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Hewlett posted:I can't really relate to this, since there are days when I still get Black Hole, John Carter, ASM and Wing Commander themes in my head. I think most of us specifically speak out and listen to film scores on their own merits or due to composers - thus being drawn to this thread. For reference, what I'm referring to is specifically in, say comments sections or large threads for movies like, say, Man of Steel, where someone will pop in and say "I hope they use the Superman theme, nobody has made memorable themes like that in years, something you can remember and hum!" Not those of us that would immediately pick up well composed thematics by default.
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Might as well leave this here... http://www.filmtracks.com/ has a sizable collection of soundtrack/score reviews, all (I think) written by the same guy, who gets amusingly catty about small things from time to time. Surprisingly readable if you need a film score review fix, but you'll almost certainly run into points of exasperation.
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Darthemed posted:Might as well leave this here... The positive review of the Amazing Spiderman's score isn't a good sign for me.
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CPFortest posted:The positive review of the Amazing Spiderman's score isn't a good sign for me. He descends into frothing rage when reviewing all recent Zimmer films and spends longer raging about him than reviewing the score. He also seems completely confused that A Knight's Tale might be a comedy even though it starts with a crowd of medieval peasants singing We Will Rock You at a jousting tournament. I'm filing this one under nutjob
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Maxwell Lord posted:For the Rohan theme he used the Swedish fiddle, which has sympathetic strings, to give it that quivery feel which fits the mood so well. Nitpick: It was actually a Norwegian Hardanger Fiddle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_fiddle I was really happy when I found that the Django movie had a new Morricone piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD__XBhYExc Tarantino also recently did a show where he went through the Django soundtrack that you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/unchained-soundtrack/quentin-tarantino-special Morricone is definitely my favorite composer and one of the most influential (christmas example: watch Once Upon a Time in America and then listen to the Pogues - Fairytale of New York.) The spaghetti western scores he did are classic and his new scores are also really good.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:
His review for The Social Network was great-- absolutely excoriating. http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/social_network.html And he is kinda nutty, but are there any other websites that review/analyze soundracks with in such detail?
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ghableska posted:His review for The Social Network was great-- absolutely excoriating. "Buy it... if you have won the lottery, found your dream mate, got ripped abdominal muscles, hit the maximum allowable number of friends on Facebook, and need some morbidly disillusioning, hideously ambient electronic music to bring you crashing back down to Earth." Amazing.
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 2013 OSCAR NOMINEES FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli Argo - Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi - Mychael Danna Lincoln - John Williams Skyfall - Thomas Newman Nothing for Howard Shore's The Hobbit. gently caress me.
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Droopy Goines posted:The spaghetti western scores he did are classic and his new scores are also really good. Stare-Out posted:Nothing for Howard Shore's The Hobbit. gently caress me.
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Stare-Out posted:
That was expected based on the critical reception of The Hobbit. Newman's "Skyfall" has absolutely no business being on this list, good grief.
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Stare-Out posted:
I actually only thought Shore's score for The Hobbit was okay - I was kind of ruined by him re-using a lot of bits from Hugo, despite his dwarf theme being really good. I'm disappointed the Academy didn't put Beasts on here, or more out-there stuff like the Dredd or Haywire soundtrack. Anymore, Desplat and Williams' work sounds a bit like aural wallpaper. (I also know it never had a chance, but I LOVED Giacchino's John Carter score.)
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The only nominee on that list I've listened through is Williams' Lincoln score and I felt it was a tad underwhelming, frankly. Granted, I haven't seen... actually any of the films on that list (I know, I know) but out of context Lincoln's score felt slightly boring. Then again I felt the same way about Amistad's score and that one really works with the film. Does Newman's Skyfall score have his trademark "quirky banjo" bit?
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ComposerGuy posted:That was expected based on the critical reception of The Hobbit.
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Sentinel Red posted:Plus the man gave us the pinnacle of 20th century aural art in the form of the steel drum-tastic Commando soundtrack. That and WoK make up for his lifetime of subsequent lazy hackery. Your post is wrongly Rocketeer-free.
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Someone mention Ennio? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1aPPsSB6SM (The Untouchables) I am very happy for this thread as I am a huge movie score collector. I'm now trying to dig through a couple of standouts. edit: I know he recycles in his scores from his solo work, but I absolutely LOVE Philip Glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-vrNaIWPZQ (The Hours). Not to mention Koyaanisqatsi. this is also one of my favorites... gets me every time and was perfect for the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYJzrEIh24o (Mark Isham - Life as a House) and I think everyone can agree that the Shawshank Redemption by Thomas Newman is just perfection... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUXKiOm0Ps, which reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNU7Gksy2o (Meet Joe Black) Mega Boris fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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George S. Clinton might be best remembered for doing the scores to Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, but I find myself surprised by how much I like his theme for Brainscan. Has kind of a Twin Peaks theme vibe to it.
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Does anyone know where else on the LOTR soundtrack the motif 3:00-3:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAk9G-AugYQ is repeated? I was sure there was a longer version of it someplace but I had a quick scan through and couldn't find it.
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It's such a shame that Basil Poledouris is dead. His soundtracks for Starship Troopers, Robocop and Hunt for Red October are among my favorite soundtracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rjLQuW2nQ The robocop theme is just so drat good.
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VaultAggie posted:It's such a shame that Basil Poledouris is dead. His soundtracks for Starship Troopers, Robocop and Hunt for Red October are among my favorite soundtracks. Don't forget Conan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZW3WDYOJm4 I'm not a big movie score guy in general, but Poledouris was just so drat good. One of my top dudes along with Carter Burwell (anyone mentioned him yet?)
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So Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" score won a Grammy yesterday, beating such scores as Williams' "Tintin" score, Zimmer's "The Dark Knight Rises" and Austin Wintory's "Journey" score (the first video game score ever to be nominated in the category) but aside from my personal views on the particular score, what puzzles me is how a score from 2011 won or was indeed even nominated when every other entry was from 2012 as one might expect, seeing as how it was the 2013 Grammy awards. Any reasoning behind that?
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Okay, I'm not going to rest until I figure out what music it was on the old public domain releases of the 1924 Thief of Baghdad. All the Youtube rips use either the organ score or more recent restorations of the "proper" music, or Rimsky-Korsakov, but what I remember on the Goodtimes version is way different- an assortment of a lot of fairly loud and busy "Arabian!" themes, presumably as close to actual Arabic music as the movie is to actual Arabic myth.
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Stare-Out posted:So Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" score won a Grammy yesterday, beating such scores as Williams' "Tintin" score, Zimmer's "The Dark Knight Rises" and Austin Wintory's "Journey" score (the first video game score ever to be nominated in the category) but aside from my personal views on the particular score, what puzzles me is how a score from 2011 won or was indeed even nominated when every other entry was from 2012 as one might expect, seeing as how it was the 2013 Grammy awards. Any reasoning behind that? Probably depends on when the soundtrack album came out? Maybe the Grammys have a weird window for it, since Tintin was 2011 too.
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The score came out in December 2011. I forgot Tintin was a 2011 movie, but the score for that was released in October of 2011. Guess the Grammys do have some weird rules or something.
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Stare-Out posted:So Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" score won a Grammy yesterday My rage was actually physically manifest. You could touch it, it was so vivid.
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ComposerGuy posted:My rage was actually physically manifest. You could touch it, it was so vivid.  I so wanted Journey to win. But this isn't the video game score thread. Earlier I heard something about a complete version of Zimmer/Gerrard's score for "Gladiator" floating around. Is that official and if so, how can I get my hands on it? I've been listening to the original score today and it's still really good.
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Stare-Out posted:The score came out in December 2011. I forgot Tintin was a 2011 movie, but the score for that was released in October of 2011. Guess the Grammys do have some weird rules or something. The Grammys have a very weird eligibility period for their years - it's stuff between October 1st and September 30th for whatever reason. The Grammy process is very weird. Makes the Oscars process look polished and sensible.
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quote:Earlier I heard something about a complete version of Zimmer/Gerrard's score for "Gladiator" floating around. Is that official and if so, how can I get my hands on it? I've been listening to the original score today and it's still really good. There's some unofficial bootlegs of the whole shebang floating about on the net, but I haven't heard of any "official" offerings.
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The Cameo posted:The Grammys have a very weird eligibility period for their years - it's stuff between October 1st and September 30th for whatever reason. ComposerGuy posted:There's some unofficial bootlegs of the whole shebang floating about on the net, but I haven't heard of any "official" offerings.
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Stare-Out posted:I recently got the complete version of Elliot Goldenthal's score for "Alien 3" and it's fantastic. Goldenthal's work is always fantastic - he locks down that amazing Gothic sound so well. It really makes me wish he did more scores nowadays, rather than just for his partner Julie Taymor. His score for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is actually one of my favorite scores ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZwtGyd6K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJSNcMUWbWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKSUmEh2IPQ
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twoot posted:Does anyone know where else on the LOTR soundtrack the motif 3:00-3:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAk9G-AugYQ is repeated? It's sort of a part of the musical motif for Barad Dur, the Tower of Sauron.
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Hewlett posted:Goldenthal's work is always fantastic - he locks down that amazing Gothic sound so well. It really makes me wish he did more scores nowadays, rather than just for his partner Julie Taymor. His score for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is actually one of my favorite scores ever:
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What do you all think about the score for The Assassination of Jesse James? It's is one of my favourite films of all time, and I think the score really has a lot to do with that. Everything about the film was so moody and immersive, and Nick Cave and Warren Ellis really captured that melancholic western feel. It's depressingly beautiful. Or beautifully depressing, or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH0b2TooTxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hZwsSKYBZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0FSG9h-GI
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the last signal... posted:What do you all think about the score for The Assassination of Jesse James? Eeeeeeeeeeeeh, its OK. I mean, not much about it really says "Western" to me, which is fine and all, but basically they do all the standard "now we are melancholy" chord progressions with occasional ostinato in the piano or other instrument and then repeat the same progressions over and over again. There's little to no variation. It never goes anywhere you don't expect. Yes, the chords are pretty...and then what? It's very much Sonic Wallpaper, which, again, is fine and some people like that kind of thing, but it just doesn't hold my interest.
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the last signal... posted:What do you all think about the score for The Assassination of Jesse James? I think its a fantastic score, to refute what was said above. The songs never go anywhere you don't expect. But they build a sense of dread which works so well with the film. The simplicity of the music really is a plus for me, it feels more intimate and personal than say the standard western music score. However I will say that The Road didn't stray too far from this formula, which wasn't an AWFUL thing because again, its a film that has an absolute sense of dread, and the music accompanies this... But it could be an indicator that Nick Cave doesn't want to try anything too risky.
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I do enjoy the TAOJJBTCRF score as its own entity, but slightly less so in the context of the film, it feels a little bit too on the nose at times. As for The Road, despite having watched it again not even a week ago, I still can't remember a single thing about the music in it, which I suppose is a good thing and the complete opposite of "Jesse James" because apparently it works well enough to give a tangible sense of dread and foreboding about the whole package.
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It's so hard to believe that Howard Shore made those lush pastoral Lord of the Rings scores but then he also made this (from Cronenberg's Crash): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVy9J6avjY Those abrasive stinging notes are so perfect.
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Lord Krangdar posted:It's so hard to believe that Howard Shore made those lush pastoral Lord of the Rings scores but then he also made this (from Cronenberg's Crash): There's so much good poo poo going on in that score. That track in particular is just so meticulously crafted and put together. So many ideas in motion.
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Holy poo poo, the first 11 minutes or so of Krull is Peak Horner, basically everything remotely action-related he did before and after for a decade either way crammed into one place. I think the only thing missing is some Commando steel drum fever.
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Payndz posted:Holy poo poo, the first 11 minutes or so of Krull is Peak Horner, basically everything remotely action-related he did before and after for a decade either way crammed into one place. I think the only thing missing is some Commando steel drum fever. And 'Ride of the Firemares' may be a bit stock, but it's just so exuberant that I have a hard time not grinning when I hear it. This might be an odd question, but did (J.) Peter Robinson's score for The Wizard ever get even an unofficial release? Granted, he's hardly a well-known composer, but the movie has such a cult following, I have a hard time believing that no one has gone to the trouble of compiling the tracks.
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