Jerry Goldsmith

[babaorum]

I just purchased a best of 'Jerry Goldsmith', I like very much this composer.
'Basic instinct' is one of my favorite classical soundtrack !
I believe the second episode was too a Goldsmith's track, I hope that will be as good as the first :cool:
Is there anothers fans of 'Basic instinct' soundtrack ?

Baba

[Beach]

I just purchased a best of 'Jerry Goldsmith', I like very much this composer.
'Basic instinct' is one of my favorite classical soundtrack !
I believe the second episode was too a Goldsmith's track, I hope that will be as good as the first :cool:
Is there anothers fans of 'Basic instinct' soundtrack ?

Baba

Actually I think that basic instinct is a very good score but surely one of the best (for me at least) of JG is Medicine Man!!!
This is absolutely great for me in particula the last track A Meal And a Bath!!

Fantastic composer anyway!!

best to you,
Roberto

[babaorum]

I hope medicine man is in the disc ! ;)

[LAcomposer]

the "Rudy" soundtrack is gold-as is the soundtrack from "The Edge"

[babaorum]

ho yes I like 'the edge' music but the film was very dark ...:eek:

[dcoscina]

Try also:

Papillon- some of the finest action writing for smaller ensemble....ever
First Blood- some of the finest action writing for large ensemble...really
Planet of the Apes- excellent modernist score.
Twilight Zone-The Movie- "Kick the Can" is some of the most beautiful writing Goldsmith ever did. Gorgeous.

And yes, The Edge is a great score.

Oh, Mulan is beautiful too. I have the Oscar promo version that has all of the music on it and it rocks!

[lux]

Alien main title and the whole star trek saga are great too. Goldsmith is definitely one of the musical gems of late 20 century.

[Ecliptic]

I just purchased a best of 'Jerry Goldsmith', I like very much this composer.
'Basic instinct' is one of my favorite classical soundtrack !
I believe the second episode was too a Goldsmith's track, I hope that will be as good as the first :cool:
Is there anothers fans of 'Basic instinct' soundtrack ?

Baba

Hi Baba,

Jerry was my favourite for many years, now I keep him in my top ten.
I'm sorry, but he could never score the new Basic Instinct, because he died in 2004 and we, movies soundtracks fans, miss him so much, but we'll never forget him, he lives in his music, now and forever.

Cheers

PS. Goldsmith Basic Instinct score is a work of art, one of the best film sountrack ever composed.

[babaorum]

he died in 2004.

hum sorry, I don't knew.

And for the Edge I thank 'The Pledge' (with Nickolson) not the same thing ...

:o

[babaorum]

Hi Baba,
PS. Goldsmith Basic Instinct score is a work of art, one of the best film sountrack ever composed.
I agree with you Ecliptic of course. I like so much the violins evolution.
Baba

[thebluemask]

Capricorn One - great score.

[necroscope]

"The Omen" soundtrack rules, and the music for "The 13th warrior" is also excellent (even though the movie isn't).

[mattmann13]

It's great when a film composer gets to do a horror film and show off his skills with some interesting music which Jerry did brilliantly in 'Alien'

[TheVamp]

Goldsmith was my favorite. Still is, and not just because he was a brilliant composer (which he was). He was an innovator. He was always trying new things. Be it banging on steel mixing bowls on "Planet of the Apes" or incorporating synths into the orchestra, or writing an all-synth score (which he only did twice, I think) he was always on the bleeding edge of film scoring.
Sure, his later scores weren't as good, but I blame that more on the state of the industry than on Goldsmith. He still had to give the director and producer what they wanted and more and more that became the bloated Media Ventures sound. A shame really. He went too soon, too soon. I feel that, given the chance, he would have wowed us with something great again. I miss him terribly. :(

[babaorum]

I received the CD.

Very impressive and beautiful tracks ! :p

Played by the London symphonic Orchestra and diriged by Jerry Goldsmith.

I like The Sand Pebbles, Air Force One, Papillon, Basic Instinct, Sleeping with the enemy
and some others ...

Great Composer :eek:

Baba

[Sherief83]

the only thing I listend to for jerry goldsmith was "The shadow" which I don't know about you guys but it blew me away. it definitly surpass elfmen's batman although it copy's elfmen's last note of the batman theme. jerry just upgraded it. it was like an upgrade from a kia to a lexus.

the other one was the omen and although I've heard this score done in many ways through modern composers. I guess if he was the original, it would've blew me away too.

I think he was on the same level as john williams. great composer and sad to lose him.

[josejherring]

Jerry was the best! I often wonder why he didn't get the same level of public recognition as John Williams. The only answer I ever come up with is that he wasn't able to write as catchy tunes as John Williams.

I spoke with Jerry a little 2 years before he died. He tried to sell me his Mercedes. He wanted to get rid of it because it had 10,000 miles on it. I just looked at him and grinned while thinking, oh c'mon man.:rolleyes:

But as successful as he was I'm sure he died wondering the same thing that I mentioned above. Judging by a few comments he made at the session of his that I crashed.....er, I mean happen to stubble into;) ... He was a bit jealous of Williams' success. That much he made pretty clear. Too bad really. Why can't we all be happy with a 40 year career scoring some of the best films in history? Why do you have to be envious of what you don't have? I don't get it.

Jose

[chocothrax]

Haven't heard a whole lot of Goldsmith but i've never heard anything by him that interested me. There probably is a good score out there somewhere since he's done so many though.

[TheVamp]

But as successful as he was I'm sure he died wondering the same thing that I mentioned above. Judging by a few comments he made at the session of his that I crashed.....er, I mean happen to stubble into;) ... He was a bit jealous of Williams' success. That much he made pretty clear. Too bad really. Why can't we all be happy with a 40 year career scoring some of the best films in history? Why do you have to be envious of what you don't have? I don't get it.

Jose

To be envious is to be human. "The grass is always greener... etc." I don't fault him for that. If I was Goldsmith I'd be envious too. John and Jerry were contemporaries but Jerry found success a little earlier than John did with his score for Freud which got him a lot of attention (and his first Oscar nomination). Then John did Jaws (for which he won his second Oscar) and followed that up with the one-two punch of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in '77, winning his third Oscar for Star Wars. Jerry still only had one Oscar (for The Omen) and, to the eternal shame of the Academy, would remain with only one for his entire life.
IMHO, both of these men were the absolute pinnacle of the art of film scoring for the later half of the 20th Century. They were composers and dramatists of prodigious talent. It's just that John had a knack for picking projects that were either to become box office hits (mostly through his collaborations with Spielberg and Lucas, or both.) or Oscar bait. How many box office flops has John Williams scored? Jerry's career is littered with great scores for bad movies. That's the difference, and the root of Jerry's envy. Makes no difference to me, though. To this day I prefer Goldsmith over Williams.