I need an antidote to film-score negativity after some of the threads of the last week or so. So here's what I love about film music: everything! No, not really, I don't love everything, but I love at least SOME of everything, scores from every genre across all periods. I'm gonna focus on Hollywood here mostly, with a couple of extras thrown in.
I love lots of golden age music, from Korngold and Rozsa to Herrmann and Newman and more besides.
I love the groovy sixties of Mancini and Schifrin and John Barry, and their seventies, and eighties, and so on.
I love the big open music of Moross and Elmer Bernstein through the years and for Bernstein decades.
I love every period of Goldsmith, and Williams, and hell, Rozsa and Herrmann and Elfman and whoever - pick your giant.
I love Young and Shore, Silvestri and Walker, Zimmer and Powell, Giacchino and Doyle, Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter and Alan Howarth, Gil Melle and Leonard Rosenman, Mancina and Lennertz, Small and Shire and Beck and Kral and North and Franke and I don't know who all. Trent Reznor and Trevor Rabin and Disastepeace and Jan Hammer and Vangelis and Mica Levi's Under the Skin.
I love scores with a lot of melody and classical development, and I love avant garde scores, and I love textures. I love Disney and Goldenberg's Columbo and Morton Stevens Hawaii 5-0 and Reitzell's Hannibal. I love the orchestra, I love electronics, I'm good with a beat or without.
I love Morricone and Ifukube and Miyazaki and Henze and Sato and I'm just getting to know Yoko Kanno and dozens of Italians.
I love film music then and I love film music now. I even love musicals! I LOVE THIS STUFF and proud of it! And I don't much care where it goes next, I'm interested in every development - if it works for the film and if it works on its own (and even if it doesn't work that well I may listen anyway).
I love music from the the entire history of cinema -- from the early silents to rock-infused modern grooves. Would take me too long to list them all. I need my Franz Waxman and Erich Wolfgang Korngold one minute, and then my Lalo Schifrin the next. Then maybe some Giorgio Moroder, followed by Junkie XL, Cliff Martinez or Johan Johannsson. Add some Philipp Glass, Alan Menken and Vangelis inbetween, finished by by a wonderful dessert of Hans Zimmer.
Heck, I try to be comprehensive, and the second post already includes a handful of names I should have mentioned and didn't! What an incredible range of music we have to choose from - more that I love than I can even keep in my head.
Yeah, as I said, listing names and styles I like would take me too long. It's easier to list the small handful of composers and styles I DO NOT like (not many!), but that really goes against the purpose of this thread, so I won't. I've never really understood why some people are so pre-occupied with only one particular period or style, and then seemingly blind to everything else this wonderful artform has to offer. It's their prerogative, of course, and I'm sure they're comfortable with that, but it's not something I can personally relate to. Having 'preferences' is of course another thing altogether. We all have that.
I've been HONKING this for years - people either think I'm full of it, or don't care. There are more than a few of us 'right thinkers' around here, who can dig Zimmer & Pals right alongside Friedhofer, North, Fielding and the ubiquitous as of late, Frank Skinner.
In one way or another, good bad ugly or indifferent, all "this stuff" has a place somewhere.
Good luck anyway with your endeavor Sean N., I love it all too, for various reasons.
Honk honk here, I love it all. There's a style or genre for any mood I might have, or to accompany any task I have to do. Sometimes, hunting down that particular music from whichever era, that is the perfect accompaniment for whatever I'm doing, is the most fun of all.
Americans will recognize "honk if you love...." as the starting of many a bumper sticker over the years, a bumper sticker being a small message affixed to the back fender of a car. To encourage people who agree with the sentiment expressesd to honk the horn in their cars. Also seen held by folks on street corners. Search the web and you'll get the picture.
Americans will recognize "honk if you love...." as the starting of many a bumper sticker over the years, a bumper sticker being a small message affixed to the back fender of a car. To encourage people who agree with the sentiment expressesd to honk the horn in their cars. Also seen on sides held by folks on street corners. Search the web and you'll get the picture.
I'll honk because I buy scores from current releases, from the Silver Age and from the Golden Age. There are scores from every era that I love and scores from every era that don't appeal to me or that I enjoy only within the context of their movies, and that's okay. The point is that I'm tuned in to scores in older and current movies.
Honking in here because I love it all. From Quo Vadis, Peyton Place to Tyler's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, and Zimmer.
My mp3 player this week has a Horner playlist, Interstellar, Tangerine Dream's Wavelength and Goldsmith's Baby:Secret Of The Lost Legend.
Mine also has a Horner tribute list, along with Man of Steel, Waxman at Paramount, Hunger Games, TRON Legacy, Obsession, Wizards, and Youroiden Samurai Troopers.
