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Well, I for one want to hear more "Unoriginal rubbish, with nothing to it at all" music from him.
I'm going to go ahead and say it (Warning!): Scott's ""Unoriginal rubbish, with nothing to it at all" music is better than pretty much everything Horner did in the last few years of his life.
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Mar 28, 2018 - 2:59 PM
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bobbengan
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Not my favourite of Scott's but the cue Dark Wind Recounts the Legend is sublime.
I have to dig out my old CD (if I can find the damn thing!), it looks like that and a few other cues either weren't ripped or, more egregiously, I may have accidentally deleted them at some point in the past. Thanks for the reminder, Kari!
I am surprised this one doesn't gel with you - are you not as much a fan of this kind of big Western-type sound?
And Justin, I totally agree with you, though I'll go a step further and say that Horner's music got way too simplistic for my taste after the mid-90's or so. I love BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS to KRULL to SOMETHING WICKED and COCOON, from NATTY GANN to WILLOW all the way through THE PAGEMASTER... But a lot of his more "acclaimed" work like APOLLO 13, BRAVEHEART, A BEAUTIFUL MIND et al do absolutely nothing for me whatsoever. In fact, I think some of those are straight-up eye-rolling in their heavy-handedness and melodic simplicity.
The funny thing about Scott is that his music seems to keep getting better with age. Yes, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA saw him writing one of his best themes and having an enormous canvas to work on, and is probably the crown jewel of his career... But you can hear how much further he refined his melodic and orchestrational chops throughout the 80's into the 90's in later efforts like MAN ON FIRE, KING KONG LIVES, BECOMING COLETTE, HAREM, SHERGAR et al.
A Barry, Williams or Horner all reached definitive "peaks" in their creativity, most will agree. But how many people are writing music this inspired and deeply romantic and full of life as the below excerpt from his guitar concerto at age... 78!?!?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZYq4PmhB48axtdSWwAGOj0WxibEbBJtK
(I know I've shared this before, but what the hell, there's never a good excuse not to allow this unreleased gem one more airing).
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