Felix Neumann
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I also really love the 007 stuff, especially "Moonraker" or "The spy who love me". Do someone know, who has composed the scores for this two movies?
Hans Zimmer - Danny Elfman - Michael Kamen etc
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John Barry on Moonraker and Marvin Hamlisch on The Spy Who Loved Me
Nobody mentioned Alan Silvestri? The Predator soundtrack is great
ItsAFugazzi
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Been a fan of film scores for about 4-5 years now. I remember back then I downloaded a couple pieces of music like the Jurassic Park theme, E.T, Home Alone, Hook, Star Wars etc... I was shocked to find out all these great pieces of music that I knew and recognised were all the works of one composer, John Williams.
SO, there starts my love affair with film scores. Strangely enough, I've never been into John Williams.
I absolutely LOVE Bernard Herrmann and Thomas Newman. My favourite score is probably Alex North's 'A Streetcar Named Desire', mostly a jazz score that slowly evolves into an ochestral score towards the end of the film.
Another favourite is Nino Rota's 'The Godfather'. Can't beat that Italian flavour, it's just pure tragedy.
The list goes on...
SO, there starts my love affair with film scores. Strangely enough, I've never been into John Williams.
I absolutely LOVE Bernard Herrmann and Thomas Newman. My favourite score is probably Alex North's 'A Streetcar Named Desire', mostly a jazz score that slowly evolves into an ochestral score towards the end of the film.
Another favourite is Nino Rota's 'The Godfather'. Can't beat that Italian flavour, it's just pure tragedy.
The list goes on...
Genius Gone Insane
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Right now I'm listening to "Descent into Mystery" off the 1989 Batman score (Elfman) and it slays pretty much any music out there.
RemoWilliams
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I've always wondered what the Pirates of the Caribbean movies might have sounded like had Alan Silvestri gotten to score it like he was originally suppose to, instead of the Remote Control crew of Zimmer, Badelt, Glennie-Smith and them working on the movies. But, maybe Silvestri took what he was going to do and put it into "Van Helsing", which is hella heavy and brutal. Actually, I find it funny sometimes when people say they like Zimmer, because I'm thinking, "It could be Zimmer, or it could be the Remote Control crew doing it, and just Zimmer overseeing it with his name on it."
I could go on for days about my love of movie scores, but that's for another paragraph.
I could go on for days about my love of movie scores, but that's for another paragraph.
Elfman's Batman theme fucking wins.
Period.
In fact, everything about that film wins, and Batman could kick the shit out of your favorite non-Batman superhero with his goddamn bat-toys.
Apart from that I'm more into baroque... not too many other film scores do it for me.
Jeff
Period.
In fact, everything about that film wins, and Batman could kick the shit out of your favorite non-Batman superhero with his goddamn bat-toys.
Apart from that I'm more into baroque... not too many other film scores do it for me.
Jeff
Bump for how fucking amazing the music to Star Trek II (Wrath of Khan) is, goddamn... (and Search for Spock by extension, since it was pretty much a carryover with some new themes)
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slashvanyoung
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Movie scores very rarely do anything for me. If it's bombastic symphonic work, it's often way to mundane behind its foremost bloated musical appearance, basically emphasizing more on acoustic impact than on musical content.
If they're sparsely orchestrated, then the often simplistic themes (the ones everybody knows) grow old very fast on me - like popsongs. And then there are the barely instrumented atmospheric works, that just often have as much charisma as elevator music IMO.
Even Klaus Doldinger's "Das Boot" score, whose simplistic yet so oppressive and powerful main theme I love, sadly suffers from too much repetition IMO.
I think this mainly spawns from, like James described, how and why scores are written. And while I love instrumental/symphonic classical music, I also happen to dislike many operas and other genre where visual and acoustical performances are closely woven together, like in musicals too. It adds up...
If they're sparsely orchestrated, then the often simplistic themes (the ones everybody knows) grow old very fast on me - like popsongs. And then there are the barely instrumented atmospheric works, that just often have as much charisma as elevator music IMO.
Even Klaus Doldinger's "Das Boot" score, whose simplistic yet so oppressive and powerful main theme I love, sadly suffers from too much repetition IMO.
I think this mainly spawns from, like James described, how and why scores are written. And while I love instrumental/symphonic classical music, I also happen to dislike many operas and other genre where visual and acoustical performances are closely woven together, like in musicals too. It adds up...
Dennis Shaw
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AudioGeekZine
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28 Weeks Later soundtrack
Resident Evil (the score Manson did)
My teacher gave me a copy of the soundtrack for Sex Traffic, that he mixed. It's a Jonathan Goldsmith score, lots of weird sounds, prepared piano etc, very dynamic & emotional.
Not available in stores. :|
Resident Evil (the score Manson did)
My teacher gave me a copy of the soundtrack for Sex Traffic, that he mixed. It's a Jonathan Goldsmith score, lots of weird sounds, prepared piano etc, very dynamic & emotional.
Not available in stores. :|
GarethSE
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Green Mile and Shawshank OST's make me cry like a little girl, srsly.
"Coffey On The Mile" in particular. Then any of his sparse piano based stuff just slays most piano compositions completely. Any Other Name and Brooks Was Here D:
I dig Charlie Clousers work on the Saw series too.
The Dust Brothers for the Fight Club soundtrack too, but it's not really much of a score based affair, still REALLY fucking cool though, and fuck you if you think otherwise
Green Mile and Shawshank OST's make me cry like a little girl, srsly.
"Coffey On The Mile" in particular. Then any of his sparse piano based stuff just slays most piano compositions completely. Any Other Name and Brooks Was Here D:
I dig Charlie Clousers work on the Saw series too.
The Dust Brothers for the Fight Club soundtrack too, but it's not really much of a score based affair, still REALLY fucking cool though, and fuck you if you think otherwise
Youpimatin
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I'm a big fan of the OST by Brian Tyler, Clint Mansell, Klaus Badelt (used to be a Hans Zimmer assistant), Ramin Djawadi, Charllie Clouser (Death Sentence and Dea silence OST are very good) and of course the maestros like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfmann, Hans Zimmer, Lalo Shiffrin, Bernard Hermann, Pino Donaggio.
The OST of Asian movies like Old Boy and Avalon are great stuff too !
The OST of Asian movies like Old Boy and Avalon are great stuff too !
Djabthrash
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Same here dude ! Love that theme ! Funny you mention that since i was just listening to the last ILL BILL album where the opening song has this theme as an the instrumental track !
And i gotta love 80's/90's action movies scores like :
ROBOCOP 1 (awesome score)
DIE HARD1/2/3
ALIEN 1/2/3/4
PREDATOR 1/2
Just re-watched Batman returns also and the score is the shit also !
At the risk of sounding like an emo pussy Danny Elfmans 'Ice Dance' from the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack is an insanely awesome, moving piece of music
