What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)

[Brónach 1,330]

These are not duduks!

[Marian Schedenig 11,694]

I'd eat horse. I like American Chinese restaurants, there's no telling what I've consumed.

Horse is good. Healthy and quite cheap, too.

[KK 3,313]

Chaac, Agora is imho Dario Marianelli's most powerful and moving score. It's balance between authenticity, melancholic beauty and sheer raw power makes it a favourite of mine. Also my favourite score of 2009.

[Incanus 5,890]

These are not duduks!

Well be that as it may Orestes' Offering is something I would hardly call spine tingling but to each his own.

Oh and the score on the whole is indeed one of the best of 2009 and up there on top of Marianelli's discography. He really found a great balance between all the elements.

Time to listen to it again.

[KK 3,313]

I love how he blends his usual romantic European sensibilities into a much more powerful soundscape. And of course you have Marianelli's usual sense for keen intelligent thematic writing. i know some might call it unmemorable, but after repeated listens, the ideas shine. It's both incredibly moving and admirable from the intellect's standpoint.

[Brónach 1,330]

These are not duduks!

Well be that as it may Orestes' Offering is something I would hardly call spine tingling but to each his own.

I'm a sucker for anything that sounds somewhat like that. I'm not sure if it's recorded with an actual aulós but it sounds very powerful to me. Maybe I just feel "culturally identified" or something. I dunno.

Lately I've been very very much into traditional, medieval and reconstruction of ancient music.

Speaking of Agora, I'm in love with the timbre, tone and melody that opens The Skies Do No Fall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwMbQ989_kQ

[crocodile 9,724]

I was listening to the Evil Dead promo that was floating around for some time now (on Youtube). There is some really good stuff in there. But because most of it is quite atonal and stuff, I'm not sure I could take 71 minutes of this. Still, it is nice to hear a properly written music, as unpleasant as it sometimes might be. Sometimes these longer releases are better and flesh things out. I'm still on the fence (same with Navarrete's The Hole).

Karol

[Brónach 1,330]

I think LaLaLand was going to release that one.

I love Baños' music so I could happily take all these minutes. If I'm bored by some of it I'll take it out, but I like availability.

[Jonesy 55]

The digital release features less music, if my memory serves.

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

The Fury.

lame.

[crocodile 9,724]

?

Karol

[Marian Schedenig 11,694]

[BloodBoal 8,711]

Wow.

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Its sounds like a mix of Star Wars style, Jaws 2 style, 1941 sound, and "It Cannot Be" style.

Everything heard in the score was done better elsewhere.

[crocodile 9,724]

Three of those works came out after this one. You know that, right?

Karol

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Yes, I know.

[crocodile 9,724]

So how can The Fury be a mix of them? If anything, it's the opposite, right? I mean, ignoring your opinion, to which you obviously have the right to.

Karol

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

So how can The Fury be a mix of them?

Because it sounds like them?

[crocodile 9,724]

No, they sound like it.

Karol

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Not in my order of discovery!

[Incanus 5,890]

The Fury is lame? Oh you kids and your silly opinions!

[Jilal 681]

Chad Seiter & Chris Tilton

Very exciting score.

[Jonesy 55]

I like the main theme, it's very catchy

[Brónach 1,330]

Argo - Alexandre Desplat

I like this a lot! I wanted to hear a Desplat that sounded like this. He pulls it off. The CD seems to be missing some of the cues that made me want to listen to it, though.

[crocodile 9,724]

I will check it out. Although, can't remember literally anything from the picture.

Predator. For me Silvestri never wrote a better score. There is something really brilliant about its supposed crudeness and simplicity. It gives it focus and also saves it from being dated. The score would have worked just as well in the modern film. And in a way it did, because Debney found himself adapting a lot of this material for Predators.

Karol

[Brónach 1,330]

I will check it out. Although, can't remember literally anything from the picture.

Well it's pretty much a thriller score, it works well within the film. I also like the more dramatic cues, although ironically there's a pair of moments where they come out as way too syrupy in the film (you're suddenly remembered of the artificialness of it as a film). There's a curious cue in the film with Uillleann pipes that I didn't find in the OST. The opening section of the track Cleared Iranian Airspace gets my attention (Desplat has tended to sound more clinical than that) but I can't remember where that's used in the film. I wish it was more like that. I wouldn't give it an Oscar nomination, though.

[Matt C 605]

Mama - Fernando Velazquez

For some, I prefer this over Navarrete's Pan's Labyrinth. Mama owes a lot to the former, score-wise, but I find the music here more accessible and haunting overall. (Especially that theme!) "Last Reel" is probably one of Velazquez's best cues ever written, IMO, and it plays wonderfully within the film.

[alicebrallice 134]

NP:

such a fun ride!

[Incanus 5,890]

I listened to Hook just yesterday! As you say it is a fun ride. It has some of my absolutely favourite Williams moments in it.

[gkgyver 1,647]

So how can The Fury be a mix of them? If anything, it's the opposite, right? I mean, ignoring your opinion, to which you obviously have the right to. Karol

If you listen to it in reverse order, it must sound like a copy, the first listen thrill is gone. You can't go back and un-hear the scores that came after.

[alicebrallice 134]

It has some of my absolutely favourite Williams moments in it.

such as?

[Incanus 5,890]

It has some of my absolutely favourite Williams moments in it.

such as?

Remembering Childhood, Ultimate War, The Face of Pan, Farewell to Neverland to mention some higlights.

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[Incanus 5,890]

You forgot Banning Back Home.

Quite right, the film version with the jazzier flute solo and bass is awesome.

[alicebrallice 134]

You forgot Banning Back Home.

lol

It has some of my absolutely favourite Williams moments in it.

such as?

Remembering Childhood, Ultimate War, The Face of Pan, Farewell to Neverland to mention some higlights.

some great moments indeed

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

And yet I never find myself returning to that score.

[Incanus 5,890]

Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams

Munich by John Williams

Sommersby by Danny Elfman

[crocodile 9,724]

And yet I never find myself returning to that score.

Me neither, sadly. I used to really like.it.

Karol

[Incanus 5,890]

And yet I never find myself returning to that score.

Me neither, sadly. I used to really like.it.

Karol

Oh it is obvious. You grew out of it. You grew up!

Farewell to Neverland

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

I actually think I did.

JoeinAr and Neil were right afterall

[Quintus 6,495]

Still, there's always the ridiculously impressive orchestration and players-on-steroids performance to admire, even if what they're playing is a often overbearingly twee in retrospect.

Hooknapped alone is still an atmospheric marvel as ever there was.

[gkgyver 1,647]

And yet I never find myself returning to that score.

Actually, so do I.

[crocodile 9,724]

I'll listen to it tonight.

Karol

[JoeinAR 1,957]

it's on my Ipod but has zero listens, and really needs to be deleted.

last Saturday I listened to Avatar going while driving to Little Rock, and then the Amazing Spiderman.. Haven't listened to music since then.

[Quintus 6,495]

I haven't listened to an entire score for months.

[crocodile 9,724]

I listen to one or two every day.

Karol

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Well it's a 2 and 1/2 hour drive to my mom's and I can listen to a bunch of autotuned pop hits, or some hounddoggy country music, or 2 complete soundtracks going down.

I haven't listened to an entire score for months.

[Quintus 6,495]

I'm a track man, always have been. I play cues which I have for some reason recently recalled from memory, or because I'm in a particular mood. Sometimes I'll play the same track a number of times in succession, entirely or just parts of it, over and over again, until I've had my fill, both emotionally and analytically. Sometimes a single five minute cue can take me thirty minutes to get through.

On that basis I listen to about three tracks a week.

Driving to and from work is definitely good for extra listening time. The Boston Pops Spiel/Will Collab CE3K concert arrangement is currently the track of the week in that regard.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

well track selection while driving can be distracting so I just play the whole album.

[Quintus 6,495]

Yeah I suppose. My commute only takes me 15-20mins.