Scott

PS. Of course he has to be good, we share the same name (ha,ha,ha. Just a little weekend humor. Gotta go to my martial arts class and kick some butt)

1) Ability to write thematically rich and varied music.

His style is usually full orchestra usally about 80 musicians, but ocassionaly he does insert some electronics, but not very often. He writes really big and memorable themes. As for choir, Antony and Cleopatra is only score I know of with choir.

But any if you are interested in John Scott, and want to test the waters, I recommend his score to "Far from Home: The Adevtures of Yellow Dog". Not only is that one of his best, but I think it kinda sums up his usually style.

Also I don't know if anyone has ever read them, or even know they exist, but last year I submitted a hand full of John Scott score reviews that I owned at the time. http://www.moviemusic.com/composer.asp?id=scottj check them out!

OH and ONE more Thing!
Don't think that sound clip from Walking Thunder sums up the whole score on the John Scott website. I don't know why that guy chose that one track to sample. But the rest of the score is nothing like that, its better!

mokey...you have got to be kidding me!!

Greystoke is one of John Scott's best film socres and Final Countdown is equally excellent.

I loved both of these scores long before I was lucky and priviledged enough to become a friend of John Scott.

I know we all have our tastes, but I think it is a damn shame that composers of the caliber of John Scott (as well as Bruce Broughton, Basil Poledouris and David Shire among others) are not getting the quality A-list assignments these days. They are so much better qualified than these Media Vultures...err...Ventures guys that are doing their usual schtick. (Sorry...it's ground covered here many times...but it's how I see it.)

Anyway...John Scott is a great guy. A gentleman with such a dry sense of humor as well as a class act all the way. He also is noted for orchestrating all his own work too. Very few composers bother to do that anymore...so you can't say it was someone else doing the work! AND he is also very gracious about getting his work out there for us to hear. How many other composers bother to put out their film scores on their own independent label, often at their own cost without making any profit??? I know Lalo Schifrin has done it, but I think John was the first.

I'm just thankful he is still writing such wonderful film scores and providing them to us to enjoy.

James

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Originally posted by Jeron:
I'm not really into pitting two composers against each other as far as who's more under-appreciated, but as anyone who knows me knows, I'll hang my Bruce Broughton flag up proud and tall any day.

Jeron

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I always thought the final track from Shergar kinda sounded like the Lionheart theme. And I think Jeron (I think it was him) said that the Lionheart theme was some kinda variation of a Goldsmith theme... but I never found it.

NP I am Dina

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Originally posted by monkey:
Ok, I really do want to get into Scott, but everytime I buy I new album of his, I`m just so ****ing dissapointed! He does compose fairly good themes but his action music (what I`ve heard of) is just crap. And Lionheart, You may be right about the theme development during the film, but the theme itself is a horrible saxophone-infested piece of pseudo-early 90`s easy-listening music **** that is unbeareable. Yes, it does get a cool treatment during the end titles where the synth precussion is obviously influenced by Goldsmith`s Total Recall, but that does not make the overall score good.
I have yet to hear Nicholas & Alexandra, if somebody would be gracious enough to send me some clips, I might be persuaded to the `good` side.

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Monkey...get off John Scott's back. ;-)

His action music is GREAT. You just aren't paying attention.

Try King Kong Lives (especially the opening rescore of the 1976 original) and Red King, White Knight (as I mentioned in my previous post).

Also try his score for Shoot to Kill.

My god...to call this music crap while there is all that other stuff currently out there getting more attention is a joke.

I just got through listening to Scott's WILLIAM THE CONQUERER album and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! His themes for William as well as the love theme were splendid, the choral and period instrumental pieces were neat, and his battle music was quite engaging. I loved his use of strings and winds, the interplay between the sections and his accomplished use of counterpoint and nice harmonic intervals. I think I shall seek out more of Scott's work starting now! <HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

Cool. Now you may have noticed already but the packaging for William is screwed up. Look it list 14 tracks, but the CD has 18!
I have to recheck but I think the problem starts at track 4, the sub cues have there own tracks on the CD, even though they are all listed as being apart of track 4 on the pagkage. So when you get track 5 on the CD it's actually listed a track 4-B. The real track 5 doesn't start until track 7.

Now what should you get for you next JS score. Farm from Home and 20,000 Leauges Under the Sea! And if you can find them Ruby and Shogun Mayeda!

LOL.

I like most of the Scott I have. A very good composer. I own all these:

1. Cousteau-several-many are very good
2. King Kong Lives-exc
3. Deceivers-some great cues
4. Final Countdown
5. Man on Fire
6. Shogun Mayeda
7. Ruby
8. Walking Thunder
9. To the Ends of the EArth
10. Antony and Cleopatra-great stuff
11. Study in Terror
12. Long Duel
13. several others