Caldeira 0 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Well, I would like to expand my collection of Howard Shore scores (I just have LOTR - FOTR and TTT), but I have a hard time choosing because I don't want to risk buying a mediocre one. So I would thank a little help on this.
Morn 8 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Get The Cell. Be warned, it's experimental music.
Caldeira 0 Posted January 30, 2003 Author Posted January 30, 2003 in otherwords its just noise.I was going to ask that. Now seriously, thank you Morn for your suggestion, I will get to that one later. I would like to start with more conventional, easy listening score. Thank you Neil. Your suggestion is noted too.
Guest Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 in otherwords its just noise.I've generally found that it's "just noise" to those with little musical training or an extremely conservative outlook. Musicians and more aggressive listeners will find an incredible blending of Moroccan and symphonic musics. This is true world music, not the bubble gum pop that plasters tablas on the backbeats and labels it as culturally aware.
Marian Schedenig 11,695 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Cell isn't an easy score at all. It's supposed to be excellent, but I'm afraid since I haven't seen the movie yet, I don't know what to "do" with the music in this case, it's so abstract.Dogma is a good one, as is Ed Wood. And Looking for Richard has LOTR-like choral stuff.
Ricard 2,674 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Well, I would like to expand my collection of Howard Shore scores (I just have LOTR - FOTR and TTT), but I have a hard time choosing because I don't want to risk buying a mediocre one. So I would thank a little help on this. Â If I had to pick just one that would definitely be Howard Shore's masterpiece THE FLYMUCH better than LOTR and TTT, IMHO
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 in otherwords its just noise.I've generally found that it's "just noise" to those with little musical training or an extremely conservative outlook. Musicians and more aggressive listeners will find an incredible blending of Moroccan and symphonic musics. This is true world music, not the bubble gum pop that plasters tablas on the backbeats and labels it as culturally aware.Oh my God, I didn't know I had to have musical training to listen to music.What a bunch of snobbery your wrote. But since your hidden behind the vail of Guest, I really don't give two shakes what you think.
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Well, I would like to expand my collection of Howard Shore scores (I just have LOTR - FOTR and TTT), but I have a hard time choosing because I don't want to risk buying a mediocre one. So I would thank a little help on this. Â If I had to pick just one that would definitely be Howard Shore's masterpiece THE FLYMUCH better than LOTR and TTT, IMHO It also helps that the Fly is a much better film than LOTR. I can't judge it against TTT since I haven't seen it yet. Hopefully soon.
Romão 2,473 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 I forgot about Ed Wood, which is a great score.
Guest Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 You forgot The Silence of the Lambs !And The Yards, also...8O
Justin 2 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 The Score is an excellent score a good jazzy action score.Howard Shore really scored with this score. It's called.The Score.Justin -Who's quite serious. 8O
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Training or experience Joe. Â :roll:You've an empty argument Morn. And for once quit arguing for the sake of arguing.
Morn 8 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Do you not know the concept of an acquired taste?
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Do you not know the concept of an acquired taste?you didn't get slapped enough as a child did you?
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Well, I would like to expand my collection of Howard Shore scores (I just have LOTR - FOTR and TTT), but I have a hard time choosing because I don't want to risk buying a mediocre one. So I would thank a little help on this. Â 8OI can't add much to this topic other than that I recently saw Mrs. Doubtfire again and the score Howard Shore did for this film has a fair number of cues that sound as though "expanded-upon" just nowhere else but in Lord of the Rings scores. As distinct as the movies are, their scores sound gently similar at parts.I don't see there's much to recommend from Howard Shore. He's no John Barry, only LOTR is an unbelievable digression. Maybe not anymore.Get Lion in Winter instead. I recently bought both available versions and I can't believe I could do without it for so long. Lush choirs, pounding bells, heartbreaking themes....
Morn 8 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Do you not know the concept of an acquired taste?you didn't get slapped enough as a child did you?I see you've given up. 8O
Hlao-roo 390 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Do you not know the concept of an acquired taste?Agreed. Among the four major periods of western art music, I used to like only Baroque, Classical, and and most of Romantic. But once I began to appreciate Stravinsky and Prokofiev, for instance, they ranked among my favorite composers of all-time. Acquired taste.Howard Shore's one cool guy. His LOTR scores aren't that bad, either, but you're certainly missing out if you haven't listened to his earlier stuff.
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Do you not know the concept of an acquired taste?not every taste is to be acquired. Sometimes you just like something of someone doesnt mean you like all of that someones things.you would think that living on the coast for so long, I would like Lobster,but I never acquired the taste for it. Too rich, makes me pee to much, so just because you don't like something doesn't mean you need to be trained to like it, or your intelligence isn't great enough to like it
PBL 0 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 The Score is an excellent score a good jazzy action score.Howard Shore really scored with this score. It's called.The Score.Justin -Who's quite serious. I agree.- THE FLY- THE SCORE- SILENCE OF THE LAMBSare three somewhat different moods for film, different approach on music that were successful for Shore, imo (humble or not... LOL)
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 Mrs. Doubtfire is a nice light score.Ray Barnsbury
Justin 2 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 Somewhat typical though.Justin -Who thinks that film is hillarious in a warped twisted way.
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 Yes, Justin, that is one of my favorite films. It makes me laugh so hard everytime."I saw it all, it was a run-by fruiting! Some angry member of the kitchen staff, did you not tip them well?" Ray Barnsbury
Justin 2 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 Yeah it is great. Justin -Always expecting Brosnan to pull out a Walter PPK.
Morn 8 Posted February 1, 2003 Posted February 1, 2003 so just because you don't like something doesn't mean you need to be trained to like it, or your intelligence isn't great enough to like itBoth are true. The trained don't have to like everything, and the untrained will like even less.
Caldeira 0 Posted February 1, 2003 Author Posted February 1, 2003 WOW, thanks everyone! Now I have a list of scores that I'll get as soon as possible. I'm specially looking forward to listen to those with choir. If they are as good as the ones in the LOTR films I'll enjoy them very much.The list so far:BigThe CellDogmaEd WoodThe FlyLooking for RichardMrs. Doubtfire The ScoreThe Silence of the Lambs The YardsThanks again!
Marian Schedenig 11,695 Posted February 2, 2003 Posted February 2, 2003 So how comes none of us have recommended Se7en? Not an easy score either, and with no decent CD release, but it's great. The finale in the desert perfectly shows what film scoring is all about - the music makes that scene. Schindler's List
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,388 Posted February 2, 2003 Posted February 2, 2003 The finale in the desert perfectly shows what film scoring is all about - the music makes that scene.Love that cue.Duuuum....duuuum.......duuuum.....duuuum!!!! Damn i'd give my right arm for a decent release of that score.Stefancos- who will listen to that cue on the DVD now.
Ricard 2,674 Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 the untrained will like even less.Not necessarily.
Hlao-roo 390 Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 just because you don't like something doesn't mean you need to be trained to like itI don't think anyone here said that "training" is always required when you don't like something. I'm sure you've had an experience in which something you didn't initially like eventually grew to your liking. (And the process likely had little to do with "becoming more intelligent.")Morn's contentiousness can get a bit out of hand at times, but he's making a valid point, I feel. Sometimes, through experience -- or training -- you may come to like something you didn't initially like. This was Morn's point, and I don't see the need to qualify it.
Morn 8 Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 the untrained will like even less.Not necessarily.Yeah, experience of course counts too. Morn's contentiousness can get a bit out of hand at times, but he's making a valid point, I feelWell peoples opinions sometimes get out of hand.
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