RedBard 71 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I was listening to the soundtrack for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the other day. Makes me miss James Horner all over again, especially the Main Titles (even if it is a ripoff of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"). Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Abulele by Frank Ilfman Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Danny Elfman - Alice Through The Looking Glass (Chronological Playlist) Good stuff John Williams - The Force Awakens (OST) Wow, great stuff. I think with every month, I love this score more than before. The track "Farewell and The Trip" is like a Top 10 Williams track of all time! Basil Polesouris - Starship Troopers (OST) Wanted to listen to this before finally getting to hear the new Varese DE. Man, just when its really getting started, the whole thing is over! Can't wait to hear the complete score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 50 minutes ago, Jay said: John Williams - The Force Awakens (OST) Wow, great stuff. I think with every month, I love this score more than before. The track "Farewell and The Trip" is like a Top 10 Williams track of all time! The final part of the OST outstanding. Everything from Torn Apart till the End Credits is pure gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yes The Way of The Force and The Jedi Steps and Finale are also highlight tracks from Williams canon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I love the abriviated statement of The Force Theme followed by the triumphant Rey's Theme when she lightsabers Kylo Ren in the face! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I saw somebody point out something that I had never noticed before, which is that all the Force Theme statements are abbreviated throughout the entire score until the very end when he finally completes it. I haven't double checked that but I'm pretty sure it's true. I think that's awesome. And yeah, Jay, "Farewell and the Trip" keeps rising with me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 It's hard to pick a favorite variation of Rey's Theme from the score because they're all so great, but the one in "Farewell" is really especially epic and awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,642 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The Lion in the Winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Received Arnold's Godzilla (BSX) and Stargate (Milan) in the mail over the last few days. I'll be checking them out over the next week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 But what is the last score you listened to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 ID4. I attempted to listen to Debney's Jungle Book but lost interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Raiders of the Lost Ark (OST) The Empire Strikes Back (OST) Jurassic Park (20th Anniversary OST) The Towering Inferno (OST) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (OST) Jaws (OST) Return of the Jedi (OST) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (OST) Amazing Stories: The Mission (complete score) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (OST) Neimoidian and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Road to Perdition by Thomas Newman The Shawshank Redemption by Thomas Newman War Horse by John Williams: As gorgeous as ever. Very sentimental but in the best possible way. Jaws 2 (Intrada release) by John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Independence Day: Resurgence by Thomas Wander and Harald Kloser Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Basil Poledouris - Starship Troopers (Deluxe Edition) This score is awesome, and the set sounds fantastic, awesome sound quality. Yes Varese could have included more bonus tracks, but the main program is phenomenal and I have no problem recommending the release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 2 hours ago, crocodile said: Independence Day: Resurgence by Thomas Wander and Harald Kloser I got about 6 tracks in before I started skipping around. Outside a couple of tracks it's not really worth more than one courtesy listen. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 But not unexpected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I just heard it. It's a shitload of fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Did someone actually have hopes for the sequel score when we knew it was a Wanker/Kloser score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post publicist 4,643 Posted June 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2016 The Burbs - Jerry Goldsmith Now on to one of my favourite Goldsmith scores, department 'horror/satirical'. While comedy is a tightrope genre in which Goldsmith's vigorous style sometimes did more harm than good (though he had some clear winners, too), this Joe Dante romp about neighbors from hell must have been conceived just to wrangle great Jerry Goldsmith music out of it. More genre piece than outright comedy, it joins gothic horror with an idyllic suburbia setting (really the Universal studio tour backlot), leavened with a baby version of gung-ho US military interventionism by way of a bumbling neighborhood watch. All these elements and some others, too, are mixed to perfection with the sly amusement of an old pro who has seen it all but still with a few tricks up his sleeve. By 1988, Goldsmith was hooked on synthesizers and it was an uneasy marriage. 'The Burbs' is one of those scores making good on the promise: here electronics are used in the most creative ways, giving depth to the satirical aspirations of the story and even inventing some eligible new horror clichés - i. e. the mysterious metallic wind chimes that open under an impressive pan from the Universal logo down to the eponymic small town street. Thematically it's one of the most diverse and fun things Goldsmith ever did (that's stiff competition for most other film composers), with sugarcoat 80's Amblin sprinkling driven to the hilt (an impossibly cute allegretto with an especially grating bark for an even more insufferable lap dog), two interconnected gothic tunes that continue the playful fugal approach of the unjustly maligned 'Link' 2 years prior (with electronic organ and e-guitars!) and a quite verbatim replay of the 'Patton' march that works like gangbusters in the movie (quite appropriately for Bruce Dern's demented vietnam vet). Probably on Dante's insistence, the growing determination of the overgrown boys to fill their boring life with a bit of dangerous excitement is scored with a characteristic 60's western tune that could have come right out of 'Rio Conchos' - a kind of frontiersmen/lone ranger spirit that erupts in one of the more remarkable images of film and music in the 80's: Tom Hanks stumbling out of a fireball that is the exploding house of his suspect neighbors to a riproaring version of said western tune (the moment stayed with me even in the early 90's when i couldn't even spell 'G-o-l-d-s-m-i-t-h). As sweet topping you get a witched black mass led by ominous drums, otherworldy soprano and scratchy violin for Hank's character about to be sacrificed to satan - appropriately on a human-sized barbecue grill. Take that, Danny Elfman! It all sounds very 'modern' and could have been written yesterday, which is one of the elusive Goldsmith gifts (at least when he wasn't allowed to go full synth). Bullseye, i say! Gruesome Son of a Bitch, Kasey Kockroach, Dixon Hill and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 4 hours ago, Incanus said: Did someone actually have hopes for the sequel score when we knew it was a Wanker/Kloser score? I wanted to cling on to some feeble belief that these guys would at least make their strongest attempt to create something that not only honours Arnold's score, but can stand well on its own. On a monumental project of this scale and the stakes being this high, any logical thinker would see that as completely plausible. But evidently they didn't even try. The majority of the OST consists of banal noodling, with flat orchestration revealing no real attempt at any musical expression or any crack at creating a sense of drama. It's just... there. Hell, it's not even their best score. I listened to 2012 recently and even that's better than anything they offer in Independence Day Resurgence. The very few David Arnold moments are barely worth mentioning. They're so anonymous and flat, it really takes a wanker to make Arnold's music sound so horrible. I wondered if it was a direction from Roland Emmerich himself to minimise any reference to Arnold's themes for whatever reason? Does he even like Arnold's score to the first film? I've never heard him comment about it. It always seems to be Dean Devlin who mentions Arnold, and he does so with infectious enthusiasm. These guys were tasked with following up from one of the most magnificent film scoring achievements of the digital age, and all they had in them was... this? This was good enough for Roland Emmerich to accept, considering what's been submitted to him in his earlier films? That brings me to question what the hell is going on behind the scenes. Does Emmerich just have his preferred people to work with because he likes their workflow style... or is there something more sinister going on? Is Harald Kloser just a yes-man or is he a talentless Hollywood con-man who has some dirt on Emmerich that he uses as leverage to secure these projects not only as composer, but as the fucking producer? No, he wasn't under any pressure at all - Emmerich films are an easy gig for him with a guaranteed paycheck. No need to create anything decent at all. Wouldn't you be embarrassed having your name attached to this when the widely available and infinitely superior score to the first film by a significantly more talented composer hangs over this one like the shadow of a city destroyer? Obviously not for Kloser and Wanker, a pair of opportunistic charlatans who simply wanted the experience and exposure of working on an ID4 score, rather than doing a real service to the film by sitting this one out and at least calling the bloke who contributed to making the first film as special as it is. Independence Day Resurgence is about as unmotivated and lazy as modern film music gets. I felt like listening to Hans Zimmer afterward just to get the bad vibrations out of my ears. So is this the very best they could come up with? If the score is this bad, what the hell is the film like? All the talk about Fox blocking it from critics by not showing any pre-screenings is a big alarm that they've got a real turkey on their hands. Hollywood studios release a lot of trash every year, but they generally have enough confidence in their products that they feel comfortable enough to let the press scrutinise them. I've read comments that the novelisation is a real hit storywise - a dense and massive epic, they're calling it. Maybe that's the only thing that can be salvaged from this potential disaster in the making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 The biggest post from Drax in years, it's pretty fair to say he's deeply upset about this. And why not; had Arnold been drafted in we would with all certainty have been onto a sure thing with this score. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 It's definitely bigger than this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I just listened to ID4.2 Next to this, even David Arnold seems a compositional giant. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I can already see the mainstream headlines tomorrow "David Arnold a compositional giant, according to publicist!" Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I will sue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Now You See Me 2 by Brian Tyler. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,642 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 15 hours ago, publicist said: The Burbs - Jerry Goldsmith I forgot how good this score is. Jerry Goldsmith was one of the few film composers who could write comedy music that was genuinely funny. I particularly love the carefree tune that opens the end credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Rabbit and Rogue by Danny Elfman: After first listen this certainly sounds nice. Need to investigate further. Family Plot by John Williams: Excellent stuff, both the suspense and the comedy. There is such wonderful lighthearted bouyancy to most of this score. The Fury by John Williams: Again excellent music. Dark, violent but also ravishingly beautiful with surprising moments of lyrical tenderness. In this case I also love the OST album, which performed by the LSO is pretty much unbeatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Blade Runner, Ignacio, L'apocalypse des animaux - Vangelis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Nixon The darkest and most sombre of JW's 3 scores for Stone. Ranging from dark, gothic scoring for the main titles so mournful Americana that no one does quite like Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Really? I'd give that title to Born On The Fourth Of July, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 BOT4 has some glimmers of hope and warmth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 While all three collaborations have some elements of darkness, Nixon is certainly to my mind too the most brooding of the three in overall feel but not entirely without glimmers of light. Growing Up in Whittier and The Farewell Scene are examples of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 ID4 Mars Attacks! Signs The War of the Worlds '53 War of the Worlds '05 Star Trek: First Contact Lifeforce Killer Klowns From Outer Space Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Independence Day: Resurgence. Bliss! Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 On 19/06/2016 at 7:54 PM, Stefancos said: mournful Americana that no one does quite like Williams. And does it get a bit much to digest if you're anything other than American? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 50 minutes ago, crocodile said: Independence Day: Resurgence. Bliss! Karol I know! It's awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 They bought you, didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I just think Harald Kloser and Thomas Wanker are misunderstood. IDR is a masterpiece. Even Nicolas Hooper couldn't have done a better job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Thirty pieces of silver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I'm sure David Arnold would be proud of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 A History of Violence by Howard Shore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Michael Giacchino - Tomorrowland (OST) 13 months since the film opened and still no session leak I'm not used to this with Giacchino scores! I still love the shit out of this score, I think its one of Giacchino's best and one of my favorite scores of the 2010s. Maybe I'll finally get around to ripping the score out of the bluray if it ain't gonna leak. So many great themes in this score, and great underscore in between the big thematic statements too. I love it! Michael Giacchino - Inside Out (OST) I like this score a lot, especially the main themes and the fun underscore. The album does drag a bit towards the end, I might consider making a shorter playlist. I doubt a session leak would change much about this score, as the OST is pretty comprehensive. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Is there precedent for Disney scores leaking? It's usually the Pixar stuff, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Mulan leaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,642 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Ew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 18 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: Mulan leaked. Wasn't that a FYC promo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Hm, true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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