crocodile 7,984 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Young Sherlock Holmes (OST) Wonder Woman 1984 (both OST and sketches) Ben-Hur (Tadlow) The Post The Patriot Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,280 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Bespin said: OMG, I had to put this FLAC in a "BONUS" folder to make sure it don't automatically play at the end of the album! hehe Yeah it’s pretty bad. If they had just used a classic style performance of the song it would have been great and capped the score off nicely. Sometimes updating things just doesn’t really work at all. Especially if the rest of the music isn’t especially contemporary. 4 hours ago, Bespin said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Rogue One (bootleg) Parts of it sound like a student movie made by some college students trying to make their own Star Wars, but some other parts are genuinely great (Your Father Would be Proud). Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Dolores Clairbone by Danny Elfman Community mix The Terminal by John Williams Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Live zoom session with Me and Thor in 10 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,335 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Finding Neverland, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. This CD was Lost in my CD chaos for years. Found it this morning in the case of one of my Rock CDs. Nice music, but in a way pretending to be more interesting than it actually is. Melodies usually following just the underlying and repeating always same keys and chords. I still wonder how it managed to win the Oscar in that year over John Williams' "Sleepers". Nice thing about the Finding Neverland album is, that it contains about 30% piano arrangements of the score especially created for the album. And the score worked well in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,029 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 It's nice, but fluffy and forgettable. GerateWohl and Edmilson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 7,984 Posted February 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2021 My Disney Star Wars suite: Karol Smaug The Iron, Bespin and Raiders of the SoundtrArk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Yames Horner again this morning. ☕ Apollo 13 (Composer's assembly from the Expanded release [without dialogues!]) Avatar (OST, why we don't have an expansion of it yet???) 👽 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: It's nice, but fluffy and forgettable. Exactly like, you.... naaaa naaaa na na, exactly like you!!! Sorry, I don't know why it remembered me this old jazzy song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,029 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 11 minutes ago, Bespin said: Sorry, I don't know why it remembered me this old jazzy song! Reminded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Fuckin' retard language, I'll never get it. There are too few words to express myself correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,029 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Bespin said: Fuckin' retard language, I'll never get it. There are too few words to express myself correctly. Too many, you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,335 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Le Grand Robert de la langue Française contains about 100.000 french words. The Oxford English Dictionary lists about 620.000 english words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 And why not???Star Wars '77 (as if it was released on a single album, using the 1993 Anthology boxset versions) Main Title The Desert, The Robot Auction The Princess Appears Inner City Cantina Band Mouse Robot, Blasting Off Ben's Death, TIE Fighter Attack Princess Leia's Theme The Last Battle The Throne Room, End Titles Empire Strikes Back (as if it was released on a real single album, not in the horrible demo order it was first issued on LP, using of course, the 2015 Sony remastered versions) Star Wars (Main Theme) The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) The Asteroid Field Yoda's Theme Han Solo and the Princess The Training of a Jedi Knight Yoda and the Force Lando's Palace The Duel Finale Return of the Jedi (the Demastered version, minus Lapti Nek, because there are days when we don't want to hear that disco song!) Main Title (The Main Story Continues) Han Solo Returns (At The Court Of Jabba The Hutt) The Return Of The Jedi The Emperor Rebel Briefing Parade Of The Ewoks Luke And Leia Into The Trap The Forest Battle Ewok Celebration & Finale Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 There was an expanded release of Avatar, but the extra tracks were all demos and not from the real sessions Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,497 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Too many, you mean. Many too many. Faleel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Howard Shore - Silence of the lambs OST Ennio Morricone - The Thing (Quartet Records) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 The John Williams/Steven Spielberg Ultimate Collection Time to celebrate the greatest film composer of all time for his 89th birthday!!!! Happy birthday maestro Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Oh shit that's a good idea to listen to today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 7,984 Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 I decided to go with exclusively smaller or lesser known scores to commemorate today. My playlist: Karol Bespin, Holko and Raiders of the SoundtrArk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,499 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I picked Spielberg / Williams III (still fantastic), and The Patriot's OST, mostly because I've never listened to it. And unfortunately the strongest impression I got was that it could use a much better mix and a normal order with for example an actual battle buildup at the end instead of pieces blown all over randomly. Has some good stuff like Tavington's Trap which nicely foreshadows JW's 2000s action writing, but based on this OST it doesn't have much that'd make me want to come back to it anytime soon. What the hell is going on in the middle of Facing the British Lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,029 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I listened to James Horner's The Mask of Zorro today. An interesting combination of good and boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Because I'm overfamiliar with most JW scores I chose something I rarely ever listened to and, cheese be damned, it was charming: Bespin and Romão 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 In order to pay a tribute to John Williams on his birthday, I'll listen to the Deluxe version of Aliens by James Horner. Bilbo and bruce marshall 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,339 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 On 2/7/2021 at 10:47 AM, Naïve Old Fart said: Many too many. Have stood where I stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Spielberg/Williams collab, but the 20-tracks "Highlights" LP program, using my compressed FLACs of the old recordings to assure they play at the same level than the newer ones. PERFECT! https://www.discogs.com/John-Williams-4-Steven-Spielberg-The-Ultimate-Collection-Highlights/release/11169538 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Lalo Schifrin - Earth Star Voyager Ended up listening to this whole thing again when I initially just started it when I wanted something on and I thought I'd only be at the computer for a short while. Woops. Still great! John Williams - The Lost World (complete) Needed another loud score while snowblowing this morning. This was perfect. Faleel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 968 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN - JAMES HORNER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KK 3,307 Posted February 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2021 Schindler's List by John Williams There are certain formative scores that are so intrinsically tied to your memory, that they forever retain a hold over you. This is one such work for me. When this score first popped up in my early JW fandom days, it was all that used to play in my ears. I'm not even kidding. I used to roam the halls in high school humming the supporting cello lines of "Remembrances" to myself, while the score was always on auto-repeat. It's been years since I've played it in full, but so many of these counterpoint lines and tiny flourishes are so viscerally tied to my adolescent years that revisiting it now makes me quite emotional. I know there are naysayers who find it cloying and overly melodramatic, but it continues to have the opposite effect for me. It's one of the few Williams scores that manages to shed the über-romantic polish and refinement that characterizes so many of his classics. Even its larger flourishes are made so unusually tender in its raw performance. It's probably one of the composer's best performed scores. The gentle recorder solos, the simple economic harmony, the haunting choral arrangements, the piercing timber of Perlman's cadenzas in Auschwitz-Birkenau...and keep in mind, much of its power for me is derived from the music itself, not the film (which is kind of its own thing). It is not easy to write a score like this. I believe its immense popularity does it great disservice, but only a true master could distill writing to such purity of form and expression. It's also one of the best examples of Williams knack for the "inevitability" of his music. And on days like this, I am reminded why I remain a fan of this remarkable artist. (Pub is gonna hate this :P) Holko, Bespin, publicist and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 hour ago, KK said: Schindler's List by John Williams (Pub is gonna hate this :P) My dear, i'm not even remotely moved to such strong feelings, but i still deny your point that it's not prettied up. It's in a nutshell, together with Empire of the Sun a classic example of Spielberg using Williams as a softener to counter his more harsh impulses as a filmmaker. Ironically, it's popcorn fare like War of the Worlds where the two get in sync in regards to these impulses, it's a harsh movie (sans third act) and very much a harsh, uncompromising score. But the pleading 'liberal' stuff...let's say i'm thankful he didn't do Bridge of Spies. And i give it to Schindler that at least it is gentle and at no point as offensive as the Give us free scene in 'Amistad', which was truly revolting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Kilar should have scored Schindler's List. His Exodus music in the trailer felt more authentic. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,465 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I've never participated in this "Now Playing" thread (or its 'new scores' equivalent) in its over 800 pages(!). Is it OK to just post soundtrack covers like we do on FSM, or are we required to post comments about them as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,029 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Danny Elfman - Mission: Impossible (Complete) Ah, much better Michael Giacchino - Zootopia Wow! I never cared about this score before at all. I tried it a few times and it just went in one ear and the out the other. But we watched the film last weekend and my copy of the CD was on the pile of stuff to listen to so I just listened and it all finally clicked for me. This is a fun score with nice themes! One track even apes a theme from LOST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 9 hours ago, publicist said: My dear, i'm not even remotely moved to such strong feelings, but i still deny your point that it's not prettied up. It's in a nutshell, together with Empire of the Sun a classic example of Spielberg using Williams as a softener to counter his more harsh impulses as a filmmaker. I agree with you. I just happen to think that it works And this is coming from someone who has very little patience for the last act of Amistad's score. 8 hours ago, The Big Man said: Kilar should have scored Schindler's List. His Exodus music in the trailer felt more authentic. That's probably true. But alas, then we wouldn't have Williams' score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I’ve been listening to Pearl Harbour a lot. I love late 90s and early 00s Zimmer. The love theme is superb and Attack is just a great cue. Edmilson and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 James Newton Howard - Space Jam (OST) I don't remember what made me want to buy this OST album when I started collecting film music in the mid 90s, but I did, and I probably haven't listened to this since then! I actually quite liked it, though! The guitar based music for the Monstars was fun, and there was some nice references to classic cartoon music; I noticed a riff on Powerhouse, the Oriental Riff, and whatever that funeral march thingy is called Fun, wacky score, though the 46 minute OST album being presented as 25 tracks more than half of which are under 2 minutes long didn't do it any favors. The packaging is hilarious because there's no imagery of any Looney Tunes characters or Jordan on the outside, so it's just a starscape on the back and just a starscape with the film's logo on the front. I guess they didn't want confused customers to buy the wrong album in Strawberries when they wanted the song compilation one. The inside has exactly one picture of Jordan solo and exactly 1 picture of Jordan with the tunes and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 War Horse (Recording Sessions) by John Williams One word : PERFECT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,479 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 One word: BOOTLEG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 One's gotta do what one's gotta do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Danny Elfman - Men In Black II (OST album) WOW! I picked this up at an Amoeba Records I think (it's got a punch-out hole in it), I don't know if I ever actually checked it out at the time it came out; This might have been my first listen to the score at all, actually! I kinda loved it. It's kind of like a souped up, but also better version of the first score. Largely my takeaway was that it's more fun, the Worm Lounge tracks in particular were a blast and the whole album just flew by being a nice listen the whole time Well, until 2 songs at the end after the score program is over. Meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Hans Zimmer - The Peacemaker (OST) The last of the great run of awesome 90s Zimmer action scores. It's not as good as the ones before it (Drop Zone, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, The Rock) but it's still good. And I even like that he combined the highlights into just 5 long tracks! Track 4 has a part that was like the Crimson Tide theme through a The Rock filter and it was pretty cool. I saw one thing in the booklet that boggled my mind crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,465 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Would that be the use of the word 'songs'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thor 7,465 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (As mentioned elsewhere, my Morricone collection exploded in size after his death. From having about 40 titles to 114 at the present time (and probably sampling some 350 titles in the months since). Just a handful physical that I already owned, the rest digital. Now I just need to familiarize myself properly with all this lovely stuff.) bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 David Arnold & Kevin Kiner - Wing Commander Ha! I have not listened to this album in 20+ years. I had completely forgotten that the main theme is a complete rip off of one of one-off melodies from Independence Day! I don't know if a single note is even changed from it. It's fine though, it leads to a fun album, 37 minutes of action music more or less. It's fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 24 minutes ago, Jay said: Hans Zimmer - The Peacemaker (OST) The last of the great run of awesome 90s Zimmer action scores. It's not as good as the ones before it (Drop Zone, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, The Rock) but it's still good. It's much more entertaining (varied) than Crimson Tide, which hasn't got any interesting material apart from the hymnal stuff. Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Huh. I find Crimson Tide very entertaining and varied ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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