odnurega1 0 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I just listened to Temple Of Doom on LP (foldout cover U.S.). The LP looks like it never has been played and it sounded quite good. The music I'm not too fond of. Now I'm listening to Empire Of The Sun, also on LP. And yep, it's still one of my favorite Williams scores.AlexEmpire of the Sun is a great soundtrack, and also a great film. My favorite scene from the film also contains my favorite music the soundtrack, which is the scene in which Jim walks slowly up to the airplane at the camp (the track is entitled "Toy Planes, Home, and Hearth" on the soundtrack, although I am not sure why, considering that is not what is happening in the scene).Great listen..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 ... the track is entitled "Toy Planes, Home, and Hearth" ...Great track it is too! It's very sad. I also like the way Williams incorporated Chopin's piano piece.I just took a snapshot of my Linn Sondek LP 12 - The LP is Empire Of The Sun Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odnurega1 0 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 ... the track is entitled "Toy Planes, Home, and Hearth" ...Great track it is too! It's very sad. I also like the way Williams incorporated Chopin's piano piece.I just took a snapshot of my Linn Sondek LP 12 - The LP is Empire Of The Sun AlexVery Cool! I just have a CD version that I bought on eBay a while back..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I just listened to Temple Of Doom on LP (foldout cover U.S.). The LP looks like it never has been played and it sounded quite good. The music I'm not too fond of.In that case, you shouldn't have put it on your player but instead sold it for a small fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Small fortune? Eh, it still looks like new, you know. How big is a small fortune?Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I have no idea. I guess a mint LP would go for more than the CD, though? And that's not cheap these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Can I open the bid at €400, do I have an advance over €400? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Are you going to pay me 400 euros for it, Steef? Well, we have a deal.Spacecamp on LP. This LP also looks like new but what's interesting it sounds better than the Japanese CD. It has a pleasant, transparent top high frecuency which results in a much smoother tone. The CD sounds dull and lifeless in comparison. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I'm sorry Alex, I have TOD on LP, and I payed only €15 for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Well, especially for you, Steef, I'll throw in Spacecamp (mint condition), no extra charge. Now whatta you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I gave away my pressed Spacecamp CD years ago to a Conservative Christian bigot in the USA. Which should tell you something about my opinion on that score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Didn't you know it was worth its weight in gold? Anyways, you might change your opinion when you hear the breathy LP version. Here's you last chance: I will sign the cover with "To Steef, for being an inspiration to all of us." If that isn't value for your money, then I don't know what is. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I just checked, priority International shopping from your country would be something like 4 Euro's.Spacecrap is not worth that much to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I gave away my pressed Spacecamp CD years ago to a Conservative Christian bigot in the USA. Which should tell you something about my opinion on that score.I would have paid you for it. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I would not have allowed you to give me any money for passing you a turd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Oh my, a moment of compassion from Steef. You are indeed worthy of your title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Got a chance to listen to a lot while in the airport and on the plane last week. At the airport I listened to Carlito's Way, Airport (what else?), Last Stand at Saber River and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. During the flight I listened to Superman - The Movie. On the way back, at the airport I listened to The Misfits and Spartacus. On the flight back I listened to both the original tracks and re-recording of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. It's a really great score, especially the new recording, which is my favourite album of the year so far.Now I'm listening to Randy Newman's rejected Air Force One score. I forgot how much I enjoy this score. In a way it's more interesting than Goldsmith's replacement - but I can see why they rejected it, Newman seemed to score it was a parody, it would have made the film even hokier and sillier than it already is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Yeah, Newman's score is terrific. But it would have been wrong for the film. I was just listening to Desplat's Girl with a Pearl Earing again. Magnificent score. Crystalizes why Desplat is as it gets nowadays. The man has a talent for composition, and has the skill with an orchestra that is just about unparalleled at the moment. The man uses every bit of the orchestra. You really feel that there's a reason that there are 80 musicians playing the music, not just that the composer wanted the sound of 80 musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Henry V- Patrick DoyleNice. Engaging, interesting, and good throughout. Where was this Patrick Doyle when Goblet of Fire was being scored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Lair.Bloody brilliant, yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 I'm listening to the iTunes release of it now.First listen through and I'm already loving it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnifex 5 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 I have been listening to Randy Newman's The Natural all the day. I just found this masterpiece and it is magical. Too bad it did not win the Oscar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Nightmare Before Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Yeah, Newman's score is terrific. But it would have been wrong for the film. I was just listening to Desplat's Girl with a Pearl Earing again. Magnificent score. Crystalizes why Desplat is as it gets nowadays. The man has a talent for composition, and has the skill with an orchestra that is just about unparalleled at the moment. The man uses every bit of the orchestra. You really feel that there's a reason that there are 80 musicians playing the music, not just that the composer wanted the sound of 80 musicians.I agree, one of my recent favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Now "Beetlejuice". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Navajo Joe, Ennio Morricone is a genius. I think he's starting to surpass John Williams in my own book of best composers ever. It's a tough call, two very different composers, it'll have to be a tie as of yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Jurassic Park.Man we so need a complete legit release of this score, it deserves it same for The Lost World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I love the unreleased music where it shows Dennis Nedry's jeep skidding through the mud. Other than that, I can't really think of any unreleased music I want.Indy4 - who's listening to "The Chamber of Secrets" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Transformers - Steve JablonskyWell. This was definitely an MV score. I'm trying to be open-minded, but it gets obnoxious. I'm not as familiar with MV, so I'm pulling more recent examples, but I'm hearing Batman Begins all over the temp track, with splashes of POTC for good measure. It was irritating to hear that same MV percussion and the Batman Begins string rhythm over and over. The main theme was okay, I guess, but it kept bringing me back to Begins--I literally started humming Begins several times as statements of the theme started. But for some reason, I do actually like the Zimmer versions better (part of this may have to do with Howard's hand in the Begins score--who knows). On the upside, there was some material that stood out a bit more in "Bumblebee," "Scorponok" (probably the best menacing track on the album), "You're A Soldier Now," and "Optimus vs. Megatron" (particularly the high strings toward the middle of the track--even so, I would've hoped for more from a track called "Optimus vs. Megatron"). I wanted to give this a shot, and maybe there's better material that isn't officially released, but I'm not hearing much in this score that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Cutthroat Island Nice, but works better in the movie than an isolated work IMOThere are some cool passages but feels a little like a 2 hour action cue.I prefer Lair. Much more varied and pleasing to listen, though not very original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 SignsBRilliant, brilliant work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Recently:The Lion KingDriving Miss Daisy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Atlantis (JNH), and I had forgotten about "The Journey" and its awesomeness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 So if this is "not just JW", why does it have to be soundtracks?Today:Star Trek VFierce CreaturesThe Blue MaxAnd now playing Leviathan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 So if this is "not just JW", why does it have to be soundtracks?It doesn't. Yes there is a difference between soundtrack and score, but they're all CD's. I guess I should have said "What's the last CD you listened straight through"Just finished Drop Zone. Next up An Everlasting Piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Done with An Everlasting Piece.A great score by Hans and his Jigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I don't remember, probably Shoes of The Fisherman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Titanic, yesterday Dave and I drove from Little Rock to Texarkana to meet his former roommate who drove up from San Antonio and brought Dave his new Chihuahua puppy. She's adorable, black and white and she's named Suzie Q, because she looks like one, well anyways on the way Dave wanted to listen to the Titanic soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldsmithFanatic2000+ 0 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Goldsmith's Hour of the Gun and Twilight Zone: The Movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I think this is at least the third thread we've had for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odnurega1 0 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 A Beautiful Mind by James HornerImages by John WilliamsJaws by John Williams......all in the course of a few hours at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I think this is at least the third thread we've had for this.And now we are combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Ah, the restoration of sanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Good, because I usually listen to full CDs only anyway. Currently playing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the wonderfully expanded release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Good, because I usually listen to full CDs only anyway.Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Listening to Main Titles & Storm Sequence from Dracula. It's excellent. I expected a slightly quieter and more subtle score, but this is genius. I already had the music before I bought the CD, and remember listening to it before, but I have no recollection of this. Awesome job Johnny! <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 The Lion in Winter. You are immediatly transported to the Middle Ages, it really feels ancient, wonderfully evocative, one of Barry's very best.And I love that horn theme from the Storm Sequence Such a gem of a score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artyjeffrey 20 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Just finished listening to Intrada's recent re-recording of Spellbound. Can't believe that this terrific music was, for the most part, unreleased for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 As somebody who has always appreciated the genius of the two notes of Jaws, but beyond that had never really enjoyed the score outside of the film too much, I am proud to say that is no more. I just listened to "The Great Shark Chase," it is has some really great adventure music to it. I take back all I said about most of the score being "dead music," it is really very lively and exciting. I still like Jaws 2 (in terms of score), but that gap has lessened slightly.Also, I have Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana another listen, and I'm really enjoying that, too.And two Mychael Danna scores:Little Miss Sunshine - absolute brilliance, very unique, excellent!Surf's Up - Another great score, but the only stand out track is "Legends," which is amazingDanna is probably one of the most unqiue voices in film scoring of today, his scores are not ordinary at all (at least the two I own aren't).Oh, and I've also been giving the Origianal Trilogy another listen, and I really love that too. ESB is still my favorite, but I've come to appreciate ANH and RotJ a lot more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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