Richard Penna 3,690 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Finally got round to listening to Jurassic World.I love the opening and closing parts of the album (his main theme has been going through my head all day), but the section in the middle (tracks 10-15) goes by mostly without making any real impression. Track 7 also has that problem.Those bits are not bad exactly, they're just not nearly as memorable and structured as some of his Star Trek action cues. Considering that we could've received a RCP score for this film, I'm just relieved it's a genuine orchestral score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Malcolm Arnold's Heroes of Telemark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Krull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Driving folk from the house with Horner's "Surprise Attack" on full. Ah, the high life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Jaws 3D (OST)Intrada recently released a 2 CD complete score release, but at 36 minutes the old OST is already a bit of a chore to get through. Some interesting ideas, and nice enough theme for Sea World arent really enough to even begin to rival John Williams. Alan Parker uses the shark theme a few times, but never really in an interesting way. A few good tracks, a few nondescript ones, and it's always clear that Parker worked primarily in TV before this (he even uses a thinly disguised version of his Dempsey and Makepeace theme)It also doesnt help that this release is completely out a chronological order, there's no sense of progression or a build up (the climactic cue where the shark gets blown up is in the middle of the score) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 et Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 et and? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Elliot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,349 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 4Ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,014 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Jaws 3D (OST)Intrada recently released a 2 CD complete score release, but at 36 minutes the old OST is already a bit of a chore to get through. Some interesting ideas, and nice enough theme for Sea World arent really enough to even begin to rival John Williams. Alan Parker uses the shark theme a few times, but never really in an interesting way. A few good tracks, a few nondescript ones, and it's always clear that Parker worked primarily in TV before this (he even uses a thinly disguised version of his Dempsey and Makepeace theme)It also doesnt help that this release is completely out a chronological order, there's no sense of progression or a build up (the climactic cue where the shark gets blown up is in the middle of the score)It has a nice Goldsmithian theme.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 et and?que? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Went old school, in a manner of speaking and plumped for the Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbird 6 CD. Did the job for the day endured. Wish the Astronauts in Trouble was a bit longer or maybe I remember it as going on forever when I was younger. 0.46 to 1.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,014 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Wolf TotemKarol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 et and?Hehehe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale. Marian Schedenig and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone One of John Williams' best scores and probably the best Harry Potter score (I can't fully assess PoA due to the lack of a complete score release (perhaps La-La Land will get their hands on it soon)) Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Great rich orchestration in that. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Great rich orchestration in that.Yes it is full of brilliant colours. Some might get a Hollywood sugar overload from it but I love the whole spectacle of the score, which Williams does with such effortless panache. I wonder if Williams aimed for a sort of introduction to orchestra for all ages with that score. He obviously saw possibilities for such a thing as he did compose and record the multi part suite at the recording sessions which is something akin to Young Person's Guide to Orchestra by Britten. Sadly it is rarely performed in full in concerts and only excerpts are usually chosen. But it is a really great distillation of the main ideas of the score into this kind of didactic and illustrative work. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I made my peace with it after being disappointed with the HOOK/HOME ALONE vibe in 2001. Though the clumsy dense and action scoring gets still on my nerves, most of the rest is of such airy, dance-like balletic nature that together with COS it became my to-go score for whimsy fantasy. It ain't gonna get much better, at least in that general department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I made my peace with it after being disappointed with the HOOK/HOME ALONE vibe in 2001. Though the clumsy dense and action scoring gets still on my nerves, most of the rest is of such airy, dance-like balletic nature that together with COS it became my to-go score for whimsy fantasy. It ain't gonna get much better, at least in that general department.I know the action scoring might be dense but how exactly is it clumsy? I've always found the action music in Williams' HP scores to be generally excellent. Though to be fair, I'm already a big fan of Williams' 2000's action music, xylophones and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 The Best of Mission: Impossible: Then And NowAn interesting GNP Crescendo CD from 1992 that includes:-25 minutes of music from the original series-25 minutes of music from the 1988 revival-A 15 minute interview with Peter Graves-A 6 minute version of the MI Theme (including The Plot and other stuff) performed liveI skipped the interview but listened to everything else. The music from the 60's show was awesome! Super fun, jazzy, funky, rhythmic, nice mix of a lot of tones and styles. The music from the 80s show was completely terrible, the worst of 80s synth dreck. Shudder. The live concert cue was nice.And it was a very odd coincidence indeed that after listening to this on Monday, LLL announced their boxset on Tuesday!What score should I listen to next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I agree! Kamen's score needs a complete release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Yeah, that one too. But not before the other one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 The Korngold one has had several releases and recordings, do we need another before the Kamen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 We both know you know which one I'm referring to, so I won't play your silly little game, Dutchbag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I have no idea what you are on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I don't understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 How much of Kamen's score is unreleased? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Ricard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is so long overdue. Why hasn't a specialty label been able to get this out yet? Are there rights issues? I think there's a pretty decent amount of music missing, 30 minutes or more I think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I made my peace with it after being disappointed with the HOOK/HOME ALONE vibe in 2001. Though the clumsy dense and action scoring gets still on my nerves, most of the rest is of such airy, dance-like balletic nature that together with COS it became my to-go score for whimsy fantasy. It ain't gonna get much better, at least in that general department.I know the action scoring might be dense but how exactly is it clumsy? I've always found the action music in Williams' HP scores to be generally excellent. Though to be fair, I'm already a big fan of Williams' 2000's action music, xylophones and all.There are moments when you think Williams scores the fall of the roman empire instead of a children's movie. Come to think of it, there's something very Tiomkin about it. Just nothing i would want to listen to in my spare time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Black Dahlia by Mark Isham: A very intentional throwback jazzy film noir score with Isham himself on solo trumpet taking the lead. Fantastic and hugely entertaining stuff.L.A. Confidential by Jerry Goldsmith: The musical big brother of Black Dahlia, a steely film noir score with suitable edginess and sparseness to it. Main theme does borrow liberally from Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront but the explosive rhythms, subtle yet effective integration of electronics and sultry noir love music are vintage Goldsmith.While not a classic on the level of Chinatown I find this to be a really fantastic creation from Goldsmith despite the score often having to find a way to make an impact in a sea of period source music in the film. While the 29 minute OST is a pretty effective distillation of major sections of the score I wish they would release the 40-45 minutes long complete score some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 A true delight from beginning to end. I love what Westlake did here, the orchestrations are fresh yet familiar in a way that I'm hearing lovely new elements added to the known music.And it's never anything less than wonderful. It's like hearing a totally new version of Babe's orchestral music, one without one spoken word, which is huge improvement if you think for a minute how the 1995 Varèse album was put together and released for us poor suckers that bought a copy (well I didn't buy a copy, but I've heard it and hated it).20 years later we get this fine release and I would like to say 'better late than never' except to think of all the souls that loved Babe's score but have left this earth too soon. They weren't so lucky.But of course that goes for so many fine releases these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.Bingo. From beginning to end.And it was a very odd coincidence indeed that after listening to this on Monday, LLL announced their boxset on Tuesday!What boxed set is this? I didn't hear this announcement, and I don't see anything on their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 And it was a very odd coincidence indeed that after listening to this on Monday, LLL announced their boxset on Tuesday! What boxed set is this? I didn't hear this announcement, and I don't see anything on their website. https://www.facebook.com/lalalandrecords/photos/a.181243738754.155532.56031953754/10153575261943755/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/lalalandrecords/photos/a.181243738754.155532.56031953754/10153584443678755/?type=1&theater http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18099&p=1150657 http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25517 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.Bingo. From beginning to end.Quite literally. I already get goosebumps in track 1, from the building orchestra, with that powerful crash setting the tone for the rest of the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,349 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 And then a few seconds of "music" from ESB closing out the track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.That pesky Dies Irae stuff, though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 And then a few seconds of "music" from ESB closing out the track That's actually the other way around. 1980 came after 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,349 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.That pesky Dies Irae stuff, though....You are thinking of SW77!And then a few seconds of "music" from ESB closing out the track That's actually the other way around. 1980 came after 1977. Not to mention some music that sounds like a ethereal version of music from War Horse in another track! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.That pesky Dies Irae stuff, though....There is nothing pesky about Dies Irae. Dies Irae is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Well Williams is a genius. It's pretty clear that War Horse was already written in his mind when he composed CE3K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Its all connected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,014 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams: Nothing short of masterful, all of it, not just the finale.That pesky Dies Irae stuff, though....There is nothing pesky about Dies Irae. Dies Irae is cool.TGP finds Dies Irae pretentious.And yet... he loves The Lion King. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I also like when Mahler uses it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 The Big O - Toshihiko SahashiI never got into the anime thing, but I remember this one (and another one I can't recall but which also had interesting music) being on Adult Swim in the middle of the night a lot about ten years or so ago and thinking it was neat. I couldn't remember what it was for a long time, and recently rediscovered it. The first thing I did was look up the music, which I recalled distinctly. Really impressive score, part neo-classical drama, part jazz/funk, part monster movie music parody. Just really fascinating music. There's a complete playlist on Youtube. Here are a few of my favorites.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLtRB28DO4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F3v2Jh9pLshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4326EPkYykhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olhd5mgQe9Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9P2RnXI-Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QwxCNjcfMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbJDTgTR7khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_GdLfpQEuchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ6upgAtzjUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJr9Ix1MULg publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 The Korngold one has had several releases and recordings, do we need another before the Kamen?Actually, some of those Korngold swashbucklers are overdue for a decent Label release. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Captain Blood Marian Schedenig and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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