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

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

16 minutes ago, Bespin said:

You start a new album with a remaining battery percentage of 38 %?

 

You're braver than I thought!

My phone's charging, you nincompoop.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

21 hours ago, Stu said:

I’m not necessarily a huge fan Neil Degrasse Tyson but I am anti-anti-Neil Degrasse Tyson

 

21 hours ago, Stu said:

Nah he’s fine.  Reactions say more about the people who get bizarrely angered by him than about him

 

As far as I've seen, him and Bill Nye are rather like American versions of Brian Cox.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

The Swarm - Jerry Goldsmith (LLL)

 

I hadn't revisited this since it first came out a couple years ago.  Man, what a great, fun score!  Personally I like all the "quiet" music of the expansion, the themes and orchestration are so lovely and they add a nice contrast to the joyfully chaotic action music.  I think this is a must own even for moderate Jerry fans (as in, between casual and hardcore).  I'll definitely be humming that main B-E-E action motif the rest of the day!

[LSH 968]

 

 

Arguably HGW's best score for a Tony Scott film and probably his best melding of orchestra and electronica. I love it; it's moody, brooding and often touching, with the occasional 'ethnic' punctuation. Man On Fire is a close second but I prefer this for its more refined approach to the style.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

My favourite HGW score, by a country mile.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Stu said:

The Swarm - Jerry Goldsmith (LLL) I hadn't revisited this since it first came out a couple years ago.  Man, what a great, fun score!  Personally I like all the "quiet" music of the expansion, the themes and orchestration are so lovely and they add a nice contrast to the joyfully chaotic action music.  I think this is a must own even for moderate Jerry fans (as in, between casual and hardcore).  I'll definitely be humming that main B-E-E action motif the rest of the day!

THE SWARM is, easily, top-10 Jerry, for me.

[Marian Schedenig 8,192]

3 hours ago, Bespin said:

You start a new album with a remaining battery percentage of 38 %?

 

You're braver than I thought!

 

38% probably lasts me a whole day, and my phone is several years old at this point.

[Matt C 452]

The Spiderwick Chronicles - James Horner

 

It was nice seeing Horner revisit the family fantasy genre he made popular with Casper and Something Wicked This Way Comes. And it is a perfectly enjoyable, but it's marred due to temp tracking or Horner just unconsciously ripping off himself. Still, he could hit emotional beats better than a lot of the new composers on the scene in 2008.

[Tom Guernsey 2,284]

9 hours ago, LSH said:

 

 

Arguably HGW's best score for a Tony Scott film and probably his best melding of orchestra and electronica. I love it; it's moody, brooding and often touching, with the occasional 'ethnic' punctuation. Man On Fire is a close second but I prefer this for its more refined approach to the style.

Did a search to see if I had this score (as I often add scores to my "up next" that are positively mentioned on this thread that I've not listened to in ages) only to discover that I don't own it, but the only score with the phrase "Spy Game" in it was... "Hundred Acre Spy Game" from the Winnie the Pooh movie by Henry Jackman. Well of course!

 

NP: Spartacus by Alex North - Still an amazing score and the sound quality is incredible, even on the full mono score. The way it's produced is excellent too as it's actually quite a fair number of shorter cues at times, but on this occasions, the gaps between the tracks is very small so it more or less runs together while still keeping them discreet.

[Bespin 8,480]

Great Varèse Sarabande Productions (1/3):

• "Superman: The Movie". John Williams, Royal Scottish National O, John Debney
• "The Agony and the Ecstasy". Alex North, Royal Scottish National O, Jerry Goldsmith (Spotify)
• "Body Heat". John Barry, LSO, Joel McNeely
• "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad". Bernard Herrmann, Royal Scottish National O, John Debney (Spotify)

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

Great stuff, Bes!

[JNHFan2000 2,959]

Pete's Dragon - Daniel Hart

 

Great score! Hart is a terrific composer!

[Bespin 8,480]

Great Varèse Sarabande Productions (2/3):

• "Viva Zapata". Alex North, Royal Scottish National O, Jerry Goldsmith
• "Family Plot". John Williams
• "The Abyss: The Deluxe Edition". Alan Silvestri (An "Evaluation" Copy)
• "The Music of Patrick Doyle for Solo Piano". Patrick Doyle (Spotify)

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Jerry Goldsmith 80th Birthday: Filmucité 3

Great recordings of the classic Goldsmith score. Really love the Sum of All Fears performance which is better here than on the LLL album

[Bespin 8,480]

9 minutes ago, May the Force be with You said:

Jerry Goldsmith 80th Birthday: Filmucité 3

Great recordings of the classic Goldsmith score. Really love the Sum of All Fears performance which is better here than on the LLL album

 

I have to get this one... For some years I'm searching it in his physical form DVD or CD... But it will be in digital it seems!

[bruce marshall 1,315]

 

THE IRON GIANT - ost

Custom playlist:

1-5

7,8

18,19

10

15

17

21-23

TT: 35 minutes

 

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,284]

Penelope (Joby Talbot) - is it wrong that I like this more than JW's?! I guess the original is a bit more of its time and a touch cheesy (particularly the title song which is clearly a "please give us a Henry Mancini style title song"). Given the flack JW occasionally gets for writing music that's too loud or epic, Talbot's effort is considerably broader and more orchestral than the poppier original. The Kiss, in particular, is surprisingly epic for a romantic comedy score. Shame the album only has 20 odd minutes of score, but perhaps that's enough.

[LSH 968]

 

As a whole, I don't find this massively engaging (though I dig its placement in the film, which I absolutely love), however... that theme.

 

Not just one of my favourite Goldsmith themes but one of my all-time favourites. THIS is a ruddy good theme. THIS is a textbook example of a good adventure theme. A soaring long-lined theme with a cohesive and equally dazzling B-section.. all surrounded by a striking woodwind motif that serves both as a fantastic lead into, and out of, the melody itself.

 

Man, what a theme.

[Bespin 8,480]

5 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

Penelope (Joby Talbot) - is it wrong that I like this more than JW's?! I guess the original is a bit more of its time and a touch cheesy (particularly the title song which is clearly a "please give us a Henry Mancini style title song"). Given the flack JW occasionally gets for writing music that's too loud or epic, Talbot's effort is considerably broader and more orchestral than the poppier original. The Kiss, in particular, is surprisingly epic for a romantic comedy score. Shame the album only has 20 odd minutes of score, but perhaps that's enough.

 

I love the original Penelope!

 

[Edmilson 7,436]

Thanks to Multiverse of Madness, I've been binging Danny Elfman scores over the last few days: 

 

Doctor Strange 2

Nice! My favorite score this year so far.

 

Planet of the Apes

Okay, but the complete score drags and is a bit repetitive. One of the themes reminded me of Zimmer's Dune.

 

Mission: Impossible

So much fun!

 

Edward Scissorhands

Elfman's masterpiece.

 

Sleepy Hollow

Pretty good too, but I think I'll edit down the main score in the future, the complete score gets very repetitive by the end.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

Maybe edit it down to 69 minutes?

 

Like, you know.

 

Elfman did.

 

Gawrsh, maybe he was onto somethin' thar.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

Must.

Have.

Every.

Cue.

Every.

Alternate.

I.

Am.

Borg.

[publicist 4,643]

11 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Sleepy Hollow

Pretty good too, but I think I'll edit down the main score in the future, the complete score gets very repetitive by the end.

 

As much as anal-retentive collectors beg for every partial alternate of a 8-minute cue that has a different triangle run from 06:12 to 06:14, it makes most C&C editions really a seriously annoying thing. 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

The Emoji Movie by Patrick Doyle

How did that movie inspired him that much that's beyond me. At least this score is really nice and fun

[GerateWohl 4,357]

I have the suspicion, that many soundtrack fans around here collect these albums rather like stamps, something to look at and to archive, than actually to listen to them.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

That's a fair point.

I bought AVATAR, in December, 2009, and I have still not removed the shrink-wrap.

[Bespin 8,480]

2 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

I have the suspicion, that many soundtrack fans around here collect these albums rather like stamps, something to look at and to archive, than actually to listen to them.

 

I confess my listening rate is a little inferior to my buying rate.

 

But when I want to listen to an album, if I have it in my collection, it's a pure joy.

[Jurassic Shark 12,066]

17 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

That's a fair point.

I bought AVATAR, in December, 2009, and I have still not removed the shrink-wrap.

 

Well, they can be near-impossible to remove.

[GerateWohl 4,357]

Sometimes I think, this is kind of a weird way to buy additional lifetime.

I buy an album and I know, listening to it once costs me one hour of my lifetime.

If I don't listen to it, I have won one hour of additional time, that I can spend differently.

So, buying a hundred CDs of one hour runtime means, a hundred hours of additional time (as long as I don't listen to them. 

 

 

Probably I should go to see a psychologist.

 

 

[JNHFan2000 2,959]

5 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

I have the suspicion, that many soundtrack fans around here collect these albums rather like stamps, something to look at and to archive, than actually to listen to them.

 

I did this. But then when the pandemic started in 2020, I got rid of a lot of stuff I didn't listen to or probably won't listen to again. Now, I really do only buy things from which I know I will listen to them. Otherwise I will maybe skip through some cues on Spotify, but that's it.

 

What I have now in my digital library is only stuff I listen to. Mostly on album, artist of cue shuffle. Going through my favourite cues at the moment from A - Z

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

For all the soundtracks I bought, I came to realize I really only listen to my favorites and anything else was just padding out my library. I listen to, for example, Rocketeer when in a Horner mood, I don't need Perfect Storm. When the mood for the latter ever comes (and it isn't often), it's on YT/Apple Music anyway and I can just listen to a suite or whatevs.

 

 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

I know what you mean about scores be coming superfluous.

 

For example, once I acquired ALIEN I knew I'd never listen to POLTERGEIST again so I sold it.

 

I sold THE BLACK HOLE for similar reasons. MOONRAKER would always be my go- to outer space score#😁

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

54 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

I know what you mean about scores be coming superfluous.

 

For example, once I acquired ALIEN I knew I'd never listen to POLTERGEIST again so I sold it.

 

 

 

Our tastes couldn’t be more opposite, pft. But I’m with ya anyhow.

[thestat 348]

Bensi and Jurriaans - clearly the most popular scoring couple in the world, but with no discernible trademark or themes to their name. The B and J is now scoring approximately 90% of mainstream high profile shows - how did they get there?

 

I mention them as they finally made an impact. Their theme to The Staircase is awesome (unless Clint Mansell asks about The Fountain)>

 

[Bespin 8,480]

I want to make a clear statement.

 

I listen to all the CDs I purchase.

 

But I don't listen to them the exact same day I encode and put them in my collection, but I listen to them all.

 

I just have to find a good theme or subject for making my usual "4 albums" playlists!

 

It's always funnier to listen to a bunch of albums when there's a link between them, no?

 

Oh, BTW...

 

Great Varèse Sarabande Productions (3/3):

• "Back in Time: 1985 at the Movies". Varèse Sarabande SO, David Newman
• "Dracula: The Deluxe Edition". John Williams
• "Air Force One: The Deluxe Edition". Jerry Goldsmith
• "How to Train Your Dragon: The Deluxe Edition". John Powell

[thestat 348]

Bound by Davis "

 

 

 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

[publicist 4,643]

 

Nothing could sour my love for this score (and that era), but this is actually quite good. That it took 'Mother' to get him to dust this off (and 'Cinderella Liberty') is a tragic reminder how artists often are their own worst critics.

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Sleuth by Patrick Doyle

What a terrific score! It's fun and really engaging, reminds me a lot the great vibe of Knives Out

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

Perhaps an unfair question, but...how does it compare to Addison's score?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

I've actually never listen to Addison's score outside of the movie so I don't really now but I was about to check it out. I've seen both movies, the original being thousand times better than this one I'm curious to see if the score follow the same paddern

[Jurassic Shark 12,066]

The newer score is partially... electronic.

[Bespin 8,480]

Happy 71st anniversary to James Newton Howard!

• News of the World (2020)
• A Hidden Life (2019)
• Red Sparrow (2018)
• The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
• Fantastic Beast (2016)
• Outbreak (expanded) (2015)
• Wyatt Earp (expanded) (2013)
• Dave (expanded) (2013)
• The Hunger Games 1 (2012)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)

[publicist 4,643]

 

My sincerest best wishes too!

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Waterworld by JNH

My favourite score from him with King Kong. May he compose a lot of other great scores

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

He did a way better Kong score than John Barry.

 

(I’m only saying that to piss off grandpa so he’ll get out of bed. His senses can detect Barry criticism from many kilometers away!)

[Bespin 8,480]

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

Happy 71st, J.N.H. 

 

1 hour ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

He did a way better Kong score than John Barry.

Yeah, right (!).

 

 

3 hours ago, Bespin said:

• News of the World (2020)
• A Hidden Life (2019)
• Red Sparrow (2018)
• The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
• Fantastic Beast (2016)
• Outbreak (expanded) (2015)
• Wyatt Earp (expanded) (2013)
• Dave (expanded) (2013)
• The Hunger Games 1 (2012)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)

No FALLING DOWN?

No THE VILLAGE?!

No THE SIXTH SENSE??!!

No UNBREAKABLE???!!!

No GRAND fucking CANYON?????!!!!!

 

Rubbish! Do it again, boy.

 

[Edmilson 7,436]

Just now, Naïve Old Fart said:

FALLING DOWN?

 

Meh

 

1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

THE VILLAGE?!

 

 

1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

THE SIXTH SENSE??!!

 

Malcolm is Dead is the best cue.

 

1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

UNBREAKABLE???!!!

 

 

6 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

GRAND CANYON?????!!!!!

More or less

[Bespin 8,480]

18 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

No THE SIXTH SENSE??!!

 

MISTER, PUT YOUR GLASSES!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]