#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 He's gone now. We can talk freely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 The Red Gandalf watches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 What are you doing? You have no authority! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 He's gone now. We can talk freely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The Siege of GondorJesus, this is bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 What are you doing listening to that old score when there's a new Hobbit score out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I'm taking a temporary break. I want to finish my Middle-Earth marathon and lead up to BOFA so I can appreciate it more Grond - The Hammer of the UnderworldI don't think there's a single piece of film music that has badness and pure evil so well defined in 90 seconds... Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,365 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I'm taking a temporary break. I want to finish my Middle-Earth marathon and lead up to BOFA so I can appreciate it more Grond - The Hammer of the UnderworldI don't think there's a single piece of film music that has badness and pure evil so well defined in 90 seconds...Not even The Defiler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The Defiler doesn't even come close to Grond!!Man, I wish the BOFA battle cues had the huge sound that RotK has. Everything sounds so big! And those juicy brass performances...and people say they can't hear a difference between the NZSO and the LPO...ha!Of course a huge part is also the beautiful wet recording versus the rather dry one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,642 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The PatriotIt took reading a scathing IMDB review to figure it out but I just realized that the main theme (the Amistad one) sounds a lot like "Oh Christmas Tree". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Grond - The Hammer of the UnderworldI don't think there's a single piece of film music that has badness and pure evil so well defined in 90 seconds...7:25 - 8:01 in The Siege Of Gondor does it just fine for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The PatriotIt took reading a scathing IMDB review to figure it out but I just realized that the main theme (the Amistad one) sounds a lot like "Oh Christmas Tree".Not to be picky (OK, to be picky), but it's actually "O Christmas Tree" ("O" being an apostrophe). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Presenting the Hook AKA the pirate/secondary Hook theme sounds like Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Grond - The Hammer of the UnderworldI don't think there's a single piece of film music that has badness and pure evil so well defined in 90 seconds...7:25 - 8:01 in The Siege Of Gondor does it just fine for me! Oh yes, that works very well indeed.But still not as badass or succinctly summed up like Grond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 You're insane, so that's OK, I'm willing to let that one slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 NP: True Blood (Barr) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 You're insane, so that's OK, I'm willing to let that one slide.You're the crazy one I tell you!!The way everything is blasting, with rhaita in full force just sounds maniacal here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 In honour of Finnish independence day I have an all-Sibelius playlist:FinlandiaKarelia Music and Press Celebrations MusicThe Violin Concerto2nd Symphony4th SymphonyThe Lemminkäinen Suite Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Incanus and Omen II 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 In honour of Finnish independence day I have an all-Sibelius playlist:FinlandiaKarelia Music and Press Celebrations MusicThe Violin Concerto2nd Symphony4th SymphonyThe Lemminkäinen SuiteMan, you guys had some great music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Thank you!And BBoal, our president is obviously more awesome than I ever hoped he would be! We have that raptor riding hero photo as proof of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Where's The Hobbit? It's partially inspired by Finnish something-something. It must be!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Where's The Hobbit? It's partially inspired by Finnish something-something. It must be!KarolOK I'll add the Battle of the Five Armies to the list. It has some Quenya connection to Finnish and hence Finland. Tolkien's homages to Finnish Kalevala are more in the Silmarillion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 And BBoal, our president is obviously more awesome than I ever hoped he would be! We have that raptor riding hero photo as proof of that.Is he as cool as the former mayor of Reykjavik? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 And BBoal, our president is obviously more awesome than I ever hoped he would be! We have that raptor riding hero photo as proof of that.Is he as cool as the former mayor of Reykjavik?What has he done?Man I had forgotten how awesome this Sibelius's violin Concerto just is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Only being the coolest mayor in the world!http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-01/now-hes-now-longer-mayor-reykjavik-j-n-gnarr-can-restart-his-career-comedian-notMan I had forgotten how awesome this Sibelius's violin Concerto just is.Yeah that's a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Only being the coolest mayor in the world!http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-01/now-hes-now-longer-mayor-reykjavik-j-n-gnarr-can-restart-his-career-comedian-notHeh. Quite a character. But our president has a raptor! BBoal has photographic evidence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Ooh is that what he hunts down all the bad guys on? Pretty badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Ooh is that what he hunts down all the bad guys on? Pretty badass.He does so in secret because we have no reports of his heroic activities. He is so modest. And perhaps he has some kind of secret identity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 ExodusThe Battle of the Five ArmiesInterstellarThe Imitation GameKarol Incanus and Dixon Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I can't stop listening to the EPCOT Center Horizons area music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 OK I'll add the Battle of the Five Armies to the list. It has some Quenya connection to Finnish and hence Finland. Tolkien's homages to Finnish Kalevala are more in the Silmarillion though. Didn't "Gandalf" and some of the Dwarf names come from there, too? Man I had forgotten how awesome this Sibelius's violin Concerto just is. It was awesome enough to be used as the introduction music to Cloud City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 OK I'll add the Battle of the Five Armies to the list. It has some Quenya connection to Finnish and hence Finland. Tolkien's homages to Finnish Kalevala are more in the Silmarillion though.Didn't "Gandalf" and some of the Dwarf names come from there, too?Gandalf comes from the Poetic Edda (Gandalfr). He is one of the dwarves in the long list along with most of the dwarve names in the Hobbit. However Tolkien too some central elements to the story of Túrin from Kalevala, specifically the story of Kullervo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Thanks to my unflagging espresso machine i completed the thankless annual (sc)hore of wading again through hours of seemingly neverending HOBBIT music. The third entry - at 110 minutes the shortest, or it seems - like its predecessors only breaks records in sheer quantity though it is, from the three scores, the easiest on the ears. Shore mainly plays with his few themes and motifs from this series (the dragon theme has some welcome cameos) but also sprinkles the score with old acquaintances like the Shire/Fellowship theme or the purposeful nature theme. There is, due to the finality of the situation, more pathos and mindful reflection that allows for more broad and emotional writing and in between the expected Wagnerian sturm und drang (business as usual, sheer loudness covers for inspiration) there also is, very infrequently, a moment of beauty or interesting orchestral color that reminds us what instrumental and thematic variety the old LOTR series had. All in all still 50 minutes from a well-organized soundtrack album and you never know where something good might arise in between a molassic sea of minor-mode swathes or blustering choral grandstanding. It's on par with the first while lacking the great theme this one had but builds on the more inconspicuous themes Shore cooked up for the second part.The song, a minor play on MAY IT BE, is irritating and not very memorable, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Can't...stop...listening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The song, a minor play on MAY IT BE, is irritating and not very memorable, either. Second-hand Enya tends to not go very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Wasn't May It Be second-hand Enya already?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Wasn't May It Be second-hand Enya already?KarolSecond-rate Enya, yeah. Creatively, her best years were 1988-1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Top five tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 That's one crazy lineup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Yeah. Related only by their ability to provide total musical and emotional satisfaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Top five tonight.So the size of the cover art is correlated with the turgidity of the music, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 And the lack of emotional variety! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Naturally. I'm a known aficionado of the turgid, the emotionally homogenous, the boring, the nihilistic, the solipsistic, the scientifically inaccurate, the clumsily sentimental, the artistically not-quite-daring-enough. I revel in mediocrity, in the indefensible to any but fanboys, in the bleak and uninspired tepidity that is the state of contemporary creativity. I relish the soulless, artless menace of the Nolans, the Zimmers, the antipode of the good old days. I am a husk, a shell, a shade; ignorant, tasteless, and crude. I have turned on the Light: the 80s Williams box sets, the sacred, warm embrace of mutual masturbation before the golden idols of Indy and Star Wars. Rich thematic writing to guide me from dramatic point to dramatic point, safe in the hands of the Creators, no longer moves me. Proper color grading, non-shifting aspect ratios, acceptable, inter-musical-deity plagiarisms, the enriching ritual of Plot Holeing, I hold without value. How I am able to live, to persist from day to day is inexplicable. That my soul has not shriveled from lack of nourishment - nay, from devilish nourishment, is only thanks to the efforts of the Most Wise of JWFan, who remind me graciously through both direct intervention and impeccably-timed witty snark and satire of my failings should I ever give them cause. Sharkissimo and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,642 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Top five tonight.Great list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Clever. You've removed the one you don't like rendering your apparent praise as a subtle simultaneous jab. You sly dog, you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 The only good one in there is Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Nah, they're all BOOORRRING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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