4/22/2005
The final Star Wars film is upon us and this soundtrack album written by the saga's composer John Williams is a terrific final bow. The first five tracks of this album flow together mixing new and old material. Starting off with the familar Star Wars Main Title we are instantly sucked into an...
10/8/2004
Pleasantville (1998) was a wonderful suprise from Randy Newman and one of his best works. This score gets everything right where Seabiscuit missed the mark. Pleasantville has a magic in the themes that puts a smile on your face. "New Day" is an album highlight. This soundtrack is definitely worth a...
10/5/2004
The Village adds another score from James Newton Howard, composer of "The Sixth Sense," to M. Night Shyamalan's series of films. This score is a welcome addition and possibly the best of the batch. Each score for Shyamalan from Howard gets better. This is a nice score that contains a beautiful...
9/8/2004
Varese Sarabande has issued the long-awaited CD soundtrack to the Sherman brother's film musical of Tom Sawyer (1973). Well known for their musical Mary Poppins, the Sherman's score had some good songs worth revisiting. One of the interesting aspects of the score is John Williams' adaptation and...
8/16/2004
Danny Elfman's score to the Spider-Man sequel is a smashing and thrilling score for the summer. The album does the score justice. In the final cut of the movie additional composers were added but this album fortunately includes only music composed by Elfman plus the exciting original cues he wrote...
7/30/2004
Varese Sarabande records has reissued Elmer Bernstein's classic score to the Steve McQueen WWII adventure film "The Great Escape." This soundtrack is one of the best of the genre and Bernstein wrote one of the most recognizable marches in film music (it's even parodied in an episode of the Simpsons...
7/2/2004
Almost Famous is a great classic rock collection of songs from this 2000 Cameron Crowe film. There are memorable tracks from Elton John, Yes, The Allman Brothers Band and even Led Zeppelin. The only score track is "Lucky Trumble," which was written by the director's wife Nancy Wilson of Heart. The...
6/27/2004
Alex North's Oscar-nominated score to the 1965 film, The Agony and the Ecstasy, is a superb re-recording under the baton of the composer's friend, Jerry Goldsmith. The score is a gorgeous orchestral work full of exciting organ and brass flourishes. The religious modal sound of the music...
6/24/2004
Here is a look back at some music that is almost 20 years old. The score to Silverado (1985) is one the greatest western scores ever written probably one of the greatest film scores of the 1980s. It's a classic and very modern western with one of the most memorable themes. Aaron Copland is an...
6/22/2004
The second dose of John Williams for the summer of 2004 is his next collaboration on Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal". Again, Williams hits a homerun with this score where every track has something worth listening to. For the main character, Viktor Navorski, Williams uses an exciting ethnic...
