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Oct 22, 2015 - 11:33 AM
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GoblinScore
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I don't have much to add other than to further profess love for this score. It really is a beauty. A little bit of Ralph Vaughn Williams, a little Thomas Newman, but wholly "Elfmanesque" through and through. I especially love the last two tracks: The way he segues from the heartbreaking and sweepingly lyrical angst of the finale into the incredibly bouncy and fun recapitulation of the earlier era-building banjo/percussion/brassy stuff for the end credits. Such aplomb in that music! It's a wild tone change that shouldn't work, but does, and brilliantly so. Great score and one that should belong in any film music aficionado's library. Indeed Elfman was on fire during this time. I'm also probably the only person on earth who loves ARTICLE 99! x2 I played Article a LOT back then, since....well we didn't have the surplus of cds we do now! I still revisit it from time to time, and never get bored, still find it a very strong album, RIP Shirley Walker, her touch is very evident here. Ditto Sommersby, but the monothematic nature of that one (and the pretty weak, distant sound quality), isn't holding up as well as the aforementioned. Not that they have to compete or anything, just saying.... -Sean
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Oct 22, 2015 - 11:46 AM
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bobbengan
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Ditto Sommersby, but the monothematic nature of that one (and the pretty weak, distant sound quality), isn't holding up as well as the aforementioned. Not that they have to compete or anything, just saying.... -Sean Interesting that you don't like Sommersby's sonics - I find them pretty strong, with the strings beautifully lush strings and resounding horns at the onset of the finale especially great-sounding. Mind you, it was pre-24 bit recoding technology that would follow in the next few years, so who knows what a new remaster almost 23 years later might yield... Having only caught the last ten minutes or so of the film on TV, is anything truly noteworthy missing from the album? Feels just long enough as is. Also - Has anyone noticed how similar this score is to Lee Holdridge's OLD GRINGO, both in tone and instrumentation, never mind the film's shared era and backdrop? I wonder if that score served as temp here. Not trying to churn dirt, just an observation.
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