Marian Schedenig 8,207 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 11 hours ago, Incanus said: TLC is really a terrific score, on its own and as a sequel. The themes are really superb, the Grail theme being my absolute favourite among them. The Grail theme is probably one of my favourite Williams themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Batman (1989) complete score with Prince album Batman Returns complete score with Maxquerade Ball version of "Super Freak" and "Face to Face" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 7 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: The Grail theme is probably one of my favourite Williams themes. I know Williams is a master tunesmith but I have always admired his ability to convey such things as the McGuffins in Indy (other concepts too) with such memorability, clarity and in a way that taps into our common cultural and musical history and psyche. Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Yes. He's the Homer of film music; Williams underscores the aspirational heart and idealistic core aspects of the broad human condition in epic strokes which are somehow innately romantic and noble to us. I always meant to make a thread about a theory I've had for a while now, but never got around to it. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 17 hours ago, Incanus said: American Beauty by Thomas Newman: Epitome of quirky Newman and he still finds time to pen a sweet little piano theme to melt your heart for this one. Angels in America by Thomas Newman: All that is wonderful and tremendous about the composer is here in this impressive package. Beautiful. AIA is a great score, form a stunning mini-series! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I prefer Newman's Lemony Snicket from that general timespan ( I was going to say that year but I forgot Angels in America was released in 2003) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Lemony Snicket is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Like the first one, this plays like a Pop/R&B/Funk hybrid album with just a slight reminder by way of a prolonged suspense chord here and there that it indeed is a motion picture soundtrack (it's thematically much looser than its predecessor, suspending its main theme for most of the running time). Though it's not essential it's a fun listen if you are not too demanding a listener and with stuff like this, you can't even fault the gargantuan length. It just breezes by. And as far as soundtrack releases go, this is a far bigger accomplishment than most achieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 X-Men: The Last Stand How to Train Your Dragon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Batman Returns complete score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I've been on a T. Newman kick. The Shawshank Redemption Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events Jarhead Spectre KK and Not Mr. Big 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Oh, I also listened to The Pagemaster complete score. Hey, random Horner brass in "Baskerville Hound" is still better than most complete scores we've gotten since the noughties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I love this album. It very much like an hour long concert piece. Horner had such a gift in creating both a suitable accompaniment for film as well as completely coherent musical work that can be enjoyed apart from it and still make complete emotional/intellectual sense. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Godzilla (Arnold) Batman (Prince) The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Herrmann) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Now you're becoming one of us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I'll never join you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 19 minutes ago, Lonnegan said: The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Herrmann) Definitely one of Herrmann's most gorgeous works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I got it for £2.80 on eBay. Well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 20 years ago, in 1996, the previously unreleased original score of E.T. was released. 20 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Much more important is the complete A.I. which was released around a year ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Much more important than either one of them is the E.T. OST album, which was released in 1982. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 5 minutes ago, Nick Tatopoulos's Beret said: Much more important than either one of them is the E.T. OST album, which was released in 1982. Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 While I do appreciate the inclusion of some darker moments, the original album was already great. It would have been perfect if the last two tracks switched places. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Listening for the first time to the Raiders original album. Always doing things backward. Oh, a 3:10 version of Marion's Theme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,372 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 It's just two film cues edited together, it's not a concert arrangement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 He Named Me Malala Brothers Towelhead Six Feet Under The Adjustment Bureau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 The Patriot by John Williams Journey by Austin Wintory Alien by Jerry Goldsmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 10 hours ago, Jay said: It's just two film cues edited together, it's not a concert arrangement. Unfortunately! Currently listening to: Indiana Jones (IV) and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Complete Recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 14 hours ago, Bespin said: Unfortunately! Have a listen to this, the official concert arrangement of the theme, written by Williams in 2008 at Spielberg's request for one of the Boston Pops concerts as he thought it was a shame Marion didn't have one and Williams acquiesced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 5 hours ago, Incanus said: Have a listen to this, the official concert arrangement of the theme, written by Williams in 2008 at Spielberg's request for one of the Boston Pops concerts as he thought it was a shame Marion didn't have one and Williams acquiesced. It's maybe a left-out of the "Spielberg/Williams Collaborations" sessions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Rabbit & Rogue. Already in my top 10 Elfman works. Karol publicist and KK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Joe Versus the Volcano (via Youtube) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Masters of the Universe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,372 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Danny Elfman - Alice Through The Looking Glass A nice listen, going to try chronological order next! Brian Tyler - Now You See Me 2 Listened to this 3-4 times this weekend. I love it! Can do without the dubstep parts though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Casper by James Horner. Just bought a really cheap used copy of this. Don't think I've ever heard the entire album from start to finish before. It might be a tad too repetitive with the lullaby which doesn't really receive that many variations. But it's a lovely score nonetheless. Karol publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHall 30 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Goldsmith - I have been really admiring his writing for violins. The Secret of NIMH First Knight Star Trek: First Contact Mulan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 1 hour ago, crocodile said: Casper by James Horner. Just bought a really cheap used copy of this. Don't think I've ever heard the entire album from start to finish before. It might be a tad too repetitive with the lullaby which doesn't really receive that many variations. But it's a lovely score nonetheless. Karol It's as fluffy as the movie but the amount of instrumental detail and variety is very unusual for this kind of venture. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,018 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Yeah. Just as with most of his children scores (even The Spiderwick Chronicles) Horner treats them with true sincerity and they almost feel like independent symphonic works. I couldn't really remember the film Casper but the music gives me all the information I need and it sort of brings back memories of something I haven't seen in 20 years. That's a true dramatic skill right there. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Composed by Goldsmith, produced by Neil S. Bulk and Bruce Botnick. Outstanding new release of a score I bought two times before. This is a beast of a score! crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,372 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Excellent purchase, Steef! I also bought and love that CD. It's fantastic all around, from the sound quality to the program, to Jeff Bond's really exceptionally good liner notes! I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Sphere by Elliot Goldenthal Michael Collins by Elliot Goldenthal Warcraft by Ramin Djawadi It's exactly the type of rock/pop-influenced, RC-type score you'd expect for this kind of film. It's not exactly high art, but you have some memorable tunes, woodwind solos and decent elegiac moments, showing again that Djawadi occasionally has the chops for somewhat nuanced writing. Granted its still full of the typical drum loops and droning, but it's not all bad. Shame you don't hear as much effort for Game of Thrones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 3 hours ago, EdwardHall said: Goldsmith - I have been really admiring his writing for violins. The Secret of NIMH First Knight Star Trek: First Contact Mulan I love his writing for brass. Even his percussions, I think no one can emulate how he performs those booming percussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHall 30 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yes. For example, the second half of Star Trek: Nemesis has some terrific brass. The cue "Engage" must have given the trombonists a workout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Independence Day complete score with excepting the film version of "Target Remains", which we still don't have Godzilla (1998) complete score Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 9 hours ago, crocodile said: Yeah. Just as with most of his children scores (even The Spiderwick Chronicles) Horner treats them with true sincerity and they almost feel like independent symphonic works. I couldn't really remember the film Casper but the music gives me all the information I need and it sort of brings back memories of something I haven't seen in 20 years. That's a true dramatic skill right there. Karol As usual, the only thing to undo a Horner score in the genre is the staggering ability to annoy the seasoned listener with almost autistic re-combinations of (his and sometimes others) older music. Which brings me to a score i once bought and quickly sold for that very reason although it surely has all the right ingredients: 'Project X' is one of these quintessential 80's flicks that pay homage to Disney and Spielberg alike while offering content so utterly eye-popping unbelievable that you almost have to congratulate its makers for daring to unload it straight-eyed into cinemas. It riffs on some tacky environmentalist messages so typical for the late 80's (remember those 'Fur kills animals' signs from 'Lethal Weapon 2') - you always could blow up plenty of stuff, including people, as long as it was in aid of some nobler goal. Matthew Broderick at his most puppy-looking is paired up with chimpanzees exploited by The Evil US Military ComplexR he must save from being radiated, it has one of those 'they didn't do that???' finales but it still does not belong in the esteemed hall of bad motion pictures. It's too workmanlike for that. As for the Horner score: it is quintessential, but sadly only in the sense that it is one of those long forgotten works he gutted and feasted on till kingdom come. Nearly all of his major works from 'Willow' up to 'Avatar' find their thematic and aesthetic germs in...'Project X'! Deep into his mid-80's infatuation with 'world' music, it's rife with andean pipes and japanese flutes (basically a steady employment program for players like Kazu Matsui and Tony Hinnigan) and lots of exotic percussion mixed with the typical wide-eyed orchestral stuff reminiscent of 'Cocoon'. The amount of material re-honed, re-combined, re-purposed and re-boiled in later years is remarkable indeed: á propos it might be to honor the same stuff in a Disney movie called 'Mighty Joe Young' (after all, it's basically the same movie just with a bigger ape though not quite the same species), but 'Project X' manages to anticipate in hefty doses evil Bavmorda's danger motif, the whole mad scientist music from 'Honey i Shrunk the Kids' (second half of the clip above) that must have left Horner puzzled when he later got sued for its copyright infringement of two other composers (Raymond Scott and Nino Rota) for that movie and also pays loving homage to '48 Hours' and 'Brainstorm'. Familiarity not always breeds contempt and ironically the best element of 'Project X' is the majestic flying music obviously modeled on another Fox movie about flying, Goldsmith's 'Blue Max' (the triplets give it away) but you're still left with a mess. Taken on its own, it might not be quite Top Ten material but a colourful, entertaining if innocuous mix with a lovable sweet tune. But with all those references you pick up as someone even only vaguely familiar with James Horner's works it becomes a bit of a Frankenstein monster. Which is a shame given Horner's obvious ability to come up with great film music at a whim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Nick Tatopoulos's Beret said: Independence Day complete score with excepting the film version of "Target Remains", which we still don't have It's on the 2000 World Records thingy. Have you found that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 9 hours ago, KK said: Sphere by Elliot Goldenthal Michael Collins by Elliot Goldenthal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Angela's Ashes by John Williams A.I. Artificial Intelligence (LLL set) by John Williams Two of my top 5 John Williams scores. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Was listening to all the Indy soundtracks this week, the OST albums and the Concord set. Yesterday I revisited Accidental Tourist. I love this score altought it's pretty much the same theme repeated on all the tracks! Hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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