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I am with you Zooba. Hans Zimmer, Lalo Schifrin and Dimitri Tiomkin are ones I have never been able to listen to, but I will add some more. Howard Shore, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Michel Colombier, Marvin Hamlisch, Junkie XL, Tomandandy, Edwin Wendler, Francis Lai and Gabriel Yared. Many of these composers I have tried to listen to with all of the praises here and other sites, but their scores just do not stick in my head as scores I would listen to outside of the movie.
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Jan 8, 2017 - 7:03 AM
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Rosza. From what I've heard he seems to use very little bass and low-end in general, his music feels feverish and imbalanced to me. I've yet to find a score of his I enjoy, although I'm sure there is one out there.
Likewise with Elmer Bernstein. I love his Carpetbaggers theme, and I like a lot the moody passages of Heavy Metal and The Black Cauldron, but the heroics and upbeat stuff are too in your face for my liking.
I really don't like Dave Grusin's choice of instruments, if that's the right way to put it, his sound is way too generic, like a backing band, with not enough mood-based inflection.
Lalo Schifrin, although I'm less clear on why exactly.
And lastly, as if it wasn't already a long enough list of well-loved composers, I find John Barry's writing... I guess I would describe it as groping, his dramatic themes extend, and are complex, to the point where they should deliver something, and in my case they call out alright, but they just don't touch a nerve.
Of course this is all in terms of stand alone listening, and within the movies themselves the work rarely gets under my skin.
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For me the first to spring to mind is Danny Elfman: generally his work does nothing for me, but I love MIDNIGHT RUN. The second would be Howard Shore, most of whose music I find too dark and gloomy, although I think his score to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is terrific. (Also VIDEODROME, which I've never understood.)
I've never taken to Brian Tyler very much, but I've enjoyed some of his music for the FAST AND FURIOUS series.
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Rosza. From what I've heard he seems to use very little bass and low-end in general, his music feels feverish and imbalanced to me. I've yet to find a score of his I enjoy, although I'm sure there is one out there.
Bass and low end? He was a master who utilised every section of the orchestra and his Germanic and Hungarian discipline would never let him omit any contrasting texture in counterpoint for long. Plus his great penchant for basses and cellos. ????????!!!!
Likewise with Elmer Bernstein. I love his Carpetbaggers theme, and I like a lot the moody passages of Heavy Metal and The Black Cauldron, but the heroics and upbeat stuff are too in your face for my liking.
'To Kill a Mockingbird'??????!!!!!!
I really don't like Dave Grusin's choice of instruments, if that's the right way to put it, his sound is way too generic, like a backing band, with not enough mood-based inflection.
It's what suited the films and era style.
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Same with Alex North. Complex music but ice cold.
'The Agony and the Ecstasy', 'Rose Tattoo', 'Cleopatra', 'Shoes of the Fisherman', 'Misfits'??????!!!!!
The most compassionate colourist on the planet? Whatever 'Spartacus' is or is not, it's not cold, it's on fire!
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Jan 8, 2017 - 8:50 AM
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Rosza. From what I've heard he seems to use very little bass and low-end in general, his music feels feverish and imbalanced to me. I've yet to find a score of his I enjoy, although I'm sure there is one out there.
Bass and low end? He was a master who utilised every section of the orchestra and his Germanic and Hungarian discipline would never let him omit any contrasting texture in counterpoint for long. Plus his great penchant for basses and cellos. ????????!!!!
isn't it all pitched quite high though? maybe I didn't describe it right at all, i often struggle to verbalize music, maybe tempo has something to do with it. anyway the overall feel i'm left with is that it's high in degrees, with little cooling off. it's always pushing up. and i don't doubt that he's a master, but the effect is the effect, i'm just describing where his music leaves me.
Likewise with Elmer Bernstein. I love his Carpetbaggers theme, and I like a lot the moody passages of Heavy Metal and The Black Cauldron, but the heroics and upbeat stuff are too in your face for my liking.
'To Kill a Mockingbird'??????!!!!!!
years since i've seen it, i did try one or two samples on intrada's last issue and it did not grab. not sure why you've singled this one out. you think it's something everyone should like? or me in particular?
I really don't like Dave Grusin's choice of instruments, if that's the right way to put it, his sound is way too generic, like a backing band, with not enough mood-based inflection.
It's what suited the films and era style.
sure, like i said in my post, in the movies themselves i find none of the above off-putting, but I would probably prefer what someone like Fielding could have done with The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
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