Not that long ago, there was a discussion topic about naming your favourite cue of all time. This, of course, brought about discussion that the topic was too big and people couldn’t just pick one cue, it depended on mood etc.
But it got me thinking....what if the topic was narrowed down to one score?
I own a lot of scores - too many now to try and revisit them all. Some scores I know very well but others have had a few spins and then they just sit there.
I thought that by starting a topic that named a certain score and asking for favourite cues from that might make me spin a few of my less listened to scores a bit - or make me see new perspectives on a score I thought I knew well. I’ll change the score name in the title every few weeks to (hopefully) build up a library of suggestions that might help me (and others) revisit, or appreciate forgotten scores.
Using a random generator, the first score I picked was David Arnold’s Godzilla. This is a score that has not had a lot of listens. It has been on in the background while I was doing other things, so I wasn’t really listening to it and I don’t have a favourite cue from this one. I am curious to hear other people’s opinions on this one.
Over to the forum, I guess.
Scores discussed so far
Godzilla - David Arnold Silverado - Bruce Broughton The Perfect Storm - James Horner First Knight - Jerry Goldsmith Kingdom of Heaven - Harry Gregson-Williams Current - The Phantom - David Newman
I'm not a "cue person" and am usually terrible at remembering track names. I tend to play albums from start to finish and just let it wash over me without caring about tracks as such (the highlight tracks just come naturally within the listening experience). But I seem to remember that "Evacuation" is a showstopper in the score. I have the beautifully curated promo, btw, not the expanded version.
Thanks, peeps, for the Godzilla suggestions. I enjoyed listening to them. Very good ear candy.
The next album that came up in my randomiser is..........Bruce Broughton’s Silverado.
My first exposure to BB was the Lost in Space film - and I loved his score for that. So I started buying other scores by him. I can’t say that I’ve given them so many spins so outside of the Main Title, not very familiar with this one.
Any lovers of the score here? What is your favourite cue?
Gotta be the main title, of course. But the whole score is very operatic, just as the film itself is an operatic take on the western (as they say in the extra features on the DVD). Surprising amount of intense dissonance too.
Riding as One can easily stick in my brain for hours or days after listening. It makes up for some of the less interesting sinister music that dominates the middle of the score.
Tough one. Hard to separate The Getaway/Riding As One, On To Silverado and End Credits (We'll Be Back). Three of the greatest tracks I've ever heard. If pushed, gotta go with Getaway/Riding As One.
