Incanus 5,714 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 26 minutes ago, Jay said: ebullient? Having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm. Overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited. Which I think the performance in general is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 The 5 track Hook suite is awesome! I've been listening to these two Spielberg/Williams albums a lot lately, except I took them both and made a mega-playlist with the tracks re-arranged into the same order the films came out. It's quite a lovely listen if you're interesed Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 On 6/26/2016 at 4:31 PM, crocodile said: Enjoy Stargate in context but couldn't get into the album. While I enjoy the score a lot, I have noticed it washes over a me quite a bit in some places. Sometimes I forget I'm listening to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Incanus 5,714 Posted June 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2016 Lincoln by John Williams: Although I like all of the Williams' output from the 2010's, this is probably the one score I return to the most. Gnome in Plaid, KK, Dixon Hill and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2016 Me too! I was playing the piano/trumpet arrangement of With Malice Towards None earlier this evening with a friend. Devastatingly beautiful harmony in that. Incanus, KK and Not Mr. Big 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 While I'm not a fan of this score, With Malice Towards None is one of the finest pieces of Americana music Williams has ever written. And my favourite track on this album. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Jaws (Intrada complete score) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (OST) Star Wars (RCA Victor 2-CD set) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 First meeting with some classical TV scores..."Émanuel is now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time..." The Time Tunnel (1966) (1997, GNP Crescendo, GNPD 8047) With George Duning; Some tracks composed and conducted by John Williams. Lost in Space 50th Anniversary Soundtrack Collection (2015, La-La Land Records, LLLCD 1366, Compilation) Various; Some tracks composed and conducted by John Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 The Reivers by John Williams: A nostalgic jaunt through musical Americana vernacular and such boisterous little score that puts a smile on my face every time I hear it. Silverado by Bruce Broughton Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 James Horner - The Rocketeer Glorious! Basil Poledouris - Starship Troopers Also glorious! After years of 1970s and 1980s expansions, the best 1990s scores are really getting expanded at a steady pace now too! Here's hoping The Lost World, Titanic, Apollo 13, Air Force One, Mission: Impossible and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves are next up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Independence Day! Brilliant and vibrant. The sort of music that simply isn't allowed in Hollywood anymore. To rich, to up front, to stirring! Star Trek: First Contact Done in just a few weeks by Jerry and his son. A fantastic exercise is pure skill. And a really fantastic main theme too. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,000 Posted June 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2016 Obsession and Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann. In celebration of composer's birthday. Next up: Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver. Both the beginning, and the end. Karol Incanus, publicist and Dixon Hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Ghost and Mrs. Muir On Dangerous Ground Vertigo Jurassic Shark and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 6 minutes ago, crocodile said: Obsession and Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann. In celebration of composer's birthday. Next up: Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver. Both the beginning, and the end. Karol Not if you include "It Lives Again". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Bruce Broughton - Lost In Space (Intrada 2015 expansion) Fun orchestral blowout score. I only listened to the main program, there's a big bonus track section too. Do people like the revised cues or the original version better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 On 28.6.2016 at 6:56 AM, Incanus said: Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores (John Williams & Boston Pops): I consider this one of the essential John Williams compilations, along with its earlier companion album Spielberg/Williams Collaboration. The ebullient 5 movement Hook Suite is a highlight but the whole disc is a lovely and terrific listening experience where Williams had a chance to flesh out some of his post 1990 Spielberg scores (and some from the previous decades) into concert form and results are magnificent. Sadly there has never been a follow-up album or albums as these two have done so much since then that would be worthy of disc or two or three. I've never really warmed up to the Hook cues in comparison to the OST, but I love this album's rendition of Flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Star Trek: Nemesis complete score Boy, do I miss Jerry Goldsmith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Avatar by James Horner: It is astonishing that while being mostly a retread of so many of the composer's previous scores, it can be so entertaining. It's like Horner's career condensed into one score really. Aliens, Glory, Willow, Titanic, Four Feathers, Apocalypto and many more make appearances but I don't mind as Horner being the heart on his sleeve dramatist he is, especially with a canvas so big as this, paints boldly and with a wide broad brush here. A terrific if familiar musical journey. Accidental Tourist by John Williams: One of those very small intimate Williams scores that are left in the shadow of his contemperaneous blockbusters, in this case Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Piano led, monothematic and subdued, this score is really the epitome of romantic melancholy with a clever three part main theme that communicates all the possible emotions from heartache to burgeoning love during the film. It is a pensive chamber-sized score, a far cry from the brassy boldness of Indy or Star Wars, but like Always or Stanley & Iris it holds a special place in my heart. I have to say that this along with Stepmom has to be one of those "autumn" scores for me as this has such indelible air and colours of that time of the year. The 40+ minute album can be a tad repetetive listening experience as the score is "variations on a theme" in nature but for me it is well thought out progression which has a proper musical arc and in typical Williams fashion swells redemptively during the romantic finale. On a sidenote as a relic of the LP era the end credits (A Second Chance) are placed in the middle of the album and reprised also at the end to round out both halves of the disc. While not a classic, this is a perfect score for when you are in the mood for some quiet melancholy beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Rather obscure Goldsmith score for a strange 1981 love/children's story set in Texas in the late 40's. It's marvelous, heavy on americana (The Waltons) with a light dash of impressionism (Legend) and some spooky horror cues i left out the suite because they are mood breakers (and are very Poltergeistian, anyway). Special favourites are the kite running sequence (at 03:00) and a jaunty americana scherzo á la Copland (08:23). Incanus and crocodile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 French Connection (1971) by Don Ellis; a highly eclectic thriller score! Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 The Long Goodbye by John Williams publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,000 Posted June 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2016 Seven Years in Tibet. One of the earliest John Williams albums I got. Remember receiving it for my birthday many years ago (in January 1998 or 1999). I had a really bad flu (you know, the actual flu) and was in bed for two weeks. And as wonderful as this music is, I often associate it with high fever and not being able to even stand up. Cause that is how I first heard it. Still, a wonderful score with an absolute kick ass collection of themes. I'm not sure whether the album might be a tad too repetitive for its own good. But it's wonderful all the same. Very grand and sprawling... and yet probably among his most meditative works. Karol KK, publicist and Incanus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 On 2016-06-29 at 4:59 AM, Bespin said: First meeting with some classical TV scores..."Émanuel is now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time..." The Time Tunnel (1966) (1997, GNP Crescendo, GNPD 8047) With George Duning; Some tracks composed and conducted by John Williams. Lost in Space 50th Anniversary Soundtrack Collection (2015, La-La Land Records, LLLCD 1366, Compilation) Various; Some tracks composed and conducted by John Williams. Experience not conclusive regarding Lost in Space. I listened a playlist made from the episodes that was selected on the 40th anniversary boxset and after 1 hour, I wanted to shot myself in the head. I have never listened to something so dull. Any interest for someone like me that never saw the series and have no emotional connection with it. To avoid absolutely. Wow I just saved 200 $! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 2 hours ago, crocodile said: Seven Years in Tibet. One of the earliest John Williams albums I got. Remember receiving it for my birthday many years ago (in January 1998 or 1999). I had a really bad flu (you know, the actual flu) and was in bed for two weeks. And as wonderful as this music is, I often associate it with high fever and not being able to even stand up. Cause that is how I first heard it. I remember picking up Alien, POTA, Wrath of Khan and I think Fierce Creatures as a batch right before getting sick and feeling rotten for several days. I fully associated the first two (and POTA in particular) with falling ill and relied on the other two to get me on my feet again, but I'd already started liking Alien before I was fully recovered. And luckily there haven't been any lingering associations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 4 hours ago, crocodile said: Seven Years in Tibet. One of the earliest John Williams albums I got. Remember receiving it for my birthday many years ago (in January 1998 or 1999). I had a really bad flu (you know, the actual flu) and was in bed for two weeks. And as wonderful as this music is, I often associate it with high fever and not being able to even stand up. Cause that is how I first heard it. Still, a wonderful score with an absolute kick ass collection of themes. I'm not sure whether the album might be a tad too repetitive for its own good. But it's wonderful all the same. Very grand and sprawling... and yet probably among his most meditative works. Karol I adore this score. All the themes are stunning. And you get some really wonderful subdued passages, like the piano statement of the Tibet theme at the very end of Reflections publicist and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Star Tracks Star Tracks II Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection Star Trek III: The Search for Spock complete score Star Trek III: The Search for Spock OST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 2 hours ago, Romão said: I adore this score. All the themes are stunning. And you get some really wonderful subdued passages, like the piano statement of the Tibet theme at the very end of Reflections Williams again does wonderful things with solo instruments in this score. Quiet Moments is among my favourite pieces on the album, such wonderful piano, harp and cello work there. I associate this score oddly with Christmas as I got it as a present in 1998 or 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post publicist 4,643 Posted July 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2016 It's one of his last unabashed 'old school' themes (even 'War Horse' is more subdued) and i always suspected a communication fuck up between him and Annaud being responsible for this wonderful indulgence (the score proper hardly figures in the final film). crocodile, KK and Gruesome Son of a Bitch 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Indeed, it's a score sadly underused in a mediocre film. But it's not all about the sweeping, grandiose statements of the themes (although, had the film actually been good, I reckon the main theme could be for the Hymalayas what the main theme from Lawrence became for deserts). That remorse filled theme (which might be Heinrich's theme, I'm not sure) gets some really impressive variations and fits the whole redemption theme perfectly. But every one of the main 3 themes gets both its sweeping and gentle renditions. As I said, I adore this score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Angela's Ashes Nixon JFK Born on the Fourth of July Karol Incanus and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 A fine selection! "JFK" is the standout, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Romão 2,274 Posted July 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2016 All top scores, but Nixon might be my favorite Marian Schedenig, Sharkissimo and Gnome in Plaid 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 The Cabin In The Woods by David Julyan Possibly my favorite horror score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Can't say I've noticed it in the film actually, but I dig his atmospheric work for The Prestige. Maybe I should take a listen. Meanwhile.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Williams - The BFG Arnold - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 2 hours ago, TheWhiteRider said: Can't say I've noticed it in the film actually, but I dig his atmospheric work for The Prestige. Maybe I should take a listen. Didn't notice it? Oh man it was one of the reasons I loved it in the theater. He effortlessly incorporates actual melody while maintaining the horror atmosphere. One of the major reasons I dislike the genre is that it's all samey and just shrill strings and stuff. Ever take a listen to Roque Banos' Evil Dead? That falls for the genre cliches a bit but the last 20 minutes or so are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Sneakers James Horner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 For all to whom 'Raw Deal', 'Commando', 'Axel F.' and 'Miami Vice' are not just empty words this should come as a journey back in time: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 The Perfect Storm A moving mixture of the emboldened Americana Pub dislikes and the brutality of nature expressed in music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 You rubbish creature. I praised this score more often than you listened to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Good luck tonight against Italy tonight, mein freund! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 See, I do hear the Americana in that score of course. Still not patriotism though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 No snare drums. Or mournful trumpet solo's. That's essentially the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 No, it's not as ecclesiastical hymnal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 There's quite a lot of hymnal music in this actually. Horner really was a master in building tension in his music wasn't he? This whole score is laden with pregnant expectation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Yes and it ultimately gives birth to this: Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 What is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Yours Forever, John Mellencamp Although, I have to admit this is one of the least horrible Horner songs. Apart from typically horrid lyrics. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 The first minute of 'The Decision to turn around'!!! crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Pub, you have feelings afterall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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