Indianagirl
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Ya creepy weirdos who think David is some messiah and his old girl is like the Virgin Mary and Teddy is the Holy Spirit. And you show up at AI church on Sundays and sing your Blue Fairy hymns and For Always.
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.
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Ya creepy weirdos who think David is some messiah and his old girl is like the Virgin Mary and Teddy is the Holy Spirit. And you show up at AI church on Sundays and sing your Blue Fairy hymns and For Always.
Please! We attend the church of the immaculate heart.
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We have a secret handshake
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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.
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There was a time, my dear, in distant ages past (like the 80s 'n' stuff), when the physical acquisition of rare film score releases was something akin to Indy going after the lost ark or the holy grail. These days it's just not the same thing; once Indy could jump online and order these artifacts for a modest shipping charge, the whole bullwhip-and-fedora thing kinda lost its verve. I still haven't decided which era is better; it is nice to have access to all this wonderful music these days, but something in me misses the hours I spent flipping through hundreds of LPs at WaxTrax and the inordinate thrill that came with finding a piece I knew was a rare find.
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.
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Oh, also, Brian Eno's Textures. Not a score but it was made to be used in documentaries and stuff like that. Very sought after album.
Don't know it. I'll look into it.
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How can you not like A.I.? It's hauntingly beautiful in a futuristic science fiction kind of way
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Okay maybe proud is the wrong word but you guys get the idea.
All my Godzilla CDs.
The old Japanese ones?
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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
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If you want to use the children analogy, scores like John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! or A.I. would obviously be screw-ups and could easily be disregarded.
What? A.I. is one of my all time favorites.
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Rating John Williams's scores would be like singling out your favorite child.
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Question for you Jerry Goldsmith fans. How is the score to Psycho 2? Does it compare to Bernard Hermann's original?
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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.
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Maybe Goldsmith deserves a Top 20
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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.
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Schindler's List
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I regret either being too young or not yet born to see the first three Indiana Jones films in theaters.
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What we've heard already in the trailers is pretty disappointing.
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.
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Love this.
I don't have the slightest doubt that to tell a story like this, you couldn't do it with words. There are only 46 minutes of dialogue scenes in the film, and 113 of non-dialogue. There are certain areas of feeling and reality—or unreality or innermost yearning, whatever you want to call it—which are notably inaccessible to words. Music can get into these areas. Painting can get into them. Non-verbal forms of expression can. But words are a terrible straitjacket. It's interesting how many prisoners of that straitjacket resent its being loosened or taken off. There's a side to the human personality that somehow senses that wherever the cosmic truth may lie, it doesn't lie in A, B, C, D. It lies somewhere in the mysterious, unknowable aspects of thought and life and experience. Man has always responded to it. Religion, mythology, allegories—it's always been one of the most responsive chords in man. With rationalism, modern man has tried to eliminate it, and successfully dealt some pretty jarring blows to religion. In a sense, what's happening now in films and in popular music is a reaction to the stifling limitations of rationalism. One wants to break out of the clearly arguable, demonstrable things which really are not very meaningful, or very useful or inspiring, nor does one even sense any enormous truth in them.
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I listened to First Knight this morning
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The first Hobbit score sounded the best of the three IMO.
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.
That set was a waste of money.
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
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I didn't really like the Hobbit scores like I did the Lord of the Rings.
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I've never noticed that. I will listen again soon and try to pick up on it.
Jerry Goldsmith's Top 10 Scores
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I'm still awaiting the whole march that is to be written for Mr. DNA. Until then I have to go with Doctor Know