[Closed] Now Playing - Part XIV

NP: This Girl for Hire - Bruce Broughton

Now that I have the complete CD, I've been through the score and I still greatly enjoy it. Intrada's presentation and mastering of the score are just impeccable -- the score sounds like it was recorded with an ensemble that's twice the size of the two-dozen players that performed it. Overall, a pleasing jazzy score that's a fine addition to Broughton's filmography and a worthy addition to any score collection.

It seems very odd. I'm sure Varese can't be happy with it.

I'm sure that that site has some sort of deal in place... but maybe they don't.

-Erik-

NP : BASIC INSTINCT - Jerry Goldsmith



Aaaaahhhh

Definitely get WILDE - which is her masterpiece - but be more careful with the others. Get the compilation SOMETHING'S HERE, which has themes from all her scores, but unlike her score albums, doesn't repeat them too many times.

Band of Brothers - Michael Kamen

Aaahhhh, I miss Kamen. He was one of the best.

NP : an old compilation cassette tape - Various



This one is quite a nostalgia trip for me and indicative of what my favourite music tracks were back in 1983, recorded off LP the tape still sounds surprisingly good though the inlay card with track listing is long gone.

Tracks that have played so far include 'Riders Of Doom' from Conan, John Williams 'Dracula', Goldsmith's Twilight Zone The Movie 'Overture', Jarre's End Title theme from 'Crossed Swords' and best of all ( because I don't own it anymore ) is Ernest Gold's fabulously moving, emotional and powerful theme to CROSS OF IRON.

Well, there was a time, back when your dad was still inventing the wheel that...

'Sweet zombie Jesus'?

I like that!

NP: Charlie Wilson's War - James Newton Howard

"And He shall purifyeyeyeyeyeyyyeyeyyey..."

Where?

Speaking of Giacchino however:

NP - Alias Season 1

This is the first time I've ever heard music from Alias, and while I'm not hugely impressed with it, it still stands solid. Giacchino and electronics? Now that I didn't see coming! The first initial tracks had my skeptical about how much I would enjoy it, and I actually skipped some of the quieter tracks as I found them rather boring. But when he lets the brass loose, it gets damn good! I'm now looking for season 2!

NP: Casino Royale - David Arnold

The good bits really are very good, but the album is not a good way of presenting the score in its most favourable light. I really do wonder why more people don't go on about this - film music at its best makes for some wonderful albums, but presenting music like this for so long just exposes its weaknesses and gives fuel to the fire of those who belittle our music of choice.

JP: Lost Season Two - Michael Giacchino

Some great stuff here. But the same comment applies (to a far lesser extent, admittedly) as to Casino Royale.

If more scores were released in their complete form I think we'd have an easier time separating the truly GREAT scores from the below average ones. The truly great scores are brilliant in the film and are brilliant as a listening experience from start to finished in it's complete form AWAY from the picture. A lot of the so called BRILLIANT and MASTERPIECE scores we hear on truncated 40-50 minute albums would have a much different classification if heard in complete form. This is why I'm a big supporter of complete and chronological albums.

-Erik-

I think what he is trying to get at is a truely great score would be brilliant in the movie and on CD.

Lots of scores that are great in a movie are presented in the best possible way on CD (take out the less interesting cues when they're not in context).

If everything on CD was in it's complete form, we'd be able to work out which scores were the best (in their entirity) and which were just average (good in the movie but not on CD).

Am I right, Erik?