Is it obvious that I love this music?

It is a really nice score and I think that many more would enjoy it if they could find it. It is one of the more poorly distributed title outside of limited/Promo CDs, I know that it turned up in a few stores, but none of the online dealers seem to have it.

It conveys a sense of wonder and magic that is seldom achieved in genre scores although it is obviously what everybody strives for. I am particularly fond of “T-Rex Attacks” and “The Skybax Dawn Flight”.

I'm eagerly anticipating his work for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Who was it that turned you on to Jones' score to "For Rosanna?"

That's a lovely CD that you hardly see anymore. Of course when you want to find it you can't. Then after you get it, it turns up everywhere.

As several of you will recall, I lucked into a batch of "Dinotopia" CDs last year and bought them all. Several I got for friends and the others I sold on eBay and while I made a killing, others on auction at the same time went even higher than mine did.

I thought this was one fine score by Jones. It reminded me of both his early work ("Dark Crystal") and his more recent stuff ("Dark City" and "Merlin")

The weird thing was that Geoffrey Alexander was nominated for an Emmy for his "orchestration" on the series, but Jones was overlooked for his composing.

Ahh...the wonders of these awards.

Frankly, Trevor Jones is an untapped treasure...and it would have been awesome if he had gotten X-Men over Kamen...but that's me. Can't WAIT for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

It is a bit underwhelming. Nice, but not really worthy of all the massive praise heaped upon it. Now it does have it's moments, but I just don't get into it, like others.

Jones's best score so far is Dark City. Dark City is surely one of the best sci-fi flicks ever, helped in no small part by Jones' throbbing, pulsing, exceedingly dark and oppressive score. It's one of Jones's many instances of wall-to-wall scoring, but it is so effective in creating the atmosphere in Dark City.
The climax of the score is very well done, even if it uses a variation on a love theme Jones has used before -- it is the theme's best incarnation as it appears in the end of film.

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Originally posted by JJH:

Although, I could be wrong. Maybe his masterpiece is [b]Crossroads.[/B]

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Crossroads? Now....did you mean Criss Cross?

but Jones did score that Britney Spears flick called Crossroads, but hell if I know what it sounds like, and God strike me down if I ever purposely watch that thing and hear the music in context.

You know one Trevor Jones score I haven't been able to get into is Gulliver's Travels.
I never saw the movie, but the music sounds odd, and doesn't sound like it would even fit the picture. Its has this weirdly dark nature and synthisizers that I can't figure out. Anyone wanna share some thougts on Gulliver's Travels?

http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/dinotopia

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