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Sorry to have been vague: I have the "9/30/55" soundtrack -- which is wonderful -- and thought of listing that instead. However, as Thor didn't specify that there had to be a CC recording available of the original tracks for our choices, I had in mind the great old Imperial LP #9021.
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Oops my bad. Just reread the rules -- NO COMPILATIONS! I'll revise my list to now include "Cross Creek" instead of "Rebel". Now on with the game. Please ignore me!
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May 23, 2010 - 11:01 AM
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mastadge
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Basil Poledouris, The Touch -- Basil is my favorite movie composer, and my favorite score is Conan the Barbarian, but that's too easy. It was tough for me to choose between his two wonderful but largely unheralded adventure scores, The Jungle Book and The Touch, but ultimately I went with The Touch, which, with its wonderful return to a huge fantasy canvas, I think brought his unfortunately truncated career full circle. Patrick Doyle, Henry V -- On the whole I don't think it's his strongest, or most coherently presented, score, but "St. Crispin's Day" is still one of the most ennobling pieces of film scoring I've heard. John Powell, Paycheck -- I know there's a lot of love for HTTYD and X3, but to my taste his best score is still this awesome score. Danny Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas -- I generally don't like songs in my scores, but for this I make an exception -- the songs are playful and catchy, and the score simply sings. John Barry, The Last Valley -- I'm not a big Barry fan; his "lusher" scores mostly bore me, and I've never been much interested in James Bond scores. But some of Barry's earlier stuff, like The Lion in Winter and The Last Valley, works just fine for me. James Horner, An American Tail -- Speak not to me of Prokofiev. I know. Even so. I love James Horner, from his early scores right up to the present day. But one of my very favorite cues of his is the beautiful "Main Title" from An American Tail -- I rarely listen to the rest of the score, because the songs, while fun, are a bit intrusive, but I've listened to the Main Title about a thousand times. Mychael Danna, The Nativity Story -- Often overlooked, probably because the film bombed, but this is stunning score. Alexandre Desplat, Casanova -- Perversely, as much as I love Desplat, my favorite score with his name on it has only a few minutes of his music; the rest are lovely selections from Baroque composers both well-known and obscure, and it makes a fantastic and uplifting listening experience. Joel McNeely, Shadows of the Empire -- Also perversely, my favorite film score by McNeely is the film score without a film. An epic science fiction adventure score that, surprisingly, sounds less like pastiche than most of his actual film scores! Hans Zimmer, The Peacemaker -- I spent a lot of years first hating this score, then not caring. Then, all of a sudden about six months ago, I started loving it. Complex and sophisticated it is not. But it has tons of energy and momentum, which carries me through boring academic articles roughly twice as fast as any other music!
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Oct 2, 2011 - 11:35 AM
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FrankL
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I tried to leave the obvious choices out. There are still some though, but here they are: ALAN SILVESTRI - THE ABYSS One of my all time favorite scores. Great mood. ALEXANDRE DESPLAT - THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Gentle, a bit odd, but very beautiful. Contains the brilliant "Sunrise On Lake Pontchartrain". DAVID ARNOLD - CASINO ROYALE/QUANTUM OF SOLACE I really like the new Bond scores by Arnold. Some great themes and pounding action. ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL - ALIEN 3 A dirty, scary score. Goldenthal is brilliant at that. I really like his brass. FRANCOIS DE ROUBAIX - LE SAMOURAI Off beat, but very effective. GUY FARLEY - CASHBACK Beautiful piano. HANS ZIMMER & JAMES NEWTON HOWARD - BATMAN BEGINS I've loved this score from the first time I listened to it. There are no instantly recognizable themes, but they're there. I love the way the orchestra sounds. As much as I like Elfman's Batman, I think this is really Batman's sound. JAMES HORNER - AVATAR It's like a 'best of' album. Horner uses things from his past and creates a great experience. JOHN WILLIAMS - JURASSIC PARK My youth in music. It's majestic, scary, and the themes. Oh, the theme that starts at 4:36 of the "Welcome To Jurassic Park" track. I might be my favorite theme of all time. THOMAS NEWMAN - WALL-E I almost picked "Angels In America" because I love the main title so much. But WALL-E is my favorite Pixar movie. Newman is fantastic. The track "2815 AD" takes you there. "Eve" makes you swoon. "First Date" makes you feel like you're in love for the first time.
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To Thor- If it is alright i will do this half way, because picking my favorite 10 composers right now is hard, so let me pick number one for ten that i like or are popular-Barry-The last valley-tie- with Walkabout- they both take me to a nicer level of being 2-Morricone- so hard but i still will go with The island-80- oh so pretty, pretty pretty.3-Delerue-oh my- still gotta go with Agnus of God-85-4-Rozsa-King of Kings-sublime-5-Goldsmith-Powder-95- so touching and beautiful.6-Herrmann-Psycho-60- so effective and driving 7-Bernard- Taste the blood of Dracula-70-Perfect pretty melody-8-Baxter-Tales of terror[end theme-63- what a emotional driving piece-9-Horner-Cocoon-85- very memorable and pretty-10-Steiner-Band of angels-57- so regal and nice and lovely. With this i don't want to stop, can do a 100 now , but i will stop.
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BERNARD HERRMANN - Vertigo (McNeely, RSNO) - Not only one of his greatest achievements, but also the most eloquent and representative expression of Herrmann's particular brand of romanticism JERRY GOLDSMITH: Planet of the Apes (OST) - The quintessential "modernist" Goldsmith score MIKLÓS RÓZSA: Ivanhoe (Broughton, SoL) - A score that shows Rózsa at his best, from sumptuous romantic themes to sturdy battle music ALFRED NEWMAN: The Song of Bernadette (OST) - The most Newman-esque of all Newman scores, and a project obviously dear to his heart ELMER BERNSTEIN: To Kill a Mockingbird (Bernstein, RSNO) - More than The Magnificent Seven or his other Western scores, TKaM expresses Bernstein's idea of lyrical Americana ALEX NORTH: Spartacus (OST, complete) - A magnificent album, one of the few epic scores that truly deserves a complete release JOHN WILLIAMS: Star Wars, "The Empire Strikes Back" (OST) - The most complete film composer in history throws in everything, including the kitchen sink. My own very first soundtrack album. HUGO FRIEDHOFER: The Best Years of Our Lives (Collura, LPO) - Sublime Americana score on a concert music level. Taken seriously by critics at a time when hardly any other film music was taken seriously MAURICE JARRE: Lawrence of Arabia (OST) - Fireworks upon fireworks upon fireworks in this classic "exotic symphonic" adventure score. BRUCE BROUGHTON: Young Sherlock Holmes (OST) - An endlessly inventive comedy-adventure score, and my own all-time personal favorite
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John Barry- The Knack Roy Budd- The Stone Killer Jerry Goldsmith- The Russia House Ennio Moricone-Un Uomo Da Rispettare Lalo Schifrin- Dirty Harry James Horner-Flightplan Henry Mancini- Arabesque Ken Thorne- Hannie Caulder John Williams- Nixon Michel Legrand- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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Oct 3, 2011 - 11:26 AM
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Jon Broxton
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To Thor- If it is alright i will do this half way, because picking my favorite 10 composers right now is hard, so let me pick number one for ten that i like or are popular-Barry-The last valley-tie- with Walkabout- they both take me to a nicer level of being 2-Morricone- so hard but i still will go with The island-80- oh so pretty, pretty pretty.3-Delerue-oh my- still gotta go with Agnus of God-85-4-Rozsa-King of Kings-sublime-5-Goldsmith-Powder-95- so touching and beautiful.6-Herrmann-Psycho-60- so effective and driving 7-Bernard- Taste the blood of Dracula-70-Perfect pretty melody-8-Baxter-Tales of terror[end theme-63- what a emotional driving piece-9-Horner-Cocoon-85- very memorable and pretty-10-Steiner-Band of angels-57- so regal and nice and lovely. With this i don't want to stop, can do a 100 now , but i will stop. I don't mean to be rude or picky, but you really need to acquaint yourself with the enter key and the period. Your run-on-sentences-with-no-punctuation-and-never-pausing-for-breath-for-the-reader-to-comprehend-where-one-thought-ends-and-one-thought-begins.... Well, let's just say it makes reading your posts very difficult sometimes. Oh, and to answer the original question, here are my favorite scores by my 10 favorite composers: 1 HORNER - Legends of the Fall 2 WILLIAMS - The Empire Strikes Back 3 GOLDSMITH - The Final Conflict 4 BARRY - Dances With Wolves 5 DESPLAT - The Golden Compass 6 DELERUE - Agnes of God 7 YOUNG - Murder in the First 8 POLEDOURIS - Conan the Barbarian 9 ELFMAN - Edward Scissorhands 10 KILAR - The Portrait of a Lady
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