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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6      General Discussion: Goldsmith's FIRST KNIGHT    FIRST   PRIOR   4 5 6       Last Post   Posted:   Dec 23, 2007 - 9:15 AM     By:   LeHah   (Member) Thought that was you! Just wanted to make sure. Cheers.    Posted:   Dec 23, 2007 - 10:45 AM     By:   MichaelM   (Member) The finale alone is better than anything I've heard in the movies in the last few years - It actually makes you feel like you've just watched a great movie (which FIRST KNIGHT certainly wasn't).    Posted:   May 14, 2015 - 9:28 PM     By:   RM Eastman   (Member) I have not listened to "FK" in quite a while. Today I did spend a few hours listening to this baby and I'm convinced now that this Goldsmith Masterwork is one of the most gorgeous scores I have ever heard! It Is ravishing beautiful music.    Posted:   May 16, 2015 - 6:40 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) I have not listened to "FK" in quite a while. Today I did spend a few hours listening to this baby and I'm convinced now that this Goldsmith Masterwork is one of the most gorgeous scores I have ever heard! It Is ravishing beautiful music. it is on my 'top 40' of all-time list [see profile] It sounds even better when you use my resequenced playlist brm    Posted:   May 16, 2015 - 6:43 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) I, for one, enjoyed the movie very much and plan to get the DVD soon. I thought Goldsmith's rousing score complimented the film very nicely. And of course, King Arthur seems to be a role Connery was born to play. Sure, Richard Gere is no Englishman, but at least he doesn't attempt an accent. FYI: Lancelot was French so no need to speak with any accent, dammitt! brm    Posted:   May 16, 2015 - 10:09 PM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) It's a very solid and enjoyable effort from a period when Goldsmith was hot or cold for me. Thankfully synths take a very ancillary role in this one, which I'm grateful for - I've voiced my opinion on Goldsmith's use of synths elsewhere. I'd rank it a little behind THE EDGE and POWDER but it gets decent airtime around here. Sound quality on the expanded La-La Land edition freaking rocks and definitely adds to the re-listenability.    Posted:   May 16, 2015 - 10:28 PM     By:   RM Eastman   (Member) I'd rank it a little behind THE EDGE and POWDER but it gets decent airtime around here." I would rank it way above "THE EDGE" and "POWDER", although I love all three scores.    Posted:   May 16, 2015 - 10:37 PM     By:   RM Eastman   (Member) In case some are not aware, the complete 2CD set is still available from Intrada.    Posted:   May 17, 2015 - 3:08 AM     By:   Mike West   (Member) One of the great revelations on the new 2CD release was to discover this great theme for Lancelot, which was I think entirely absent from the original soundtrack album. Back in the old days I listened to often to a few of the tracks on the first album release, but to hear that theme coming this often as an important cornerstone of the score is great. A truly symphonic score.    Posted:   May 17, 2015 - 3:00 PM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) Bob, First Knight was I believe Goldsmith's first all-orchestral score since King Solomon's Mines. There is not a single synth in it, unlike (I am pretty sure) both Powder and The Edge, which have them subtly. (I may be wrong about the Edge.) Yavar    Posted:   Aug 31, 2019 - 12:51 PM     By:   johnonymous86   (Member) Bob, First Knight was I believe Goldsmith's first all-orchestral score since King Solomon's Mines. There is not a single synth in it, unlike (I am pretty sure) both Powder and The Edge, which have them subtly. (I may be wrong about the Edge.) Yavar There are no synths in The Edge. The twinkling rhythms during the movement shots are all done with winds and piano. The lack of synthetic instruments was probably to avoid simulating any sort of "civilized" or technological sounds to further the isolated tone of the score. I have to agree that FK is slightly better than The Edge (which has one of my favorite all-time Goldsmith cues with "Bitter Coffee"). I think the use of choir at the end just gut punched me the first time I heard it--like--without the choir it would have still been a magnificent achievement but when they come barging in at the end, it really elevates this score to epic levels. I would venture to say it's maybe my favorite of the Goldsmith 90s catalog, which is the period I am most familiar with so that is saying something. I managed to snag an unmentionable back in the day at a questionable college town record store and I've always been happy with the sound quality and presentation. Is there any advantage to getting the LaLa Land version?    Posted:   Aug 31, 2019 - 1:01 PM     By:   The Mutant   (Member) Bob, First Knight was I believe Goldsmith's first all-orchestral score since King Solomon's Mines. There is not a single synth in it, unlike (I am pretty sure) both Powder and The Edge, which have them subtly. (I may be wrong about the Edge.) Yavar There are no synths in The Edge. The twinkling rhythms during the movement shots are all done with winds and piano. The lack of synthetic instruments was probably to avoid simulating any sort of "civilized" or technological sounds to further the isolated tone of the score. I have to agree that FK is slightly better than The Edge (which has one of my favorite all-time Goldsmith cues with "Bitter Coffee"). I think the use of choir at the end just gut punched me the first time I heard it--like--without the choir it would have still been a magnificent achievement but when they come barging in at the end, it really elevates this score to epic levels. I would venture to say it's maybe my favorite of the Goldsmith 90s catalog, which is the period I am most familiar with so that is saying something. I managed to snag an unmentionable back in the day at a questionable college town record store and I've always been happy with the sound quality and presentation. Is there any advantage to getting the LaLa Land version? Bitter Coffee is great. Reminds me of parts of Alien when they are trekking to the derelict. As I recall, the boot is actually missing some stuff that appears on the LLL version, and the sound is superior. If you like the score that much, definitely pick it up.    Posted:   Aug 31, 2019 - 1:29 PM     By:   GoblinScore   (Member) Seconded, get the LLL if you like the score as much as you say...and there is the whole 'legit is better' some folks maintain....definitely better sound, great booklet, just classy. The single irritant I have to add which should NOT be taken as a selling point, is I got so used to the Ambush cue in a certain spot (it's a CD2 alternate on LLL) the final version in the main program on LLL threw me (and its inferior IMO because it just reprises the Raid action material). Easily programmed or corrected. Plus you get the old 40min album to remind you how far we've come and how good we got it!    Posted:   Aug 31, 2019 - 2:15 PM     By:   gyorgyL   (Member) Bitter Coffee is great. Reminds me of parts of Alien when they are trekking to the derelict. IMHO it sounds more like Outland     General Discussion: Goldsmith's FIRST KNIGHT    << < 4 5 6  >   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6

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