DreamTheater 131 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Angèle Dubeau - Game MusicThis album right here. Very cool violin-led interpretations of some video game scores. My favorite tracks where the ones with music from Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, But I enjoyed the whole album! Tetris music was really fun If you liked this album, you should check Symphonic Fantasies (the WDR Radio Orchestra recording, not the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra one). The Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross medley found on the Game Music album is just a shortened (and lesser!) version of the medley found on the Symphonic Fantasies album. Same for Secret Of Mana and Final Fantasy.I actually happen to prefer the Tokyo Philharmonic edition. Plus it has one awesome battle suite that isn't on the other one, and IMO slightly better orchestration. Too bad the distributor of these superb albums went out of business (Maz Sound, end of 2014). I was able to get physical copies before that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Cool, I'll definitely check it out Chris Tilton - SimCityMan one of the best scores in recent years - when you're in the mood for it. I don't find myself wanting to listen to this often, but when I'm in the mood, it's freaking SPOT ON. Love the laid back, relaxing atmosphere, that also has a good drive to it. It's very motivational at work in the afternoon when you have a problem you need to solve.Hans Zimmer & Mark Mancina - Days of Thunder (La-La Land)Meh. I was really expecting to like this one, since I'm a fan of The Rock, Crimson Tide, Drop Zone, Bad Boys, Speed, etc. However, despite a few spots where I got a bit of a Bad Boys feel, for the most part I was let down by this. It was much too synthy, not enough real orchestra. The action music wasn't very memorable. Oh well. BTW, does anybody know if there is some stuff in the boot / rec. session leak that isn't on the LLL? I attempted to compare them to each other but got a bit lost.Alan Silvestri - Predator 2 (Varese Deluxe)What more can be said? Still fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 The first track on disc 2 was one I wanted for years in Predator 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Meat Locker? I don't remember that cue off the top of my head but I'm sure it's good Subway Predator is the track I love most right now that wasn't released before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Yeah Subway Predator was my second demand. Meat Locker has those repeating brass blasts that make you go "shit, runnnn!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Not a question of whether you agree or not... I was just saying which of the two I prefer.And I'm talking about the entire albums, not just Chrono Trigger / Cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Oh, am I all too familiar with the music of Chrono Trigger. Still love listening to Corridors of Time and Peaceful Days.And A Premonition. Those haunting ticks of the clock is one of the best cold openings for an RPG I've heard in my entire life of playing RPGs.Also love listening to haunting strings and choral voices in Garden of God from Chrono Cross..........Fun fact: Before I wound up here on JWFan, I was a member and contributor on The Chrono Compendium. I didn't even get to 2,000 posts. I quit their forums after a while due to the mods' and admins' abrasive personalities and obnoxious and manifesto-length views of politics, religion, and life in general.I can only hope the same thing doesn't happen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 We don't allow politics or religion posts, so it's been fine I'm playing Chrono Trigger for the first time now, and loving a lot of the music I hear. Gotta see if I can find an OST release or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Try this one:www.amazon.com/Chrono-Trigger-Original-Sound-Version/dp/B000006XL9I own it myself. 3 Discs. All 64 tracks in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 In an extreme Tom Newman mood today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I went out back for a smoke tonight and saw the Amazing Stories End Credits:On that note, I listened to A.I. Artificial Intelligence academy promo, The Towering Inferno original album, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith expanded score, Dracula original album and John Mauceri/City of Prague recordings of Night Journeys and the Main Title/Storm Sequence, Amazing Stories: The Mission, Raiders of the Lost Ark original album, SpaceCamp and the Close Encounters of the Third Kind original album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 At least you're diversifying a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 You're just loving that I listened to A.I. It's kind of amusing, I was working and there was a huge Mecha child-sized box next to me while I listened to The Replicas and I felt exactly like David in Cybertronics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 You're just loving that I listened to A.I.And CE3K! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Well, it is one of my top (Williams) scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 He says the sun came out last night. He said it sang to him. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I absolutely love Navy Planes and Lost Squadron. I mean, the entire score is magnificent, but I find myself listening to those more than any other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Roy's First Encounter and The Mothership for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I absolutely love Navy Planes and Lost Squadron. I mean, the entire score is magnificent, but I find myself listening to those more than any other.Love those as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I too, am listening to the AI promo. It's a little bit too slow in my opinion in its complete form but it helps illuminate the score's narrative much better than the OST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I skipped tracks.I saw A.I. on opening day and there were numerous cues I instantly desired and were nowhere to be found on the OST. These included Wearing Perfume (AKA David meets Teddy), Monica's Plan (AKA bizarro scene where the insane robo-child shows Mother his artwork while they plan to ditch him in the forest), The Moon Rising unfucked version, Remembering David Hobbie (which sounds a lot like Harry Potter), The Journey to Rouge City and the film version of Search for the Blue Fairy, which we still don't have. I scoured that damned CD in the late Summer of 2001 and was very disappointed. It happened again, even worse, a few months later when the Harry Potter soundtrack album was released and like 60% of the vital music was missing or edited to shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Ass!I remember A.I. opening day very clearly. Another formative moment for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I've also been listening to the complete Born on the Fourth of July. Lots of short cues and repetition. It works really well in the film but it doesn't really translate to a standalone experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Roy's First Encounter and The Mothership for me.Forming the Mountain, Trucking and The Returnees here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I thought this was incredibly clever and fun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 To hell with YOU! AND TO HELL WITH WILLIAMS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Ok enough Williams talk. I listened to this again. Very sexy music. These suites are masterpieces of the "orgasmic release of tension through sudden textural/rhythmic/harmonic change after methodical buildup" variety (at 5:56 and 8:57 respectively). Listening to these on big, good speakers is thrilling.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1f8vxQbWM I look forward to whatever disparaging bullshit JWFan conjures up this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I should give Interstellan another listen I guess. I did end up liking The Thin Red Line after several listens. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 And please give it a hearty recommendation either way, it would be a balm for some of our older, easily irritable members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Innerseller is too boring. I need something with a bit more kick. Eee Tee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 SimCity - Chris Tilton A most pleasant diversion; most video game music i sample loses itself in bland trailer music clichés, Tilton's plays like a compendium of John Powell's lighter ROBOTS/ICE AGE moments interspersed with some of David Newman's writing for more juvenile films and even some of Goldsmith's more cosmic afflatuses (the somewhat yearning-for-space music from EXPLORERS halfway through 'Population I'). If you're a bit tired of long-held chords and preciously pregnant tunes signalling the end of the world as we know it at every turn, Tilton has come to your rescue. A second score is out, i will sample it in due time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Are you talking about the Cities Of Tomorrow expansion? It's essentially the same music but with electronics layered in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Love those little moments like 9:44. Atonal yet playful WTFs amid all the Sturm und Drang. Wish there was some of that in the Batman scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Ahh, nothing quite like vintage 90s Zimmer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I'm now listening to Predator 2. It does have its moments, sure, but I find it to be slightly overcomposed (still better than Debney's overeager version). Prefer the more anorectic original. It said everything there needed to be said in this franchise. I can't help to think but the best thing from it is the end credits piece (and the opening cue, too).Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 anorectic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Simpler, bare-bone, to the point.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Lean, stripped down...I'm guessing.Ninja'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yeah, I think less sophisticated Silvestri served the film very well. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I love both scores very much. More sophisticated is I suppose a pretty good way to describe Predator 2.I think I liked Predator 2 a lot more after I listened to it 2-3 times for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 It might grow on me. We'll see. I completely forgot I had this album and then noticed it's on my shelf. It got lost in the midst of all Christmas hysteria and The Hobbits.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Predator is an excellent film score, but i find the CD unlistenable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 If it had gotten a 40 minute OST at the time of the film's release, the eventual complete release in the 2000s would have been easier to swallow. Kind of like The Goonies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I still need to delve into the Silvestri Predator scores more closely. I have only a passing acquaintance with both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Do you like action scores in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I like the Intrada album quite a bit but I can see why other would not. As I said, it's a very "simplistic" Silvestri, as compared to, say, The Mummy Returns.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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