Who are your favorite score composers? (Beside TR&AR)

Who are your favorite score composers? (Beside TR&AR)

12/29/11 8:41 PM
snaapz member Joined: 11/24/07 Location: Classified Posts: 1,119	Unrelated... but is Danny Elfman like ... a fucking music scoring machine? I see his name everywhere.............. mod edit (by marodi): split this from another thread and made it into its own thread. Discuss what other scores you like and those who wrote them. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2011 08:53PM by marodi.
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12/29/11 9:24 PM
marodi The Duchess of Otterland Joined: 12/02/07 Location: Quebec Canada Posts: 2,234	In my own humble opinion Danny Elfman is a LIVING GOD in the world or movie/tv scoring. He's worked a lot with Tim Burton but he also did work with a plethora of directors. He began with Oingo Boingo, one of the most underrated band ever. That's where I first heard of him. To make a long story short: he eventually branched out into movie scoring, making this his principal occupation since he's gradually losing his hearing, a situation which was made worst by playing live with Boingo. He's scoring work is so famous that most of you are familiar with it, maybe without knowing that he wrote it. This is one of the things he wrote; you might have heard it before. I love that crazy, creepy redhead. I was completely thorn last year when he and TR&AR were nominated against one another. Also: this is my favorite Boingo song, although you may be more familiar with this one. Or this one.
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12/29/11 9:36 PM
CharmlessMan member Joined: 05/29/08 Location: Clock Town%2CTermina Posts: 15,033	I have been listening to film scores since I was a child. I LOVE film scores Christopher Young John Williams Danny Elfman Harry Gregson Williams Hans Zimmer (though he can often be very overrated, overly repetitive & overly bombastic. He seems to be popular with the kids nowadays who don't listen to many scores to begin with. But when he shines, dude can shine) John Debney Alan Silvestri Graeme Revell John Powell Michael Giacchino James Horner's older stuff James Newton Howard Jerry Goldsmith Michael Kamen Brian Tyler David Newman John Powell Elmer Bernstein
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12/29/11 9:42 PM
marodi The Duchess of Otterland Joined: 12/02/07 Location: Quebec Canada Posts: 2,234	I love a lot of those you listed, good sir! One I also love is Elliot Goldenthal. His score for Interview with the Vampire is nothing short of magnificent. I've been listening to it since it came out in 1994 and I never got tired of it.
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12/29/11 10:50 PM
Musicisdivine member Joined: 06/18/11 Posts: 23	First and foremost for me would be Jesper Kyd, who did the electronic, acoustic, choral, and symphonic music to the Hitman series, Assassin's Creed series. I mostly like his hitman work, but I also like some of the AC songs, a couple songs from Robotech Invasion, the Freedom Fighters soundtrack, and a song from his Ultimatum film soundtrack. I actually got to meet him in person in November. I also like: Hans Zimmer for his Inception score Mark Willott for a quite fantastic score to the game "Cold Winter" Mark Snow for the "the X-Files" music Brian Eno for his "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks" Bernard Herrmann for this scores to the Alfred Hitchcock films Vertigo and Psycho Paul Leonard Morgan for his Limitless score I might be leaving some out...
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12/30/11 3:25 AM
ningamer member Joined: 08/16/08 Posts: 8,046	Alan Silvestri Angelo Badalamenti Christophe Beck Clint Mansell Hans Zimmer Howard Shore John Williams Klaus Doldinger Michael Andrews Vangelis
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12/30/11 3:35 AM
Joan Cootes member cougar Joined: 09/04/08 Location: fuggen Minno Posts: 12,102	John Williams John Barry Hans Zimmer Danny Elfman Bernard Herrmann Basil Poledouris The genius/es who did the soundtrack for "Forbidden Planet" Atticus Ross for his score for "The Book Of Eli" Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor "The Social Network" There's probably a lot more who I can't think of right now.
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01/06/12 4:15 AM
9Inch9Nails9 member Joined: 01/28/09 Location: Clearwater%2C Flordia Posts: 758	Danny Elfman did some great stuff, have to get more of that, plus Mark Snow,that did Smallville and the X-Files
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01/06/12 10:11 AM
PijusMusic member Joined: 10/05/11 Location: Molde%2C Norway Posts: 115	I love Micheal Andrew's music for Donnie Darko (my favorite movie). It's absolutely wonderful!
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01/06/12 7:36 PM
The_Prowler member Now I'm nothing... Joined: 05/02/08 Location: Fredericksburg Vagina Posts: 18,594	John Williams, Michael Kamen, Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman come to mind right now...
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01/07/12 6:36 PM
Samurai_Zombie member Edited 1 time(s) Joined: 02/28/09 Location: The Monkey House Posts: 1,092	Angelo Badalamenti is fucking amazing.
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01/08/12 3:55 AM
Joan Cootes member cougar Joined: 09/04/08 Location: fuggen Minno Posts: 12,102	Ennio Morricone
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01/08/12 12:49 PM
BattleOfNY member Joined: 05/06/08 Posts: 1,388	Angelo Badalamenti Bernard Herrmann Clint Mansell Ennio Morricone Goblin Howard Shore John Williams Mike Patton Robyn Miller Vangelis
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01/11/12 10:11 AM
Churchy member The Great Destroyer Joined: 11/22/08 Location: UK Norwich%2FCambridge Posts: 1,429	As it's music I'm going to bring scores from Films, anime, video games etc. Michiru Ohshima Yoko Kanno Koji Kondo Akira Yamaoka Ennio Morriocone Bernard Hermann Jesper Kyd Ike Yoshihiro Tan Dun Toshiro Masuda Chu Ishikawa And honorable mentions for: - Bill Elm and Woody Jackson (Red Dead Redemption) - Tomas Dvorak (Machinarium) - Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy)
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01/11/12 2:07 PM
Acharis member The ugly one! Joined: 11/27/07 Location: Sydney Posts: 3,206	^^ All of these + Joe Hisaishi (composer for all of Hayao Miyazaki's films) & Tenmon (composed Mokoto Shinkai's films)
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01/11/12 3:26 PM
Gabriela member Not tired of fire Joined: 04/13/08 Location: Abnormaland Posts: 1,370	Angelo Badalamenti. I wish he had more music out there.
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01/11/12 3:41 PM
Churchy member The Great Destroyer Joined: 11/22/08 Location: UK Norwich%2FCambridge Posts: 1,429	Acharis posted: ^^ All of these + Joe Hisaishi (composer for all of Hayao Miyazaki's films) & Tenmon (composed Mokoto Shinkai's films) Thanks - obviously another anime fan in the house! I can't believe I forgot to mention Joe Hisaishi though - some of his music is heavenly!
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01/13/12 1:08 PM
parasitk member I, Parasite Joined: 09/09/08 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 25	Ben Frost - not just his recent soundtrack work (Sólaris, The Invisibles), but also for his original music (check out By The Throat) Cliff Martinez - his work for the Solaris remake is excellent. Clint Mansell - Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, etc.
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10/31/12 7:14 AM
abysmalentity member Joined: 09/28/12 Location: the middle of nowhere Posts: 60	Angelo Badalamenti Clint Mansell Cliff Martinez David Julyan Howard Shore Hans Zimmer Ennio Morricone Thomas Newman John Williams
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11/11/12 7:37 PM
metal_ghost member lacks in decorum Joined: 07/03/11 Posts: 83	Atticus Ross did the soundtrack for The Book of Eli? Holy smokes. I love that soundtrack. When I finished watching the movie I was like "The soundtrack is a masterpiece, I wonder who did it. Uhm." But now that I finally discover it was Atticus who did it, it is all very clear. The guy is a genius. Also I would like to say other cool score composers and films: Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese for the film The Raid Redemption. Massive Attack for the film Danny the Dog (aka Unleashed). Nathaniel Mechaly and Maxime Garoute for the film Revolver. Brad Fiedel for the film Terminator. Thomas Newman for the film American Beauty.
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