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- CommentTimeDec 17th 2014 edited
He did have a few cues that weren't ambient. However, I understand the "purpose" of the ambient cues and the role those cues play within the game. I will NOT negatively criticize this score as a whole because the ambient cues aren't full throttle epic adventure cues like some of the very best ones Knorr or Kirkhope composed.
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- CommentTimeDec 17th 2014
I agree with Erik on that point (the ambient cues are crucial), and I do like the score as a whole. I just wish it was presented more succinctly. The album has been resting in my 'limbo' folder for many months now, awaiting a time when I can at the very least make a decent 50-60 minute playlist out of the two hours worth of tracks.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeDec 17th 2014
The ambient cues are OK for what they are (i.e. tolerable), but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "crucial". Yes, some low-key stuff in between all the big melodic cues is necessary, but low-key can still be more interesting than what Griffin Cohen wrote I think. Also, that one cue of his that isn't labeled "ambient" is still pretty darn ambient . This is all speaking on album terms; obviously if the game demanded purely ambient music with no melody or structure, that's fine.
I'd also venture to say that Michael Curran's stuff, though enjoyable, doesn't really bring that much to the table. His music is pretty similar to Geoff Knorr's in tone, but not quite as good. -
- CommentTimeDec 17th 2014
The Monkey King - Christopher Young
Eight thousand releases of King Solomon's Mines and zero releases of this. Hope someone rectifies that soon because it's absolutely bloody brilliant. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeDec 17th 2014
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Southall wrote
The Monkey King - Christopher Young
Eight thousand releases of King Solomon's Mines and zero releases of this. Hope someone rectifies that soon because it's absolutely bloody brilliant.
On my Top 5 of 2014 list.
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NP: Lady Oscar - Michel Legrand
This is beautiful! Never heard of it before but came across a digital release of this score that has only been available as part of an 11 CD set released by Universal Music France last year.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 -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: Cold In July - Jeff Grace
I am liking the similarities this score has with the sound of John Carpenter in his heyday.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 -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
Southall wrote
Mine too.
Not mine, I'm afraid -- simply not a sound I am drawn to very much these days. But as a teen and young adult, I would have been all over this. I still am -- to a certain extent -- and can admire the writing, but it's not one that will get lot of plays.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: Penny Dreadful - Abel Korzeniowski
I've seen the trailer for this show..... brrrrr, not for me. But the music is wonderful as always. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: Casanova - Alexandre Desplat
Even before everyone went ga-ga over Desplat he was already doing great stuff.
This score features gorgeous faux-baroque music (and the echoes of Delerue are pronounced. Which, to be very clear, is a GOOD thing!).
I have tried to watch the film, which looked gorgeous, but was poorly set up, cast and paced and simply was unable to hold my interest. The score however is very much worth it!'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: The Fountain - Clint Mansell
First listen. Maykel watched the movie the other week so I noticed the music. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
^ The movie was dreadful but that score is excellent!
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- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014 edited
Yes, he said the movie was........ too weird.
I love the score!! I have Death Is The Road To Awe on repeat now. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: The Spy Who Loved Me: Atlantis Revealed - Yannick "GoldenZen" Zenhäusern
A bit of an unusual one this. It seems to be a rescoring of the original 1977 film in the style of a John Barry Bond score, that in its more exciting moments uses snippets of the James Bond theme and the melody of the accompanying song.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 -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: The Essential Elmer Berstein Collection (Silva, 2005)
All the talk about Exodus: Orcs, Elves and Pharao promted me to revisit the Ten Commandmends Suite and now I end up listening to all of this fine album.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
NP: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Howard Shore
Maybe it's just because I'm depressed about real life but on this second listen to the new album I can really identify with those of you are disappointed by and wanted more from these scores.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
Scribe wrote
NP: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Howard Shore
Maybe it's just because I'm depressed about real life but on this second listen to the new album I can really identify with those of you are disappointed by and wanted more from these scores.
Well, there's always the good ol' LOTR scores to get you out that funk of yours!I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeDec 18th 2014
Also, John Powell. -
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NP: 30 COULEUR (Klaus Badelt)
For a score and film that looks so wild from the cover, this is surprisingly subdued and lyrical. Wish Badelt did more of this kind of stuff.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Scribe wrote
NP: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Howard Shore
Maybe it's just because I'm depressed about real life but on this second listen to the new album I can really identify with those of you are disappointed by and wanted more from these scores.
I'm not sure that whatever mood it is I'm currently in really affects how much I like or dislike music. For me I think it's pretty consistent - I could be high on life and still dislike The Social Network, and feeling suicidal wouldn't make me love How to Train Your Dragon any less (if anything it would prove there's stuff worth living for!). I'm perpetually baffled by people who do enormous 180-degree turns on scores. With the exception of some James Horner stuff I heard and didn't like when I was like 15, I can't really say that's ever happened to me.
What is it about this one that isn't satisfying you as much as the other two, Scribe? (I haven't heard it yet) -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Edmund Meinerts wrote
I'm perpetually baffled by people who do enormous 180-degree turns on scores.
It's called a lack of imagination. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Southall wrote
PSGM - JB
So beautiful.
It is!
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- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014 edited
Edmund Meinerts wrote
I'm perpetually baffled by people who do enormous 180-degree turns on scores.
I just said I can identify with the detractors, not that I hate it...
Edmund Meinerts wrote
What is it about this one that isn't satisfying you as much as the other two, Scribe? (I haven't heard it yet)
Well, there's just as much, if not more, of Shore's random dark meandering (orcy-mousing?) as the previous scores, but no particular attractive big theme is emerging to tie it all together like the Misty Mountain theme or the Tauriel theme. I am not saying there are no new themes, I'm sure there are, I'm just not hearing anything that sticks yet.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Steven wrote
Edmund Meinerts wrote
I'm perpetually baffled by people who do enormous 180-degree turns on scores.
It's called a lack of imagination.
I would think it would be the other way around.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Indeed! It applies to both ways. (But which way was I talking about?) -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
I was just thinking that an inability to reconsider one's opinion and come to a different conclusion is generally associated with fundamentalism (in any area of life) and thus a lack of imagination.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2014
Precisely!