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I've been on a Big Gundown kick lately too. It's a great companion score to Lone Ranger, which I played a ton last summer while on a 3 month long driving gig. It rarely left the truck stereo. Great driving tunes. The William Tell Overture is just unstoppable.
What's nice is that after a bit of discussion on here it's easy to suddenly get the urge to listen to some of the subjects. That's how The Big Gundown is slowly weaning me off The Lone Ranger, though at the moment they are indeed companions. It's like alternate listening choices! And you're so right about TLR being great to drive to, possibly because much of the music has a largely driving sound since a lot of it accompanies speeding scenes, be it on horseback or a speeding train.
For myself I got really addicted to the Zimmer cd whilst wallpapering the bedroom! The rolls just flew up, and it was on an endless loop setting, and I never once got bored. Infact I was sorry to finish the job! My wife doesn't realise how much gratitude she owes the composer. And I won't be telling her any time soon as she'll figure out what a great way it might be to get to do more rooms.
Cue comments about Zimmer's music being mere wallpaper.....
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Tell that to my cd player. It simply refuses to let the disc out. Nor will my mind allow me to forget any of the tracks, try as I might. I love plenty of other stuff. Just got the second Hobbit soundtrack, and just as I was about to swap the discs.... no, the Zimmer one demanded to be played yet again.
OMG. Sue the company where you bought the thing! Send the Taliban. Ask Fox Mulder to investigate this very strange case!!!! Or the NSA.......
If I needed help I'd prefer to send for International Rescue thanks. But why would I want rescuing from so much pleasure?
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Speak for yourself, nutjob.
Great! how people defend the indefensible! HANSI HANSI HANSI HANSI!
No need for defence. Zimmer's track record speaks for itself, hence the sheer amount of work he gets.
But your last remark reminds me of a great moment of black comedy from that classic movie (with an equally classic Waxman score of course), The Bride of Frankenstein.
The old couple who lost their little girl to the Monster in the previous film are on the hill watching the windmill burn down, and the wife is shouting Hans! Hans! And up pops the Monster's HAND and pulls her down to her death.
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What greatness? What history? Are you for real?
Yep. The greatness that surrounds the music of Herrmann, Goldsmith, Williams, Barry and the like is absent in Zimmer. He may be popular nowadays because his name is attached to virtually every loud box office hit, but in the grand scheme of film music he is nobody. He will never come close to the above mentioned musicians. Not by a mile. In fact, I know many completely unknown composers here in Colombia who are way better than he is. I can't imagine how many are out there in the world who are also way better.
Alex
LOL. At least he's better than you.
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