Some of the more recent discs to arrive have been the following,

Battle of the Planets - Hoyt Curtin & Bob Sakuma
Elmer Bernstein: Guitar Concerto
The Cardinal: The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
The Caveman's Valentine - Terence Blanchard
The Mexican - Alan Silvestri
More Music From Gladiator - Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
Scary Movie - David Kitay
Woman On Top - Luis Bacalov

On DVD,

Hollow Man
The Matrix

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

I got today.

All The Pretty Horses - Marty Stuart

What a great score!! I love how it combines the acoustic guitar and traditional fiddle with a symphonic orhcestra and a little Spanish flavor(in a couple of the tracks) it's quite the smooth listning experience.

Red Planet - Graeme Revell

This is actually my first score that I've gotten by Graeme Revell and I'm pretty impressed with the whole 'new-age' electronic feel the whole CD has. One thing is for sure; Emma Shapplin has such a HEAVENLY voice!

I also picked up Waterworld by James Newton Howard but haven't listened to it yet. Anyone want to share their impressions?

I'm sure as the month progresses I'll be posting quite a bit more 'new stuff' in here....ah so many scores; so little money

NP: Red Planet - Graeme Revell

thanks BW.

NP - not the Grifters. that just finished.

Here's my list of acquisitions since my last posted list last month...whew!!!

1.Thirteen Days
2.What lies beneath
3.The Watcher
4.The Versace Murder
5.East-West (Est-Ouest)
6.The Son of Kong/The most dangerous game
7.The Seventh Sign
8.Wall Street/Salvador
9.Get Carter-(2 CD)
10.Rose and the Jackel/Yes, Giorgio
11.Vatel
12.Raise the Titanic
13.Gorky Park
14.The Lucona Affair
15.Bless the Child
16.Wonder Boy
Mom and Dad save the
World
17.Cast a Giant Shadow/Men in War
18.Thief of Bagdad
19.The Gift
20.The Fog
21.The Claim
22.Ivan the Terrible-(2 CD)
23.Switch
24.The Buccaneer
25.The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective
26.My Dog Skip
27.Jason and the Argonauts
28.The Passage
29.Michael J.Lewis:Orchestral Film Music-(2 CD)
30.The Prince and the Pauper, Music from...and other Film Music
31.Anthony Adverse
32.Kings Row

IT'S BECOME AN ADDICTION!!!

NP:Anthony Adverse...E.W.Korngold

Les Rivieres Pourpres (aka The Crimson Rivers) (Bruno Coulais)

Taboo/Gohatto (Ryuichi Sakamoto)

WATERWORLD is good, I also picked it up cheap years ago.
Good action cues, nice atmospheric music, some atonal interludes...best track is ____ Story(I cant remember the person's name!). It comes late in the album, and has that pounding drum rhythm...maybe someone can help me since Im still at work

Anyway its a nice buy, although FSM tore it to pieces in a comparison with SUPERMAN in one of their old issues. It showed that contemp. scores don't hold a candle to the classics

Apollo 13 complete

and The Fugitive Complete

The Son of Kong/The Most Dangerous Game - Max Steiner

An few other titles should be coming in the upcoming week, though as of yet, not entirely sure just what!

Cliffhanger (Trevor Jones)
Jönssonligan & Den Svarta Diamanten (Promo) (Thomas Lindahl)

Nah...it is very good indeed

The Cliffhanger theme is one of the best themes I've ever heard, you just wanna put a rope out your window and begin to climb when you hear it. Hehe.

The action music is very good too, a solid release

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Originally posted by ManOfSorrows:
It sucks!

Nah...it is very good indeed

The Cliffhanger theme is one of the best themes I've ever heard, you just wanna put a rope out your window and begin to climb when you hear it. Hehe.

The action music is very good too, a solid release

50 minutes of terrific Jones music

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Great! I look forward to getting it!

Any other Jones scores I should look into?

I think the ones I'll be looking into getting next are Cleopatra and Merlin. OOP they are, but hear they are some of his best in recent years!

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (Rozsa)
-Last one they had in stock!

Sodom And Gomorrah (Rozsa)

Battle Of The Planets (Curtin)

King Kong Escapes (Ifukube) (import)

The Fugitive (Rugolo)

Well I've added a few scores to my collection in the last week or so.

I've gotten,

Star Trek: Insurrection - Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek: First Contact - Jerry Goldsmith

Small Soldiers - Jerry Goldsmith

Apollo 13 -Promo - James Horner

The 6th Day - Trevor Rabin

whew, now to figure out how to pay that pesky tuition after buying all these scores

I finally have some free time from my busy schedule of being a college student so I decided post some of the goodies I purchased over the past week or so.

Malena
White Squall
More Music from Gladiator
The Whole Wide World
The Mexican

and the Ben Hur 2 CD set is on it's way. Yippee! I would really like to thank everyone who contributed to the Ben Hur post. Those words of wisdom truely made me want this box set.

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Sodom And Gomorrah (Rozsa)

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awesome choice! This is a definite must for either re-mastering and/ or re-recording.

today I found a new copy of Sophia Loren in Rome by John Barry. cool stuff!

Empire of the Sun - John Williams

Enemy at the Gates - James Horner

Gladiator, more music - Zimmer & co.

On the way (apparently):
The Fury - John Williams

• Inchon (Recorded at Forum Studio, sh--ty sound.)
  
• Leviathan (Forum Studio, very good sound. Something changed in the years between these two scores.)
  
• Lil(l)ies of the Field (Recorded somewhere long long ago... in a galaxy far, far away.)
  

NP: Supergirl

NP: The Claim Nyman *****

This is one title I'd love to find just to test my memory of the score. I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who actually saw this unintentionally hilarious movie during it's one week theatrical run before it disappeared forever. (Did the Reverend Goon burn all the prints I wonder)

New additions since my Footlight splurge:

Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Williams)
-Another one I'd put off for too long.

And now on the way from FSM:

The Exorcist (Schifrin rejected score)
-Finally rented the movie and watched it for the first time ever last night which spurred this choice.
Conquest/Battle Of The Planet Of The Apes (Scott/Rosenmann)
-Must complete the collection!

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Originally posted by Eric Paddon:
>Inchon (Recorded at Forum Studio, sh--ty >sound.)

This is one title I'd love to find just to test my memory of the score. I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who actually saw this unintentionally hilarious movie during it's one week theatrical run before it disappeared forever. (Did the Reverend Goon burn all the prints I wonder)

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The score recording is rather hilarious, too. The performance by the musicians is fine, but the whole orchestra sounds as if it is sitting in the front row. It reminds me of a marching band sound. The liner notes go on to explain that the studio was too small for the orchestra and as a result they had microphone difficulties.

I can't help but laugh at the more 'busy' parts of the score, like the 8th track (The Landing.) The players seem to have plenty of enthusiasm, but it just didn't translate well onto the recording. Some softer tracks sound fine, like the "Love Theme."

I personally love the integration of of 'Korean Folksong' (tracks 3, 10, and others) into the score. In 1998, I was in a band that performed Variations on a Korean Folk Song, which is based on the same theme. It was fun (and surprising) to hear music that I hadn't thought about for about 3 years.

I picked this one up since it's fairly rare and was a reasonable price (brand new, $21.)

(Regular CD')
Cast Away - Alan Silvestri
Cliffhanger - Trevor Jones
Enemy at the Gates - James Horner
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - ?????
Twilight Zone: The Movie - Jerry Goldsmith
Under Fire - Jerry Goldsmith

(CD-R' provided by John Dunham)
First Knight (expanded) - Jerry Goldsmith
GI Jane - Trevor Jones
Godzilla - David Arnold
Stuart Little (complete) - Alan Silvestri
X-Men (complete) - Michael Kamen

(DVD' from CH)
The Rocketeer (DVD)
The Wedding Singer (DVD)

The score to Conquest is quite interesting, though I need a replay. Some of it has a reduced TV feel to it, as if it were for one of those 70s TV Movies done by Robert Drasnin or somebody (that's not a bad thing: 70s TV music was pretty damn good). Some of the lengthier atonal tracks didn't grip me at first, but I'm sure I'll end up loving them. I see that Tom Scott even invented an instrument for this (shades of Gil Melle).

It appears that Tom Scott is a saxophonist. I wonder if he's the Tom Scott who did the sax solos on the Taxi Driver album (not the music in the actual film, that was Ronny Lang, the album being a re-recording).

New arrivals include:

RONIN (Elia Cmiral)
THE GIFT (Christopher Young)
SO LO (Danny Elfman) (songs)
GREAT COMPOSERS: ELMER BERNSTEIN
JOHN BEAL TRAILER PROJECT (John Beal)

and a trio of head-bangers for roomie, one by Husker Du and two by Jesus & Mary In Chains, all of which will no doubt be coming out my ears for weeks to come.

Titus - Goldenthal
The Great Escape - Bernstein (Ryko)
The Ten Commandments - Bernstein

found this at Wherehouse Records in the used bin but brand new, oh well saved about $11.00 go figure;

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Williams

I'm kinda disappointed in these two I picked up:

Mission to Mars - Morricone
The Untouchables - Morricone

Mark, if you like Ifukube -- or even more stylistically to the point, Masaru Sato -- I think you can get into Morricone as well. THE UNTOUCHABLES isn't, to my ear, one of his more interesting scores. MISSION TO MARS might be a bit too electic for beginners, although as far as film music is concerned, you're obviously not a beginner. Do you know his Western stuff? Horror stuff? I'm quite sure that there's a lot out there you'd like. Unless you've already heard the Western scores and don't like those either, in which case, you are simply a sad, bitter little man who will never know either the meaning of, or the feeling of truest, most impeccable joy -- IMHO of course, as Ford A. Thaxton would say!

your pal, H.

I am familiar with his western work. M2M has it's moments and the organ music doesn't bug me as much as the cue #4 with the electronics mixed over the moaning/hissing sounds. I find that annoying and thought the piece would have worked with only the moaning/hisses.

I must admit I'm kinda disappointed that jaunty little Cajun sounding cue to open the movie isn't included on the score. Must have been an actual song written by someone else.

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
in which case, you are simply a sad, bitter little man who will never know either the meaning of, or the feeling of truest, most impeccable joy --

your pal, H.

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Family Man Promo - Elfman