Coneheads would be great. If I remember right, it's a lot like Airplane -- serious at first blush but it reveals itself to the he point of being very over to the top which makes it all the better.
There's some great unreleased material in the score including some tension building cues that oddly sound like some of his Borg music from First Contact and his Spock material from Chris.
Goldsmith went straight from The Ghost And The Darkness to First Contact. In fact it was his overrunning commitment to Ghost that forced him to get Joel to help out on his Trek score. So... the Borg sound was actually born of Ghost, not the other way round.
"Coneheads would be great. If I remember right, it's a lot like Airplane -- " -------------------------------- Do you mean the film? I haven't watched it since it first came out and doubt I will ever again. The music is basically Newman re-doing Herrmann's Day The Earth Stood Still. Very big OTT Space Film Music. Lots of fun, but quite derivative. 3 Unreleased David Newman scores will please me regardless of their titles.
Thanks, David! Yep, born the day Hitchcock died and the night that John Williams debuted "The Imperial March" and "Yoda's Theme" to the world. It's a wonder I'm the film and film music lover I am . . . .
I can't remember a thing about The Ghost and the Darkness (besides the stock chants). And I love Goldsmith! And I own the DVD!
It's robust, has some good moments, but THE EDGE it isn't.
This stage of Goldsmith's career often felt phoned in to me - Good craftsmanship for sure, but compare this to the stuff his near-contemporary John Scott was writing at this time for lesser-known films like THE NORTH STAR, FAR FROM HOME and WALKING THUNDER... Well, this doesn't hold up too well.
There's just something very "obvious" and unimaginative abut Goldsmith's approach here that kinda bugs me. I don't know why, it just does.
Let the Goldsmith lovers rend me limb from limb now...
I love Goldsmith and agree with you, though I just couldn't get into The Edge either.
Now they'll rend me limb from limb. The heat's off you.
The complete score is too long to fit two other scores.
No, it`s not. It`s actually a rather short score, not much longer than around 30 minutes. Talent for the Game is not longer than 30 minutes and Itsy Bitsy Spider is no longer than 6 minutes. So all 3 should easily fit on one cd.
I really hope it`s that combination. I like all 3 scores. Coneheads is Newman`s wonderful hommage to Herrmann`s The Day the Earth stood still with some very powerful moments. The choral main title is memorable as is the powerful cue when the Coneheads return to their home planet Remulak. Talent for the Game is very similar to Newman`s beautiful Gross Anatomy with its baroque flavor. And Itsy Bitsy Spider is exactly the complex, innovative and frenetic action-comedy writing that made me a Newman fan. Besides the score is mixed at such a low level in the short film that you can barely hear it.
3 very different scores indeed, which would give such a CD a wonderful variety.
I predict the second title is David Newman's Coneheads (zany comedy) / Talent for the Game (heartfelt drama) / Itsy Bitsy Spider (frenetic animation) - all Paramount scores.
Boy, this is the first time in a while I guessed something like this exactly right.