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| 4/27/12
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Galaxy Quest (David Newman)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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Buy it... |
if you can't resist a really good parody score, especially one of the very few that takes
effective aim at the science fiction genre.
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Avoid it... |
if the bright and overly enthusiastic style of David Newman's parody writing lacks the
resounding depth and power necessary to make such music worthy of a standalone listening
experience.
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on the early Varese Sarabande CD containing a London re-recording of 18 minutes from this
score if you can satisfy yourself with the most heroic symphonic highlights of this otherwise
highly varied score.
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Avoid it... |
on the fuller 2009 presentation of the original recording if you expect to hear Bill Conti
extend the glory of his primary themes with much conviction beyond these highlights.
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| 4/17/12
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Titanic (James Horner)
- Updated Review, With Additional Albums |
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Buy it... |
if you somehow missed the engrossing phenomenon when it debuted in 1997 and you have an open
mind about what is commonly considered (and ridiculed) as the most famous and romantic film
score of the digital era.
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Avoid it... |
if even the price of $0.01 for the first Titanic album on the used-CD market cannot entice you
to explore the James Horner new age triumph that resulted in the best-selling film score album
in history.
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| 4/11/12
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White Fang (Basil Poledouris/Hans
Zimmer/Various)
- All New Review |
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Buy it... |
if you, like most film music collectors, appreciate the style of both Basil Poledouris and
Hans Zimmer, for the two composers did their honest best to address this adventure film with
the instructions given to them.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect to hear either composer make any attempt to extend outside of his comfort zone,
the two scores extremely typical to their output at the time and therefore distractingly
incongruous next to each other in context.
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only if you are comfortable enough with Marco Beltrami's own compositional techniques in the
horror genre to hear him re-invent the sound of this franchise while carrying over only some
of the elements from Jerry Goldsmith's classic.
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Avoid it... |
if you simply cannot accept any film in this franchise without its famous title theme, "Ave
Satani," in a primary role or, on top of that, if you expect Beltrami to match his mentor's
impressive narrative for the plot's series of realizations.
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