mxsch 115 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I like him so much, because of his unique style and great incorporation of beats. His scores for Creed 1, 2, Black Panther, The Mandalorian and Tenet are absolute bangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,266 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Lol, I was just listening to Tenet right now! I like him and I thought his Emmy and his Oscar were well deserved. He is still young, so I think we have yet to hear his best work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Woods 553 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 He's written some outstanding material - Creed films and Black Panther - but stuff like Venom, Tenet and a good chunk of Mandalorian has been an utter let down. -Erik- Ollie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I like his Mandalorian song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,045 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I like his Mandalorian scores a lot but everything else I've tried didn't do anything for me Manakin Skywalker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 BP is very good ( cue Thor to disagree😉). Put it on CD dammitt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,045 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I listened to that OST, it did nothing for me bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Creed 2 is what made me excited for his announcement as the Mandalorian composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,045 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I haven't checked that one out yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 minute ago, Jay said: I haven't checked that one out yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,019 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I'm most familiar with his work on The Mandalorian, which I really enjoy - especially the brassy theme heard near the beginning of the end credits. I've heard Black Panther but it didn't particularly interest me. And I'm watching New Girl, but the music is so unobtrusive that I forget to listen for it. Beyond that, not really sure. But he sure has an amusingly laid-back vibe in all the interviews I've seen with him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxsch 115 Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Nick Parker said: Runnin' is another great highlight for me, even with some cringey lines, the idea of merging orchestra with rap is incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manakin Skywalker 4,854 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Jay said: I like his Mandalorian scores a lot but everything else I've tried didn't do anything for me I have to agree. I really like his work on The Mandalorian, but everything else of his I've listened to just seemed to be your average contemporary film score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I wish he would tone back the electronic blibbity-bloo and overall tone of the Mandalorian. He has this amazing theme that is then placed among these techno beats that instantly sour my interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NL197 368 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 23 minutes ago, Arpy said: I wish he would tone back the electronic blibbity-bloo and overall tone of the Mandalorian. He has this amazing theme that is then placed among these techno beats that instantly sour my interest. I'm the opposite, in that I love when he uses the electronics and occasionally makes it a kind of "Star Wars goes Gangsta" sound. Love it. Docteur Qui 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,045 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Yea, it's perfect for the show the way it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 There are whole scenes that instead of featuring any exciting music are scored by a droning, pulsing beat. Sometimes I really love how he's incorporated the electronic elements, but those moments are few and far between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,457 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 If we talk about about The Mando, I feel random music where used in almost every scene. That was distracting most of the time. I'm not saying music is not good, but it doesn't always fit the scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephariel 444 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 He is a great talent that has yet to show his best imo. I love Black Panther and Creed 1 and 2. But he doesn't always score to the level that his capable of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,621 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 One of the most promising new film composers right now Holko and pete 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 1,839 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Creed and Black Panther are great. Mando is good. Tenet is blah. I think he is a rising talent whose best scores are still ahead of him. Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 His Mandalorian theme is fabulous but I am unaffected by his underscore, I think it lacks texture, verve and storytelling substance. To be fair to the chap though, I haven't listened to enough of his work in order to be able to make a proper fair assessment of him as a composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,385 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I absolutely hate him (not him, personally, but his music). A one-trick pony who either does second-rate Bill Conti all the time, or soulless ostinati and pale, textural colours. He's just as bad as Giacchino, in my opinion - i.e. an "Emperor's New Clothes"-type composer that everyone raves over, even though there's nothing there -- and that 'intrudes' into films and franchises I like and partially destroy my appreciation of them. I wish he never sat his eyes on film music. Evanus, Lord Zimmer and Jim Ware 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,283 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Since I am more interested in music than in sound, his music doesn't give me much. He is experimenting a lot with different instruments and sounds. But musically there is not much interesting happening in his scores as far as I can hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxTheHouseelf 324 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I also don't like his stuff that much. Tenet is a really weird sounding score IMO, it's nowhere as through produced like Zimmers work, sounds like he picked the first random synth presets he got and mingled all together. That 747 track is a cheap Zimmer Inception rip off. No other ideas to score this scene? Using the truck siren in Trucks in Place is a nice idea but having this drop in there doesn't fit at all to the scene and style of music he used in the film and stands out weirdly. Feels like he couldn't decide for a style of music to score the film with, and the score lacks identity. Like @GerateWohl said, a lot of experimenting but no real direction to go with the music. So overall, his music doesn't really stand out to me. The Mando theme is nice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Whenever a contemporary film composer says they like to experiment with different sounds, that is normally alarm bells. All these keyboard players trying to be the next Morricone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,612 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I’ve only heard Mandalorian and Black Panther I think, and they’re both real good. He’s also a talented hip hop producer and he has long lustrous hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,713 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Besides Mandalorian, the only soundtrack of his that I’ve checked out is Black Panther, and that one didn’t do much for me. But the theme song for Mando - wow, what a banger! Me and the missus spend our days humming that one as we spend our days locked up waiting for this virus thing to pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 The theme tune is absolutely brilliant, and just what TV needed. It's one of the areas The Witcher went wrong, they completely forgot about the all-important musical signature for the titular character. I mean, what a dumb oversight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 One of the things I really enjoy about Goransson, moreso in his feature length scores, are his dramatic instincts in terms of spotting and textures. I keep harping on Creed 2, but I loved that there would be conservation scenes between characters that would go unscored for minutes. Then a character would say a pivot line, and something intimate like a harp and french horn would come in. Felt really old-school and satisfying And those strings around the end? Hard to imagine many other film composers now writing those. The Illustrious Jerry and Holko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,283 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Like Göransson himself said to John Favreau in the Galeria episode about the Mando score: "If you would have expected something like a Williams score we would have had a problem." But I have to admit, the Mando theme does its job well, but it is not what I would call a brillant composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,268 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 3 hours ago, Quintus said: His Mandalorian theme is fabulous but I am unaffected by his underscore, I think it lacks texture, verve and storytelling substance. To be fair to the chap though, I haven't listened to enough of his work in order to be able to make a proper fair assessment of him as a composer. I agree the theme is pretty cool, but I also honestly think it's the only thing by him I have ever enjoyed. I find the rest of the music in The Mandalorian to be quite uninteresting KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Same here, for the most part. There's a couple of nice moments, but nothing to rave about. By contrast, composers like Bruce Broughton, Joel McNeely and John Debney, working on The Orville, have demonstrated what can happen when really talented score composers are given the opportunity to score a big sci-fi set piece for TV. The Mandalorian has its own set pieces, and the music does not grab the bull by the horns and lead the fuck out of those sequences like it should do. It's just there, modulating away the background, quite unnoticed. Ollie and Romão 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 His hair is impressive. I hope he never gets bald. mstrox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 7,266 Posted December 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2020 The score to Black Panther actually reminded me of Shore's LOTR, in which a composer researches and studies music from different cultures and mix what he found with traditional orchestra. The themes are great, the action music could be a little better but is still fine, and the score really works in helping shape the movie. WampaRat, Ollie and Bofur01 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Zimmer 211 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 11 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: His hair is impressive. I hope he never gets bald. You sob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 My second favorite composer named " Ludvig" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 He’s promising. I want to see him push his orchestral side to new places. There are glimmers of it, but he falls back on the current orchestral/electronic tropes too often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Romão said: I agree the theme is pretty cool, but I also honestly think it's the only thing by him I have ever enjoyed. I find the rest of the music in The Mandalorian to be quite uninteresting Agreed. I think he's definitely talented. But I think he's a stronger producer than he is a composer. His core compositional ideas aren't terribly interesting. But he has an ear for sound. Romão 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 52 minutes ago, Lord Zimmer said: You sob. You're just jealous of his lush hair, HanZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,268 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 4 hours ago, KK said: Agreed. I think he's definitely talented. But I think he's a stronger producer than he is a composer. His core compositional ideas aren't terribly interesting. But he has an ear for sound. That's a spot on observation, in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,053 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Black Panther is fantastic, the rest....meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is that yet another Pink Panther sequel? bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,053 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Minus Inspector Clouseau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 He wasn't that funny anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,045 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Ludwig has a new score album out today (well, today meaning Friday) 1.Bad Trip Suite 2.I Saw a Girl Today (feat. Eric Andre) 3.Trina and Bud 4.High School Sweetheart 5.I Say Go For It 6.Trip of a Lifetime 7.Tunnel Out of Prison 8.Zoos are Sick 9.Chinese Finger Trap 10.Flipping Off the Freeway 11.The Fight 12.ROTC 13.Run for the Bus 14.NYC 15.Trina is Close 16.The Proposal 17.Payback 18.The Standoff https://music.apple.com/nz/album/bad-trip-music-from-the-netflix-film/1557528439 https://music.apple.com/au/album/bad-trip-music-from-the-netflix-film/1557528439 EDIT: Woah, just noticed what's going on at the bottom of the cover art... EDIT 2: Woah, I just read this unusual factoid on wikipedia Quote It was accidentally released on Amazon Prime Video on April 17 and pirated prior to its official release. The film was later sold to Netflix, which will release it on March 26, 2021. EDIT 3: Woah, I just read the wiki plot description, this film sounds bonkers - and doesn't even mention the whole dick fingercuffs thing. I lost it at gorilla rape EDIT 4: Hmmm, this film was first screened as SXSW in March 2020, so Ludwig potentially recorded this score before Mando season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,423 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Meh, as long as it's not Community I don't care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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