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YOUR ALL TIME FAVOURITE FILM SCORE ALBUMS!!!
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- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2014
I assume there's not a lot of C-and-C -- wait, what am I doing here!?! I will awaken the beast.
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2014
I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2014
Thor wrote
For my own part, I went purely personal -- which meant leaving out a LOT of soundtracks that are hailed as all-time best by most people. I don't think I have ANY Morricone on the list, for example.
Same here plus I'm sticking very strictly ( as far as possible ) to the criteria I set at the beginning. Some of my omissions are amongst my very favourite scores but won't make it onto my list simply because there's a track or so I don't like and usually skip.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2014
Hmm, I am not sure why I haven't posted here yet. I will have to have a think & review my favourites list.The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorCobweb
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2014
Timmer wrote
I should also point out that the recording, done in an English church, is just magical and gives the score a real sense of breathing space, for a score that's cathedral-like in it's dimensions it's just perfect.
Hi, Timmer.
HEAVY METAL is also notable because of the Ondes Martenot.
Not only was this score the first time Elmer B. utilized this electronic instrument, it is also one of the rare instances of a classical music soloist performing at film recording sessions.
Before Cynthia Millar became Elmer's regular performer, none other than Jeanne Loriod played the Ondes in this 1981 recording. Ms. Loriod already had a distinguished career within classical music circles for decades prior to 1980 and was particularly associated with French composer Olivier Messiaen.
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- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2014
I know most of that except that I didn't know it was Elmer's first use of the instrument. Thanks.
As for Messiaen, I've always been quite fond of his Tarangalia (sic) symphony. Definitely not one for feint hearted listeners.
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- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2014 edited
it's Monday!!!!
# 19 LALO SCHIFRIN - BULLIT
Now THIS is a jazz score! Schifrin is more in the field of Henry Mancini when it comes to writing jazz for film. This is by turns funky, swinging and loungey ( and even the odd bit of atonality here and there ) and with a theme to die for, long long ago gone into the annals of the greatest of iconic themes, I wonder how many people have wanted to step on the gas listening to that great theme while driving?
I guess the main highlight is the music for the iconic car chase around San Francisco.
It never wears out it's welcome, a great album from beginning to end.
...by the way, have I ever mentioned my love for jazz flute? I'm thinking particularly about the track 'The Architects Building' which I think is only on the expanded release? Funky!!!
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- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2014 edited
Another one I'ver never heard about. But you mention Henry Mancini: Right now I am listening to music from the PINK PANTHER series of films.
My No. 19:
Battlestar Galactica by Stu Phillips
The score for the pilot episode "Saga of a Star World" that got a theatrical release in Europe, Canada and Japan.
This is the only score that I bought four times. Three of those four releases are still in my collegtion: The LP presentation (Geffen / Edel), the OST (Intrada) and the re-recording on Varese. It is the latter one that gets my vote here for its superiour sound.
The Main Theme of BG alongside Goldsmith's STAR TREK and Williams' STAR WARS forms my holy trilogy of space opera themes. So iconic it is that it became the national anthem of the colonies in the reimagined series. the score is set in the same musical idiom as STAR WARS, especially the orchestration is similar. While it is not always as easy a listen as ist STAR WARS from a year earlier it has grown on me immensely over the years.
When I was a teenager BS captured my imagination as much as did SW, maybe even a bit more. Just a few days ago I got the English language edition of the original novelization that I read in German spellbound some 30 years ago. The Galactica is thill my all time favourite space ship.
One of the scores that became part of the soundtrack of my life.
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2014
BULLIT is a funky classic, no doubt about it! For some reason, however, I've never acquired the soundtrack. I've listened to it here and there, so I know it pretty well regardless.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is -- save for a few highlights -- not all that enjoyable to me. I have the RSNO rerecording. But I will forever treasure the memory of meeting Phillips in LA two years ago during a party, and him greeting me "ah, the famous Thor!".I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2014 edited
My pick:
19. WILLIAMS ON WILLIAMS: THE CLASSIC SPIELBERG SCORES (John Williams)
Back in the 90s, I was still rummaging through record stores in Oslo (back when there were record stores), and often stumbled upon treasures. I remember seeing this in a cut-out bin in one of the chain stores, for the measly sum of $3 (that's also where I found previously-mentioned BEYOND RANGOON for about $10). It's probably the best buy I've ever done, because it remains one of my favourite compilation albums to this day. Even if all the cues are familiar, and I have all the respective soundtracks, there's something about the lush, colourful, concert-y performance here -- by Williams himself and the Boston Pops -- that's just sublime. I particularly love the renditions from HOOK, a favourite score of mine (my 14th place). And THIS is where "You are the Pan" is named "Face of Pan".I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2014
Captain Future wrote
Another one I'ver never heard about.
Get it. Get it. Get it. Get it.
It's awesome!
'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2014
Timmer wrote
I guess the main highlight is the music for the iconic car chase around San Francisco.
I might as well point out I was joking, most score fans know there isn't any music to the car chase.
Captain, you can do a lot worse than watch this very decent thriller.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2014 edited
I knew that! THE FRENCH CONNECTION has another good one, sans music, if memory serves.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2014
Thor wrote
I knew that! THE FRENCH CONNECTION has another good one, sans music, if memory serves.
Yes it does. Also brilliantly done and an even better film.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorCobweb
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2014
#19: CAGLIOSTRO (1975) by Manuel De Sica, on Italian CBS/Sugar vinyl LP.
As with my #2 listed within prior pages, this was a blind buy I purchased from mail order when I was around age 20 in 1987.
The vendor (R.T.S., which was in Nevato, CA) had extensive catalogues of titles from the world over, and I took advantage on a number of their offerings. I'm glad I did, because some of the items I had gotten during the late-'80s & early-'90s are quite scarce.
I first heard the film music of Manuel De Sica from the RCA LP of THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, and De Sica's lyricism impressed me. While Manuel De Sica has never been a favorite composer of mine, I was nonetheless intrigued by this CAGLIOSTRO (which to this day I have never seen) and got it.
This CAGLIOSTRO soundtrack has been with me for about 27 years and has remained a long-time favorite.
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Never on CD to my knowledge, CAGLIOSTRO has a suite of its film score on side 1 and melodies based on the film score on side 2.
The suite contains some very advanced writing techniques for a melody composer.
Pendereckian col legno string effects can be heard as well as some Morricone-type female vocalise.
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- CommentAuthorCobweb
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
Timmer wishes to stay @ 19, and not turn the big TWO "O".
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- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
I have my next one. Tomorrow.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
...love never dies
# 20 BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA - WOJCIECH KILAR
I bought this blindly in 1992, a composer I'd never heard of for a Francis Ford Coppola film that was getting a lot of media hype at the time, the film hadn't been released in the UK at that moment but there was the soundtrack CD staring at me in HMV Oxford Street in London and I couldn't resist the temptation, of a largish haul of scores I picked up that day it was the first one played when I returned home to Bristol and boy what a revelation it was, I was totally blown away and have been a Wojciech Kilar fan ever since picking up as many of his works, film and concert hall as I can find.
I don't think there's any point in describing the music, I doubt there's anyone at this board who hasn't heard this and if there is then you're missing out and need to rectify it.
One of the best buys I ever made. What a great and sadly missed composer he is.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
Some of the minimalist elements tend to grate on me a bit, but that's just small pickins'. Overall, it's a great, darkly romantic album that I've had since the mid 90s. Good choice.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
My pick:
20. CRASH (Mark Isham)
My story with Isham is peculiar. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, I didn't like him and associated him mostly with endless jazz and trumpet affairs, no matter the film. But then I discovered his more ambient, textural stuff and it just swept me away, as that was exactly the kind of music I was looking for at the time (mid 2000s, probably). This is, IMO, one of the top 10 greatest synth (well, mostly synth) film scores of all time -- a glorious affair of soft textures, beautiful vocals, "urban" sounds and rhythms. I only have it in file format, not CD, but I've played it so many times that if it had been a cassette, it would probably have worn out by now. Great stuff!I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
Not familiar with Crash at all and thought the film was convoluted.
I never bought any album on cassette, did they last long?On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
Timmer wrote
Not familiar with Crash at all and thought the film was convoluted.
I never bought any album on cassette, did they last long?
Not really. I didn't buy a lot of original cassettes either -- most of what I had were copies. But I had a few originals (no film music). My own musical awareness -- divorced from kiddie records -- came smack in the middle of the PEAK of MC popularity in the mid to late 80s. So I have a more nostalgic connection to that format than LPs or CDs.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
I should point out that I had a huge collection of cassettes, either stuff given to me or albums I recorded myself and homemade compilations, not just film music either. I threw two bag fulls of them away a year or so ago, most of the biro written labelling had either disintegrated or faded beyond readability, it would likely have taken years to play through them all to find anything that was worth saving and now I no longer remember anything in-particular that I recorded so there is no loss. ( I think? )On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
Timmer wrote
I never bought any album on cassette, did they last long?
There's only 1 cassette I remember having and that was Star Wars. It was THE cassette that I got one Christmas when I also received my mono-speaker portable cassette recorder.
Bit by bit wrinkles in the tape would slowly ruin the listening experience (not that the mono speaker or mono earphone helped with the listening experience!)The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
I know what you're saying, Timmer. All my cassettes -- maybe about 150? -- are stored in a box in my parents' attic, I think. The only reason for digging them out again would be for nostalgia, as all the music can be listened to in better quality elsewhere. But just to see the covers (custom-made), hear the selection and the particular, involuntary cut-off points in a track when the tape reached the end of one side. And so on. I remember when I got a CD of an album I had owned on cassette and being surprised when the track actually went ON after that involuntary cut-off point that had become so natural to me.
(sorry for the off-topic comments here -- the 'cassette' period is something I'm very close to).I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
"No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't."
No 20:
1492 - Conquest of Paradise (1992) by Vangelis
Combining synth and symphonic elements to perfection, Vangelis creates a sound as unique and distinct as STAR WARS, Pink Panther or Morricone Spaghetti Western. Melodic, big, longing, triumphant, melancholic, one of Vangelis' greatest. And that means something.
The film IMO has many shortcomings. Overall though it's underrated.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
That's a gorgeous pick, Volker. One of my favourites (although it won't feature on my list right now). But shouldn't it be No. 20? Or haven't you caught up yet?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014
It should, and now it is. Thanks!Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
Thor wrote
(sorry for the off-topic comments here -- the 'cassette' period is something I'm very close to).
Oh man, cassettes. A deeply ingrained part of my formative years.
All my cassettes -- maybe about 150? -- are stored in a box in my parents' attic, I think. <...> But just to see the covers (custom-made), hear the selection and the particular, involuntary cut-off points in a track when the tape reached the end of one side.
I must have had about 300 (4 boxes, at 75 cassettes each), most of which I created custom artwork for (with pencil, felt-tip pen, calligraphy, drawings, colours, specific typography...even special paper! I never used the proprietary casette covers as they never suited my purpose!). It did hurt throwing it all out over time -replacing the contents with CDs and MP3- , but you just can't keep hold of everything for ever.
The one thing I really miss is the painstaking, minutely detailed producer work, adjusting the stereo balance (especially with late sixties 'enhanced stereo' records, which were HORRIDLY produced), and the volume just so to make sure there was no distortion on any track.
I also NEVER would allow awkward cut-off points. I felt that was beneath me. I always made sure the tape ran smoothly end to end, with a self-imposed maximum of 45 seconds of silence before Side A ran out and you'd need to switch over.
Hours and hours and HOURS I spent producing the very best listening experience.
Weird to think it's all gone.
Sorry.
Quick off-topic trip on memory lane there.
As you were.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMay 7th 2014 edited
Many of my MC copies were done by my father, which I then later inherited. He was an LP guy, so he didn't mind these cut-off points so much (mostly older rock & pop-type albums he had borrowed from friends to make copies). I tried to mind a bit more when I made my own, but often I couldn't quite time it perfectly, so I had to start the cue over on Side B if stretched beyond 30 or 45 minutes (depending on cassette).
But I know what you mean regarding the tech. I also inherited his HiFi cassette player from Sony, which had any number of functions (equalizing etc.) that I tried to apply when I made my tapes.
Good times. Maybe we should do a separate topic on this?I am extremely serious.
