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Topic: The 100 Greatest Classic Scores - a survey

Nicolai P. Zwar

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...think...think...think...NP: Nothing... she's watching TV
posted 02-21-2000 11:02 AM PT (US) 
JEC
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Raintree CountyNP -- Comanche by H.B. Gilbert
posted 02-22-2000 12:06 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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Nicolai, just pick something no one else did, and please don't worry about if it's the RIGHT one. There's no right or wrong.Soon I'm going to start tallying up the votes. I am going to ignore the multiple entries until or unless further votes are cast -- then I might have to include them (admittedly, many of the multiple entries make perfect sense to me.)
It was suggested that the STAR WARS cycle should be counted as One score. That makes a kind of sense to me. What's the rest of you think?
NP: OPERATION LATITUDE ZERO (Akira Ifukube) (NOT one of the top 100 scores of all time, but diverting enough if you like Mr. Ifukube)
posted 02-22-2000 12:36 PM PT (US) 
mlw
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Spartacus
Fahrenheit 451
El Cid
The Diary of Anne Franke
The Sea Hawk
King Kong
The Best Years of Our Lives
Alexander Nevsky
A Place in the Sun
Gojira
Forever Amber
Heavy Metal
Under Fire
East of Eden
The Elephant Man
Altered States
Violent City
The Wild Bunch
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Greystoke the Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes
Lifeforce
Return To Oz
Zulu
Enter the Dragon
Seven
Starship Troopers
Superfly
Titus
The Player
The Natural
The KIndred
Tombstone
The Vagrant
Ben Hur
Double Indemnity
Brute Force
Thief of Bagdad
Lust For Life
Eye of the Needle
The Story of Three Loves
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cleopatra
2001 (yes, the North one)
Dragonslayer
The Misfits
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Wuthering Heights
Obsession
Vertigo
Taxi driver
North by Northwest
Psycho
Citizen Kane
7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Ghost and mrs Muir
The Adv. of Robin HOod
White Heat
One Eyed Jacks
Laura
The Bad and the Beautiful
Sunset Blvd
The Nun's Story
Summer and Smoke
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shootist
The Grifters
The Man with the Golden Arm
Planet of the Apes
The Illustrated Man
A Patch of Blue
Lonely Are the Brave
Patton
The Blue Max
The Sand Pebbles
Take A Hard Ride
The Wind and the Lion
The Omen
Islands in the Stream
Star Trek 1
Legend
Lionheart
Total Recall
Basic Instinct
The 13th Warrior
Rebel without a cause
Taking of Pelham 123
Images
Nixon
Superman
The Fury
Jane Eyre
Heartbeeps
The River
7 Years in Tibet
The Phantom Menace
and I didn't even get to Takemitsu, Sato, etc.
plus everything ever penned by John Morris, John Scott, and Miklos Rozsa, and two thirds of everything penned by Ennio Morricone. If you can't write it down all by yourself, or otherwise have nothing to say, you're not on my list![This message has been edited by mlw (edited 22 February 2000).]
posted 02-22-2000 01:00 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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We never even got to a hundred scores, did we? (notwithstanding the oyabun's suggestions ...)The REAL millenium is nigh (according to the Gregorian Calendar) ... whatcha all think?
NP: BABY: THE SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND (Jerry somebody) (as heard on the 1993 official SPFM tribute ... MINE'S SIGNED!)
posted 12-31-2000 05:32 AM PT (US) 
Camillu

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I'm a young'un, so I'll go with Star Wars.
posted 12-31-2000 09:50 AM PT (US) 
Mark Olivarez

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I'll throw in a few:King Kong vs Godzilla (Ifukube)
I must find the stereo version of this score, actually I've seen one on eBay that is a cdr taken off of the isolated score track on the Toho Laserdisc. Rocco is this the version you have been talking about?Jason and the Argonauts (Herrmann)
[Message edited by Mark Olivarez on 01-01-2001]
posted 01-01-2001 01:55 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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hehehee, KING KONG VS. GODZILLA!Max Steiner's original KONG (which I listed up top) is one of the only film scores Akira Ifukube professes to admire.\
I have no knowledge of this CDR, but if it was pulled off a recent laserdisc, then it should be in stereo. (The master print and stereo tapes had gone missing until 1991 -- they were found again only weeks before Ifukube recorded GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH.)
The stereo mix is FAR superior to the mono, bringing out depths and textures in the music I'd never heard before.
For those of you familiar with the American version of KK V.G and are wondering why we'd even rave about it, nearly all the original score was replaced by stock music from the Universal files for the American version. They dicked with the movie in any number of other vital and upsetting ways as well ...

[Message edited by H Rocco on 01-02-2001]
posted 01-01-2001 08:02 PM PT (US) 
Lou Goldberg

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All the scores I would have mentioned have already been mentioned......NP: The Mitsubishi Future Building: Nature in Japan and the Japanese Dream [I kid you not, that's the title] (Akira Ifukube)
Actually, it turns out the work is Birth of the Japan Islands which was the film showing at the Mitsubishi Future Building at the Osaka Expo of 1970 as part of their exhibit there, Nature in Japan and the Japanese Dream.
[Message edited by Lou Goldberg on 01-04-2001]
posted 01-02-2001 02:22 AM PT (US) 
shrubber

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Most of my personal favourites are already up there (e.g. Raiders, Sea Hawk, Superman etc.), but no sign yet of the following most excellent scores:ALIEN
BLUE MAX
RAISE THE TITANIC
KRULL
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULAShrubber has spoken.
posted 01-02-2001 12:58 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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But Shrubber has yet to say "Ni!"
posted 01-02-2001 01:03 PM PT (US) 
Patrick

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The Good The Bad and The Ugly (and To Kill a Mockingbird and Giant and Dinosaur and...)
posted 01-02-2001 01:56 PM PT (US) 
John Zimmer

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ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING?????? STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS!

posted 01-02-2001 03:33 PM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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Its good to see you back, Tom S. Welcome.
North's Spartacus would be one of my top ones.posted 01-04-2001 08:02 PM PT (US) 
Justin

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A R M A G E D D O N. Heh heh heh
posted 01-04-2001 08:15 PM PT (US) 
Richard

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Goldeneye - Serra

posted 01-04-2001 10:44 PM PT (US) 
Lorien
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Mr. Rocco,Looking through this new/old thread, I have to agree with those who say 10 votes per person, as well as the suggestion of considering some scores in blocks - the Star Wars's, Omens 1-3, Jaws 1&2, those like that - same composer in the same series. One per is pretty a pretty cumbersome way to get to it. I think having 10 will encourage meeting the goal of 10 over surpassing it with more. Then if someone puts out more, just count the first 10?
Just my 2.
np - The Iron Giant (movie)
posted 01-07-2001 12:16 AM PT (US) 
mgh

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Planet of the Apes
posted 01-07-2001 01:14 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
