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 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 5:59 AM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

I love Jerry Goldsmith's music. But I hate Total Recall, Rambo III and The Challenge. Sorry, I do. These are not my kind of Goldsmith. (Patton, Papillon, Islands In The Stream, on the other hand ...)

I love Jerry Goldsmith's music. But I hate his synthesizer scores and I'm not even a big fan of most of his comedies and westerns. Strange, but true.

I love Jerry Goldsmith's music. But I love John Barry's and Bernard Herrmann's even more. Sorry.

I love Jerry Goldsmith's music. But I hate the sycophantical adulation he sometimes attracts. ("Jerry, Jerry, we love you!" Blech!)

I love Jerry Goldsmith's music. But I do wish people would stop bleating about the bleedin' Oscar. Yes, he got robbed. We know. Get over it.

So what do I get? Burning at the stake? Quartering? Or mere beheading?

Cheers

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:10 AM   
 By:   ian642002   (Member)

Moments aside on various scores, Howard Shore is becoming one of the most boring composers I've ever heard.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:10 AM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

The Keep by Tangerine Dream is a "grail" score for me and I wish one of the usual suspects would release it now that Paramount is not off limits.

Enough Leonard Rosenman already. Come on.

Silva's releases are fabulous, I can't get enough of their compilations.

I've never made it through the Crystal Skull CD start to finish. Not once.

The Lord Of The Rings complete sets are ridiculous overkill. I've not touched any of them in 2 years at least.



 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:13 AM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

I love LADYHAWKE by John Powell & Alan Parsons Project- I consider this one of the best unique scores of the 80's!

I sent blank tapes to Lukas Kendall to send me tape dubs of some of his collection in the 90s!!! (He paid the postage) LOL ; ) (He was and is a gem of a guy!)



 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:18 AM   
 By:   John-73   (Member)

I find a great deal of Bernard Herrmann's music too OTT and stridant to sit through in one go. I find much of it curiously... claustrophobic sounding too.... or forboding is probably a better word? Like when you know a thunder storm is on it's way you get that oppressive feeling? I feel that way when I listen to much of his work... unless I just happen to be listening when there IS a storm on the way wink

Likewise as others here have said not a huge fan of Jerry Goldsmith when he's in full on synth mode... in fact I'd love to hear some of those later scores with the synths completely removed... they tend to date the music fast.

Lastly, I think Star Trek IV by Leonard Rosenman is a masterpiece and I'd take that over Horner's Trek efforts any day of the week (runs for cover!!!).

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:30 AM   
 By:   Simon Morris   (Member)

I love LADYHAWKE by John Powell & Alan Parsons Project- I consider this one of the best unique scores of the 80's!



I like it too - although if Andrew Powell was reading this forum I doubt he'd like you crediting the music to John Powell big grin

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 6:56 AM   
 By:   Josh "Swashbuckler" Gizelt   (Member)

  • While I respect the music of Leonard Rosenman, I usually don't like it very much.

  • The reason why I don't listen to more recent Horner scores is not because of his constant re-using of material — which, frankly, all of my favorite composers have done at some point or another — but rather because I find his later output to be somewhat bland.

  • Given the choice between Elvis and the Beatles, I would take Led Zeppelin.

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     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 7:00 AM   
     By:   GreatGonzo   (Member)

    Morricone is overrated and at least as much of a recycler as Horner, but nobody ever talks about it.

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 7:03 AM   
     By:   Thor   (Member)

    I love LADYHAWKE by John Powell & Alan Parsons Project- I consider this one of the best unique scores of the 80's!



    I like it too - although if Andrew Powell was reading this forum I doubt he'd like you crediting the music to John Powell big grin


    Great! Then we are at least three. In fact, I wrote a whole "defense thread" on this one once:

    http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=34448&forumID=1&archive=1

     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 7:24 AM   
     By:   Tester   (Member)

    I don't like Alex North. Not 2001, Cleopatra or even Spartacus
    No matter the movie, Rachel Portman is always writing the same score
    As good as he is, Trevor Jones has a disturbing lack of ideas for some specific themes

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 8:39 AM   
     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member)

    I never saw a James Bond film until the mid-seventies, and I've never felt the need to see another since.

     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 9:28 AM   
     By:   Adam.   (Member)

    I think there is no shame in altering or "recycling" a previous composition to fit a new film. Try to tell me Mr. Goldsmith didn't get his Gremlins theme from his Twilight Zone score. Try to tell me Mr. Williams didn't craft his Superman music from his Star Wars score. I'm glad that Mr. Bernstein used his music from Saturn 3 in his Heavy Metal score. If it works, do it!

     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 9:30 AM   
     By:   spook   (Member)

    I find BLACK SUNDAY to be.....(gulp)...kinda dull and boring

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 9:34 AM   
     By:   Hercule Platini   (Member)

  • While I respect the music of Leonard Rosenman, I usually don't like it very much.

    That's kind of how I feel about Alex North. Apart from 2001, he leaves me cold. But I always feel that I should somehow like it more. Like it's my fault that I'm not responding to it.

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     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 9:43 AM   
     By:   RED SHIRT BASIL (or looks like...)   (Member)

    -The golden age composers bore me to hell
    -even if Horner recycles his own work or use evident classical references I still find him one of the best filmmusic composer ever
    -I don't understand the praise for Elmer Bernstein
    -Hans zimmer rocks my world and " The Battle" from Gladiator is one of the best pieces of action of the last 20 years
    -Avatar is the best experience of my moviegoer life since the lord of the rings trilogy
    -I hate white wine
    -limited editions of 1 or 100000000 copies suck even with the famous contract obligations
    -according with previous line : people buying multiple copies of a limited edition to sell it on ebay or other litteraly disgust me

     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 9:48 AM   
     By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

    Alfred Hitchcock really didn't direct FAMILY PLOT. He was too ill at the time. But Univesal demanded one more Hitchcock picture.

    Wait....has no one else noticed this one? What?

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 10:20 AM   
     By:   Sean   (Member)

    Burt Bacharach deserved his Oscar for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

    Georges Delerue deserved his Oscar for "A Little Romance."

    Vangelis deserved his Oscar for "Chariots of Fire."

    Monaural releases of holy grails should be banned in favor of re-recordings of same, especially when the original sounds as if it were trampled by a team of wild burros that absconded with a handful of significant cues in the process.

    Every collector's label should consistently offer at least one club title at a bargain rate. Move that product, baby.

    cool


     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 12:33 PM   
     By:   Great Escape   (Member)

    I think James Newton Howard's score to the new King Kong is better than Max Steiner's score to the original King Kong. Then again, I prefer the newer film (not to malign the important place the original holds in the history of film and special effects and even storytelling). I just enjoy the new one more (film and score). More exciting, more lyrical, more tragic, more character depth (a fine line, perhaps, for the genre).

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 12:58 PM   
     By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

    I still love (mostly older) film music, but haven't bought a CD since the first half of last year, Tom Jones (Addison) & The Last Wagon (Newman). Would love to, but haven't fancied anything released (even December or January) since then.

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 10, 2010 - 12:59 PM   
     By:   Thor   (Member)

    Ha, ha...I love threads such as these. For some reason, everyone gets 'carte blanche' to say what they want, whereas if they had said the same thing - in the relevant thread - they'd be lynched in typical FSM fashion. Odd, but true.

     
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