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  1. 1. Who did it the best?

    • John Williams
      7
    • Basil Poledouris
      1
    • Danny Elfman
      0
    • Hans Zimmer
      7
    • Elmer Bernstein
      0
    • Michael Giacchino
      0
    • Howard Shore
      1
    • Jerry Goldsmith
      0
    • Ennio Morricone
      0
    • Alan Silvestri
      1
    • Vangelis
      0
    • Maurice Jarre
      0
    • Trent Reznor
      0
    • Daft Punk
      1
    • James Howard
      0
    • James Horner
      1
    • David Newman
      0
    • John Barry
      0
    • Michael Nyman
      2
    • John Murphy
      0
  2. 2. Did I fuck up and miss your favorite?

    • YES! HERE'S MY FAVORITE IN THE TOPIC GO SEE IT NOW BECAUSE IT'S WAY BETTER THAN THAT TRIPE YOU POSTED ASSCLOWN!
      2
    • No, you're all that is holy and good. You did so awesome.
      19


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I'm not going to embed them to save from having a topic that takes a year to scroll through, so have a taste of each composer at (what I think) is their best!

Disagree with the options? Post someone I missed! Think one of the songs for a composer I posted is not their best? Post the best!

1.

(Master of everything)

2.

(That slow rise hnnnnngh, you've got to let it go the whole way)

3. Danny Elfman (Can't have Tim Burton without Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman)

4.

(He might not win the Batman duel, but he captures locations like no other)

5. Elmer Bernstein (Good luck getting this out of your head, I made this list and it's still stuck in mine)

6.

(New to the scene, with an Oscar thanks to his work with Pixar)

7.

(5 movies in, and I'm not sick of hearing his stuff)

8. Jerry Goldsmith (Probably the most robust filmography ever)

9.

(Ties to the spaghetti-western brought him and Tarantino together later on)

10.

(From a ridiculous number of 80s movies to "The Avengers" he is just outstanding)

11.

(It's cool in Greece to only go by one name)

12.

(Responsible for a lot of the growth in movie music composers)

13.

(Yes, from Nine Inch Nails. He's done a prolific amount of work with movies, TV, and video games. He won an Oscar for this, so don't doubt his credentials)

14.

(They're just too good. This soundtrack was so fitting for the movie it's unbelievable)

15.

(This movie sucked. But his soundtracks are phenomenal)

16. James Horner (I can't forgive him for Titanic and Avatar, but god damn he's good at music making)

17.

(From Anastasia to Serenity, he's making moves in the industry)

18.

(Responsible for one of the most iconic themes of all time, and worked through to Dances With Wolves {told the story way better than Avatar})

19. Michael Nyman (Incredible pianist, hasn't done much for movies but what he has done is ridiculous)

20.

(Had to include the theme of my favorite movie at least)

There's a million movie composers out there, I'm going for ones that resonated with me the most. I could only put 20 on the list, and honestly it was good to limit myself to that number.

I tried to limit myself to movies for this one, it's possible I will move to games or TV later on depending on the success of this.

Posted

Nymans work on Gattaca is my favorite score of all time. I am also a big Hans Zimmer fan, first time I heard his stuff was the Lion King. By the way, excellent post 2ndLt. Kirkendall, a lot of research and you are obviously a big film score fan, me too.

Posted

Fuck. I messed up, I originally brought about this thread and wanted specifically to include

but I got caught up and forgot him. He'll be doing the music for the Warcraft movie that's in the works, and he did the Iron Man soundtrack. He took over the
soundtrack and has done a stellar job. See his AMA for more. I suppose I forgot about him since I was focused on movies, and his most influential work to date is a TV show.
Posted

All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

Posted
All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

I was having him in mind for my list for TV music. There's a lot of TV music that goes unnnoticed and the

for Babylon 5 is outstanding. Seriously, why did they stop after 4 seasons with that show? Man, a 5th season would've been great. You know, 5 seasons for Babylon 5. Would've been great. Such a shame they NEVER did that.

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Posted
All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

I was having him in mind for my list for TV music. There's a lot of TV music that goes unnnoticed and the

for Babylon 5 is outstanding. Seriously, why did they stop after 4 seasons with that show? Man, a 5th season would've been great. You know, 5 seasons for Babylon 5. Would've been great. Such a shame they NEVER did that.

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Yeah he was was great in Tangerine Dream. Ahead of his time, kind of like B5. Technically the 5th season wasn't supposed to happen. Warner Brothers really dropped the ball on that one forcing JMS to re-write his arc. Always looking for new B5 material. Supposedly going to be a reboot movie soon. Love the Garibaldi avatar by the way :)

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Posted

Yea, but Straczynski actually did originally write it as a 5 season arc. He had originally planned to flesh out the Rangers more, especially Marcus. It might have even allowed him to live. But then Warner Bros. saw it and said only 4 seasons. So he cut it out to accommodate that. Then the series started, and it took off like crazy. Warner Brothers wanted more, but he couldn't do much because they were already late on renewing him. It was a surprise renewal, so he had to cut the end of Season 4, "Sleeping in Light" and bring it to the end of season 5. Which was a brilliant episode. Then he took the first episode of Season 5 and brought it back to season 4 with some re-edits. It was a messy job but he did what he had to.

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