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Unaware of score and film. Found it on Spotify.
Silvestri's "Bud on the Ledge" with touches of Ligeti. Nice. Still his more synth heavy music appeals more to me.

Volker

A.R.RAHMAN - Muhammad - The Messenger Of God

Someone mentioned i should really listen to this (the other day when i was saying how compeltely disconnected i a with the music of Rahman in general) and boy were they right! Lush and multicolored, esp. loved the completely orchestral passages and choir work is amazing, but there also are some cheaper-sounding sample-heavy (or perhaps orchestra but through a very thin recording and lacking arrangements) filler that isn't up to the level of the rest of the score. In general though, and with some programming-out of certain tracks, a very respectable work.

It was hot and sunny, everyone was happy, so I played Damien: Omen II, easily my least favourite of the trilogy but still excellent.

Score wise The Final Conflict is way above and beyond the previous scores. Film wise The Omen has it.

Warcraft - Ramin Djawadi

It passes the time. It's not interesting but it's rarely outright boring. It even has multiple thematic ideas and there seems to have been at least some effort put in to make it sound a bit like the game scores, especially the guttural choir and percussion and low brass orc stuff. That said, it's also pretty much instantly forgettable and everything feels so half-baked and simplistic. It's like a diet version of the actual Brower/Acree etc scores and it makes me wonder, once again, why the hell they weren't just hired in the first place. Surely the name Djawadi doesn't sell that many more units, Game of Thrones or no Game of Thrones.

THE LAND BEFORE TIME - Horner

One of his very best scores. Exciting, gorgeous and wondrous.

He needs to be remembered for works like this one.

I'm wondering if in 100+ years time that will be true.

I often wonder what music of the 20th century will stand the test of time. What music will be remembered in - say - 200 years from now. (Provided we haven't gone back to the stone age.)
With regard to classical music there are several obvious names: Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Henze, Walton Williams, Copland among many others.
With regard to pop music I believe that some songs of the Beatles will survive, and other defining classics of rock music, like "Rock around the Clock" or "Beat it".
Now film music? That will depend greatly on what films will be remembered. For pure musical reasons, the greats of the Golden and the Silver Age will survive at least in some of their works.

Volker

Definitely the masters of the symphonic scores. Because orchestral music has endured until now.
Superman and Star Wars and Krull and Star Trek must survive.

IT'S UP TO US ! WE MUST PASS ON WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED.

Posting about it here on this board for future reference is a start.



That's very likely... the planet will see to that.

This

I don't know ... ScoreReviews couldn't even survive that long. ;-)

I think the internet as we know it will be regulated out of existance at some point, and that the same numbnuts who gotta hve this now and gotta have that now that drive things like Apple products and, will eventually do-in the internet.

I think those will hinder us, but in my view what will do it in his heavy regulations, taxation (on both the consumer's end and more so on the companey's end) and a public that just ends up getting fed up with it.

If I could tax a politician every time they made a stupid decision, I'd be a fucking millionaire.

Ahhh, that's not how it works, at least not in my country.


But we can however bitch online as long as online is still around.

Starship Troopers Poledouris

Such a fantastic score, this original album is a great selection of highlights but I cannot wait for the new expanded release to arrive.