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NP: GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN (John Williams)

There's actually some decent swingin' jazz music in this, but the C&C presentation is disastrous (including all that godawful mickey-mousing that drives you bananas). I should make a playlist myself some day with the main musical setpieces. Wouldn't be as good as if a professional producer had made an album out of it, but anything is better than the FSM presentation.

NP: A Better Life - Desplat

A very emotional score that brings the classic Desplat sensibilities back. I like the guitar and trompet solos.

Cowboys and Aliens - Harry Gregson-Williams

Atrocious.

That's all that matters!

-Erik-

Yes... really atrocious!

-Erik-

Well , look at this! I've read the book recently but I didn't know it was made into a film! I love Rachel Portman so I will definately look into it!

Surely it's as simple as just ommiting the tracks you don't like?

simplez!

Tell that to George Martin or Alan Parsons or Sam Philips or Quincy Jones or Phil Spector!

The only thing that matters is what makes me happy... and if that means arranging an album to my own set of preferences... then you can stop calling me Erik and start calling me THE ARTIST FORMALLY KNOWN AS ERIK.

-The Artist Formally Known As Erik-

Do people actually go to school to become record producers?
Can I buy a book about how to produce an instrumental album for optimal listening experience?
If the answer to either of those question is "no" then I can't consider album production in the same vein as plumbing or carpentry. There's just not that much to it, and its far more subjective than actual professions!

I do not comprehend this apparently magical discinction between amateur and professional. Getting paid for something does not make you better at it, in fact in many cases it makes you worse.

I have a whole lot more knowledge and experience than even the world's best album producer about how I want to have the best musical listening experience...which might change not only by album but even by day and mood with the SAME album. Nobody else in the world, especially not the composer of the music who didn't even write the music to be listened to as an album, but rather as a film accompaniment, can possibly know better what is the best listening experience for me personally.

And most people when experiencing films and books have their own personal version of the story and characters. Some of the most successful novels in this age are those whose main characters are as generic as possible (Twilight being the most glaring example) in order to allow the reader to insert their own imaginary self into the story and live vicariously through the characters. Good artists understand that the experience of art is highly personal to each experiencer. It's the...pompous, for lack of a better word, artists who think that everyone must only experience their unique vision in exactly the way they intended it. Which is not to imply that people like you, Thor, are pompous for wanting to experience art the way the artist intended it, being an artist myself I certainly think that's an admirable goal.

But I do think that the world is a more diverse and beautiful place when each individual can fuse their own personality with the artistic memes and in so doing create new memetic offspring.

If you draw with the purpose of making art, you are an artist. Even if nobody else ever sees your work. Even if its the least liked work in the world. Arbitrary quality or popularity derived definitionary limits are arbitrary.

Ironically what seems to make an album producer is a credit on a record.

How about instead of worshipping this odd craft, we simply say that a well-produced album is better than a poorly produced one? And that every aspect of what makes one good and another bad is ... a matter of opinion.

I'd agree with that. General enough to be valid for both viewpoints.