1. Discretion 2. Second Best Exotic 3. Knees Then Names 4. Chai 5. Catnip 6. Ye Ishq Hai - Shreya Ghoshal 7. Busy Pensioner Bee 8. Nimish & Abhilash 9. Roll Call 10. Already Gone 11. Soft Hiss of Treachery 12. Completely Lethal 13. Balma - Shreya Ghoshal / Sriram 14. The Fun Never Starts 15. Sagai 16. Mumbai 17. Unreasonable Behavior 18. The Brilliant Bits 19. Aaina 20. Bringer of New Things 21. Aila Re Aila - Daler Mehndi / Kalpana Patowary 22. Scorpions 23. Shaadi 24. Reservoirs of Affection 25. Wedding 26. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - KK / Sukhwinder Singh / Mahalaxmi Iyer 27. Life Piled On Life 28. Map of the World (End Title)
I liked the first score, but I never played it a lot, outside of a few key cues. Still, you're right: First sequel and it will be interesting to see how he revisits the material.
Some composers are happy to kind of reuse sections from the earlier score... others ignore the first score almost completely and just do something totally different. Between this, SPECTRE and FINDING DORY, I guess we'll find out what Newman scoring a sequel is like!
Sorry... my mistake: Amazon (US) clearly lists the artist as ALFRED Newman - not Thomas. I don't think I've ever heard of a father replacing a son on a sequel score before, particularly when he's already been dead for 45 years.
He could literally just copy and paste the score from the first one into this, just changing the titles, and no one would ever notice. Even people who listened to the original.
Hey hey... low blow, Shaun. There's actually a lot of really interesting material in MARIGOLD HOTEL: EPISODE I. Not really to my taste, but it's still interesting.
While the first CD was quite hit and miss with me, the high points were as gorgeous as anything I'd heard from Newman. His blending of the Indian music with the West and his own style resulted in some really beautiful, soul-soothing music. This is of similar refrain, but by God, the gorgeous bits are just sublime. I could listen to those chords of beauty all day and all night. I fancy they will score a few sunrises and sunsets on my coming holiday journey.
I'm a sucker for Bollywood scores, Indian music/scores as well as blends of Indian and Western music. So you can imagine that this is very much up my alley. I've been enjoying it ever since it came out. But I have no interest in seeing the movie (or the first one, for that matter).
