#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Jaws (Intrada) The old Universal release from the 2000's is not a good album. This latest one does the score much better justice. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Rosewood [Music From The Motion Picture] (1997) (2013, La-La Land Records, LLLCD 1244; Caesar, Parks, Morgan, Williams) CD 1 - THE INSTRUMENTAL SCORE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 a sprinkling of John Barry's: Goldfinger, Thunderball, Across the Sea of Time and Hanover Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 3 hours ago, Stefancos said: Jaws (Intrada) The old Universal release from the 2000's is not a good album. Revisionist history. Casper. Fantastic score. Absolutely fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 The sound quality is lacking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Expanded edit) by John Williams The Lost World Jurassic Park (LLL set) by John Williams Hellboy (Varese Deluxe Eidtion) by Marco Beltrami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 12 hours ago, Stefancos said: The sound quality is lacking! It's not lacking, it's atrocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 On 09/08/2017 at 8:03 PM, publicist said: "The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus CONDUCTED BY NIC RAINE" was for years a CD text that would strike fear into my heart. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Quintus said: "The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus CONDUCTED BY NIC RAINE" was for years a CD text that would strike fear into my heart. Yet they have really become a very adept film score re-recording orchestra. The Prometheus Records produced and Tadlow's Fitzpatrick projects have all been pretty much top notch. Their compilation work has been, shall we say, of varied quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,527 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 The CPO plays brilliantly on both THE BEES ARRIVE, and END TITLE, on the JG 2-disc compilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Incanus said: Yet they have really become a very adept film score re-recording orchestra. The Prometheus Records produced and Tadlow's Fitzpatrick projects have all been pretty much top notch. Their compilation work has been, shall we say, of varied quality. This is true. But I can never forget! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,527 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 I know it's hard, Lee, but you have to try. Damn you, sir, you will try! For all our sakes. For the love of everything that is holy, and sacred, and profound! Do it for JWfan. Please, Lee. Please try! The thought of losing you, over this, is unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 They're not THAT good, geez... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Good enough. The recent Rózsa and Goldsmith recordings are not any worse than the Royal or National Philharmonic for said composers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 So I was listening to Roland Emmerich's commentary on Independence Day Resurgence, and he came out with a whopper in this track. Justin will love this. Just after Whitmore dies, a mournful piece from Arnold's score shows up, and Emmerich starts raving on about how great a composer Harald Kloser is for coming up with that. I kid you not, he essentially credited aloud Kloser for Arnold's work. I just couldn't believe it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 So you spend more money on this film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 It was a gift. I couldn't just reject it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,359 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 16 minutes ago, Baby Jane Hudson said: Just after Whitmore dies, a mournful piece from Arnold's score shows up, and Emmerich starts raving on about how great a composer Harald Kloser is for coming up with that. I kid you not, he essentially credited aloud Kloser for Arnold's work. I just couldn't believe it! That is hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 You should have broken it in two and throw a glass of water in the face of the person who gave it to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Chekmate, I love this score! Make sure you listen to the superb HD transfers done by Fresh Sound Records! Checkmate/Hong Kong (2015, Fresh Sound Records, JM 1007, Compilation) "Checkmate": Music composed and conducted by Johnny Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 2, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2017 Hulk - Danny Elfman This is a Good Score™ Gruesome Son of a Bitch, Fancyarcher and Not Mr. Big 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Really good score score, which took me forever to really appreciate. Of course Elfman using a wailing woman might seem odd, but his dramatic and musical instincts really help sell the music quite well. Love the music plays during Bruce's flashbacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 I'm listening to the expanded FYC version of The Force Awakens on my new Sennheiser HD 558's because I know it's such a great recording. Sounds awesome on these mother fuckers. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Ben-Hur. My third full listen in the past three days. I must be really enjoying this new album. Karol Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 But that's an Easter score, Karol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 I know! Part-Christmas, part-Easter actually. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 BAR TENDER!!! Is it possible to hear more music by John Williams here, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Courage Under Fire - James Horner While it would take a considerable amount of cringing to call this score a neglected gem - indeed the score proper is rather boring - there are defining Horner moments in there, mostly in the material expanded from some of the score's key patriotic ideas. First a word on the movie: it's typical Edward Zwick jingoism, meaning polished military adulation that strangles any deeper examination of the topic at hand (a mutiny among soldiers during a chaotic Gulf war battle) for another american war hero memorial in movie form dressed up as a thriller, Rashomon style. Horner, probably somewhat derisively, saw the plot for what it was and responded with barely acknowledging the suspense elements (lame leftovers from all the usual suspects of this period) but really pumped up the swelling americana salutes - the more concertant tone making this a less showy but probably musical better entry than some of the bigger hits of the era. So while hardly anyone remembers movie or score, the main pieces, 'Hymn', 'Courage Under Fire', 'Elegy' (all stand-alone pieces) and the 15-minute whale of a finale (brace yourself for this if-not-self-explanatory title 'The Medal of Honor/A Final Resting Place'), in part were inspiration for Williams' 'Saving Private Ryan' - to an irritating degree, if you ask me - and if you can stomach such heart-on-its-sleeve patriotism they are rather good. The album is interrupted by expendable film pieces and sadly not available as digital download, which would spare you the necessity of getting stuff that really no one needs (the material is weak and - you guessed it - reminiscent of virtually hundreds of other Horner cues) but if you don't have this and one of the aforementioned cues suddenly pops up on some playlist, it's one those where you might think 'why don't i have this?'. So: recommended in parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Rebel in the Rye - Bear McCreary Again. Guys this is sooooooo goooood. The real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate by Austin Wintory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,348 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 E.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,527 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 On 02/10/2017 at 4:07 PM, Bespin said: Chekmate, I love this score! Make sure you listen to the superb HD transfers done by Fresh Sound Records! Checkmate/Hong Kong (2015, Fresh Sound Records, JM 1007, Compilation) "Checkmate": Music composed and conducted by Johnny Williams. Now, just a damn minute! No EARTHQUAKE? No THE TOWERING INFERNO? No THE EIGER SANCTION? Bes, you're slipping, but...hot damn, you've got the MO-FI CE3K. Kudos, dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 4 hours ago, Richard said: Now, just a damn minute! No EARTHQUAKE? No THE TOWERING INFERNO? No THE EIGER SANCTION? Bes, you're slipping, but...hot damn, you've got the MO-FI CE3K. Kudos, dude! I've started collecting too late! (I digitally bought Towering Inferno altough!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Raiders of the Lost Ark OST Thought I'd listen to this while jacket hunting online. Despite some glaring micro-edits, this album is sublime. It could almost be retitled "Adventure: The Album". Williams constructed these 40 minute beauties back then. I wish he still did. Temple of Doom OST Same praise as above, but the sound quality is mainly why I keep returning to this. The 2008 is alright, but this is a phenomenal 40 minute tour-de-force of action, adventure, sinister chants and playful romance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 The Sixth Sense - James Newton Howard I forget sometimes how much I love this OST. It's my favorite of JNH's Shyamalan scores. I'm sure my continued attachment to the film as the director's best has not a little to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,359 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Hmm, Sixth Sense a better score that Signs? Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I didn't say that! Stop putting words in my mouth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,359 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 You said "It's my favorite of JNH's Shyamalan scores", doesnt that mean you think its better than Signs? Or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I suppose. If there's such a thing as objectively judging the merits of one composition vs. another, I dunno if I'd say Sixth Sense is better. It's the one I'd reach for first, the one I respond to most. Honestly though, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs are all pretty much equal to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,359 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Really strong director/composer collaboration those two have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,527 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I prefer to listen to SIGNS, rather than THE SIXTH SENSE, but that doesn't mean to say that the latter is a "bad" score. Actually, I like THE VILLAGE better than either of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Is this the first time Jay and Stu don't agree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 The beginning of the end... Just like it happened with us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,359 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I actually don't have a very strong opinion on the Shyamalan/JNH scores. Signs is one I love and have listened to a bunch of times. Most of the other ones I've never actually listened to before, or maybe checked out once or twice. I mean I saw the films, but not listened to all the OSTs yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Great ills require great remedies! The Sound of Music Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 21 minutes ago, BloodBoal said: The beginning of the end... Just like it happened with us... Is there still any hope for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I like to think there is... Maybe on the day you'll finally listen to that magnificent score that one British composer wrote for England's most famous outlaw... Maybe then will there be a reconciliation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, BloodBoal said: England's most famous outlaw Banksy?! Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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