> Ok, I usually type long, but I'll make this short. James Newton Howard in
> recent years, while previously virtually unknown, has been moving way up
> in my book as one of the best film composers American music has to offer.
> He's so far, the only person that I see has a chance of rivaling the likes
> of the ultimate greats, John Williams and James Horner. The score for
> signs is one of the most simplitic, yet deathy frightening things I've
> ever heard. Never since Jaws has anyone been able to come close to the
> ultimate horror and majesty that John Williams did, untill now. I think
> JNH will move way up in the ranks to become one of the greatest composer
> ever in film history. Being usually a strict Williams/Horner fan (with the
> occational Goldsmith and Zimmer thrown in), I think that signs has some of
> the greatest suspense music ever written, and the orchestration
> (especially the horn gliss right at the beginning of "Asthma
> Attack") is absolutely brilliant. I would without a doubt have given
> this 5 stars. Just the "Hand of Fate" tracks and Main Title are
> worthy of this!!

I Agree