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NP : INSIDE MAN - Terence Blanchard


One of the very best scores of this year ( yes, I know it's a 2006 score but I bought it early 07 ), and one that get's a lot of play from me, big, orchestral and jazzy with touches of Mancini, Barry, Schifrin and Quincy Jones.

Excellent stuff!

Well, Jerry is something TRULY exceptional, I seriously doubt JNH will ever be held in the same esteem in years to come.....only time will tell? I do believe though that JNH is one of the top 5 film composers currently working.

Oh yes! I'm gonna play that one tonight. Good idea.


SLEUTH | patrick doyle

What an odd score ... again. There's something very distant on this score. There's a nice almost string quartet and piano theme, repeated in many tempo's. Then there's this track in wich the theme gets a beat under it, including a dialogue from the movie. And then the whole score ends with a techno/dance remix of this theme. Not sure what to think of it all really.

NP: SWEENEY TODD - Stephen Sondheim

Just the opening title, for now. Quite agressive, with rather old fashioned screeching brass. I like it! So glad Elfman didn't come in to redo it, actually

NP: 1941 - John Williams

It's Steven Spielberg's 61st birthday so I thought I'd play some music from my favorite director's films. Why start with 1941 you say? Well, I haven't played it in a while and it's a film I actually like a lot. I'll be playing other Spielberg scores throughout the day but will try to avoid the obvious. I think I'll give Amistad a spin, "The Mission" from Amazing Stories and Poltergeist by Jerry Goldsmith.

-Erik-

NP:Charlie Wilson's war

Definetly New Howard Has returned to his bland era. (Before Sixth sense).

And Everytime he seems more Zimmer with a bad day.

The 8 minutes tracks is really annoying-cool at the same time.

Completly Agree!

Yeap but I couldn't disagree more. I find this year pretty damn interesting:

3.10 to yuma, Ratatouille, Lair, At world's End, Bourme Ultimatum, Lust Caution, Bug, AVP-requiem, Golden Compass, Beowulf, Elizabeth2, Atoement, Invasion....Plus Alien and North and norwest.

NP:Wiches of Eastwood (ehehe)

a little bit repetitive, but Funny!

Read the above for what Erik said.

Monumental? MONUMENTAL? Film music is in a world of hurt if The Golden Compass is considered monumental score. It's well orchestrated and professionally composed but there really isn't anything that will have it stand the test of time like the other classics that came before it. In a few years it will be yet another forgotten score.



-Erik-

Hic! ... Er... a double, please? Wha do you mena i've hid to much to dirnk?

Well, monumental can be taken in two ways. An exceptionally great piece of work and/or of historical or enduring significance. The Golden Compass is NOT a great piece of work and will NOT be a historically significance work.

-Erik-

I agree. Jerry Goldsmith I consider to be the best film composer ever. James Newton Howard is my favourite living composer. I've just become disturbingly obsessed with his music of late.

NP: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem - Brian Tyler

I'm listening to the last 3-4 cues at the moment but the rest of the score was heard in the car so I have really only got some generalised impressions of the score so far. What I was really trying to hear were references to some of the earlier scores from the two franchises.

I'd say that for the most part this score reminds me most of James Horner's Aliens score (numerous references), then Goldenthal's Alien³ and then a few references to Frizzell's Alien Resurrection. I didn't hear too many references to Goldsmith's original Alien score. But listening to Intrada's recent re-release of Alien, this score is the most difficult of the Alien scores to incorporate?

I was beginning to think that there would be no references to Silvestri's Predator score - until I heard track 7 (and various points thereafter). To me, Tyler's done a great job at bringing some of the feel of the previous movies to this score.

It's a fine line between "borrowing" and plagarism (or the musical equivalent)?

Funny though, there's only a couple of references where I'd say this score sounds Tyler-ish.

I remember my initial reaction to the first Lord of the Rings score (and that's music which gives every impression that it will stand the test of time, at least in terms of film music) - and I find Golden Compass to be considerably more involving. My tastes are usually mainstream but there are certain aspects where I'm not, and my love of music that really needs time to think about rather than providing instant gratification is one of those. There's real musical development here, of a kind not witnessed in any other 2007 film score I've heard. There are more themes there than I ever imagined on first listening - and more keep revealing themselves. There are keen dramatic ideas. Hopefully I'll see the film tomorrow to see if those ideas mean what I think they do. But it's already a score that has involved me as a listener more than any other since my favourite of the last decade, Mission to Mars. I've been listening to that one since the day it was released and it still reveals more to me every time. I have a sneaking suspicion that Golden Compass will do the same. So it might not stand your test of time, but I'm willing to bet it will stand mine!