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I'm sure a million of these have been made, but I got the idea from MV's post in the new releases thread. What's your personal favorite release by them? I know most of us have to have one we listen to above all the others.
For me, that's Mark Mancina's Speed. Simply put, as a child seeing the movie the thing I remembered most was the music. That damn heart pounding music that let you know action was about to pick up.
I wanted to pick Independence Day or Broken Arrow, but I do so much more writing to Speed that I couldn't. Speed is truly one of the few complete scores where I start at track 1 and never hit the skip button. And for me, that's rare because I'm the type of guy who jumps to random tracks while listening.
I guess if I had to give a list of runner's up it'd be this (In order by favorites) -
Independence Day
Broken Arrow
Die Hard With A vengeance
Die Hard
Bad Boys
So discuss your favorite here.
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I love many of their releases, but the ones that I've listened to and enjoyed the most (proportional to the time since they were released) are:
1) Human Target (McCreary)
2) The Punisher (Siliotto)
3) Star Trek V (Goldsmith)
4) Copernicus' Star (Korzeniowski)
5) Batman Returns (Elfman)
I still need to pick up Human Target. The samples sound so amazing and I've heard such great reviews. With next week's paycheck I'll probably get it.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture is pretty much the tops, though it's hard to ignore the Batman animated series albums.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Hook
Independence Day
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I'm diggin' the re-occurrence of Batman Returns in peoples lists.
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I think Batman Returns had tons to gain from an expansion. The OST, in my opinion, always sounded a bit flat, and was arranged a bit strangely. The full score plays a lot better than the OST. Couple that with the fact that LLL did the perfect job of presenting it, and it was a great release. It took a score I liked, and made it into a score I loved.
On the other hand, Elfman's original Batman was a score that I never desired an expansion for - the original album features all of the highlights in my opinion. But more of a great thing is never bad 
Batman Returns almost made my list and it would have had I not put a small limit on myself. Although, out of all the great tracks from that series of Batman movies, my favorites would have to be from Batman, track 29 "Finale" and track 30 "End Credits"
There's just something so epic about the church bells at the ending segueing into a small hum of the Batman theme.
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The Star Trek TOS box set trumps every single other release in my library. The sheer volume, quality and completeness of it is mind-boggling and enormously satisfying. In one box, they fulfilled a lifelong desire.
No other release will ever hold the same import and meaning for me. So, TOS gets the nod.
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If MV reads this thread, I'd actually be curious to hear what his favorite release are from his label.
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I'll always have a soft spot for my first purchase:
Mark Mancina - BAD BOYS
Other favorites:
James Horner - KRULL
Danny Elfman - BATMAN
Hans Zimmer - BROKEN ARROW
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I'll always have a soft spot for my first purchase:
Mark Mancina - BAD BOYS
Other favorites:
James Horner - KRULL
Danny Elfman - BATMAN
Hans Zimmer - BROKEN ARROW
Finally some one else who mentions Broken Arrow lol.
Your favorite tracks from that score?
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I saw this thread and figured it might be fun to take part in it before getting started with the day - sort of a "mental warm-up," if you will.
My favorite La-La Land release is probably the "Star Trek: The Original Series" set, as well. In terms of its comprehensive sweep, the clarity of the cataloging, perfection of the packaging, and sheer ambition (not to mention that the music is great), I'll have to rank it as first. Also, a day seldom goes by without my listening to at least one cue from it, so it's been a source of much enjoyment here.
Other albums that handily rank amongst my very favorites from the company are:
Wuthering Heights (Michel Legrand)
A Certain Smile (Alfred Newman)
Dragonslayer (Alex North)
Batman Forever (Elliot Goldenthal)
Clue (John Morris)
and, if I may allow myself one more, it would have to be Christopher Komeda's "Rosemary's Baby," which was put together quite expertly, and is (like the other albums I listed above), terrific from beginning to end - at least, I think so.
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