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  1. Chicken in the Pot is worse than Lapti Nek. biggrin
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
  2. Captain Future wrote
    Chicken in the Pot is worse than Lapti Nek. biggrin


    punk
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2018
    Solo John Powell

    John Williams' theme is superb. Much better than The Adventures of Mutt. Powell's score is superb. Much better than The Last Jedi.
  3. It is. I saw the film tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. The score is a little buried in the mix but it has enough shining moments. A brilliant effort on Powell's part.

    I had a great time. I totally bought Ehrenreich's Han Solo. It's basically a space western, which befits the character.

    So I saw the 8 PM screening Friday night, one day after the premier and there were - what - ten people in the theatre? OK, it was a warm summer night and people had other options than going to the movies, but really - ten people? The place was nearly empty. Has Disney overplayed it's game of Sabacc already?

    Volker
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2018
    Steven wrote
    John Williams' theme is superb.


    I've been humming it all effing day. It's quite simple but catchy as hell. spin
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2018 edited
    NP: SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY - JOHN POWELL

    Just finishing up on my second complete listen and I feel that, as great as it is, there's still a lot to digest. There's a lot going on here! But on the whole, I'm very, very friggin' pleased. One thing's for sure... I can't get enough of that theme (does anybody else hear a little bit of a Silvestri-kind-of-a-thing in it?). The score event of the year - thus far - from me. It's just so full of joy!

    Moments such as the gorgeous second half of Flying With Chewie - a passage which could have easily been written for one of Powell's animation scores(!) - proves that this whole endeavour never needed to be a simple Williams impersonation. I find it very humbling that he was clearly given a degree of freedom on this.

    So long as they continue to provide quality composers, like Powell and Giacchino, the opportunity to work on these Anthology films, I don't actually mind if they over-milk the franchise!

    punk



    Also, this time round, I drank some port whilst listening to it.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2018
    I've been on a drunken binge for 3 days now, and haven't had time to properly digest it. Another bout tomorrow. But the first listen was good. Not as good as hearing it in the film, but good.
    I am extremely serious.
  4. I hope it was happy drinking, not blocking out reality. You indicated recently that not everything is well. Stay on top, God of Thunder! smile
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2018
    LSH wrote
    Steven wrote
    John Williams' theme is superb.


    I've been humming it all effing day. It's quite simple but catchy as hell. spin


    It's been in my head for the last few days. It's so much better than anything in The Last Jedi.
  5. I think, given what little opportunities the film The Last Jedi provided, the score is OK. Some classic theme implementation could have been done more interesting. The album runs a bit like a best-of-Star-Wars compilation with too much of the Force theme.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
  6. Solo

    this is good
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2018
    Solo


    Yes, this is extremely good!
  7. My previous comment may have been an understatement.
  8. Rogue One Giacchino

    Haven't listened to this in a while, I think it's absolutely brilliant. There seems to have been a bit of a backlash against this score recently but I think it's terrific!
  9. ^ So do I.

    NP: Alien 3 (1992) - Elliot Goldenthal

    I hardly ever listened to more of this score than the Agnus Dei and the Adagio. I doubt I will revisit the entire score ever again. Yet this such a sophisticated and ambitious score that out of pure respect for the composer I had to have this recent La-La-Land release in my collection. The sound is awesome.

    Volker
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
  10. I thought Rogue One was a good score and still do, but Solo really puts into perspective how much more gracefully a composer can navigate the difficult, er, asteroid field of having to blend his own voice with another's in a big franchise. Whereas Giacchino at every turn feels like he's at odds with the Williams influence - almost daunted by it - Powell comes across as invigorated by it. It feels to me like he saw it as this big intellectual puzzle ("how do I write a Star Wars score that's recognizable as such and yet still remain true to myself as a composer") that he couldn't wait to sink his teeth into. I just feel like Powell took so much joy in playing around with Williams' material (both old and new) and stylistic traits.

    Just listen to "Mine Mission", which is Powell's spin on the whole Williams militaristic fugue approach to action writing...and then listen to "Rogue One" (the cue) which attempts ("pretends" is almost the better word) to do the same thing, and you realize how much clunkier, less natural, less joyful Giacchino sounds. At least, to these ears. I still respect what Giacchino was able to pull off in such a short time, and perhaps if he had been attached to the project from the beginning he could have ironed out those kinks, but as things stand, Solo has done Rogue One no favors at all because of how loudly it screams "this is how you score a Star Wars spinoff."

    Sorry, didn't mean to go off on such a big rant based on your brief comment but I've been meaning to say that at some point anyway. tongue
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2018
    Captain Future wrote
    ^ So do I.

    NP: Alien 3 (1992) - Elliot Goldenthal

    I hardly ever listened to more of this score than the Agnus Dei and the Adagio. I doubt I will revisit the entire score ever again. Yet this such a sophisticated and ambitious score that out of pure respect for the composer I had to have this recent La-La-Land release in my collection. The sound is awesome.

    Volker


    It's still his masterpiece, IMO.
    I am extremely serious.
  11. I find these scores difficult to compare because they come from very different starting points.

    Solo tries to establish the hero for a young audience. The film is only rather loosely connected to the Original Trilogy, so Powell had full reign in crafting a modern sounding Star Wars score.

    Rouge One leads right into the classic of 1977. So Giacchino had to assume that eventually people would watch a 2016 film and one from 1977 back to back. He succeeded admirably in avoiding music-narrative anachronisms by stepping behind the original score. The "proto-themes" he composed make his score sound like "half a Star Wars score" at times, but at the same time it paves the way for Williams' classic score with a red carpet.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2018
    *sigh*

    If we're heading there again, I'll stand this one out.
    I am extremely serious.
  12. I do understand those arguments, Volker. I just think Powell succeeded to a vastly greater degree at his task than Giacchino did at his.
  13. Ultimately I agree. But with much respect for Giacchino's effort.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
  14. NP: Ancient Aliens (2010) - Dennis McCarthy; Jeffrey Hayat et al

    As recently released buy Prometheus & La-La-Land

    This was a blind buy, based on the fact, that I always loved McCarthy's music for Star Trek. Curious, that the History Channel would come up with the ancient-astronaut "theory" in 2010. That pseudo scientific stuff (Erich von Däniken, Brad Steiger) was a trademark of the mid 70s and 80s.
    Anyway, this is predominately electronic music with some instrumental textures that are probably sampled. Quite nice.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2018
    The Phantom David Newman

    This expanded edition just reveals even more jems. This is an insanely good score, truly one of the best superhero scores. Better than any of the new Marvel scores.
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2018
    ^

    I agree with this man.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018
    Steven wrote
    The Phantom David Newman

    This expanded edition just reveals even more jems. This is an insanely good score, truly one of the best superhero scores. Better than any of the new Marvel scores.


    Another example of a great score written for a crappy film. This one is high up there amongst the best superhero scores written.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018
    It is indeed. The film felt like a betrayal to an old Phantom fan like myself (I leaned more towards the darker versions by Lindahl etc. than the original Falk strips); too campy. And Billy Zane was the most mis-cast actor in a superhero film ever!

    But the score is glorious, my alltime favourite by D. Newman.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018
    NP: FALLING DOWN (James Newton Howard)

    Seems appropriate for this sweltering heat we're having these days.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorAidabaida
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018 edited
    I was listening to some of the RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES score by Doyle. it is superb, like everything Doyle has written. The movie is incredible as well, it and DAWN set up what could have been one of the best blockbuster trilogies of recent times, then WAR ended it in a sputter. Great music on all three though.
    Bach's music is heartless and robotic.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018 edited
    I thought the third was the best one, and the first the weakest with its clichéd characters and, well, James Franco (the scores following this ratio). They also named them in the wrong order: the first should be called Dawn, the second War and the third Rise.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2018 edited