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dantoris Oscar® Winner	This score was mentioned in my "Car Chase" thread. Is it worth getting? I see it just about everytime I go to the music store, but I've never picked it up because I don't recall that much about the music. Is it worth getting? NP: "Crocodile" Dundee - "In The Truck" **/***
posted 05-31-2000 02:17 PM PT (US)

Hard Target Oscar® Winner	Oh hell yeah, Dantoris. This score is definetly worth getting. I think it's one of Brian May's best scores. I just wish there was an expanded edition, but there's no choice because the master tapes to this magnificent score are lost. And since the studio burnt to the ground so unfortunetly no chance for this one. But it's definetly worth getting nonetheless.
posted 05-31-2000 02:23 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Thanks. I'll see if it's still there next time I go. NP: "Crocodile" Dundee - "Overture" **/***
posted 05-31-2000 02:32 PM PT (US)

Swashbuckler Oscar® Winner	YES!!! The album is way too short, it would be nice if somebody re-recorded this score (I'd love to have the music for Max going around the mountain without sound effects over it).
posted 05-31-2000 07:21 PM PT (US)

Andre Lux unregistered	GET IT MAN! "The Road Warrior" is one of my favorite movies of all times. The final chase's the best ever shot! Mel Gibson best performance yet. The score perfectly captures the mood of the waste land: mournful and brutal. I love it...!
posted 05-31-2000 07:29 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	None other than Jerry Goldsmith, who rarely praises other film composers, said he was massively impressed by both of Brian May's MAD MAX scores: "Here's a guy who really knew what he was doing!" Goldsmith crowed. And when May first came to Hollywood, Goldsmith became his instant best friend, taking him around to sessions and introducing him to everybody he knew. I'm sorry Mr. May isn't around anymore, he was a massive talent. You might still be able to get his pounding, beautifully menacing score to DR. GIGGLES, for very little, from Intrada. I'm not sure what the price for Varese's ROAD WARRIOR is these days, but I saw a MAD MAX for sale at Tower for just seven bucks (couldn't afford it at the time, dammit.)
posted 05-31-2000 08:02 PM PT (US)

Hard Target Oscar® Winner	I second that motion, Rocco. May is a very underrated composer and is sadly missed. It's too bad that his talents were wasted on garbage like Dr.Giggles and Freddy's Dead the Final Nightmare. And on not on projects that he probably should've scored like Psycho 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Not to say that Goldsmith and Jarre didn't do excellent scores for these films. Especially in the case of Jarre, who turned in one his most brilliant scores in his carrer. Bring on the expanded version of MMBT, if anyone can afford to release it.
posted 05-31-2000 08:48 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Brian May was the vanguard of film music in Australia -- he exploded onto the scene at a time when very little original or interesting was being written, even though the Australian movie community was booming. (The Zamfir/Smeaton music for Peter Weir's amazing PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK was probably the best their cinema had seen until May came along.) May wrote the score to Richard Franklin's evocative 1978 horror picture PATRICK. One evening, Franklin was hanging out with future MAD MAX director George Miller, and started playing a copy of the PATRICK score. Miller liked it a lot, and observed, "That's really terrific, I never heard that particular Herrmann score." "That's not Herrmann," Franklin said, "that was done right here in Australia by Brian May." Astonished, Miller secured May for MAD MAX 1 & 2 (MAD MAX 2 is the original title of THE ROAD WARRIOR), and May won Australian Academy Awards for both. I don't know why May didn't score THUNDERDOME, but I'm betting it was because of the studio leaning on Miller. I agree that it was sad that May spent most of his Hollywood career relegated to such dreck as THE FINAL NIGHTMARE, but his Australian career wasn't really any better, and arguably his Hollywood work made him more money, so perhaps it's not as tragic as it might have been. Apart, of course, from his untimely early death. (Heart attack, in his early fifties, if I remember correctly. RIP, Mr. May.)
posted 05-31-2000 09:09 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	I wasn't aware that Brian May had died of a heart attack...that is indeed sad, sad news. I have both of the Mad Max soundtracks and they're great. I must have seen each movie a dozen times, Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior) was an amazing movie to see in the cinema back in the 80's....there was nothing around at the time to compare with its amazing imagery and finale chase scene....still amazing to watch even today!! R.I.P. Mr.May Gae
posted 06-01-2000 03:27 PM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	Often wrongfully confused with the Queen guitar player, May was an extremely talented composer with several concert works to his resume as well. He was probably the best known of all the australian film composers. The MAD MAX-films are some (not so guilty) pleasures of mine - I adore that futuristic, bleak landscape covered with depression, but with that little gleam of hope in the middle of it all (the MAD MAX character). Such an excellent starting point for thought-provoking philosophy. Couple that philosophic ground with excellently choreographed action extravaganza, well-rounded characters and a blasting, gritty score, and you'll have a masterpiece. Buy it.
posted 06-02-2000 10:43 AM PT (US)

Swashbuckler Oscar® Winner	The video and laserdisc cover for the Mad Max mention "Music by Queen's Brian May." I believe this has been corrected on the DVD, but I always thought that was pretty odd. You'd think someone would do some research before writing that...
posted 06-03-2000 06:11 AM PT (US)

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