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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 4 5      General Discussion: Your 10 Best Sci-Fi Soundtrack Scores    FIRST   PRIOR   3 4 5       Last Post   Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 6:37 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) When a person is young (age 19, 21 etc.), heroic & romantic movie music is great to listen to. When one is older (over age 40 for some, maybe over age 50 for others), this sort of heroism and romance no longer resonates with situations in our lives. It's been the opposite with me. Like many teenagers I was drawn into film music by Williams' Lucas and Spielberg scores, Goldsmith's Star Trek scores, etc. By my 20s, I was all about Psycho, The Omen, Alien, Altered States, etc., vicariously "experiencing" darkness through that music. Having lived through real darkness in the years since then, I now tend to gravitate towards music that is more optimistic. I still love some dark scores, but prefer heroic Williams, romantic Delerue, epic Rozsa, etc. I hated "heroic" music when I was younger, and I hate it just as much now. If I want optimism in music, I look elsewhere.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 9:49 AM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Here's one which I did mention in my "semi-serious" (semi-silly) original list - Denny Zeitlin's amazingly audacious INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. That's thrilling and chilling and haunting, and just so right for the (excellent) film. I forgot about this amazing score for the 70's remake, a movie I love too. Yes, this is another keeper!    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 11:26 AM     By:   RoryR   (Member) The term sci-fi tends to be quite broad these days. There was a time when I viewed things like Star Wars more as space opera or fantasy rather than science-fiction. But I believe Star Wars has evolved over its course of movies and it seems to me that if you can qualify Dune as sci fi you can also qualify Star Wars as sci fi as well. Some say science fiction requires a scientific element in it's plot. Star Wars- Evil Empire builds a moon size space station with a weapon that can destroy an entire planet. I say that falls under science fiction as much as The Doomsday Machine in Star Trek. Neither let the laws of physics get in the way. The Death Star is absurd.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 12:32 PM     By:   Jon Lewis   (Member) Graham, I also adore the Zeitlin BODY SNATCHERS score. I was happy to see it's available these days as an MGM digital download through Amazon et al. I file it with Melle under electroacoustic chamber jazz. I've read that Zeitlin's avant-jazz albums in the time period leading up to his BODY SNATCHERS commission mine similar territory, and I'd dearly like to hear them, but I haven't found any sign of them on CD or download. Or even Youtube.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 1:02 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Graham, I also adore the Zeitlin BODY SNATCHERS score. I was happy to see it's available these days as an MGM digital download through Amazon et al. I file it with Melle under electroacoustic chamber jazz. I've read that Zeitlin's avant-jazz albums in the time period leading up to his BODY SNATCHERS commission mine similar territory, and I'd dearly like to hear them, but I haven't found any sign of them on CD or download. Or even Youtube. Jon, I certainly hear the Mellésque connection there. I do have a few Zeitlin jazz LPs "back hame in the Auld Country", but I think they're more "straight" jazz piano. Must look into those he did in the time period you mention.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 1:08 PM     By:   Jon Lewis   (Member) Syzygy and Soundings are the two I'm hot to hear. Apparently he made a recent return to the use of freaky electronics on the easily available Both/And.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 1:18 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Syzygy and Soundings are the two I'm hot to hear. Apparently he made a recent return to the use of freaky electronics on the easily available Both/And. I found this - JAZZ FUSION _ DENNY ZEITLIN - STARBURST (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmTI2y0mb8k There's loads of Zeitlin on the Tube! Love his wine cellar, and his fly-fishing techniques!    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 2:24 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) The term sci-fi tends to be quite broad these days. There was a time when I viewed things like Star Wars more as space opera or fantasy rather than science-fiction. But I believe Star Wars has evolved over its course of movies and it seems to me that if you can qualify Dune as sci fi you can also qualify Star Wars as sci fi as well. Some say science fiction requires a scientific element in it's plot. Star Wars- Evil Empire builds a moon size space station with a weapon that can destroy an entire planet. I say that falls under science fiction as much as The Doomsday Machine in Star Trek. Neither let the laws of physics get in the way. The Death Star is absurd. Yeah, that's why it's called science fiction not science fact.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 2:48 PM     By:   The Thing   (Member) The term sci-fi tends to be quite broad these days. There was a time when I viewed things like Star Wars more as space opera or fantasy rather than science-fiction. But I believe Star Wars has evolved over its course of movies and it seems to me that if you can qualify Dune as sci fi you can also qualify Star Wars as sci fi as well. Some say science fiction requires a scientific element in it's plot. Star Wars- Evil Empire builds a moon size space station with a weapon that can destroy an entire planet. I say that falls under science fiction as much as The Doomsday Machine in Star Trek. Neither let the laws of physics get in the way. The Death Star is absurd. Yeah, that's why it's called science fiction not science fact. Oh, the wonders of just being able to enjoy stuff without getting all wound up by the plausibility of made-up science.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 3:53 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) Anybody mind if we change the title of the thread to match the discussion? at the very least, the thread should be "Your 10 Favorite," not "Best." A "best" list would have to include "Day the Earth Stood Still," whether you like it or not.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 4:08 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) 10 favorites... Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith) War of the Worlds (Leith Stevens) Fahrenheit 451 (Herrmann) La Jetee (Trevor Duncan) Time Travelers (Richard LaSalle) Planet of the Vampires (Gino Marinuzzi Jr.) Ikarie XB-1 (Zdenek Liska) World War III (Gil Melle) Chosen Survivors (Fred Karlin) Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Van Cleave) Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Rosenman)    Posted:   Nov 16, 2015 - 6:56 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) Anybody mind if we change the title of the thread to match the discussion? at the very least, the thread should be "Your 10 Favorite," not "Best." A "best" list would have to include "Day the Earth Stood Still," whether you like it or not. Maybe it's time to declare which composer is the KING of Science Fiction scores? For me, it's Jerry Goldsmith hands down.    Posted:   Nov 17, 2015 - 8:46 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) Anybody mind if we change the title of the thread to match the discussion? at the very least, the thread should be "Your 10 Favorite," not "Best." A "best" list would have to include "Day the Earth Stood Still," whether you like it or not. Maybe it's time to declare which composer is the KING of Science Fiction scores? For me, it's Jerry Goldsmith hands down. Quite possibly, at least for quantity. On that level, I suppose Akira Ifukube would make the "best" list.     General Discussion: Your 10 Best Sci-Fi Soundtrack Scores    << < 3 4 5  >   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5   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 4 5

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