The movie Krull has a great soundtrack too, also by James Horner
Do you listen to any of the movie soundtracks?
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A Goldsmith album had a number entitled Star Trek Suite, which begins quietly with the Alexander Courage theme and alternates with and gradually transforms it into the TMP Enterprise theme for a crashing finale. I think this is it.
Yes, but not as much as I used to listen. Now I almost always have the news droning in the background in case an alert occurs.
I will play short bits that get added to threads I am reading, like above.
I still have my Trek cassette collection. Back then there were no nets or I didn't have it yet so it was difficult for me to find. Then the internet came along and I could find and listen for free.
I recently watched ST4TVH. The music does get too sitcommy at times - which may have been the intended style (it's not my style but it is competently done), but other cues are actually quite good and sell the claustrophobia and sense of threat needed. I'd probably get the album but only play the suspenseful stuff.
Yeah ST 4 is a movie I like but it just doesn't do it for me. The music is great, some of the comedy is great but it just doesn't work for me as a whole. All the others I'm fine with.
TMP if I'm in the mood for it
TWoK
TSFS (though I don't care for the Klingon theme)
TUC if I'm in the mood for it (moreso than TMP)
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TWoK and TSFS the most of those listed...though I also usually have my music on shuffle, and even when I listen to those I don't necessarily listen to all of them.
TWoK
TSFS (though I don't care for the Klingon theme)
TUC if I'm in the mood for it (moreso than TMP)
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TWoK and TSFS the most of those listed...though I also usually have my music on shuffle, and even when I listen to those I don't necessarily listen to all of them.
ST4-TVH was released around Christmas time, and I'd swear there are some silver bells in the title theme!
All the Giacchino soundtracks. I listen to the deluxe albums on Spotify and try to watch the movie in my head. (Because when I actually watch the movies, I end up pausing way too much to try to match the current background music to the track in the album.) It's been mostly Into Darkness recently (three highlights: the opening scene, Harrison's/Khan's Theme [triplets], and the USS Vengeance theme [military march in 4]), and this is probably the one I'm best at listen-watching. But I also love Beyond, especially Spock Speaks Hive and Motor Cycles of Relief. And Star Trek is also great, though I haven't picked out specific tracks in a while.
Last year I listened to all three Giacchino deluxe albums in a row, twice in one day (so 11+ hrs straight).
There's also this album https://open.spotify.com/album/7GXabaT3j08hnzK9Q3qoAm which I really like because I can listen to the greatest hits in a row.
Also Odds and Ends from Nemesis is a gem (perhaps underrated, I don't know if other people know about it too). I often find myself spontaneously singing or counting the 123-123-12-12-12-123 rhythm out loud.
Last year I listened to all three Giacchino deluxe albums in a row, twice in one day (so 11+ hrs straight).
There's also this album https://open.spotify.com/album/7GXabaT3j08hnzK9Q3qoAm which I really like because I can listen to the greatest hits in a row.
Also Odds and Ends from Nemesis is a gem (perhaps underrated, I don't know if other people know about it too). I often find myself spontaneously singing or counting the 123-123-12-12-12-123 rhythm out loud.
I used to listen to TUC and TWOK quite a bit. TUC at times sounds like a classical album (basically Holst's The Planets - the Overture seems like a cover of Mars).
And there's an interesting analysis of the extended soundtrack for TWOK here https://moviemusicuk.us/2015/08/03/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-james-horner/ which is also a good read and I would often find the playlist on YouTube and listen-watch it. But it's not on Spotify so it's not as convenient. This thread has inspired me to go back and try it again.
And there's an interesting analysis of the extended soundtrack for TWOK here https://moviemusicuk.us/2015/08/03/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-james-horner/ which is also a good read and I would often find the playlist on YouTube and listen-watch it. But it's not on Spotify so it's not as convenient. This thread has inspired me to go back and try it again.
Oh sorry last post but I also love the Klingon theme (especially the version from TFF). I think I listen to it too much because the other day I hummed "E-B ... E-B ... E-B" and someone (not a Star Trek fan) responded "E-B-E-B-E-A-D-C-G" and then asked what it was. We were both amused by the instinctive call/response.
And TSFS
Not as familiar with TSFS, but I don’t doubt it.
I don’t blame him either. Young composer thrown in at the deep end by the success of TWOK.
ST film scores, both cues from soundtrack albums and concert suites based on them (there's one recording of a concert version of the TMP open/close, conducted by no less than Jerry Goldsmith himself, that [to my ear] sounds way too espressivo in places) get airplay on KUSC with some regularity. Along with SW film scores, Indiana Jones film scores, and so forth.
It seems that most of the snobs who looked down their noses at film scores (or at any other contemporary works that aren't either atonal or polytonal) have died, and most of the current crop of classically-trained musicians, classical critics, classical jocks, and so forth, are people who grew up on (and got their first introduction to orchestral music from) the film scores of Williams, Goldsmith, Horner, Morricone, &c.
Of course, it doesn't exactly hurt the cause of film music that John Williams is humble to a fault.
It seems that most of the snobs who looked down their noses at film scores (or at any other contemporary works that aren't either atonal or polytonal) have died, and most of the current crop of classically-trained musicians, classical critics, classical jocks, and so forth, are people who grew up on (and got their first introduction to orchestral music from) the film scores of Williams, Goldsmith, Horner, Morricone, &c.
Of course, it doesn't exactly hurt the cause of film music that John Williams is humble to a fault.
I only have a couple of Star Trek soundtrack albums: TSFS & TUC (and one 'best of': The Astral Symphony). I listen to TSFS quite regularly in the car on the way to work, my favourite tracks being 1. "Prologue and Main Title", 15. "End Titles", and 6. "Stealing the Enterprise" - I almost always intone "Warning! Space doors are closed. Warning! Space doors are closed" in a (rubbish) computer voice when reaching that particular part of the track. I also love Grissom's little fanfare in track 4. "The Klingon's Plan", and 16. "That Old Black Magic", "Tangerine", & "I Remember You".
Yeah, I quite agree. Although, I love TVH music while watching the film- I think it fits really well. TFF I find overly synthesised, and I'm not overly fond of TMP's soundtrack (because I associate it with TNG having seen that first) - but I do really like TMP's "The Meld", particularly the blasterbeam bits!
I just find the TFF soundtrack feels like a watered-down TMP, and I don't really care for the new stuff in it. It was really disappointing to me that it reused the TMP main theme (I could forgive the re-use of the Klingon theme to some degree), and when TNG also used it...sigh.
I have the Star Trek III soundtrack that I occasionally play. And I like to hike to the Insurrection soundtrack.
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