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Really nice work! Light show could use a motorcycle chase though... 

Oh my goodness, never saw this, thank you so much!

A snippet of my music that I wrote and recorded and being played every night at the drone and light show during the World Cup 
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A snippet of my music that I wrote and recorded and being played every night at the drone and light show during the World Cup 
IMG_8539.MOV

A snippet of my music that I wrote and recorded and being played every night at the drone and light show during the World Cup 
IMG_8539.MOV

Yeah, it's a very dry score and the recording only exemplifies that.

The Last Jedi all the way! Brilliant score!!! I loved TFA but the lack of woodwind orchestration made the color more monotone and it's not what I want from his Adventure scores. It was brilliantly written but badly orchestrated in my book.

Highly recommended -- Wael Binali's concert pieces "Niramaya," "Earth, Plunder, Wound, Renewal, Hope," and Shaffalah Suite.  He's brilliant!  Also, Benny Oschmann's "The Dwarves" video game score and Hendrik Schwarzer's orchestral music for Europa-Park...

I fucking love the score to the Last Jedi. I think the way Williams develops the themes from the previous movie is awesome and I really like the Luke material. The final few tracks of the score have some of the best moments in all of Star Wars scores IMO.

This will ruffle some feathers for sure, but for me most overrated is A.I.  It is a good score, yes, but “masterpiece” isn’t a word I would use to describe it.  
 
Most underrated is a harder choice to make as there could easily be half a dozen I could list, but I’ll go with Angela’s Ashes.  

Under rated there are a lot. Memoirs of a Geisha, Lost World (can't agree with the above), and all three HP scores are master pieces. Maybe because some scores get played endlessly people get sick of them, but I think everyone thought the HP soundtracks were some of his very finest works when they came out. I don't think under rated is good either, maybe more forgotten about. Like Accidental Tourist, Empire of the Sun, The Terminal,  Yes Giorgio (although the movie was trash), Seven Years in Tibet, and Angela's Ashes. What about Heartbeeps?

I don't really think there are over rated ones either, just ones that get played way too much. Hedwig's Theme specifically got to the point of being annoying so I didn't listen to anything HP oriented for a long time. However if I can say that there was one that got way too much attention it was Lincoln. With Malice Towards None I love dearly, a complete and unique masterpiece, including all its forms. But the rest of the score....eh. The concert suite was really nice, but the second movement was never recorded (I think I heard him play all three pieces from the suite once at the Pops, "Getting Out the Vote" is always left out. its very very good, a bit Coplandesque, but incredible). I also think The Duel from Tintin has been way over played. Great piece, but there are other tracks in there that are great that have literally never seen the light of day since the movie, which I feel was almost instantaneously forgotten about.
 
The Patriot is never one I really got into, but I have a huge appreciation for the writing which is so incredibly masterful and fitting.

I feel the same way about Hook, although it has some really great moments, most of them were captured in some for in a concert suite or version.
 
 
 
For the Indy scores, I always had the opposite feeling of everyone else. I think Temple of Doom is an absolutely incredible score from start to finish, and for me actually makes the other Indy scores look weak. Raiders is great, there's a ton of music in there when one of the themes gets thrown around. But even though Last Crusade had some great themes, there are really just a few cues in that one that are not just like "generic Williams action music". Its kind of a weird score for me, it has moments that are totally inspired and others which are just meh.
 

Lovely quote!

None of the battle music is on the soundtrack. 

Trust me, i wouldn't. I listened to enough 'promising' young musicians in this field to know how to level my expectations. 
 
But what we find here is a typical case of reverse engineering gone wrong: people get something simple and unassuming, which has not exactly a lot of layers, and then construct deep meaning via third-hand inferences and sometimes wishful-thinking observations that are completely off-base. 
 
There just isn't enough substance in the short musical contributions by JW that allow for more than the comparably unexciting conclusion that it's not even trying to add something to Williams' familiar idiom - it's just a small parade of familiar strokes passing by (orchestrated with his usual flair, but that isn't saying much when we are talking a few strings, piano and celeste). 
 
Like i said earlier, i find the decision to treat the music as exactly that - a pleasant little souvenir - perfectly fair. But apart from press releases by Amblin/Universal it's hard to tout it as anything of much substance (an Oscar win for this would be exactly one of those sops to sentiment that is rightly criticized, though i have no idea if there even is a more deserving winner, which is a shattering conclusion for something that used to be a favourite art form of mine long ago).

I have listened to the album like 10-12 times (minus the classical pieces) already.
I agree with you.
I don't think I would put it in my top 30 Williams scores.
I guess I can't call any Williams score "bad" (maybe except his very early scores? although they are also well crafted). It's just that it didn't resonate with me at all.
To tell the utter truth, I expected  something more for this kind of Spielberg film.

So.... Golden age then

Nope, already said, same for me, I was like, really? When he could have delved into Old Hollywood as the basis of why Spielberg fell in love with movies and really harkened back to the golden age of hollywood, instead he goes into simple, yes beautiful and cute piano piece with strings nd harp and celeste.... No real journey in the whole score.

Right? I mean... I KNOW BEST!!!!!!! lol
Hey, listen, I have loved 99% of William's output, it's OK if this one is not gonna be anywhere near my "must listen to again" list. I'm happy many of you are loving it xox
 
Please no, I want pure indy for that and not Gone with the Wind, lol

But that wasn't up to Williams. It's just a few nice and unassuming melodies bracketing Spielberg's late stroll through memory lane, and hey, why not? It may not add up to more than, say, 'Pete'n'Tillie', but you could interpret it as a mutual agreement that a little sweet and direct piece is what you take away from it all (life, i mean, not the movie).
 
This is not an uncommon sentiment for old people, when all the sturm and drang has vanished.
 
 

Yeah I know you were kidding, it made me laugh. As for the score yeah, same. Also, Williams does come from an age old Golden Age of music, I was hoping he would write this as a tribute to all those incredible composers of old as that's what captured Spielberg's imagination for film and music. Personally I would not care if it was OTT, for me it would have highlighted the awe and wonder of movies of that age and why Spielberg wanted to be a director in this business.

Right? I mean... I KNOW BEST!!!!!!! lol
Hey, listen, I have loved 99% of William's output, it's OK if this one is not gonna be anywhere near my "must listen to again" list. I'm happy many of you are loving it xox
 
Please no, I want pure indy for that and not Gone with the Wind, lol

Maybe it was their mutual decision to go that direction. I'm so sad they didn't ask ocelot. 

I get why some are dissappointed.  I had made peace with the brevity, but I was hoping for more musical variety (like, I expected Mitzi's Dance to be a fun dance piece).  Such is life.
 
That being said the main theme is lovely, the Journey Begins is fantastic, and the the piano runs against the jubilant strings of the main theme is so sweet and perfect--like Williams writing a little epilogue to their own relationship.  I would love a long piece of just that sort of stuff, but I will take what I can get.  

Yeah I know you were kidding, it made me laugh. As for the score yeah, same. Also, Williams does come from an age old Golden Age of music, I was hoping he would write this as a tribute to all those incredible composers of old as that's what captured Spielberg's imagination for film and music. Personally I would not care if it was OTT, for me it would have highlighted the awe and wonder of movies of that age and why Spielberg wanted to be a director in this business.