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2 minutes ago, Tallguy said:

 

Mine.

 

Man, I could never get into Gremlins 2. I adore the movie. But there's something in there I'm missing.

 

Think of it as Jerry's first Looney Tunes score and it helps. ;)

 

I do prefer the Gremlins Rag more on the original, but for all of the other musical hijinks I prefer the sequel score.

 

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8 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

 

Think of it as Jerry's first Looney Tunes score and it helps. ;)

 

I do prefer the Gremlins Rag more on the original, but for all of the other musical hijinks I prefer the sequel score.

 

Yavar

Interesting. I massively prefer the electro orchestra funk version from the sequel. The entirely synth version  from the end credits of the original almost feels like it comes out of nowhere as the orchestra totally falls away. 

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1 minute ago, Tom Guernsey said:

Interesting. I massively prefer the electro orchestra funk version from the sequel. The entirely synth version  from the end credits of the original almost feels like it comes out of nowhere as the orchestra totally falls away. 

 

Gremlins 2 is mostly missing my favorite part of the Gremlins Rag: a certain countermelody that accompanies the version at the end of the original score.

 

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9 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said:

My #1 favorite score for Dante! (What's your favorite, again?)

 

Gremlins 2!

 

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Bill Payne's America theme is the only part of his music where I don't agree with you that it sounds like source. 

 

Whatever you call it, it's just self-contained pieces dropped all over the movie.  And they work differently than straight dramatic score. A good compromise would have been to ask Goldsmith (not just on this movie) to limit himself to a smaller instrumental group, because whenever he gets in his Barry-ersatz mode with horns, strings etc. playing in perfect harmony, he sounds like a stereotype. 'Six Degrees of Separation' and 'Fierce Creatures' are positive examples of how much more fresh his chamber music is.

7 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Pot Luck all the way!

 

All the zany stuff from the middle is freakin great!

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Never seen the show, but I sometimes put on this soundtrack for when I need to calm down with some jazzy elegance. Useful now when I'm in a temporary apartment, and the neighbour is extremely noisy all the time. Can't drown out the noise, but works better than playing Rammstein to overpower it.

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One of my favourite scores of 2018 -- part weird, experimental textures, part goosebump-inducing, haunting religioso textures (love those choral bits, as always). This will get Goldsmith fans to choke on their coffee, but I put this on the same level as Jerry's 70s score.

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28 minutes ago, Thor said:

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This will get Goldsmith fans to choke on their coffee, but I put this on the same level as Jerry's 70s score.

Thanks, Thor(!).

Now, just send me your address, so I'll know where to send the bill, for the dry cleaning.

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OK. Gremlin's 2. 25th Anniversary edition.

 

Gotta say, so far I'm digging it. I'm wondering if my dislike was because I didn't own Gremlins 1 at the time and there isn't a good rendition of the Gremlins Rag? Also I don't know how the original album holds together.

 

I love Gizmo Escapes. I'll report back as I get through it.

 

But it's still no Innerspace. ;)

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18 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

It's a great precursor to McNeely's even better TinkerBell scores!

 

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I'm not a McNeely specialist (as a composer), but I think Shadows of The Empire and Return to Neverland scores, are two great entries to discover his composer skills!

 

Mercy: don't talk about The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, because these albums are all OOR for me!!!

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15 minutes ago, Bespin said:

 

I'm not a McNeely specialist (as a composer), but I think Shadows of The Empire and Return to Neverland scores, are two great entries to discover his composer's skills!

 

Oh, you need to try the first two TinkerBell scores, at least. They are some of his best work, ever:

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8196/.f

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9508/.f

 

Yavar

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1 minute ago, bollemanneke said:

First three! The third one is a masterpiece (too).


For me the third is good but not nearly as great as the first two. Now the unreleased fourth score (Secret of the Wings) ties with the second (Lost Treasure) as my favorite of the series!

 

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2 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said:

 

Oh, you need to try the first two TinkerBell scores, at least. They are some of his best work, ever:

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8196/.f

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9508/.f

 

Yavar

All worth investigating for sure. Some terrific, tuneful orchestral writing. McNeely is definitely one of those criminally underused composers. Then again he probably has greater latitude to write more interesting music for these movies than anything mainstream. 

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1 hour ago, bollemanneke said:

I don't remember the fourth one. My introduction to the scores was the third one, maybe that's why I have a weak spot for it.

 

Oh yeah it's still very good and if it was the first one you ever heard I'm sure it comes off better. For me it suffered in comparison to the amazing first two scores.

 

Yavar

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Gremlins 2. That was time well spent. And yes, once I got over the Rag, it was terrific. 

 

There are so many places in Dante films where I think "You got Goldsmith for THAT?" But he always seems to be enjoying himself! 

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9 hours ago, Tallguy said:

Gotta say, so far I'm digging it. I'm wondering if my dislike was because I didn't own Gremlins 1 at the time and there isn't a good rendition of the Gremlins Rag? Also I don't know how the original album holds together.

 

No good rendition? Gremlin Credits is my favourite version of the rag… (The original album holds up just fine)

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Sophia Loren and Gabriel Yared were the two good things about this 2020 film (which otherwise leaned a bit too heavily on the Oscar bait-ish melodrama). Old-school and romantic meets contemporary elements (like hip hop) - mirroring the storyline. It was a runner-up for me last year.

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Yes. A very impressive comeback, one where she gets to play on more serious notes than what she was usually associated with in the past (it's a bit like what I picture a Monica Vitti comeback would have been, had she made comeback).

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Jumanji: The Next Level by Henry Jackman

 

Both are fun although the second one feel slightly more edited with some weird cuts on certain tracks.

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The Jungle Book by John Debney

 

Another fun jungle score with some nice song performances by SarJo, Walken and Murray. Debney uses wisely the original music from Bruns bringing a new life to it.

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13 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

No good rendition? Gremlin Credits is my favourite version of the rag… (The original album holds up just fine)

 

No great rendition? Gremlin Credits is good as a suite.

 

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Superman (1978)

The original album off of the La La Land set. It's been so long since I listened to this assembly. Tracks that I used to know like I know my own house (Destruction of Krypton, Chasing Rockets) suddenly have unexpected and surprising (in a good way) edits.

 

I guess I never got that far away from the original Star Wars albums because I can listen to either the full scores or the original LPs and I don't bat an eye.

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Best cover I could find online, sorry. Ross' score for the 2013 remake is lovely and breezy (he knows his way around airy strings, pianos and woodwinds), although not on Delerue's level, obviously.

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2 hours ago, Thor said:

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...not on Delerue's level, obviously.

Obviously ;)

 

 

I'm :music: QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

I don't care what anyone says, this is my favourite Bond score, by Arnold, and my second favourite Arnold score, overall.

It's brutal, captivating, enigmatic, and ethereal, at times, but never sentimental.

It really is a class work.

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16 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

I completely agree. For me it is the ultimate Bond score. Too bad, he didn't score the sequels.

 

But Clemmensen gave it only 3 out of 5 stars, one less than Casino Royal (which doesn't have a particularly good score).

 

16 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

The Adventures of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Really a fun score to listen to. In opposite to other golden age scores it is not overloaded with heavy brass and screaming strings, but has clear thematic ideas arranged in a very classical manner.

 

Oh yeah, apart from the wacky main title march, this is one of the best scores ever made.

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Toydrum is slightly easier on the fuzz here than in their FUTURE WORLD (which is also good, though), which works to its benefit. Once again, they nurture their aesthetic between gritty ambiance/shoegaze and big, open, melodic textures.

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58 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

For me it is the ultimate Bond score. Too bad, he didn't score the sequels.

I like the scores for both SKYFALL, and SPECTRE.

They are not particularly Bondian, but they suit their films, and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment.

 

46 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

...Clemmensen gave it only 3 out of 5 stars, one less than Casino Royale (which doesn't have a particularly good score).

Who is this "Clemnensen"?

Is he a passenger?

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Again, I'm struggling to find an online soundtrack cover, because I don't think Ólafur Arnalds' 2014 score was ever commercially released. But it's a nice, "softspoken" score built around repeating figures (primarily on piano). I hung out a bit with Arnalds in Cannes a few years ago -- he's one of the foremost Icelandic film composers. Always meet his stuff with some expectations.

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4 minutes ago, Thor said:

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 I don't think Ólafur Arnalds' 2014 score was ever commercially released.

I can testify to that.

I just went on YouTube, typed in "life in a fishbowl soundtrack", and got

"We're just two lost souls, swimmin' in a fish bowl, year after year" :lol:

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Just now, Naïve Old Fart said:

I can testify to that.

I just went on YouTube, typed in "life in a fishbowl soundtrack", and got

"We're just two lost souls, swimmin' in a fish bowl, year after year" :lol:

 

Ha, ha....not the worst "hit" to get, though.

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5 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

But Clemmensen gave it only 3 out of 5 stars, one less than Casino Royal (which doesn't have a particularly good score).

I mean, some people think, a good Bond score should include the title song a lot, which to my mind Casino Royale did in a quite smart way. Others think, it should include the Bond theme a lot and traces and variations of it in every theme. That's what basically A Quantum of Solace did. Others may think, to hell with the title song and the Bond Theme! The movie needs a good modern action score. That's what Thomas Newman did for Skyfall and Spectre. I a not very interested in the last category. For Bond I like the first two better.

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7 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I'm :music: QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

I don't care what anyone says, this is my favourite Bond score, by Arnold, and my second favourite Arnold score, overall.

It's brutal, captivating, enigmatic, and ethereal, at times, but never sentimental.

It really is a class work.

 

It's amazing. I'm always hesitant to say it's my favorite Arnold Bond but if it's not first it's second. I couldn't tell you what first is, though.

 

It's really quite a departure. It's like he not only got free of "being" John Barry but also being the guy who wrote Stargate and Independence day. And then it was his last one!

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10 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

The Adventures of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Really a fun score to listen to. In opposite to other golden age scores it is not overloaded with heavy brass and screaming strings, but has clear thematic ideas arranged in a very classical manner.

 

"Overloaded with heavy brass and screaming strings" isn't a description I'd generally associate with Golden Age scores. But perhaps with "throwback scores" like Cutthroat Island (which I like).

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Sounds good. Warm (those muted strings!), intimate and, of course, autumnly. Nice. Love when the classical guitar ends the melody in a flageolet (harmonics) note. 

 

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Doesn't sound so good. The orchestra sits too far away and the aural exciter (or whatever effect they used) is severely abused here, causing too much artifacts in the treble. Not a fan of the movie or the soundtrack but Hatching Baby Raptor is nice and strongly reminds me of the music he wrote for A.I.. Not sure if there is a remastered version but I listened to the original release. 

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