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 Posted:   Dec 1, 2016 - 3:12 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

The cue is best heard in the Astral Symphony. And I'm talking my ancient audiocassette. As noted in previous threads, pretty sure.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 1, 2016 - 3:37 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

My parents bought me the STAR TREK III soundtrack from either Musicland or Record Town in Signal Hills Mall back in 1990, it was the first Horner score I ever had. Those were the days. Now Signal Hills is just a strip mall with no record store. It used to have just about everything.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 8:00 AM   
 By:   TruPretender   (Member)

In my opinion, his most hauntingly, romantic music EVER. I enjoy this soundtrack more than ST II.

Agreed. I much much prefer STIII over II any day, I adore "KAHN" but "SPOCK" just has a special ring to it.

 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 8:28 AM   
 By:   other tallguy   (Member)

In my opinion, his most hauntingly, romantic music EVER. I enjoy this soundtrack more than ST II.

Agreed. I much much prefer STIII over II any day, I adore "KAHN" but "SPOCK" just has a special ring to it.


Wasn't there a line in Chariots of Fire where someone tells the second place runner something like "You were amazing. He was just more amazing." That's Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock.

I usually tend towards the album track of Returning to Vulcan, myself. But the film version is quite good as well.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 9:47 AM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

As much as I find Horner's music the best of the original film-series, ST II has more presence and most of all, it portrays its subject much better. The battle music immediately conjures up images from the old glossy Errol Flynn pirate pictures with big ships on stormy seas locked in mortal combat.

ST III, like the film, comes across as a diluted ST II.

D.S.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 10:21 AM   
 By:   ScottyM   (Member)

I find that, listened to back to back the scores for The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock work as one complete score. It's a lovely two hours, well-spent

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 10:56 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

It's a nice cue, but for me, the Katra Ritual knocks it for six.
Now THAT'S the emotional explosion of the score for me.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 2:15 PM   
 By:   Rnelson   (Member)

As much as I find Horner's music the best of the original film-series, ST II has more presence and most of all, it portrays its subject much better. The battle music immediately conjures up images from the old glossy Errol Flynn pirate pictures with big ships on stormy seas locked in mortal combat.

ST III, like the film, comes across as a diluted ST II.

D.S.


And here I was thinking the music should evoke two starships at battle inside a huge nebula. Actually, Nicholas Meyer was going for more a stealthy "run-silent run deep" sort of cat and mouse between Enterprise and Reliant. Love em both. 2 is more adventurous while 3 is more soulful and somber. I prefer soulful and somber in this case.

 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 3:11 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

2 is more adventurous while 3 is more soulful and somber. I prefer soulful and somber in this case.

Exactly. 2 is more of a surface level score over all -- primarily underscoring the action on screen. There are multiple exceptions of course, such as the sequence where Spock dies. But percentage-wise, 3 is more of an internal score, scoring the internal emotions of characters. That for me is why it is a deeper experience, particularly in complete form. The original album for 2 was definitely superior to the original album for 3, IMO.

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 5, 2016 - 3:33 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

It's a nice cue, but for me, the Katra Ritual knocks it for six.
Now THAT'S the emotional explosion of the score for me.


Hi Kev, I love that track too!

 
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