You just happend to mention my two faves, heheh.

I'm almost at a stage of picking a favourite.
I'm quite sure Im between Thomas Newman and Danny Elfman.

Rob Roy was also on TV tonight.
USA Network I believe.
Good flick with a neat s-word fight at the end.
Burwell's magnificent, albeit repetitive, score more than holds its own with Braveheart and Far & Away, the other great Scottish/ Irish/ Celtic scores. I highly recommend the score CD which is rather inexpensive new.
The Robert and Mary theme is, or will be one day I believe, considered a classic.

Most of my top 10 favorite scores happen to be from Zimmer (Days of Thunder, Gladiator, The Rock), which confirms him as my favorite.

Good work, Kross! Likin' good music!

Do you have Being John Malkovich? It's like Barton Fink II.

I love Carter Burwell! Everything he has done is original and fantastic. GODS AND MONSTERS is my favorite soundtrack in my collection!

Two Bits
Waterland
Mystery, Alaska
Kiss the Girls, rejected
Fear
It Could Happen to You, really needs to be expanded; sometimes very magical within the film.

my favourite composer is Chris Young. He did some marvelous jobs in composing horror scores that at the same time can be absolutely beautiful and scary (think of Hellbound or Haunted Summer or The Dark Half and so on). Beside that he is very gifted in creating melodys I can´t forget (Murder in the First, Hurricane, Gift and so on.)

Christopher Young. I never really paid any attention to him until Jeron send a sound clip. The guy is really, really good. Murder in the First...wow...what a score.

Jerry Goldsmith
Akira Ifukube
John Williams
Christopher Young
aaaand (drumroll please) Carter Burwell!

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Incidentally, isn't Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto used prominently in Hudsucker Proxy?

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I haven't heard the Waraw Concerto, but I do know that Aram Khachaturian's music is used extensively. The Gayane ballet I think?

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I didn't know that there was a Burwell score for KISS THE GIRLS

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indeed there is. Burwell talks about wanting to buy it back from Paramount in that interview book called "Knowing the Score," which I found cheap at Borders a couple weeks ago. Apparently he is very proud of it.

someone told me that there is a bootleg disc of it floating around, but I doubt it. Never seen anyone offering it for trades or anything.

Incidentally, at Borders []itoday[/i], I found a book of LP covers for soundtracks. Pretty nice book, and many were printed life size. I think someone named Saul Bass did it?
very interesting.

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I think it's the adagio from his Spartacus ballet. Also a brief bit of the Sabre Dance is incorporated. Nice score, regardless.

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Of course I am. In future, there's no need to tell me I'm right. We'll assume it.

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Personally, I think Howard Shore is the more versatile, but their styles, while dark and ominous at times, couldn't be more different.
It's like comparing Williams and Goldsmith.

Shore's music is infused with a certain intellectualism and refinement that does not come out in Burwell's.
Not to knock Burwell. Burwell's music, if you listen closely, has a lot of simple, basic chords, just weirdly arranged in favor of the lower parts of the orchestra.
Shore uses a richer harmonic structure.

but, hey. Both men write groovy scores for any genre.

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Originally posted by Kross:
After many years of pondering, "Who the hell is my favorite composer!?" I have finally come to terms with myself.

CARTER BURWELL is oficially my favorite composer. His scores with every Coen Bro.s film have always been above amazing. He has his own style, sound, feel. Every single Coen Bros film is done to perfection is every way, especially musically thanks to Burwell's amazing music. Carter, I am oficially your fan. WE ALL LOVE the "big" composers but I become tiresome of their same sound and feel every film a la Williams, Gold., you know, most everyone! They are greats, but Burwell is my favorite, and the best in my opinion, for his scores work the best with the films. I realized this after watching The Hudsucker Proxy on TV tonight for the umpteenth time. What a great film with a great score!

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