Recent Purchases: Scores - Part I

This YouTube video (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJx5y5t97k) made me buy this score.

Great score and I love that theme. Recently discovered it and I found the other theme had a very Barry sound over it.

Niki Reiser - Meshugge
Pino Donaggio - Meridian

My meaning didn't come across very well!!

I do like his work - although I don't have much. But when there is another score of his available I'll always have a good listen to clips when they are available. You are always certain of a challenging listen - quite unusual in today's environment.

oh, considering I'm a brass nut I'm really looking forward now to this score, thanks Erik

phew, I thought it was gonna be another lolcat

Scenes of A Sexual Nature - Dominik Scherrer
The Dark Hour - Alfons Conde

Sound clips sound interesting; particularly, the use of the pipe organ in the first track of The Dark Hour.

Sudden Impact - Lalo Schifrin

I'm hoping that there's a few interesting tracks over and above the cues from this movie that feature in the "Dirty Harry Anthology" CD from Aleph. Listening to Sudden Impact and comparing it with the original Dirty Harry it's easy to see how music in general changed over the decade or so between these movies!

Recently Purchased: a SH*Tload of DVDs, following a big sale at Play.com
Got me a number of classics, which I didn't have in DVD format yet, as well as some personal favourite I only retained on VHS (yeah, I'm old...). Very glad to be shot of those tapes!
CLASSICS
Freaks (Tod Browning's 1931 social commentary-cum-horror flick)
The Big Sleep (Bogey! And Bogey's Baby!)
The Maltese Falcon (this classic is a classic to put the phrase classic to shame)
Citizen Kane (like above, but even more so!)
The Dollars Trilogy - remastered (Wooooo! Brilliant! It's like 29 degrees Celcius outside, and for some reason I ALWAYS associate these films with really high temperatures, so I'm watching those TONIGHT!)
Jaws (I know this film by heart...but hey, I didn't own it yet!)
The Wizard Of Oz (one (and best) of the three musicals in the whole of existence I actually love)
The Longest Day (THE definitive WWII war movie, as far as I'm concerned)
Romeo And Juliet (The Zirelli version, with the best Nino Rota score in existence. Never seen the film before.)
Henry V (The Brannagh variant. Man, is that good Shaespeare!)

PERSONAL FAVOURITES
Kelly's Heroes (one of the finest war-action movies ever, with a killer Schifrin score)
Hellboy 3DVD edition (always loved Mignola's dark and eerie graphic novels. Apparently this DVD set has an isolated composer commentary track!)
High Plains Drifter (Clint reprises The Man With No Name. Have seen this film many decades ago...wondering if it still holds up? I have some VERY good memories of it.)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (two of the finest, wittiest and funniest Brit films of the decade by Mr. Madonna)
Salem's Lot (one of the best horror mini series ever, even if it does star David Soul (well, to balance out, it's got James Mason as well. SCARY SCARY SCARY stuff! Late night viewing!))
Batman Returns (There's something about this film that makes it all come together. Not a wrong note in it. Right up there with Batman Begins as excellent visions of the Caped Crusader)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (I love this dark comedy from Polanski. It's got some genuine chills.)

I found a rare gem today at a local thrift store...

The Spirit of St. Louis by Franz Waxman. The Varese release under the "Film Score Classics" banner. Looked on Ebay for it, and found only one for $119.99...and one on Half.com for $89.00 so I think I got a deal at $1.99 at the thrift store.

Vol. 1 Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers
Shankar, Loy and Ehsaan - Lakshya
Florian Appl - One Day in Europe
Benoît Charest - Les Triplettes de Belleville

Charest score brilliantly score mixes all sort of things. It's a score that easily sounds like typical French cliche music (accordeon), then switching to polka's and ending with old/new jazz. There's a very addictive song called Rendez-vous that's being heard 5 times (also in instrumental version), which once makes a vacuum cleaner sound like some sort of theremin. And many more weird objects were used for the music. What I really like is that the score catches a very specific nostalgic French mood from a certain time period, while creating an interacton between so many other cultures and styles that cannot be placed in say the 1970's or some other period. Very refreshing.

I'm highly considering buying an LP of Raiders, not to listen to, but to frame and hang on the wall.

What's with all the copies?

Contrary to Bregt, i don't like the song much: it has the promise of an old-time swing song, but goes nowhere: it's actually, when you listen carefully, the melody line of an American drill instruction, set to swing beat. Funny, but honestly, without any chord change it wears out its welcome very quickly, and sadly it's very often repeated in the film.

I do like the rest of the score, and the film was one of the most off-beat and funny animation films I've seen in years!









Why would you get second, adn even third copies?
I mean, I can see it if they'd be extremely rare and valuable (as an investment project...something I'm not much a fan of, and generally won't make one a millionaire anyway), or when you would desperately need copies at different places but can't work out how Nero works!



Well, you can have mine.
(No, you actually can't. I'm just showing off the fact that I still have my original album! )

To be honest though, I have been tempted from time to time to start and buy vinyl again: many of the scores that are generally considered "grails" are still quite easily and cheaply available on LP.