Marian Schedenig

He may be the obvious and "cheap" choice... but Zimmer is certainly a strong contender here. As for Nyman: He's one of my favourites.

What? Remember Supergirl? Brrrrrr! The film and the soundtrack deserved each other. Too kitschy for me taste! I haven't seen the film. I'm sure it's horrid (and I didn't find the original Superman too good, for that matter). I do believe that the score on CD drags somewhat, and I rarely play the CD, but I don't doubt that Goldsmith would have written great stuff if the movie had been interesting enough. As it stands, the main title/suite is outstanding. I actually prefer it to the Williams march (which I'd rather label "kitschy", or at least cliched, than SG), and for good reason it was Goldsmith's standard encode piece for his last concerts (a tradition thankfully continued by Brosse). The Trekkies win... not!

Nevertheless, I would have "liked him for Superman". Seriously, if I had to pick a composer of choice, he's the only one I'd consider if he were alive today. I can't see a modern Williams score for this, and I wouldn't even want Goldenthal to handle it.

Jerry Goldsmith

Happy Birthday. Scary picture though.

Well, a long time, they used to have the famous Steiner fanfare, obviously (which btw always was part of the score as well). Later, for some anniversary, there was a time when they used a rendition of As Time Goes By during their logo.

I'm hoping for an instrumental main title. The synths fit the movie, but they're somewhat distracting on CD. Either way, it'll be nice to have more than 7 minutes of score for this one. A Shakespeare Suite from Richard III (William Walton)

Nice.

Are you sure? I hear *something*... perhaps it's the beginning of a Wilhelm, but it's so distorted in the overall noise, and so brief, that I'm not even sure it's a scream.

John?

If the decoded file doesn't have silence, then either your burning settings or your burning software are the problem. Or your burner, if there are any burners that can't burn gap-less audio? 8O The Battle of Britain - Suite (William Walton)

Perhaps the MP3s are faulty? You could transform them into wavs and rip any full silence at the start and end of the files. Then burn them without gaps using "disc at once" mode.

The truly amazing part is the deconstruction/composition of the Confutatis. Perhaps the best "representation" of actual music in any movie.

Reminds me of The Forgotten. A totally forgettable (no pun intended; I'd actually written the rest of this text before looking up the movie's title, which had escaped me) movie from start to finish, but that one scene was so unexpected and effective, it really amazed me.

It can't be inherent to MP3s. MP3s are just WAVs encoding using lossy compression. When you decode them, you get standard PCM data. If the program can't play two MP3s without gaps, it's either the program's or the codec's fault.

Aging a recording to make it sound "better"? An....interesting concept. :? First Knight (Jerry Goldsmith)

I still don't have Sin City on DVD, and it's pretty obvious I'll never get my money back for that order either. Avoid dvdsoon.com at all costs, that's all I can say.

Both have wonderful scores by excellent composers which serve the movies very well.

To write music, yes. But if you actually want to *create* the music, you won't get much more than some basic percussion functionality out of that device. Hook

Whoops, I didn't pay enough attention there. Ok, in that case: Since when has Kubrick been considered a gentleman? Cutthroat Island (John Debney)

As I said above, the thematic writing is extremely complex. I don't think even Williams has written anything at that thematic level (the Star Wars has tons of great themes, no doubt, but most of the time, they're used in a rather straightforward way - used very well, that is, but not at the level where every tiny phrase you hear is actually linked to a series of themes, as in Wagner's writing). Of course, Williams excels at orchestration and "pure listening music"; only a few of Shore's cues can compete there (the beacon sequence comes to mind). Cutthroat Island (John Debney)

How is trying to get the money one deserves instead of letting people steal ones own works un-gentlemanlike? :?

Plus, after seeing and hearing the CR, he really created a set of themes that can best be compared to Wagner's Ring. No, they're not big in-your-face themes like Williams did in the 70s, but the thematic coherency and complexity is a rare thing. As I said before, Williams would have written great music, with more standout cues. But the chances that anyone else would have written a score that's so fitting and represents Tolkien's creation in so much detail are very slim.

Well, that would be fitting, since that song is a cover version of the Russian anthem.

Aye, and a wonderful concept, with plenty of De Palma's tricks employed to great effect. The self-mocking opening of the movie is hilarious.