What is the last score you listened to?

[Bryant Burnette 657]

That's nothing special; not for a Bond movie, at least.

Also...? TERRIBLE actress. TERRIBLE.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

If Bond girls' talent was any real barometer of quality, there'd be very few good ones to choose from.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[Maglorfin 196]

Beltrami's The Omen from 2006. An interesting, but merely mediocre score to a disappointing remake.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I can't imagine putting the stones anywhere near the same playlist as the beatles.

[Ollie 1,069]

I don't have that problem since I don't listen to either.

Symphonic Star Trek - Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I've been going around the complete STAR TREK: NEMESIS again. I still think this is a really underrated score, and I wish the alternate "A New Ending" made it into the film.

[Maglorfin 196]

Barry's Moonraker. Bond Lured to Pyramid and Flight into Space are sooo amazing ...

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I can't imagine putting the stones anywhere near the same playlist as the beatles.

Is this post in response to anything? It's kinda like randomly here. But anyway, I would put the Stone and the Beatles in the same playlist if each band didn't have a numerous amount of great songs. In the end, they're both classic rock.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I can't imagine putting the stones anywhere near the same playlist as the beatles.

Is this post in response to anything? It's kinda like randomly here. But anyway, I would put the Stone and the Beatles in the same playlist if each band didn't have a numerous amount of great songs. In the end, they're both classic rock.

It's because I'm a moron and I didn't read your post properly; I thought you did put the stones and the beatles together. I just think they're so diametrically opposed, they don't really fit in my eyes. Y'know, it's like Coke and Pepsi. Rarely do the two go together.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I can't imagine putting the stones anywhere near the same playlist as the beatles.

Is this post in response to anything? It's kinda like randomly here. But anyway, I would put the Stone and the Beatles in the same playlist if each band didn't have a numerous amount of great songs. In the end, they're both classic rock.

It's because I'm a moron and I didn't read your post properly; I thought you did put the stones and the beatles together. I just think they're so diametrically opposed, they don't really fit in my eyes. Y'know, it's like Coke and Pepsi. Rarely do the two go together.

Ah, okay. I agree with you in a way.

[Luke Skywalker 1,810]

Actually I created it, and no one created me.

Your father and mother would think differently...

[Koray Savas 2,251]

What if I don't have a mother or father? I was spawned! But yeah, I wasn't talking about birth.

[Marian Schedenig 8,249]

Is this post in response to anything? It's kinda like randomly here. But anyway, I would put the Stone and the Beatles in the same playlist if each band didn't have a numerous amount of great songs. In the end, they're both classic rock.

The Stones aren't classic rock. They're bluesy rock.

[Hitch 58]

Don't listen to Hitch.

Nobody ever does in here except an elite few and they don't know any better. Also I'm suing you for image infringement

[Bryant Burnette 657]

Don't listen to Hitch.

Nobody ever does in here except an elite few and they don't know any better. Also I'm suing you for image infringement

Hopefully, that'll go better for you than did The Paradine Case.

Yeah, okay, sure; she's a bit of alright. Good enough for Ringo f---ing Starr, right?

But far better Bond babes can be found. Here is a list of just a few of them that are either better-looking or more talented or both:

Ursula Andress in Dr. No

Daniela Bianchi in From Russia With Love

Honor Blackman in Goldfinger

Claudine Auger AND Lucianna Paluzzi in Thunderball

Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die

Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only

Izabella Scorupco AND Famke Janssen in GoldenEye

Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies

Eva Green in Casino Royale

Those are just the obvious ones. I'm sure most people would also include Halle Berry and Teri Hatcher and maybe even Kim Basinger. Also, I don't even have to have seen Quantum of Solace to know that Olga Kurylenko belongs on that list.

So, really, isn't Bach kinda mediocre as far as Bond girls go?

[Red 75]

Unbreakable. I think this may be one of the best scores James Newton Howard has done with Shyamalan.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Is this post in response to anything? It's kinda like randomly here. But anyway, I would put the Stone and the Beatles in the same playlist if each band didn't have a numerous amount of great songs. In the end, they're both classic rock.

The Stones aren't classic rock. They're bluesy rock.

I beg to differ.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

So, really, isn't Bach kinda mediocre as far as Bond girls go?

No, she kept the British end up, sir.

[Hitch 58]

And with a name like XXX, wasn't she better than Vin Diesel?

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I certainly wouldn't turn down some shared bodily warmth from her.

[indy4 155]

King Kong (2006):

A good score, very beautiful (especially "Central Park" and "A Fateful Meeting"). Not one of JNH's best, but still a good effort.

[Bryant Burnette 657]

Bambi

A gorgeous score to one of the very best animated films ever made.

[indy4 155]

"Little April Shower" is brilliant.

[Bryant Burnette 657]

It is; all the movie's songs are, in my opinion.

[Wojo 2,453]

I think the term "classic rock" has just become diluted over the years, as more and more music from that era has been dumped into it. Rather than encompassing a very specific type of rock music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, it's getting blurred with oldies and pop. So while your Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Who would all be classic rock, so also could be John Mellencamp, Aerosmith, and GNR, just as The Beatles, Chuck Berry, and Janis Joplin. Classic rock would then incorporate the genres blues rock, prog rock, pop rock, hair rock, southern rock, and other types of non-disco, non pure-pop music from those decades. Because your average classic rock station will play them all. Then you have artists who can make some songs that are pure genre, and other songs that blur the lines. Charlie Daniels would blur the lines between country and southern rock, just as Genesis would blur it between prog rock and more mainstream pop-rock.

That being said, there are very few artists from that wide era that I don't enjoy listening to. So I'd really like to see Koray's playlist, to compare it to my own repository of classic rock songs and see what I'm missing out on. I ask this because the photo grabs of Koray's list were bad links in the page where it was.

As for recent scores, I'm rather enjoying Extreme Prejudice. There are moments that are classic Goldsmith, and other moments that evoke memories of Fiedel's The Terminator. In particular, the track "The Plan" sounds a lot like the music from the early

90s PC game "Solar Winds," which had tons of awesome awesome music.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I think the term "classic rock" has just become diluted over the years, as more and more music from that era has been dumped into it. Rather than encompassing a very specific type of rock music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, it's getting blurred with oldies and pop. So while your Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Who would all be classic rock, so also could be John Mellencamp, Aerosmith, and GNR, just as The Beatles, Chuck Berry, and Janis Joplin. Classic rock would then incorporate the genres blues rock, prog rock, pop rock, hair rock, southern rock, and other types of non-disco, non pure-pop music from those decades. Because your average classic rock station will play them all. Then you have artists who can make some songs that are pure genre, and other songs that blur the lines. Charlie Daniels would blur the lines between country and southern rock, just as Genesis would blur it between prog rock and more mainstream pop-rock.

That being said, there are very few artists from that wide era that I don't enjoy listening to. So I'd really like to see Koray's playlist, to compare it to my own repository of classic rock songs and see what I'm missing out on. I ask this because the photo grabs of Koray's list were bad links in the page where it was.

Yeah, my playlist is derived from the classic rock station I listen. So it would encompass a lot of things from the late 60's to the early 80's. It has John Mellencamp, Billy Idol, Dire Straits, Rush, ZZ Top, The Police, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Tom Petty, etc. You've reminded me to add some Joplin to it. I remember I had a greatest hits CD, but I have no idea where it could be. And I'll try and upload the playlist again for you.

[Wojo 2,453]

Either that or PM me the text file, like out of Winamp or something.

[Neimoidian 14]

Antony and Cleopatra by John Scott. Awesome music - incredible theme, rich orchestration, doesn't sound old-fashioned at all. It's just my second Scott's album and another of superb quality. I need to listen to more of them.

[Marian Schedenig 8,249]

King Kong (2006):

A good score, very beautiful (especially "Central Park" and "A Fateful Meeting"). Not one of JNH's best, but still a good effort.

It's one of my favourites of his, actually. I don't have too much, but so far, the only score that probably has it beat for me is Lady in the Water.

I'm not overly fond of the Shoreish finale though. But all the mystery and action writing is excellent, and I'm a big fan of the love theme.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa by Hans Zimmer

First off, this CD is terrible. It's roughly 50 minutes, and exactly half of that is songs. Hans wrote the songs but that still doesn't make me want to listen to them sung by the stupid will.i.am.

So all we get here is about 25 minutes of score, and my is the score bad. I can easily say this one of HZ's worst scores, if not the worst. This is highly disappointing because I really liked the first one. The songs had waaaay too much influence on the original score, each one is layered with stupid dance beats and synths that just ruin any part that could be actual music. And on top of that, each cue is just a variation of "Zoosters Breakout" (a great cue btw) from Madagascar. I don't think Hans actually wrote anything new for this film.

I thought MattyO was being overly harsh in the thread he made, but now after actually hearing it, I agree with him. EPIC FAIL!

[Jacob 0]

Wow, if you're trashing a Zimmer score it must be terrible.

...

On the other hand, I don't think much of the first movie's album except for "Zoosters Breakout" and after hearing a sample of the first track it's sounding pretty good to me.

Do the other cues continue in that same tone?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Every score cue is just a dance beat variation of Zoosters Breakout. I'm starting to think that maybe Zimmer had nothing to do with this at all. Seems like will.i.am just took his score and added things to it to flow with his songs.

[Joe Brausam 216]

I'll be listening to The Patriot, because it was Obama's exit music.

[QMM 4]

ugh the big theme at the end of Strange New Clothes in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas sounds a little too much like the paranoia theme in A Beautiful Mind

[Koray Savas 2,251]

You're surprised of such an occurrence with James Horner?

[Maglorfin 196]

Jurassic Park, also in memory of Michael Crichton.

[Toontje 0]

Jurassic Park, also in memory of Michael Crichton.

I was listening to jurassic park a moment ago. Always a great listen. Nut now I moved over to rodriguez Planet Terror. Can't explain why but I love that score, the whole grunge in it. Great atmosphere and some original music imho.

[Hitch 58]

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa by Hans Zimmer

First off, this CD is terrible. It's roughly 50 minutes, and exactly half of that is songs. Hans wrote the songs but that still doesn't make me want to listen to them sung by the stupid will.i.am.

So all we get here is about 25 minutes of score, and my is the score bad. I can easily say this one of HZ's worst scores, if not the worst. This is highly disappointing because I really liked the first one. The songs had waaaay too much influence on the original score, each one is layered with stupid dance beats and synths that just ruin any part that could be actual music. And on top of that, each cue is just a variation of "Zoosters Breakout" (a great cue btw) from Madagascar. I don't think Hans actually wrote anything new for this film.

I thought MattyO was being overly harsh in the thread he made, but now after actually hearing it, I agree with him. EPIC FAIL!

Sweet music to my chins.

Listening to Howard Blake's rejected score to FLASH GORDON (1980). Quite entertaining and had to laugh during "Dale's Seduction" track...isn't that the beat Queen used on their score?

[indy4 155]

Jurassic Park, also in memory of Michael Crichton.

[Bryant Burnette 657]

Jurassic Park, also in memory of Michael Crichton.

I was listening to jurassic park a moment ago. Always a great listen. Nut now I moved over to rodriguez Planet Terror. Can't explain why but I love that score, the whole grunge in it. Great atmosphere and some original music imho.

I love the score to Planet Terror, also. Probably because I love the movie.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I like Rodriguez's scores in general.

[Bryant Burnette 657]

You Only Live Twice

Excellent, excellent score. Man, do I wish someone could get the modern-day Bond-score job who was able to write them with the flair that Barry had. In some way I can't quite put my finger on, his best Bond scores just smell like "I can do anything I want because I'm a bad-ass." They're cocky scores; brash, even. The movies themselves are different animals these days, and that seems to be working okay; but I do miss the kind of Bond score You Only Live Twice typifies.

[Joe Brausam 216]

Saving Private Ryan...in a Fox News recap of last night.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Accidental Tourist

Always

The first is one of my favorite JW scores, I guess. It's kinda like I really like it, but when I listen to something else I really like that :spiny:

The second is very good. Gentle and lighthearted, a relaxing listen.

The third is "meh" for me. It has some good parts like "Follow Me," but the rest is kinda boring. Definitely one of the worst Spielberg scores by Johnny.

[indy4 155]

So much for not listening to score until the Indy boxset.

[publicist 4,643]

'DEFIANCE' - James Newton Howard

Here you can listen to a good portion of the score. It's very subdued and becomes quite 'Village'ish in some places. What it lacks is a guiding theme to connect all the minors...hopefully he full CD will correct that...

[Koray Savas 2,251]

So much for not listening to score until the Indy boxset.

lol I decided to start a little earlier.

'DEFIANCE' - James Newton Howard

Here you can listen to a good portion of the score. It's very subdued and becomes quite 'Village'ish in some places. What it lacks is a guiding theme to connect all the minors...hopefully he full CD will correct that...

Sweeet! This is a much bigger sample than what Frost/Nixon got. I'm liking it so far.

[Trent B 337]

The complete score for Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Definitely a lot better and more enjoyable than the first Fantastic Four score, to me this one is a bit more "mature" than the first one.

[indy4 155]

Kung Fu Panda:

It's an incredibly fun score, Powell's best work (from the standpoint of my tiny Powell collection) is either animated films or collaborations. While this isn't Zimmer or Powell's greatest score, it is up there in the latter, and about average for the former.

3.5/5 stars