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Oct 1, 2020 - 1:40 PM
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TominAtl
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I don't see this discussed that much anymore as best I could tell, was wondering if anyone still spins these from time to time and how they feel about the music, being it's basically a smorgasbord of episodic television. It's been years since I've gotten around to listening to these.
I am still struck by how it is a veritable who's who of composers from the 60's- 80's. It's amazing at who did work on this 3 year series at least once. In fact, about the only composers that were in high demand who didn't work on the series seems to John Barry and Maurice Jarre and Basil Poledouris. But love to see and hear Broughton, Goldenberg, Rubenstein, Addison, and even Fred Steiner thrown in for good measure to name some.
Funny enough though, my least favorite unfortunately falls to Goldsmith's "Boo!" episode, that he did for Joe Dante. It may work great in the show but I wouldn't care to listen to it again on CD.
The ones that really stood out to me the most, that I really enjoyed were are all on Volume 3 ironically -
Volume 3's - "The Mission" by Williams for Spielberg, which was one the best episode of all the season and the music is awesome.
Volume 3's - "Go To the Head of the Class" - Silvestri's serious score to a ghoulishly funny one by Robert Zemeckis.
Volume 3's - "Mirror, Mirror", an early Michael Kamen score for Martin Scorsese's horror show (I did not know he even directed an episode until recently). It sounds reminiscent of "The Dead Zone" but really cool in sound and tone and very creepy.
The series itself was a massive hit and miss in terms of quality. But overall, with a couple of exceptions. the music is a standout and from what I read Spielberg pulled out all of the stops in terms of budget and creative license.
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Oct 1, 2020 - 1:45 PM
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Thor
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Curiously, I can't remember having seen the show as a kid -- even though I was smack in the target audience (I was 8 when the series aired). Perhaps because it didn't air in Norway, I don't know.
But I've seen it in later years, of course, and really enjoy (most of) it.
I only have the first volume on CD, since that has the premiere of Williams ("Ghost Train"). The other two, I have in digital file format only. Now, my completism means that I should have gotten No. 3 on CD too, but I'm actually pleased with my version of "The Mission" on the 90s re-recording CD. So I don't need to 'double up' on that.
As you say, an incredibly impressive roster of composers that I doubt has been rivalled before or since.
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Yeah, these sets are great but alas I must concur about Goldsmith’s score to Boo being the most underwhelming of them all. I expected more from my favorite composer, especially considering all his fantastic work on anthology TV in the 50s and early 60s. It’s easily my least favorite score that he wrote for Dante and one of my least favorite Goldsmith scores overall.
Now Horner’s Alamo Jobe is a highlight you didn’t mention but a fantastic 10 minutes IMO.
Yavar
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It was a great set, and I'll be forever grateful to Intrada for going to all the trouble of releasing it. John Williams's contributions are the ones I return to most frequently, as well as Thomas Newman's "Santa '85"
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I could be wrong, but I think someone said on here once that Delerue got his Amazing Stories gig as part of the settlement for the main theme for The Color Purple having been "borrowed" from one of his old scores.
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Nice that Pat Metheny's and Thomas Newman's efforts are included in the set.
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