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  2. Scott's score for "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" is not bad at all. Probably my second favourite PotA score. I just remember, it reminded me heavily of "Strawberry Fields Forever".
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  4. I'm noticing that JW, especially with his most famous works, is generally more immediately accessible, while Jerry's more of an acquired taste. His music is genius, but it's not always a genius you can really appreciate on a surface level. You have to listen to it a lot to really "get" it.
  5. For noobs like myself, what is Tanglewood on parade and why is it loved so much?
  6. Gremlins, Gremlins 2, and Twilight Zone: The Movie were home video perennials at my house when I was too young to watch any of them, so I’m certain that was my first exposure to Goldsmith. It’s about the extent of my journey though. I blind-bought tons of Goldsmith scores in my carefree teenage years and maybe only really liked two or three of them, so now I don’t bother.
  7. Nice, so half the people from this forum who consider the raiders march their favorite theme will be in attendance? ☺️
  8. Yeah, not bad. Although I’ve only these two and Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan to go by. I’ve listened to both Final Countdown and Kong Lives and they are nothing if not fun. They are thematically memorable with action music of the era and perhaps Goldsmith influenced. The orchestra can sound a bit thin. I’m not sure if that’s due to the recording or orchestrations. But these are enjoyable enough that I’ll come back for more. I happen to think the sweeping theme from Greystoke is his most memorable.
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  10. Barry Keoghan was the standout performance for me. Nate Mann (Rosie) is terrific as well. (You'll get to him.) And yeah, I hope we look back on movies like this with Butler the way we look back on early Brad Pitt. "Hey, this kid's not bad!"
  11. I'm pretty sure my earliest Jerry Goldsmith-related memory is Dennis McCarthy's arrangement of his Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation. I remember getting excited by that music every time I would watch an episode of the series with my grandfather, around age six or seven, even though I later learned it was a pale echo of the original work. That said, my Persian father was really into old westerns and had a bunch he recorded off AMC or TCM or whatever in the 1980s onto VHS... and one of these was Black Patch (1957)! I ended up watching most of those old westerns as a kid so it's entirely possible that my first time hearing Jerry Goldsmith music was Jerry's very first original score for a feature film. I just don't have a conscious memory of it. The very first CD I ever owned was Star Trek: First Contact... a birthday present from my great uncle who kinda introduced me to the concept of film music being available on album, by playing Last of the Mohicans in his car. Yavar
  12. The Rock arrived last week and I had a proper second go through to identify a better curated personal OST. And now that Hook is back in stock, the wait continues for TLW to come back. It can't be rocket science to find a 5 minute window when they have both available..... right?
  13. I remember just seeing his name a lot on movie credits at movies and on TV growing up in the 80s - I was born in 1972. I remember noticing the name when I saw Rambo First Blood part 2 in a theater and for many movies on TV: Capricorn One and I think Alien was another one, and there were quite a few more. Maybe Twilight Zone and Gremlins I think as well. Strangely, I don't remember paying extra attention to the music - just that I kept thinking, oh there's that name again. Like all fans my age, Williams brought film music to my attention, so I think that had me noticing composer credits, but all this was in my early teens when I didn't think to buy a soundrack. But I realize I was drawn to instrumental music in a form back then - the long guitar solos of Mark Knofler on the dire straits double live album, and his Going Home piece from Local Hero on the CD, come to mind. I saw Total Recall (1990) and Medicine Man (1992) in theaters, and it was between those that I bought my first soundtrack - Varese's Star Wars Trilogy and Superman. And back then in Australia, you could rent CDs, and I borrowed Kamen's Robon Hood and fell in love with that. And then I kept seeing Goldsmith's name on CDs so I got more of an idea of his output. I knew he had written the music for Medicine Man before seeing the movie - I saw it with my mother who was a Sean Connery, and I went into the theater with the intention of paying attention to the music. The Trees piece had me mesmerized, and I bought the CD either that same day or the next one. And that set me on the path! Although I remember thinking most of Star Trek The Motion Picture was weird. Now I know it's just utterly brilliant! And then while living in the UK between 1997 and 1999, my parents visited, and Jerry Goldsmith gave a talk about The Edge with the director (maybe). And my mum went along as well, and she enjoyed Jerry's anecdotes about the Hollywood stars he mentioned. Hearing him speak, I really felt I was in the presence of a genius. It just occured to me that in the future when my mother is no longer with us, I'll probably associate some of Jerry's music with my memories of her. Damn, I hope that's far into the future! Thanks GerateWohl for the topic and the resulting trip down memory lane!
  14. Woow. Episode 3 was fantastic! Tense, high stakes, great visuals. Butler really gives the best performance so far. He doesn't say a lot but his eyes and expressions tell you so much. He's a brilliant actor.
  15. A very belated answer: yes, it matches OST track 1. It's similar material to "The Letter", but doesn't appear to be identical.
  16. I regret not picking up two expanded Intrada CDs: Trevor Jones's Nate and Hayes and Jerry Goldsmith's The Trouble With Angels (later I was at least able to get Intrada's digital download version of Trouble With Angels through HDtracks).
  17. It doesn't how many times you ask or begin playing. I am not going to sing anything from Rigoletto or anything else for that matter. Now, what the hell was I talking about?
  18. Oh, I thought I was here to talk about Jerry Goldsmith.
  19. You gotta admit: I played this stinking city like a harp from Hell.
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