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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      General Discussion: Score Rewind- Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 30, 2009 - 6:44 AM     By:   DavidCoscina   (Member) I started listening to this again the other day and what was initially an average outing (IMO) for Mr. Goldsmith when I first heard it back in 1993 has become a much more impressive effort. Even though this is after his vow to streamline his sound, I really enjoy the writing, including the synth stuff. The love theme is gorgeous and while it has some harmonic similarities to John Barry's style, Goldsmith's resolutions and modulations are more akin to his own style. Fantastic score.    Posted:   Sep 30, 2009 - 7:36 AM     By:   AlexCope   (Member) Before I started collecting soundtracks and knew the names of more film composers than John Williams, I found the propulsive end title music of Medicine Man so striking that I copied it on cassette. Only later, when I discovered Jerry Goldsmith, did I look at the man's filmography and go, "OH. HE scored that. Well that makes sense." This happened many times when I was first learning about Goldsmith. That said, I've never really considered the score a personal favorite. "The Trees" is fantastic, and there are a few other cues I enjoy, such as the aforementioned end title theme, but it's not an album I play often. Hard to put my finger on why. Maybe because it just doesn't have enough "edge" to it. I should give it another listen.    Posted:   Sep 30, 2009 - 8:05 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) We've had a few MEDICINE MAN threads before. Here's one where I give my own opinion (very positive!): http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=7081&forumID=1&archive=1    Posted:   Jun 25, 2010 - 5:07 PM     By:   mdh721   (Member) Holy cow, this score is GORGEOUS!! Soaring and delicate and yet propulsive when it needs to be. If I remember correctly it was around this time that Jerry started to streamline his sound and moved from pencil/paper into sequencers. The man is a musical genius and despite his change in approach/style could still write better film music than most composers today (regardless of what tools he used). It's through the discovery of some of these underrated gems that is causing Goldsmith to move to my #1 spot as favorite composer.    Posted:   Jun 25, 2010 - 5:43 PM     By:   gone   (Member) Medicine Man was a score that got me acquainted with Goldsmith and film scores in general, along with some other 90's nature drama music of his (The Ghost & The Darkness, The Edge, etc). It's kinda hard to believe that was 1992. I remember seeing a late night interview with Sean Connery who related how the Mexican tropical rainforest was not his favorite environment to hang out in, contrary to his character's occupation.    Posted:   Jun 25, 2010 - 6:14 PM     By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member) Fabulous score.Am listening to it right now. One of Jerry's best!!    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 1:06 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) As much as I like the love theme and indigenous music, the threatening synth/percussion cues are a delight and I always look forward to when they kick in. Especially the buildups and menacing rhythm!    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 1:52 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) Certainly one of my favourite scores from Mr. Goldsmith - highly enjoyable and interesting enough for repeated plays (unlike many of his other scores).    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 3:36 AM     By:   joffa   (Member) Certainly one of my favourite scores from Mr. Goldsmith - highly enjoyable and interesting enough for repeated plays (like many of his other scores). Fixed that for ya    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 6:22 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) Certainly one of my favourite scores from Mr. Goldsmith - highly enjoyable and interesting enough for repeated plays (like many of his other scores). Fixed that for ya ... 'fraid not. It's what keeps Mr. Goldsmith away from the top few places of my favourites' list. I like a lot of his music and I rarely find a score of his not worth owning/hearing but too often I haven't the staying power to stick with a complete score of his and I find I'm looking forward to playing something else. Medicine Man is a score I like from start to finish and is one I have to restrict myself from playing too often ... and there aren't that many JG scores I can say that about.    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 8:02 AM     By:   Josh "Swashbuckler" Gizelt   (Member) This is an amazing coincidence. I was just listening to this score yesterday! After listening to Outland so much and in expectation of The Edge (which finally just came), I wanted a change of pace but still be listening to Jerry, so I picked this score out as I had loaded it onto my iPod on a whim. I'm so glad that I did, because it's great fun. This score is yet another tribute to Goldsmith's versatility. I mean, the first time you heard this score, had you any idea what to expect? I remember a story, perhaps apocryphal, in which there Sean Connery met Jerry Goldsmith whilst working on The Russia House and expressed admiration for the ponytail, and that his hair style in this film was a direct result of that. I'm not sure I believe it, but Connery sure does look like he's sporting our boy's mane in this movie. I have to say that the movie itself is often maligned for its preachiness, but I enjoyed the colorful location photography and the eccentric relationship of the two leads. Not a brilliant film, but an entertaining one.    Posted:   Jun 26, 2010 - 8:04 AM     By:   Mr. Jack   (Member) This was one of the earliest Goldsmith scores I ever purchased (on cassette ) in the embryonic stage of my appreciation of film music. It's still a favorite.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2010 - 5:21 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) This was one of the earliest Goldsmith scores I ever purchased (on cassette ) in the embryonic stage of my appreciation of film music. It's still a favorite. Do you feel embarrassed, Mr. Jack, that you purchased a soundtrack in a medium/format other than the Compact Disc? How would you feel about getting the Columbia LP of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" after the movie was released? What about those folks who first starting collecting Goldsmith's soundtracks in the mid-'60s on those Mainstream records, such as "A Patch Of Blue" and "The Blue Max"? Yes, "Medicine Man" is a great Goldsmith soundtrack; I love it too. But do you think that a soundtrack from 1992 is "old" when we have film music from the 1930s to the present as legacies to appreciate?    Posted:   Jun 27, 2010 - 5:29 AM     By:   Suicide is imminent   (Member) .    Posted:   Jun 27, 2010 - 6:31 AM     By:   voiced   (Member) I remember a story, perhaps apocryphal, in which there Sean Connery met Jerry Goldsmith whilst working on The Russia House and expressed admiration for the ponytail, and that his hair style in this film was a direct result of that. I'm not sure I believe it, but Connery sure does look like he's sporting our boy's mane in this movie. It's true, Jerry told that story during his 1999 concerts in Scotland. - Tim    Posted:   Jun 27, 2010 - 7:05 AM     By:   Mr. Jack   (Member) I wasn't trying to slight the cassette format (or LPs), I just remember buying cassettes seeming so long ago...    Posted:   Mar 22, 2011 - 7:07 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) was John Barry's score dumped from this project and they decided to only keep his love theme?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2011 - 7:11 PM     By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member) The track, THE TREES is by far one of Jerry's BEST cues. THIS is the kind of film music I love, just soaring and beautiful. Melodies you just get swept away with.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2011 - 9:15 PM     By:   DeputyRiley   (Member) The track, THE TREES is by far one of Jerry's BEST cues. THIS is the kind of film music I love, just soaring and beautiful. Melodies you just get swept away with. "The Trees" -- definitely one of the top 5 most beautiful cues Jerry ever wrote -- and that's saying a lot. This entire score was one of my first Goldsmith CD's, probably my first non-action Goldsmith score I ever owned, and it remains one of my favorites to this day.    Posted:   Sep 1, 2013 - 12:44 PM     By:   JamesSouthall   (Member) I wrote a little retrospective review of this wonderful score, if anyone's interested: http://www.movie-wave.net/medicine-man/     General Discussion: Score Rewind- Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   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

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