Your favourite Jerry Goldsmith score
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Parsifal666
I don't even own a DAW, I'm just a troll.
Like being asked which of your children you love most
This is me. The man had great music in the early sixties and died this century. I don't even know how many scores he completed...I just know I favor heavily the sixties and seventies (though he did plenty since that was extraordinary as well imo).
Total Recall really could be a master's class in Action Movie Scores, just like Blue Max and Capricorn One were before it.
I like music
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How many people have even heard of The Wild Rovers? I'm focusing here just on the theme (I can't remember much of the film so can't comment on how the music went with the film) but this is just so ... epic. With Goldsmith, you can just put the music on and listen to it for its own sake, I feel.
re-peat
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‘Wild Rovers’ is a great score, I agree, with plenty of interesting music besides the cue 'Wild Horses' which is what that YT-clip contains.
If one has to pick just one Goldsmith score though, it’s going to be ‘Planet Of The Apes’ for me too. Extraordinary piece of work. (Admirers of that music should also find great enjoyment, by the way, in ‘The Cassandra Crossing’ which has several cues, especially the action music, that could well have been part of the ‘Apes’-score. Very similar language.)
Vying with ‘Planet Of The Apes’ for the number 1 spot in my favourite Goldsmith scores list, is, without a doubt, ‘The Great Train Robbery’, showing a side of the composer that, it seems to me, not many people know he has: a remarkable knack for upbeat, jolly tunes (and good ones too) often with a humorous twist and wrapped in a neo-19th-century style. Terrific music.
Other strong favourites: the brilliant ‘Islands In The Stream’, ‘Night Crossing’, ‘China Town’ and the dark, hypnotizing ‘Outland’. All insanely good.
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If one has to pick just one Goldsmith score though, it’s going to be ‘Planet Of The Apes’ for me too. Extraordinary piece of work. (Admirers of that music should also find great enjoyment, by the way, in ‘The Cassandra Crossing’ which has several cues, especially the action music, that could well have been part of the ‘Apes’-score. Very similar language.)
Vying with ‘Planet Of The Apes’ for the number 1 spot in my favourite Goldsmith scores list, is, without a doubt, ‘The Great Train Robbery’, showing a side of the composer that, it seems to me, not many people know he has: a remarkable knack for upbeat, jolly tunes (and good ones too) often with a humorous twist and wrapped in a neo-19th-century style. Terrific music.
Other strong favourites: the brilliant ‘Islands In The Stream’, ‘Night Crossing’, ‘China Town’ and the dark, hypnotizing ‘Outland’. All insanely good.
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Over the years, I've shown Rudy to a great number of people (probably 10 different people), and the reaction, when the film finishes, is always the same. They're simultaneously close to crying, fist-pumping, happy. The music drives the last 5-6 minutes so intimately. There's so much energy there. That's what epic sounds like to me.
However, one of my all-time favourite Goldsmith moments, in any film, is when Rudy first walks onto the field (bag in hand, all alone) and you hear that familiar motif in a soft-yet-grand brassy glory. I can't find the clip, but it is just superb.
However, one of my all-time favourite Goldsmith moments, in any film, is when Rudy first walks onto the field (bag in hand, all alone) and you hear that familiar motif in a soft-yet-grand brassy glory. I can't find the clip, but it is just superb.
Ashermusic
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One of his very best was for a movie nobody but me probably saw, called "Players" with Dino Martin (the son) about a tennis player. Movie was lousy but the score was brilliant.
Robo Rivard
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Planet of the Trumps.
wilifordmusic
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Well, if you need more, how about
Air Force One
Executive Decision
Hollow Man
Small Soldiers
Inner Space
The Swarm
etc....etc.....
yes, they're all good.
Air Force One
Executive Decision
Hollow Man
Small Soldiers
Inner Space
The Swarm
etc....etc.....
yes, they're all good.
I like music
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You got see that being recorded? That theme is amazing. That (viola?) countermelody if I remember correctly, makes it even better.
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Even ignoring everything else, and focusing solely on the melody, I can't think of any/many composers who have so much quality, "catchy" material. I imagine Williams is up there.
Powder is another good one. Rio Conchos I remember having a few pretty hummable ones.
Patton, McArthur ... hundreds more.
Powder is another good one. Rio Conchos I remember having a few pretty hummable ones.
Patton, McArthur ... hundreds more.
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Pure nostalgia for me. Matched the visuals perfectly. I think I heard it live in one of his concerts (but I might be imagining it, as it was 15/16 years ago)another vote for the star trek Voyager theme here
mikeh-375
old school
I did. The best part of all was following the score in the control room with Arthur Morton. The man was a true legend and... perfect host. He sat between me and a friend on the sofa at the now defunct Whitfield St studios (if memory serves!!) and we spread the score across our knees. I kept thinking that the man sitting next to me worked on the Laurel and Hardy films for some reason. We were briefly introduced to JG as he came in to listen to a take...he was conducting too....long below shoulder length grey hair in a pony tail.....even the greats have faults.....(just joking, especially as I had a pony tail once!)
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Patrick_Gill
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Total Recall has definitely got my vote! Masterful. It's a tough call haha. Although, I love his scores for The Burbs and especially Explorers too.
