Indianagirl

I'm still awaiting the whole march that is to be written for Mr. DNA. Until then I have to go with Doctor Know

Please! We attend the church of the immaculate heart. We go in, look around our feet, sing songs, and when we come out, it's usually robotic prostitutes that we find. Or Gigolo's.

Please! We attend the church of the immaculate heart.

We have a secret handshake

I wasn't tyring to imply that we were weird in a bad way lol Just that our taste in music is, as Uni said, a bit more eclectic.

I suppose, even though it is easy to own anything your heart desires via the internet, I look at film scores being rare in today's world because I don't know anyone outside of this board who listens to them. Let alone buys them. I listen to popular music today along with my friends as well but to me film scores are more special. Maybe I'm just weird but orchestrated music feels deeper and more emotionally complex than pop music. Well actually acknowledging that I don't think makes me weird. Even still buying and listening to film scores, despite them being more easily acquired in this age, feels rare and special to me. Perhaps that makes me weird lol On another note I am definitely going to have to listen to Krull. It has been mentioned a lot since reading these boards.

Don't know it. I'll look into it.

How can you not like A.I.? It's hauntingly beautiful in a futuristic science fiction kind of way

Okay maybe proud is the wrong word but you guys get the idea. The old Japanese ones?

You guys sometimes talk about scores and movies I've never heard of. Which is exciting to know that there might be something out there in which I will love that I haven't heard yet. So in an effort to catch up, and rather than an attempt to say one composer is better than another, I am kind of wondering what are the scores in your personal collection that you are most proud to own. I will start. The scores I am most proud of owning are: 1. A.I. (3cd extended collection) 2. Empire of the Sun (2cd extended collection) 3. Indiana Jones box set 4. Hook (2cd extended set) 5. Doctor Zhivago

What? A.I. is one of my all time favorites.

Rating John Williams's scores would be like singling out your favorite child.

Question for you Jerry Goldsmith fans. How is the score to Psycho 2? Does it compare to Bernard Hermann's original?

Just to be clear. We are talking about gratuitious animal violence not movies like War Horse, right? Although I can't remember seeing a movie with gratuitious animal violence. Maybe I have. But one isn't springing to mind. I would not be in favor of it. No one enjoys seeing animals die. I wouldn't think.

Maybe Goldsmith deserves a Top 20

After a quick imdb of his resume there are still a LOT of his scores I've never heard. But I will say of those I have heard these are my favorite. 1. Poltergeist 2. Gremlins 3. Legend 4. Mulan 5. Secret of Nimh 6. LA Confidential 7. Congo 8. First Knight 9. Medicine Man 10. The Burbs I had always thought he did the Goonies but according to IMDB that was someone else.

Schindler's List

I regret either being too young or not yet born to see the first three Indiana Jones films in theaters.

This made my day

I really enjoyed the small little bit he recorded for the first little teaser trailer. Those few secods felt more like a film score to me than any big blockbuster film I've heard in a few years. In fact it reminded me a lot of Bernard Hermann. Specifically a small segment of The Knife track of Hermann's North by Northwest score.

Love this.

I listened to First Knight this morning

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell they did to the Indiana Jones box set. That set has absolutely no dynamic range. I own that set. What is so wrong with it? What am I missing? I don't understand the problem either. To me the set sounds great and I completely enjoy discs 1-3. Yes, it's a trilogy of awesomeness and a trilogy it will remain. There's the much discussed edit of Desert Chase, but to be honest I don't obsess over those missing seconds. What's your take on that issue, indianagirl? *embarrassed to admit* I wasn't aware there were missing seconds from the Desert Chase

I didn't really like the Hobbit scores like I did the Lord of the Rings.

I've never noticed that. I will listen again soon and try to pick up on it.