MusicBox

Post by **EmanReleipS** » Mon 16. Dec 2013, 00:19

Ah, I remember that song!

I really like this one. A classic.

And this one by Maggie Reilly is great, too. So calming.

Cat1981England · Post by **Cat1981England** » Mon 16. Dec 2013, 00:38

Used a least a million times in film but is a great piece of music to listen to.

Post by **Pegasus** » Mon 16. Dec 2013, 02:07

@Cat: Can't say I remember hearing this, or any other of Holst's compositions, decking any specific movie trailer - then again, that stuff was written a century ago - but don't mind if I carry the "popular movie trailer soundtrack sources" theme a bit further down the road

. Considering I did Two Steps From Hell already, let's try E.S. Posthumus.
Short for Experimental Sounds, E.S. Posthumus is a project two US west coast brothers, Helmut and Franz Vonlichten, started in 2000 after one got into sound recording and the other graduated from UCLA with an archaeology degree. Due to that aforementioned influence, the music they started writing & producing aimed to invoke an imperial/epic, lost to time feeling - hence Posthumus - which made the bombastic and overwrought orchestral tracks in their albums very suitable for slapping on movie trailers; proximity to Hollywood also didn't hurt. So many trailers during the Naughts, in fact, that most of you are bound to've run into about half a dozen of 'em without being aware of it, although they're definitely memorable. Here's a short selection, all from their most industry plucked album, Unearthed (2001):

Nara [Antwone Fisher (2002), Unfaithful (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (2003), Cold Case (2003, TV, intro theme), Vanity Fair (2004), National Treasure (2004), The Clearing (2004), Breaking and Entering (2006), Partition (2007), The Irony of Fate 2 (2007), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)]:

Pompeii [Boondock Saints (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Spy Game (2001), Spider-Man (2002), Catwoman (2004), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), Top Gear: Polar Special (2007, TV)]:

Tikal [Minority Report (2002), The Time Machine (2002), xXx (2002), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Daredevil (2003), Team America: World Police (2004), The Last King of Scotland (2006)]:

Sorry for the info dump, just wanted to give you a sense of how ludicrously far movie producers went with just one album from those guys. You can check the rest of the popular ones for yourselves

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Post by **-FuNkY-MoNk-UK-** » Mon 16. Dec 2013, 03:15

Mike Oldfield is a absolute legend. His creation called Tubular Bells is simply a masterpiece. Playing most of the instruments himself, it's amazing how one could make something like that lol.

My mother always used to play prince around the house, i didn't like it then but after so long i have grown to like his work

He is a great guitarist

. Here's a decent song my Prince.

Cat1981England · Post by **Cat1981England** » Mon 16. Dec 2013, 22:52

Damn Peg, now you've put me on the spot. Well, errrm, Gladiator and Star wars

there are others though. It's just one of those pieces that jumps out at you in a film every now and then.

BTW I'm fairly sure the first song of yours (Nara) was also in the game Settlers 2 10th anniversary. It's nice to listen to the whole thing

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Post by **EmanReleipS** » Tue 17. Dec 2013, 18:02

Pegasus wrote:@Cat: Can't say I remember hearing this, or any other of Holst's compositions, decking any specific movie trailer - then again, that stuff was written a century ago - but don't mind if I carry the "popular movie trailer soundtrack sources" theme a bit further down the road . Considering I did Two Steps From Hell already, let's try E.S. Posthumus.

Didn't know Cat's song, either.

But man, how did I miss your post with Two Steps From Hell? :o I love the songs from that soundtrack. Pretty certain all of my brothers like them, too. Guess what my oldest brother will get for Christmas?
I assume that you already know Thomas Bergersen, Peggy? And Audiomachine?

Leaving you with this great song from the soundtrack of Mission Impossible 2:

Post by **Pegasus** » Wed 18. Dec 2013, 00:58

Cat1981England wrote:Damn Peg, now you've put me on the spot. Well, errrm, Gladiator and Star wars there are others though. It's just one of those pieces that jumps out at you in a film every now and then.[...]

Well, yeah, there's the oldschool heavy guns, like Ennio Morricone or John Williams, whom you mentioned, or if your tastes skew more current, you could always go with popular mainstays like ~~Hans Zimmer,~~ Danny Elfman, Clint Mansell or Michael Giacchino. Plenty of choices between folks writing good, memorable music for movies (and, more recently, games too)

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Now then, with 2013 drawing to a close all sorts of Top Ten lists are starting to crop up again, including many about music made this year. For me though, there's one entry that stands by far a cut above anything else that popped up over the last 12 months - dancing norwegians in fursuits and pop chicks getting intimate with demolition equipment included: Canadian Commander Chris Hadfield singing David Bowie's Space Oddity aboard the International Space Station on May 13th, 2013, his final day of duty before returning to Earth in a Soyuz capsule.

Xac · Post by **Xac** » Thu 19. Dec 2013, 10:42

-FuNkY-MoNk-UK wrote:Mike Oldfield is a absolute legend. His creation called Tubular Bells is simply a masterpiece. Playing most of the instruments himself, it's amazing how one could make something like that lol.

Can you imagine him explaining the concept to his record company? I would love to have seen their faces!

My mother always used to play prince around the house, i didn't like it then but after so long i have grown to like his work

He is a great guitarist . Here's a decent song my Prince.

Haha...aversion therapy!

I think he is a very creative guy, but I can't stand him. Ironically though, the first record I ever bought was one of his songs...

...the Bangles...whatever happened to them?

Anik · Post by **Anik** » Fri 20. Dec 2013, 14:26

Post by **Pegasus** » Fri 20. Dec 2013, 18:25

So YouTube's gotten itself into a twin mess over these past 2 months, first by forcing Google+ integration earlier in Oct/Nov, and now, after a fallout with MultiChannel Networks (each vouching for up to thousands of individual channels), unleashing its Content ID bots on myriads of indie gaming/music YouTubers, causing their tiny ad revenue to get diverted to rights managing middlemen, sparking massive outrage across dozens of tech & gaming sites and probably making phrases like "Youtube exodus" and "know any good YT alternatives" much more likely to start popping up in 2014. And it's about damn time too, if you ask me.
Anyway, casually unfazed by all this, Google went ahead a couple of days ago and, for the third year in a row, posted its Zeitgeist 2013 video about what people searched on their engine during these past 12 months. The reason I'm not embedding it is simply because I found it to be completely underwhelming and, along with last year's also just average entry, I'm starting to wonder whether I'm the only one thinking that "tradition" of Google's peaked just one short year after it got established with its Zeitgeist 2011 - a video that was both long and moving enough, owing largely to Mat Kearney's Sooner or Later, to've been worth sharing here: