"Pirates of the Caribbean" Music... This stuff had funk!

Yah and Zimmer is doing the second Pirates score. It's pretty much Zimmer.

 

I absolutely love the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. The music is just pure magic, to say the least. My favorite scores on it would have to be these:

2. The Medallion Calls
3. The Black Pearl
4. Will & Elizabeth
7. Barbossa is Hungry
9. Moonlight Serenade
14. One Last Shot
15. He's A Pirate

 

I know, I like it alot too!
Those are my favorite tracks as well.

 

Anyone seen the trailer for Dead Man's Chest. I have the tiniest inkling that the music in the trailer might be new music written by Hans Zimmer for the film itself, and not written just for the trailer. Either way, this is just me speculating.

 

I've seen the trailer at least 10 times all ready! I can't wait for it! And the music sounds great as well.

 

My community band is now playing a medley of Pirates of the Caribbean music and it is totally awesome! Playing it in band has urged me to go and buy the soundtrack which is excellent. The songs featured in the medley I'm playing are The Medallion Calls, The Black Pearl, To The Pirates Cave, One Last Shot and He's A Pirate. I can't even seem to get the music out of my head.

 

Hanz Zimmer and his "proteges" . . . factory composers . . . churn out stuff that all sounds the same. I mean, most of the music works well in the film, but as a product on its own it is difficult to have more than a couple Zimmer scores because they all overlap and sound like they are just evolutions of the same movie. Case in point: Piates and Gladiator.

The timing and rhythm and melody are very similar. I had never listened to the score for Gladiator and only saw bits and pieces of it. I have seen Pirates and have the soundtrack on my PC. Without ever really listening to the Gladiator score, I was able to hum along and correctly get the melody and rhytm because it was exactly like Pirates.

Anyway, enough of my ranting. I'm beginning to offend myself!

 

Not to derail the thread or anything, but for those of you who doubt Zimmer, you should really check out his score to Beyond Rangoon. It's a really interesting score and very thematic.

As for Pirates of the Caribbean though, I have to agree that it's far too similar to the theme in Gladiator and borrows heavily from The Rock as well as other MV scores.

 

Interesting! I didn't know PotC music could be arranged for real instruments.

 

Bwahaha.

 

*rimshot*

Good stuff.

 

Is PotC the only joke film score collectors have? Is Horner avalable for ridicule?

 

I generally prefer Horner over most the MV guys, but he can certainly be ridculed for his 4 note danger motif. That fact that those 4 notes show up in just about all his scores makes me laugh.

 

It seemed to kinda develop in Troy. When they first see the Trojan Horse on the beach. I liked it in Wrath of Khan, though. I like how it didn't play for the oncoming Confederate troops in Glory, too.

 

On topic guys...

 

This music is generic.

 

Well for being generic, a lot of people who don't normally like film music seem to recognize and like it.

 

That's because it's easily accessible. It's catchy and rousing and works well in the equally derivative film. The fact that it's generic is what makes it so appealing to so many people. But, out of the context of the movie, for me anyway, it's trash. Cookie cutter, Media Ventures trash.

And I'm in no way biased against MV or the composers that come out of that camp. I've enjoyed numerous Zimmer scores, as well as John Powell's and Harry Gregson-Williams' work.

 

The POTC medley I'm playing was arranged by John Wasson. My whole band loves playing the music. We have this inside joke where we all shout "ARGH!" at the end of the piece. Fun stuff.

 

So while I'm hating on the Pirates score for not being Swashbuckling, what are some scores that are, besides Cutthroat Island? Hook?

 

The Adventures of Robin Hood.

 

The Sea Hawk...Prince Valiant...I'd say Star Wars...



ttbk, Prince Valiant

 

I've been looking for The Sea Hawk for quite some time.

 

I just have the Charles Gerhardt suite...I believe John Morgan and William Stromberg are supposed to release a recording of the fulll score this year though.




ttbk

 

Go back to your old icon...It was cool. And Is it true that there were no real instruments used in PotC?