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PeterK FishChip	Here's the mix: To be released in September on Columbia: 5 score tracks from Rolfe Kent 2 new original songs 7 cover songs 4 catalog songs (from 1956 to 1987) 7 cover songs!? Artists must really be out of ideas. No wonder we're in a music slump, a box office slump, a web traffic slump. Eeverything has been done. There is nothing else to come. Entertainment is thru. Goodnight. Fade to static.
posted 08-22-2005 11:38 PM PT (US)

BMikeJ Standard Userer	Sky High was loaded with 80's cover songs... They would have been better served licensing the original songs. Thankless work having to write a score around all those songs...
posted 08-23-2005 01:21 AM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	Same with the Mr & Mrs Smith soundtrack. I grow fond of some of these cover songs on soundtracks, but it will get very tiresome quickly (if not already) when 50% of more and more OST's are covers.
posted 08-23-2005 09:37 AM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	I Am Sam had some pretty good covers... But at least we get some Rolfe Kent on there! I'm becoming a big fan of his. Ever since I saw 40 Days and 40 Nights and noticed his oddly unique score, I have always looked forward to his scores. Clayton NP>Clear and Present Danger (Love the heroic theme!)
posted 08-23-2005 10:09 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	That was John Powell on I Am Sam... and I agree that the covers were great. Quite a good Beatles compilation.
posted 08-23-2005 10:44 AM PT (US)

MWRuger Standard Userer	Well, you know the reason for the cover songs. It is far cheaper to pay someone to cover a song than to license it.
posted 08-23-2005 12:21 PM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by MWRuger: Well, you know the reason for the cover songs. It is far cheaper to pay someone to cover a song than to license it. Yup. What was it on I Am Sam? They had like 2 weeks to record the covers because their budget was ginormous! I think they said it cost more to put the songs in the movie than it did to actually film the movie and pay the stars. As for the score in I Am Sam, it's very good and I recommend everyone to check it out! It's uniquely emotional. Clayton NP>The Island
posted 08-23-2005 12:39 PM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	quote: Originally posted by MWRuger: Well, you know the reason for the cover songs. It is far cheaper to pay someone to cover a song than to license it. In that case, the scoring industry will follow suit. We should show little surprise when the temp tracks for a majority of Hollywood films are licensed for the final cut. That is way cheaper than hiring a composer to write and record, unless Richard Band starts getting calls again. What do we say to this?
posted 08-23-2005 04:35 PM PT (US)

MWRuger Standard Userer	It wouldn't suprise me too much if it happened, but I thin the expense of an orchestral "cover" is so high that you may as well do original music.. It is a lot easier to get a 5-piece raock band to cover something than to get a symphony to cover a score. Added to that, you have to have all the orchestrations. And since many temp tracks are pieced together from different scores, you need a lot of them. Plus if the score happens to be unreleased there are fees before you can even record it.
posted 08-24-2005 09:41 AM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	Hmmm... I was only thinking halfway, or too far, with my post. A lot of people may be able to argue that many scores these days are really very close to "covers" of previous scores already because of the temp track phenom, but the comparison is dead. Apples to oranges. Cover songs credit the originals, while cover scores do not! Anyone think there will be a shift in use of previously written original score music as licensed music for new films? Several filmmakers already use previously written movie music for their films, and not to make reference to the original film either. Michael Mann's use of Vangelis music in Collateral is likely unnoticed by most people, but this kind of thing totally distracts film music fans from the picture. It did for me anyway.... As the 1492 music comes on, I found myself doing trivia in my head figuring out what it's from, instead of moving along with the developments of the film! Thankfully home theaters let you re-roll the film without anyone complaining.
posted 08-24-2005 10:18 AM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by PeterK: Michael Mann's use of Vangelis music in Collateral is likely unnoticed by most people, but this kind of thing totally distracts film music fans from the picture. It did for me anyway.... As the 1492 music comes on, I found myself doing trivia in my head figuring out what it's from, instead of moving along with the developments of the film! Thankfully home theaters let you re-roll the film without anyone complaining. I didn't even notice. Which scene was that in? And would we say some TV shows do covers of original scores? Take Family Guy for example... Clayton NP>The Ring... or The Ring Two... Whatever's on that CD
posted 08-24-2005 01:30 PM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	You see, I don't even remember which scene exactly (partly because the whole movie seems like one big scene of Tom Cruise moving through the night). It was in the latter half of the film, but before the big night club blowout, I think. The music fuses so well, so it's not so obvious unless you happen to be a fan of 1492. I like the way Mann uses music, even if it is distracting original score music from other films.
posted 08-24-2005 01:37 PM PT (US)

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