> Super helpful post as I'm digging in!

Thanks!

Yeah, you'll note that the abundance of green entries as you get lower in the post is perhaps a sign that my "plug the gaps" listening was very much an exercise in quantity over quality for that year. Six Isham scores and I didn't like any of them, for starters. Though I'm glad I kept at this as explorations of unknown works from earlier years have proved more rewarding.

Honestly the most pleasant surprise among my 2007 discoveries might've been Brian Tyler's Finishing The Game, his most obscure score from the year and probably his best of them - admittedly helped by the comparative brevity of its album length relative to AVP: R and Partition. It almost made up for having to hear Bug!

> As someone who's pretty meh on his big years in the mid-2010s, this is in contention for the best of his career.

Yeah, to go from the Lost Season 3 finale (back when I really only knew his music by watching the show) to Ratatouille made for a great summer. Admittedly it took me a few more years to discover the MOH franchise.

> But this...this is not quite how I see it haha.

Any score piece with a lengthy bass clarinet solo wins track of the year by default. It's in the rulebook.