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 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 10:22 AM   
 By:   Mister L   (Member)

This came to my mind when i was reading and posting to "Do you listen to scores you
don´t like"- threat.

Some composers or some of their work is considered, at least by some folks, being not
so good music to put it mild. I´ve noticed this with certain RC guys. wink

I have to admit i absolutely love Ramin Djawadi´s Clash Of The Titans. Very heroic pathos, i
think that´s the reason it works for me. Also i like Djawadi´s Pacific Rim a lot. But i think The
Prison Break from a same guy is a coaster.

So what´s your score from the composer you usually don´t like at all which is in fact one
of your favourites? The one that you listen to in the closet safe from nasty FSM:ers? big grin

 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 10:38 AM   
 By:   The Thing   (Member)

Javier Navarrete's "Wrath of the Titans"!! (Yes, genuinely)

Sorry...

big grin


I can't really think of anything by composers I don't usually like, because I don't feel that way about the composers. But here's a few scores that I really like, but think I've picked up on several times on this forum as not being too popular with many others:

Along Came A Spider - Jerry Goldsmith
Clash Of The Titans - Ramin Djawadi
Ender's Game - Steve Jablonsky
Exodus: Gods And Kings - Alberto Iglesias
Mission To Mars - Ennio Morricone
Pacific Rim - Ramin Djawadi
Robin Hood - Marc Streitenfeld
Wolf - Ennio Morricone
Man Of Steel - Hans Zimmer

+ quite a few Brian Tylers who generally doesn't seem to get much love.


EDIT: On further thought, maybe Lalo Schifrin's Bullitt meets the OP's criteria of a score I like, but don't generally like the composer's output, but I don't know what the general consensus towards Bullitt is on here, and whether I should be enjoying it in secret (I would suspect it's fairly popular).

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 11:56 AM   
 By:   Timmer   (Member)

Bullit is a classic score with one of the great iconic themes, nothing guilty about it at all.

 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 12:17 PM   
 By:   BTTFFan   (Member)

Commando - Horner
Mortal Kombat - George Clinton
Rain Man - Zimmer
The Island - Jablonsky (We need a complete score for this one)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction - Jablonsky
The Tansporter - Stanley Clarke
National Treasure - Rabin
The Fifth Element - Serra
The Taking of Pelham 123: Gregson-Williams
Oblivion: M83





 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 12:29 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I have no guilty scores. I either like what I hear or I don't. Even if 99% of the time I dislike a composer's work, I don't dismiss anything outright.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 12:34 PM   
 By:   Spymaster   (Member)

Mr Baseball.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 1:32 PM   
 By:   connorb93   (Member)

Mom and Dad Save The World

 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 2:45 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

Red Tails - Terence Blanchard


Completely-inorganic-to-the-period techno music + overbearing choral work = I'm not exactly sure, but it's an interesting listen. (Don't get me wrong; I love Blanchard's work - INSIDE MAN, especially - but I'm not sure what the reasoning behind these choices could've been.)

Paul Haslinger - The Three Musketeers


The first track sounds just like "Mind Heist". The rest bounces between take-offs of SHERLOCK HOLMES and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Much like the film, the score is pretty shameless about its inspirations, but it's surprisingly fun, all the same.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 5:27 PM   
 By:   daretodream   (Member)

Soapdish by Silvestri.

 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 7:34 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

The Mummy Returns - Alan Silvestri.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 10:31 PM   
 By:   John Black   (Member)

Robert O. Ragland's THE YOUNG GRADUATES (1971), with the incredibly cheesy theme song "Young Love, Like Shallow Water, Never Runs Deep" which is heard repeatedly throughout the film.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 11:04 PM   
 By:   barryfan   (Member)

Die Hard

I find most of Kamen's stuff to be bland and uninspired. But Die Hard is in my Top Ten of all time.

 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 11:12 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)



http://www.beatrecords.it/shop.asp?idprodotto=CDCR71&lingua=e






 
 Posted:   Jun 13, 2015 - 11:43 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Seconded on "The Fifth Element".


Other scores I know are nothing the general community will like or that I know are not great scores but I love nontheless:

"Jake Speed" (Mark Snow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNPl8MBc4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2N--O31T1U


"Sheena" (Richard Hartley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHs7FsWg1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_QLKkJyXw


And the power anthem from the otherwise terrible effort "Rent-a-Cop" (Goldsmith).

 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 12:14 AM   
 By:   BTTFFan   (Member)

The Mummy Returns - Alan Silvestri.

wat?

 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 12:31 AM   
 By:   The Thing   (Member)

"Sheena" (Richard Hartley)


I really like this one as well... I didn't it realise it wasn't too popular.

 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 5:53 AM   
 By:   Mister L   (Member)

Javier Navarrete's "Wrath of the Titans"!! (Yes, genuinely)
.


I somehow knew this was coming as i bashed it on the other thread...
But i'm happy you like it! As i said, i'm willing to give it a chance again. After all, i've
listened to it only once.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 6:10 AM   
 By:   paulhickling   (Member)

I have no guilty scores. I either like what I hear or I don't. Even if 99% of the time I dislike a composer's work, I don't dismiss anything outright.

Quite right. I was about to add The Lone Ranger by Hanz Zimmer purely based on what folks said about the film, and just before I read your post thought "no dammit, I LOVE it!, why should I feel guilty?"

And that goes for the movie too. Now maybe Hawk the Slayer by Harry Robertson..

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 6:19 AM   
 By:   Willgoldnewtonbarrygrusin   (Member)

How about John Barry´s "Star Crash"?

Right now, I get the feeling that Giacchino´s "Jurassic World" might qualify - people here look down on it, while I absolutely enjoy it the more I listen to it.

 
 Posted:   Jun 14, 2015 - 6:22 AM   
 By:   the_limited_edition_2   (Member)

Jerrold Immel's MEGAFORCE comes to mind, though it's not actually a "bad" score. Just a mega-funky one.

Richard Einhorn's SISTER, SISTER. That one *is* a bad score, a pale Herrmann imitation. But I like it. smile

Jay Chattaway's RED SCORPION. Anything by Jay Chattaway is bound to be a guilty pleasure, cause he's a terrible composer, really. But it's kind of groovy still.

Mark Snow's JAKE SPEED - representing a truckload of hilariously antiquated 1980s electronic scores that are still fun on a non-aesthetic level.

Bill Conti's THE RIGHT STUFF - just for its outrageous rip-offs. But that Tchaikovsky VC passage will no doubt give you goosebumps.

Yeah, and I thought about John Barry's STAR CRASH, too - Unfortunately, his music isn't much different from what he usually did - It's just the film that's a guilty pleasure. Go figure.

 
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