Bespin 8,487 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Just another little quickie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 "The Murder": Bernard Herrmann, Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek PSYCHO (Elfman 1998) Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 @Bespin, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at the credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Well, usually I use "The Penguin Guide" method and abreviations to tag my digital files. The general concept is to begin with the composer, the soloists, the orchestra, then finally, the conductor. 'S' for Symphony, 'O' for orchestra, 'Philh' for, well, etc, etc. Ex.: Bernard Herrmann, Orla Boylan, Martin Roscoe, BBC Philh, Rumon Gamba Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bespin 8,487 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 1989 really was the year of my film music "musical awakening", I was 15 yo. From J.S. Bach, I switched directly to John Williams and Danny Elfman. The 3 Star Wars were some of the the first CDs I purchased (some on the Columbia Club!). Then in the summer of 1989, Tim Burton's Batman was released... 1989 - Part I Erich Kunzel - A Disney Spectacular Danny Elfman - Batman Erich Kunzel - Chiller James Horner - Field of Dreams 1989 - Part II John Williams - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade John Williams - Salute to Hollywood Alan Silvestri - The Abyss Various - The Music Teacher Raiders of the SoundtrArk and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,401 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Loves's Labour's Lost - Patrick Doyle Rarely gets mentioned when it comes to Doyle's work. Even though for me one of his best. It is kind of his emulation of a Golden Age score. Probably, it is not so popular because the movie is so bad or because on the score the musical songs are more in focus. But the combination of both is really a great listen (if you like such wasteful exuberant music). Tom Guernsey and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,487 Posted July 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2022 The Best Summers of Our Lives! Jaws - Expanded Score The Omen - Expanded Score Damien: Omen II - Expanded Score Jaws 2 - Expanded Score GerateWohl, Raiders of the SoundtrArk and Naïve Old Fart 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 969 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Possibly the best theme ever. Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,290 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 hour ago, LSH said: Possibly the best theme ever. From the talk I went to with Jerry and director Lee Tamahori they mentioned that the opening credits sequence was temped with Last of the Mohicans which Jerry wasn’t super thrilled about but fortunately found entirely his own voice for the main theme and wrote, as you say, one of his best themes. Absolutely super and surprisingly lyrical too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,218 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 26 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said: Jerry wasn’t super thrilled about but fortunately found entirely his own voice for the main theme Or his inner John Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 969 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said: From the talk I went to with Jerry and director Lee Tamahori they mentioned that the opening credits sequence was temped with Last of the Mohicans which Jerry wasn’t super thrilled about but fortunately found entirely his own voice for the main theme and wrote, as you say, one of his best themes. Absolutely super and surprisingly lyrical too. Interesting. Thanks for that little tid-bit. Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,487 Posted July 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2022 Summer Shocks! Jerry Goldsmith - Twilight Zone: The Movie - Expanded Score James Horner - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Expanded Score Ennio Morricone - The Thing - Remastered Score Jerry Goldsmith - Poltergeist - Expanded Score Raiders of the SoundtrArk, Naïve Old Fart and Tom Guernsey 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Summer days drifting away... John Powell - How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Expanded Score John Williams - War of the Worlds - Expanded Score John Williams - Minority Report - Expanded Score James Newton Howard - Wyatt Earp - Expanded Score Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestat 352 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Nothing can beat the transition of this jolly fellow, but still as dark: Naïve Old Fart and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Indianagirl 298 Posted July 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 26, 2022 I'm really starting to develop a love for old Hollywood scores. JNHFan2000, GerateWohl and Naïve Old Fart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,974 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Spellbound is fantastic!!! I myself am very fond of a few scores from 'The Golden Age'. There is really some terrific music that you don't hear anymore these days Indianagirl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,218 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Is that a custom cover for Marnie, or was it re-released with a new cover? Mine looks like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,290 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 37 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: Is that a custom cover for Marnie, or was it re-released with a new cover? Mine looks like this: Must be a custom cover as mine looks like that too. A very fine custom cover though which I’m quite inclined to use. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Is that Matthew Joseph Peak? He does some great stuff, and he takes after his dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 36 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said: Must be a custom cover as mine looks like that too. A very fine custom cover though which I’m quite inclined to use. You have to know Varèse Sarabande asked artists to paint (real paintings) their covers in that period. Is it pretty? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,290 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Bespin said: You have to know Varèse Sarabande asked artists to paint (real paintings) their covers in that period. Is it pretty? No. Oh yes I know that! I should have made it clearer. Some of them are really good, others less so. The one for their otherwise fine Jaws re-recording is especially off the mark. But I do especially love the covers for 2001 and Vertigo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,974 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Listened to a few Basil Poledouris score the last few days. Conan The Destroyer, Flesh + Blood, Robocop, Lonesome Dove, Quigley Down Under, Free Willy & Lassie. My favourites are definitely Lonesome Dove & Quigley Down Under. And I have a soft spot for Lassie. On to Starship Troopers & For The Love Of The Game Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indianagirl 298 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 18 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: Is that a custom cover for Marnie, or was it re-released with a new cover? Mine looks like this: It's custom I believe. I found it on a google search. My actual cover is like the one you showed. I guess I should have posted the actual covers instead of the one's I'm currently using. Sorry. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,290 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Indianagirl said: It's custom I believe. I found it on a google search. My actual cover is like the one you showed. I guess I should have posted the actual covers instead of the one's I'm currently using. Sorry. No need to apologise, lots of people round here are suckers for some fine custom cover art and that one is pretty great! Speaking of which, I realised I didn't have the lovely suite for cello and orchestra that JW arranged from Memoirs of a Geisha so gave that a spin. Absolutely terrific half hour summation of the best moments with predictably wonderful performances by Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by JW. I found some rather lovely artwork online (not sure what release it went with) but only in fairly low resolution, does anyone have it in better resolution? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andy 4,154 Posted July 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2022 Holy moly! Is To Kil a Mockingbird ahead of its time? Seems to have set the template for so many dramatic sounding scores like Randy Newman's The Natural and James Horner's Cocoon. What I wouldn't give to have the original recording with Williams on the piano. This is brilliant. I've listened to my share of Elmer Bernstein, but this seems to transcend a lot of his style to be its own thing. Soooo good. What's the story with the original tapes? Are they known to be destroyed, or just not found yet? Disco Stu, Tallguy and publicist 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,406 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Forrest Gump, Bolt... There's a lot of Mockingbird out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,154 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 YES! So influential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,974 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Lair - John Debney & Kevin Kaska One of the best scores of the last 20 years. And I don't mean just game scores. This is terrific musical storytelling of the highest order. With at least 6 themes it's a very well thought out score, which I love. The action music, because it's a game, is there in abundance and it's mindblowingly good. Now that I hear it again. This score nicely fits next to The Orville. Magnificent orchestral writing. Now give Debney that big fantasy or action film where he can use the orchestra. Would love for him to maybe score Fantastic Four with a big orchestra & choir. Luke Skywalker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,027 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 It might be bit much in terms of sheer noise but definitely a lot of fun. Karol Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,974 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 20 minutes ago, crocodile said: It might be bit much in terms of sheer noise but definitely a lot of fun. Karol You are indeed out of breat after 99 minutes. Hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Summer sun, something's begun... James Horner - Aliens - Expanded score Alan Silvestri - Back To The Future - Expanded score James Horner - Krull - Expanded score John Williams - Dracula - Expanded score Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,539 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 My latest score rip project, It Happened in Europe/Somewhere in Europe, a 1947 classic about the horrors of war through the eyes of children left alone, cast out of society, growing hardened against it, but being taught humanity and empathy again by an old conductor they come across and initially want to hang in an old ruined castle, partially shot in war ruins with actual war orphans. The composer's profile mostly includes songs, music set to poems, operettas, theatrical incidental music, and film scores mostly from the first decade of sound film. The score features a mix of Golden Age scoring and almost mickey mousing - in some places it even has to carry the entire soundtrack with no foley or dialogue, like the section at 2:24-3:30 where it scores a train carriage's door closing, the train starting up, then speeding away after a kid's thrown out of the window to be saved. There's a fanfare for the castle and a march for the band of kids, playing in more or less motivated renditions, and recurring melodies for grief, sneaking around, motivated preparations around the castle, and a bassoon figure for the conductor, who also helps introduce pieces by others - he plays Beethoven's Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata on the piano and teaches the kids La Marseillaise, who take it up on the harmonica and whistle it as their anthem - the score also references the Rákóczy March in the finale when he says goodbye to the kids, now safe and legally owners of the castle. The relationship between diegetic music and score also gets interesting - Marseillaise as mentioned before is partly the former, but is also quickly built into the score; and the castle's fanfare is "composed" by the conductor at the piano after their relationship grows and the kids' energies are turned productive to help reconstruct the ruined home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Summer fling, don't mean a thing... Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West (OST) Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight Rises (OST) Howard Shore - Twilight: Eclipse (OST) Danny Elfman - Spider-Man 2 (The Score) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 ...but, oh, oh, the Summer nights... BODY HEAT BASIC INSTINCT THE RUSSIA HOUSE FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,318 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 On 27/07/2022 at 10:02 AM, Andy said: Holy moly! Is To Kil a Mockingbird ahead of its time? Seems to have set the template for so many dramatic sounding scores like Randy Newman's The Natural and James Horner's Cocoon. What I wouldn't give to have the original recording with Williams on the piano. This is brilliant. I've listened to my share of Elmer Bernstein, but this seems to transcend a lot of his style to be its own thing. Soooo good. What's the story with the original tapes? Are they known to be destroyed, or just not found yet? According to Intrada,tapes exist but the estate won't license them Astards! SHOCK TREATMENT Goldsmith at his early, innovative peak. Love this score. Can't believe we have it in STEREO- PHONIC SOUND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,154 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 5 hours ago, bruce marshall said: According to Intrada,tapes exist but the estate won't license them Astards! Oh that’s a cryin shame. Maybe if they got a persuasive letter from Mr Williams’s people since he played in the recording. Historically significant, I’d say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 On 22/10/2021 at 7:52 AM, Stu said: I am once again listening to The Outsiders. "Sunrise" is such an achingly perfect cue. I've posted before that it reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird musically and it also occurs to me that they can be related thematically as well. Both being at least partially about how you can never have the innocence of childhood again once lost. Also don't think of this cue as an instrumental version of a Stevie Wonder song, the film cue written by Carmine Coppola came first, and then Stevie Wonder gave it lyrics and a pop song recording afterward. And it's such a horrible tragedy what Francis Coppola did to his own father's score for the "complete novel" cut of the movie, which is currently the only one in circulation. I find it unwatchable. To use a quote from another Coppola movie, "Look how they massacred my boy" I'll never get enough of this cue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Let's take the Memory Lane this sunday... Erich Kunzel - Mega Movies (2000) RLPO - Great Movie Themes (2007) Marc Shaiman - Memory Lane (Junk in my Trunk) Mini-Album featured on The Bucket List OST (2008) LSO - The Genius of Film Music 1980s-2000s (2018) Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 41 minutes ago, Bespin said: Marc Shaiman - Memory Lane (Junk in my Trunk) Mini-Album featured on The Bucket List OST(2008) That's news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Oh I had completely forgotten this great arrangement where the Main theme directly segue into The Flag Parade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 969 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 A fantastic cross-over score melding both Howard's adept incidental lyrical writing with his rock and roll past. Yeah, it sounds very much a product of its time... but it's damn enjoyable. Bespin and Naïve Old Fart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,591 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 @LSH, you might just get the impression that I like this score. I've loved this score for over 30 years. From the Main Title (which could be a Toto instrumental - and there's nowt wrong with that!), to the Copland-esque Fanfare, it's blissful JNH. My favourite Howard score, bar absolutely none!!! Favourite cue: MACK AND CLAIRE'S DREAM, but, hey fuck it: it's all brilliant. 1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said: @LSH LSH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,027 Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Windtalkers. The thamatic core of this score is rather underwhelming, true, and no one will argue this is Horner’s finest hour. But given the current film music landcape, I find it really funny that people regarded this type of action cue generic some 20 years ago: Karol Bespin and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,401 Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 26/7/2022 at 7:01 AM, Indianagirl said: I'm really starting to develop a love for old Hollywood scores. Interesting. I didn’t know that McNeely re-recorded Rebecca as well. Wonderful score. Probably my favorite of Waxman. I have Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra recording which is good. Any comparison by anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,290 Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 26 minutes ago, GerateWohl said: Interesting. I didn’t know that McNeely re-recorded Rebecca as well. Wonderful score. Probably my favorite of Waxman. I have Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra recording which is good. Any comparison by anyone? Although it has less music, I prefer the McNeely recording, the performance and recording are both better in my estimation. As it's a Varese re-recording from the 90s, there are the inevitable complaints about more of a concert hall acoustic, but it's not really an issue for this music unless you do prefer your classic scores with zero reverb! Both worth listening to and I agree, it's a wonderful score. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,218 Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Speaking of which, I recently re-watched Rebecca, and found that it's a good example of how undermixed scores are not an exclusively modern thing. Waxman's climactic cue is mixed so low that a critical portion is entirely drowned out by the sound effects of the fire. I actually think the film's ending would have considerably more impact if the score were mixed properly. Tom Guernsey and JNHFan2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,487 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Summer heat, boy and girl meet... Danny Elfman - Black Beauty - Expanded Score John Williams - Jurassic Park - NEW Expanded Score James Horner - The Rocketeer - Expanded Score Michael Kamen - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - Expanded Score Tom Guernsey and Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Two of my favourite sixties thriller scores again, both composers using instruments in a chamber setting in unsettling registers (Mancini: detuned piano, Barry: alto flutes). The films are also two fine examples of the genre. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LSH 969 Posted August 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2022 One of my favourite Horner scores from that exceptionally prolific early-90s period and an utter overload of that warm pastoral ambience that he was so fucking good at. Bespin, crocodile, Raiders of the SoundtrArk and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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