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20 year old, from India. Aspiring medicine professional, big fan of film music, Hans Zimmer and John Williams. Big fan of Hans' score to THE LION KING, craving for a complete score CD release. Isn't that enough info already?
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TOP 10 COMPOSERS AND THEIR TOP 5 SCORES -

- Alan Menken
01 Hunchback of Notre Dame
02 Aladdin
03 Beauty And The Beast
04 Enchanted
05 The Little Mermaid

- Alan Silvestri
01 Judge Dredd
02 Back To The Future trilogy
03 The Mummy Returns
04 Forrest Gump
05 Van Helsing

- Alexandre Desplat
01 Lust, Caution
02 Girl With A Pearl Earring
03 The Golden Compass
04 Largo Winch
05 Birth

- Danny Elfman
01 Batman
02 Edward Scissorhands
03 Spider-Man 2
04 Sleepy Hollow
05 Nightmare Before Christmas

- Hans Zimmer
01 The Lion King
02 The Prince Of Egypt
03 The Thin Red Line
04 Gladiator
05 The Last Samurai

- James Horner
01 Titanic
02 Land Before Time
03 Balto
04 The Mask Of Zorro
05 Apollo 13

- James Newton Howard
01 Atlantis: The Lost Empire
02 Dinosaur
03 King Kong
04 Waterworld
05 Signs

- John Powell
01 Chicken Run (with Harry Gregson Williams)
02 Bolt
03 Kung Fu Panda (with Hans Zimmer)
04 Paycheck
05 The Bourne Supremacy (I love all three Bourne scores)

- John Williams
01 Hook
02 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
03 Indy And The Temple Of Doom
04 Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
05 Jurassic Park

- Michael Giacchino
01 Medal of Honor (all)
02 The Incredibles
03 Up
04 Ratatouille
05 Secret Weapons Over Normandy

Would like to mention that I absolutely adore all the 3 LoTR scores, but I've chosen not to put Howard Shore here because I'm not really a fan of his darker, electronica-driven thriller scores. I do like quite some other scores by him though (particularly The Aviator and Eastern Promises).
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OTHER FAVOURITE COMPOSERS -

- Basil Poledouris
- David Arnold
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Jesper Kyd
- Jeremy Soule
- Elmer Bernstein
- Joe Hisaishi
- Dario Marianelli
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Rupert Gregson-Williams
- Christopher Lennertz
- Alexandre Desplat
- Brian Tyler
- John Ottman
- George Fenton
- A.R Rahman
- Klaus Badelt
- Nick Glennie-Smith
- Alberto Iglesias
- Ennio Morricone
- George Bruns
- Leigh Harline
- Trevor Rabin
- Trevor Jones
- John Debney
- David Newman
- Randy Newman
- Thomas Newman
- Joel McNeely
- Marc Shaiman
- Mychael Danna
- William Ross
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Edward Shearmur
- Michael Kamen
- Bruce Broughton
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CURRENT TOP 10 FILM SCORES- (hard to make, but I'll try anyway...)

01 - THE LION KING (Hans Zimmer)
02 - LORD OF THE RINGS (all 3 scores) (Howard Shore)
03 - RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (John Williams)
04 - CUTTHROAT ISLAND (John Debney)
05 - DINOSAUR (James Newton Howard)
06 - CHICKEN RUN (John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams)
07 - CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Basil Poledouris)
08 - SIGNS (James Newton Howard)
09 - EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Danny Elfman)
10 - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2,3 (Hans Zimmer) (for their sheer fun and escapism!)
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TOP 10 VIDEO GAME SCORES-

01. HALO 3 by Martin O' Donnell and Michael Salvatori
02. SUPERMAN RETURNS by Colin O' Malley
03. HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX by James Hannigan
04. BLACK by Michael Giacchino and Chris Tilton
05. MEDAL OF HONOR: AIRBORNE by Michael Giacchino
06. HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN by Jesper Kyd
07. MEDAL OF HONOR: FRONTLINE by Michael Giacchino
08. HALO 2 by Martin O' Donnell and Michael Salvatori
09. SOUL OF THE ULTIMATE NATION by Howard Shore
10. AFRIKA by Wataru Hokoyama

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I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO...

* Centurion (Ilan Eshkeri)
* Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (David Arnold)
* Green Zone (John Powell)
* Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Alexandre Desplat)
* Henri IV (Hans Zimmer, Henry Jackman)
* How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
* Knight And Day (John Powell)
* Prince of Persia (Harry Gregson-Williams)
* Rango (Hans Zimmer)
* Salt (James Newton Howard)
* Tangled (Alan Menken)
* The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn (John Williams)
* The Hobbit (Howard Shore)
* The Last Airbender (James Newton Howard)
* The Pacific (Hans Zimmer, Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli)
* The Tree Of Life (Alexandre Desplat)
* Toy Story 3 (Randy Newman)


Feel free to contact me if you want to!
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