Jurassic Shark 12,083 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Bespin said: With my old crappy headphones. I still can't see you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 The Uninvited by Christopher Young Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs by John Powell (because I apparently craved a tonal contrast after the former gave me the heebie-jeebies!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Hard Rain by Christopher Young: After the cool dramatic main title theme this score becomes a non-stop action piece with just a few moments of respite in between all the kinetic action cues which can be a bit exhausting. While competent this isn't exactly the most pulse pounding foot tapping actioner in terms of memorability. Sadly there is also no end title or satisfying finale as the score just comes to a halt after the last action track and the obligatory end credits song is tacked at the end (which I never listen to). Still the work shows off Young's versatility but doesn't rise above 3½ star rating. Kasey Kockroach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Fierce Creatures by Jerry Goldsmith With this and Along Came a Spider, getting really sick of these cool titles that sadly turn out to not be literal...fun score anyhow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 22 minutes ago, kaseykockroach said: ...getting really sick of these cool titles that sadly turn out to not be literal... Wait till you get to SUPERGIRL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Mandy by Johann Johannsson Good stuff. It's essentially a dreamy synth-scape with touches of 80s industrial grunge, guitar and drumkit calling cards. Maybe the album is a little longer than it needs to be, but still a treat and a reminder of how singular a voice we lost with Johannsson. Oh, and this is pretty much an anti-JWFan score. publicist and Koray Savas 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 SUPERMAN. Sublime. Just sublime. There's no other way I can describe this score. I'm approaching JONATHAN'S DEATH. Oh, those basses! SteveMc and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Just now, Richard said: SUPERMAN. Sublime. Just sublime. There's no other way I can describe this score. I'm approaching JONATHAN'S DEATH. Oh, those basses! Truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 "Remember us, son. Always remember us" 😤 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Castle Rock by Thomas Newman It's only really a handful of cues, and it's largely meandering underscore, but he does seem to channel an edgier sound than the usual brand of "blah" Newman we've been getting in recent years. Though I guess that shouldn't necessarily be mistaken for interesting music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,484 Posted September 17, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 17, 2018 SteveMc, The Illustrious Jerry and Unlucky Bastard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 This is pretty lovely, actually. I was always fairly bored with Cocoon's listening, so I'm pleasantly surprised this is engaging my ears. I don't have any argument for one being better than the other, I suppose it's merely a matter of what's being done with the same ingredients this time around. I'm happy the new release includes the album, since this has sounded like a fine presentation to me. Funny he would use the rhumba later in his Roger Rabbit score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Horner? Reusing music? No way? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 I meant that in the same sense that Goldsmith would use Ride of the Valkyries twice (King Solomon's Mines and Small Soldiers). Just an amusing coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and II by Alex Desplat. Such a frustrating experience. You see, the vast majority of material is actually very solid. But it is also so scattershot that you can't help to think that Desplat had a hard time fulfilling the film's demands. Looks like there were too many cooks - make it to sound like Williams, Zimmer and god-knows-what-else in between. Such a shame, the ideas in isolation promised a much better result. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Assassin's Creed Syndicate by Austin Wintory: I love the chamber music dimensions of this score and how despite of it Wintory still manages to write highly energetic, witty, atmospheric and memorable music for a game about hooded acrobatic assassins running through the 19th century London. The composer took the epoch's musical style very much to heart with the small ensemble which might have been playing in the salons of the well-to-do citizens or at soirees of the time and combined these string forces with piano, synths, voices, percussion and trumpets for a delightful romp that I find myself returning to time and time again. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child by Jay Ferguson. Second favorite score (and film) in the series after New Nightmare! Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Cocoon: The Return Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 The Good Son by Elmer Bernstein The Fly II by Christopher Young Hard To Be a God by Jurgen Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Incanus 5,715 Posted September 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2018 Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (Complete Edit) by John Williams: Man I love this score. Sure it is quite departure from the usual Star Wars with all the percussion and purely kinetic action and whatnot but to my ears it all has aged really well and the Across the Stars love theme is nothing to sneer at. Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (Complete Edit) by John Williams Taikomochi, SteveMc and The Illustrious Jerry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 It's a cute if feeble John Powell imitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Williams just doesn't know what he's doing. The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Saving Private Ryan Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 17 minutes ago, Richard said: Any good? As far as his action movie scores go, it's pretty disappointing. Karol Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 7 minutes ago, crocodile said: As far as his action movie scores go, it's pretty disappointing. Karol Don't worry, the new release changes everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,083 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 They should at least have added drum loops to this new release... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 No, that would actually make the score IIIINTERESTING... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 It's not the kind of score I casually enjoy listening to. But I do respect it. And there's something very appealing about the recording/performance. Feel more heartfelt than more analytical sound stage recordings. And the score plays better in its chronological form actually. It didn't think it would matter much...but it does. Batman Returns Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 So, no BWWAAAAAMMMMMs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 60's big band jazz for another Michael Caine heist movie (the riff on the Sugar Plum Fairy is cute). Worth a listen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Incanus 5,715 Posted September 20, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2018 Nixon by John Williams: The brooding atmosphere is delicious and you can hear the roots of Williams' 2000's psychological/anguished melodrama scoring techniques and ideas here. The Meeting With Mao, The Miami Convention, 1968 and The 1960's: The Turbulent Years are the more dramatic highlights but the whole score is perhaps the deepest psychological musical portrait out of the three JW/Stone collaborations. JFK by John Williams: Such a quintessential suspense/conspiracy score coated in burnished noble Americana of the best kind. Arlington and The Motorcade represent the best at both ends of the stylistic spectrums. Naïve Old Fart, crocodile, SteveMc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra Karop Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Born on the Fourth of July by John Williams: Going through the JW/Stone collaborations in reverse order but no matter, the music itself is as brilliant as in the two successors with heart wrenching elegiac and warmly glowing lyrical Americana coupled with angry avant garde scoring techniques for strings and brass for the war sequences where Williams throws in even a bit of ghostly disembodied synth choir whispers for good creepy measure. While a lot of the score is theme and variations on the trio of thematic ideas the 25 minutes of the OST album is too little of this wonderful lyrical music. I hope one of the labels decides to expand all three JW/Stone collaborations soon-ish. publicist and SteveMc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 We could use an expansion here. It is a top class Williams with very disappointing album. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 The album is actually a very good, concise distillation of the score. A complete score release would be awfully redundant. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 U.S. Marshals by Jerry Goldsmith Rounds (for Guitar) by John Williams Conversations (for Piano) by John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,018 Posted September 20, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2018 2 hours ago, publicist said: The album is actually a very good, concise distillation of the score. A complete score release would be awfully redundant. It might as well be but I'd prefer to decide on my own what goes on my playlist. And the album doesn't give an option to do that. It is pissing down today. I actually missed rain in England, believe it or not. So it is time for some drama Williams. Today I'm listening to selections from: The Post Munich Jane Eyre Stepmom Saving Ryan's Privates Karol Incanus, SteveMc and Kasey Kockroach 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Ahhh...so that's why this is a Quote very disappointing album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Programming film score albums is a very inexact science. Think customisation is the only way forward. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 RUNAWAY I have no idea, why this gets regularly shit on. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 The Silence of the Lambs, by Howard Shore A lightweight, mellifluous score that is very effective at creating multiple layers of tension and dread throughout the film. The main title and end credit pieces are excellent. ***** out of ***** Incanus and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 2 hours ago, John said: The Silence of the Lambs, by Howard Shore A lightweight, mellifluous score that is very effective at creating multiple layers of tension and dread throughout the film. The main title and end credit pieces are excellent. ***** out of ***** A bit too brooding to achieve full marks from me ( even though the dread is its primary function) but a strong 4 star effort from Shore on album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Lightweight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Thematically, it’s not a very complex score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Why are themes the exclusive indicator for the complexity or density of a score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Overwhelming piece, kind of Delerue's 'Hymn to the Fallen'. The film was shot forty years after the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, which cost thousands of lives on both sides, for another pointless cause.The music adds poignant meta comment not on the different ethnicities involved but a general sense of loss and tragedy. Sadly one of the few worthy projects in Delerue's later career. Incanus and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Haunting stuff. And a classic example of how Delerue's voicings can really hit you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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