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scoreboy13 unregistered	Hello everyone. I was wondering, what is everyones FAVORITE SCORE??? So, post your favorite score here. Please, post only one. Clay G. My Favorite: Armageddon: The Complete Score (Trevor Rabin/Harry Gregson-Williams)
posted 07-24-2000 10:06 PM PT (US)

Justin Oscar® Winner	Someone that has some taste along with me. ARMAGEDDON THE COMPLETE SCORE BABY! Trevor Rabin is the ultimate composer along with Harry Gregson-Williams [This message has been edited by Justin (edited 24 July 2000).]
posted 07-24-2000 10:19 PM PT (US)

MWRuger Oscar® Winner	Today, it's Magnolia. Tomorrow, who knows?
posted 07-24-2000 10:40 PM PT (US)

Shivered_McTimber Oscar® Winner	Hmm... I'm tempted to say "The Rock" (Just To Spite 'em). But anyway, I think that "Stargate" is probably the greatest ever. Curse you for making me choose between me CDs, though. ~Shivered NP: "Tales of Kamaar, Main Theme" by Jeff Wise.
posted 07-24-2000 10:45 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I always choose KAZAAM by Christopher Tyng. Not only is it the finest piece of music ever composed, but it is probably the summit of all human achievement in art.
posted 07-24-2000 10:46 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	I have to agree w/ you there, H Rocco. Man, you know how to pick out the best... Jeron NP - Kazaam (Tyng) ****/***
posted 07-24-2000 10:48 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Us great minds, we surely do think alike ... NP: KAZAAM (********/***)
posted 07-25-2000 12:58 AM PT (US)

mgh Oscar® Winner	My favorite score is RIO CONCHOS, but I think the greatest score of all time is PLANET OF THE APES.
posted 07-25-2000 02:42 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Scoreboy13, you pose a tough question, and one I don't think I can answer, It's easier for me to say which scores I can play from begining to end without skipping a track or two, and two that readily come to mind are... Conan The Barbarian - Basil Poledouris Krull - James Horner....the 2 cd set.....wot appened to yer Jamie, y'use t'be so dam good didn'cha?!!
posted 07-25-2000 05:06 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	p.s. Everytime someone mentions Armagodforsaken and The Rock as favorites....?, You are joking aren't you!??
posted 07-25-2000 05:12 AM PT (US)

spango Oscar® Winner	PSYCHO and I´m not kidding...
posted 07-25-2000 05:18 AM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. armageddon....my God....
posted 07-25-2000 05:38 AM PT (US)

Scott Oscar® Winner	ET baby. Scott
posted 07-25-2000 07:42 AM PT (US)

SEBULBA Oscar® Winner	I'd probably have to say Empire Strikes Back. I could never get tired of it.
posted 07-25-2000 07:44 AM PT (US)

Camillu Oscar® Winner	Ditto that Sebulba. NP - Jesus of nazareth - Jarre (anyone know where I can find the whole thing, coz I only have one track and the VHS)
posted 07-25-2000 09:09 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	This is one of those threads that separates the men from the boys, isn't it? Favorite score, eh? Gee whiz........I'm going to go with The Hollow Man, because it just came out today and I don't listen to things older than 5 minutes ago. Shaun
posted 07-25-2000 09:17 AM PT (US)

Taco Oscar® Nominee	No doubt, "Return to Oz" by David Shire.
posted 07-25-2000 10:22 AM PT (US)

André Lux Oscar® Winner	The BEST SCORE OF ALL TIMES is easy "POKEMON - THE (FIRST) MOVIE" composed by Gozaro Nakara and Fugiro Nakomby. But I must agree that "ARMAGEDOOM" by Midi Ventures is even better!!!!!!!!!!! [This message has been edited by André Lux (edited 25 July 2000).]
posted 07-25-2000 10:42 AM PT (US)

Mark Hatfield Oscar® Winner	A tie for me here; with both scores "in" due to their importance to the material, rock-solid "attachment" to their respective visuals, and listenability when seperated from their movies: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE ...both by that guy who used to work for the Boston Pops. Gee, do ya think I'm attracted to bombast & the iconographic in my scoring?
posted 07-25-2000 10:56 AM PT (US)

André Lux Oscar® Winner	Now... serious. My favorite musical score is William's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, for all the incredible amount of great themes and motifs and the complex way they all interpolate into each other... But them I think on Goldsmith's ALIEN... This score is SO efective (yes, the way it's in the movie with all the re-edits and temp track cues). I really don't care much about Goldsmith's cues which weren't used, but the ones used... Man, it never stop to impress me!! Really fascinating.
posted 07-25-2000 11:31 AM PT (US)

scoreboy13 unregistered	Armagedon is my favorite score, why do most of you people have to make fun of it and say it sucks? "Armagodforsaken," you know, there are people who hate your music too. But I keep my mouth shut, it's kewl that you like these other scores, but it's not kewl that you make fun of other scores just cause YOU don't like it. It's immature. Clay G. NP Gone In Sixty Seconds (Various/Trevor Rabin)
posted 07-25-2000 11:48 AM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	Spartacus!
posted 07-25-2000 12:12 PM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	Spartacus!
posted 07-25-2000 12:13 PM PT (US)

André Lux Oscar® Winner	Well... most people make fun of "Armagedoin" because it sucks. Ouch! Now that's incredible imature from my part!! But it's ok for you to like it, Scoreboy13. We are all individuals and have the right to have our own individual tastes, no matter how ugly they are.
posted 07-25-2000 12:27 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	Hey guys- Alright, here we go. Armageddon in my opinion, is a fine score, but it falls under a special, "reserved only for MV scores" category. You guys know what I mean. I love Armageddon. It's great. But if you saw my collection and the way it was organized, you'd find all of the MV stuff grouped together, including any post-MV Mancina work. As a whole, MV produces action music unlike any other, yet within that "sphere," many of the scores are similar. That's alright - and this obviously doesn't keep me from purchasing the music, it's just hard for me to rank MV music among such greats by composers Goldsmith, Williams, Horner, Poledouris, etc. when I know MV music is so formulated to begin with. Everyone likes music for different reasons. Justin likes Trevor Rabin and the rest of the MV group because they produce music, like Armageddon, that excites him. This is understandable. And, as Andre expressed, it's definitely alright, because we are all different and entitled to our own preferences! Just my thoughts. As for my favorite score, well - I'm with Shaun. Anything older than 5 minutes ago is simply... eck, unacceptable. Hollow Man all the way! Jeron [This message has been edited by Jeron (edited 25 July 2000).]
posted 07-25-2000 01:05 PM PT (US)

Justin Oscar® Winner	Can I get an AMEN!!!
posted 07-25-2000 02:11 PM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	RETURN OF THE JEDI, and... ...no, not Frank Sinatra's rejected score (with that indelible Bill Clinton saxophone solo).
posted 07-25-2000 03:23 PM PT (US)

Scott Oscar® Winner	U go Scorboy13. Scott
posted 07-25-2000 06:38 PM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	NOTHING comes even close to BACKDRAFT by Hans Zimmer! Every time I hear that it just makes me want to buy Terriyaki sauce and boil squid in a huge pot full of live sea urchins then put it on top of some octopus flavored ice cream and serve it to Osaka model babes! What nerdorama atonal classical score by all those geriatric holdouts from your grandparents time can stand up to that! people hear some of that Oldsmith crap and just fall asleep! WHEREAS THE ROCK and ARMAGEDDON are cutting edge. It'll make you want to sign up and bomb third world losers! Zimmer-- the John Williams of our time!
posted 07-25-2000 07:02 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Who is John Williams? NP: "The Gregson-Williams Legacy" (4 CDs)
posted 07-25-2000 07:22 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	Even more so, who's this guy... I think they are calling him Oldsmith, or Goldsmith, or something... who in the HECK is he??? Didn't he do the music for "Crocodile Hunter" on Animal Planet? Rocco, do you know? Jeron
posted 07-25-2000 07:32 PM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	Well I would have to say The Empire Strikes Back, E.T., King Kong (1933), Psycho, and King Kong vs Godzilla (yes I'm serious about that last one, well maybe not one of the best, but a pretty damn good score if you ask me) NP: What Lies Beneath - only on track 5, but not to bad, there are some references to Herrmann.
posted 07-25-2000 07:39 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Mark ... not so many of them would wonder if you were serious about KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, if only they'd heard the ORIGINAL version (almost entirely scrubbed for its American release.) I've mentioned this before, but -- you should only hear it in its original true stereo mix!!!! Jeron, I'm completely at a loss as to what you could possibly be talking about. And you can guess how hard it is for me to admit that. (No one has yet explained to me who John Williams is! Has he done anything I might have heard of?)
posted 07-25-2000 07:43 PM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	The only copy I've seen of the stereo mix is usually on eBay and it is a CDR taken off the laserdisc isolated score. Or that is what the auction claims. It has 35 tracks and is a single. Believe me I would love to get my hands on it, within reason. As to this Williams character, didn't he score a movie called Teeth??? Np: The Trevor Rabin 10 Disc Anthology.
posted 07-25-2000 07:58 PM PT (US)

Richard Oscar® Winner	Seriously: The Rock, Batman or Braveheart. Well, Armageddon outta here! hehehehe, sometimes I just kill myself...
posted 07-25-2000 10:37 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Rocco, I believe that the John Williams you describe is a popular classical guitarist (not that any of us care about that ****, though!). I believe he and Harry Gregson married, thus forming the Gregson-Williams alliance. Of course, it'll probably end in divorce, as all the hypenates do. Shaun P.S. As for this "Oldsmith" guy......I think I gotta lead as to who he might be. There's this Jesus-quoting car salesman around here (the type that misspells the word "abomination"), real sleazeball. I believe his name is Henry Oldsmith. I'll ask him if he's any relation to the Crocodile Hunter composer.
posted 07-25-2000 11:06 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	That explains a LOT, Shaun ... thanks! But is this also the same John Williams who acted in many Hitchcock movies and TV shows? My understanding was that Hitchcock gave him a break in 1975 or so, encouraging Williams to score what turned out to be his final film, FAMILY PLOT. If I remember right, this led to gigs playing guitar for THE DEER HUNTER, and some other movie, George Spielberg's THE SHARK HUNTER (even composers get typecast!) He later produced SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET (I think the composer on that film had a similar name.) NP: THE SHARK HUNTER (this isn't bad!)
posted 07-26-2000 12:52 AM PT (US)

THE GREEK Oscar® Winner	The HOLCROFT COVENANT by the giant of film music STANISLAS!!!!What are all these ridiculus names Harry Gregwill...or the other one...Goldwire?!?!?!Do you spend your money buying this crap?The god of film music will spit fire on you!! BUY STANISLAS...HE IS THE GUARANTEE!
posted 07-26-2000 04:27 AM PT (US)

Howard L Oscar® Winner	favorite stand alone soundtrack: Around The World In 80 days favorite score in film: To Kill A Mockingbird (possible tie w/Ben-Hur)
posted 07-26-2000 12:30 PM PT (US)

Mark Hatfield Oscar® Winner	No one has yet mentioned LADYHAWKE or THE FIFTH ELEMENT! Ugh. ATTN: John Williams is a geetahr player. A Goldsmith is a person who makes Wedding rings. Meco is the only true scoring genius. NP: "Meco's Disco Impressions of Schindler's List"
posted 07-26-2000 01:35 PM PT (US)

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