Bryant Burnette

Spectre is one of my absolute least favorite Bond movies, so I'm not too excited about it, but I ordered it all the same. And The Golden Child too, because hey, why not?

I basically only love listening to music if I can listen to it loud, which means while I'm driving since I live in an apartment and don't want to piss off my neighbors. I'll occasionally listen to music on headphones while doing nothing else; most Williams releases get that treatment at least once. But overall, the stuff that's most important to me is played while I'm driving. And since I don't drive more than half an hour most days, I really don't end up listening to much music the way I'd like to listen to it.

I had no familiarity with King Solomon's Mines before listening to this release. I remembered that the movie existed, but never have seen. The score is a lot of fun, I'm very glad I bought it. I can't afford buying as many scores as I'd like to buy, but every time one comes out that I HAVE to have (a Williams or a Bond or a Star Trek, etc.), I always buy one or two from composers I generally love but am not quite obsessed with. A Goldsmith or Barry or Broughton or Silvestri or something like that. I don't believe I've ever once regretted it, and I certainly didn't regret this one.

Was this on a Sunday afternoon?

That's also not very recent, to be honest. Time is gonna fly (now)!

Got an order in for Diamonds with King Solomon's Mines to go along with it.

I mean, comedy is super subjective, so your mileage may vary; but I thought it was unfunny in every way. Shirley MacLaine is attractive in it, and that's its only virtue (including the score). In my opinion, at least. I want to rewatch Conrack; I've seen it but remember nothing about it except it being a fairly good adaptation of the novel. Never have seen The Towering Inferno, but I'm slowly collecting all of the movies Williams scored, so I will eventually.

The Reivers is pretty great. Fiddler on the Roof, Images, The Sugarland Express, The Long Goodbye; all great. None of them are on the level of Jaws, but then again, few movies are; you can go several steps down from that and still be in "great" territory. If there's a worse movie with JW's name on it than John Goldfarb, then I would be shocked. Maybe Daddy-O or something like that, but I kind of doubt it. John Goldfarb is abysmal.

I'll see an Arnold-starring King Conan no matter what, but their ability to get a great composer might be what tips me over into excited or not. My choice would probably be Bear McCreary.

Why bother listening at all?

The Italian male figure skater performed to Interstellar. It was pretty good!

That's a brutal decision. I'm going to say Close Encounters of the Third Kind, though, and let the decision have been made!

They're equally unique...

I'll take whatever I can get, but I'd be most interested -- as others have said -- in something which has never been released at all, like The Rare Breed. An album of all the NBC News stuff, plus pieces like Dear Basketball, would be nice too.

I was listening to this score earlier today while driving! Seems like it gets better every year.