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Aug 13, 2019 - 1:18 AM
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MusicMad
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On this forum I've written, time and again, how much I enjoy all of John Barry's scores and those post Dances with Wolves (1990) are no exception. Certainly his style changed - whose doesn't? - and those later scores became more symphonic, less jazz/pop-orientated.
Each and every time I play Swept from the Sea/Amy Foster (1997) it gets better ... , Mercury Rising (1998) is so good that it helps this film immeasurably (unlike the mundane additional music by Carter Burwell which is so wrong it detracts), Enigma (2001) is perfect (witness the long scene where the codebreakers are waiting for details of shipping losses ... it is the underscore which makes this scene work), Indecent Proposal (1993) has one of the loveliest, romantic scores of any film (again, a pivotal scene - when Robert Redford's character tells Demi Moore's character about the girl on the train ... it works because Barry gets the music spot-on) ...
... and I could list all the other works of the 1990s as being great examples of film scoring. For me, Ruby Cairo (1992) is slightly below par ... a fabulous theme but a little too repetitive for the full score.
But his best - my favourite of his scores from the 1990s - simply my favourite score from that decade: The Specialist (1994) ... nothing to do with JB007, for me, it's simply a wonderful, engrossing score (and I enjoy the film, too!)
It's a shame that Mr. Marshall can't hear the brilliance of these works ... his loss.
Mitch
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The Specialist & Playing By Heart.
No one comes close to John Barry.
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After 'Dances With Wolves' and in order.
Chaplin
Across The Sea Of Time
Playing By Heart
Indecent Proposal
The Specialist
Cry' The Beloved Country
Swept from the Sea
Mercury Rising
My Life
The Scarlet Letter
Enigma
Ruby Cairo
The thing is being a true John Barry Fan is really finding it hard not to like any of his work so I have put them in order that I like.
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Across The Sea of Time. Then Chaplin. In fact, "Across" is one of my all-time favorite Barry scores, regardless of era.
Mark T
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To be honest, I consider the 1990s, on balance, to be Barry's strongest decade after the 1960s.
Say what?!
The 70s:
WALKABOUT
KING KONG
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
MOONRAKER
THE LAST VALLEY
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS....
Music not Muzak!
The 80s:
BODY HEAT
HAMMETT
THE.LIVING DAYLIGHTS....
I rate Dances With Wolves higher than any of those (except possibly The Last Valley), and consider Ruby Cairo, The Specialist, The Scarlet Letter and Playing By Heart every bit as good as the examples you listed.
Barry's "batting average" was also better in the 90s. Despite some gems in the 70s and 80s, they were offset by a lot of workmanlike efforts.
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He.never did anything worthwhile after DWW.
Why do you have to post this and the other mundane posts in this thread. Nothing positive about these for a question offered by the OP.
I remember everyone getting fed up with YOR....
That's my opinion.
If you don't like it , stuff it.
Have a nice day 
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I often wonder if I'd have been such a big John Barry fan if he's STARTED with Dances with Wolves, or perhaps Out of Africa. It's a tough question, because as sumptuous as this section of his output was, that kind of score is of less interest to me than those wonderful 60s scores that I grew up loving.
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You wouldn't, I wouldn't.
Even Woolston wouldn't.
His muzak period appeals to women and Golden Agers 
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Barry wrote some great " lush, symphonic, sumptuous, gorgeous.." Scores in the previous decades.
I listed them.
If you don't hear the diff. Between those great scores and his post OOA ones, you're not listening closely.
To each his own.
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Lots of good ones but Playing by Heart is my favourite - absolute A-grade John Barry gold.
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To all those who love the film music of John Barry don't waste your time replying to Mr.Marshall like I did. The man is here on this board to be a negative clown. It's my polite way of saying horse's ---.
What's with the personal insults, old timer?
Btw one has to.laugh at your use of the term ' negative'. You never stop whining about the.people on this board who don't like Golden Age music; calling them ignorant people who don't " know.what real music is"
You never stop criticizing labels.for not releasing music YOU want.
Look in the mirror, pops.
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I'm probably the.longest, most ardent Barry lover here.
I'm aiming my comments at younger listeners who may not.be familiar with early Barry.
Take it or leave it.
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Chaplin seems to be the only post-DWW one I was enthusiastic for.
Looking at a list of his music, I'm intrigued about a Brighton Rock musical circa 2004. Was this ever produced on stage?
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Cool it, please, folks. Being Respectful of differing opinions and free of insults would be ideal.
As for Barry, The Scarlet Letter is gorgeous!
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