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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: Scores similar to Chinatown     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:23 PM     By:   barryfan   (Member) Just watched the movie Mulholland Falls again. Great score by a composer I am not that fond of. (Grusin) What other scores are similar? I know of: Chinatown, LA Confidential, and Body Heat. What else is there?    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:28 PM     By:   Krakatoa   (Member)    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:30 PM     By:   .   (Member) Isham's "The Black Dahlia" is very much in that style. I really like it. And it's available from some Amazon sellers for just a couple of dollars. Well worth a listen to the clips: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-Mark-Isham/dp/B000S58Z3Q/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-2&qid=1434133914.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:31 PM     By:   Krakatoa   (Member)    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:39 PM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Basic Instinct - Goldsmith Farewell My Lovely - Shire Contract on Cherry Street - Goldsmith (trombone featured instead of trumpet)    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 12:56 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) Yes, FAREWELL MY LOVELY.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 1:08 PM     By:   GoblinScore   (Member) Ah, that 'noir' sound, yes I've been chasing that the past couple of months too. The first ones that jump to mind are Grusin's THE YAKUZA (a terrific FSM CD), Small's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Intrada, excellent!), as not being mentioned yet. I have a stack pulled at home, but am at work, so that's no help! Happy Trails Barryfan, Sean    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 1:24 PM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) Perhaps some of Barry's "Petulia" has that coiling, smoky feel. Also the mournful solo piano music of Shire's "The Conversation." The main theme of "Taxi Driver" is beautifully in this ballpark. Try the main title for Mr. Bernstein's "Love With the Proper Stranger." Sorry if these are offbase.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 1:30 PM     By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member) Hard Contract - Alex North You're welcome.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 1:31 PM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) For a parody of this sound, give a listen/watch to the film noir extended segment, "The Girl Hunt Ballet" from the 1953 film, "The Bandwagon," -- composed by Arthur Schwartz. It is gorgeous with some yearning brass.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 1:37 PM     By:   dogplant   (Member) Jerry's score is nonpareil, but I enjoyed Marcelo Zarvos' score to "Hollywoodland," which was the same era and setting, and had a similar vibe, perhaps silkier in texture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiAEVskXfO4    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 3:20 PM     By:   Valiant65   (Member) 1. Guilty by Suspicion by James Newton Howard 2. The Last Tycoon by Maurice Jarre 3. Devil in a Blue Dress by Elmer Bernstein    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 3:24 PM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Perhaps some of Barry's "Petulia" has that coiling, smoky feel. I endorse this recommendation! Most of the rest of these I was thinking of, but this one wasn't on my radar.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 3:28 PM     By:   SBD   (Member) I've long felt that Silvestri's theme from THE BODYGUARD had a CHINATOWN flavor.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 3:42 PM     By:   GoblinScore   (Member) I've long felt that Silvestri's theme from THE BODYGUARD had a CHINATOWN flavor. Thank you, THAT was the one I play all the time I had forgotten about!!! Great great score, so happy LLL did it justice. Mychael Danna's WHERE THE TRUTH LIES is a nice semi-noir flavored piece that I never see mentioned anywhere. -Sean    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 3:57 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Goldsmith's The Detective (1968).    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 4:25 PM     By:   The Mutant   (Member) City Hall is kinda Chinatown-esque.    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 4:36 PM     By:   nuts_score   (Member) It's a video game score, but Andrew Hale's work on LA Noire is a helluva great noir score. Very influenced by Goldsmith's Chinatown, as well as others mentioned here. And can be found for purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/L-Noire-Official-Soundtrack/dp/B00532LQ1C/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1434148535&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=la+noire+soundtrack Or here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/l.a.-noire-official-soundtrack/id440514804    Posted:   Jun 12, 2015 - 10:42 PM     By:   Paul MacLean   (Member) China Moon, by George Fenton... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMmM8PaSXo    Posted:   Jun 15, 2015 - 10:53 AM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Everyone seems to be equating the CHINATOWN score with the main title theme. If you want another example of that, try Ray Heindorf's main theme from the film version of PETE KELLY'S BLUES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahlwEcYYRM Me, I associate the score mainly with the very non-tonal sections of piano string manipulation, and I know no other similar scores.     General Discussion: Scores similar to Chinatown    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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