[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

The full On Stranger Tides soundtrack is streaming on the official PotC Facebook page. You can listen to it all if you like the page.

I'd almost say don't bother. I've really liked some of Zimmer's work in the (increasingly distant) past--which I know may cause some of you to completely discredit any musical opinion I have . But Zimmer has hit an all new low in not putting any effort into a score. He missed a good opportunity here. I have a lot to say about this one, so you guys are going to get a sort of review, whether you asked for it or not.

The first soundtrack wasn't ever creative, but it was a lot of unbridled fun. The second album wasn't compiled quite as well as the first, but the addition of the Jack Sparrow suite was great, and the Kraken theme was catchy and brought something new to the score. Zimmer and co. obviously gave the third their all. The new theme was better than most anything Zimmer's done in the last few years, it was presented a bunch of different ways, all to good effect, and Up is Down was excellent fun.

This score has none of that. I admit the tracks by Rodrigo y Gabriela are very good--Angelica is good and Angry and Dead Again may be one of the catchiest tracks the duo has written, in my opinion--but it all sounds like an extension of the 11:11 album with two Pirates statements thrown in awkwardly at the end. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they'd already written these tunes with a new album in mind, or if they were sketches left over from 11:11 or their debut album. Their is no attempt to bridge the gap between their album sound and the pirates sound. They were not a bad choice, and they are incredibly talented musicians, but they were not well incorporated.

The 20 or so minutes that Zimmer and co. composed are a huge backslide. They sound weak, synthy and flat compared to the massive sound of At World's End. As far as themes go, most tracks are rehashed bits of old themes, often with Rodrigo playing over the top. The old themes seem oddly hacked together. I would like to blame a lot of this on the album presentation, and maybe the score is better in the film, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that any new themes were so unremarkable that I can't recall any of them after listening to the score carefully twice through. Zimmer does seem to come up with another hit-the-same-note-4-times thing, but that's hardly new, or a theme. The Blackbeard theme is uninteresting filler. Mermaid is okay, but it's also slow and wondering. And a rip off of Da Vinci Code. Ultimately, nothing is as stirring as the new themes that came along with Pirates 2 and especially Pirates 3.

The parts I did really enjoy were Palm Tree Escape and End Credits. Palm Tree Escape blends Rodrigo y Gabriela nicely with the old pirates themes. It still is a bunch of rehashes and sounds flat in comparison to AWE, but at least it has some energy. End Credits is the familiar old suite with a little more emphasis on solo violin and, of course, Rodrigo y Gabriela playing along. For once everything comes together well, and you get an idea of what the score could have sounded like, but you're already at the last track. (Well, there's the remixes too, but seriously, you should just let End Credits be the last track.)

Nice review, Feliz

I wish the remixes and the Rodrigo y Gabriela only material had been left off the album, and more of Zimmer's score had been released. There seems to be way too little integration between Zimmer's and Rodrigo y Gabriela's music, and the album appears like a hodgepodge; ignoring the awful remixes the album appears more like half POTC and half Gustavo Santaolalla. I'm not sure how RyG's music appears in the movie, but on album it doesn't sounds POTCy at all.

Score wise POTC1<POTC2<POTC3, so I expected to be blown away by POTC4. But without the love themes or the "Hoist the colours" theme from the last movie or outstanding standalone tracks like "Up is down"; "Parlay" it doesn't even approach POTC3 in enjoyment. I find all of Zimmer's material enjoyable, but it's probably my least favourite of the four POTC scores so far, because not only is there less Zimmer material, but the new ideas seem inferior to what we heard in the three other scores.

Peter

A concert featuring Zimmer and Powell in the UK... really?

http://www2.sainsburys.co.uk/panda/day-out.htm

sounds like fun

Whoever put this together doesn't know how to create a flowing album. Everything feels so disjointed.

"Kung Fu Panda 2":
Clips from every track ober at CinemaMusica.de

http://www.cinemamusica.de/1645/Kung-Fu … mer-Powell

Enjoy!!

New Audio Interview with Hans Zimmer talking about his summer music. Its been really interesting and informative so far.

http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=7890

Southall's long-awaited verdict is in:

http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=1525

You have been too kind.

This score and album , makes Dead Man's Chest a masterpiece.

I hate when Zimmer does this things (Madagascar, Rango...). he has underling for this! he better don't put his name on this piece of shit!

Jordi is representative of "Hans Zimmer fans" now?

Amen to that!

It doesn't really matter what the expression is so no need to get your knickers in a TWIST! A twist.

Do you think this I wrotte is "pasional"? You didn't see me in my "good times", right? in fact I stop worrying me about this Zimmer "shits" since Powell appeared in the map :P

I was young and passional once..