01. Opening Overture 02. Air Raid / Office Raid 03. Kidnapped / Galleon Dog Fight 04. Floating / Neverland Ahoy! 05. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Cast from Pan 06. Blitzkrieg Bop – Cast from Pan 07. Murmurs of Love and Death 08. Mine Escape 09. Inverted Galleon 10. Neverbirds 11. Something’s Not Right – Lily Allen 12. Tramp Stamp 13. Origin Story 14. Pirates vs Natives vs Heroes vs Chickens 15. Crocodiles and Mermaids 16. A Warrior’s Fate 17. Flying Ship Fight 18. A Boy Who Could Fly 19. Transfiguration 20. Fetching the Boys 21. Little Soldier – Lily Allen
I love Powell’s music. I think because he’s been given so many animated movies, it has become easy to pick out some of his signature sounds. It is rather easy to spot Goldsmith, Bernstein and Thomas Newman’s signature sounds. Artists develop their personal styles. I thought the two Pan cues sounded somewhat similar to his HTTYD scores, and that is good for me. I loved those scores. Also, we shouldn’t forget that he can branch out into other genres like his understated but powerfully dramatic score for United 93 or his lovely melodies for the comedy Two Weeks Notice.
Sorry, but I’ve never bought a Marianelli score. Nothing he’s composed has resonated with me the way Powell’s music has.
My favorite Powell cue is The Fire Truck from Evolution. I never tire of listening to it. I’d love to hear mores cues like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcyZ_VnLEgw
I'm kinda bummed about this. I really thought Powell would knock this out of the park, but I found a lot of it really annoying in a 2000-era Zimmer kid's movie way. There were a few cues that rose above that, but the stuff toward the beginning especially just turned me off. It's not bad, necessarily, it's just - like someone just pointed out - kinda generic.
Well, first listen I like it. This is a fun romp. Very similar to his Ice Age and Shrek scores which I love. Yeah, it borders on early 90's Zimmer. (That's not a bad thing always.)
But there's certainly sections that are pretty uplifting. It's rich with thematic material even if it's a bit synthy sounding. Love the little bits with the piano, nice touch.
I haven't listened to the samples yet, but as awful as this film looked, the anachronistic use of Nirvana and the Ramones on their flying pirate ship took it down yet another notch. And I thought I was out of notches!
Good score or not, those awful songs means no buying for me.
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Cast of Pan (2:11) 6. Blitzkrieg Bop - Cast of Pan (:58) 11. Something's Not Right - Lily Allen and Tim Rice-Oxley (3:20) 21. Little Soldier - Lily Allen and Tim Rice-Oxley (2:37)
That comes to 9:06 out of a 69:49 album. And isn't that (one reason) why the fast-forward button and the ability to buy tracks we want digitally were invented? (If Gunmen had come out nowadays John Debney fans could just get his one-minute cut via download without having to go through the rest of the album.)
As they are incorporated into the score I don't think of them as songs in the traditional sense, more like chants.
They are still tracks with vocals that don't belong on a score album. Though I don't know why anyone is surprised considering Powell left that one song in the middle of HTTYD2. Sure only one versus 4 but still.
As they are incorporated into the score I don't think of them as songs in the traditional sense, more like chants.
They are still tracks with vocals that don't belong on a score album. Though I don't know why anyone is surprised considering Powell left that one song in the middle of HTTYD2. Sure only one versus 4 but still.
That makes no sense. Some songs fit organically into a film score. Should they have left off " Can You Read My Mind?" from Superman?
Or at least put them at the end. They are a huge jarring change to the rest of the score when it is otherwise completely orchestral. But hey they rarely leave off the source cues either. A man can dream.