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Dec 23, 2013 - 11:13 AM
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MikeyKW
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His non-Bond scores are too monotonous for me...even when he came up with a good theme, he nothing to develop it, but tried desperately to keep things moving my churning out a lot of tedious, musical wall-paper. I'm not sure his style; old-fashioned, florid and narrow, has aged that well, considering how many times his latter scores were dumped by film-makers who were no doubt horrified when they heard what he produced.
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Barry doing Bond as well. Barry's non-Bonds are frustrating for me: like watching a sports car revving up its engine and going nowhere.
Nah ... more like: the best Bordeaux or --- wines: the JB007 scores are the aroma which pull you in ... the other scores are the lovely flavour, the enticing taste, the feeling of satisfaction as you take each sip ...
And they age so well.
Provided you have the palate for them, of course!
Mitch
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Sergei Prokofiev
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Igor Stravinsky
Bernard Herrmann
John Williams (or 99%of his stuff is stellar)
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Mark Shreeve
Paul Hertzog
Keith Forsey
Stephen Hague
Vince DiCola
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The only ones that come to mind as 100% are those that have done very little work in films or are represented by only a few releases:
JOHN CORIGLIANO
BRIAN LOCK
All my big favorites have at least one or two scores I do not like (I can think of a lot of these). It seems these days if I get more than 10 scores by anybody chances are one will not be likeable. This, of course, is not to say that those scores are desultory to the project intended... just that I don't like them as a listening experience.
SCOTT
P.S. I can also think of some "one-hit-from-one-release" guys, but will not count them.
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Without doubt: Bernard Herrmann, his Genius is near perfection. Followed by Miklos Rozsa
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God I wish "barryfan" would fix this thread title.
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If I may post on an old thread (apologies if this is frowned upon), I have never heard a Christopher Young score I disliked. Even his lesser work offers something to my ears...though what the heck he was doing on The Country Bears, I don't know.
I also find James Newton Howard pretty reliable.
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