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Yewcheen chefaw, Regent Bespin.

There was a period for about two weeks, a couple of weeks ago, where I listened to that about every day. I think it might be one of my favorite scores. There's something about it...there's a sheen to it, I don't know, its tone, the orchestrations, it's so clear and inviting. The complete score is _tons_ of fun, start to finish. The First Contact Theme, then Red Alert, where the tone gets really giddy with the Enterprise theme, before the Borg Theme blares in immediately afterwards...what a hell of an overture, and then with that groovy ass piano riff in Temporal Wake to bring the mood down, the fun just keeps going and going. 
 
 
He and his son did a fantastic job, the latter being responsible for some of my favorite moments, I remember discovering with shock. It's hard to get more badass than this, for example:
 
 
 
 
And there's the sexy-ass stuff that Papa G-Smith wrote for the Borg Queen. I'm always fascinated by portrayals of sexiness in music, and Jerry knocks it out here with genuinely sensual material, like in this moment:
 
 
The whole track is great, but the rustle of harp and strings climaxing into that high B in the violins? Chills.
 
And then there are the smaller, great moments where Goldsmith really takes the dark, cornered scenario of the film and refracts it musically to the point where it transcends an action type movie, like in some of the more profoundly desolate statements of the secondary Borg motif at the beginning of The Dish, which on the flipside culminates in a great fanfare that recalls Alien in its more cathartic moments. 
 
Yeah, First Contact might be one of my favorites. 
 

Star Trek: First Contact - Jerrald King Goldsmith

Star Trek: First Contact - Jerrald King Goldsmith

Star Trek: First Contact - Jerrald King Goldsmith

I'll offer some criticism.
 
Gee, the storyline is that a young girl with magic powers is here to save the universe. Where have I seen this before...in everything now? One thing this series absolutely did not need is a chosen one story but then, there it is.

Injustice?  Soundth progrethive.

Dozens.
 
I Promessi Sposi
La Venexiana
Casualties of War
Fateless
Il Prato
The Starmaker
La Moglie Piu Bella
Orca
Tempo Di Uccidere
 
for starters...
 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the JWFan.

Jerry's first score is a timeless masterpiece that has deserved - and needed - the royal remaster/rerelease treatment for some time.  LLL and everyone involved is to be commended for its services to this important piece of film music history.

Jerry's first score is a timeless masterpiece that has deserved - and needed - the royal remaster/rerelease treatment for some time.  LLL and everyone involved is to be commended for its services to this important piece of film music history.

Jerry's first score is a timeless masterpiece that has deserved - and needed - the royal remaster/rerelease treatment for some time.  LLL and everyone involved is to be commended for its services to this important piece of film music history.

Jerry's first score is a timeless masterpiece that has deserved - and needed - the royal remaster/rerelease treatment for some time.  LLL and everyone involved is to be commended for its services to this important piece of film music history.

80s fetishists complained movies like this were too cynical and nihilistic on release.  Now even Nolan's brand of stoic heroism is thought cringey?  Art doesn't date, audiences do.

80s fetishists complained movies like this were too cynical and nihilistic on release.  Now even Nolan's brand of stoic heroism is thought cringey?  Art doesn't date, audiences do.

Yes a rather terrible event for both people involved.  His music is the most impenetrable of the trio that's he typically cited in, but it is impossible not to marvel at its inner logic and deceptively expressive character when you take the time to become familiar with it.

That whole scene is fascinatingly shot.
 
 

 
Indulge me.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The ayes on this poll will be a who's who of questionable pseudo edgy JWFans.  Actually they already are.

T.R. Knight as Mahler

Nick Offerman as Debussy

Been some time now since I kicked the sample library and computer habit but I seem to own a Moog One now.  It will either pay for itself or become a lovely piece of divorceware I reckon.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

I enjoy TFA score well enough, but I don't find it to be particularly complex. Revenge of the Sith, on the other hand.

I love that motif! And I hate that he microedited it from the OST! It's sounds so unsettling and mystical, perfectly underpinning the conversation at hand. It's almost like a counter to the Force Theme, an inversion that represents the treachery of the Dark Side.