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"Let there be blood" [/Daniel Day-Lewis]

"Kaboom! There was supposed to be a kaboom! What happened to the kaboom?" [/Marvin the Martian]

"Numfar, do the dance of the stupid replies!"

King Kong - James Newton Howard

A typical case to prove that you cannot judge the album by the sound clips. For quite long I have been hesitating about whether to buy this score or not. I didn't like the sound clips at all but it seemed that many people had considered this album very good. So when I finally found a copy for a very low price I bought it and I didn't regret it at all. Great, majestic themes with exciting action and emotion. A very good one.

Independence Day - David Arnold

The bonus tracks.

A rare case where the tacked-on bonus tracks warrant their place on the CD, because they're just as enjoyable as the score itself. Albeit much less music.

In the end I have to say, it's been a tremendous while I've been able to enjoy a film music release, and a complete one at that. Independence Day is a fabulous work for David Arnold, one he can definitely be proud of and I'm incredibly happy it has been released in this state, like it appeared in the film, which I still love to this day btw. Because the fun is ever so present in ID4. Yes the fun! Because fun rocks !!!!!

You did good, La-La Land, you did good !!!!

Not quite sure what you mean by a different religious sound but yes, it is a superb score.

Particularly Gloria, indeed. Of course Williams has had his fair share of religious moments before, but the composition for organ and choir was almost a complete departing of his usual style. I had to get used to it, but it was a welcome interlude.

Cuore di mamma - Ennio Morricone

A relatively early effort by the Maestro. Some lyrical, some funny and some dissonant tracks. I have the new edition with the 9 additional tracks but I honestly believe that the old but shorter edition would have been enough. It contained all the really necessary tracks, the new ones are mostly just the expanded versions of the tracks on the previous edition.

An Awesome track. The love theme from Hanckok wich fits brilliantly in the movie.

One of the few tracks I play from this score. it has really sublime tracks.

NP:Mulloland falls (Grusin)

thanks everyone for the recomendation

NP: Afrika - Wataru Hokoyama

I remember this being really, really good... fantastic actually but it's been a while since I've listened to it (the theme pops up quiet a bit when my iPod is on shuffle) and now that I'm almost done with this listen I think I've loaded half of the score into MY FAVORITES playlist. The score contains memorable and brilliantly written themes, delicious orchestrations, breakneck speed action music perfectly performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony captured brilliant by Shawn Murphy - he's getting much better with age. I can't see why any fan of traditional symphonic film music wouldn't enjoy this album!

I'm finding that the grand symphonic style of music that I initially fell in love with as a kid is being much more accepted with video game producers these days than film producers. While it would be nothing but incredible to hear the Hannigan's, Soule's, Tilton's, and Hokoyama's of the world get their big break in film I'm finding they are having much more creative freedom in the video game world and are delivery some of the best symphonic music produced in the past 10-15 years because of it.

-Erik-

...and I love how he plays around with it! Now a days a theme or motif is written and is performed almost identically (same orchestrations, same volume) every time it pops up. In Afrika, Hokoyama slows it down, speeds it up, chops it up; a fragment here and fragment there and then will blow you a way with a grand complete statement of the theme at the end of the track that gives you this sense of satisfaction because he has been teasing you with it for 2 minutes. Only the truly skilled composers can do this and do it well. While Hokoyama's style isn't his own he most definitely has the chops to write memorable and proper themes that you hum minutes, hours, days after finishing the score.

More of this please!!!

-Erik-

The Matrix Reloaded Don Davis & Juno Reactor & Rob Dougan

An already fine album is improved by including Chateau Swashbuckling and Truck Vs. Truck from the bootleg. My favourite Matrix album (where Revolutions is perhaps my favourite Matrx score... plus the first one is awesome for being the first one... I just love everything Davis wrote for all of the films...)

And Chateau Swashbuckling is of course one the finest action cues ever written! (IMHO.)

I love both pieces, that's why I keep Dougan's track on the album. But for pure technical skill, Chateau Swashbuckling floors me. The way it hits so many sync points so seamlessly and without coming off mickey mouse in the slightest is astounding. This phrase gets used a lot, but modern scoring at its very best.

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