Wojo 2,453 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Arlen, Harburg, Stothart - The Wizard of Oz (2-disc Rhino)The gapless prowess of the iPod is very apparent with an album like this. Without stitching any tracks together, 82 tracks comprise the two discs. The Munchinkland sequence is made of many short tracks about a minute in length. Before owning an iPod, like the two-disc Ben-Hur, stitching the tracks together makes sense, because the nine-track "Sea Battle" track loses momentum with the gaps in there and is best enjoyed as one complete piece. But stitching the tracks in The Wizard of Oz together never made sense, because each track is its own song, making it an album I never listened to away from Winamp. And this is one of the most thematically rich and enjoyable soundtracks/scores/musicals of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Die Unendliche Geschichte Alice again.I must say, it grows on me like nobody's business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IVI just absolutely love everything about this score. It's my favorite video game of all time and listening to the music always gives me a wave of nostalgia. I only have the Original Sound Version; What are peoples opinions on the Piano Version and Celtic Version?I don't know about those, but one of the early Orchestral Game Concerts has a few pieces from IV that are good, and there's a killer version of the Love Theme on the 200220022000202 concert I think.The OSV of IV has been on my list for a while. It doesn't reach the heights of Uematsu's peak of VI-IX, but there's still good stuff in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Brausam 216 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I listened to several scores in their entirety today, purposefully picking ones that I normally don't listen to. The one that made the biggest impression? Victor Young's The Tall Men. It is a beautiful Western scores, and if I remember correctly, pioneered the "Native American" sound for Westerns. The only other Victor Young scores I'm familiar with are The Quiet Man and Around the World in 80 Days (and you can certainly hear Giacchino's inspiration for Up in that score) and I enjoy them quite a bit. Perhaps I'll look into more of his music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,095 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 James Horner - Avatar 3CD "promo"Alright, just like Joe, I have to admit.... I'm liking this score far more than I would have expected Even though its not the most original score out there.... I dunno, everything he is doing just *works* for me. This was the first time I've listened to the 3CD version, and damn, what an awful listening experience it is. All the additional music is great, but there's just SO MUCH silence before and/or after the music in each track its terrible. And there's a bunch of tracks that are really just filler, or too similar to other tracks. I need to work on an ultimate 2CD edit of this set and the OST.Weird, isn't it? I almost feel bad enjoying it as much as I do...but not really. Your comment about the listening experience is interesting, though...although the repeated material and excess "dead time" are rather bothersome, I actually find the...ah...footwarmer...to be a shorter and more concise listening experience than I expected. I could actually stomach a longer release - which I'm sure it would be if it contained everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Well I think just taking out all the silence before and after a lot of the tracks would help immensely. I also don't need to hear stuff like the 10 second chants while trying to enjoy the score. Or two versions of Scorched Earth back to back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Braveheart:Good score by Horner. I think I heard some Bicentennial Man in it, but for the most part I haven't heard the score before.Stepmom:I must say, this is kinda dull. There are some very good moments, and I think that as a whole the score will probably grow on me quite a bit. As great a song as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is, it really doesn't fit well with the rest of the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Braveheart is one of Horner's very best, my own personal favorite. The best Horner scores are the ones that, despite the Hornerisms, create their own compelling musical world, and that one is one of the best examples- there is no Horner scores in which the Hornerisms bother me less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMM 4 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 John Powell's How to Train Your DragonReally good work here. The ethnic stuff that Powell works in is great, and if anything, I wish there was more of it. Get tiny whiffs of Chicken Run and David Arnold which was surprising.Always nice to hear Powell cut loose near the end of the score with the themes and go all out. Really sounds like he had fun with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 Back to the Future III. Alan SilvestriI forgot how pretty the love theme is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demondm810 399 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 John Powell's How to Train Your DragonReally good work here. The ethnic stuff that Powell works in is great, and if anything, I wish there was more of it. Get tiny whiffs of Chicken Run and David Arnold which was surprising.Always nice to hear Powell cut loose near the end of the score with the themes and go all out. Really sounds like he had fun with this one.Agreed. I've been listening to this for 2 days straight. Fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMM 4 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 My enthusiasm for it has only gone up in my repeated listening. There's just an excitement here that's lacking in something like, say, Elfman's Alice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,059 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 My enthusiasm for it has only gone up in my repeated listening. There's just an excitement here that's lacking in something like, say, Elfman's Alice.Listening to it right now. While fantasy/animated don't excite me the way they used to (I simply like other things more now), this one is pretty strong one. Nice to have a bit more cohesive music from Powell. This (and maybe Happy Feet) might be his best work on animation yet.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneBuckFilms 325 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (original 1979 LP, from the Intrada CD disc 2)Hadn't listened to this too many times.... Mostly I just listen to Disc 1 when I want to listen to this score. Its a nice 35 summation of the complete score, but the complete score is still the best way to enjoy the score. As was just pointed out above, the presentation of this release is top notch. I ended up pulling the CD off the shelf and re-reading all the liner notes again while listening.I could not agree more. As an experiment, I created a playlist of the score replacing the original versions with the revised/rescored versions of the cues, and the film version of the main titles.What's interesting, is that the revised cues, with the original cues as written, would have worked pretty much perfectly in the movie.Definately one of my favorite Goldsmiths, and I was not expecting it to be when I got the CD, due to the dark and atonal nature of the movie.Since a large chunk of the score wasn't actually in the movie, I had no real idea as to the complete picture.ROAR!So awesome.I suspect it would be fun to get the DVD of the movie, and track parts of the piece into a score for the film in general, to see how it would play.One of my favorite Giacchino pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 So I was driving around the other day and Cinderella Liberty by John Williams came on Cinemagic. OMG! I absolutely LOVED what I heard! It was unlike any John Williams score I had heard before, and was unlike anything I normally listen to... but I thought it was great! Will definitely be picking this up in my next moviemusic.com batch!Listening to film scores in the car again (instead of podcasts all the time) inspired me to bring some film score CDs into the car with me.... It was great, as I got to hear more than when I listen at home, which is almost always while I'm working or doing other stuff on the computer, so can never devote full attention to the music. Gonna do this more often. So far I've listened to:Dave Grusin - The GooniesThird listen now and still love it. Love it more each time actually. First time I thought to myself "this is great, but I betcha I could make a killer 45 minute version that would be better". Now after 3 times I have no idea what I'd cut, its all great lolMichael Giacchino - Lost Season 1Yay! This is the first time I actually noticed a bunch of themes! I noticed the Island Theme in track 2, then again a couple tracks later, and also in the last track. Noticed Locke's Theme. Noticed that Life and Death plays in 3 or 4 different tracks. Of course the Traveling Theme that would take over the Season 3 finale. Great, well put together CD. Looking forward to revisiting the Season 2 OST in the car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Michael Giacchino - Lost Season 1Of course the Traveling Theme that would take over the Season 3 finale.It's kind of become a tradition to have that theme in full force in season finales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Oooh yea, I love it's performance on the Season 4 OST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Back to the Future II & IIIThe more I listen to them the more underrated I think they are, especially II. III is more original, but II is just more enjoyable.Far & AwayYou know, Ray spent years telling me and everyone else how great this score is. I wish he was still around so I could finally tell him he was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Back to the Future II & IIIThe more I listen to them the more underrated I think they are, especially II. III is more original, but II is just more enjoyable.I agree with you John, those two scores are definitely underrated especially Part 2.I've listened to all three complete scores in a row...while it's a big project to do and can be a bit repetitive but it's also awesome to hear each score grow and have their own style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Far & AwayHeh, I just listened to it yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Complete Score)Awesome score from start to finish. I find this one more enjoyable than the first Fantastic 4 score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,059 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Complete Score)I find this one more enjoyable than the first Fantastic 4 score.That much is certain.The Fly by Howard Shore and The Shawshank Redemption by Thomas NewmonKarol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,770 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Back to the Future II & IIIThe more I listen to them the more underrated I think they are, especially II. III is more original, but II is just more enjoyable.I agree with you John, those two scores are definitely underrated especially Part 2.I've listened to all three complete scores in a row...while it's a big project to do and can be a bit repetitive but it's also awesome to hear each score grow and have their own style.Unfortunately 2 and 3 don't do for me what the first score does.I love the new themes but they're longer scores, very fragmented and Silvestri has a very action-specific way of scoring things and it doesn't make a good prolonged listening experience for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,731 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Angels in America by Thomas NewmanLion in Winter by Richard HartleyPresumed Innocent by John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,770 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I find it very hard to listen to full albums these days. My attention span seems to have gotten worse lately.And I just heard the AF1 theme used in a bread advert over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Danny Elfman - Alice In WonderlandFinally got a chance to listen to this. I enjoyed it, but nothing really grabbed me and made me pay close attention. The chorus is fairly catchy (Alice.... please..... Alice) but I can't say I remember anything about any other aspects of the score. I need to see the film to find out what the hell all this music underscoresJohn Williams - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (shitewanker's "definitive" version)Ugh. I thought this guy knew his stuff, but he screwed up a lot of stuff.... replacing original versions with partially complete film versions riddled with sound effects, adding spaces between cues when there aren't supposed to be any, no EQing at all to make some of the stuff from rear channels blend in better, etc. I need to find time to finish my edit...Anyway listening to all this great music mostly just made me want to watch the film again Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IV (Piano Collection)This was pretty cool! I've never heard a whole album of music I'm very familiar with done over for piano like this before. I liked it. It's nothing I need to own, or will probably listen to more than once in a great while, but while it was on it was cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,770 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I've listened to all of How to Train Your Dragon in far more detail now and I'm safely addicted to it. The 3 primary themes were spinning in my head all day today.Also, Horner's The Life Before Her Eyes. Don't even remember where I found this, but it's a very relaxing (probably partially synth) score in the House of Sand and Fog vein. Lots of quiet, reflective piano work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 There's a theme in it I like (IIRC the track is called 'Becoming Friends'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 You mean "Forbidden Friendship"?I've been listening to the score non-stop for the past few days. "Coming Back Around" is one of Powell's best cues. Amazing theme underscored with his classic percussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,069 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Prophecy - Leonard RosenmanDragonslayer - Alex North Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 And, your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,069 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Mancini's NIGHTWING. I don't know what I was expecting really, but it never really grabbed me. I'll have to give it another listen at some point. The Native American motif was interesting, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Lawrence Of ArabiaSince listening to El Cid, I sort of have my Golden Age addiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Episode I. A masterpiece presentation of a non-masterpiece score makes it a masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,770 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Mancini's NIGHTWING. I don't know what I was expecting really, but it never really grabbed me. I'll have to give it another listen at some point. The Native American motif was interesting, though.I got Nightwing based on the samples and it's one I play quite a lot now. The sound just clicks. However, I also tend to form very strong associations with music and places, and I was researching Yellowstone NP and the American West for a possible visit around the time I first got this, and now the amazing landscapes come to mind whenever I listen to this score.I can enjoy golden/silver age - it just has to 'click' by some criteria that only my inner mind knows and won't divulge.Finished listening to Eraser. It's an ok score, but I would say in this case that for me the OST distillation was right for the score. There's a lot of not particularly interesting underscore that was edited out, but the motifs and 90s guitar influence save the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 You mean "Forbidden Friendship"? No, I was refering to the Horner score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,095 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Episode I. A non-masterpiece presentation of a masterpiece score doesn't make it a non-masterpiece.I agree. (Sorry, fixed your typo.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 How to Train Your DragonI'm sorry, I can't understand the hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 You and me both. Though it's still is the only thing I've been listening to in the past few days. It's not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Episode I. A non-masterpiece presentation of a masterpiece score doesn't make it a non-masterpiece.I agree. (Sorry, fixed your typo.)You beat me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Episode I. A non-masterpiece presentation of a masterpiece score doesn't make it a non-masterpiece.I agree. (Sorry, fixed your typo.)You beat me to it.No, since I never meant for my statement to be interpreted as fact, I'm pretty sure I had it correct the first time in my first post.My hat's off to the guy who had the patience to do all that work, to turn two lousy albums and dozens of (japor?) snippets of material into something nearly without equal. Therein lies the masterpiece.The score itself? It's good but it's not the first three, it'll never be the first three, and comparing it to the first three is...I digress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,266 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 How to Train Your DragonI'm sorry, I can't understand the hype.Well I guess I will add to it, then...This score is a lot of fun. I'm glad so many recommended it, because I've been enjoying it for the past couple of days. My absolute favorite track is "See You Tomorrow". It works so well as a montage piece, the only shortcoming being a slightly lacking conclusion. But there are some real moments of joy in that cue.At times, the score suffers from (what I'm assuming to be) poor orchestration. (Forgive me if I don't articulate this well, but) Some of the action cues seem to favor a muddy booming sound in lieu of clarity. Those are the times when I disconnect slightly, and even reach for the volume knob.But no matter, this is a real spirit lifter, and I'm glad to know it better.DRAGONSLAYER -Wowee!This score has so much personality. There is a lot to chew on with this one. The layers of music, sometimes competing with each other, are so incredibly dense. I know some reviewers have criticized North for obscuring his themes, so this is a bit of a challenge, and admittedly not for everyone. But I am loving it. I'm glad the LaLa Land sound quality is so crisp. It really helps sell the composition. What a great release.Having said that...How the HELL did this score NOT get rejected? I can't believe there wasn't a suit at Disney or Paramount that didn't throw a flag and say, "no way!" North's approach is so unconventional... Audiences at that time were used to genre scores like Star Wars, Superman, The Black Hole, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek TMP. You would expect something more like Krull or Dark Crystal, but North delivers this completely unique and almost alien textured score. North had balls of steel as far as I'm concerned. After re-watching the film, I can't say it fits like a glove. I know there was some creative differences with the director, as some scenes were tracked with other music. Were they OK with the rest of it, or were they desperate, or out of time/money? I wonder what the original reaction of the studio was to this. I just can't believe this didn't suffer the same fate as North's 2001.- Hedji, who admires Powell's Dragon-riding music more than Horner's Dragon-riding music from Avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,731 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 How to Train You Dragon by John Powell: This score sounds like Vaughan Williams on steroids for the most part and then some John Powell animation scoring thrown into the mix. Not bad. Not bad at all. Simply good fun from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Will How to Train Your Dragon not be sold in stores? I am unable to order any more soundtracks online at the moment, and am waiting for something else to be released before I bundle it with Dragonslayer, the only other recent release I'm interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demondm810 399 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Will How to Train Your Dragon not be sold in stores? I am unable to order any more soundtracks online at the moment, and am waiting for something else to be released before I bundle it with Dragonslayer, the only other recent release I'm interested in.Yes, I picked it up at Best Buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 The Blue MaxThis is the first Jerry I've gotten in a while that would challenge to make my top tier of favorites from him, it's just superb. Too bad the sound quality doesn't match up, but for a mid-60s score I guess we can't complain too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Pan's Labyrinth on a constant loop.Amazing, mysterious, morbid, alluring, spectacul - icious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,069 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 High Road To China - John BarryAmazing Grace - David ArnoldPhiladelphia Experiment / Mother Lode - Kenneth WannbergA Whale for The Killing / Wind - Basil Poledouris I already had Wind from its original release.I'm really enjoying Rosenman's Prophecy, the blaster beam riffs are just pure wicked and evil sounding compared to how Goldsmith employed them in TMP. I had forgotten how good Rosenman's music was for the film. Actually the film isn't too bad either but that's for the intellects in the JWFan movie thread to argue over. I almost wonder if it would be possible for Craig Hundley's Jaws inspired score for Aliigator, another blaster beam score, to see a release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,507 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 How many blaster beam scores are there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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