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Blade Runner for me. The original, the Rothermich re-recording, the 25th anniversary set, and the Podcast about the Blade Runner score by Art of the Score. Fantastic stuff that seems to hit the spot for me at the moment.
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...I also took advantage of their Goldsmith sale...
Darn it! I either missed this news from LLL or it completely slipped my mind 
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Mar 23, 2020 - 1:45 AM
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Ray Worley
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Oddly, I haven't been listening to lot of scores in the last couple of weeks, even though that is generally mostly what I listen to. For some reason, I've been on a Scandinavian kick. It started when I finally got around to watching DANCER IN THE DARK. I was completely blown away by Björk and got a copy of the soundtrack ("Selmasongs). I had ignored her for years (just didn't get exposed to her music) and now I regret it, although it has been a real treat to explore all her work lately. A terrific artist and vocal performer. I'm smitten.
Coincidentally, a discussion of Hildur Guðnadóttir's work led someone (sorry, I forget who) on the board to recommend to me another Icelander, Jón Liefs. His "Saga Symphony", "Hekla", "Geysir", "Hafís", "Dettifoss", and other works have been on constant play along with Björk lately. I also pulled out all the Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius symphonies. Not really musically related other than being Nordic.
Anyway, I agree with Thor that is probably better psychologically not to concentrate on pandemic movies and scores right now. Björk, especially, puts me in a happy place. 
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What I've been listening to lately:
Béla Bartók: The Complete String Quartets / Heath Quartet (Harmonia Mundi)
Philip Glass: Dracula / Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch)
Leoš Janácek: An Overgrown Path / Paul Crossley (Decca)
Pat Metheny: From This Place (Nonesuch)
Maurice Jarre: Is Paris Burning / Raine: CPPO (Tadlow)
James Newton Howard: Outbreak (Varèse Sarabande)
None of it except for Outbreak seems to be particularly inspired by the current pandemic.
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Depending on who you listen to, you should either avoid pandemic movies during a pandemic, or you actually should watch movies about pandemics during a pandemic. One article even theorizes that "the coronavirus disaster is messing with the boundary between fantasy and reality, leaving us feeling somewhat fictional ourselves, adrift in the enormity of the crisis and the volume of surreal information before us. What pandemic cinema offers is not an escape, exactly, but a refreshing variety of ways to frame or process that information".
I think it may well depend on how you react to certain movies. If they make you feel uneasy, and make an already troublesome time even worse, you should probably avoid pandemic movies.
If, on the other hand, you feel like these fictional movies actually offer comfort because they because they help to provide a "narrative structure" to the whole chaos outside, then it is actually good to watch these movies at a time like this. I sure fall more in the latter camp, so I don't mind watching pandemic movies currently at all. I hope I finally get to see THE LAST MAN ON EARTH with Vincent Price (never saw that one). :-)
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