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- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Marselus wrote
Erik Woods wrote
Marselus wrote
Erik Woods wrote
Marselus wrote
NP Backdraft (Hans Zimmer)
Making terms with Zimmer after the big disappointment of TDK.
I´m much better now, I can move on
Zimmer at his all time best!
-Erik-
Well I´d say among his best, but let´s not start a Zimmer fight in every topic
Not sure what you were reading into what I was saying but I honestly think that Backdraft is Zimmer at his all time best. It is his best score... hands down! I love it!
-Erik-
Yes I know, not the first time you say it, there was no joke in my post
Aha! Now I see what you were getting at. What's your favorite Zimmer score?
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- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Steven wrote
Timmer wrote
Steven wrote
Timmer wrote
NP : OUTLAND - Jerry Goldsmith
Underrated IMO, or at least rarely talked about!?
Isn't it odd how you remember certain days in your life? I remember the ( now long gone ) record store I picked this one up in because I also picked up RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK at the same time on a lovely sunny day in 1981
I remember going to a record store in Rye once, also on a sunny day and also probably long gone (a proper oldy worldy style record store, looked like something out of Harry Potter if you can believe that!). First of all it was a great day, and second of all I picked up Balto, Star Trek II and Lost In Space and listened to them in the car on the journey back. They have since remained 3 of my favourite scores of all time! So not only are they great scores, I also partly associate them with that day - you just don't get that when you buy online or download.
Was that from the soundtrack shop in Rye?
Yep. Is it still going do you know?
BACKTRACK isn't it!? It was still going last year when I enquired after an item. I only ever dealt with them by phone & post.
p.s. 3 top class scores for a journey
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- CommentAuthorMarselus
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
Aha! Now I see what you were getting at. What's your favorite Zimmer score?
-Erik-
That´s a DAMN difficult question, but it would be between The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt and The Da Vinci Code. Pirates 3, Gladiator and The Peacemaker could make it to the top three anyday though
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- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
Timmer wrote
NP : OUTLAND - Jerry Goldsmith
Underrated IMO, or at least rarely talked about!?
Very true. I will be honest, I skipped over this score to get to Capricorn One. Sadly, I can't tell you much about Outland. I guess I should give it a spin.
-Erik-
It's never going to be a score that's right up there with Goldsmith's great canon of work Erik but it's a thoroughly worthwhile effort featuring a wonderfully ominous main title a gentle love theme and best of all one of JG's most corking action tracks 'Hot Water', a monstrous piece of unfettered fury!
p.s. I believe there was talk that JG didn't solely write 'Hot Water' but I can't remember the exact details!? -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Steven wrote
...and second of all I picked up Balto, Star Trek II and Lost In Space and listened to them in the car on the journey back. They have since remained 3 of my favourite scores of all time! So not only are they great scores, I also partly associate them with that day - you just don't get that when you buy online or download.
Wow! WOW! and WOW! What a great day of shopping and what a magnificent way to hear those scores for the first time.
I remember back to my days of only being able to choose 2 maybe 3 scores to buy every two or three weeks. And at a time when I only had about 60 CD's everything in the shop looked great. There were days where I would pick up POLTERGEIST, THE FURY and DRACULA in one day. And being a novice film music fan I didn't really knowing how amazing those scores were and how high on the pedestal I would eventually hold them.
-Erik-host and producer of CINEMATIC SOUND | http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt | http://www.last.fm/user/cinsoundradio -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008 edited
Marselus wrote
Erik Woods wrote
Aha! Now I see what you were getting at. What's your favorite Zimmer score?
-Erik-
That´s a DAMN difficult question, but it would be between The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt and The Da Vinci Code. Pirates 3, Gladiator and The Peacemaker could make it to the top three anyday though
Solid list. I'd personally get rid of The Peacemaker... never got into that one... and replace it with a small scale Zimmer effort like Rain Man or An Everlasting Piece.
-Erik-
PS - Okay, can someone slap me. I'm discussing Zimmer scores. This guy never goes away.host and producer of CINEMATIC SOUND | http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt | http://www.last.fm/user/cinsoundradio -
- CommentAuthorMarselus
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
There were days where I would pick up POLTERGEIST, THE FURY and DRACULA in one day. And being a novice film music fan I didn't really knowing how amazing those scores were and how high on the pedestal I would eventually hold them.
-Erik-
There´s some kind of magic when you first discover/listen a score that with the coming years becomes one of your favs....too bad that feeling happens only once. -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Regarding Henry is sweet. -
- CommentAuthorMarselus
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
PS - Okay, can someone slap me. I'm discussing Zimmer scores. This guy never goes away.
Christodoulides wrote
Regarding Henry is sweet
I simply can´t with older Zimmer stuff. It´s so simple and primitive....I´d choose The Holiday for this kinda comedy/drama score. -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Me neither, usually. But REGARDING HENRY is very nostalgic, innocent, melodic, i love it. -
- CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
I recently discovered Beyond Rangoon. I find it a bit repetitive, but quite enjoyable.I have a plan. -
- CommentAuthorMarselus
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Ok I´m done with Zimmer and Batman today, so
NP Alatriste (Roque Baños)
Good, very good. I find it better after every listen. -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008 edited
Ralph Kruhm wrote
I recently discovered Beyond Rangoon. I find it a bit repetitive, but quite enjoyable.
Me too. Although enjoyable, i think BADELT'S Rescue Dawn is a HUGE improvement of that sound. And James Horner's Beyond Borders too. -
- CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
I think they go in a different direction, but I´ll give them a listen again.I have a plan. -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
NP: Wanted - Danny Elfman
What an odd project for Elfman to sign on to. This is definitely something different for him. This is my first listen but "Success Montage" is pretty interesting. Elfman's trademark electronics over top of the orchestra (drowning them out unfortunately) and the cello solo of the film main title song. Pretty creative stuff. I've been reading at the other boards that this is one of Elfman's best in recent years so I'm going into this with some expectation. Let' see where this leads me...
-Erik-host and producer of CINEMATIC SOUND | http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt | http://www.last.fm/user/cinsoundradio -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
NP: Wanted - Danny Elfman
What an odd project for Elfman to sign on to. This is definitely something different for him. This is my first listen but "Success Montage" is pretty interesting. Elfman's trademark electronics over top of the orchestra (drowning them out unfortunately) and the cello solo of the film main title song. Pretty creative stuff. I've been reading at the other boards that this is one of Elfman's best in recent years so I'm going into this with some expectation. Let' see where this leads me...
-Erik-
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day. -
- CommentAuthorPanthera
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Steven wrote
PawelStroinski wrote
James Horner - Balto
Revisiting an old friend. Wonderful orchestrations and thematic material. Some of the best animation music I've ever heard. Rumors have it that Don Davis did some ghostwriting or not?
One of my favourite scores, and very underrated on this forum. It wouldn't surprise me if Davis did write some music for this score, certainly the orchestrations he did has his signature style all over it. I do remember reading once that Davis said he learnt a lot from Horner, so maybe it was Horner who helped him develop that sound in the first place? Either way, this is a brilliant score.
This is one of my favorite scores. It has an emotional depth that many other animated scores don't have. Of course great scores like The Lion King also have it. -
- CommentAuthorAntineutrino
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008 edited
NP: The Trueman Show - Burkhardt Dallwitz & others
Good selection of music by three different composers.
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- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
CARTER BURWELL - three kings
Take BlackHawk Down, Newman's Jarhead and the usual Burwell frantically genius craziness and throw it in the mixer. What you get is a very intense and original listen that will most probably sound as noise to anyone who hasn't watched the movie and / or is not a Burwell follower. -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Christodoulides wrote
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day.
I'll have to give S.O.P. another spin but to me it just doesn't sound like Elfman. It's Elfman channeling Glass. And if someone had said Glass composed it I wouldn't think any differently. I don't mind composers switching it up a bit but not in this way.
-Erik-host and producer of CINEMATIC SOUND | http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt | http://www.last.fm/user/cinsoundradio -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
Christodoulides wrote
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day.
I'll have to give S.O.P. another spin but to me it just doesn't sound like Elfman. It's Elfman channeling Glass. And if someone had said Glass composed it I wouldn't think any differently. I don't mind composers switching it up a bit but not in this way.
-Erik-
Yeah, i'll admit it's TOO Glass-y. But Wanted - a score which at parts sounds too modern or even too RC - in a sideling kind of way, still has that Glass sound in it as well, but in way smaller doses of course.
I'd say that Elfman is very influenced by Glass lately.
Still, S.O.P is a very advanced and well-worked composition. -
- CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Christodoulides wrote
CARTER BURWELL - three kings
I really enjoy listening to it when I´m in one of these moods that make me want to blow up a cow or something...
Really, to anyone who didn´t: You should see this movie. It´s all cow.I have a plan. -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
Christodoulides wrote
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day.
I'll have to give S.O.P. another spin but to me it just doesn't sound like Elfman. It's Elfman channeling Glass. And if someone had said Glass composed it I wouldn't think any differently. I don't mind composers switching it up a bit but not in this way.
-Erik-
And Wanted sounds like Elfman channeling Giacchino.
www.johnpowellcomposer.com/fourtrombones - The Musical Library Of Lost -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008 edited
Ralph Kruhm wrote
Christodoulides wrote
CARTER BURWELL - three kings
I really enjoy listening to it when I´m in one of these moods that make me want to blow up a cow or something...
Really, to anyone who didn´t: You should see this movie. It´s all cow.
I LOVED THE MOVIE! Found it to be VERY clever, very well-put together, very intense and - at parts - emotionally shocking. Excellent, one of a kind filmmaking.
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- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Antineutrino wrote
NP: The Trueman Show - Burkhardt Dallwitz & others
Good selection of music by three different composers.
...for one truly excellent and touching movie. You've seen it? Some of that music (specifically the 'reunion' piece) worked wonders in it. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Christodoulides wrote
Ralph Kruhm wrote
I recently discovered Beyond Rangoon. I find it a bit repetitive, but quite enjoyable.
Me too. Although enjoyable, i think BADELT'S Rescue Dawn is a HUGE improvement of that sound. And James Horner's Beyond Borders too.
I uhhh....ummmmm.....quite liked Rescue Dawn score. -
- CommentAuthorAntineutrino
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Christodoulides wrote
Antineutrino wrote
NP: The Trueman Show - Burkhardt Dallwitz & others
Good selection of music by three different composers.
...for one truly excellent and touching movie. You've seen it? Some of that music (specifically the 'reunion' piece) worked wonders in it.
Yes, I've seen it a few times. Is this Kilar score available anywhere? -
- CommentAuthorChristodoulides
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Timmer wrote
Christodoulides wrote
Ralph Kruhm wrote
I recently discovered Beyond Rangoon. I find it a bit repetitive, but quite enjoyable.
Me too. Although enjoyable, i think BADELT'S Rescue Dawn is a HUGE improvement of that sound. And James Horner's Beyond Borders too.
I uhhh....ummmmm.....quite liked Rescue Dawn score.
But of COURSE. It's a surprisingly good and heartfelt score! -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Erik Woods wrote
Christodoulides wrote
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day.
I'll have to give S.O.P. another spin but to me it just doesn't sound like Elfman. It's Elfman channeling Glass. And if someone had said Glass composed it I wouldn't think any differently. I don't mind composers switching it up a bit but not in this way.
-Erik-
Sounds interesting?
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- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
Christodoulides wrote
Erik Woods wrote
Christodoulides wrote
It's certainly very interesting and well-worked, especially the fugue-esque main theme but Elfman's best in recent years? Nah, i think it's far-stretched. I'd take S.O.P over this any day.
I'll have to give S.O.P. another spin but to me it just doesn't sound like Elfman. It's Elfman channeling Glass. And if someone had said Glass composed it I wouldn't think any differently. I don't mind composers switching it up a bit but not in this way.
-Erik-
Yeah, i'll admit it's TOO Glass-y. But Wanted - a score which at parts sounds too modern or even too RC - in a sideling kind of way, still has that Glass sound in it as well, but in way smaller doses of course.
I'd say that Elfman is very influenced by Glass lately.
Still, S.O.P is a very advanced and well-worked composition.
All true. I'm in the middle portions of Wanted and I thought I needed to give my ears a good cleaning to hear what I thought was RC stuff.
As for S.O.P.... yes, very well done but... well, you know.
-Erik-host and producer of CINEMATIC SOUND | http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt | http://www.last.fm/user/cinsoundradio