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EllenRipley Registered: Aug '07	Date Posted: 8/26/07 8:59am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers - Date Edited: 8/26/07 9:00am (1 edits total) Edited By: EllenRipley
	1. Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Motion Picture 2. John Williams - Star Wars and Indy 3. James Horner - Star Trek 2/Krull 4. Howard Shore - Lord of the Rings 5. David Arnold - Stargate 6. Basil Poledouris - Robocop 7. Elmer Bernstein - Ghostbusters 8. Danny Elfman - Batman 9. Alan Silvestri - The Abyss 10. Michael Kamen - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves -----signature----- My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.
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halibut Title: FF GSA & FF-UK RSA Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 8/26/07 9:13am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Interesting that everyone is picking LOTR for Howard Shore. For me, he became a "great" composer after Silence of the Lambs. A wonderful score. And thank you to whoever mentioned Christopher Franke -----signature----- They are not "songs", they are "tracks" or "cues" Don't you know about the bird? Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
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EllenRipley Registered: Aug '07	Date Posted: 8/26/07 9:17am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	LotR is a great gateway. I couldn't "get" anything by Shore beforehand, but everything I've heard since has been good. -----signature----- My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 8/26/07 6:36pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	I'm quite surprised that only three of us have mentioned James Newton Howard. I figured he would be a shoe in.
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VADERVADERVADERVADER Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 8/27/07 4:24pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers - Date Edited: 8/27/07 4:26pm (1 edits total) Edited By: VADERVADERVADERVADER
	1.John Williams - Star Wars!!!! 'NUFF SAID!!!!! AND Harry Potter AND Indiana Jones AND Jurassic Park etc. etc. .......... 2.Howard Shore - Lord of the Rings 3.Hans Zimmer - Pirates 4.James Newton Howard - King Kong 5.Harry-Gregson Williams - Narnia 6.Danny Elfman - Spider-Man 7.Alan Silvestri - Back to the Future 8.Steve Jablonsky - Transformers 9.Christopher Young - Ghost Rider 10.Trevor Rabin - National Treasure I also love Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, John Ottoman, John Powell, Klaus Badelt, Jerry Goldsmith, etc. I could go on and on! -----signature----- Revenge of the Sith
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Well_Of_Souls Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/27/07 4:43pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Darth_Vader-Anakin posted: I'm quite surprised that only three of us have mentioned James Newton Howard. I figured he would be a shoe in. He's underrated on this board it seems. He's been one of my favorites ever since Waterworld. And his score for Signs is one of the best thriller scores of all time, right up there with Jaws and Psycho for me. -----signature----- "Okey dokey, Doctor Jones, hold on to your potatoes!"
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 8/28/07 9:59pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Agreed. He's also a strong thematic composer which I figured would have made him popular here.
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andy1044 Registered: Aug '06	Date Posted: 8/29/07 10:25am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers - Date Edited: 8/29/07 10:25am (1 edits total) Edited By: andy1044
	JNH is fast becoming one of my favorite composers. As you said, his use of strong themes as well as original writing make him a force to be reckoned with in the scoring world. Also, his tasteful use of percussion in some of his scores is quite nice. It's never too over the top and complements the rest of the music very well. -----signature----- Are you looking for original music for your film? Look no further! Samples of my work can be heard at: http://www.soundclick.com/andyskrabutenas PM me or send an email to andy1044@aol.com if you are interested.
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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 9/2/07 3:54pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	JNH is good. Waterworld is great, Lady in the Water is lovely. Peter Pan has some great material. But he's also got a whole lot of stuff that doesn't particularly do anything for me. He's consistently pretty strong, but not a favorite of mine. -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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Darth_Davi Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 9/5/07 7:55am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	1. John Williams - His entire body of work speaks for itself. Almost all of the most recognizable movie themes of all time were composed by Williams. If John Williams had been born 250 years ago, he would have fit right in with Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. 2. Basil Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian 3. Ennio Morricone - The Mission 4. Alan Silvestri - The Abyss 5. Danny Elfman - Batman 6. James Horner - Apollo 13 7. Howard Shore - LOTR 8. Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek 9. Carmine Coppola/Nino Rota - The Godfather 10. Bill Conti - Rocky -----signature----- What the hell is an Aluminium Falcon? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a thermal exhaust port thats only two meters wide! It wasn't even fully paid off yet!
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andy1044 Registered: Aug '06	Date Posted: 9/5/07 10:16am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Darth_Davi posted: If John Williams had been born 250 years ago, he would have fit right in with Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. That's not entirely true. Williams composes in the Romantic Straussian/Wagnerian style (with a fair amount of jazz thrown in) that was popular in the late 1800s. If he had been composing during the Baroque and Classical periods, as were Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, his work would have probably been panned and labeled too radical. -----signature----- Are you looking for original music for your film? Look no further! Samples of my work can be heard at: http://www.soundclick.com/andyskrabutenas PM me or send an email to andy1044@aol.com if you are interested.
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Darth_Davi Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 9/6/07 10:44am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	There's always a nitpicker...I was referring to technical ability, not style. -----signature----- What the hell is an Aluminium Falcon? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a thermal exhaust port thats only two meters wide! It wasn't even fully paid off yet!
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 9/6/07 11:00am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Actually, there might have been some animosity between Williams and the other composers because of influences and "rip-offs".
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andy1044 Registered: Aug '06	Date Posted: 9/6/07 11:40am Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers
	Though Stravinsky would have loved Williams, not to mention Zimmer and Horner. "A good composer does not imitate; he steals." -----signature----- Are you looking for original music for your film? Look no further! Samples of my work can be heard at: http://www.soundclick.com/andyskrabutenas PM me or send an email to andy1044@aol.com if you are interested.
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Cerrabore Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 9/7/07 4:44pm Subject: RE: Your Top Ten (or five) Composers - Date Edited: 9/7/07 5:15pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Cerrabore
	Yeah, Zimmer's going to write the next Rite of Spring. Stravinsky would have been very impressed with his talent.
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