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and also jettisoned the mood-busting patriotic tracks.
I understand the words, but what do they mean?
The two patriotic sounding tracks. I can't remember the titles. They totally clash with the album and have no business being there.
You're most likely talking about "Arlington" and "Lincoln Memorial". Still, I don't understand the quote. Please elaborate.
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Think of it this way, A&C. When you are listening to a GODZILLA soundtrack, would you want to be interrupted in the middle of the album with a church hymn? 
I expect OnyaB doesn't like music performed reverentially ... especially when an other-worldly theremin is a chief character in the overall aural fabric of this score.
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I like both cues, the break up the gloom nicely. They are pretty much the same cue, just one is sad at the cemetery and the other bolder for Lincoln. The only real disappointment is on one of the Herrmann anthologies, they recorded two cues from the score…and it was these two. Not only are they the same piece of music they don’t represent the score at all.
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Not really mentioned here is the fabulous Tribute Film Classics re-recording of The Battle of Neretva. It may not be a favourite Herrmann score of mine but it is still a must have CD as it has twice the score that's on the Southern Cross CD and also contains Herrmann's Naked and the Dead.
That one is at the top of my list. It's amazing and one of those recordings I prefer over the original score recording. It's that good.
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The Bruce Broughton and London Sinfonia recording of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, released by Intrada, is an absolute stunner. It's so close to perfection and matching the movie, it'd be as if the exact same movie was made today, scored by Herrmann and recorded in modern high fidelity.
The overall ablum is superb, but nobody has rerecorded the Prelude correctly, to my taste. The opening is always too soft. It needs to kick off with that giant gong crash with the loud symbols.
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and also jettisoned the mood-busting patriotic tracks.
I understand the words, but what do they mean?
The two patriotic sounding tracks. I can't remember the titles. They totally clash with the album and have no business being there.
You're most likely talking about "Arlington" and "Lincoln Memorial". Still, I don't understand the quote. Please elaborate.
What part don't you understand?
Well, mainly the words "mood-busting patriotic". As I said, I understand the words, but what exactly do you mean?
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Well, mainly the words "mood-busting patriotic". As I said, I understand the words, but what exactly do you mean?
I'm gonna say he means it takes the score out of it's other-worldliness for two cues by being patriotic and reverential, shattering the mood of a strange and unique score with average sounding music that could go in any film.
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Well, mainly the words "mood-busting patriotic". As I said, I understand the words, but what exactly do you mean?
I'm gonna say he means it takes the score out of it's other-worldliness for two cues by being patriotic and reverential, shattering the mood of a strange and unique score with average sounding music that could go in any film.
"patriotic". I don't get it. "shattering the mood"?
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Well, mainly the words "mood-busting patriotic". As I said, I understand the words, but what exactly do you mean?
I'm gonna say he means it takes the score out of it's other-worldliness for two cues by being patriotic and reverential, shattering the mood of a strange and unique score with average sounding music that could go in any film.
"patriotic". I don't get it. "shattering the mood"?
A&C, I've made it about as simple as I can. If you are familiar with this score, and can't see how the two tracks in question differ from the rest of the album, I can't really help you. Not trying to be difficult.
I'm quite familiar, thank you. For one thing, Herrmann did not really stray from the overall orchestration of the score and he did not go all John Philip Sousa march either. What he did was write two very understated, pensive cues. I fail to see where the "patriotic" comes into play.
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