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Post by synchrotones on Jul 31, 2013 11:26:45 GMT -8
Write Your Soul by Horner. Superb piece of music, just astonishing. It's in my car's cd-changer by default, so it gets very regular plays. <s>
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Post by indy2003 on Jul 31, 2013 12:05:23 GMT -8
Checking out Warm Bodies, the only 2013 Beltrami score I haven't gotten around to yet. A rather entertaining fusion of rom-com playfulness, sweeping adventure and horror. It's not as large-scale in general, but I'm reminded a bit of the many tonal shifts in Beltrami's Hellboy score.
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Post by Southall on Jul 31, 2013 12:32:32 GMT -8
My Geisha - Franz Waxman
Gentle and lovely little score.
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Post by Southall on Jul 31, 2013 12:38:30 GMT -8
Call me behind the curve, but for some reason when 'Black Gold' was released well over a year ago, I totally ignored it. I listened to some samples and thought "Meh, I don't need this." I need to learn that judging Horner from 30-second sound bites is a bad idea. Fuck this album is beautiful. Gorgeous music. Pity the film's awful. Horner deserved a lot of praise for this one. I love Spider-Man but think Black Gold is probably his best score this side of Avatar.
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Post by Roman on Aug 1, 2013 6:40:13 GMT -8
Feeling like some Patrick Doyle today. I'm starting off with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I really enjoy this score. It's got a lot of energy, some really great themes and makes for a wonderful listen in the album form. Makes me with Doyle had a crack at a couple more of the Potter films.
After that is "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". I think I mention this every time, but this score took quite a while to grow on me as a whole. I always loved "The Creation" and "The Wedding Night", but for some reason that rest never clicked. It wasn't till almost a decade later when I listened to the whole score again that I really go into it.
I'll wrap with one of my favorites, "Much Ado About Nothing". I need to get more Doyle in my collection. I'm missing some real key scores by him.
What are you listening to?
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Post by indy2003 on Aug 1, 2013 7:34:07 GMT -8
I'll wrap with one of my favorites, "Much Ado About Nothing". I need to get more Doyle in my collection. I'm missing some real key scores by him. Really love this score - that choral finale gives me goosebumps every time. I'm listening to Elmer Bernstein's The Sweet Smell of Success - one of the composer's jazz-fueled efforts from the early part of his career. While I'd probably hold up The Man with the Golden Arm as his best score in this vein, this one's pretty terrific, too. There are some fleeting moments of serenity, but for the most part it's dirty, brassy music for corrupt characters.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Aug 1, 2013 13:08:52 GMT -8
I need to get more Doyle in my collection. I'm missing some real key scores by him. You know where to come
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Post by Southall on Aug 1, 2013 13:20:50 GMT -8
I need to get more Doyle in my collection. I'm missing some real key scores by him. You know where to come Comet?
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Post by indy2003 on Aug 1, 2013 13:35:56 GMT -8
Horner's Brainstorm. It's a bit schizophrenic and generally not as strong as the many other early Horner scores it resembles, but it still has plenty of charming moments and the big band stuff is certainly a lot of fun.
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Post by chollman on Aug 1, 2013 13:49:22 GMT -8
Saw the post at Filmtracks about Mark Mckenzie doing the score to the sequel of 'The Ultimate Gift' -- so now I am listening to Mckenzie's best score: Durango. Well....is it his best score? The man has SO many gems that I am not certain. But it is the one I return to the most often.
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Post by Southall on Aug 1, 2013 14:00:10 GMT -8
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One of my favourite scores. Exceptional.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Aug 1, 2013 14:43:28 GMT -8
Saw the post at Filmtracks about Mark Mckenzie doing the score to the sequel of 'The Ultimate Gift' -- so now I am listening to Mckenzie's best score: Durango. Well....is it his best score? The man has SO many gems that I am not certain. But it is the one I return to the most often. Boy, picking a best McKenzie score is difficult. Durango, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, The Lost Child, Blizzard... but for my money his best is THE GREATEST MIRACLE. Just absolutely astonishingly beautiful orchestral-and-choral writing.
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Post by Jon Lord on Aug 1, 2013 16:59:48 GMT -8
I was just letting my iTunes play in alphabetical order and suddenly this bizarre thing I'd never heard before came on, sounding like a more gravelly voiced Peter Gabriel singing a love ballad in French.
Turns out it was a vocal song version of the love theme on the first track of the Asterix e Obelix contro Cesare soundtrack, which I had bought at some point out of curiosity just because I love the comics but then never listened to.
The score, credited to Jean-Jacques Goldman and Roland Romanelli, is pretty nice overall, mostly jaunty fun stuff with a nice love theme, though there's some pop and dance remix stuff at the end of the album which is pretty dire. Overall, not quite up to Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Talgorn, which is the only other one of these I've heard, but worth a listen.
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Post by Roman on Aug 2, 2013 5:59:44 GMT -8
Kind of all over the place today. Starting things off with Deriviere's excellent score to the video game "Remember Me". Really enjoying this score!
Then it's over to James Peterson's huge score for "Red Canvas". I swear this could be the score an adventure film from the 80s or 90s. Great stuff with a real golden age sound to it.
Then I'll have to wrap things up with some Goldsmtih. I think it's time to give "First Knight" another spin.
What are you listening to?
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Post by Craig Richard Lysy on Aug 2, 2013 5:59:50 GMT -8
Saw the post at Filmtracks about Mark Mckenzie doing the score to the sequel of 'The Ultimate Gift' -- so now I am listening to Mckenzie's best score: Durango. Well....is it his best score? The man has SO many gems that I am not certain. But it is the one I return to the most often. This is just outstanding news! I love this guy and am very moved by his music. He is a man of deep faith and I feel this in his scores. When he joined us for dinner I told him I hear the voice of God in his music, which formed an immediate bond. Since these days he eschews films that lack a spiritual core, he does not seem to gain as many assignments, which saddens me. But when he does, it quenches me as does a desert rain for its flowers. For me, I agree with Jon that El Gran Milagro is his Magnum Opus. All the best!
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