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..of Film Music Fans?
I don't recall fans of any of the other Titans (Williams, Morricone, Barry, Bernstein, Jarre, Steiner, Korngold, Herrmann..add your choice) posting so many threads, trying to posit their fave film composer as the BEST, most VERSATILE, most UNDERRATED, coolest PONYTAIL (that's a joke, there's no such thing), GORGEOUS LOOKING...you name it, it would seem Goldsmith is it.
Thoughts?
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I must add I have no axe to grind with Goldsmith or his fans (I am one myself).
Goldsmith has generally been in my personal Top 5 since I discovered his music via the STAR TREK - TMP film and LP.
I own tons of his stuff and most of it is quite brilliant.
I just don't get the constant 'he's the best', all else were inferior' attitude that seems to exist a lot around here.
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No onya, I do understand what you were getting at, although having heard over ONE HUNDRED and twenty five of his scores, there are tons of Goldsmith-isms and traits that he carried over into his works, that are no different from the many other composers I have listened to over the years.
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Sep 3, 2014 - 6:38 AM
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OnyaBirri
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No onya, I do understand what you were getting at, although having heard over ONE HUNDRED and twenty five of his scores, there are tons of Goldsmith-isms and traits that he carried over into his works, that are no different from the many other composers I have listened to over the years.
There may be. Perhaps my statistic sample is not large enough to make this observation. The scores I have are virtually all from the 60s and 70s. I think I have one from the early 80s - Outland - and only one from the dreaded ponytail years, LA Confidential. (I have to question the artistic sensibilities of anyone who makes such a bad fashion choice.)
Sure, I can tell that the guy who wrote "City of Fear" wrote the Twilight Zone jazz scores, and I can tell that the guy who wrote "Shock Treatment" wrote "Seconds." But I cannot tell that the guy who wrote "Chinatown" wrote "Planet of the Apes" wrote "In Like Flint."
Herrmann and Morricone, on the other hand, are easily recognizable no matter what styles or genres they shoot for.
Now look what you've done. You've started another Goldsmith thread! 
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. High King Jerry Goldsmith is quite obviously the Most Everything composer in every category and will continue to gloriously reign even after we inevitably evolve into Metron-like uber-beings on a higher dimension where echoplex trumpets and mixing bowls will become the very fabric of our existence.
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Onya, you should give a listen to IMAGES, MISSOURI BREAKS and 1941.
Much like the Goldsmith titles you mention, you would be amazed they were all written by the same guy!
Also, give a listen to BRAVEHEART, BICENTENNIAL MAN and TITANIC...no... wait
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. High King Jerry Goldsmith is quite obviously the Most Everything composer in every category and will continue to gloriously reign even after we inevitably evolve into Metron-like uber-beings on a higher dimension where echoplex trumpets and mixing bowls will become the very fabric of our existence.
Sounds reasonable.
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Goldsmith has his fans, his "Fan-Boys/Girls" and his Acolytes (I'm a big fan - he's No. 2 on my list); all post here, with perspective diminishing up the line & "insecurity" increasing
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Do you think this copy of Love Field makes me look fat?
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