Pieter Boelen

Are you going to include the Qui-Gon Jinn's Concert Suite? It is not an official concert suite, but it is very well edited together by the person who did the Star Wars: Symphony for a Saga. Do you have that track? If not, I can send it to you.

Why do you need cables to record the music out of the games? I have frequently recorded the End Credits from DVDs by recording the music straight from the sound card. That way, there is no drop in quality. I do this using a program called "All Sound Recorder XP". There must be more programs that can do it. Unfortunately doing it that way will STILL require you to play the games, because it is not really converting the files.

Indiana Jones and the Greatest Sequel Ever Made? :roll: You guys really don't seem to like the idea of an Indy IV, do you? 8O

My post above was NOT an attack on Jerry Goldsmith of any kind. It was simply a sincere question. I have recently tried to get myself more music from Jerry Goldsmith and I am trying to see as many films scored by him as I can. I am very impressed by most I have heard so far. I actually appreciate a lot of Jerry Goldsmith's work. I consider him a very good composer indeed. But much of his music is much harder to appreciate fully on first listen than John Williams' music is. That doesn't mean Jerry's music isn't good, of course. It just means it needs some getting-in-to. So I'm asking for some help in getting into it. It would help to know why people consider some of his scores so good, so I can pay attention to the aspects they mention. I might just agree with them after listening to it some more.

Why exactly is that one so good? I listened to it and it did sound pretty good, but I didn't hear the awesomeness the first time around. Is there anything in particular I should pay attention to? I'm not saying it isn't good. It probably is VERY good and I simply missed why the first time around.

I sent you several PMs, but you have replied to none. Have you recived them? If you don't want to reply to them, that's fine. I just want to know if you actually did receive them at all.

Seems like you people have been misunderstanding me. I never said the link should be posted in this thread. Actually, I said that the link should NOT be posted in this thread, but should be distributed through the PM system or something similar. I thought that was the way things were usually handled here. Or am I mistaken? :? I did PM you, but I didn't get any reply, so I posted here as well, just to make sure you'd see. I will PM you again. :roll: I remembered that after my post. Stupid! :oops:

Just as legal as it would be to upload it to RapidShare or Megaupload. And of course the link would only be provided through PMs, so no links to the material on the forum.

I thought it might have been. They have a lot of film music there in comparision with other stores.

Just in case you're interested: I should be able to find some place to upload this score so everybody can download without any limitations. I have a lot of webspace that I could use.

I bought it from the Fame music store in Amsterdam about a year ago or so. The next time I got there, they had another one again. They also have it at the library here. It doesn't seem overly rare to me, but it might be a bit rare. I'm pretty happy to have that CD.

How about Patrick Doyle? Before Potter 4 was released, I heard people claim he is a good composer. I only did hear Potter 4, so I can't judge, but I have been thoroughly unimpressed with that one.

Actually, The Scorpion King doesn't sound much like the first two. For some reason, a rock influence has been added to the music. Which actually works reasonably well. It's not overdone at least. Apart from the track "Boo!". That one does feel out of place. The rest is pretty good. And there are some genuinely good parts in there.

Now this is a truly tough choice. Goldsmith's music is excellent, but so is Silvestri's. I find Silvestri's music more enjoyable, especially the action sequences. But Goldsmith's music is perfect for the film as well. The Mummy Returns movie isn't as good as the first film though. Both scores are better on the complete editions though. Lots of absolutely excellent music was left off from the OSTs, such as several action tracks from The Mummy and the entire finale from The Mummy Returns. I will also say that John Debney's The Scorpion King is pretty good as well. Not quite as good as Goldsmith's or Silvestri's music and not as good as Cutthroat Island either, but still definitly good. In the end, I can't really make a well-judged choice about this. Both are simply excellent.

Shame.

Would it be possible to remove the sound effect files that play during those cutscenes?

I liked Henry Jones a lot in The Last Crusade, but I don't see any nescessity to have him in Indy IV. Not in a large role anyway. He had a large role in Indy III; Indy IV should be different. Good as well, but different.

It most certainly does. I bought it as soon as it was released. I just had to have for the full Battle sequence alone. And the rest is just as good. Absolutely awesome. This is one score that can compete with John Williams' usual writing. Depending on my mood, the rest is either OK, tolerable or bad. That one scene truly is the highlight, musically.

What do you people think of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad? There are a few tracks I like (the main theme, for example), but so far I haven't gotten myself to listen to the score in it's entirety. Are there any nice action/adventure tracks in there?

The first time I heard that, I thought it was the Imperial March. I haven't listened to it enough to confirm this with absolute certainty, but it certainly sounds like it. Knowing the usual level of neat thematic references Williams puts into his scores, I expect it to be an intentional reference to the Imperial March.

That is at least true for me. I got into film music with John Williams' scores for Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Star Wars, but I really liked the first Pirates of the Caribbean score. I say "liked", because after reading a lot of positive reviews about "Cutthroat Island", I bought the OST and was so impressed by it, that my appreciation for PotC dropped pretty badly. Now I think PotC is an OK result for a score composed in a short time. But scores like Air Force One and King Kong show that much better music can be composed in a short time.There are parts that work pretty well in the first PotC though. Especially the entrance of Jack Sparrow. The music actually works excellent there. I read that Zimmer is using a large orchestra and even choir for PotC 2: Source: http://www.scorereviews.com/forum/topic.as...id=1929&page=10Not sure if this information is reliable at all though. I'm still hoping for the best. I really like adventure music, especially pirate music. I think Muppet Treasure Island by Zimmer was pretty nicely piratey-sounding, even if it did make heavy use of synths. So Zimmer can do a good (acceptable?) job. In theory.

If Verbinski wanted Zimmer-like music, why did he hire Alan Silvestri at first? He could've known that Silvestri would come up with something very much not Zimmer-like. It wouldn't surprise me if Verbinski really did want Silvestri to write some genuine pirate music and that the sole reason for Silvestri being fired is Bruckheimer insisting on a Zimmer-score.

In case anybody is interested in some news about Hans Zimmer's score for Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest: Interview Video At the moment, I'm not exactly certain what to make of this. I really like scores to pirate movies, most notably Cutthroat Island and Hook. I used to like the score to the first PotC film a lot, until my interest dropped after hearing Cutthroat Island. I really want the score to the second film to be good, but what I see, read and hear from these two sources haven't really given me any confidence that it will be good. Seems like Hans Zimmer is having rather oddish ideas. Almost as if he insists on coming up with something truly original, but fails miserably, because thinking of something original isn't always the best choice. Sometimes writing something in the same style as has been done previously for similar films is a better idea and that certainly applies to Pirates. Pirate movie should have swashbuckling orchestral music. So I hope he'll be adding enough swashbuckling orchestra in... :? The soundtrack is scheduled for release on July 4th. Apparently, this is what Hans Zimmer said about his work on the first Pirates of the Caribbean: Well, I thought honesty was a virtue! But seriously, Jerry Bruckheimer quite rightly asked me not to give him "that old-fashioned Pirate music," and Gore Verbinski, who I adore and did The Ring with, said, "Well, it is a pirate movie, so we have to disguise it." In the end, I spent a day and a half writing tunes, Klaus Badelt wrote a lot of stuff, and we rolled up our sleeves, got drunk, behaved in a debauched way, and produced a score! They're joking, right?

One wonders why they keep re-recording the same pieces of music. I would be more interested in hearing new music. MUCH more, I might add.

Sensible = disliking AotC?