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Ernest Gold - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Dlx
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| Classicly Fun Music |
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What a joy to see the soundtrack for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World here on SST. This was a favorite film of my childhood, and I can still hum the main title instantly from memory.
If you've never seen this film, it is a grand circus of stars paraded in some of the grandest action and comical scenes ever put on film. Starring (almost) every famous comedian of the time, from Sid Ceaser, Milton Berle, and Ethel Merman, to Spencer Tracy, Dick Shawn, and Micky Rooney, and all the way down to a cameo by The Three Stooges, the humor and tone of the film required a grand musical backing to match.
From the Overture and Main Title theme, to the hectic chase sequence music of Follow the Leader and Instant Chase, all the way to the calm friendly tune of The Big W, Ernest Gold crafted a fun and well-choreographed soundtrack to "The Biggest Entertainment Ever to Rock the Screen with Laughter." This soundtrack alwalys brings a smile to my face.
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Hans Zimmer, Rachid Taha, Denez Prigent (...) - Black Hawk Down
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| One of Hans´s best works |
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I just simply LOVE Mr Zimmer!!! Since the very first moment I had the chance to listen to "The Lion King " soundtrack I just fell in love with the way he makes music. Even though I don´t have any idea about composing soundtracks or music in general I can certainly speak about how Hans Zimmer´s work make me feel. "Rain man" Thelma & Louise", "The Lion King " "Backdraft" "The Lion King " "M:I II" "GLADIATOR"!!!!!! (It´s still inconceivable to me Academy preferred "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon" dull score over this master piece!!) etc, etc, and more great etceteras... When we take a listen to the “Black Hawk Down” score we inevitably perceive Hans´s confessed fanatism about African music and his excellence as a composer mixing/confronting musically both American and Somali sides of the conflict depicted in the Ridley Scott´s movie, capturing the real essence of it. My favorite tracks? “Hunger”, “Synchrotone”, “Leave no man behind” and “Still”
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Michael Giacchino - John Carter
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| John Carter Score Review |
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Michael Giacchino is no stranger to delivering great music in film and television. Prime examples would be 2009's Star Trek and the TV show LOST. John Carter is no exception. From the beginning you are thrown right into the action with "A Thern for the Worse" and taken to a soothing choral piece in "The Blue Light Special", and ending it with an grand epic finish in "John Carter of Mars". No doubt it is that distinctive sound from Giacchino's other work that is recognizable, but to me that is what makes the John Carter stand out.
He doesn't deviate from what he's used to doing, and in this film he does an exceptional job in harnessing the music to match the mood in the movie and also make you feel like you are on Mars. With the addition of a little Middle-Eastern instrumentation, the John Carter score feels complete and delivers that epic craving while watching this Sci-Fi Adventure. I highly recommend for anyone who is a fan of Giacchino's work to buy this album to add to their collection. Kudos to Mr. Giacchino and his orchestra for providing another fine piece of work. I am crossing my fingers a JC sequel is in the works and that Giacchino will be at the helm of the music once again.
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Bartosz Chajdecki - SST Selection, The
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| Bartosz explains where the tracks are from... |
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Bartosz gave this music to us. Most of them are for now unreleased tracks. He gave of each track some extra information.
2. Traveling - it is a music to a spot of Film Commission Poland - it should be released on youtube anytime soon.
4. What would you say to the orphan? - tv series called "Chichot Losu" (the tranlation would be - laugh of fate or something like that... it is about two kids who become orphans because of their mothers car accident)
7. Rape - it is music for a theatre production. the title is "Gody zycia" - I think impossible to translate for me.
9. Kindergarten - "Chichot Losu" tv series again.
10. Dance of the dolls - theater - "Four of them"
11. Together into the night - "Chichot losu" again
12. Time for war - Czas Honoru - new music
13. Time with Anna - Czas Honoru - new series
15. Eternal farewell - future project - cant talk about it yet but I have permission to show the piece
17. Lonely journey - written to a film titled "Baczynski" - he was the very famous polish poet who died at the age of 20 killed by nazis during the war - you can watch the trailer with my music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puuC_ZYy_KA - if you have time please look at it and listen to it loud :)
18. Joy of playing - "Chichot losu" series again
22. Return - music from time of honour - final music from the fouth season.
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Bernard Herrmann - Trouble With Harry, The
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| Trouble with Harry |
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maddy
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28 Jun 2012 |
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One of Hitchcock's forays into comedy. And it is funny in a Hitchcock sort of way. One of my all time favorite movies and the music fits it so well. The trouble with Harry is told at the very opening of the movie and the hilarity follows as they try to figure out who caused Harry's death. The music is very light and not at all like Herrmann's usual compositions.
The cast of the movie was also wonderful. John Forsythe, Jerry Mathers (of Leave It to Beaver fame), Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick and Edmund Gwenn.
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Alan Silvestri, David Zippel Alan Menken - Captain America: The First Avenger
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| Not amazing, but does the trick ( 3.5 / 5 ) |
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After watching this enjoyable film in the theatre, I swiftly went to the record store and picked up the CD!
My 1st impression was WHOA! 26* tracks? But how well do they fare when not heard with the visuals...nothing too spectacular I'm afraid. I found that there were alot of tracks which were fine, but were solely there for atmosphere, mood, complimentary. Many of the tracks were just so settle that you wouldn't have thought they were from an action picture.
I hope I don't sound too harsh, as I do like the score overall but just a little disappointed that not many of the tracks could stand on their own as a "single" if you will.
My recommended tracks would be:
[a few film spoilers, beware :) ]
#10 Kruger Chase (Cap's 1st action scene after he's injected with the super soldier serum)
#16 Triumphant Return (nice parade theme when Cap returns from his 1st successful mission)
#26 Star Spangled Man (one of my favourite scenes, where Cap performs on stage to raise funds for the military, super FUN!)
#27 Captain America March (could be labelled as the End Credits track. PATRIOTIC, HEROIC, POWERFUL, easily my favourite track on the album, HIGHLY recommended! I just wished I felt more of this energy throughout the score...)
*An unforgivable move by Disney records to not include track #27 on the CD. It's available only as a Bonus track if you bought the Digital Album on ITunes...grr! Why would you not include an end credits track on a soundtrack? It's a slap to the fans who still enjoy physical media/CDs!
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Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, Alexander Courage & Jerry Goldsmith (...) - Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume 1
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| Very entertaining album |
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dave11
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27 May 2012 |
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I was very excited to see this album come out, I didn't expect any release like this at all anymore after all these years.
CD 1: I've always been a big fan of Dennis McCarthy's music since I was a kid and heard his work on the MacGyver series. While I think that they could have made some better choices as to which of McCarthy's pieces to release on this album, it's nevertheless well worth it. The music for 'Haven', McCarthy's first episode after scoring the pilot, is unusual for Star Trek, very romantic and melodic, really beautiful. I didn't care much for the actual episode, but the music is some of McCarthy's best. For 'Hide and Q' they only chose to release the music from one scene, in my opinion they should have chosen a few more scenes from this episode which featured some really great dramatic action music in earlier parts of the episode. The same goes for 'Conspiracy', a very dark and tense episode with great music especially during the first part of the episode, but again they chose to release only the last part with very disharmonic music, interesting and very effective in the episode but not exactly what I would like to listen to for enjoyment. 'The Child' is one of the best choices they could have made, already years ago I thought this should be released. A full orchestral celebratory grand opening, after that some mysterious and dark moments when the life form enters the Enterprise searching for a host. In the second part there is a nice mix of dramatic music and a joyful moment when Troi's child is born, back to McCarthy's typically dramatic underscoring where you can feel the danger and tension when the containment is about to breach. 'Time Squared' is again very dark and mysterious with a wonderful action sequence at the end, this part reminds very much of McCarthy's dramatic underscoring with rhythmic string and brass combinations much like the MacGyver episodes he scored in the late 80's and early 90's, finishing with the 4-chord sequence from the opening of the episode 'The Child'. About 'The Survivors', another score I had been hoping for for the longest time, I was extremely thrilled and at the the same time a bit disappointed. In this episode there are three attacks on the Enterprise by an unidentified warship, all these scenes are accompanied by some of McCarthy's greatest action music ever. Unfortunately only one of these scenes is released here, about 1 min 40 sec into track 17 (unbridged). Track 17 also starts with a great, haunting piece while Troi is being tortured by telepathically transmitted music. I think rather than releasing 3 variations of the waltz/music box, they should have included another ship attack scene instead.. 'Sarek' is an outstanding score, mostly dissonant, very emotional while Sarek's emotions are out of control within Picard's mind during the mind meld. In 'Conundrum' we're back to an exciting action cue while the crew is forced to launch an attack against an unknown civilization while suffering from amnesia, with an evil alien crew member is hiding among the crew. Overall a very enjoyable selection with many good moments, not a perfect selection of music but far from bad.
CD 2: Jay Chattaway was a great addition to the composer team of TNG. His music was unusual for TNG but very fitting. 'Remember Me', the second episode he scored as a guest composer, was extremely well made, and the music was perfect for it. 'The Host', 'Darmok' and 'Silicon Avatar', some of Chattaway's first episodes after replacing Ron Jones as a regular composer, feature some very exciting, rhythmic action music. In later episodes, especially in the 6th and 7th season I always felt that Chattaway was unable to get variety into his compositions, for sure partly because the producers wanted the music to be less prominent in the episodes, unfortunately it took a lot of the excitement out of Chattaway's music (McCarthy's as well, but to a lesser degree). Especially tracks 15 and 21 completely lack excitement. From Chattaway's Disc (disc #2) I would recommend to stick to tracks 2-11, and then track 20 is quite good as well, reminds me a bit of ST Voyager-'Caretaker'.
CD 3: Very interesting and exciting was the release of three scores composed by guest composers:
1. Fred Steiner, a regular composer of the original series, was brought back for one of the very first episodes of TNG, and while his music was quite entertaining, it was not much different than his scores from the original series, for TNG it was way too old fashioned in my opinion.
2. Don Davis' score is one of a kind for TNG, it's composed more like a movie than an episode, which is what makes it very interesting to listen to. In my opinion it's very suitable for this particular episode because it's an unusually "big" story, and the sound is equally big, much more prominent than McCarthy's and Chattaway's scores from season 6 and 7. A great choice by the album makers.
3. John Debney did a wonderful Job as well in the episode 'The Pegasus'. If I didn't know I would have thought that this is a McCarthy score, I assume that Debney's purpose here was to adjust to TNG scoring requirements. But also like Davis' score for 'Face of the Enemy', Debney's score is a bit more prominent, quite melodic at times and extremely enjoyable.
To summarize, most of this album is really great and enjoyable, hope you guys enjoy it as well.
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| A very solid score |
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dave11
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10 May 2012 |
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Dennis McCarthy composed some fantastic music for this 7th Star Trek movie. It cannot be compared to the earlier Star Trek movie soundtracks because this 7th movie is very different from the previous ones. The music does indeed have a lot in common with the music from the series, which is I believe exactly what makes this score more special, because you can connect to the characters more easily because it has a familiar feel to it. This score has everything you want, action, excitement (Kirk saves the Day, Outgunned, The Crash), but also very touching, calm parts (Nexus/Christmas Hug, Kirk's death). I also think that the Overture (even though it wasn't used as the overture in the movie) is one of the most memorable pieces, probably the most memorable composed by McCarthy. In my opinion this score is generally a bit underrated, but I guess it is hard to compete with Goldsmith scores, while in this case however I prefer not to compare because this ST movie is pretty unique.
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Abel Korzeniowski, Madonna - W.E.
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| A wholly melodic and utterly gorgeous collection of well-rounded compositions for string- and piano-led orchestra. |
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Written by Bob den Hartog - Review of the regular release
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At first observation Korzeniowski’s work for Madonna’s historical melodrama seems like a perfect extension of his previous major work, A Single Man. Moving waltzes performed by string-dominated ensembles feature prominently, stylishly accentuated by undercurrent harp melodies and heartfelt solo violin and cello performances, to ensure those heartstrings are pulled at exactly the right moments. The score even features an extension of that previous scores "Clock Tick" idea in the rhythmic "I Will Follow You", set to (you guessed it) the metrum of a ticking clock.
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Excellent Tracks:
- Charms
- Abdication
- Six Hours
- Letters
- Dance for Me Wallis
Read the complete review on MainTitles.net
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