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The thing with Horner is that he comes from the Corman factory, and they just went and re-used music in whole to save money, so that may have gotten him in the mindset where he just steals from himself all the time. He's got his strengths, Star Trek II's music is amazing. One neat thing about Howard Shore is that for the LOTR films he did a lot of the orchestration/arrangement as well. For the Rohan theme he used the Swedish fiddle, which has sympathetic strings, to give it that quivery feel which fits the mood so well. I really want to track down a version of the Fellowship score with the actual opening cue. It always bugs me when soundtracks on CD are "off" from what's in the movie- they'll often miss out my favorite part. (The exception to this is Morricone's soundtrack to Orca, where the CD leaves off the godawful end vocal and the final theme is just pure orchestral beauty.)
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Okay, I'm not going to rest until I figure out what music it was on the old public domain releases of the 1924 Thief of Baghdad. All the Youtube rips use either the organ score or more recent restorations of the "proper" music, or Rimsky-Korsakov, but what I remember on the Goodtimes version is way different- an assortment of a lot of fairly loud and busy "Arabian!" themes, presumably as close to actual Arabic music as the movie is to actual Arabic myth.
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Stare-Out posted:So Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" score won a Grammy yesterday, beating such scores as Williams' "Tintin" score, Zimmer's "The Dark Knight Rises" and Austin Wintory's "Journey" score (the first video game score ever to be nominated in the category) but aside from my personal views on the particular score, what puzzles me is how a score from 2011 won or was indeed even nominated when every other entry was from 2012 as one might expect, seeing as how it was the 2013 Grammy awards. Any reasoning behind that? Probably depends on when the soundtrack album came out? Maybe the Grammys have a weird window for it, since Tintin was 2011 too.
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Feb 12, 2013 02:46
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Okay, how long has Howard Shore's score for Cronenberg's Dead Ringers been on iTunes? I'd been looking for that one for ages.
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Nov 14, 2014 19:44
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Appropriate to the thread title, loved Zimmer's work for Interstellar. It's a bit more melodic than his other Nolan scores but has a cool 2001 vibe.
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Dec 6, 2014 05:25
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Skoll posted:Favorite James Horner score? Has to be this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoit0OdKt-I
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Jun 29, 2016 21:08
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The puns are glorious. Never stop.
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Dec 23, 2016 18:48
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Was pleasantly surprised to see Daniel Pemberton's name pop up as the music credit for Guy Ritchie's (not bad) King Arthur. A long ways back Pemberton did the music for The Movies, a game about running your own studio and making little mini movies, so it was all sound-alikes and genre riffs; after support for the game kinda fizzled out, the music was sold to some outfit or another (I wanna say BMG) and gets licensed out as stock cues now and again (I hear it on Archer sometimes.) Anyway he's done a lot since then and does a fine job here.
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May 25, 2017 09:20
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Horner started out working for Roger Corman so he really internalized the lesson that you should recycle whenever you can.
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It's this for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebD6egH8N4Q The only other composer I can think of who comes close in terms of like, scope and breadth of career and influence and all the styles they managed to compose in, is Bernard Hermann. It's that level of iconic.
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