Your most recent film score Discovery

[bruce marshall 1,318]

Have you heard an OLDER film score RECENTLY that knocked you out?

I'm talking about music you hadn't heard until the soundtrack came into your orbit- years after the film came out.

 

For me

LESS THAN ZERO by Thomas Newman.

I saw the film but only recalled the pop music.

Not until CINEMAGIC started playing it constantly did I get into the score.

 

Your picks?

[Arpy 4,145]

I'm a Goldsmith novice, I only own Alien and only last week watched Total Recall, so I'd say that's my recent film score discovery. I'm also pleased to hear it's getting a reprint so I can make it my second Goldsmith purchase!

 

However most of my score discoveries lately have been from games and anime - Persona 5's orchestral jazz infusions and Gurren Lagann's erratic blend of a range of genres from Rock to rap, to symphonic. 

[bruce marshall 1,318]

' Thanks' for making me feel even older than I am.😒

 

Jwfan aka NO FAN SITE FOR OLD MEN. 😆

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Thtar Trek Dithcovery

[Arpy 4,145]

Also, not technically a film score, but in terms of television scores, I've recently discovered some gems from Star Trek TNG that I overlooked or never heard. 

[Bellosh 3,438]

8 minutes ago, PuhgreÞiviÞm said:

Thtar Trek Dithcovery

 

Thtar Twek*

[Bayesian 1,365]

Well, thanks to a photo you posted only a few hours ago in another thread, @Arpy, I'm presently discovering the score to Kubo and the Two Strings on YouTube. And I'm rather enjoying it.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

1 minute ago, Bellosh said:

 

Thtar Twek*

 

Hehehe

[Arpy 4,145]

49 minutes ago, Bayesian said:

Well, thanks to a photo you posted only a few hours ago in another thread, @Arpy, I'm presently discovering the score to Kubo and the Two Strings on YouTube. And I'm rather enjoying it.

I'd recommend seeing the film, it's where I fell in love the score and has some gorgeous visuals and stop motion animation.

[Thor 7,553]

I discovered and acquired a whole bunch of Morricones after his passing, but that's awhile back. I guess the latest OLDER (what is 'older', anyway?) score I discovered (and also acquired) was L'AFRICAIN by Delerue just a few days ago.

 

Others within the last couple of months include THE QUEST (Edelman), HEAVEN & EARTH (Kitaro), MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF STEVEN SEAGAL (Frank), LOCH NESS (Jones), MAN AT THE TOP (Budd), WILDE (WIseman) etc. etc. There's a steady stream of both new and old soundtracks into my collection.

[bruce marshall 1,318]

1 hour ago, Arpy said:

Also, not technically a film score, but in terms of television scores, I've recently discovered some gems from Star Trek TNG that I overlooked or never heard. 

Tele counts!😊

28 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

 

Others within the last couple of months include THE QUEST (Edelman), HEAVEN & EARTH (Kitaro), MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF STEVEN SEAGAL (Frank), LOCH NESS (Jones), MAN AT THE TOP (Budd), WILDE (WIseman) etc. etc. There's a steady stream of both new and old soundtracks into my collection.

HEAVEN AND EARTH 😊😊😊😊😊

[GerateWohl 4,400]

Not exactly a film score, but I recently discovered Danny Elfman's ballet music for "Rabbit & Rogue". Really a beautiful very rhythmic piece. After I was so immensly impressed by Elfman's violin concerto "Eleven Eleven", I tried Rabbit & Rogue and was not dissapointed. Both are proably the most exciting orchestra music I got to listen to recently.

I have to confess, that I never was too much into Elfman's motion picture scores, even though I own some of his Tim Burton scores. And I liked the spiderman music. But his concert hall work to my mind is really brillant. 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,111]

The score to Lady Jane by Stephen Oliver. Among its many highlights, it has the best film score cue titled The Hunt!

 

 

[GerateWohl 4,400]

5 hours ago, Arpy said:

I'm a Goldsmith novice, I only own Alien and only last week watched Total Recall, so I'd say that's my recent film score discovery. I'm also pleased to hear it's getting a reprint so I can make it my second Goldsmith purchase!

 

However most of my score discoveries lately have been from games and anime - Persona 5's orchestral jazz infusions and Gurren Lagann's erratic blend of a range of genres from Rock to rap, to symphonic. 

Hi, 
I can strongly recommend the Omen trilogy, especially the third part has really an epic store. And another favorite the western score "Studs Lonigan", by the way with John Williams himself at the piano.

[Fabulin 3,515]

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[Jay 37,416]

David Arnold's The World Is Not Enough

 

I checked out the OST as soon as it came out, saw the film in theaters, etc... but never warmed up to the score, and kind of just forgot about in for the subsequent 20 years.

Then, the LLL expansion of it immediately tickled my fancy and it became my most played albums of that year, and one of my most played albums ever since, and one of my favorite scores of all time

 

 

 

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It's okay but I was never keen on Arnold's techno music as his entries progressed.

[Jay 37,416]

Yup, the electronic aspects were what drove me away in 1998, and I still haven't warmed up to Die Another Day yet.  But revisiting this one in complete form was a revelation.  I love the electronics in it, it's perfectly blended in like Tomorrow Never Dies (also one of my favorite scores of all time).

[GerateWohl 4,400]

50 minutes ago, Jay said:

Yup, the electronic aspects were what drove me away in 1998, and I still haven't warmed up to Die Another Day yet.  But revisiting this one in complete form was a revelation.  I love the electronics in it, it's perfectly blended in like Tomorrow Never Dies (also one of my favorite scores of all time).

I adore his scores for Casino Royale and A Quantum of Solace. Especially in CR how the embedded the song into the score and in AQOS how he treated the Bond spirit I would call it. Great Action tracks (even though the action itself was not so great in AQOS.

 

[Jay 37,416]

I love Casino Royale but still can't get into Quantum.

 

I get why Mendes used Newman for Skyfall and Spectre but boy do I wish Wilson & Broccoli put out the call to Arnold after Romer didn't work out for Fukunaga....

[Edmilson 7,498]

Arnold in NTTD would've been amazing. He scored Daniel Craig's first movie as Bond, so he could as well score the last.

 

But no, Zimmer is more hip, trendy and cool (even though I believe the majority of the score will be written by Mazzaro).

[bruce marshall 1,318]

I really liked DAD.

The expansion included the best cues - left off the ost- that were mostly from the first half.

The action stuff wasn't as good as the Moody and exotic cues

29 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Arnold in NTTD would've been amazing. He scored Daniel Craig's first movie as Bond, so he could as well score the last.

 

But no, Zimmer is more hip, trendy and cool (even though I believe the majority of the score will be written by Mazzaro).

Gee. You could at least wait to you HEAR the thing before trashing it!

[Edmilson 7,498]

11 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

Gee. You could at least wait to you HEAR the thing before trashing it!

 

I haven't written a single word in criticism of the score, which I didn't heard. I was criticizing the fact that Zimmer was hired for being more popular than Arnold, not the score. 

 

But I believe I probably not gonna like it anyway. Zimmer hasn't impressed me much recently.

[bruce marshall 1,318]

1 minute ago, Edmilson said:

 

I haven't written a single word in criticism of the score, which I didn't heard. I was criticizing the fact that Zimmer was hired for being more popular than Arnold, not the score. 

 

 

And you know that how?

[Jurassic Shark 12,111]

It says on IMDB that he got the job.

[Edmilson 7,498]

Zimmer is more popular amongst non-film music fans than Arnold. It's a marketing opportunity for the movie, even if Zimmer won't write the majority of the score.

[bruce marshall 1,318]

The choice of who performs the title song is often a commercial decision.

.The score?

??????????

[Manakin Skywalker 4,900]

For one, The Adventures of Tintin, which I have almost completely ignored until I heard the arrangement in the Vienna concert. I don't know why, I just didn't seem that interested in the film, and by extent I never paid much attention to the score until last month. Now I regret my ignorance.

[Jay 37,416]

Since Jurassic Park I've heard all the Williams OST albums before I saw the films so always enjoyed the music first before any thought of whether the film was worthwhile or not entered my mind

 

That's a good one though, he was definitely very inspired to score a full on animated film

[Manakin Skywalker 4,900]

10 hours ago, Jay said:

Since Jurassic Park I've heard all the Williams OST albums before I saw the films so always enjoyed the music first before any thought of whether the film was worthwhile or not entered my mind

 

That's a good one though, he was definitely very inspired to score a full on animated film

 

The weird thing is that I'm not disinterested in the film necessarily, I just never paid any attention to it perhaps because I wasn't familiar with the source material(?) The film actually looks pretty fun (also judging by the music!) and the animation is top-notch, especially for something that came out over a decade ago. It just flew under my radar I guess.

[bruce marshall 1,318]

11 hours ago, Manakin Skywalker said:

For one, The Adventures of Tintin, which I have almost completely ignored until I heard the arrangement in the Vienna concert. I don't know why, I just didn't seem that interested in the film, and by extent I never paid much attention to the score until last month. Now I regret my ignorance.

I wish I could say the same😞.

 But, the thought of revisiting that travesty, even for the MUSIC. is too painful.

[GerateWohl 4,400]

Zimmer represents a style of film music that is very effektive in the movie but has hardly any musical substance on its own, which is completely ok  for a film score. But I don't listen to that just for the music. In a way Hans Zimmer to me is the punk rocker of motion picture scoring like three chords, hardly melody, no modulations etc. But when I want to listen to such kind of music I rather listen to real punk, rock, pop whatsoever. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,111]

Well said!

[Thor 7,553]

 

Can we just have one single thread without Zimmer bashing, please? So fucking annoying.

 

I'm more curious about people's recent discoveries of older scores. Hope it's possible to get back to that.

[Jurassic Shark 12,111]

Isn't that what the Zimmer thread is for?