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-Erik-

Speaking of themes... this one flat-out rocks !!!

Wing Commander (David Arnold & Kevin Kiner)

The overture is hands down one of the best things Arnold has ever done. The score by Kiner has its moments and stays in similar Arnold style, which sounds very TND at times. That's a very good thing as TND is Arnold's best Bond outing IMO. The score is about the only thing worth remembering out of the worthless film... give me Wing Commander III and IV (games starring none other than Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Tom Wilson and many more) over this soulless drivel any day.

I think the memorable theme - or themes - are in the score and are brilliant presented in the opening cue which was written specifically for the trailer. The sub themes are all magnificent... the Coplandesque "Growing Up in Whittier" comes to mind and I think the suspense music is some of Williams' finest. I agree that this is a much neglected film score and I regretfully admit that it's one that I rarely spin... but when I do the rewards are bountiful!

NP: Terror Tract - Brian Tyler

I rarely reach for a Brian Tyler score to listen to but thanks to my Halloween playlist I was re-introduced to the wonderful Terror Tract. Written at a time when Tyler's career was just beginning - so promising and full of creativity - Tyler composes, IMHO, one of the most impressive themes are his career in this score. The action music is frenetic but unlike the noise that he pumps out nowadays. There's structure with clear and very strong orchestrations (credited to Christopher Lennertz) However, unlike the brilliant Darkness Falls there is a lot of slower, filler type cues which make the album drag a bit... but I'd rather listen to those filler cues than any thing Tyler has written in the past 5 years. Terror Tract is one of Tyler's career highlights and I highly recommend the album which was released on La La Land Records.

-Erik-

It's long been one of my favourite 90s Williams scores, but more for the highlights than for the whole package.

Just started listening to

a very unknown and mundane score

by a very obscure hack of a composer

that has won no awards

for a very unappealing film

that has had no success at all

People had no interest in seeing

the work of a very untalented director

nor did the actors in it have any chemistry

and the special effects sucked big balls

That film is called













TITANIC

I adore Williams score to NIXON, I lack the ability to describe it how I feel it but it has a real poignancy about it, a timeless nostalgia, an Americana fused with Vaughan Williams sound in this that greatly moves me.

Do I make sense??

No, that was absolute gibberish.

Yes, you do. There's a lot in that score that makes it more than worthy of repeated listens.

What ... you don't like Sol Kaplan's music?

I need to play a score for one of my favourites composers. How I don't know if play something from Zimmer or Powell....What about from both composers?

NP:Kung Fu Panda.

4 stars.

This score is sublime. Coherent, with very rich orchestrations, great themes, an great sense of epic and adventure and some gorgeous dramatic tracks.

"Sacreed pool of tears" is fucking amazing!

Perhaps it doesn't have the highlights of Ice Age 3 or Hanckok but overall is better.

Good two words Eric.

I love the beggining ala Across the Stars. But I need the film version where the harp is recorded louder!

Indochine - Patrick Doyle

Very good dramatic music with sweeping main theme. There are some tracks however that I cannot "get into"; the short ones with very little memorable melodies. Apart from them, it's a good early Doyle.

NP : THE NAME OF THE ROSE - James Horner



I like it, so there!

Hoosiers Jerry Goldsmith

I like it, so there!

No bad words from me about one of my least favourite JG scores today