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Aug 1, 2004 - 4:20 PM
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Jostein
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I am a HUGE fan of the first Ghostbusters soundtrack- you had a perfect Elmer Bernstein score which was a horror spin on all of his John Landis scores (best compared to American Werewolf via Thriller). To top it off, the pop songs were all inspired, contemporary new-wave pop(there's not a bad track on the album) from the Parker Jr. Huey Lewis-a-like opener, Thompson Twins, Laura Branigan's trancey HiNRG and the Mastermix styled hip-hop RnB of Mick Smiley and Alessi. Infact, just look at the high pedigree of music producers on the OST alone: Keith Forsey, Phil Ramone, David Foster, Steve Lilliwhite, Robbie Buchanan-- how PERFECT on EVERY level can you get???
SHUDDER!
Also, I like Randy's score.
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Bernstein is kicked off and replaced by a dated Randy Edelman
Are you sure he was "fired"? I thought it was HIS DECISION not to be involved with more comedies and rather started scoring independent dramas at that time.
As I recall, The director and Mr. Bernstein had a falling out during the scoring of LEGAL EAGLES, I've even heard a story that Things got so bad that Elmer at one point was so upset with the constant changes that he kicked a chair on the scoring stage across the room (or at the director depending on who tells the story).
They both decided to stop working together and move on.
The fact that the director keep changing LEGAL EAGLES even after it's released supports this story, when it was sent to broadcast TV, Daryl Hannah's character who was found INNOCENT in the feature release and found GULITY in the TV version.
It's shame that he wasn't asked to come back to score GHOSTBUSTERS 2. while Mr. Edelman did a fine job on it's own terms, to me it just doesn't FEEL RIGHT to see scenes that needed Bernstein's GHOSTBUSTERS tune in my view.
Oh well, that's life in hollywood.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Bernstein is kicked off and replaced by a dated Randy Edelman
Are you sure he was "fired"? I thought it was HIS DECISION not to be involved with more comedies and rather started scoring independent dramas at that time.
As I recall, The director and Mr. Bernstein had a falling out during the scoring of LEGAL EAGLES, I've even heard a story that Things got so bad that Elmer at one point was so upset with the constant changes that he kicked a chair on the scoring stage across the room (or at the director depending on who tells the story).
They both decided to stop working together and move on.
The fact that the director keep changing LEGAL EAGLES even after it's released supports this story, when it was sent to broadcast TV, Daryl Hannah's character who was found INNOCENT in the feature release and found GULITY in the TV version.
It's shame that he wasn't asked to come back to score GHOSTBUSTERS 2. while Mr. Edelman did a fine job on it's own terms, to me it just doesn't FEEL RIGHT to see scenes that needed Bernstein's GHOSTBUSTERS tune in my view.
Oh well, that's life in hollywood.
Ford A. Thaxton
Woof. And to think that I actually like Legal Eagles (and its score). Kooky.
As for Ghostbusters 2, I can still hum the prologue and the fanfare during the courtroom-busting scene. No love lost here for Edelman's effort.
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. . . it just doesn't FEEL RIGHT to see scenes that needed Bernstein's GHOSTBUSTERS tune in my view.
I've enjoyed the various YouTube attempts to marry Alex North's "2001" score to the picture he wrote it for . . .
Why doesn't someone whip up a YouTube "fan edit" of sample "Ghostbusters 2" scenes, using the "Ghostbusters" CD?
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Jun 9, 2009 - 1:41 PM
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Thor
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In my ongoing quest to see all - or at least those that are available - of the mainstream films featuring Oingo Boingo songs, I stumbled over this again. Of course, I've seen it a few times before, so it doesn't really fall in with the other "obscurities" that I see for the first time, but it was totally refreshing to see an A-list film for once, well written with excellent special effects - even with contemporary standards.
I pretty much agree with most of the positive sentiments in this thread, and not so much ahem's first post. I even think this is more "tight" from a narrative sense than the first film. And Peter MacNichol is absolutely HILARIOUS! That scene where he rings on Sigourney Weaver's door...it cracks me up each time! It's not so much WHAT he says, but the mannerisms and the accent. 
Edelman's score is decent...I actually prefer the laidback piano/pop music chords for the intimate scenes over the action music, which is a bit simplistic (a common trait of Edelman, unfortunately).
The Oingo Boingo song....well, it's just a snippet of "Flesh'n'Blood" that plays as radio source music in Egon's lab, mixed rather low. It's one of the LESSER uses of Boingo music in a narrative sense (perhaps inserted due to the thematic of the lyrics....flesh and blood vs. ghosts and all that). But it's still on the soundtrack, of course!
That selfsame soundtrack also has other cool 80's tunes by the likes of Elton John, Glenn Frey and New Edition, so I'm sure it's an excellent "sampler".
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