[Closed, Sink] Now Playing XXXVIII

Minus the horrible tunes that unfortunately occupies the latter half of the album this is a great CD! Thank God for iTunes. No need to rip the Costner "songs."

-Erik-

But of course you were there. Was that the last concert you saw him conduct and all?

Star Trek: Insurrection (Complete) - Jerry Goldsmith

I think this is the best score of the Next Generation scores. There are many new appealing themes (the BaKu, the love theme, the short action motif), and the underscore has more substance than either First Contact and Nemesis. `New Sight` is one of Jerry`s best cues of the late 1990s and the action cues are kinda like Rambo (IN SPACCEEEE). I hope the complete is released legally (a question of when, not if).

It's bloody brilliant. My third favorite film score of all time!

The 3:55 mark of "Short Round Helps." SCOREGASM! Goosebumps, big smile and tears! Love it, love it, love it!!!!

-Erik-

Salvador/Platoon - Georges Delerue

This is a wonderful album showcasing these two scores, the edgier Salvador and the more somber Platoon. Salvador does have a good love theme (one of Delerue's specialties). But the suspense material isn't bad, pseudo Goldsmith in a way. Platoon definitely has more emotion and it is a shame that Oliver Stone would reject most of this material in place of 'Adagio for Strings'.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat

Probably the most anti-Desplat score that he's ever written. I think he effectively silenced his critics with this gem.

Same here, beautiful and underrated. I skip the songs though.

NP : BEAT GIRL - John Barry



Big ballsy brassy loud score with a dangerous sounding edge, I like it but it's not one I play often.

Dry White Season Dave Grusin

Give the clips a listen Alan, you can also hear it on youtube. It's very early Barry, some cues show what was to come in his Bond scores.

Also, Alan, take a listen to a post by Artworks in the JOHN BARRY thread, it's not a Barry piece but I was wondering if you're familiar with it at all?

Indeed, that's the great album, the William's Nazi theme rip notwithstanding (isn't that the one?).

NP - Charlotte's Web - Danny Elfman

I like this score. It's not one that gets talked about often, but it has some really nice music on it, imo.

http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/a … songrusin/

This will only be available on my blog as I feel there isn't enough interest.

This sounds great. I need to look into it.

I most recently played Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Thomas Newman.

It's a pretty eclectic little album, but man I love that penultimate track.

Yup! People actually read the reviews of not-so-familiar-titles, and it indeed exposes people to more music next to the mainstream stuff that other websites more focus on (at least on the English ones). As I've encouraged you to do many times, it is really appreciated, not only on this forum, but also by our visitors. It's wrong to think that it is not worth publishing due to lack of interest, it's the contrary that should happen. Lack of interest should let you expose it to as many people as possible!

Our most read reviews from the past month are The Kings Speech, Genghis Khan and the Francis Lai compilation. All written by you, and you can't say the latter two are very well-known.

Tom can upload reviews here himself, so it's of course up to him to choose. I can only encourage, and appreciate the effort each time, since you're one of the main reviewers here.

Sherlock Holmes and Inception for sure, was anything else released quite recently?