Recent Purchases: Scores - Part I

49 euros too much!

Oh, Babylon 5 is absolute rubbish
Would like to know if Hack is any good

Babylon 5: In The Beginning: Ralph, unfortunately, I didn't really enjoy the music from the series as a stand-alone listen (though I thought that it worked very well in the show). I've had a quick listen to the CD and I'd put it above the music for the series. It just seems that there's more production values placed with this than the episodic material.

By far the most interesting piece I've heard in the Babylon 5 universe (apart from the main theme) is "The War" from the beginning of track 6. Sounds like Uillean pipes(?) and it's a great 3-4 minutes.

BTW, I've not really warmed to Franke's liking for arranging suites of cues for these Babylon 5 scores - they probably sound a bit too bity as individual cues.

Krzesimir Debski - W Pustyni I W Puszczy

The Ganpurev score is really good! Hope you enjoy it.

My latest:

Ozark Henry - Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek
Tan Dun - Ye Yan
Jay Chou - Bu neng shuo de mi mi
Andy Lau Rene Liu - Tian xia wu zei
Nicolás Uribe - Te Voy A Ensenar A Querer

BREGT!

WOW! Somehow you bought 3 of the most LEGENDARY scores of all time in the most random way ......you are genius Bregt!

Yeah. really. And how lucky you were to find them. Kapoet is so hard to come by these days. I especially enjoyed "Tach, mach´ Gach!" (klingoneese for "Hello, My Dear, would you please prepare some food for your beloved husband?") from the Complete Recordings.

Seriously, man, what did you expect...?

This community is open to everyone and every composer, of course, but you can´t write about buying stuff from your part of the world or your special interests without us mainstream folks feeling a bit too mainstreamy.

This is NOT about the quality of those composers, and certainly not about your taste either. But give us some space to acknowlege that there are things out there people like Jor- ehm... ME never heard of.

Would I have the money, I would spend a lot more on CDs, even from guys I never heard about, just to find more great stuff, but since my resources are terribly limited, there are borders to where I would go blindly. I prefer to buy scores from movies I´ve seen, and to get my hands on CDs from composers I know. It may be ignorant, but it´s the way it is for me and a lot of other guys here.

You did nothing wrong. We´re just having some fun.

Cheers.

The Golden Compass - Alexandre Desplat

LOL

y' made me laugh aloud

After they found out Howard Shore is very likely to be replaced by James Newton Howard, I guess they don't want the same hassle again as they had with King Kong. Therefore, I'm sure they'll wait till after his rejection this time.

Just ordered:

Lawnmower Man 2 (Robert Folk)

Hopefully it'll be good.

I'm so sorry to hear that (especially as I sang its praises so many times).
I still dearly love Franke's work, but I have to say I'm sticking with the two compilation CDs which are way more accessible and enjoyable than the übershort episode CDs which are a very challenging (read: 'boring') standalone listen. I know it's weird for me, theme freak, to get into Franke's "Mood und Drang" style... but I do. As far as I'm concerned not a lowlight on either CD, from the magnificent theme to the action music to the more etheral stuff. Possibly it's because it so very powerfully echoes the mood of the series that it works so well for me (pivotal TV for me. Really!).



As long as you keep on buying stuff no one is sure of what exactly the film title and what the name of the composer is, absolutely!!



Actually that's been priced down for quite some time now (yeah, I was surprised as well!).
Swooped this up a month or two or three back, and was very pleasantly surprised! It's a very good score that deserved more attention, I would think. No hesitation whatever in recommending it!

Recently purchased (all second-hand, and some through venerable posters on this very board ):
Fantastic Journey - Erich Kunzel & The Concinnati Pops Orchestra
Had my eyes on this for ages, only still having a cassette tape copy. It's I think Kunzel's best compilation album, with some outstanding renditions of sci-fi/fantasy classics.
Broken Arrow - Hans Zimmer
Early Zimmer. Lots of fun, and several Franke echoes!
Fight Club - The Dust Brothers
Matchstick Men - Hans Zimmer
All About Eve - Alfred Newman
Hart's War - Rachel Portman
Shrek - Harry Gregson-Williams / John Powell
Finally getting rid of the old CDR!
The Bourne Identity - John Powell
David Copperfield / The Roots Of Heaven - Malcolm Arnold (Stromberg rerecording)
24 - Sean Callery
Mad Max - Brian May
The Player - Thomas Newman
A friend of mine who works in film and TV editing keeps asking me whether I have this one, and I have the feeling that somehow he would never take me seriously as a collector until I did. And now I do.
They Died With Their Boots On - Max Steiner (Stromberg rerecording)
Millennium (Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World) - Hans Zimmer