What am I missing out on?

[Pieter Boelen 633]

I have already got quite a large movie music collection, but I am, of course, always on the lookout for more. I like bold, brassy, adventurous music best, but also like anything else, as long as it's excellent. I have attached below a list of all the soundtracks I have that I enjoy. Could you have a look at it and tell me what I'm still missing out on?

I want to get the Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Harry Gregson-Wiliams) soundtrack for sure, but it seems to be very badly available, either from regular stores, as well as online ones. Could you give me a hint as to where I can find it? I'm also thinking it might be nice to get some of the old Korngold scores. Do you know what releases are good and have good sound quality? I have some tracks of The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood, but the sound qaulity is horrid.

My soundtrack list:

- 1941 (1979), John Williams

- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), John Williams

- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), James Newton Howard

- Back to the Future I: Score (1985), Alan Silvestri

- Back to the Future II (1989), Alan Silvestri

- Back to the Future III (1990), Alan Silvestri

- Born on the Fourth of July (1989), John Williams

- Catch Me If You Can (2002), John Williams

- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (2002), John Williams

- Cutthroat Island (Original Soundtrack) (1995), John Debney

- Cutthroat Island (Complete Score) (1995), John Debney

- Dinosaur (2001), James Newton Howard

- Dragonheart (1996), Randy Edelman

- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), John Williams

- Empire of the Sun (1987), John Williams

- Far and Away (1992), John Williams

- Gladiator (2000), Hans Zimmer

- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), John Williams

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), John Williams

- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), John Williams

- Hidalgo (2004), James Newton Howard

- Hook (1991), John Williams

- Hook (Ultimate Edition) (1991), John Williams

- The Hunt for Red October (1990), Basil Poledouris

- The Incredibles (2004), Michael Giacchino

- Independence Day (Complete Score) (1996), David Arnold

- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), John Williams

- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), John Williams

- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), John Williams

- Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (PC Game) (2003), Clint Bajakian

- Jaws (1975), John Williams

- John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 (1999), John Williams

- Jurassic Park (1993), John Williams

- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), John Williams

- Jurassic Park III (2001), Don Davis

- Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Harry Gregson-Williams

- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Howard Shore

- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Howard Shore

- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Howard Shore

- The Mask of Zorro (1998), James Horner

- Minority Report (2002), John Williams

- Mulan (1998), Jerry Goldsmith & Various Artists

- The Mummy (1999), Jerry Goldsmith

- The Mummy Returns (2001), Alan Silvestri

- Nixon (1995), John Williams

- The Patriot (2000), John Williams

- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Klaud Badelt

- Saving Private Ryan (1998), John Williams

- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Harry Gregson-Williams

> Only Track: End Credits

- Schindler's List (1993), John Williams

- Seven Years In Tibet (1997), John Williams

- Shrek (Score) (2001), Harry Gregson-Williams

- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Edward Shearmur

- Star Trek: The Astral Symphony (1991), Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner & Leonard Rosenman

- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Ultimate Edition) (1999), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), John Williams

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), John Williams

- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996), Joel McNeely

- Superman: The Movie (Original Soundtrack) (1978), John Williams

- Superman: The Movie (Re-Recording) (1978), John Williams

- The Terminal (2004), John Williams

- The Time Machine (2002), Klaud Badelt

- Treasure Planet (2002), James Newton Howard

- Van Helsing (2004), Alan Silvestri

- War of the Worlds (2005), John Williams

- Waterworld (1995), James Newton Howard

[Jeshopk 8]

Jaws II! For someone who loves sailing and Pirates, this is a must have adventure score for you!

[Incanus 5,519]

Well for a change I have recommend two Horner scores. Willow and Rocketeer are wonderful and Krull too.

Michael Giacchino's Medal of Honour series. Jerry Goldsmith's First Knight.

[scissorhands 16]

The Perfect Storm is the best Horner for a sailor like you (best Horner score, btw, along with Enemy at the Gates)

[Hitch 55]

The excellent poolside music of SHOWGIRLS???

[Lurker 5]

Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty and Goldsmith's Star Trek - The Motion Picture.

Neil

[MSM 85]

Supergirl I would recommend

[HPFAN_2 0]

Stargate

[Incanus 5,519]

Stargate

Yes that one is great! As are all scores mentioned above.

Few more suggestions:

Michael Kamen's Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Danny Elfman's Sleepy Hollow, Batman and Batman Returns

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Robin Hood if you like old Hollywood sound. Same goes with all Korngold swashbuckling music.

[Dean1700 4]

Any of these ones.

CONTI, Bill

Victory

ELFMAN, Danny

Batman

EDELMAN, Randy

Gettysburg (2CD Deluxe Commemorative Edition)

GOODWIN, Ron (1926 - 2003)

Battle Of Britain (includes unused score by Sir William Walton)

HORNER, James

Aliens (Deluxe Edition)

Balto

Braveheart

Braveheart, More Music from

Glory (Complete R4 DVD rip - 19 tracks)

Star Trek 2

Star Trek 3

Titanic

Titanic, More music from

POLEDOURIS, Basil

Conan the Barbarian (Expanded 16 tracks)

YARED, Gabriel

Troy (Rejected Score)

ZIMMER, Hans

Crimson Tide (Expanded)

TREVOR RABIN

Armageddon

TREVOR RABIN & HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS

Armageddon (2CD Complete Score)

TREVOR JONES & RANDY EDELMAN

Last of The Mohicans

[Incanus 5,519]

Bill Conti's Masters of the Universe if you happen to be able to get it. It is so rare. I have it only as mp3s but it is great!

[Incanus 5,519]

We end up naming every score in our collections since we all collect only the best film music LOL

[robthehand 3]

Elfman's Corpse Bride (I don't own the CD, but I saw the film today). It'll drive you NUTS, but it's great.

[Olivier 5]

FSM have lots of ram files from their releases-- complete tracks, too!

This is a big help to sample and decide what to order.

Anything by Goldsmith is highly recommended; such titles as The Illustrated Man and Logan's Run, though.

There's pleny to Bernstein, Herrmann, North, Rozsa and Kaper, as well.

Logan's Run (TV) is totally different from the movie's score and features some great music.

If you love action, Goldsmith's 100 Rifles should please you.

I can't recommend Rozsa's Green Fire enough; it's a wonderful adventure score; nice themes, and exciting action, "the old" yet efficient way.

Ron Goodwin's scores are pretty exciting too.

For quieter moments, Goldsmith's Babe will move you, with its beautiful theme & score: The Flim-Flam Man / A Girl Named Sooner are great too (the former, in a comedic Americana vein; the latter is of the gentle kind).

Be sure to check out "the Fields of Ambrosia" on The Traveling Executioner; it is not representative of the whole score, as the other samples will show you, but it's a most beautiful track.

From Intrada, you will be able to get some very nice scores by Bruce Broughton-- stirring action (Lost in Space), splendid Western music (Silverado & Tombstone, both to be soon re-issued in a re-mastered form & slightly expanded form), wonderful Christmas music (Miracle on 34th Street), and many others.

Please do tell us about your new scores & thoughts, based on our suggestions!

[robthehand 3]

You should consider

- Beetlejuice

- (if you want to hear a fantastic collection of non-original music): Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2

- (if you like light, fun scores): Ground hog Day

- The Magnificent Seven

- Rambo: First Blood

There are more - but those are the ones I can think of now.

[SRFan 0]

You own no scores by Elfman...you should change that. Everyone needs Edward Scissorhands. 8O

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

First of all, you need tons of Goldsmith.

I'm also thinking it might be nice to get some of the old Korngold scores. Do you know what releases are good and have good sound quality? I have some tracks of The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood, but the sound qaulity is horrid.

Those old OSTs (I assume you have the Tsunamis) sound OK for their age... Blood better than Hawk. I agree the sound is not stellar, but IMHO very listenable.

As for good-sounding recordings: All the Gerhardts, also the awesome Morgan/Stromberg Robin Hood (and the shorter Kojian version if you want), Kojian's Sea Hawk (while we're all waiting for the 2CD re-recording) and the wonderful "Captain Blood" album on Marco Polo which has outstanding suites from The Thief of Bagdad (Rozsa), Scaramouche (Young), Captain Blood (a fantastic recording by all accounts) and Steiner's Three Musketeers.

Marian - 8O

[batmanand 0]

You own no scores by Elfman...you should change that. Everyone needs Edward Scissorhands.  8O

Yes, and Batman. Both are superlative efforts.

As are Stargate and Tomorrow Never Dies (the best of the newer Bonds), both by Arnold. At the moment, Stargate is my favourite non-JW score of all time (favourite = one that I am most tempted toplay over and over again).

You should probably get some John Barry. If you do not want his Bond efforts, then try "Out of Africa" or - and this would be my pick as his best work to date - "Dances with Wolves".

Can I also suggest "Finding Nemo" by Thomas Newman? This is my favourite of his weird bunch of scores; listenable (aka not American Beauty) and with some nice moments. And he is one of the pre-eminent film composers of today.

Finally, "Peter Pan" by JNH. No, it is no Hook, but it is a damned fine score nonetheless.

[Pieter Boelen 633]

Thanks a lot for all your suggestions. I have now bought several more scores through an MP3 download site. Unfortunately, there sometimes seems to be some errors in the tracks, so I'm working on fixing them as good as I can. Or at least minimizing them. I suppose it is not according to the board rules to ask if people could send me the tracks that are a bit messed up, right? Never mind then.

I have gotten the complete bootleg score to First Knight (excellent music, though I haven't listened to it in it's entirety yet). I also got Jaws II, which is also quite nice (though I don't find it manages the same level of excitement as Man Against Beast from the original Jaws). I also got the complete Home Alone 2 (now that I have that one, is Home Alone 1 still worth getting?), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (I love that one, though the volume was waaay too high when I downloaded it first, so I turned it down. Not sure if that did the sound quality much good though), King Solomon's Mines (Jerry Goldsmith; not really excellent, but fun nevertheless), JFK (I don't seem to like it too much yet, but it's John Williams, so I don't mind having it), Superman complete edition (that one was still missing as well) and Tomb Raider 2 (Alan Silvestri; far from excellent, but features some nice moments every now and then). I am probably also getting Peter Pan (I already have some of the tracks; sounds nice enough).

I actually already have the music from Braveheart, Armageddon (complete) and Tomorrow Never Dies, but have so far not listened to them really. I should some time, I suppose. I actually have rather a lot of music I haven't listened to. :?

I am not really into James Horner. I like his Mask of Zorro music (and Legend of Zorro is also nice, though seems to be basically more of the same), but that's it really. Not that I ever listened to much of his work, so I can't talk. What is The Perfect Storm like? Does it contain some nice adventurous music in addition to the dramatical stuff, or is it just drama all the way through? Same for Titanic, really. I never even saw the Titanic movie (if I am correct, there is rather a lot more romance in there than I think should be in there).

I'm not really interesting in Danny Elfman or John Barry, but I suppose that is also because I hardly heard any of their music. I did notice that during Spiderman, the music went "ooohh" every time Spidey was flying around. It got a bit tiresome in the end.

I would like to get Stargate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and some of Korngold's music , but they seem to not be very well available. Unless I haven't looked thoroughly yet.

And is the complete Crimson Tide soundtrack worth getting if you already have the single disc version? I liked parts of it, but they are hidden in waaay too long tracks. And Gabrial Yared's Troy I do not know where to find.

Could you also tell me if Stepmom, Far and Away Volume 2 and Jane Eyre are worth getting and why? I did get one of the tracks from Far and Away Volume 2, but it was more messed up than I can repair. Strange digital artifacts all over the place.

I know I am now forgetting to answer on a lot of your suggestions, but thanks for them anyway!

[robthehand 3]

I wouldn't judge Danny Elfman on the basis of Spider-Man - it's certainly not one of his better efforts, and it seems that he wasn't really allowed to "stretch" his talents to the full. If you want to hear a really good super-hero Elfman score, listen to Batman - it's not hard to find - the CD is regularly available. Batman Returns is also nice, but can get quite tiresome. Also check out Edward Scissorhands, as mentioned above. (If you want to get a nice snapshot of Elfman's work, get one of the "Music for a Darkened Theater" albums - they have excellently selected cues from the films, and are well worth the listen.)

As for John Barry, by far is best work (IMO) is on the Bond films - I'd pick up the expanded You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds are Forever before they go out of print... again.

Jane Eyre is DEFINITELY worth getting, a really great score as many people here will tell you. And no, there's not much that you can get from Home Alone that's not in the Home Alone 2 score.

I agree with your points on Horner - I've never been interested in his scores, but they generally work in their films. (There are a few exceptions - good and bad.)

[John McClane 1]

The Last of The Mohicans by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman.

If you buy the DVD (at least Region 2) you'll also have the isolated score, so you can do an HQ-complete bootleg.

[Dean1700 4]

Crimson Tide isn't complete. It is only an expanded version. Personally, I think it's quite good although there are a lot of people here who knock Zimmer.

I have Stargate (the movie). I haven't listened to it for ages but if you want some David Arnold you cannot go past the 2CD "Complete" Indepenence Day. A fantastic score. but you MUST get Elfman's Batman.