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MOBY DICK | christopher gordon

Fantastic! Really. What a broad score, full of strong themes (hummable!) and absolute great material. It's a fucking rollercoaster ride. Gordon's style is in there. Lots of horns blasting my speakers. I enjoy this one immensely!

It's big, orchestral, complex and complicated, it has very prominent orchestration, bold arrangements and themes, it sounds good (to me, great to others) on CD but it's exactly the kind of scoring that has great possibilities to actually intrude some type of visuals / narrative and instead of enhance and escort, it can take over the latter which isn't a pretty good thing. Interested to hear about the show with Bear's music in it.

I didn't like it either, i found it had some good parts but it's overly long and tiring, messily jumping here and there; i don't think you're missing something, it's not your style maybe? IT certainly is not my cup of tea. I am listening to his BSG (esp.3 and 4) all the time, i wouldn't change anything else he wrote so far over that for nothing.

3 discs is a lot for a first release of any kind for a television score. If there was an iTunes store edit that amounted to about an hour, I'd give it a go. Will you play any on your show, Erik?

I thought HUMAN TARGET was pretty much an odd departure from his style; kinda like experimenting wildly outside his usual waters.



Correctiong: it was the mindboggling aesthetics of a Greek woman.

NP: 'How she sees the world' from Bioshock 2 (Shyman)

Interesting. It's like someone was really keen to get one of those slow haunting piano themes Elliot Goldenthal used to do all the time (In dreams) back into a film. Certainly grabbed me. I can see why people compared Shyman to Goldenthal.

On Her Majestry's Secret Service (Expanded) - John Barry

I'm listening as it appears in the film. At times incredibly brilliant. The action music is of course great, and the softer themes such as for Bond and Draco nothing less than gorgeous. But some of the bonus cues are a little slow and I find them a bit boring. But then the album picks up again for a riveting ending.

Overall The Living Daylights is still for me the most totally enjoyable around, having everything I want from the Barry-Bond mix. But this one certainly comes close.

Oh and I've just ordered Goldfinger !

Listening to it now. It's outstanding in every form.

NP: Treasure of the Four Crowns - Ennio Morricone

Wonderful main theme !

For me it doesn't seem like that long ago that I bought this score ( when it came out in 92 ) and was one of those fantastic moments in my listening life where I got the OMFG factor, hearing the work of a composer that I'd never heard of before and being blown away on the very first listen, something that never happens to me nowadays but I still hope that one day some composer will.

NP: The Five Man Army - Ennio Morricone

I'm staying on my horse with yet another Morricone western score ...
Another catchy Main Title on this one ...

Now I should really delve into this man's filmography, but there's so much I don't know where to start. I only have Mission to Mars, Disclosure and some compilations.

Yes... recording that program (along with Sunset Blvd, Conan and Tangled) in about 30 minutes. Hopefully will be up tonight.

I finished the first disc and found ALL of the score to be most impressive! Well balanced, inspired and thematic score with a lot of kick ass, superbly written action material. I'm plowing through Disc 2 and not once have I wanted to turn it off. Every cue brings something interesting to the table and when that main theme shows up I smile! This is probably the most fun I've had with a TV score since Battlestar Galactica. What a riot!

Usually I'd at a 3CD set of TV music but this is a superb release with not one dull moment! I can't recommend this score enough!

-Erik-

Fable III - Russell Shaw

Remember when Danny Elfman penned a memorable theme for the very first Fable game? You won't find that here, like Fable II this is a pure background score. Where ambience creates a certain mood for the game world or section you're presently in. And there's quite a bit of variety in how the music is performed. I can't say I like it, and I can't honestly say it's awful, but there's something about these theme-less atmospheric-based soundtracks I don't find particularly interesting. Their funtion in the game is more important than their function outside of it. So I won't see me returning to this a second time. On to the next (hopefully more interesting) game score.

Holy shit, my attention-meter just rocketed sky-high.

Let me just repeat that: fully orchestral adventure score.

I'll definitely check out your broadcast.