Posted on 01/08/2015 7:26:26 PM PST by Perdogg
With film awards season here, a string of new soundtrack albums are out now. Some are packed with old hits, others with dramatic scores for the big screen...
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Generally, all garbage with good stuff few an far between.
What do you recommend? I definitely recommend the music from “The Hobbit”.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ???
I have a preference for the old stuff.
Eric Wolfgang Korngold
Dimitri Tiomkin
Miklos Rozsa
Elmer Bernstein
Henry Mancini
Bernard Herrmann
It does not mean there are no good ones today, it just means I don’t watch the newer movies.
Fair question.
I recommend buying as little as possible from the major MSM music companies. When doing so, be frugal and download individual songs.
Explore older stuff. There is so much available from the entirety of recorded music history nowadays.
Current product is not the best, although there is always the rare good stuff.
I appreciate and support you love of the classics, as do I, I think “Aria” in Citizen Kane is one of the best and Ennio Morricone is one of the best ever.
I have everything from Elmer Berstine, Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer, Bernard Hermann, Ennio Morricone, John Williams, etc.
I think to just dismiss Howard Shore without listening is your choice, but is not legitimate to call it junk.
I’ll take the score from Hobbit..Howard Shore amazing.
Never been a fan of Coldplay or Radiohead.
Yeah.
I’m too cynical.
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Last 10 or so minutes of The Last of the Mohicans.
Anything Morricone.
I’d add James Horner, although he does recycle a lot of his stuff. But across his spectrum (pickie-choosie), he does weave spells.
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I hear you relative to those greats. But think too that you’re missing some pretty great modern scores.
IMHO of course.
I haven’t heard most of them, but based on Radiohead’s previous work I’m going to take a listen to the soundtrack from ‘Inherent Vice’.
I have heard Coldplay..... it is not music, just dreck.
I have one word to say about Coldplay:
Computerliebe.
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