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I love you all!!!!

That's what Poledouris does to me. His music at least.

NP The Hunt for Red October

I wouldn't go as far as saying 'love', but I certainly appreciate and respect many of you no end. As much as 'real' friends, so to speak. I've learned much on this here (and past) forum, and I am ever grateful.

Again, I just wish I had internet in my flat. Taking ages to get this sorted out, I hate relying on other people to get things done!!!

Oh absolutely. I'm passionate about many things, but music is No.1! As Nietzsche once put it, 'without music life would be a mistake.'

I wonder if he ever lived on a diet of beer and takeaway pizza in his student days!?

Hope your up and running soon Steven

I have a feeling this would be really funny except that I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. *feels challenged by lack of age*

NP: The Little Polar Bear 2 - Hans Zimmer & Nick Glennie-Smith
A very pleasant score. I discovered that it is much more emotionally engaging if I pretend its about something more emotionally relevant to me, rather than having random pictures of animated polar bears and giant fish floating around in my head as I listen to it.

Apparently the score to the original "Little Polar Bear" was written by Nigel Clarke and Michael Csanyi-Wills, who have a very fine score called "The Rocket Post" released by MSM. I asked Michael about the possibility of having their "Little Polar Bear" score released by MSM and he said he thought it was already released in Germany...do any of you Europeans know if this is true and where I could find it? I looked on amazon.de and couldn't find anything but it would help to actually be able to read German...

WP: Wall*E - Thomas Newman
Newman does such a good job of creating unique sonic palettes for each of his scores...

NP: Eight Below - Mark Isham

One of Isham's best works to date IMO. Heartwarming family entertainment adventure writing at it's best. Lovely stuff.

I love it, such an emotional listen from a very small score like that !



True. I'd love it though if his recent scores had the coherency of his older ones, at least on album.

I edited out all the annoying (to me) random SFX that are found at the beginning and ending of some of the tracks and it's at least slightly better that way as far as coherency. It is, however, definitely a score that requires a film viewing to really appreciate.

NP: Robots - John Powell
One of the most, fun, joyful scores in my entire collection. A lot of mickey-mousing but unlike most composers, Powell manages to make mickey-mousing very musically interesting. I don't mind, as some do, the constant mood and pace changes that go on in Powell's animated scores...I find it to be very entertaining.

WP: Hannibal: Team Zimmer
The cue "Avarice" is almost identical to what would happen if you played a certain cue from The Ring and a certain cue from "The Da Vinci Code" simultaneously. The chord progressions are pretty much identical. Certain parts of this score, to me, are almost as blatant as the Casper/Spiderwick thing from Horner. Although I forget which Zimmer score came first so I'm not sure what's ripping off what.

NP: Dragonheart

Missed you all guys!!!Hope you missed me too!I'm in Athens for a couple of days!I'll have an internet connection in Sparta from Monday!

As should have The Thin Red Line.

Mulan and what else?

Everyone has their own view about the Oscars, so here's mine. That year the Oscar for drama list should have also featured Poledouris's LES MISERABLES (great as a film score), Thomas Newman's THE HORSE WHISPERER and either or Carter Burwell's HI-LO COUNTRY / GODS AND MONSTERS as nominees over SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, or ELIZABETH. The three I'm cutting out are all strong, but I felt the scores that are replacing them contributed more to their films. Zimmer should have won, of course.

I can never bring myself to care about the musical/comedy award.

I quite like the Warbeck score as an album, but it's all over the film like a sugary gloop and shouldn't have been near any awards shortlist, let alone winning an Oscar. Mulan is head and shoulders above the others in that category, but I would disagree with your comment about A Bug's Life. I know Newman's film scores are an acquired taste but that one is easily his best score for an animation and I'd rank it far higher than Prince of Egypt (though the latter is very fine, its songs are more impressive than its score).