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What do you think about Hans Zimmer's music?
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What do you think about Hans Zimmer's music?
From the early 90's till roughly 2005 he was on fire, the last 10 years he's hit and miss for me.
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What do you think about Hans Zimmer's music?
From the early 90's till roughly 2005 he was on fire, the last 10 years he's hit and miss for me.
Agreed!
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I was just listening to INCEPTION and found it to be a very interesting listen... it's put together like a "concept album" with all cues flowing into each other and it works very well. It's very much an independent soundscape he creates, yet the album does the music as written for the film justice.
Hans Zimmer is certainly one of the most influential film composers ever, he has done some terrific work. The "problem" with his approach is that it's been copied so often (by lesser composers) and that the "Zimmer" sound has become in certain ways the "only" sound, at least that's how it feels sometimes.
But Hans Zimmer himself has done some original and interesting film soundscapes.
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Nov 26, 2015 - 3:45 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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When he first came onto the scene, I found his music to be diverse and interesting.
As he became a McDonald's-like juggernaut of a music factory, I not only DON'T KNOW what Hans Zimmer does, but I now question WHAT HE DID back then.
Everything became a little too murky for me.
Why does LOTS of The Lion King (his Oscar Winner) sound more like Mark Mancina? I could apply this thought to countless others.
That whole POTC/Klaus Badelt mess shrouds things further.
Yes, he gives credit, but the line has blurred so much now, I honestly don't think we'll ever know what a true, stand-alone Hans Zimmer composition is (or was).
He's obviously a great manager/producer, but I'm not quite sure how good a film composer he is.
Ask me what I think of Stanley Myers, Shirley Walker, Mark Mancina, John Powell... 
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For me, his golden period was from 1988 to 1996. The last 20 years he has been hit or miss, and I don't really buy much of his stuff anymore. And he's working way too much.
But I'm looking forward to see him live in Hamburg next year.
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I don't..............
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