Disco Stu

I was first aware of it when it was mentioned in the NY Times profile back in February, there was some discussion of it then in the thread for that article.

LOL did Williams just announce Ford's retirement for him?

Oh God, if this release gets "Mummied" I will be deeply annoyed.

I hope that some board members have a little more respect, even if still not appreciation, for Ludwig's work now.

I certainly trust your encyclopedic knowledge of these things, I just don’t remember it being that significant from when I did my isolated score. I thought it was like 10-15. Glad I’m wrong!

YES! It’s not a huge amount missing (I guess I could agree with the word “fair” above ) but I’ve wanted this in a complete program since I was young. It was a great OST and it will be a great C&C too. Just an absolute classic fantasy score! Hornerisms at their most endearing. Amazing to check another grail off the list.

Always the safest bet is I'll be Option 2

It wouldn't release until Friday would be my bet.

And only a 15% (15!!) drop for Top Gun. Crazy box office weekend all around.

Of the myriad temp copies of Randy Newman's The Natural, this one is pretty good.

Yep, missed that.

Not that he deserves plaudits exactly....

Did we ever figure out which of these people we were blaming?

I'm seeing a lot of critics saying this is in contention for worst Pixar movie.

That Williams arrangement is kinda bad

I think my biggest problem with jazz of recent decades is that in public perception, and too often in reality, jazz is seen to have basically just two modes: relaxing background music or cerebral intellectual specialist music. Back in the classic jazz days it was music that communicated the full range of human emotions and even when it was complex it was accessible to everyone in feeling.

The Kilmer nipples are a nice middle ground

These next few days mark both the 30th anniversary of Batman Returns and the 25th of Batman and Robin. I'm listening to both scores this morning and toasting the memory of when Batman films were fun.

If Boz Scaggs counts then I am on board, Cap’n! But I don’t like Christopher Cross or Hall & Oates

I've always found the yacht rock label pretty meaningless. A lot of the time it seems to be nothing more than "albums featuring Jeff Porcaro".

I still can't believe this is a real movie that is happening. An officially licensed Barbie movie written by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. WTF

Tim Greiving published a nice interview with Andrew Stanton today about the scores for Pixar movies. Very cool detail that the reason Randy Newman scored the first Toy Story is because Stanton loved to play the Avalon OST while writing it. https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/6/15/23168388/pixar-music-soundtracks-randy-newman-michael-giacchino

Added to my wish list on LLL alongside Top Secret

They probably felt like they couldn't do Pinocchio again since they'd done it for CE3K.