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Originally posted by Bagtatta:
I work in a movie/music store. The store usually puts the soundtracks out over the weekend because they aren't big sellers. If you want the CDs early check the lesser known stores that aren't in Malls and stuff on Sundays. Most of them put the soundtracks and less known releases and such out between Saturday and Sunday so this way the Monday night workload isn't as big.

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I guess that works. Thanks, I'll head out this weekend and see if I can track them down.

MI3: It's a good score. Some of it gets repetitive but I think that's just on my first listen. There's tons of action pieces that are quite catchie. The slow pieces are good as well. I'd give it a 4/5

Da Vinci Code: This is coincidentally the score that I liked the most out of the 3 I got and I'm not a huge Zimmer fan. A lot of people are saying some of the tracks sound the same in which they do, but they all have a different enviornment feeling to them. There were a lot of pieces that caught my ear. Fast spots and beautiful spots are all throughout this score. I'm officially 100% excited for this movie. 4/5

Poseidon: Out of all of them, this is the worst one. Not because the score itself is bad, but because there's 3 original songs, 2 by Fergie and one by some other artist. Can't stand when they do this, pick a format. Either all score..or all Various. I don't want to hear Fergie and some spanish artist. Maybe this is just my opinion but I'd rather here 40 minutes of score instead of under a half an hour and 13 minutes of music that I would never listen too. Following those two songs comes Klaus Badelts score which is UNDER A HALF AN HOUR. Total disappointment. I find it hard to believe that there is only 30 minutes worth of score in the movie. The score on the CD is actually pretty good but it is just to short..3/5

Raiders of the Lost Ark Expanded Edition (Williams)

1. Da Vinci Code

Then, went bargain bin hunting and found these:

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
My most recent additions have included Shore's Silence of the Lambs (thank you for the courteous delivery Mr. Kelly ) and Nyman's Gattaca.

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What'd you think of "Silence"? It took a lot of time for me to listen and enjoy it, but there's plenty of Shore trademarks and it's really a dramatic powerhouse, IMO. The sequence of Lector arriving in Memphis is a personal highlight for me.

Hopefully going to pick up M:i3 and Da Vinci on Tuesday. Both sound fantastic, and I thought M:i worked to great effect in the film.

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Originally posted by Alexborn007:

What'd you think of "Silence"? It took a lot of time for me to listen and enjoy it, but there's plenty of Shore trademarks and it's really a dramatic powerhouse, IMO. The sequence of Lector arriving in Memphis is a personal highlight for me.

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Oh, I love Silence; I'm a huge fan of Demme's film and how Shore's score completes the atmosphere of the experience, and the MCA disc has eluded me for such a long time. When I asked Peter if it had gone OOP, he told me that MCA still had it as one of their top titles with a new, lower price and they added the "Music by Howard Shore" legend to the bottom. It really had him stumped as to why it was such a hard find for me but I've had a tough time with my entire Shore collection. Everything but the Milan re-mastered Naked Lunch, The Fly, and the LotR trilogy I've had to purchase off of various sources on the internet. I'm about three discs away of completing Shore's discography if my memory serves me correctly (I know off the top of my head I don't have the collection of his early stuff with Cronenberg). I also have the same problem with completing my Goldenthal collection.

Bought it from ebay used but in mint condition and it is an OOP score.

The Matrix Complete 2-CD set
$25.00

I know it's CD-R discs but frankly I don't care. I don't mind buying CD-R discs. I don't know how to use photoshop to make my own covers and disc pictures. I also don't have a printer.

If a lot of these full bootleg scores ever got a legit release I'd replace them with the real legit CD's in a heart beat.

Christus Apollo and Celebrating the Classics and Escape to Victory

also

Bernstein Essential with that great Werewolf music and Hawaii etc on there. lots of goodies

just ordered the new Breakheart Pass and I Love Trouble by Newman
Also just got:

been concentrating on Bernstein lately and on some older titles.
Herrmann CBS vol 1
Herrmann CBS vol 2
several others.

THIS ISLAND EARTH (along with DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS etc) - The Herman Stein score is really great, the Goodwin hasn't made much impact yet. As re-recordings go, MMM are up there with the best.

THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES - An odd patchwork from various sources, but, my God, wasn't Basil Kirchin an amazing isiosyncratic talent? If only one of his other scores such as ASSIGNMENT K or I START COUNTING could be released. Perseverance were going to do THE SHUTTERED ROOM but the deal fell through. Still waiting for a CD which does Basil justice, though I'm glad I got PHIBES.

The Williams disc has lots of small little pieces (like 20 some). The two standard familiar pieces (here anyway) are included. It's from the ASV British Light music series.

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Soul of the Ultimate Nation
Infernal Affairs Trilogy

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Originally posted by BackToTheFutureFan:
Just picked up Starship Troopers. I think it's one of Poledouris' best scores following Conan. The release isn't the greatest with only around 32 minutes of the score.

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Certainly one of this best scores. The CD is too short, but the sound quality is awesome. There's a full-CD version floating around which has really fine sound, but it would be nice to someday get an official expanded release with sound that matches the current version.

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
Great picks Franz!

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Thanks! Strangely for me, I think I enjoyed INFERNAL AFFAIRS more than the Howard Shore score, but that's probably because I've seen the trilogy.

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Originally posted by franz_conrad:

Thanks! Strangely for me, I think I enjoyed INFERNAL AFFAIRS more than the Howard Shore score, but that's probably because I've seen the trilogy.

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Well, to be honest - and I'm not entirely sure of your tastes so don't take this the wrong way - S.U.N may take a few listens to be fully appreciated by a casual Shore listener. I do love the Infernal Affairs trilogy; it's what got me back into Hong Kong cinema after all seemed lost now that John Woo was making craptastic American-shlock and both Jackie Chan and Jet Li seemed to have sold their souls to Hollywood. But alas, Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak gave me renewed hope (along with my undying loyalty to Kar-Wai Wong).

NP> Dario Marianelli's V for Vendetta (****/*****)

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
Well, to be honest - and I'm not entirely sure of your tastes so don't take this the wrong way - S.U.N may take a few listens to be fully appreciated by a casual Shore listener. I do love the Infernal Affairs trilogy; it's what got me back into Hong Kong cinema after all seemed lost now that John Woo was making craptastic American-shlock and both Jackie Chan and Jet Li seemed to have sold their souls to Hollywood. But alas, Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak gave me renewed hope (along with my undying loyalty to Kar-Wai Wong).

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May the loyalty to Wong Kar Wai never end! (Unless his films betray his talents!)

With SUN, I have three problems:
1. There are a couple of tracks where the cue is just waiting around for something to happen - that old video game music chestnut of being capable of looping for quite a while... it makes a couple of the track musically quite boring.
2. The album is poorly structured. No climax... no finale - very weighted to the first six tracks.
3. John Kurlander and Shore continue to frustrate with their mixing decisions... it always sounds like it's somewhere 'over there', never like you're caught up in it.

Anyway, despite these problems, it's pretty good stuff.

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Originally posted by franz_conrad:

2. The album is poorly structured. No climax... no finale - very weighted to the first six tracks.

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I've noticed this problem frequently with video game soundtracks; it's as if the first tracks are the weighted thematic material that plays over the FMV or movie sequences that the gamer is unable to control and the rest of the score is the looping gameplay music. The only two scores I haven't encountered this problem with are Giacchino's Medal of Honor: Frontline and Chris Tilton's Black. Those two are both very fluid works on album.

An Almost Perfect Affair (Delerue)
Amazing Stories (Various)
Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Morricone)

And from the used store: