I'd never heard a note of this before and was curious how 20 + year old Giacchino sounds. It's okay, enthusiastic for sure I suppose, but also a little thin-sounding and, as some else said, kinda corny. I assume these are not exactly the best cuts of the album though, either:
This was during that narrow window of time were a lot of "budget" recordings were done with the Northwest Sinfonia up in Seattle... A recording phenomenon that seemed to come and go within just a few short years. I guess the Graunke (Munich) Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood's other go-to budget ensemble in the mid-80's to early 90's, was getting too pricey around this time!
Hi Yavar! Thanks for your response. BTW, I hope I didn't offend you in the JURASSIC PARK III thread yesterday.
Why would you have offended me, Henry? (I never find you offensive, by the way...at the worst you can get excessively enthusiastic about Bill Conti, but that's about it lol...)
Yavar
Yeah, Henry - you’ll be doing a Conti podcast next
This is in reference to the original Sonic Images release, but the re-release by BSX may have been an exact duplication of that release. Perhaps someone who has both can tell us.
Track 19. The Primordial Forest 2:08
- is actually 16:51 long. Can anyone familiar with the game identify the cues making up this extended track?
0:00 - 2:08 I assume this is The Primordial Forest track. 2:09 - 3:09 silence 3:10 - 7:18 first jungle-y sounding cue. 7:19 - 11:24 second jungle-y sounding cue 11:25 - 15:35 third jungle-y sounding cue
(and these are my favorite tracks on the CD)
15:36 - 16:51 (end of the track). This is a parade-style or circus-style march somewhat at odds stylistically with the rest of the track.
Not sure what the bonus track was but I’m happy to hear this game mentioned! I always loved this score, even though the game was too difficult. It was always a great showcase of Giacchino’s skills.
As I recalled, the game had some pretty playful music at times depending on what kind of dinosaur you were and what was happening in the level (if you played as T-Rex, there was heavy, lumbering, bombastic music that was terrifying as you ate people). But there were some levels where you played as a human and faced off against T-Rexs and the music was kind of silly, like Ira Newborn or Elmer Bernstein-style comical heroism which was kind of goofy? But I wouldn't have called it circusy.
This video has some of that stuff if you skip ahead to 1 hour, 56 min and 27 seconds into it and playing over the credits is the same music:
Oh wow, I guess I never fully completed the game because I never saw this cutscene but apparently there was this funny cameo with Jeff Goldblum, you'll have to jump ahead to 1:48 to see it:
The game was pretty difficult but I did always enjoy the music. One of the best game soundtracks at the time because it was all live orchestra (I think).
Thank you Mr. T. Park. There are 2 pages of liner notes, one page by composer Giacchino, and one page by Executive Producer Patrick Gilmore. The notes by Gilmore concern the original test track "Aisle of the Giants", (tr. 9 on the CD), and its subsequent acceptance by the producers. The last paragraph states,
"Michael went on to produce the remaining 18 pieces for the game."
Making the 19 tracks listed on the CD. But whether he actually knew how many pieces there were, or he just looked at the preliminary track list for the CD, or there are 19 scenarios in the game. (?)
