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I wasn't talking about you, but yes people say that with some frequency.
Yavar
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I keep thinking that there may be a correlation between how long one has been a film-score fan and how much interest one has in new music.
I've been a fan for well over 40 years, and I'm generally less interested in new releases now than I was 8 or 10 years ago. There are only so many ways to skin the cat of film music, and with every year that passes I think I've heard them all, and when listening to new stuff, I think I'm hearing them all again.
Not to dismiss anyone's choices here, or to say they are not as good as the music I like to listen to. Which is why I am always mystified when people bother to counter-post on a thread like this - if you don't have any choices, then you really don't have anything to add.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the winner for me this year, but my listening has been very spotty.
I'd do a shout out to A Walk Among the Tombstones - a richly unsettling score.
And I'm looking forward to The Homesman, but want to wait to see it before I listen.
And in the category of scores-that-call-back-the-glory-days-of-experimental-film-music, I'm all for Under the Skin and Hannibal (though I loathe the premise of the series).
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Nov 25, 2014 - 6:04 AM
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Tall Guy
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I keep thinking that there may be a correlation between how long one has been a film-score fan and how much interest one has in new music.
I've been a fan for well over 40 years, and I'm generally less interested in new releases now than I was 8 or 10 years ago. There are only so many ways to skin the cat of film music, and with every year that passes I think I've heard them all, and when listening to new stuff, I think I'm hearing them all again.
Not to dismiss anyone's choices here, or to say they are not as good as the music I like to listen to. Which is why I am always mystified when people bother to counter-post on a thread like this - if you don't have any choices, then you really don't have anything to add.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the winner for me this year, but my listening has been very spotty.
I'd do a shout out to A Walk Among the Tombstones - a richly unsettling score.
And I'm looking forward to The Homesman, but want to wait to see it before I listen.
And in the category of scores-that-call-back-the-glory-days-of-experimental-film-music, I'm all for Under the Skin and Hannibal (though I loathe the premise of the series).
Sean (if I may) - I enjoyed your post and also your profile. I can't help but think that you have to look further afield nowadays for experimental film music. Most mainstream stuff has for decades been obliged to follow the formula of what sells, rather than pushing the envelope of what works - or works well enough to be allowed to hit the screen. If Morricone were fifty years younger, would he have been allowed the latitude on modern films that he was by Pasolini and Leone? Would The French Connection have that wonderfully grating jazz score if it were a 2010 film? You rightly cite Under the Skin, and it's a great example, but if it carried a hundred million budget the score might be somewhat different.
The pressure to conform has always been there, of course, and Pasolini was admittedly well off the beaten track, but currently the music has to follow a certain expectation on big releases - just like you can't have a rom com without certain actors, and Tom Cruise is first choice for sci-fi action etc, et-bloomin' cetera.
Good for Desplat, then, for using that booming bass effect in Birth, for example, and good on NolanZimmer for experimenting a bit with Incepstellar. I like a lot of modern scores in the "sound design" category - Sunshine for instance shows that it's entirely possible to craft an enjoyable score from it - but my favourites seem to remain the likes of Grand Hotel Budapest where there's a bit of melody and variety, which chimes of course with my first film music loves of Barry, Morricone, Schifrin etc.
So my answer for 2014 is GHB, with nods to UtS and Interstellar - but for various reasons my listening hasn't been as active this year as in others. TV - liked Fargo, enjoying Gotham and Flash.
TG
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Yes, Tall Guy, I don't look as far afield as I used to. Or I take a long time. My big new focus this year has been on Akira Ifukube; maybe I'll have more to say about 2014 in, like, 40 years!
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