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

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

Inception - Hans Zimmer

The original release, not the complete score. Forgot how excellently this album flows. Like a classic prog rock record or something.

[Quintus 5,399]

Mako, not Meco!!

Wrong shark:

That's a twenty-footer.

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

Twenty-fiiiiive

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Three tons on him!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Shark still looks fake.

[Quintus 5,399]

Someone get a gun! Get a gun and shoot it!

'Murica

[Koray Savas 2,251]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by Hans Zimmer

The first disc. I usually just listen to "The Electro Suite," but decided to give the full album a spin today.

The Social Network

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by Hans Zimmer

The first disc. I usually just listen to "The Electro Suite," but decided to give the full album a spin today.

That's like putting on ROTJ and just listening to Yub Nub.

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

inb4 outrage over a TASM2 - ROTJ comparison

[Koray Savas 2,251]

The rest of it doesn't do anything for me, to be honest.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Yet the Electro shite does?

Is Oil Rig your favourite cue from MOS?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

No, the trailer cue.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

The Electro material is the only stuff that I sort of like from that score. The rest is either too bland or too hokey.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

See I love the Copeland, Gwen and Harry/Goblin stuff.

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

Yeah the ethereal stuff is where it shines.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Alex North - UNDER THE VOLCANO

 

[KK 3,307]

Yeah the ethereal stuff is where it shines.

Definitely. That plus the cool electronica bits, Frost/Nixon rhythmic stylings and the lovely colour accents he uses to support some of the more emotional stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVLMaEAenNo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da3vi0c9qOg

To its credit though, I do enjoy the neoclassical shades of the Electro material. It's the dub step and the whispering that goes too far into the deep end.

[DreamTheater 131]

Both are the re-recordings ! YEAH BABY !!

ET is not a re-recording!

OK, my mistake, but it's an arrangement right? Some tracks are subtly different from the 1996 edition which I also love.

[Jay 37,322]

Track #1 "Three Million Light Years From Home" is the same as the 1996 or 2002 track "Far From Home", just with a section microedited out

Track #6 "E.T. Phone Home" is the same as the 1996 track "E.T. Is Alive" (The 2002 version of "E.T. Is Alive" has a section microedited out)

Track #8 "Adventures On Earth" is more or less the same as the 1996 or 2002 track "Escape / Chase / Saying Goodbye", just with some different takes, overlays and inserts used or not used between the three versions.

Track # 2 "Abandoned And Pursued" is a special version of "E.T. Alone" recorded just for the LP.

Track #4 "E.T.'s Halloween" is a special version of "The Magic of Halloween" recorded just for the LP.

The remaining three tracks - "E.T. And Me", "Flying", and "Over The Moon" - are concert arrangements recorded just for the LP.

See here for more info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjiRtgP4_o4TdG12WENnUDd3U183cUZHZmtOV1otQUE&output=html (Note there are two tabs)

[Incanus 5,713]

Lincoln by John Williams: It is a cold grey autumn day so I needed some warm soothing Americana to cheer me up. Ah Johnny coming back to this music is like coming back to a dear old friend.

[DreamTheater 131]

Both widely different but great fun all the same, ST III is superb !

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

HZ's MI:2 is a guilty pleasure of mine.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Just a pleasure for me. Great action score.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

It's pretty tacky but yet I love it.

Ambrose's Theme is my favourite thing from the score. It's a chaconne idea that he later used for the Batman films.

[KK 3,307]

Funny enough, I don't remember a thing about it. I'm sure I heard it a few times, but for some reason I have no recollection of it.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

It's a by the numbers HZ action score in the 90s vein. Male chorus, loud guitars, etc. Good stuff. Fits the film like a glove.

[KK 3,307]

Sounds like fun. Haven't played some vintage 90s Zimmer in a while now. Will have to change that.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

I actually prefer to a lot of Zimmer's 90s action scores, like THE ROCK and BROKEN ARROW. Plus, I'll take it over Giacchino's bland MI scores without a second thought.


 

[DreamTheater 131]

Broken Arrow, Crimson Tide, The Peacemaker, The Rock, Armageddon (ok not Zimmer but the sound is definitely his)

These rock for me personally.

[Jay 37,322]

Agreed. Those are the 4 scores from that era I like the most as well. MI2 is rubbish.

DT, we have such similar tastes in music it's freaky.

[KK 3,307]

The Peacemaker is my favourite of that sound and era, just relentless fun.

[DreamTheater 131]

Yes the Z-man sure doesn't make em like he used to.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

PEACEMAKER's alright, except for that awful THE ROCK-CRIMSON TIDE-PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN power anthem.

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

Yes the Z-man sure doesn't make em like he used to.

Yes he does.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Yes the Z-man sure doesn't make em like he used to.

Yes he does.

And better than ever.

[Jay 37,322]

Yes the Z-man sure doesn't make em like he used to.

Yes he does.

Good one!

Yes the Z-man sure doesn't make em like he used to.

Yes he does.

And better than ever.

You guys are hilarious today!

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

The best humor is truth!

[crocodile 7,990]

Dead Ringers by Howard Shore. I like this one, I like it a lot. It's dark, as many scores from this composer. But also really gentle and melancholic.

Karol

[Marian Schedenig 8,178]

Track # 2 "Abandoned And Pursued" is a special version of "E.T. Alone" recorded just for the LP.

And it totally kicks ass.

[Matt C 452]

Guild Wars: Eye of the North - Jeremy Soule

I haven't listened to this in years, and I was doing a clean-up when I stumbled onto my CD-R. Still a really good listen, and impressive for an entirely sampled score. The strings sound live at times, especially in "Ballad of Ice and Snow."

[publicist 4,643]

 

OUTCAST - Lennie Morre

 

Game score that employs huge orchestra and choir and flip-flops stylistically between Goldenthal's FINAL FANTASY and Davis' MATRIX scores. The writing isn't quite as distinctive but compared to what passes for sci-fi score these days we should thank our lucky stars for a huge and lazy male demographic that regularly seats their pants before a video monitor rather than having a life. Thanks mates, you made it possible!

[crocodile 7,990]

Pub, have you heard Automata yet? Curious of your opinion. It's available on Spotify (how do you embed those anyway?).

Karol

[publicist 4,643]

I scanned it, but the tracks seemed awfully short...

[crocodile 7,990]

What do you mean? The album is 54 minutes long.

Or are you talking about something else?

Karol

[publicist 4,643]

The TRACKS, not the album.

[DreamTheater 131]

OUTCAST - Lennie Morre

Game score that employs huge orchestra and choir and flip-flops stylistically between Goldenthal's FINAL FANTASY and Davis' MATRIX scores. The writing isn't quite as distinctive but compared to what passes for sci-fi score these days we should thank our lucky stars for a huge and lazy male demographic that regularly seats their pants before a video monitor rather than having a life. Thanks mates, you made it possible!

What are you doing typing these words in front of a computer monitor when you could have a life?

Outcast is pretty much its own thing in the orchestral world, no FF or The Matrix, at least not what I can hear. It's grand, it's sweeping, it's beautiful, it's everything that symphonic music could hope to be, and the game was actually improved immeasurely by it. I know because I played it and it's great.

[publicist 4,643]

What are you doing typing these words in front of a computer monitor when you could have a life?

You equate typing a 2-minute summary with professional gaming?

Outcast is pretty much its own thing in the orchestral world, no FF or The Matrix, at least not what I can hear.

What? In the 'orchestral world'? It sounds like standardized film music repertoire (not a put down, it's still better than most stuff nowadays).

[DreamTheater 131]

What are you doing typing these words in front of a computer monitor when you could have a life?

You equate typing a 2-minute summary with professional gaming?

Outcast is pretty much its own thing in the orchestral world, no FF or The Matrix, at least not what I can hear.

What? In the 'orchestral world'? It sounds like standardized film music repertoire (not a put down, it's still better than most stuff nowadays).

1. Just jesting dude, no need to take it so serious.

2. To have such music and call it standardized is what's wrong here. It shouldn't be taken for granted. The composer was inspired by the greats of course but that doesn't make Outcast any less impressive.

[publicist 4,643]

1. I expect u to like computer games and that makes you an object for my open ridicule and mean spirit!! ( )

2. Let's say we may have different standards there. I never would label a work like this as more than promising. So many better scores in a very similar idiom have been already written.

[Jay 37,322]

David Arnold - Independence Day (LLL)

This score just keeps getting better with time. Love every second of it.

Michael Giacchino - Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol

I think I like this score a little more each time I listen. I never disliked it, but I never loved either, but I'm starting too. The Russian and Indian bits are still my favorite bits.

Alan Silvestri - The Abyss (Deluxe Edition)

Still loving this score and this release, but I really need to make a personal edit / playlist that replaces most of the revised cues with Silvestri's original intentions, cause I like his original more thematic and emotion versions better than the more dissonant revised versions

Brian Tyler - Now You See Me

Still loving the shit out of this score. Recently learned the SoundCloud release is wildly out of chronological order - some time I gotta hunker down and figure it out.