Andy

Great fun, that one. Love the scene of Shatner picking live tarantulas off the car seat before getting in his truck. 

Listened to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome again after finishing the (criminally forgotten) 2015 game. And I still love it, lots of interesting sounds, love the didgeridoo for the desert or the rock semi-source for the Bartertown underbelly or the choir+exotic percussion for the kids, or the distressed piano clanging in the final setpiece, some good theme variations, a nice arc overall. Pity it's OOP!

Given the mention of the Shat in this thread, here's an enjoyable 'creature feature' with him that fits right in to it - 



Think Arachnophobia, but without the gags. 

Thanks Yavar. I swapped out the logo on this (obtained from a better source) for a sharper image.

 
The Patriot ... upgrades
 

Custom cover artist raferjanders at the Film Score Monthly board has provided some amazing custom art for La-La Land's exciting new Oliver Nelson twofer!
 

 

 

Oh yes, these will look nice in my iTunes...
 
Yavar

I don't know about Williams but it plays that way to the audience. I know there are people who just think it's Otis' theme. They just notice the goofy bouncy part with Beatty and don't notice the part where Lex pushes someone in front of a train by remote control. (That freaked me out SO bad when I was 11.)

CD release please....

Yea the whole album's tracklist is up on iTunes.  Drops May 17th
 

 
1 Wunderkammer: I
2 Wunderkammer: II
3 Wunderkammer: III
4 Percussion Concerto: I. Triangle
5 Percussion Concerto: II: D.S.C.H.
6 Percussion Concerto: III. Down
7 Percussion Concerto: IV. Syncopate
8 Are You Lost?
 
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/percussion-concerto-wunderkammer/1737254712

That earned you a Rock-a-Facepalm. 

Well, Seth himself supposedly follows that account.  Not that he would jump in to some rando’s thread and confirm or deny it, but still there’s never been hope this strong. 

The second TMP theme (the one used in the film) is mostly an extension of the first. So when it turns up in Ilia's theme or The Enterprise it sounds like a nod to the finished theme rather than "an unfinished theme we don't hear anyplace else".
 
I'm sure there are Jerry scholars who can put this better, but the two themes really feel like a crossing from 60's and 70's Jerry to later day Jerry.
 
As for The Rocketeer's theme that is heard in Jenny's theme, it's also a variation of the main theme rather than a straightforward statement. I love it! I love when two character's themes can play together like that. Like how Short Round's theme harmonizes with both Indy's theme and the Children's Crusade.

National Film Music Day is what we make it to be.   4/20 and May the 4th had to start somewhere.  It’s up to us nerds to take this thing to the next level. 
 
Fortunately, I have some ideas on how to kick start this holiday, and give it widespread commercial appeal:
 
Try a composer who is new to you. 
  Give an old OST you don’t need anymore to someone you think might play it. 
  Start a composer thread for a composer you think we should pay more attention to. 
  Donate to one of the film music recording Kickstarters.
  Do a random act of Film Score kindness. Buy Andy a CD of his choice. Think how good you’ll feel. 
  Invent a cocktail that embodies your favorite composer or score. 
  Drive through a bad part of town blasting “Cutthroat Island” with your windows down. 
  Change your instant media profile pic to Giorgio Moroder. See if anyone guesses.
  Play some Barry or Delerue during sexy time with that special someone.   
And finally, for the children, invent a mythical “Father Film Score”, “Santa Soundtrack”, “Papa Bande Originale” character. Dress in a turtleneck, beard, glasses, and white ponytail. Carry a conductor’s baton and a sack filled with 1-cent Titanic OST’s you’ve been hoarding.  Visit your local village, community center, or public market to the squeals of delight from the little ones. 
 

 

I think so.  It’s more accessible, I’ll put it that way.  I also think it resolves in a more satisfying way.   It’s safer, and stays within the box a little more, but I think that’s to its advantage. 
 
We’ve always had a remnant of the first theme in the final version of The Enterprise, and it always seemed like a nice variation of the final theme (which at the time, we had no knowledge was a re-write). But it never surpassed the BAM of the Enterprise theme kicking in with the money shot of ship. 
 
Anyways, Jenny’s theme from the Rocketeer is melodic, hummable, emotionally satisfying, and thematically practical.  Horner did well. 

Right, it is very hummable.  And it truly is long lined, I wasn't being sarcastic.   It has two repeating phrases, an ascending middle that rises to a crescendo and then comes all the way back down to the beginning.  Then its midsection plays counterpoint with the Rocketeer theme.   It's gorgeous.
 
 
Oh and Robert Wise was wrong about Jerry's first Star Trek theme too.  It's lovely.  I'm glad he rejected it because the second theme is better, and now we have both.  But how could Wise not hear the theme?

Right, it is very hummable.  And it truly is long lined, I wasn't being sarcastic.   It has two repeating phrases, an ascending middle that rises to a crescendo and then comes all the way back down to the beginning.  Then its midsection plays counterpoint with the Rocketeer theme.   It's gorgeous.
 
 
Oh and Robert Wise was wrong about Jerry's first Star Trek theme too.  It's lovely.  I'm glad he rejected it because the second theme is better, and now we have both.  But how could Wise not hear the theme?

Well, Seth himself supposedly follows that account.  Not that he would jump in to some rando’s thread and confirm or deny it, but still there’s never been hope this strong. 

No way! The concert piece is amazing, especially when the Rocketeer theme plays counterpoint.  It’s also a strong enough theme on which Horner hangs a lot of the dramatic scoring of the climactic Zeppelin sequence.  It’s sweeping and appropriately romantic for the material. I mean, it is a love letter to stuff like Commando Cody / King of the Rocket Men.  

Seems hard to believe, with no other news sources saying anything yet, but lets hope this is real!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Well that's wonderful news indeed! Hopefully we can get Legend of Zorro as a companion release for Black Friday this year then
 
Then hopefully the AFM will start granting waivers for 2005 scores anyway, because it's nearly two decades ago for crying out loud!

Maybe it appeared a lot in those authomatic playlists generated by Spotify's algorithm?

Custom cover artists raferjanders at the Film Score Monthly board has provided some amazing new custom art for this exciting Oliver Nelson twofer!
 

 

 

Oh yes, these will look nice in my iTunes...
 
Yavar

The Superman movie that made me realise one about him could be all the things you describe wasn't Returns, it was Man Of Steel. Hated that film, to the extent that I still haven't seen any subsequent movie with Cavill's Superman. 

To me, a certain amount of 'darkness' is fine and indeed makes sense when it comes to Batman. But not when it comes to ol' Supes. 

The Flying Circus is jut an all-time great film cue