Because it is.
In fact tracks like: Solar Sailer, Outlands, C.L.U, Disc Wars, Son of Flynn, Armory and Recognizer have broken into play count territory dominated by tracks that have been in my iTunes library for 8+ years. In less than two years.
I don't think there's been a more enjoyable and listenable score in quite some time. It fits every season, every situation. Be it driving to "Outlands" or enjoying a relaxing sunset with "Solar Sailer."
If I told you Tron: Legacy was my most listened to score of the last two years...
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:24 AM
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:47 AM
It's certainly one of mine.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:51 AM
Not terribly familiar with the score. I should probably give it a shot.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:53 AM
Curious Blume, curious.
I remember listening to it twice back in the day and it just didn't click with me. But I guess I could try it again after so long a pause.
I remember listening to it twice back in the day and it just didn't click with me. But I guess I could try it again after so long a pause.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:54 AM
Its highlights are rather enjoyable indeed, but there are still moments in the score that I couldn't find myself loving. It's a decent score overall, but there have been certainly been more enjoyable scores in the last 2 years.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 05:08 AM
It's a fantastic score, totally appropriate for the movie and even adds something to it. Surprisingly rare feat these days.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 05:39 AM
I would prescribe a listen to TRON Legacy Reconfigured
http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B004M20YDU
which has some glitzy remixes by the likes of Moby, Oakenfold and Sander Kleinenberg. Cues like SON OF FLYNN, C. P. U. or END OF LINE get a good electronic workout and come without the heavy RCP sound that plagued a portion of the soundtrack.
http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B004M20YDU
which has some glitzy remixes by the likes of Moby, Oakenfold and Sander Kleinenberg. Cues like SON OF FLYNN, C. P. U. or END OF LINE get a good electronic workout and come without the heavy RCP sound that plagued a portion of the soundtrack.
You wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle Plans Are Here Again."
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:40 AM
Good score, far from my most listened though.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 07:33 AM
It has one brilliant cue (which has been sourced pretty much none-stop by tv promos and commercials the past year) and a couple of really good ones. In all, a decent listen and a better than normal film score.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 07:42 AM
Virgin Money, eh? That would make a great movie title.It has one brilliant cue (which has been sourced pretty much none-stop by tv promos and commercials the past year) and a couple of really good ones. In all, a decent listen and a better than normal film score.
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"We pop out and come into the world and music is there. We didn't invent it - it's all organised in the atmosphere by divinity or whatever. It's a miracle." - John Williams-
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 07:59 AM
You're one sick mofo, Incanus.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 08:01 AM
Virgin Money, eh? That would make a great movie title.
Yeah, for an action film!
- Show me the money!!
- I'm not that kind of virgin!
*Brings out two gigantic guns and starts killing everybody*
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 08:36 AM
Bought the album when it came out, but listened to it only a couple of times. I actully liked the electronica bits, but the orchestral parts sounded all too familiar. I hoped they would merge the two in an interesting ways, but, for the most part, it's one thing or the other. Which is a wasted opportunity. It's a fairly pleasant album, but not terribly exciting or novel.
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 08:47 AM
Musically speaking, it's a terrible score, it does the job in the film though, just about...
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:07 AM
I'd say your more of an electronic/ "ambiance" music fan than a thematic symphonic music score fan. And probably explains why we generally don't like the same types of film scores
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:20 AM
but it's nowhere near my most listened. not even top 10... still love it though. enjoying a cup of coffee to "flynn lives" atm!
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:26 AM
I'd say your more of an electronic/ "ambiance" music fan than a thematic symphonic music score fan.
Why?
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EDIT: NEVER MIND!!!
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:30 AM
You came back to tell us this!!!
It's true. You're my role model, Stefan Cosman.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:46 AM
I'm not guarded I'm a realist!
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:49 AM
Well, i respect your opinion.
In fact i don't. Actually, i'd rather like to kill you right now.
In fact i don't. Actually, i'd rather like to kill you right now.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:54 AM
I think it's an extremely effective score, both in the film and as a standalone listening experience. I have doubts about Daft Punk's ability to ever write another film score that sounds substantially different, but that doesn't make TRON: Legacy any less enjoyable. I think it's a very successful marriage of orchestra and electronics, much more successful than a lot of Zimmer's work, despite the significant similarities.
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In fact i don't. Actually, i'd rather like to kill you right now.
Agreed.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 10:55 AM
Change the scheme, alter the mood. Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 11:38 AM
Daft Punk is great, but I like their old albums more than this score.
Fight Club by The Dust Brothers is more my style
Fight Club by The Dust Brothers is more my style
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 11:46 AM
I'd say The Social Network is much more interesting. Not my type of music or Oscar-worthy, but still better.
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Daft Punk is great, but I like their old albums more than this score.
indeed!
discovery is awesome. and also their alive 2007 album.
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For the win!
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 01:07 PM
I think it's a wonderful score, both on screen and on album. It's one of those rare film scores that manages to appeal to both the film score community as well as more mainstream society. It conveys emotion through use of theme and dramatic music just fine without being wholly symphonic, and demonstrates that an album of largely electronic music can be thematic. If I was driving or hosting people who I knew wouldn't get into listening to Star Wars or Hook, but I didn't want to go the total route of rock or pop, I'd spin up Tron: Legacy and see where the conversations went.
I don't know if it's also my most listened to soundtrack of the last two years, but I know it's up there. It has replaced How to Train Your Dragon in what I listen to a lot, and I didn't think that would happen.
I don't know if it's also my most listened to soundtrack of the last two years, but I know it's up there. It has replaced How to Train Your Dragon in what I listen to a lot, and I didn't think that would happen.
I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid.
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I read Asimov with this score as background. It just fits.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 02:04 PM
I don't know if it's my most listened to, but it's certainly on up there. It's an amazing score; completely blowing my mind that Daft Punk could do something like it.
Do you like John Williams? His early work was a little too jazzy for my taste, but when Jaws came out in '75 I really think he came into his own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and an air of consummate professionalism that really gives the pieces a big boost. He's been compared to Jerry Goldsmith but I think John has a far more leitmotif-driven style of composing. In '82 John composed this, E.T., his most accomplished album to date. I think his undisputed masterpiece is "The Magic of Halloween", a theme so catchy most people don't listen to what it means. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of childhood and the importance of friendship, it's also a personal statement about the man himself. Hey Paul!
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 03:19 PM
I think it's a great score, and works as a stand-alone album. It's one of the only scores I can play in the car.
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I ask why.
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Anything can be played in the car.
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No, it is good driving music. Any soundtrack that's chock full of quiet, reflective, emotional moments calms me and relaxes me to the point I'm seeing how close I can get to the jersey barriers without........oops, now I need a tow truck and the officer is writing me a ticket for falling asleep at the wheel.
Don't worry, Jaws and E.T. are good driving music, too, for the most part.
Don't worry, Jaws and E.T. are good driving music, too, for the most part.
I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid.
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Jaws makes awesome driving music on the hectic roads 
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No, it is good driving music. Any soundtrack that's chock full of quiet, reflective, emotional moments calms me and relaxes me to the point I'm seeing how close I can get to the jersey barriers without........oops, now I need a tow truck and the officer is writing me a ticket for falling asleep at the wheel.
Don't worry, Jaws and E.T. are good driving music, too, for the most part.
I wouldn't use E.T. but I would use Jaws.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:12 PM
I use Psycho and Mephisto's Waltz.
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:15 PM
I use Psycho and Mephisto's Waltz.
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And you don't crash or get pulled aside by police regularly?
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:16 PM
I wouldn't use E.T. but I would use Jaws.
I use E.T. when it gets good, circa the Halloween sequence. The music beforehand, with the exception of the Lost on Earth track, is just sleepytime music.
I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid.
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