Raiders of the Lost Ark (Expanded) (Williams) - $6 at a Half Price Books...

Hook (Williams) - Beautiful!
Face/Off (Powell)
Broken Arrow (Zimmer)
Dinosaur (Newton Howard)
Contact (Sivestri)
Bugsy (Morricone)
Steamboy (Jablonsky)
Charlie a/t Choclate Factory (Elfman)
Kung Fu Hustle (Chow) - Outstanding!!
James and the Giant Peach (R. Newman)

Rounded out my Goldenthal collection this week:

Demoliton Man
Cobb
Michael Collins

Also picked up "Sounds of Onimusha"; it's the domestic (Read: abridged) version of Onimusha's soundtrack.

Really looking forward to Michael Collins though. The clips I've heard sound great!

Bernstein Essential-some great stuff on there, love the Bridge at Remagen and the Werewolf stuff, in fact most all of it is good

the Tiomkin 4 CD set-tremendous stuff

Stripes-very nice
Naxos Red River-had the earlier o ne also, but picked this up too

Alien Nation-very good
Great Love Themes with Blood and Sand suite by Newman-exc but hate the sound effects in there

Restoration $7 - This is one beautiful score!!
Primal Fear $7
Promised Land $7

and 1 Howard Shore
Mrs Doubtfire - $6

Pretty good weekend.

Chairman-new issue
Haunted Palace and Premature Burial

1. Demetrius and the Gladiators-FSM-Waxman
2. Men of Fighting Lady/Valley of Kings-FSM-Rozsa
3. K-19 Widowmaker-Badelt

Just received the new Chairman issue with much better sound and

Premature Burial/Haunted Palace-not bad at all.

And, Alexborn, I also found the Demolition Man score, as well a coupla weeks ago. Not bad. I found my Goldenthal collection to be growing too. What's your favored score by him?

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Originally posted by craig:

And, Alexborn, I also found the Demolition Man score, as well a coupla weeks ago. Not bad. I found my Goldenthal collection to be growing too. What's your favored score by him?

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I have to say it's a dead draw between Cobb and Michael Collins...

Recommending them just doesn't do justice to how good they are. Cobb is going for about four dollars last I checked on Amazon.com.

It begins with a solo voice singing a gospel song then becomes a goregous, almost Copland like piece. It's very much in Goldenthal's style, but this is a very melodically rich score, so very unique in comparison to some of his other works. "Reno Ho" a track on the album is his most accessible action cue he's ever written IMO, with very exciting string writing and a central melodic idea driving the whole piece. He also captures the very torn psychological mind of Cobb, with lots of interesting melodies; "Cooperstown Aria" being a prime example.

Collins is similar in that it has a lot of melody and a few action-ish parts. The main theme is fantastic, and used well throughout. This one also makes an amazing and appropriate use of Sinnead O'Connor's voice and a choir. Goes for a little more than Cobb does, but still gets the same recommendation. Grand and epic!

BTW, unless they reprinted it, the CD has been out of print for years. I picked mine up shortly after it was announced as being OOP (early 2000 I believe).

The Missing (Horner)
The Insider (Gerrard)
License To Kill (Kamen)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Barry)

total cost was 30 dollars

Intrada's "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"--excellent DeVol score...a favorite 60s score alongside North's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff?" and "The Night Walker" (Mizzy).

"Oklahoma Crude"...Mancini does country with a fun main theme and a couple of excellent dramatic cues thrown in.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE - Patrick Doyle
THE CONSTANT GARDENER - Alberto Iglesias
ADVENT RISING - Tommy Tallarico & Michael Richard Plowman

History of Violence, Shore

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - John Williams
STARGATE: ATLANTIS - Joel Goldsmith
ZATHURA - John Debney

Those are in order of the best listens. Anyways, I picked up another one tonight:

STEALTH (Score) - BT

KISS KISS, BANG BANG - John Ottman
CARNIVALE - Jeff Beal

I must comment, Beal's Carnivale is nothing short of amazing. Not only does he one-up Thomas Newman in a lot of places (those who've heard this CD and know T. Newman's work will know what I'm talking about) but he also creates one of the most dynamic, dramatic, and original scores I've heard in a long time.

I have a feeling I;m going to return to my local Media Play on Saturday so I might as well add these release to the list:

LORD OF WAR - Antonio Pinto
THE FLY/THE FLY 2 - Howard Shore/Christopher Young

NP> Howard Shore's The Fly ****/****

Just received THE YAKUZA (Dave Grusin) from FSM. This was the one I chose as my entitlement for future mags which will not come to pass. There were about thirty other top-notch titles I could have chosen, but I went for this.

And it's a beauty. Dave Grusin, what a great composer. I've listened to it four or five times now, and it really deserves (and, I must admit, needs) those multiple listens. Alhough I'm still coming to terms with the musical journey, it's starting to make sense. After the relative ease of the first fifteen minutes it becomes increasingly obtuse, culminating in the lengthy Big Fight (yet anti-action) cue. Disorienting, or perhaps disorientating. When the robust End Titles kick in it's like coming out of a tunnel.

In other words, I absolutely adore the first quarter of an hour (GREAT, typically 70s aching romanticism - almost sounds like TV music!), then it gets difficult, and I've had to shake myself awake on occasion, but PERSEVERE folks - this is worth it!

And the Main Titles cast an awesomely beautiful spell. One of the best Main Titles of its era, with and without the film.