Soundtracks, Compilations, or other recently purchased Music

[crocodile 8,012]

44 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Happy listening.

I love this album. Always wanted to have it on vinyl as well. Was looking at getting the Mondo version of the Matessino film programme but, to be honest, the soundtrack recording is all I need in this case. And it was brand new and fairly cheap.

 

Karol

[ThePenitentMan1 743]

I can now finally say: Star Trek IV is here!

 

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

2 hours ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

I can now finally say: Star Trek IV is here!

 

Well done. You will not be disappointed.

[crocodile 8,012]

Rosenman deserves more credit. He's not for everyone but had a very distinctive voice in film music. Winning or failing, at least he was interesting.

 

Karol

[1977 1,743]

20 hours ago, Amer said:

Fresh arrivals...

 

That's a terrific batch! I can kick myself for gifting my copy of Maurice Jarre at Abbey Road years ago.

[bollemanneke 3,348]

2 hours ago, crocodile said:

Rosenman deserves more credit. He's not for everyone but had a very distinctive voice in film music. Winning or failing, at least he was interesting.

 

Karol

I never understood why Horner got so much praise for Star Trek, or Goldsmith for the first movie for that matter. Rosenman is better than both.

[Tom Guernsey 2,284]

29 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

I never understood why Horner got so much praise for Star Trek, or Goldsmith for the first movie for that matter. Rosenman is better than both.

I don't agree (much though I do actually like Leonard Rosenman) but I'd bet real money that Rosenman thought that! He supposedly claimed to write better tunes than JW...

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

Apparently, Nimoy wanted Rosenman for III, but Bennett went to bat, for Horner.

[Tom Guernsey 2,284]

22 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Apparently, Nimoy wanted Rosenman for III, but Bennett went to bat, for Horner.

While I'm glad Bennett got his way, it would have been intriguing to hear a "proper" Rosenman Star Trek score - I think even a James Horner ST IV would have been quite different from II and III.

[Andy 4,127]

Rosenman is so out of the box, and not as accessible as many of his contemporaries, but just like James Horner, when you hear Rosenman, you know it. He had a voice that I wish we could say we had today in the sea of sameness. 
 

The Ballad of the Whale is remarkable. It’s graceful yet awkward at the same time. That it even happened for a Star Trek movie is incredible.  Imagine something like that played at the climax of some nu Trek project. 

[1977 1,743]

I'm quite partial to that brief transitional cue when the Klingon ambassador storms out of the council meeting and the segue to Vulcan takes place. I also love the little bit at the end when we see the shuttle with Kirk and crew inside spacedock.

 

 

[Holko 9,526]

Digital:

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

On 21/05/2023 at 8:09 PM, JTWfan77 said:

I'm quite partial to that brief transitional cue when the Klingon ambassador storms out of the council meeting and the segue to Vulcan takes place. I also love the little bit at the end when we see the shuttle with Kirk and crew inside spacedock.

 

 

 

The best Robin Hood score, if not the best main theme. How's Richard III?

[crocodile 8,012]

 

Karol

[Jay 37,363]

Hey, it's my name!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 How's Richard III?

 

It's Trevor Jones, ergo; it's fine.

[1977 1,743]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

How's Richard III?

 

🤔

[Tom Guernsey 2,284]

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

The best Robin Hood score, if not the best main theme. How's Richard III?

He’s no longer in a Leicester car park so better than he was… as for the score, it’s pretty great for the most part but is given short shrift on disc with lots of dialogue. It could use a more comprehensive release. 

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

Recent acquisitions:

 

Beauty and the Beast is the last of the Legacy Collections I'm still missing that's available on Amazon, but for some reason I'd forgotten to pick it up before. The Alsop Dvorak 9 was recommended by @Schilkeman in the classical music thread, and very good it is indeed. I ordered the Handsome Family album because I recently watched True Detective S1 and liked the title song and was hoping for more of a similar kind, but at least on a first listen not too much of the rest of the album seems all that interesting.

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

[Holko 9,526]

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

One of those is brilliant.

[Bespin 8,481]

My reflexion is done and I'll probably get Peter Pan, I already own the OST.

[crocodile 8,012]

3 hours ago, Bespin said:

My reflexion is done and I'll probably get Peter Pan, I already own the OST.

It is a good score.

 

Karol

[bollemanneke 3,348]

Ordered my second box, Gardiner on Erato. This won't be for keeping, but for ripping and selling on on discogs. Curious how long this will take.

[crocodile 8,012]

 

Karol

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

In Dreams is good!

[filmmusic 1,829]

11 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

In Dreams is good!

Never heard of it and I like Goldenthal.

[Edmilson 7,448]

14 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

Never heard of it and I like Goldenthal.

It's on Spotify if you want to give it a try:

 

 

[filmmusic 1,829]

Just now, Edmilson said:

It's on Spotify if you want to give it a try:

 

 

Yeah, I'm just listening..

[Bespin 8,481]

Roy Orbison

[crocodile 8,012]

Elizabeth Fraser. 

 

Karol

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

Liz Fraser? As in Cocteau Twins?

Hell, yeah 

[1977 1,743]

 

[crocodile 8,012]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Liz Fraser? As in Cocteau Twins?

Hell, yeah 

The same. 😀 And Massive Attack's Teardrop, and Shore's The Lord of the Rings. And, yes, this:

 

 

 

Karol

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

Nice selection, @JTWfan77.

 

Ann Hampton Callaway... 

 

Rumer... even more 

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

Of all the top tier film composers of, roughly, the 90s, Goldenthal was perhaps (and perhaps surprisingly) the best songwriter.

[1977 1,743]

9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Nice selection, @JTWfan77

Ann Hampton Callaway... 

 

Thanks to Spotify I discovered her

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

10 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

 

 

Congrats on getting JNH's best score. 

[1977 1,743]

Question. Any recommendations of sites that sell used CDs, other than specific sellers as on Discogs, Amazon and eBay?

 

I previously used Second Spin, but they sadly closed up shop a couple of years ago.

[GerateWohl 4,368]

10 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Of all the top tier film composers of, roughly, the 90s, Goldenthal was perhaps (and perhaps surprisingly) the best songwriter.

Menken?

[Jurassic Shark 12,075]

Who?

[GerateWohl 4,368]

Some hardly known insider tip underdog. But writes good songs about plants.

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

3 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

13 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Of all the top tier film composers of, roughly, the 90s, Goldenthal was perhaps (and perhaps surprisingly) the best songwriter.

 

Menken?

 

Hm. Non-musical songwriter then perhaps. I also deliberately didn't count Randy Newman, because I'd categorise him as the best film composer among the songwriters (and as a top tier song writer, but not a top tier film composer).

[1977 1,743]

Digital purchases

[GerateWohl 4,368]

2 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Hm. Non-musical songwriter then perhaps. I also deliberately didn't count Randy Newman, because I'd categorise him as the best film composer among the songwriters (and as a top tier song writer, but not a top tier film composer).

Yes, I understand what you mean. 

Menken and R. Newman were song writers in the first place. Like Danny Elfman, Trent Raznor and Hans Zimmer as well. Different approach to composition.

[crocodile 8,012]

More plastic.

 

 

Karol 

[crocodile 8,012]

 

Karol

[Bespin 8,481]

At last!

 

[crocodile 8,012]

So happy I managed to track down a sealed copy of this beauty:

 

 

Karol