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Actually, I love The Missing and The Four Feathers as a whole, some of my post-2000 favourites there.

I completely agree with you on For Greater Glory though. Just as you, I never thought I'd be offended by his reuses, but this time it happened.

And I love Enemy at the Gates, go figure.

Also, no instrument should stay away from orchestral film scoring, I think that's a terrible attitude towards creativity! What matters is how well they're used.

Right. I'm back. And I'm listening to the score that appears second in my alphabetically-ordered James Horner top five, which is of course Glory.

Meet Joe Black - Thomas Newman

I haven't listened to "That Next Place" in a long time. Wow.

Fair enough.

John Williams playlist

Bloody hell, John Williams is good.

I've got loads of things on it, just went through my iPod adding stuff...

I must admit, I only have his well known stuff. And probably not all of it even then!

NP: Turbo - Henry Jackman

Been listening to this score. It's an excellent techno-orchestral score. You hear the actual brass line and orchestral parts mingling successfully with the heavy layers of electronic percussions. And there's also a Morricone homage throughout. Very enjoyable. If John Powell doesn't work in animation anymore, Henry Jackman is a perfect substitute.

Thanks, however, I must say that the score does suffer a bit from MickeyMousing symptom, where it feels very very scene specific with the stop and go of musical ideas. There'd be some really cool thematic stuff that's really cooking and then the flame get put out. I blame the animation mostly for this. But the main thing I got from the score is that Henry knows how to handle various layers of the orchestra/electronics and not mush them all together in the final recording.

I've been listening to a lot of favorite things by JNH today.

I recently finished LADY IN THE WATER. I love that there are little bits of what makes THE GREAT EATLON so great peppered throughout the score up to that point. It's just cool when scores build to a huge moment but foreshadow that along the way. This score did that really well.

I just finished THE VILLAGE, which is excellent, but the track order on the album is no good. "The Vote" is sooooo good. It's the last scene in the film - it ought to be the last track on the album. Sticking those two other tracks after that seems very anticlimactic. Especially that last track. It's just not a good one to end on. I think I chronological presentation would have worked a lot better. Does anyone know what a chronological tracklist on THE VILLAGE would look like?

I found this one on filmtracks and it looks about right?

1 - rituals
2 - race to resting rock
3 - bad color
4 - forbidden line
5 - those we don't speak of
6 - noah visits
7 - i cannot see his color
8 - what are you asking me
9 - shed not to be used
10 - it is not real
11 - gravel road
12 - will you help me
13 - the vote

Anyone know better? I'm pretty sure the last four are right, and 7-9 look right, too. I'm not sure about the first few, though. And even if "Noah visits" would be the 6th track, it's such a good track to start the album on I might put it at the front anyway.

Suggestions? Does anyone else care? I just think the proper sequencing could make a strong score even stronger. "The Gravel Road" is another dazzling piece that deserves a finale-type placement closer to the end of the album, imo. Chronological sequencing does that.

That is all.

Yes, I played it endlessly last Sunday. And to think he'd never been to India before he wrote the score...

Just imagine how I felt when I heard John Williams had never been to Alderaan.