JAMES HORNER

And for the record, I'm a bigger Horner fan than my brother, and even I wouldn't give Natty Gann 5 stars. Not only by comparing it to many Horner classics which means it doesn't deserve similar status, but also because it has its share of tracks that don't exactly impress. Some certainly do, others not so much.

To get 5 stars in my book, at least 75 % of the entire runtime needs to be excellent.

Fo' sho! 74 % excellence and it gets 4.5, no more ! That's how I roll, homey.

I get that, it's gorgeous in moments, and it has some very uplifting tracks, yet it doesn't blow me away like some of his other emotional masterpieces (Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Land Before Time, Titanic).

Maybe it's too subtle for me to really call it fantastic. I prefer the big, epic, sweeping kind.

I think James and you (and definitely others) gave it 5 stars because you realized at that moment that you didn't hear proper adventure music like that anymore today, and you immediately realized it was one of the best things you heard that very same year. Or like my brother put it "compare it to the scores of today... it deserves 7.5 stars that way !"

But if we would have heard it during the time it was initially released, it would not reach the momentum of Aliens or Krull or other legendary scores.

plus I can't give Natty Gann 5 stars if I realize Krull and Legends of the Fall (to name but a few) were written before and after it as well.

Ah, each one his own idea and impression

You Glorieux brothers are so stuck in the past...Modern film music isn't all bad you know! I can name at least five scores this year I'd take over The Journey of Natty Gann, and I really do like that score.

You would make FSM proud.

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We Germans can be so ambiguous and sinister. And sometimes we are weepy melancholics and sometimes we are full of self pity and a pain in the ass. And sometimes we are so in need of affection. And sometimes we can even be rather nice.

That might just be me though.

Think?

It's true, whenever I listen to music (which is all the time), 95 % of the time I'll put up something from the good old days, or from the many other musical genres that interest me. I simply don't have the time, or don't want to invest my precious time to seek out new scores, I've been burnt out by them to be honest. Most albums these days are way too long and don't hold my interest.

It's nice to be stuck in the past because the past used to be so good that getting unstuck becomes a chore.

What bollocks. Don't try and tell me Red Heat or Mr. Baseball or Romancing the Stone are better scores than The Force Awakens or Wolf Totem or Jupiter Ascending just because they're from "the good old days". Every single year in film music history has plenty of gems and plenty of shit. If you're worried about wasting time on the latter, well, that's what review sites and film music communities are for.

It's easy to only listen to your favorite scores from the 80s and 90s and remember things better than they actually were. And hell, maybe they were better. But to totally dismiss new film music is just stupid.

2015 has been a good year i'll give you that. and again I heard a lot of scores that were better than Natty Gann this year. But there is this nostalgic feeling that everything that came from your childhood period tends to sound simply better ;-)

Ps i'm the brother who almost never listens to old music, simply because I have too many scores to try out each consecutive year :-) so I'm living in the now ;-)

Eeeh! Sorry Thomas, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?



It doesn't have to be legendary to be a masterpiece. Is John Powell's United 93 legendary? No... but I consider it a masterpiece and one of the very few perfect scores ever written.



Yes, you most certainly can.

-Erik-

I feel for you buddy... I really do !!!