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[theladyrose]

Have you gotten that message about Gmail Custom Time?  They're doing a beta test here on campus as Google now hosts our web services and uses Gmail as our e-mail client.  It looks pretty cool:


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Good thing it's not April 1st, right? :P

On to the (more) serious stuff: many, many congrats to one_blankpage !  I'm so proud of my would-be little sister - you have so many wonderful college choices that I know you can't make a wrong one :D

Supernatural fans - my awesome roommate,
lilbabiangel888, took a ton of amazing photos of the latest SN con here and also has video footage if you're interested in taking a peek.  I'm being completely serious.  Squee away!


It was a year since I last updated my records of what soundtracks I have in my iTunes library.  As I find myself realizing that if I'm not careful I'm going to run out of space on my computer, I've been cleaning up my collection.  I've come to the conclusion that I have way too much stuff that would be classified by my peers as easy listening, but god forbid I ever get rid of my orchestral jazz/cult spy soundtracks.  If you'd like me to send you a copy of any of these, I'd be more than happy to do so :D

TV
Alias: Season 1 (Michael Giacchino)
Alias: Season 2 (Michael Giacchino)
Lost: Season 1 (Michael Giacchino)
Lost: Season 2 (Michael Giacchino)
Alias: the unofficial soundtrack Seasons 1-5

Band of Brothers (Michael Kamen)

Monk (Jeff Beal)
Carnivàle (Jeff Beal)
Rome (Jeff Beal)

Doctor Who (series 1-3, Murray Gold)

Firefly (Greg Edmonson)

Psych You Out In The End (UST w/ psych-outs for Psych)

Honey West (Joseph Mullendore)

The Man from UNCLE/the Girl from UNCLE: the Complete Volumes 1-3 (Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, Nelson Riddle, Robert Drasnin, Gerald Fried, Richard Shores, Morten Stevens, Walter Scharf)
The Spy With My Face: Music From The Man from UNCLE Movies (Jerry Goldsmith, Gerald Fried, Richard Shores, Morten Stevens, Nelson Riddle)
The Man from UNCLE: To Trap A Spy/the Vulcan Affair (Jerry Goldsmith, bootleg DVD rip of the pilot)
Music from the Man From UNCLE (LP rip arr. by Hugh Montenegro)
More Music from the Man From UNCLE (LP rip arr. by Hugh Montenegro)
The Girl From UNCLE (LP rip arr. by Teddy Randazzo)

Batman (Nelson Riddle, Razor and Tie release)

Hawaii Five-O (Morton Stevens)

I Spy (Earl Hagen; LP rip)

Original Music from The Avengers (Laurie Johnson)

The Saint/Danger Man (Edwin Astley)

The Prisoner Vol. 1-3 (original release; different track order and names + alternate Ron Grainer title theme not featured on the Silva Screen release)

Mission : Impossible - Then & Now (Lalo Schifrin and John E. Davis)
Mannix (Lalo Schifrin)

Sherlock Holmes - Granada TV series (Patrick Gowers)

North and South (Martin Phipps)

TV Compilations:
Crime Jazz : Volume 01 : The Ministry Of Suspense!
Serialement Votre: Cult Spy/Crime Theme Remixes
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Cult TV Classics
Songs in the Key of Springfield

TV Odds and Ends:
Hustle main and end title (Simon Rogers)
Man in a Suitcase main title (Ron Grainer)
"Kinky Boots" and "Let's Keep It Friendly" sung by the Avengers Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman
Various covers/trial variations of the Prisoner theme, the British broadcast of Danger Man's title theme, "Secret Agent Man," "Mio Amore Sta Lontano" (from Danger Man)
Random clips of David McCallum singing ("Double Oh Soul," "Hava Nagila" from Ultimate Computer Affair, "Three Bites of the Apple" theme, "Communication")

Films (organized by composer, roughly by time period):

Max Steiner:
Gone With The Wind (complete rerelease)

Franz Waxman:
Rebecca (complete rerelease)

Erich Korngold:
Operas without Singing: The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold / A Musical Tribute (perf. USC Thornton Orchestra)

Miklos Rosza:
Ivanhoe

Bernard Herrmann:
Jason and the Argonauts
Mysterious Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Moby Dick Cantata
Vertigo (OST and Joel McNeely-conducted rerecording with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
Psycho (Joel McNeely-conducted rerecording with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
North by Northwest (FSM complete rerelease)
Marnie (Joel McNeely-conducted rerecording with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
Torn Curtain (rejected score by Bernard Herrmann, conducted by Elmer Bernstein)
Farenheit 451 (original recording)
Obsession
Taxi Driver (complete score)
From Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver: Bernard Herrman Film Scores (conducted by Elmer Bernstein)

Maurice Jarre:
Doctor Zhivago (TCM remastered with unreleased cues as well as the original)
Lawrence of Arabia
The Train

Malcom Arnold:
Bridge on the River Kwai

Henry Mancini:
The Pink Panther
Breakfast at Tiffany's (complete score as well as the original soundtrack release)
Charade
Arabesque
The Party/The Great Race
Wait Until Dark
The Thorn Birds
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective
The Best of Henry Mancini

Michel Legrand:
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
The Thomas Crown Affair (Ryko release)
Ice Station Zebra
Wuthering Heights
The Appointment (FSM rerelease with his rejected score)
Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand (compilation performed by Legrand himself)

Ennio Morricone:
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Once Upon A Time In The West
My Name Is Nobody
UN GENIO, DUE COMPARI, UN POLL
La Battaglia di Algeri
Cinema Paradiso
The Legend of 1900
Lolita
The Mission
Once Upon A Time In America
The Untouchables
Canone Inverso
What Dreams May Come (rejected)
Ennio Morricone Love Themes (compilation)
Ennio Morricone Movie Masterpieces (compilation)
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone (compilation)

Jerry Goldsmith:
In Like Flint/Our Man Flint (FSM release)
Patton/Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Mummy

Elmer Bernstein:
The Ten Commandments
The Magnificent Seven
To Kill A Mockingbird (composer conducting the Royal Scottish National orchestra)
The Great Escape
The Silencers
The Bridge at Remagen
Music for the Films of Charles and Ray Eames
Ghostbusters (score)
The Black Cauldron (iTunes LP version and bootleg)
The Age of Innocence
Far From Heaven
Elmer Bernstein by Elmer Bernstein
Concerto For Guitar & Orchestra

John Barry:
The Ipcress File (remastered Japanese release without the annoying dialogue clips on the Ryko rerelease)
The Quiller Memorandum
Deadfall
The Lion in Winter (remastered original)
The Lion in Winter/Mary Queen of Scots (Silva Screen compliation conducted by Nic Raine, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
The Appointment (with Don Walker; FSM rerelease with rejected/alternate scores by Michel Legrand and Stu Phillips)
Monte Walsh (FSM complete rerelease)
The Game of Death
Robin and Marian
The Black Hole/Howard the Duck
Somewhere in Time (original release)
Out of Africa (original release)
Body Heat
Dances With Wolves (complete release)
Playing by Heart (score selections only from the OST)
The Specialist (score)
The Scarlet Letter
Enigma
John Barry the Collection: 40 Years of Film Music (Silva Screen compliation conducted by Nic Raine, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
John Barry the Collection 2: the 1960's, the 1970's and the 1980's (unofficial fan compilation compiled by DJ Chaz Cunningham with rare cues)
The Beyondness of Things (possible rejected cues for the Horse Whisperer)
Eternal Echoes

James Bond soundtracks in chronological order:
Doctor No (Monty Norman, Ryko remastered)
From Russia With Love (John Barry; Ryko remastered)
Goldfinger (John Barry; Ryko rerelease with the additional cues from the 30th anniversary 007 compilation)
Thunderball (John Barry; Ryko remastered with bonus cues)
You Only Live Twice (John Barry; Ryko remastered with bonus cues)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry; Ryko remastered with bonus cues)
Diamonds Are Forever (John Barry; Ryko remastered with bonus cues)
Live and Let Die (George Martin, Ryko remastered)
The Man With The Golden Gun (John Barry; Ryko remastered)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Marvin Hamlisch, Ryko remastered)
Moonraker (John Barry; Ryko remastered)
For Your Eyes Only (Bill Conti, Ryko rerelease with bonus cues)
Octopussy (John Barry; Ryko remastered)
A View to a Kill (John Barry; Ryko remastered)
The Living Daylights (John Barry; Ryko remastered with bonus cues)
Licence to Kill (Michael Kamen)
Tomorrow Never Dies (David Arnold, complete promo score)
The World Is Not Enough (David Arnold)
Die Another Day (David Arnold)
Casino Royale (David Arnold, OST and iTunes bonus cues)
More Themes from the James Bond Thrillers (perf. by Roland Shaw and His Orchestra)
Double-O Heaven (acoustic guitar arr. by Russ Pay)
The Essential James Bond (Nic Raine and the City of Prague Philharmonic compilation)
The Bond Project (fan compilation)

Johnny Dankworth:
Modesty Blaise

Konrad Elfers:
A Funeral in Berlin

Richard Rodney Bennett:
Billion Dollar Brain

Dave Grusin (and Simon and Garfunkel):
The Graduate

Burt Bacharach:
Casino Royale
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Look of Love: the Burt Bacharach Collection

Richard M. Sherman:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (enhanced CD)

Roy Budd:
Get Carter (Ryko complete rerelease with dialogue clips)
The Internecine Project & Foxbat & Somewhere to Hide

Quincy Jones:
The Italian Job

Lalo Schifrin:
Murderer's Row
Once A Thief
The Fourth Protocol
The Reel Lalo Schifrin (compilation)

Vince Guaraldi:
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Oh, Good Grief (Charlie Brown)!

Nino Rota:
The Godfather

John Williams:
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sabrina
Schindler's List
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Home Alone 2: Deluxe Edition
Empire of the Sun
Hook
Jurassic Park
Catch Me If You Can
The Terminal
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Memoirs of a Geisha

James Horner:
Swing Kids
Braveheart
More Music from Braveheart
Titanic
Back to Titanic
A Beautiful Mind
The New World

Joe Hisaishi:
Nausicäa of the Valley and the Wind
Nausicäa of the Valley and the Wind - the Symphonic Edition
Kiki's Delivery Service (Japanese release)
Castle in the Sky (Japanese release)
My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese release)
Princess Mononoke (Japanese release)
Princess Mononoke - the Symphonic Edition
Spirited Away (Japanese release)
Howl's Moving Castle
Limitless Worlds: Music From the Films of Hayao Miyazaki (fan compilation)

Philip Glass:
Koyaanisqatsi
Naqoyqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Kundun
Dracula
The Truman Show (w/ Burkhard Dallwitz)
Mishima
Dracula
The Hours (OST and solo piano)
The Illusionist
Notes On A Scandal
No Reservations (OST, mostly opera)
Cassandra's Dream

Patrick Doyle:
Loves' Labours Lost

Danny Elfman:
Edward Scissorhands
Mission: Impossible (score, score selections from the OST)
Mission: Impossible

Alan Silvestri:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Forrest Gump (score)
Mission: Impossible (rejected score)

Vangelis:
Blade Runner

Joel McNeely:
The Avengers

George S. Clinton:
Austin Powers : The Original Scores for International Man of Mystery and The Spy Who Shagged Me (fan compilation)

Bill Conti:
The Thomas Crown Affair

Tarantino Movies:
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol. 1

Alexandre Desplat:
Jacques Audiard: See How They Fall and A Self-Made Hero
Girl With A Pearl Earring
The Painted Veil
Casanova (OST, mostly classical)
The Queen
The Golden Compass
Lust, Caution

Yann Tiersen:
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (OST and bonus unreleased cues)
Goodbye, Lenin! (Virgin overseas release)
The Black Sessions (performance of some of his film scores)

Nicola Piovani:
La Vita E Bella

John Powell:
The Italian Job (score)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
P.S. I Love You (OST)

Klaus Badelt:
POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl

Hans Zimmer:
Gladiator
POTC 2: Dead Man's Chest
POTC: DMC remixed
POTC: At World's End (+ suites)
The Simpsons

Harry Gregson-Williams:
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek 3
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

David Arnold:
The Stepford Wives (bootleg and promo)

Michael Giacchino:
The Incredibles
The Incredibles - the Remix EP
The Family Stone
Mission: Impossible III
Ratatouille

David Holmes:
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Twelve
Ocean's Thirteen

Tykwer/Klimek/Heil:
Run Lola Run

Jolby Talbot:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Phillippe Rombi:
Jeux d'Enfants/Love Me If You Dare
Joyeux Noël

Angelo Badalamenti:
A Very Long Engagement

Michael Galasso:
In The Mood For Love

Dario Marianelli:
Pride and Prejudice
Atonement

Adrian Johnston:
Becoming Jane

Mark Isham:
Crash

Terence Blanchard:
The Inside Man

Marcelo Zavros and Bruce Fowler:
The Good Shepherd

Edward Shearmur:
Cruel Intentions (score)

Michael Kamen:
Don Juan de Marco

John Debney:
Princess Diaries (score)

Jon Brion:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jean-Michel Bernard:
The Science of Sleep
Be Kind Rewind

Marc Shaiman:
Down With Love (OST)

Mychael Danna:
Hearts in Atlantis (OST)
The Nativity Story

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek:
Finding Neverland

John Taverner:
Children of Men

Rachel Portman:
The Joy Luck Club
Infamous

Nancy Wilson:
Elizabethtown (score)

Jeff Beal:
Pollock

George Fenton:
Planet Earth

Nigel Hess:
Ladies in Lavender

Clint Mansell:
Sahara
The Fountain

Paul Cantelon:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (OST)

Disney/Other Animated Movies:
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky arr. George Bruns)
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition (Alan Menken)
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Mulan (Jerry Goldsmith, OST and promo score)
Pocahontas
Enchanted (Alan Menken)
Anastasia (David Newman, OST and promo score)
Disney 75 Years of Music and Memories: Disc 2 - 1961-1972
Classic Disney Vols. 1-3
Disney's Instrumental Impressions

Movie Musicals:
White Christmas (Irving Berlin, DVD rip)
Some Like It Hot
Singin' in the Rain (rerelease)
West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)
Funny Face
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music: 40th Anniversary (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Mary Poppins
Fiddler on the Roof: 30th Anniversary Edition
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Victor/Victoria (Henry Mancini)
The Music Man (Disney ABC broadcast)
Moulin Rouge (DVD rip)
Chicago (just the musical numbers and incidental cues from the film)
The Producers
Reefer Madness
Hairspray
La Môme/La Vie En Rose

Multi-Composer Movie Compilations/Assorted Odds and Ends:
Festival De Cannes (60th Anniversary)
100 Greatest Film Themes (Nic Raine and the City of Prague Philharmonic compilation)
Academy Award Themes (incomplete)
Abbey Road (Immediate Music, trailer music)
Themes for Orchestra and Choir (Immediate Music, trailer music)
Atonement trailer music: X-Ray Dog
Casino Royale trailer music
Golden Compass trailer music
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer music (Requiem for the Two Towers)
The Edukators (OST)
Stranger than Fiction (OST)
Garden State (OST)
Marie Antoinette (OST)
Amadeus: the Complete Original Set  (4 CDs)
The Pianist (Chopin)
Master and Commander (OST, various classical)
Ken Burns: The Civil War
Singin' In The Rain: Original Songs From Turner Classic Movies
Music From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick
The Film Music of Charlie Chaplin
Film Noir: 16 Classic Tracks from the Dark Side of the Movies (compilation with Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, George Delerue, Franz Waxman, John Ottman, Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard, John Morris, Michael Small, Pino Donaggio)
Anton Karas: First Man of the Zither
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Jazz
Romance Classics (incomplete, conducted by John Williams and performed by the Boston Pops)
Pops in Love (conducted by John Williams and performed by the Boston Pops)

Incomplete Soundtracks:
The Spanish Prisoner (Carter Burwell)
The Trouble With Harry (Bernard Herrmann)
Get Shorty
Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Coran (OST)
The Kite Runner (Alberto Iglesias)

Comments

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been wanting The Living Daylights soundtrack since the movie came out... And I thought they never produced one. Care to share it? The piece I particularly want is the music they are playing when Bond and Kara are riding a horse into the freedom fighter camp in Afghanistan.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

The Living Daylights (http://www.mediafire.com/?wthctmfsvol) is one of my all-time favorites; it was the 2nd soundtrack I ever bought and really fostered my love of film music. It took me six months before I could find a copy with the bonus tracks, and then all the remastered 007 scores were released a week after I received it in the mail. Go figure :P

Track 10, "Mujahadin and Opium," is the cue you're looking for. It's one of my favorite "lyrical Barry" pieces and foreshadows the majestic, soaring sound of Dances With Wolves.

The title song by a-ha is here (http://www.mediafire.com/?3wv10lyy5wj) if you want it. If there's anything else that catches your eye, let me know!

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, it is also the last time that John Barry would characterize a new Bond. Sean Connery was the bass guitar, George Lazenby was the psychedelic synthesizer and Roger Moore were the violins. Timothy Dalton's version of the theme were these drum loops, which took over for the big band section of the theme (which I can't remember Barry ever using for Moore at all).

I still think that this is one of Barry's best efforts for the series and a fine bow out (literally, as he's in the last scene of the movie). I also think that the movie itself was a pretty good Bond film in its own right, and that Dalton's reputation as Bond was marred by the very un-Bondian tone of License To Kill, but in his performance in The Living Daylights is an excellent interpretation of Fleming's character.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

The Living Daylights score holds up remarkably well because of the natural integration of the drum loops with the orchestral writing; many other 80's action movies sound horribly outdated because they don't have the Vangelis touch when it comes to relying on the Moog synth as a key musical element. I love Bill Conti's For Your Eyes Only as a guilty pleasure because of its retro disco-flavored synth usage on the action cues, although the suspense cues for the Greece scenes hold up to Barry's work. I definitely agree that Barry's scores for Moore are remarkably restrained in the big band orchestral jazz sound compared to what he did for Connery and Lazenby - there's a short spurt in the Scaramanga's Fun House cues for The Man With The Golden Gun when the pre-titles hitman and later Bond run into the 20's gangster panorama. The remastered TMWTGG soundtrack features a retro jazz arrangement of the title theme song, but it's not quite the same bombastic brass of the 60's.

The Living Daylights is one of my favorite 007 movies of all time. I was actually a little disappointed when I read the eponymous short story that's filmed as Koskov's defection; the pacing and character development is an improvement on Fleming's work without losing the "glamorously gritty" atmosphere.

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

I also think that Barry's compositional style for the Bond pictures was somewhat more versatile than most of the other composers trying to fuse pop elements into an orchestral score. I like a lot of Conti's work (I really dug the bass guitar line being picked up by the brass), but I have to admit that I find my favorite non-Barry Bond score to have been George Martin's (even if the movie itself is a little... well... very dated).

When I was referring to the big-band sound, I was actually referring to the big-band section of the James Bond theme itself, which I don't recall ever being used in the Moore films.

The Living Daylights was one of the few latter-era Bond pictures that really captured that Cold War tone correctly; the restraint shown with the presentation of the villains was a nice breath of fresh air, as was Bond's sudden flashes of anger that Moore would never have pulled off.

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very, very much for that. Wow... I mean, I've been looking for that piece for 20 years! And listening to it last night, it brought up this *volcano* of emotion and memory for me. It really uncorked a huge *THING* that had been lurking inside of me. It's so woven in with my memories and feelings from that part of my life, it's shocking.

...and foreshadows the majestic, soaring sound of Dances With Wolves.

John Barry is really one of the most amazing artists of our time - He has been so very special to me for SO LONG. You're right about the Dances With Wolves thing. I think that's one of the many things about this piece that grabbed me by the neck an shook me. But this is also one of the pieces that stands out as exceptional in the department of "making the moment" - It so very much makes that whole scene. The soundtracks to Somewhere in Time and Out of Africa did the same thing, but I hadn't quite gotten that in his Bond music before this. And then, later, came Dances With Wolves. I'm too distracted (I'm at work) to properly verbalize what I'm trying to say here...

On another note (ha ha), I think the "Bond sub-theme" (Inflight Fight) from this movie is one of my very favorite Bond themes ever - Even more than some of the themes from the early years (and there were a couple I really loved.)

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

One of my favorites is one of his shortest... Zulu!!!

[lilbabiangel888.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. This list...it does not end.

Hee, on a greedy note I'm gonna list out everything that would be super nice of you to gift me with later on when you have free time :D

Carnivale, Braveheart, Titanic, Atonement, The Fountain, Planet Earth, Moulin Rouge, Requiem for the Two Towers, Amadeus.

Hope that isn't too much work or anything. Thanks a bunch

Also, thanks so much for sn pimpage dear ^^

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Sadly, almost a day later, this list is already out of date as I picked up a good 8 new albums or so!

I meant to tell you yesterday that I discovered that I did have Requiem for the Two Towers lurking in my iTunes! Let me find a way of sending all of this to you :D

[lehah.livejournal.com]

You need more Jerry Goldsmith <3

http://lehah.livejournal.com/716345.html

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

My lack of Goldsmith is seriously embarrassing; I only started discovering his work within the past three months or so because my father wanted me to track down the Patton soundtrack for him. I just picked up a bootleg copy of his full score for the Man from UNCLE pilot, which might be the best damn TV episode score I've ever heard. Any particular recommendations?

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

Alien *
The Blue Max
Capricorn One *
Chinatown *
The Final Conflict *
Freud
The Great Train Robbery
Legend *
Lionheart
Masada
Papillon
A Patch of Blue
Patton *
Poltergeist
The Secret of N.I.M.H.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture *
Supergirl
The Thirteenth Warrior
The Wind and the Lion *

There are many more I could mention, but those are the first that sprung to mind.

* denotes a particularly notable score, at least in my estimation.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

It looks like I've got my work cut out for me :) Thanks for the recommendations!

P.S. I picked up David Shire's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 because I remember how much you love it and have become rapidly addicted to the score.

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

Well, if it isn't too obvious already, I'm a huge Jerry Goldsmith fan. :)

Let me know if you have any trouble locating some of these...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three doesn't just have a twelve-tone funk tone row (!), it is also one of the best themes for a specific train line (the Lexington Avenue Local, A.K.A. the 6, a train I ride almost every day) ever!

[lehah.livejournal.com]

For Goldsmith? He really didn't do anything bad per se.

Heres some favorites off the top of my head:

Take A Hard Ride
Star Trek: Insurrection
The Ghost And The Darkness
Masada
Supergirl
The Final Conflict
Patch Of Blue
Explorers
First Blood
Rambo: First Blood, Part 2

His concert work CD - Christus Apollo - is also excellent but highly experimental. You can get it for peanuts, last I checked.

Whats the story behind the Michael Giacchino avatar? :)

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs!

Re: the avatar - I met Michael Giacchino (http://theladyrose.livejournal.com/235768.html), John Powell (who's seriously hilarious in a delightfully understated way) and George S. Clinton at a composers' speaker panel sponsored by the Academy sometime in early October. I waited around for a good hour and a half afterwards hoping to get a moment to talk to MG as he was swamped with fans and aspiring filmmaker students. Originally I had wanted to ask him for an autograph, but I realized I had a camera on me and figured a photo would mean a lot more. That reminds me - I forgot to post up my notes about the event! I should do that sometime.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Gmail custom time! Hilarious!

Send me a copy of a Joe Hisaishi ST, and one other you'd think I like (preferably a bond one, as I have none).

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

A good friend of mind pranked me about Gmail custom time, so I couldn't help but pass it on :)

I'm giving you Howl's Moving Castle (http://www.mediafire.com/?ndjkzdoxf2d) and You Only Live Twice (http://www.mediafire.com/?3xtxmhixg1i) (mostly because it's the most parodied Bond score and features some of John Barry's best writing for the series IMHO). If you want anything else, please let me know and I'd be more than happy to help out :)