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09/30/2017 Update
Received:
American Assassin (Steven Price)
Annabelle: Creation (Benjamin Wallfisch)
Ben-Hur (Miklós Rózsa)
The Brian May Fantasy Film Music Collection (Brian May)
Free Fire (Geoff Barrow/Ben Salisbury)
Fuller at Fox (Alfred Newman/Leigh Harline)
Game of Thrones: Season 7 (Ramin Djawadi)
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Bruce Broughton)
It (Benjamin Wallfisch)
Josepha/Femmes de personne (Georges Delerue)
L'arche et les déluges (Gabriel Yared)
L'Assassino (Piero Piccioni)
Le bon plaisir (Georges Delerue)
Les chevaux du soleil (Georges Delerue)
Mr. Robot: Volume 3 (Mac Quayle)
Peyton Place/Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (Franz Waxman)
Popeye (Harry Nilsson)
Robot Jox (Frédéric Talgorn)
Romancing the Stone (Alan Silvestri)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Edward Shearmur)
Thibaud ou les Croisades/Fortune (Georges Delerue)
Thunder Road: The Film Music of Jack Marshall (Jack Marshall)
To Kill a Priest (Georges Delerue)
Twin Peaks: The Event Series (Angelo Badalamenti)
Twin Peaks: The Event Series (Various)
Victoria & Abdul (Thomas Newman)
Waterworld (James Newton Howard)
Wind River (Nick Cave/Warren Ellis)
Shipped:
Awaken the Shadowman (Douglas Pipes)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (John Williams)
Ordered:
Anthology (Movie Themes 1974-1998) (John Carpenter)
Blade Runner 2049 (Hans Zimmer/Benjamin Wallfisch)
Doctor Who: Survival (Dominic Glynn)
Doctor Who: The Daleks (Tristram Cary)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Henry Jackman/Matthew Margeson)
Rebel in the Rye (Bear McCreary)
Time Walker (Richard Band)
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I'm just out of detox, and have to go back in shortly. But I'd like to have something pertaining to myself to read here selfishly when I get out again, and that is why I'm asking you to do me a favour. When I was in the Auld Country recently, I picked up the following CDs for two pounds each. I haven't heard them yet and don't know when I'll get the chance, but please do indulge me by giving me your own opinions (if you have any) on the following batch, which cost me in total of 12 quid. Don't forget - you don't have to like them. You can tell me they're rubbish. "Star Bloody Wars!!! Good grief man, where's your street cred?"
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Paul Ferris)
LES MISERABLES (Basil Poledouris)
EL CID (Miklós Rózsa - the James Sedares one)
ENNIO MORRICONE - HIGH (Cherry Red compilation with trippy Ennio tracks)
THE BIG FAT GIT (John Bloody Williams, for a Steven Bleedin' Spielberg film)
STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Bleedin' Williams for a Star Bloody Wars film)
Thanks! The rubber bus is at the door. Looking forward to all your comments when (or if) they let me out! Cheerio!
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Bernard Herrman Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (first time hearing this one, HUGE fan of Herrmann, one of my top four composers).
On the way: the Sony double disc of Ben-Hur, Herrmann's Varese editions of Mysterious Island and Jason and the Argonauts.
I've also been playing my relatively recently acquired Alfred Hitchcock Hour Vol. 1 set a bunch.
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I had a Kongathon a couple of weeks ago and ended up buying:
KING KONG '33- Max Steiner (Stromberg/Morgan recording)
SON OF KONG/THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME - Max Steiner (Stromberg/Morgan recording)
KING KONG '76 (Deluxe Edition) - John Barry
KING KONG LIVES - John Scott
Also:
Alive - Goblin Rebirth (Live album of classic Goblin tracks by the latest iteration of the band)
CREEPSHOW 2 - Les Reed/Rick Wakeman
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH - Paul Sawtell/Bert Shefter
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19/09/17
Received :
LA NEIGE ET LE FEU (Cosma)
SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (Giacchino)
MAMA (Velazquez)
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Will be buying my first music purchase in 4 months later this month - ROBOT JOX
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Sep 7, 2017 - 11:44 AM
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MusicMad
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I've been on a binge recently, using the 30% discounts (& free shipping) to cover the loss in Sterling these last near 15mths ... I expect by this time next year that we'll need a 50% discount  but I digress. In amongst the numerous classical CDs I've recently bought, I can list:
- Les Passagers (1976) Claude Bolling (I have only 4 other scores) + Éric Demarsan (rejected score) ... I know nothing of this composer
Georges Delerue - a favourite of mine:
- Les Chevaux du Soleil (1980) ... I love the 15' extract I have from this score
- Josepha (1982) & Femmes de Personne (1984) ... I have a theme from each which I like (of course!)
- To Kill a Priest (1988) ... the Joan Baez song I already have is so haunting!
- Thibaud (1968) & Fortune (1969) ... again, I have themes from both, the former of which is very enjoyable, the latter less so
- Police Python 357 (1976) and a few others from that era ... all new works to me
- So Fine (1981) ... okay, I know it's one of Ennio Morricone's weakest but at least I can delete that old (awful) Mask label recording ... who knows: the improved sound quality may improve the listening experience
- La Corrispondenza (2016) ... I must put 70' aside to listen to this (NP: Bruckner's Symphony #4, WAB104 "Romantic" [v.II 1881-Haas] - Tennstedt/BPO (1981) which runs slightly longer so I've made my choice .. I doubt the Maestro's score will be anywhere near as enjoyable )
- Hamlet (1996) ... I thought it time to expand my very limited collection of Patrick Doyle scores
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993) ... ditto ... first play ... disappointing
- Concert Suites (2015) Fernando Velázquez ... one of my rare dips into the works of a composer new to me, so, also:
- Gernika (2016) ... one play so far revealing a lot of pleasant, enjoyable themes ... until the 25' suite Gernika under the Bombs which I had been fearing would be all bombast (à la Zimmer et al.) ... how wrong was I: it's a gorgeous, moving, choral work of utter beauty.
- Plan de fuga (2016) Pascal Gaigne ... a composer who rarely disappoints, definitely my favourite modern composer
- Il viaggio (1974) & Amanti (1968) ... not quite new to me but expanding my very limited library of works by Manuel De Sica ... I've played the score to the former film so far: beautiful but very repetitive
- Ceremonia Sangrienta (The Legend of Blood Castle) (1973) Carlo Savina ... his horror scores are so good I'm looking forward to playing this one
- L'Ingenua (1975) & L'Osceno Desiderio (1975) Carlo Savina ... again it's the horror score which attracted me but having played the former score I have to say it was really nice, easy-listening ... though the orgiastic opening notes may not be to everyone's taste!
- La Vergine Di Norimberga (1963) Riz Ortolani ... the full score has a lot of slow moody pieces which are very effective ... a good first play. I haven't checked if the album sounds better than the old CAM release I've owned for many years but expect it will do so
- L'Assassino (1961) Piero Piccioni ... I've played the album = 45rpm tracks, twice ... superb, typical of this marvellous composer.
- Scacco internazionale (The Last Chance) (1968) Carlo Rustichelli ... not what I was expecting, albeit typical of his style
- La gatta in calore (1972) Gianfranco Plenizio ... another new composer to me, although I have him as conductor on quite a few scores
- Black Box Affair - Il mondo trema (1966) Gianni Ferrio ... always good fun but the song is so awful that, unusually for me, I've deleted them (Main & End) from my library - happily the CD includes the two tracks sans vocal ... the producer must have known listeners would not want to hear the lyric another time! 
- Poll (2010) Annette Focks ... a second score for me, the other one I own (Ostwind - Zusammen Sind Wir Frei (2013)) is good if not very involving.
- Il Sorpasso (1962) Riz Ortolani ... and other scores (compilation) ... something of a surprise, this title score has only two score tracks, the rest being pop songs of the era (and klaxon sound effects!) - somewhat disappointing; I already had the Carlo Rustichelli score so hopefully the Piero Umiliani (new to me) and Armando Trovajoli scores will make the purchase worthwhile ... well it was very cheap
So, a lot of new material to hear - all I need is time!!!
Mitch
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Trying like heck to get into the two disc Ben Hur...I never particularly cared for the movie, and the soundtrack is (to my complete astonishment) incredibly boring to my ears (and I LOVE Rosza's music). But this is my first time really listening.
On the other hand, I finally received my copy of the Intrada Jason and the Argonauts and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just that one word sums it up for me.
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GODZILLA 2000: MILLENNIUM (Takayuki Hattori)
THE MESSENGERS (Joseph LoDuca)
CRIMSON PEAK (Fernando Velazquez)
COLOSSAL (Bear McCreary)
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Sep 18, 2017 - 5:42 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"...but please do indulge me by giving me your own opinions (if you have any) on the following batch, which cost me in total of 12 quid. Don't forget - you don't have to like them. You can tell me they're rubbish"
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Paul Ferris)
LES MISERABLES (Basil Poledouris)
EL CID (Miklós Rózsa - the James Sedares one)
ENNIO MORRICONE - HIGH (Cherry Red compilation with trippy Ennio tracks)
THE BIG FAT GIT (John Bloody Williams, for a Steven Bleedin' Spielberg film)
STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Bleedin' Williams for a Star Bloody Wars film)
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Graham, I can only pass comment on 3 (the Basil and Johnny's). I don't have the Sedares EL CID and I've never heard the Ferris or Ennio CD.
Anyway, LES MIS is okay, but hampered by the blocky (lazy?) long suite format of the tracks, which seems to randomly throw cues together with no real flow. The music is inspired in parts, but meanders in others. I think a re-edited, expanded release of this score might just reveal a Poledouris classic waiting to be heard in all it's glory.
I can't really give an opinion of the two Williams without the usual McGann bias towards God.
BFG has some of his most concert-like woodwind meanderings hidden within an ET-esque soundscape. It's hard to believe whole sections of this score were used in a film released in this century, let alone year! It takes a few plays to 'get' (and maybe viewing the flawed but fun film would help), but it's another John Williams score showing pretty much everyone else (okay, not Ennio) how it's done.
STAR WARS 7 is...STAR WARS 7.
Thrilling. Exciting. Mystical. And featuring a new film theme (Rey) that ranks amongst the best written in...you guessed it...this century. You will be mind-singing it for days/months/years afterwards.
Just one question Graham. As a JW fan, how come you never picked these scores up beforehand?
I know 2 quid is a steal and well done, gotta love those charity shops  but don't hesitate in buying any new JW scores. Next you'll be telling me you ain't heard WAR HORSE or LINCOLN yet!!
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Sep 18, 2017 - 7:07 AM
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Expat@22
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"...but please do indulge me by giving me your own opinions (if you have any) on the following batch, which cost me in total of 12 quid. Don't forget - you don't have to like them. You can tell me they're rubbish"
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Paul Ferris)
LES MISERABLES (Basil Poledouris)
EL CID (Miklós Rózsa - the James Sedares one)
ENNIO MORRICONE - HIGH (Cherry Red compilation with trippy Ennio tracks)
THE BIG FAT GIT (John Bloody Williams, for a Steven Bleedin' Spielberg film)
STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Bleedin' Williams for a Star Bloody Wars film)
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Graham, I can only pass comment on 3 (the Basil and Johnny's). I don't have the Sedares EL CID and I've never heard the Ferris or Ennio CD.
Anyway, LES MIS is okay, but hampered by the blocky (lazy?) long suite format of the tracks, which seems to randomly throw cues together with no real flow. The music is inspired in parts, but meanders in others. I think a re-edited, expanded release of this score might just reveal a Poledouris classic waiting to be heard in all it's glory.
I can't really give an opinion of the two Williams without the usual McGann bias towards God.
BFG has some of his most concert-like woodwind meanderings hidden within an ET-esque soundscape. It's hard to believe whole sections of this score were used in a film released in this century, let alone year! It takes a few plays to 'get' (and maybe viewing the flawed but fun film would help), but it's another John Williams score showing pretty much everyone else (okay, not Ennio) how it's done.
STAR WARS 7 is...STAR WARS 7.
Thrilling. Exciting. Mystical. And featuring a new film theme (Rey) that ranks amongst the best written in...you guessed it...this century. You will be mind-singing it for days/months/years afterwards.
Just one question Graham. As a JW fan, how come you never picked these scores up beforehand?
I know 2 quid is a steal and well done, gotta love those charity shops but don't hesitate in buying any new JW scores. Next you'll be telling me you ain't heard WAR HORSE or LINCOLN yet!!
The Sedares El Cid (performed by an orchestra from my home country) to my ears sounds plodding. For me you can't beat the audiophile Tadlow rerecording. Having said that, the Sedares isn't bad, just ok IMO.
I second the Star Wars 7 comment. (I also like Rogue One).
I don't have any of the others.
Arrived:
Gerhardt original Star Wars/Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Gerhardt original Return of the Jedi
Gerhardt original The Empire Strikes Back
Journey to the Centre of the Earth(Herrmann) Varese 500. (I am not a fan of the songs in the score. I wish someone would do a decent rerecording of the score).
Way to the Rebellion by George Shaw (enjoyable pastiche of Williams' Star Wars 'style').
Awaiting:
Tadlow Ben Hur. Can't wait for that one!
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Sep 20, 2017 - 5:45 AM
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Graham Watt
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"...but please do indulge me by giving me your own opinions (if you have any) on the following batch, which cost me in total of 12 quid. Don't forget - you don't have to like them. You can tell me they're rubbish"
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Paul Ferris)
LES MISERABLES (Basil Poledouris)
EL CID (Miklós Rózsa - the James Sedares one)
ENNIO MORRICONE - HIGH (Cherry Red compilation with trippy Ennio tracks)
THE BIG FAT GIT (John Bloody Williams, for a Steven Bleedin' Spielberg film)
STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Bleedin' Williams for a Star Bloody Wars film)
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Graham, I can only pass comment on 3 (the Basil and Johnny's). I don't have the Sedares EL CID and I've never heard the Ferris or Ennio CD.
Anyway, LES MIS is okay, but hampered by the blocky (lazy?) long suite format of the tracks, which seems to randomly throw cues together with no real flow. The music is inspired in parts, but meanders in others. I think a re-edited, expanded release of this score might just reveal a Poledouris classic waiting to be heard in all it's glory.
I can't really give an opinion of the two Williams without the usual McGann bias towards God.
BFG has some of his most concert-like woodwind meanderings hidden within an ET-esque soundscape. It's hard to believe whole sections of this score were used in a film released in this century, let alone year! It takes a few plays to 'get' (and maybe viewing the flawed but fun film would help), but it's another John Williams score showing pretty much everyone else (okay, not Ennio) how it's done.
STAR WARS 7 is...STAR WARS 7.
Thrilling. Exciting. Mystical. And featuring a new film theme (Rey) that ranks amongst the best written in...you guessed it...this century. You will be mind-singing it for days/months/years afterwards.
Just one question Graham. As a JW fan, how come you never picked these scores up beforehand?
I know 2 quid is a steal and well done, gotta love those charity shops but don't hesitate in buying any new JW scores. Next you'll be telling me you ain't heard WAR HORSE or LINCOLN yet!!
Thanks Kev for pandering to my infantile attention-seeking. I have been in detox (as regards social meeja/ message boards etc) for three whole weeks, but I might start bingeing again.
I'd rate Bazza P's LES MIS a lot higher than you do! I think that the long suite form works a treat (although you'll have noticed that the track timings as printed bear little realation to the reality of it), and I love its comparative subtlety. It's got an almost minimalist cycle to much of it, and it never bashes you over the head with "this is how you should feel" schmaltz or drama. It's one to keep going back to.
THE BFG - "Concert-like woodwind meanderings hidden within an ET-esque soundscape" I like that description. You also say that it takes a few plays to "get"... well, I've only heard it two or three times, and even on those few plays my reaction has swayed drastically back and forward. I can appreciate quite a bit of it, but if I'm not in the mood it just seems iffy and uninspired - and I know that it should be "inspiring". I haven't seen the film, but I'm trying to put Roald Dahl imagery to the soundtrack and it hasn't worked its magic yet. I'm not giving up though. If it does eventually click, I imagine that it will always be lower-tier Williams for me.
STAR WARS 7 - Yes, I'm with you. I love it, even if that means that I finally lose the little street-cred cool that remained of me - I mean in the eyes of Jim Phelps and OnyaBirri. I think it's a thrilling throwback to the sound of the original trilogy, and although I've now lost all interest in anything STAR WARS, this sort of re-kindled the old teenage passion. Curiously, "Rey's Theme" - the one that's always cited as being one of the best things Johnny W has ever done - strikes me as being slightly "unfinished" in the sense that I keep wanting the B-part to develop more, but it never does. Actually, I think it does once, but off the top of my head that's probably only in the concert version. There IS a concert version on the CD, isn't there? Sorry, too much detox has made me completely lose the place. Whatever, it's still a great CD to listen to, and there's an additional good thing about it compared to most of the other JW SW scores - there aren't any annoying tracks.
Hey Kev, you know that I love Johnny W, but I'm not in any way a completist. And there's a good reason for me not having picked up BIG FAT GIT and STAR WARS 7 before. And it's that ye cannae get them in the normal shops ony mare! You (jokingly) mentioned LINCOLN and WAR HORSE. Ha! I've got these! But only because I got LINCOLN through my wife's book club (she said, "I don't fancy any of the books on offer this month, shall we get a CD instead?" - so it was either LINCOLN or HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL). And my brother bought WAR HORSE for me as a present, having picked it up some place (charity shop?) in Glasgow. We don't even get charity shops here, let alone real shops that sell proper soundtracks.
So, to drone on and on about why I didn't get those JWs earlier, well it's because the nature of purchasing has changed. If I see something with my own eyes and hold it in my own hands (and probably sniff it with my own nose), I'll often end up buying it. But that so rarely happens nowadays. With everything now available via "The Internet", when I go to the specialist shops' sites to see what I can spend my 50-quid-every-six-months on, I'll always end up getting something from some ancient film by some guy like Schifrin, Goldsmith or Rosenman. Still so many gaps from the '50s, '60s and '70s to fill. Know what I mean?
Ah, I see that michael469 mentions the Sedares EL CID. Yes, the general consensus is that it's a bit turgid. I think that it's slightly underrated actually. Yes, there are some problems with pace etc, but on the whole I think it's a good, and sometimes great, effort to do something with difficult material. People always compare it negatively to the Tadlow, and yes, it's inferior to that, but even the Tadlow misses a few steps, and on one or two (very few) occasions, there are moments which Sedares achieves "better" (for me) than the Tadlow. Just to give the Sedares its due, not knocking the Tad.
I've started so I'll finish - You didn't ask for this, but you're getting it -
HIGH ("The Trippier Side of Ennio Morricone")- A selection of "arty, erotic" tracks from the sublime to the ridiculous. The sublime is sublime, and I'm even getting hookahd on the more embarrassing, ridiculous ones. Outrageosly great.
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Paul Ferris) - Nice theme, and although I love dissonance, this is sheer torture. Perhaps that was intentional, given the subject matter of the film in question.
Back with more drivel before you want!
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