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Topic: Kiss of Death
Cole
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Have any of you out there in the wonderful world of film scores ever heard of "Kiss of Death" by Trevor Jones? I saw it in a used CD store for $1.00 the other day and bought it on a whim.
It is really awesome!!!
It is like he could be in Media Ventures. This has the same energy as any Zimmer score and is better than a lot of the Zimmer clones.
I had never heard of this score or the movie
have any of you?
If so, what do you think?
posted 02-12-2000 04:56 AM PT (US) TimT
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I have that.
and I don't think it sounds anything like Zimmer! :-þ
I like the Main Title and End Titles, and the track Illegal Covoy (which is not a MV stlye action cue in anyway!!) It's wasy to subdued.
The rest of the music just typical underscore writting by Trevor Jones.-NP Kiss of Death - Trevor Jones
posted 02-12-2000 08:11 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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I got that one for $5. (Only score I've ever found for $1 was Zimmer's DROP ZONE. And it was well worth it!)I like the movie -- the great novelist Richard Price wrote the script (it really has nothing to do with the 1950 movie of the same title), and it's well acted by a cast including David Caruso, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nicolas Cage at his most flamboyant -- indeed, this served as an earlier-in-the-year forerunner for critics to start taking him seriously again, before he showed up in his Oscar-winning role in LEAVING LAS VEGAS.
I mainly like the main and end titles, but some of the incidental stuff is good. Jones is a thoroughly unpredictable composer, but when he's inspired, he can be fun to listen to.
The "Media Ventures" comparison probably refers to the "pop" feel of much of the score, but it's not bubblegum; it's more dark and twisty. Tough to describe on the page. So I'll stop trying.
posted 02-12-2000 11:29 AM PT (US) Cole
Oscar® Winner
I understand what you are saying about it not being a Media Ventures sounding score. but - Kiss of Death seems more comparable to that than anything else I could think of.
posted 02-13-2000 03:09 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB