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MrJosh

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  1. Williams' action cues doesn't have that oomph that gets your adrenaline pumping wildly.

    It certainly does for me! To me, he is one of the only film composers that creates really unique, complex and interesting underscore and action music. I can sit and listen to some of my favorite action setpieces (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Jungle Chase, Phantom Menace - rescuing the queen/ hanger battle etc for example) and it's just really engaging. Some of the stuff makes you wonder what the heck will come next...

    I get tired of hearing action music by some other composers that just consists of an ostinato for a really long time with some big brass punches.....or maybe just a cool rhtyhmic layer of percussion.

    I like the fact that William's action music is so complex. It dances at times, gets up in your face, moment of silence, mickey-mouses with what's on the screen, always changing and always fun (or at least almost always).

  2. This was one of the first Williams pieces that I fell in love with. My parents got me the two CD Greatest Hits set and at that point the only scores I had were star wars SE CDs, TLC, Jurassic Park and TPM. What a magical time that was, I was so new to Williams it was an adventure to listen to each new track!

    I remember being blown away by the end section of STH. I loved the low brass repeating figure and the trumpets flourishing on top of the melody. Exciting stuff!.

  3. I am listening through the Goldsmith CDs that I've amassed but haven't had time to listen to.

    I just finished The Blue Max.

    Anyone a fan of this one? I quite liked the main theme and the older sound of the score. Parts of it allllllmost sound like Williams....or at least my wife mistook it for a Williams score at first (she is starting to pick up on his sound from my bombarding our house with John Williams pretty consistently LOL).

    Anyway, its great to have more Jerry Goldsmith in life, I think he had an amazing gift for crafting memorable and often times very beautiful melodies.

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