Anyway, been listening to Heavy Metal 2000 the past couple of days and I'm really enjoying it. Seems it's not often talked about though? It may not be as stellar as Bernstein's original but it's certainly a REALLY solid, not to mention gargantuan-sounding sci fi score.
This is actually a Talgorn score I've never really gotten into. No main theme sticks in my memory and it all seems to be a lot of brooding, indistinctive orchestral rumbling. I usually love Talgorn though. His recent scores have been ace.
This is actually a Talgorn score I've never really gotten into. No main theme sticks in my memory and it all seems to be a lot of brooding, indistinctive orchestral rumbling. I usually love Talgorn though. His recent scores have been ace.
Totally agreed. And you would've thought this would have been a great film for him to let loose with sweeping, melodic themes like he usually does. It was a lot of well-composed but unmemorable wallpaper when I saw the movie (which was so bad it might have made the score seem more disappointing than it was, admittedly).
ROBOT JOX has a strong theme, the kind that was notably absent from Heavy Metal 2000.
Heavy Metal is colourful enough in its orchestrations that I don't mind the relative lack of melody. I don't think a theme is a prerequisite for a good score.
A good example is the main title, "Lost in space", which is pretty great and very evocative even though there's no real theme.
Anyway, I love Talgorn's HEAVY METAL not to mention Bernstein's original. Speaking of Zimmer(with all due respect), can you imagine what Talgorn would have done with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN?
I've gotten every single Talgorn I could get my hands on, including a lot of his library music. I've never been disappointed with any of it, but LES AIGUILLES ROUGES is the most recent one to really knock my socks off. It's like having the John Williams score we never got last year!
His bombastic old fashioned action-adventure score to "Delta Force 2" (Alhambra A8921).
You mean it is out on CD? Damn where can I get that?! I love Talgorns Robot jox. I really hunted for that CD for about a year, and was very happy when I finally got it (the first track is a bit weird though as it seems to start too late). I really enjoy the Delta Force films, wonderful over the top stuff. The first one is very Reaganesque and rather un-PC (might be one of the reasons why I like it). The second one has a very spectacular ending that rivals the best of the Bond stuff or other more prestigious films.
Talgorn's music during the Chuck's sparring session (or better said beating up his cadets session) after he's just seen the murder of his friend, really has the Talgorn signature, and sounds very much like Robotjox. So now the hunt is out for DF2. If only we can get the fantastic DF1 on CD too, WOW.
amazon.com doesn`t have it anymore. But it`s still available at www.amazon.de
Aha. I'll give it a look. Want to order from Amazon.de these days (Western von Gestern; wish ZDF would release the Jiri Kanzelberger's phenomenal music for that series on CD).
