Last Soundtrack You Bought Or Listened To?

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Fond of 'Ice Chase' from the Daylights soundtrack, with the Bond theme and the title track 'woven in' to make a fine action-sequence piece.

Loved that bit, it's woven into Exercise at Gibraltar as well. A new favourite is "Airbase Jailbreak". Though I'm a new fan to the Afghanistan portions.

Got the Magnificent Seven soundtrack. Seemed to have totally lost the one I had and managed to find a reasonably priced copy from a small website (TheSoundtrackToYourLife). Quite chuffed, less than a tenner, arrived a day after ordering.

Somebody has the Jaws 2 OST up and giving it a breeze through. A favourite part is right early on where the theme from the first film (I used to think of it as Brody's theme, a very singular sound compared to the main Jaws theme...tended to come in during the attacks)



1min35 to about 1min55

I believe it's called the 'sea shanty theme.'

Largo's Shark wrote:

I believe it's called the 'sea shanty theme.'

Thanks Sharky. Now I know and all that. Confess to it being my favourite sound in the first films soundtrack, way its woven in and out.

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Largo's Shark wrote:

I believe it's called the 'sea shanty theme.'

Thanks Sharky. Now I know and all that. Confess to it being my favourite sound in the first films soundtrack, way its woven in and out.

I've always loved it too, though in my mind I associated it more with Quint/The Orca - what with its Irish folk song-like intervals and Shaw's quasi-Irish American accent.

I can see the association. I think one of the best uses was "The Great Shark Chase" or "Man Versus Beast".

The start of "Out to Sea" has a good rendition. But this is Williams we're talking about. I know it crops up in Jaws 3 & 4's scores but neither seem all that compared to the first two.

Giving the Rush score on Youtube a breezethrough. Watching the film Saturday I wasn't aware of a soundtrack as such in the movie such was the noise I suppose (obviously heard the songs played but nothing 'concrete' musically). The one bit I heard and was struck by was at the end as Lauda and Hunt drive towards the screen. So I wait and see it's Hans Zimmer.

Well...asked and answered I suppose.

Got my mits on the Red October extended in the post today. So far so good, the liner notes in true intrada fashion are quite something (has a cue assembly list which is a bit foreign to me all this 2M bits). The additional music is worth it and even the regular tracks have something to them such as "Putin's Demise" which on the extended starts with that heavy, machinery beating sound (sounds in the movie as Ramius is going below deck to see Putin).
Shame New World isn't on it. The liner notes say that Poledouris didn't have time and the film budget to do a proper end title. Also, the fact preview audiences didn't understand the ending so parts were tacked on ("You ignorant ass! You killed us!") and so we have "KABOOM!".

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Got my mits on the Red October extended in the post today. So far so good, the liner notes in true intrada fashion are quite something (has a cue assembly list which is a bit foreign to me all this 2M bits).

Those weird 1M1 things are called slate numbers. 1 (in Jerry Goldsmith's scores it's written R1) means the reel number (a standard reel of 35mm film will cover 11 minutes) and M is short for Music. So in JAWS for example, the first three cues of Williams's score look like this.

1m1 Jaws Titles
1m3 The First Victim
1m5 Remains On The Beach

1m2 and 1m4 are diagetic (source) music (non-diegetic music being underscore). 1m2 would be the folksy guitar music the kid on the beach plays. 1m4 I can't remember, but probably some pop song or brass band march as we see Chief Brody start his morning shift.

A cue sheet would contain all of these 'cues' along with start/end timings. The purpose of all this is to help the music editor and composer.

Thanks for that Sharky. I saw it on my new expanded Trek scores and thought it was some kind of pacing/time thing. Good to be in the know :)

Breezed through Michael Small's Jaws 4 soundtrack on YouTube. I say this, no Williams it might be but he did his best and it's considerably better than the film would suggest.

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Got my mits on the Red October extended in the post today. So far so good, the liner notes in true intrada fashion are quite something (has a cue assembly list which is a bit foreign to me all this 2M bits). The additional music is worth it and even the regular tracks have something to them such as "Putin's Demise" which on the extended starts with that heavy, machinery beating sound (sounds in the movie as Ramius is going below deck to see Putin).
Shame New World isn't on it. The liner notes say that Poledouris didn't have time and the film budget to do a proper end title. Also, the fact preview audiences didn't understand the ending so parts were tacked on ("You ignorant ass! You killed us!") and so we have "KABOOM!".

I love the new expanded version! I loved the old CD, but most of it seemed short cues without much connection. Now it all sounds much more coherent. Not to forget the lot of synth tracks that weren´t featured at all on the old release, and tracks like Chopper being noticable longer, while Kaboom! even has double the length it had on the old CD.
I got this album a few days ago, and it´s on continuous rotation ever since.

boldfinger wrote:

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Got my mits on the Red October extended in the post today. So far so good, the liner notes in true intrada fashion are quite something (has a cue assembly list which is a bit foreign to me all this 2M bits). The additional music is worth it and even the regular tracks have something to them such as "Putin's Demise" which on the extended starts with that heavy, machinery beating sound (sounds in the movie as Ramius is going below deck to see Putin).
Shame New World isn't on it. The liner notes say that Poledouris didn't have time and the film budget to do a proper end title. Also, the fact preview audiences didn't understand the ending so parts were tacked on ("You ignorant ass! You killed us!") and so we have "KABOOM!".

I love the new expanded version! I loved the old CD, but most of it seemed short cues without much connection. Now it all sounds much more coherent. Not to forget the lot of synth tracks that weren´t featured at all on the old release, and tracks like Chopper being noticable longer, while Kaboom! even has double the length it had on the old CD.
I got this album a few days ago, and it´s on continuous rotation ever since.

oh indeed. It has a lot more going even the Soviet anthem ("Let them sing!"). Trying to place where "Ryan's Wheels" comes into the film. Even if it's pieced together, the end titles (a.k.a The New World) is awesome.

Bought Rush OST and Out of Africa.

I like the soundtrack to the most recent Rambo movie...caught this on cable recently and watched it with my daughter from start to finish. She rathers this to Harry Potter shit...hell yeah.

No one beats Jerry.

gave this a re-listen

I used to find the full Conan the Barbarian score a bit dragging, but after I got to appreciate the slick mixture of qiet and louder tracks on the recent extended Hunt for Red October score, I lately took to the complete version of Conan again.
I´m not much into this Christmas thing, but Poledouris does fit the season with all those choir chants ;-).

Got my hands on the Rocky score. Oddly...from Sainsburys for a fiver. But then as they had Flash Gordon and Mary Poppins nothing to crow about.

Forgive the double but had a re-listen to John Barry's Enigma score. A certain portion reminds me of his Cold War sound from the Bond themes (think The Sniper was a Woman). I love the piano sound, the romantic sound. It's not his best score but it's Barry.

On the total reverse my Police Academy score is here now.

"Does this guy know how to party or what!?"

moonraker, even the dance version

Got to dig that dance version. Groovy as sin.

Listened to Jerry Goldsmith's RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD, PART II. As far as scores for action films go, he's really my favorite and it still saddens me that we no longer have music like this in theaters.