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| 12/22/12
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Hoosiers (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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on the expanded 2012 album if you maintain any collection of Jerry Goldsmith's works, for
Hoosiers is not only a major achievement in the composer's balance of symphony and
electronics, but it remains one of the best sports genre scores of all time.
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if you're so cold-hearted that the best of the inspirational sports genre of film music,
including Goldsmith's Rudy, does nothing to successfully engage you.
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| 12/17/12
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Capricorn One (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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on the 1993, 2009, or 2012 CD re-issues of the original LP presentation if you seek a
fantastic rearrangement and re-recording by Jerry Goldsmith of this brutally propulsive score.
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on those albums if you prefer the sparse and harshly raw version of the score recorded by
Goldsmith at MGM for the film itself, of which the 2005 Intrada Records album is a very loyal
representation.
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| 12/12/12
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Hitchcock (Danny Elfman)
- All New Review |
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if you seek a throwback to Danny Elfman's early orchestral works of fiendish humor, his
personality implanted well upon the topic despite limited opportunities to develop his
effective themes for the famed director and his wife.
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Avoid it... |
if you wish to hear Elfman channel Bernard Herrmann for the entirety of Hitchcock, for while
he certainly rolls out such nods several times, this remains a score saturated with Elfman's
own style.
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on the score-only album if you wish to hear the best material Danny Elfman wrote for this
picture, the song compilation product inexplicably including the least redemptive portions of
the score.
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Avoid it... |
unless you are an Elfman completist and can justify an unsubstantial, 20-minute album with
your established soft spot for his heartfelt, contemporary romance style for small, light pop
ensembles.
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if you seek one of the most powerful, robust fantasy adventure scores in the history of film
music, especially on the incredibly faithful and resounding 2010 re-recording that will exceed
your highest expectations.
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Avoid it... |
on all the pressings of its original recording if archival sound quality and questionable
performances outweigh your already marginal interest in the fantasy adventure genre, though
the comprehensive 2012 Intrada set is as polished as any presentation of the score could be.
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