What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

Did you listen to TGTR in 5.1 SACD, or in stereo?

[Incanus 5,714]

1 minute ago, Richard said:

Did you listen to TGTR in 5.1 SACD, or in stereo?

The Intrada release, so in stereo.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

Right.

[Jay 37,340]

Danny Elfman - Wanted

 

I re-discovered this score last year due to the complete score leak and fell in love with it.  Hadn't listened to the OST since and checked it out today on Spotify and.. it's pretty bad!  All the best stuff was part of the later recording sessions that took place after the OST was locked, apparently.  And its organized in a weird order.  Plus, Spotify didn't let me play the song, which is a huge bummer cause I love it.  Oh well.

 

Danny Elfman - Hitchcock

 

Another old favorite, though admittedly it hasn't stood the test of time as well as I'd hoped.  Apart from the opening and ending, there really isn't much memorable about the middle.

 

Danny Elfman - Alice in Wonderland

 

Other than the great Alice Theme tracks and a few other highlights, alot of this OST goes in one ear and out the other.  The sequel score is a huge improvement!

[crocodile 8,000]

Interesting, I've never heard the sessions for Wanted. And I do like the score very much. Might have to check those out.

 

Karol

[Simon McBride 113]

The Ten Commandments-Elmer Bernstein 

 

Great score. I've only listened to it once, but I can't get that main theme out of my head. 

[EdwardHall 30]

4 hours ago, Hawmy said:

The Ten Commandments-Elmer Bernstein 

 

Great score. I've only listened to it once, but I can't get that main theme out of my head. 

I think Elmer Bernstein replaced Victor Young who was unavailable or something. I am glad for the change because Bernstein wrote a score both powerful and lush. People usually look to Miklos Rosza's music from Ben Hur as the quintessential 1950s epic score, but I think Bernstein holds his own.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

Horner's Titanic.

Strong men also cry. Strong men... also... cry.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Fucking A!

[Incanus 5,714]

Alas the song ruined some of the score's appeal to me. I know the music has a lot more to offer but I just can't shake that deep rooted distate for My Heart Will Go On which sours Horner's otherwise fine effort.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It's brilliant!

 

 

[Incanus 5,714]

Brilliantly over exposed and thus rendered entirely blase to my ears.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Elitist!

[publicist 4,643]

The Light Between Oceans - Alexandre Desplat

 

Idiomatically within the very expected parameters of Desplat's patented Oscar bait^tm style - gentle minimalist waltzes between string section and piano, dirge-like soliloquies, solemn mood tableaus - this one makes a rather good figure. He has the required elegant sheen down pat and 'Oceans' rises above depressingly monochrome recent efforts like 'The Danish Girl' or 'Suffragete'.

 

Still it begs the question if more assignment swapping is in order, with talented colleagues seldomly exposed to heavy drama getting gigs like this leaving Desplat free for musically more adventurous opportunities he could tackle with ease, as we know (or maybe fails miserably, JWFan will decide in some time). As it stands now, he is in his late Delerue phase of polishing the same old silverware every few months which isn't a bad thing but now akin to getting a very expensive caffeine-free mocca every morning - it tastes OK and is good for your heart rate but not exactly beckoning with excitement.

[Quintus 5,399]

3 hours ago, Incanus said:

Alas the song ruined some of the score's appeal to me. I know the music has a lot more to offer but I just can't shake that deep rooted distate for My Heart Will Go On which sours Horner's otherwise fine effort.

 

Same 'ere really. The action and suspense material I still enjoy, but the played-out and sickly main theme puts me off a good deal of the score. 

[crocodile 8,000]

 Se7en by Howard Shore.

 

Karol

[Incanus 5,714]

14 minutes ago, crocodile said:

 Se7en by Howard Shore.

 

Karol

And? Is it bowed cymbal-y enough?

[crocodile 8,000]

It makes for a terrific listen while enjoying sunny weather!

 

I enjoy it quite a bit. It is obviously very oppressive and not quite cheerful, aside from the unused opening track (which is very surprising). It's almost as if Shore's music wasn't so much about John Doe and his murders but instead formed a steady dark heartbeat for this gloomy and grimy city in which the story takes place in. And it makes sense, the film's sound design and this score work great in tandem --- and almost gives you an illusion that this place is actually alive and ready to devour its inhabitants (which it does). 

 

Karol

[Disco Stu 15,495]

7 hours ago, Stefancos said:

It's brilliant!

 

 

 

I have to admit that version with Dion's vocals is not very pleasant for me to listen to.

 

But Horner's piano version breaks my heart every fucking time.  Brilliant. 

 

 

[Quintus 5,399]

Rose's theme is a stunningly beautiful melody; sadly undermined by a smash hit pop single spin-off which eventually got on everyone's nerves. 

[Jay 37,340]

James Horner - Aliens

 

Ah, like a visit from an old friend.  Always reliable when I've listened to a bunch of stuff that didn't quite do it for me.  I love every thing about every second of this score, and my only complaint is that it isn't longer!  There's 11 minutes worth of footage in the film that has music under it that Horner never composed for, and how I wish he had stuck around and written more for this film instead of leaving to move onto his next project.  Maybe in another dimension

 

Jerry Goldsmith - Alien

 

Was in the mood for this after Aliens for some reason.  I like how James took some of the textures and concepts from this and worked them into Aliens in a few spots.  Also, for some reason my ipod wouldn't play the Intrada edition I had on it, so I had to play the OST on Spotify.  I think I'd only heard the OST program a couple times before... it's actually a decently arranged summary of the score.  You don't miss out on a lot of stuff by listening to this instead of the complete score on the Intrada.

[Nick1Ø66 4,710]

Dracula (Williams)

 

Because as amazing, prolific and legendary as the Spielberg/Williams partnership has been, in some ways I think it might have been limiting to both of them as artists. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Indeed!

[Wojo 2,453]

I finally loaded Judge Dredd on my iPod. Very good, I've liked listening to it at the gym. I tell myself the main theme is Silvestri's way of musically stating Stallone's iconic "I am... The law" all over the place. 

[Matt C 452]

13 hours ago, Quintus said:

 

Same 'ere really. The action and suspense material I still enjoy, but the played-out and sickly main theme puts me off a good deal of the score. 

 

I actually prefer the film version of "My Heart Will Go On" over the vastly overplayed radio version. It fits the film better.

[Incanus 5,714]

Superman by John Williams:

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

1 hour ago, Incanus said:

Superman by John Williams:

 

[crocodile 8,000]

I'll listen to this as well today!

 

Karol

[Faleel 5,345]

All The Brothers Were Valiant - Miklos Rozsa.

[Faleel 5,345]

and one of the best scores of all time, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Paul J. Smith

[Romão 2,274]

Love that one

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

 

A masterpiece of texture, mood, atmosphere and building to a moment (something that rarely happens anymore in big budget film music)

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Star Trek is better than everything!

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

Et tu, Steef?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Logic dictates it, my friend!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

So...that's the Spock T-shirt. Nice.

 

Not sure about the red-eye, though.

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I'm not really satisfied with it

[Naïve Old Fart 9,513]

Oh, I don't know. It has a certain authenticity...a Steefness.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Most kind!

[Incanus 5,714]

12 hours ago, Stefancos said:

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

 

A masterpiece of texture, mood, atmosphere and building to a moment (something that rarely happens anymore in big budget film music)

There are also a few good hummable tunes in there.

 

Minority Report by John Williams

 

Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith

[Disco Stu 15,495]

On 9/3/2016 at 2:17 PM, Fennel Ka said:

and one of the best scores of all time, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Paul J. Smith

 

Brilliant!

 

I've a whale of a tale to tell ya, this score is amazing! It's all true!

[JacksonElmore 69]

Just listened to Forza G score from ennio morricone. Wonderful music, weird comedic harpsichord stuff and a lot of cliché 70's backing drums....love 70's morricone scores

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

He must have been smoking some good stuff in those days!

[crocodile 8,000]

Seven by Howard Shore. Isn't John Doe just about one of the coolest pieces pieces of action music in Shore's career? Only he could possibly write something like this ----- scary, oppressive, slow moving... and yet exciting.

 

Next: John Corigliano's Edge of Darkness, Michael Kamen's Dead Zone and David Shire's Zodiac

 

Karol

[JacksonElmore 69]

2 hours ago, Stefancos said:

He must have been smoking some good stuff in those days!

yeah seriously. Some of his comedy scores are absolutely bizarre. A prime example: 

 

On 9/1/2016 at 10:21 AM, Jay said:

Laurent Perez Del Mar - Wolfy: The Incredible Secret (Loulou, l'incroyable secret)

 

This is excellent! thanks for turning me on to this, jay

[Skelly 261]

Just finished listening to Mark Russell's television score to Kingdom. For some reason they didn't hesitate to include the main theme no less than FOUR times in the forty-minute compilation! But it's so beautiful I don't even mind.

 

 

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

I'm listening to the original FOTR album for the first time in years.  I'll revisit the next two as well during the week.

 

I've also been enchanted by this lately.  It's a gorgeous piece.  At 4:57, I start to get very moved.  There's a stirring energy and sense of impending adventure here, as if Shore's been waiting his whole career to write music of this kind of scale and optimism, and that he's overjoyed to be doing it for a series of films like this.  A ridiculous reading-into of things on my part?  Maybe.

 

 

[publicist 4,643]

4 hours ago, JacksonElmore said:

yeah seriously. Some of his comedy scores are absolutely bizarre. A prime example: 

 

That's not even scratching it. Mine also absolutely isn't.

 

 

 

 

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

I know that my grandfather was active as a musician in Italy around the same time that Ennio would have been making his start.  According to family members, it's at least somewhat possible that they could have crossed paths in one way or another.  I'd like to imagine them tripping together.