Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Bespin said: John Williams - HP & The Chamber of Secrets (OST, but in Chronological order) Great score, with many fun moments! Agreed. I find it a far more involving listen than PS (or SS, if you prefer). Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 La-La Land's release for Star Trek The Motion Picture. Just the main presentation of the score, non of the alternates or stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,016 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Unrest by Bear McCreary Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 My favorite Bear McCreary theme: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 I find it strange that JW never recorded a concert arrangement of Far and Away for orchestra without soloist. Not Mr. Big and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James 119 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 John Williams' The Cowboys and Memoirs of a Geisha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: I find it strange that JW never recorded a concert arrangement of Far and Away for orchestra without soloist. It's a shame he never straight up rerecorded the original end credit suite. The other suites just don't capture the same magic Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 The best track from Far and Away is "Book of Days." Titanic: 20th Anniversary Edition Is this the best release ever? Yes, it is. I've been wishing for this since I was a little boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,349 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 6 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: I find it strange that JW never recorded a concert arrangement of Far and Away for orchestra without soloist. There are two other Far and Away concert arrangement out there I believe. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,016 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country by Gustav Holst and Igor Stravinsky Karol Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Its good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,016 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 It doesn't make for a particularly exciting album but the music itself is good. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post publicist 4,643 Posted February 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2018 I'm not hesitating to say that, technically and by sheer variety, this might be Silvestri's best. The weird genre cocktail might scare off the less adventurous among us but how Silvestri manages to juggle his Stravinsky-an action idiom with noir jazz and Carl Stalling/Scott Bradley zaniness is nothing short of brilliant. The composer's usual laziness - good ideas repeated all too often, sameness of action cues, formless suspense underscore and so on - is kept in check by Zemeckis' need for frantic change and Silvestri cleverly keeps this material glued together, the chases are like Predator on steroids with the London Symphony Orchestra jamming away. The new Intrada may it make hard though to wade through the wealth of cartoony material in between, so i recommend sampling the end credits first, which are an ace summation, before pressing 'buy'. Another nice surprise is the only real new cue on this new release is James Horner's 'Tummy Trouble', a Roger Rabbit short featured before 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids'. Horner is surprisngly adept at writing this sort of stuff and the interpolations of some classic Hornerisms (the infamous 'Honey' Raymond Scott riff among them) are mucho fun. James, Kasey Kockroach and Gruesome Son of a Bitch 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Titanic Music to drown by. Now I know I'm on JWFan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 One of the numerous (11, if i count right) James Horner scores that graced cinemas in 1993, 'The Man without a Face' solidified Horner's flirt with the big handkerchief dramas he so craved. Mel Gibson's directorial debut about a disfigured teacher who befriends a troubled young boy is reputable, though strictly of the safe variety (lots of photogenic scenery, aestival Maine this time, averts the intrusion of too much real life), Horner responds in kind with a mixture of noble horn and string uplift and tearful americana bel cantos. To be honest, it works better when separated from the movie, where the lush LSO recording tends to become a bit too balmy and expansive for the introspective two character drama. Taken on its own, it's one of Horner's more distinctive works - it remained relatively un-pillaged, at least by Horner standards - and there is a certain stately elegance in the arrangements that flow like classical movements, i. e. the opening cue, 'A Father's Legacy' (though it never actually gets more sophisticated than the simple tunes allow). It's also thankfully bereft of pathetic excesses and whispers more than it begs. In fact, it's a perfect match for the same year's 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' and probably one of the last reminders that films like this could have recognizable melodic accompaniment instead of quirky patchwork stuff or meandering piano solos. Gruesome Son of a Bitch and James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Went on a Shire binge- Pelham 123, Hindenburg and my favourite, Big Bus I've not seen the lattermost for years, but love the main theme -that 70s sound and yet somehow epic in the mould of disaster movies of the time. Outside of the main theme quite fond of Springfield Sequence and Harbinger Curve, again for the 70s/epic mix. last night, Leith Stevens' scores for War of the Worlds and When Worlds Collide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 9 hours ago, crocodile said: It doesn't make for a particularly exciting album but the music itself is good. I think the album is a fine listen, but it doesn't gain much in complete form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Did I miss the lengthy publicist review of Titanic 4CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 A score that nobody listen, well except me. John Williams - Sabrina Love the quote of La vie en rose... and the ballroom montage. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Legends of the Fall by James Horner Hidalgo by James Newton Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,349 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 The Lost World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 The Divinci Code - Hanz Simmer Gotta Catch Em All If You Can - John Williams and His Orchestra Remember The Titanics - Jamie Horner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Fal said: The Lost World John Williams, or Paul Sawtell? Hey, I'm only asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 21 hours ago, Philippe Roaché said: Did I miss the lengthy publicist review of Titanic 4CD? I wouldn't dare. Like the shark in Jaws 4 you would cross oceans in mere hours, thirsting for revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 And then explode upon contact with a sharp pointy thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 He will roar, too. That's what i'm most afraid of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I usually find your reviews valid and entertaining even if I don't entirely agree, which I never expect to on the outset. Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Given my complete dislike of almost every stylistic choice in 'Titanic' it's one of the few Horner scores that completely blanks me. But it has made the rounds in our little Berlin community so i may give it a spin due to your relentless plugging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,483 Posted February 6, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2018 John Williams - Monsignor (FOR THE FIRST TIME, FROM MY OWN BRAND NEW CD THAT I JUST RECEIVED!!!) Incanus, Naïve Old Fart and Jurassic Shark 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Is it as bad as everybody say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 It's a little score of 38 minutes that contains more music than heard in the movie, so this is it. I didn't remember, but the track "The Meeting in Sicily" is an early version of the "Esplanade Overture" (with a different coda), that I never heard in it's "final" version ... "Final" version that was played in concert, but was never published nor recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 It's still longer than Midway, another expensive album... Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 BTW I used the word "Coda" in my last post... I didn't read a partition since so many years (I once was a clarinet player in another life), I even don't remember what is a Coda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Coda-Cola? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 8 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Is it as bad as everybody say? Fuck that! GLORIA is stunning! The rest of the score is none too shabby, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Never heard a McCreary score before. I'm digging this. It's Beary good! Anyway, usually modern horror scores I hear are just a bunch of stingers, but this has some nice bounce to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 30 minutes ago, Richard said: Fuck that! GLORIA is stunning! The rest of the score is none too shabby, either. It is a brilliant little score and the album is just a perfect experience from start to finish. Naïve Old Fart and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 ....crap crap crap crap Happy Death Day's creeping me out now... I forgot what it's like to feel creeped out and uncomfortable by great horror scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 2/2/2018 at 4:52 AM, Holko said: Rediscovering the first Shrek's score now. Powell's bloody great, and you can definitely hear the seeds of How to Train Your Dragon in some of the cues around the dragon: Although the score's a bit bare on its own without All Star and the rest, that's more about those songs being an integral part of the movie, not Powell being bad at all. Err... what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 30.12.2017 at 4:42 AM, publicist said: Hands down my favourite expansion this year. Lacks the historical significance of Ben-Hur, CE3K etc. No Oscar, not even a JWFans Best-of-list was ever in the cards for this, but i just love the atmosphere and that it is a sophisticated chill around your neck instead of big time pyrotechnics like 'Poltergeist'. Apparently Spielberg was much more involved than PR at the time let on, even directing some of it and hiring JG. That explains why the long version reveals a much more tight grip on musical character building than was the norm for big effects movies Goldsmith did at the time. Lots of effort to play around with motivic develoment you only will appreciate in the complete release - ca. an hour would have been the ideal length. Best late Goldsmith next to 'The Mummy'. Suite: And I thought I would be the only one! I haven't even listened to it and I know it's the most important expansion of 2017! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,016 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 War Horse by Eddie Karam. Might be maestro's best assembled album post-2000. Earlier was listening to this: Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Saving Private Ryan by John Williams Stepmom by John Williams Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I agree with Karol about the War Horse album, its fantastically assembled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Collage - James Horner I fell in love with the final movement a couple years ago (it was actually one of the first Horner works I ever heard!) but today I was listening through the whole concerto again and ... wow. Incredible! Those horn harmonies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 It's a good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Another Cloverfield courtesy of mucho prolific Bear McCreary. The length of the release, a punishing 76 minutes, as usually posits itself in direct opposition to the level of interest (they should give out voucher cards for finishing these uninterrupted). It's not that McCreary (and team, presumably) lacks the chops but what he offers up here is a fire sale of 'it might be from some great score' soundalikes that musically do not hold up to much scrutiny (i suspect heavy JNH temp tracking). While much more satisfying than Giacchino's recent asthmatic contributions (McCreary knows a thing or two about instrumental range and variation) it likewise just does not add up to anything more than a Where's Waldo? of moments recalling James Newton Howard ca. 'Signs' (or already diluted Jerry Goldsmith channeled by JNH, as in the daft 'Airlock 6') and James Horner ca. 'Deep Impact' (cooing choruses!). This is all not 'bad' in any offending sense, sometimes even pleasingly lyrical (A Message for Ava), but strictly not original enough in content and gestalt to be considered relevant. One wishes McCreary a better, more creative outlet for his obvious talent beyond awful Netflix/Marvel shows and mediocre pseudo sci-fi retreads like Cloverfield Part XYZ. An album presentation that might have presented the music in a better light you find above. The Spacewalk sequence and the suite at the end are the best cues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,016 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 I could never quite understand your admiration for JNH. What is so special about his music? Other than about half dozen of his score (all of which happen to be the first six Shyamalan collaborations), it is a real a chore to finish his albums. Most of his scores are fine...but merely workmanlike. Help me understand. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 I like Signs and King Kong and that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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