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Velton Ray Bunch & Mike Post - Quantum Leap
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| Good sampler - more Velton Ray Bunch please |
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With each Leap into a new life, Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap showed us different situations and the score always helped in painting in the picture of this person and their role.
As with any TV soundtrack, the evocative main theme is here, presented as both beginning and end credits to the CD.
Along with changing his mannerisms for each leap, Scott Bakula provided a decent singing voice and most of his contributions are captured here, probably at his best as a musical actor (Man of La Mancha) and a KISS-style Rock star (Fate's Wide Wheel). His co-star established actor Dean Stockwell also gets to reprise his "Alphabet Rap" from Shock Treatment - one of the most moving episodes of the whole series.
But it is the score music which set the tone for each episode, effortlessly creating a picture of a gunfighter or a vampire or just Sam's longing for home. While getting these 5 pieces is a treasure, I have to regret the many more episodes not covered and hope someday Velton Ray Bunch will add more soundtracks for us to enjoy.
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9 of 9 found this review helpful |
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Trevor Jones - Dinotopia
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| Epic Dinosaur Mini Series |
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While Dinotopia only had a short life as a mini series on TV, the music that Trevor Jones wrote for it certainly is able to transcend and surpass the small screen it was written for. The track listing is not long but the 12 tracks encompass most of all the music within the series with 4 main themes present throughout the music and show.
The Dinotopia Main Theme of course represents the main theme of the show. It is a sweeping theme, giving the listener a taste of the opening scene of the island and the grand wonderment that met the two characters who found themselves stranded there. The Codes of Dinotopia, the end of Pteranodos, middle of Acedemy for Young Mammals and Letters From Matriarch and the beginning and end of the Ceremony of the Sunstones tracks find this theme replayed.
The track Waterfall city introduced another major theme, associated with the city and the World Beneath. It mirrors the feeling of discovery and has more brass to emphasize the feelings of discovery. The Ceremony of the Sunstones also plays this theme at the beginning of the track.
The Flying theme is found in the middle of T-Rex attacks, the beginning and end portions of The Skybax Dawn Flight and can be found also in the ceremony of the Sunstones track. Though only present in a few tracks it is a big dramatic theme, with sweeping brass instruments giving the listener the feeling of riding with one of the prehistoric flying dinosaurs associated with the theme.
The Carnivore theme is located in the T-Rex Attack, at the end of the Codes of Dinotopia and end the of Acedemy for Young Mammals, Letters From Matriarch, The Skybax Dawn Flight and in the Pteranodos tracks. The theme is characterized with hurried strings and loud percussion associated with perils or the Dinosaurs that are not friendly towards the people of Dinotopia.
Dinotopia transports watchers to an amazing world where dinosaurs and humans live together in peace and the music does a wonderful job to convey the sense of wonderment, discovery and even danger. A great score and a great TV mini series to accompany a great piece of work by Trevor Jones.
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5 of 5 found this review helpful |
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John Williams - Towering Inferno, The
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| Great Score |
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marlow
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9 Apr 2009 |
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Together with 'Earthquake' and 'The Poseidon Adventure' this score is one of the great seventies disaster scores of John Williams. With John Cacavas' Airport 77 it was a remarkable light-fusion of the seventies' pop culture with orchestral scoring. It also points into the upcoming home of Williams' collaboration with Spielberg and the London Symphony Orchestra which will last decades. I like the old fashioned tradition to compose a song for the movie which also uses the main theme. FSM did a great job in restoring and in providing a wonderful booklet with this issue. The sound quality is mediocre.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Greg Edmonson - Firefly
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| Firefly lights up your ears and heart |
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I have to say, this is one of my top albums of all time. The music was so beautifully written.
The blending of Western (complete with acoustic guitars), Classical (violins) and Soul (piano) is pure genius.
The Funeral, quite possibly my favorite track on the album, is harmonious and sad, the rhythm and meter perfectly matching the mood for which the piece was scored and played.
I would recommend this album to anybody who enjoys following a musical story, for this is exactly what Firefly tells.
~Tiff
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Marilyn Manson - Resident Evil
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| Made the movie |
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I avoided the movie for a long time because of the title. But when I heard the music it made the move! This movie would have been only half as good with out Marlyn Manson's (of all people!) sound tract.
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1 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Henry Mancini - Trail Of The Pink Panther, The
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| Panther, the second |
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This is Mancini's score for the second Part of the Pink Panther series by Blake Edwards. Besides some songs known from the first movie (i.e. It had better been tonight) there are funny made songs that fit exactly to the scenarios.
You can literally hear the fireworks crack in Hong Kong or see the glass of bavarian beer in front of you.
And there are the two songs always are associated with Clouseau: The Inspector Clouseau Theme, melancholic and funny at the same time, and A Shot in the Dark, which also became the Inspector's theme in the animated series.
Mancini showed in the whole score again his excellent feeling for transforming a situation into music.
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1 of 2 found this review helpful |
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A.R. Rahman - Dil Se..
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| Bollywood here we come! |
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A.R. Rahman was finally nominated and won for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire" however "Dil Se..." I feel has a far better soundtrack with a song that has come to typify what the bollywood sound is about.
That song is Chaiyya Chaiyya - This is arguably the best known piece of Bollywood music outside of India. The music video featuring the lead in this movie was shot on top of a moving train and has been renowned by choreographers as groundbreaking. The music itself has been sampled several times and you can find two other versions here on SST. The first is from another bollywood film "Bombay Dreams" and the second is from the American film "The Inside Man."
The rest of the songs (and they are vocals) on the album are all variations on various Indian pop music. There a bit of a love song in Jiya Jale. And the sound of Chaiyya Chaiyya is repeated in Thayya Thayya. Each is great in and of themselves and really typifies the Bollywood sound.
If you like getting out of your chair and moving. This ST is for you. If not... then I would bypass this album.
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6 of 6 found this review helpful |
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Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Keiki Kobayashi, Hirishi Okubo (...) - Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
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| A video game score of Epic proportions... |
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If it is one thing that the Japanese do well, it is construct video games. The Ace Combat series is long hailed as the best Flight game around. And among many purists, Ace Combat Zero is considered the best of the best. The voice acting is well done, the game engine is perfect, the graphics are good. And then there is the music....
In many games, music is an afterthought. But not here. The music of Ace Combat Zero is really stand out. I will admit that there are a lot of "throwaway" tracks. Things that are needed for loading screens, shop music, filler - and this album has them. But it also has something else. On several tracks there is a lovely Spanish guitar that would make Antonio Segovia cry in its beauty.
Those tracks are:
Juggernaut
The Round Table
The Demon of the Round Table
Zero
Epilogue -Near the Border-
As some would put it, "They are EPIC tracks".
Other memorable tracks that do not feature the guitar include:
Glacial Skies
Excalibur
Valley of Kings
Avalon
These tracks are from other missions that you play throughout the game.
As a test of this soundtrack's power, I played a few of the tracks for my father. He loved them and wanted more and was very surprised to learn that the songs were from a video game. It goes to show that great music can come from anywhere. And this one, despite its name, is Definitely not a Zero, but a soundtrack worth adding to your favorites.
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4 of 4 found this review helpful |
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