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ND (Now Deleting): Several albums....

Going through my iTunes collection and finally deleting those albums I've given enough chances or that I simply don't seem to get 'into'. Quality, not quantity! Wish I could unload my CD collection the same way.

One thing you'll never listen to is Ironclad, and that statement will remain true even if you come to own it. (Pretty terrible.) At the opposite end of the scale from 3:10 to Yuma, which remains my favourite Beltrami score (and it's a really, really strong film).

Back in the Alan Menken years it seemed that they had replaced the Best Original Score award with a Best Animation Score one. (And that was in fact what prompted them to create the separate "Best Original Comedy or Musical Score" - and ironically that coincided with Menken stopping doing so much for Disney - something I've never really understood since he was so pivotal to their revival.)

Oh. It appears to have changed to Christopher Beck. Shit.

Wait. I'm getting myself confused here. It was Fantastic Four I saw his name attached to.

Whatever. Some Marvel, superhero film.

It's not from Marvel. There's a big difference. FWIW.

Marco is working with Phillip Glass. An interesting pairing that should yield an interesting album at least.

Ahem. Allow me to outgeek you both.

The Fantastic Four is a Marvel COMIC (it's one of their flagships in fact. Like Spider-Man. And one of their longest-running series).

However the film franchise is in the hands of Twentieth-Century Fox, which, although it has a working relationship with Marvel Enterprises (which includes its film division), is keeping this franchise tightly in its own hands. Marvel very much wants to retain control to incorporate them (and Spider-Man, whose film rights are in the hands of Sony) into the Marvel cinematic universe...but it seems unlikely to happen any time soon.

As you were.

So... not Marvel?

Not Marvel.
Cinematically.

It's all a bit of a wonder.
A Marvel, even.

There's just ONE Twentieth Century Fox film, dawg.

NP: THE MASTER (Jonny Greenwood)

Not always an easy listen (Greenwood never is), but by God...it's so captivating!

I was finding it difficult to picture a story in my head with the order it was presented on the soundtrack.

I also wanted to get into some action much sooner. My biggest issue was the ending however - it felt like it was building up to something and that it would all come together, but it just...ended.

However moving the suites to the end works fantastically - movements 1 & 2 serve as a great finale, and 3 & 4 could be a great end credits piece.

I actually made a couple of very minor edits too - removed the loud opening of "The Abrasax Family Tree", removed the quiet bit at the end of "The Titus Clipper" and cut out a very small portion of "It's A Hellava Chase" (there's a silly "twinkly" bit). It helps improve the flow.

Thanks for the explanation, Anthony!

-Erik-