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NP: Laputa (Original Soundtrack) - Joe Hisaishi

It sounds very synthy. But who cares! Great themes. Catchy tunes. Beautiful song.

Spanish people really talks a lot about this score, La puta this... La puta allò...


NP:The Battle (Cuthroad Island) Vs I don't think now is the best Time (Awe)

Go Zimmer Go...you almost win here!

Did you understand what i said?

Yeap! and it's used like an expression to.

like. "dammed! what is it?"

I see your control of the spanish language

Actually, I've heard that when it comes to the movie Man on Fire (the remake), they wanted to call the girl Puta, but by the second or third draft they noticed what it means in Spanish (9 year old Puta ), so they got back to the original Pita

Is it "horrible" because it's suppose to be Barry/Bond music that you wanted to listen to?

Back to Willow for a second... I wasn't familiar with Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky when I first heard this score but the "Battle on the Ice" music in "Tir Asleen" is NOW a major distraction. And I'm sure there are many more Prokofiev rips in this score as well. Maybe that's why I stir clear of classical music. Anyway, I still absolutely adore this score.

-Erik-

Not as themeatic as Lair and as you said a little more small scale. I'd say lovers of David Arnold's material will eat this up.

-Erik-

But you miss out on some truly great music!

Being the fan you are of traditional scores and Golden Age scores, I'm surprised you don't listen to classical music? With your tastes in scores in mind, I think the late romantic and early-to-mid 20th century concert works would appeal to you a great deal, so not necessarily "classical" music (i.e. Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn etc.)

I think certain works of Strauss II, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Wagner, Dvorák, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Copland and quite a few more would really appeal to you. Tis what I reckon anyway.

Frankly, if you exclude Lair's first 4-5 tracks and forget for a moment that is was composed by the everybody-loves-Debney, i don't see how Journey to the centre of the earth is any different.

Stearing clear of classical music is depriving yourself of the well of life that enriches the music that we all love.

It rarely bothers me, mostly I see it as a great honour that composer X references composer Y, however it can be irritating at times when the "rip" is so obvious there's barely any difference. An example would be Horner's rip of Benjamin Britten's 'Dawn' from Four Sea Interludes which he used in The Journey Of Natty Gann which is almost note for note.

Considering Natty Gann isn't available Britten's work is a good ( better ) alternative.

Also try The Death of Tibalt (or Mercutio, I don't remember) from Romeo and Juliet (also Prokofiev) to hear the first fast string part from Escape from the Tavern.

Romeo and Juliet also influenced Williams's Temple of Doom (Nocturnal Activities) and Zimmer's Peacemaker (the Russian theme derives from the same track Escape from the Tavern does).

I am over aviation-related forums and reading the constantly updated news as they come in about the tragedy over at Madrid's airport, Barajas wiht the SpanAir plane that crashed on take-off. My mood isn't exactly the brightest and i happened to be playing ANGELO BADALAMENTI's dark, underwhelming synths-driven score to l adversaire all afternoon which i know find a very fitting accompaniment; Badalamenti's synths are one of the very few (if not the only) that i have always been enjoying.