JOHN BARRY

Indeed. Explain yourself D!

I don't like Waterworld at all; at least this is what i remember from those listens so many years back.

time to restart listening then

It's the score that has EVERYTHING -- the heroic action music, the suspense cues, the religioso underwater music, the glorious ethereal swimming cue, exotic percussion en masse, beautiful love/relationship themes.....I can never tire of it, even though I must have played it more than 100 times over the years.

Nop; went back to it today; sounds even more horrible than it did before.

Different tastes.....oh, what a ridiculous concept!

Oh man, thanks for bringing this to my attention Bregt, I've never heard this before, it's gorgeous and brought a tear to my eye, a sublime version.

I guess you know that Toots plays on the original?

I've gone Barry-crazy lately!

I've always been fond of Barry, not least his Bond-scores, but my Barry-collection has been relatively small until recently.

But back in January, I began reviewing all the Bond-scores for my own website (alas, in Danish), and during the course of listening to the Barry Bonds through the year, I began to get seriously fascinated with Barry and his entire history.

So I've been spending (too much) money, getting a whole lot of stuff (although not nearly enough) - ranging from his 1960s stuff up until the end of his film scoring career - and also some of the stuff he did with the JB7 back in the late 50s and early 60s.

I have to say, even though Barry wasn't new to me, I've been absolutely delighted to truly discover the breadth of his compositional talent. Much of what I knew before this year was constrained to the Bond-scores, his later epic style (particularly Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves) and a few other bits and pieces here and there.

Listening to scores such as The Lion in Winter, The Quiller Memorandum and The Knack have made me appreciate Barry even more. There is so much insanely high quality stuff here! This is really one of the great joys of listening to film music - that even though you may be superficially acquainted with a composer, so often times you discover that there's so much more to be found.

Since you don´t mention it - maybe you know it, but just in case - if you like The Lion in Winter, make sure you check out The Last Valley, too. They complement each other nicely.

Does anyone of the Barry completists out there know of other scores which might belong to the same pack?

Though very different in style I absolutely adore his choral score for WALKABOUT, the Silva rerecording is sublime.

Intrada's Mary Queen of Scots isn't complete but it's well worth getting. Though it's short at about 30 minutes it's one of my most listened to Barry scores.

Review of some proper film music, Body Heat:

http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=2953

JOHN BARRY RADIO INTERVIEW

A really good interview with JB talking about the songs and scores for Goldfinger and Thunderball. I love listening to JB, he comes across as a very warm human being.