A stock music Sunbow compilation of Johnny Douglas/Rob Walsh's GI Joe/Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends/Dungeons & Dragons/Incredible Hulk/Transformers. I'm sure it'll fit half a CD.
Back in the day of LPs, this was actually a question. LPs usually were about 35 to 45 minutes long, and an audio cassette about 90 minutes. So I usually taped my vinyl records on 90 minute cassettes (so I could play them in the care and for more convenient playing) and tried to group them in a way that made sense (to me).
I remember I had John Williams THE TOWERING INFERNO and EARTHQUAKE on one cassette.
Other "companion score" cassette tapes I had:
Goldsmith: ALIEN / OUTLAND Bernstein: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN / THE GREAT ESCAPE Bernstein: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (not a perfect match, but I had to make do with what I had... the better companion score to Mockingbird would be RAMBLING ROSE)
Yeah, I did Alien and Outland on a single tape as well.
Also did...
Star Trek: TMP and Star Trek V of course.
First Blood and Rambo Part II. Tho I only liked bits of Rambo II so I later made a Rambo II and III sequence on side B of the tape (as the Rambo III album only had maybe 25 min.of score anyway).
The Dark Crystal and The Past Place on Earth.
The Bear and Quest For Fire (that was my entire Sarde collection at the time!).
Pair #2 Escape from The Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith) Crosscurrent (Jerry Goldsmith)
They both use that device from the first movement of Stravinsky's "Symphony in Three Movements," with the piano hitting percussive, shifting dominant 7th chords over a fairly steady pedal.
This never worked for me. I listen to what ever hits my mood, so it always ends up I'm interested in one of the two scores on a twofer but not both in the same sitting.
This never worked for me. I listen to what ever hits my mood, so it always ends up I'm interested in one of the two scores on a twofer but not both in the same sitting.
I think the idea of the thread is which scores we choose to pair in order to achieve a consistent mood.
War of the Worlds and Minority Report is the consistent one for me.
One score I wish I had a companion for is Big Trouble in Little China, as I'm always in the mood for more of the same when I listen to it. Not a huge Carpenter fan otherwise however, and the other scores of his that I've tried don't hit the same marks. I'm sure there must be something out there, I just haven't explored that style of score enough.
