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1 hour ago, A. A. Ron said:
I don't either, but if it's at the top of people's Randy Newman lists, I'll check it out.
Same, I'm only really familiar with his Pixar scores but I absolutely love Toy Story 1+2 and A Bug's Life. I'd definitely be interested in listening to more of his work
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Love the movie, I'm definitely excited to check this out - hopefully it sells well enough that they might expand the show too
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47 minutes ago, Oswin Pond said:
Audacity, the episodes are encoded with 7 channels and you can easily just delete the music channel. Alternatively, the links are all available on youtube if you search "Doctor Who Unscored" on google !
The music is in its own channel???
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16 minutes ago, Oswin Pond said:
I have restored The Day of the Doctor with Murray Gold's original vision. I'm sure some here would be interested so I am sharing the link to the showcase! Happy anniversary!
How'd you isolate the dialogue and sound effects in order to replace the music?
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7 minutes ago, Chewy said:
Limited quantity CD box set!!! Don't miss out!!
At least that's some positive news. Hopefully it's limited enough that it helps to shield the pitifully low sales
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5 minutes ago, Thor said:I get the issues that you all have with this set, no worries. But don't you think -- in all practicality -- that it will provide a cheaper way to the DoD CD than what is currently the case? Providing Disney doesn't release another batch of the single CD, which I also find likely.
The OST retailed for $17. It's not like it's an OOP set from many years ago, it's just been a couple months!
Even with the stock/shipping issues, most people here have gotten one at this point. And Disney controls the stock! Making it priced at $150 isn't "cheaper than the scalpers", it's a substantial price increase from what was just available a few weeks or months ago
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4 hours ago, Holko said:Good news? Another zero effort recycling of the same shit thrown in our face and no progress? These braindead morons...
I think this is really bad news actually - I expect this set to sell extremely poorly. No one here is buying it, it's complete shit and way overpriced. That said, who not on this forum is even going to know it exists?
And once it sells like shit Disney will assume no one is interested in the series' music and there go the chances of an expansion from WDR. The only hope I think we have is Disney deciding it's no longer a flagship series and opening it up to Intrada
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7 minutes ago, thx99 said:
Questions:
- Is the single entry a better way to go, or do you prefer the individual episode entries?
I think putting the entire entry into one spoiler block makes it a lot more readable and there's also less scrolling/clicking when actually going through the links
8 minutes ago, thx99 said:Questions:
- Is the number of cues in each episode and their length of any importance, or will the total number of cues and overall length suffice?
I definitely think it's useful information to keep
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25 minutes ago, Chen G. said:
For one thing, if you're going to hinge your argument on "nobody saying no" you need to cite cases either from production on the original Star Wars in 1976, or from production of The Lord of the Rings in 1999-2004 when somebody DID say no.
Most of the examples of Lucas not getting what he wanted on the original film were due to technical or budgetary restrictions. There was that one editor who didn't do what GL wanted, but he got quickly fired and replaced
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26 minutes ago, Jay said:
First single was released back in September
Now, a 19-track FYC album is available (though only 18 tracks play because track 3, Barren plays track 1 "Leaving Home" again)
Idk if you saw @thx99's post in the FYC thread but there's actually 34 tracks available from that site (there should be 35 but one of them wasn't uploaded by accident). It's basically the complete score
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Ah okay. I never really cared for too much of the action music in AOTC, the Zam music in particular I heard way too much of in LEGO Star Wars and got tired of it, and there's not much else.
The Spare Canister Caper is cool but short, and The Jango Fett Fight never really grabbed me.
Most of the other noticeable moments are quoted directly from TPM (DOTF in The Arrival at Tatooine, the droid march in Interior Topica City)
The only standout action cue for me is Entrance of the Monsters.
I probably should like some of the Anakin/Padme music given how much I like the Tatooine material from TPM but I'd have to give it another listen, every previous time I've tried nothing has really stood out to me.
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I've been listening to the Legacy of JW podcast recently while driving, I heard this interesting anecdote in the Conrad Pope episode:
He said that when John Williams first heard about HZ writing tons of music in 3 weeks he was like "how'd he do that", and someone told him he paid other people to do it for him, and Williams said "Oh I could never do that".
When James Horner heard the same story, and they told him HZ paid other people to write it, he said "Sounds expensive"
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2 hours ago, Bellosh said:
been listening to attack of the clones, and it just finally clicked for me i guess.
absolutely in love with it. i've always considered it my least favorite of 1 thru 6.
i think i like it the most now out of the prequels.
great holiday score too.
What cues stuck out to you? It's always been my least favorite of the 6 as well
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48 minutes ago, mahler3 said:
- CLIP: 1st SW cue ever recorded, aka "The Swashbucklers" - 6 min
I thought there wasn't any recording session footage from ANH. Or was this just a section of isolated score from the movie? Or an edit of movie clips?
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12 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:
FLAC is lossless, so the format itself can't sound worse than the source. Has to be your phone or a software issue.
Well technically it depends on your encoding settings - I just learned recently that exporting audio in Audacity in FLAC isn't always 100% lossless in that it can apply dithering to the exported audio; essentially added white noise that's supposed to drown out the rounding errors that come with converting from 24-bit to 16-bit.
Technically the FLAC file is still "lossless", but it's not a 1:1 conversion of the input file since it has additional noise. You can disable dither in settings though
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On 02/11/2023 at 5:37 PM, Jurassic Shark said:
If Josh wants to fall asleep I suggest Lorne Balfe.
To be fair being sleep inducing doesn't necessarily mean it's bad music; I've sometimes thrown on Sorcerer's Stone when I've had bad insomnia - and that's one of my favorite scores. It's just peaceful and calming
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11 hours ago, Edmilson said:
Interstellar is a nice choice for this thread. I don't think it's awful (the first two thirds are some of the best Nolan), but the score is really the best thing about it.
And yeah, the ending is awful. I never understood exactly what happened: so Matthew McCounaghey goes to the inside of a black hole, which somehow doesn't completely turn him into spaghetti but rather makes him go into a tesseract where he can interact with his daughter's bedroom 20 years ago. Using the robot, he transmits via Morse Code some mysterious data that makes his now adult daughter solve an equation that allows mankind to leave Earth.
After that, McCounaghey gets taken out of the time travel machine inside the black hole (!) about 70 years later, when mankind is living in a space station and his daughter is now old. He reunites with her then immediately departs in a space ship to find Anne Hathaway.
Is that it? Have I got it right? Because, if so, how could he go inside of a black hole who is coincidentally a tesseract so conveniently placed that allows him to solve all the problems of the movie? Who made that possible? Aliens? Did mankind became so advanced during his daughter's lifetime that they could send engineers inside that black hole to put there the thing that would help McCounaghey later - or earlier? I don't even know anymore...
Which is why I prefer a dark theory about the ending of Interstellar: none of this bullshit happened, it was just McCounaghey hallucinating while he was turned into spaghetti by the black hole as a means of his mind to cope with the failure of his mission.
I think the intention is that some future humans developed the technology to do so, and created the tesseract there so that he could contact his daughter and save everyone. Its deux ex machina to the nth degree, mixed with a bit of bootstrap paradox
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Best example I can think of is Dragonheart. It's not a well regarded movie by any means but most people who do remember it positively remember it for it's beautiful score
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2 hours ago, mrbellamy said:
Well yeah, that is the thing I especially don't want is for this thing to be stacked with actors who starred in John Williams movies but actually had little or nothing to do with his work or even knowing him very well as a person, like the AFI Lifetime Achievement award ceremony. I love Mark Hamill and his enthusiasm but I don't need him talking about how amazing it was to hear Star Wars for the first time. But good odds he'll be in here to tell me again!
The interviewees I want to hear from regarding his film work are directors, editors, mixers, orchestrators, of course the musicians themselves. Many of these people are gone but not all, and there are always archival interviews. I would be more impressed if the lineup looked more like The Legacy of John Williams podcast guestlist than the casts of his movies. It shouldn't be that weird! A WWII documentary would be filled with first-hand accounts from absolutely nobody you've ever heard of yet movie-related documentaries can often use famous actors as a crutch.
Milquetoast music documentaries are the same way which can end up with vague analysis of the end results and its legacy, when you really want to know what makes someone tick and how the sausage is made. That's what was so miraculous about the Get Back documentary. There was a great tweet saying the awful, ultra-slick version of it would have had the footage interrupted frequently with shit like Dave Grohl saying "Without The Beatles, there would have been no Nirvana."
The bottom line about wanting this to be about process is not to uncover exactly how his mind works when he's writing music, because that's impossible, but there are things we can observe about how he works as a creative professional, especially him on the podium at sessions or at the mixing board or if Spielberg ever filmed him playing and talking through themes on piano. I would also love if they just interviewed him about his music AT the piano. Then he's not just sitting there saying "Dun dun dun dun" or talking about chords, he can demonstrate what he's talking about, that would be fantastic too. Just putting him against a black screen describing music to me, less interesting. I've seen it before.
The other trap this documentary can fall into in covering his entire life is to be so broad that it lacks specificity. Not just skimming over areas of his career but also generalizing his personality. That's what actually sucks about ass-kissing and saying "He's so nice." I'm sure it's true that he's nice, tell me why he's nice! I've never met the man, he seems very nice. But other than just watching him for myself in interviews I don't have that many real anecdotes about why people have unanimously come to think he's so damn nice lol. So if this documentary ends up telling me over and over how this man is so nice, or smart, or charming, then please load it up with actual stories.
But of course there's more to the guy than that. It doesn't mean there's a scandal waiting to happen (better not be) but stories like Lukas Kendall asking Williams if he ever "geeked out" on anything as a kid like soundtracks and movies, and Williams witheringly replied "Girls." There have to be millions of stories like that which aren't necessarily him being "nice" but shade different sides of him in interesting and funny ways we've never heard. I'm sure they'll have a few nuggets from his family.
I mean at least the actors might've had the chance of visiting a recording session or two. I'd rather have that than completely unrelated people.
That VICE documentary on Star Wars from last year, the "Icons Unearthed" one - it had some great guests like Marcia Lucas and Anthony Daniels and Howard Kazanjian and Roger Christian and some of the ILM folks, but then half the other interviewees were random people who had nothing to do with the production at all.
Some of them were professors or film historians, but then there was some Den of Geek correspondent, they gave her loads of speaking time and the whole time she was saying things like "now George was thinking this. George wanted to do that." She wasn't even born yet when the movie came out!
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My girlfriend introduced me to this show Pantheon last week. We've almost finished season 1, there's just 1 episode left.
This series is phenomenal! It's so sad that no one's ever heard of it. It tackles some pretty complex issues regarding the future of machine intelligence in a fascinating and realistic way. There are some awesome ethical dilemmas as well. Really the only criticism I have of it is that there's almost no score whatsoever, but the story is so good that it doesn't really matter.
Unfortunately the series has been very unlucky in the way it was released. It was commissioned as a 2-season show for AMC+, but the show was removed as part of the tax write off they did not even three months after S1 came out. Apparently they also uploaded the episodes in the wrong order by accident meaning the show was very confusing to watch for anyone who did get a chance to see it.
At the time of cancellation season 2 was already completed but not yet released, meaning there was a chance it might never have seen the light of day - but fortunately Amazon Prime (in AU/NZ only) licensed it a few weeks ago and put up both seasons, so season 2 is out there now. If you don't live in AU or NZ I don't believe there's currently any legal way to watch it, but hopefully that changes soon.
This show deserves a lot more attention