really listened to or found their music particularly accessible is Jerry Goldsmith. Can people recommend the best tracks or individual pieces (not whole scores). Can be action music or just great pieces of music. I kind of want to put together a Goldsmith greatest hits playlist together. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 1) Congo - Gates of Zinj 2) The Ghost and the Darkness - Theme from Ghost and the Darkness 3) The Mummy - Imhotep 4) Supergirl - Ouverture 5) First Knight - Never Surrender 6) Rudy - Main Title 7) The 13th Warrior - Old Bagdad 8) The Mummy - Tuareg Attack 9) King Solomon's Mines - No Diamonds 10) Universal Studios Logo Music Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Enterprise Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: The Mountain Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: A Busy Man Star Trek: Voyager Theme Star Trek: First Contact: Main Title Star Trek: First Contact: First Contact Star Trek: Insurrection: End Credits Star Trek: Nemesis: Odds and Ends Star Trek: Nemesis: Final Flight Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Logan's Run- Theme Logan's Run- The Monument Air Force One- Hijacking Star Trek V- Pick It Up Star Trek V- Without Help Star Trek V- Cosmic Thoughts Star Trek TMP- The Cloud Star Trek Insurrection- Prepare the Ship Star Trek Nemesis- The Scorpion Patton- German March/Winter March Tora! Tora! Tora!- Final Message just to mix it up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Alphabetical by score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 You'll also find some good suggestions here: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/19179-recommend-me-some-goldsmith/ http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20387-introduce-me-to-jerry-goldsmith/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 People, look at the man's avatar! Give him 'Poltergeist', 'Secret of NIMH', 'Final Conflict', 'Night Crossing' and maybe 'First Knight' and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 2 minutes ago, publicist said: People, look at the man's avatar! Give him 'Poltergeist', 'Secret of NIMH', 'Final Conflict', 'Night Crossing' and maybe 'First Knight' and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 'And i think all of you fuckers suck for always giving awards to the most simplistic, least challenging fluff but because i want you to like me, i will now write the theme from RUDY' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I do love a Goldsmith thread, though. At the risk of sounding like a JWFan hipster, he was a more significant early musical presence in my life than Williams was. On a lot of days, I prefer his style of magic. Be sure not to miss 3:29 of V'Ger Flyover for one of the best chords in film scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I think most film music fans can be divided in two camps: the rock-solids, who prefer their stuff more conservative (orchestral, built on classical forms etc.) and the paradise birds who usually early on find their joy in strange musical hybrids often impersonated by early Goldsmith (say up to mid-80's) and Morricone and the likes. Nothing hipsterish about it. I love Williams for certain things he has a brilliant hand for but he bores me stiff in other departments. Goldsmith could do the traditional orchestral stuff but often his partitures became most stale when he worked in those forms (the early 80's excepted, both men shone in that period). With this in mind i just don't think it's a wise idea to recommend the more outlandish works to someone whose big idea of film music is E. T. and 'Star Wars'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Well that's fair, but having an apparent missionary complex, I can't imagine a demographic more in need of exposure to the outlandish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Maybe 'The Dress Waltz'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Being me, mine are pretty moody. Not music for a pump, but if you want to smoke some weed... Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Cloud Planet of the Apes - The Search Continues Capricon One - The Message Patton - The Battleground Outland - The Greenhouse The Final Conflict - The Final Conflict Chinatown - The Captive Papillon - Gift from the Sea Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Oh shit. Double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Coma Psycho II The Mephisto Waltz The List of Adrian Messenger The Omen Planet of the Apes The Boys From Brazil Rio Conchos Bandolero! 100 Rifles Logan's Run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 20 hours ago, publicist said: I think most film music fans can be divided in two camps: the rock-solids, who prefer their stuff more conservative (orchestral, built on classical forms etc.) and the paradise birds who usually early on find their joy in strange musical hybrids often impersonated by early Goldsmith (say up to mid-80's) and Morricone and the likes. Nothing hipsterish about it. I love Williams for certain things he has a brilliant hand for but he bores me stiff in other departments. Goldsmith could do the traditional orchestral stuff but often his partitures became most stale when he worked in those forms (the early 80's excepted, both men shone in that period). With this in mind i just don't think it's a wise idea to recommend the more outlandish works to someone whose big idea of film music is E. T. and 'Star Wars'. I'm sorry, Pub, but I have to chime in. I don't hang around in this MB to confirm what I already know or to get pats on the back from other members in our shared loved and apreciation of a musical piece. This still is, no matter what, a great place for one to broaden his musical horizons, to get a new perspective on a familiar piece of music or to be introduced to totally different composers and musical aproaches. You, of all people, have proven to be invaluable in that regard and I greatly apreciate your longer posts reflecting on a given score or piece. I just don't think that somewhat condescending attitude towards a member who has shown interest in furthering his knowledge of Goldsmith's ouevre does him or this board any favors, just because he has an ET avatar. You speak of two camps, whereas you'll find plenty of people who stand on both (and there are quite few on this very MB) and often one leads to the other We all need our entrie points, our introductions and, why not, some mentoring in broadening our musical horizons. So by all means, please share your suggestions (I am, for one, quite curious about them) and please refrain from using the "this stuff is too good for you anyway" attitude. And this is coming from a member who truly treasures your contributions on this MB. I hope you don't take this the wrong way Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Point taken, but let's be honest with ourselves here: just because someone asks a very general question (with almost nothing aside his avatar to hang recommendations onto) and people respond with their usual assortment of bullet-point lists there is no furthering of any knowledge. Too much time here is devoted to just listing stuff and be done with it. For debate's sake a starting point like 'i hate fucking ALIEN noise' makes much more sense, because that would start a real discussion about merits and music history and what have you. I don't for a single second buy that someone who has, one must think, tried Goldsmith music and didn't like it suddenly starts listening to esoteric cues from 'Capricorn One' and thinks 'Heureka!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 You once again show your presumption. There are no "two camps" in which you can comfortably divide Goldsmith or Williams fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Lots of best-of lists say otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Not really. A best of list requires you to chose your favorite 10 or 20 out of thousands of beloved tracks. Giving a very incorrect and skewed perspective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 In this case it is clear that the original poster asked for an anthology of what the composer is known for. That's why I came up with an accessible list. I think it's ok that people post their more outlandish personal tastes but maybe it would be good to explain them as such as to help the OP to get things into perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Ignore the rude German, MSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Yeah. Thankfully there are enough eternally bored dutchmen to play watchdog patrol on all these out-of-control threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I do not understand this veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 People seems to gloss over Goldsmith's westerns when they're some of the best of the best in the genre; a brilliant mix of Morricone/Copland/Bernstein: The Hanging from Bad Girls Main Title & End Title from Take A Hard Ride Main Title from 100 Rifles Main Title from Lonely Are The Brave (The score that made Bernard Herrmann declare "Your music is too good for this film!") Main Title from Bandolero Main Title from Hour of the Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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