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

[filmmusic 2,447]

I think @bespinGPT has listened to this very recently?

 

 

A breath of talent!

The 2 downsides I found are that we don't have the choir and soprano at the Little Buddha track, and that it doesn't contain any music from the exquisite Wuthering Heights!

[filmmusic 2,447]

After the Sakamoto compilation, I decided to listen to some soundtracks I didn't know.

 

 

Great theme, the score itself is a bit repetitious with the same theme.

The usual dense string writing by Sakamoto.

2 good songs in there, and a couple of source cues (?) that I didn't care about..

[Bespin Copilot 9,214]

24 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

After the Sakamoto compilation, I decided to listen to some soundtracks I didn't know.

 

 

Great theme, the score itself is a bit repetitious with the same theme.

The usual dense string writing by Sakamoto.

2 good songs in there, and a couple of source cues (?) that I didn't care about..

Where did you find it?

[filmmusic 2,447]

23 minutes ago, bespinGPT said:

Where did you find it?

In a place I cannot speak of publicly. 

[Bespin Copilot 9,214]

2 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

In a place I cannot speak of publicly. 

 

download-soundtracks?

[filmmusic 2,447]

3 minutes ago, bespinGPT said:

 

download-soundtracks?

I've pmed you.

[Thor 9,070]

 

This is a great Moroder score from 1988. The songs are okay. I think what I have is a promo or something (it doesn't have the same cover as the one I shared here, in low resolution). Has the opening song, but then the score for the rest. It should definitely get a proper commercial release. Funky, melodic, infectious.

[Thor 9,070]

 

Absolutely gorgeous score by Moroder & Walker, for this 2003 documentary directed by the one and only Leni Riefenstahl, who was in her 90s at the time ("how can you say to no working with the last nazi?", Moroder told me and laughed). Wish it got a proper release, this is the single, 42-minute track that was put on SoundCloud awhile back, and the one with the tracks split is hyper rare.

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

14 minutes ago, Thor said:

Walker

 

Wanker!

[Thor 9,070]

???

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

Got him mixed up with Thomas.

[Thor 9,070]

 

A definite highlight of last year, for all us duduk lovers. Only 23 minutes, but all good stuff.

[CT-7567 121]

 

It´s good for studying, and has some very good parts, but i´ts not really memorable. That said, really want to see the movie now, i feel that the ost will be much better in it, plus the fact that the entire movie is like the cover of the album is a great bonus.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,017]

56 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

 

Remember, you... are my #1... guy.

[thestat 473]

Talgorn's score for Delta Force 2, a Norris old-man-with-shoulder-hair fest, is great. Sadly, and very understandably, a large part of it is samples scheisse, but when it kicks into the Munich Symphony Orchestra overdrive, it is wonderful. Probably the best example of action flying music - check it (skip the synth nonsense and start at 2:30):

 

[Thor 9,070]

 

 

Finally got around to whittling this gorgeous score down to a workable 52 minutes, so it comes to life. Pastoral and bucolic, with great passages for strings and woodwinds. Haven't really found anything else by Graeme Stewart that matches this 2014 effort.

[Thor 9,070]

 

Good on Caldera, maybe my favourite soundtrack label, for releasing this 2021 gem by Farley (no relation to Chris). Sweet, elegant, occasionally jazzy, like it comes from another era. The inclusion of Legrand's eternal "The Windmills of Your Mind" helps with that feeling, of course -- one of my favourite film songs. It's sung better than Harrison here (who kinda "talks" it), and the arrangement is fine, but I'm not sold on a female vocalist. It sounds better with a male.

[Thor 9,070]

 

This drop-dead gorgeous score - maybe the most classical-orchestral Zimmer has ever been (check that one out, Zimmer haters!) - is a top favourite for me. Slow, powerful, melancholic, it just hits every note. I tear my hair out in frustration over selling the CD years ago.

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

7 minutes ago, Thor said:

I tear my hair out in frustration over selling the CD years ago.

 

Don't be too hard on yourself, it's Zimmer. 

[Thor 9,070]

You should listen to that one. I think maybe, just maybe, you'd like it. I've heard references like Mozart and Fauré being brandied about.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,017]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

I tear my hair out in frustration over selling the CD years ago.

It's easily available, on eBay, and for a reasonable price. Most copies are under £10.

[Thor 9,070]

Thanks. €4-6 total, I could take, but I found none to that price on eBay (cheapest was €8.69, with the German "Geisterhaus" title; I'd rather have the English). Furthermore, it's €10+ in shipping alone for the cheapest options. To say nothing of possible customs on top of that. So we're looking at minimum €20 here, which is way out of my price league. But one day, I'll retrieve this -- and many of the other titles I've stupidly sold or traded off over the years.

[crocodile 8,857]

Violent Night by Dominic Lewis. It's not terribly original necessarily, sitting somewhere between Home Alone, Die Hard and The Polar Express/A Christmas Carol. But it isn't to say that the album is not plenty of fun regardless as all of these scores are pretty good. Fortunately for Lewis, he also did compose a decent enough main theme to tie it all together.

 

Now listening to the OST albums for The Sisters and Obsession. Late Herrmann was still very delicious.

 

Karol

[Davis 3,724]

On 22/11/2024 at 2:05 PM, bespinGPT said:

4 scores of John Williams, inspired by a video I just saw (The "Less" Legendary John Williams scores).

• Spacecamp (the score)
• Heartbeeps (the score)
• Nixon (OST)
• Dracula (the score)

I’m listening to these scores after having watched the video, too. I realized that I never ever listened to HEARTBEEPS all the way through and that it’s great. So are the other three scores. 
 

 

On 30/11/2024 at 9:10 PM, Thor said:

 

This drop-dead gorgeous score - maybe the most classical-orchestral Zimmer has ever been (check that one out, Zimmer haters!) 

Never heard it (possibly saw the film, but don’t remember it), thanks for the recommendation. 
Ha en flott dag!

[filmmusic 2,447]

1 hour ago, Davis said:

Never heard it (possibly saw the film, but don’t remember it), thanks for the recommendation. 

I concur that this is one of the best Zimmer scores. You should listen to it!

[Kasey Kockroach 2,372]

[Meredith McKay 7,317]

1 minute ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

Nice selfie

[GerateWohl 5,564]

1 minute ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

One of Young's best scores for an underrated movie.

[Edmilson 9,763]

4 minutes ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

What did the cat thought about the score? Is he/she a Chris Young fan or hater?

[GerateWohl 5,564]

Heavy Metal - Elmer Bernstein 

 

I like most of the score. But this main fanfare is unfortunately a little annoying. And it appears a little too often for my taste. 

[Meredith McKay 7,317]

4 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

What did the cat thought about the score? Is he/she a Chris Young fan or hater?

She thinks his scores started to not be as good, once he got better projects.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,372]

Mariah’s sad we lost our physical copy of Poltergeist. Will have to re-acquire it sometime. 
I have other means of listening to it (of which I’m utilizing as we speak), of course, and I normally don’t care about scores enough to want to own them anymore, but Poltergeist remains a special exception. 

[Edmilson 9,763]

5 minutes ago, Doo_liss said:

She thinks his scores started to not be as good, once he got better projects.

So I gather she's not much of a fan of Spider-Man 3, Ghost Rider and Drag Me to Hell huh? 

[Bespin Copilot 9,214]

1 minute ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

Mariah’s sad we lost our physical copy of Poltergeist. Will have to re-acquire it sometime. 
I have other means of listening to it (of which I’m utilizing as we speak), of course, and I normally don’t care about scores enough to want to own them anymore, but Poltergeist remains a special exception. 

Run to the light Mariah!

[Meredith McKay 7,317]

Just now, Edmilson said:

So I gather she's not much of a fan of Spider-Man 3, Ghost Rider and Drag Me to Hell huh? 

I said once he got better projects.

 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,372]

Mariah thinks horror scores peaked with Silvestri’s Cat’s Eye.

[Edmilson 9,763]

Drag Me is probably one of Young's more critically acclaimed movies. I don't like the movie (not a fan of movies who sell themselves as horror but are actually comedies), but it has 92% on Rotten Tomatoes:

 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drag_me_to_hell

 

Most of CY's filmography is made of movies with terrible critic response. I think if someone with a lot of time on their hands calculated an average Tomatometer of famed film composers, Young would have one of the worst critical score averages.

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

2 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

if someone with a lot of time on their hands calculated an average Tomatometer of famed film composers

 

How much time do you need?

[Jay 41,179]

4 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

not a fan of movies who sell themselves as horror but are actually comedies

 

Wait, what films are there that do this?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,372]

You guys actually watch the movies these scores are attached to?

[Meredith McKay 7,317]

Sometimes you want to eat cookie dough, sometimes you want to eat the actual cookies.

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

Yeah, but when the cookie is half baked and missing essential ingredients...

[Meredith McKay 7,317]

1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Yeah, but when the cookie is half baked and missing essential ingredients...

You watch work prints?

[Edmilson 9,763]

7 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Wait, what films are there that do this?

Drag Me to Hell itself is the biggest example. I rented the DVD back in 2009 expecting a creepy and horrifying movie and instead got something very silly with Looney Tunes slapstick antics harming what could've been a good horror movie. Plus, the protagonist is extremely unlikeable, I rooted for her to be dragged to hell the entire movie.

 

I understand some people like these "dark comedy-horrors" but for me, in order for the horror to be effective, it has to play as serious as possible.

 

One exception is The Cabin in the Woods. But then again when I sat down to watch it I was expecting something resembling more a parody than an actual horror.

[Jurassic Shark 14,176]

6 minutes ago, Doo_liss said:

You watch work prints?

 

I'm Paul Hollywood. 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,372]

3 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Plus, the protagonist is extremely unlikeable, I rooted for her to be dragged to hell the entire movie.

 

Given that she kills a cat, pretty sure that’s the point.

 

My interest in Sam Raimi begins and ends with Evil Dead II, so I ain’t rushing to Hell’s defense. The VVitch made better use of its spooky goat.

[Jay 41,179]

6 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Drag Me to Hell itself is the biggest example. I rented the DVD back in 2009 expecting a creepy and horrifying movie and instead got something very silly with Looney Tunes slapstick antics harming what could've been a good horror movie. Plus, the protagonist is extremely unlikeable, I rooted for her to be dragged to hell the entire movie.

 

I understand some people like these "dark comedy-horrors" but for me, in order for the horror to be effective, it has to play as serious as possible.

 

One exception is The Cabin in the Woods. But then again when I sat down to watch it I was expecting something resembling more a parody than an actual horror.

 

Barbarian is kinda like that too.  Starts out a a typical creepy film but gets more and more funny and absurd as it goes.  I was cracking up at the end when the monster jumped off the roof

[Edmilson 9,763]

13 minutes ago, Kasey Kockroach said:

Given that she kills a cat, pretty sure that’s the point.

 

Exactly. I understand that the film is trying to be a "parable" ("don't be bad or you will go to hell!") but everything is so cartoon-y and absurd that I can't take its story seriously.

 

16 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Barbarian is kinda like that too.  Starts out a a typical creepy film but gets more and more funny and absurd as it goes.  I was cracking up at the end when the monster jumped off the roof

That one also disappointed me. The first two thirds are so good when the horror is playing straight, but by the end it got ridiculous.

[Jay 41,179]

Yeah and I loved the tonal shift, I guess in retrospect the beginning being handled so seriously makes the ending that much funnier

[Davis 3,724]