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ScoreKeeper Tells You About A Cool Jerry Goldsmith Tribute On Sirius/XM!!
Greetings! ScoreKeeper here prescribing an aural elixir sure to cure your Monday-through-Friday blues. Subscribers of XM Radio, Sirius Radio, and DirectTV are encouraged to flip on their receivers today in preparation for the Jerry Goldsmith 80th birthday film music extravaganza!
Starting today, the flagship extra-terrestrial film music radio channel CINEMAGIC, in conjunction with Robert Townson of Varèse Sarabande Records, will be hosting a week long sonic compendium of the music of Jerry Goldsmith. Tomorrow would have been Jerry’s 80th birthday and we’re all invited to the celebration.
Varèse Sarabande Records and Sirius/XM’s Cinemagic launch a weeklong, 80th birthday celebration remembering and honoring the life and work of one of Hollywood’s greatest film composers of all time …Jerry Goldsmith.
Special guest host Robert Townson, who worked extensively with Goldsmith on 80 of his albums, will guide listeners on an extensive tour of the legendary composer’s extraordinary and enormous career. From such classics as Patton, The Omen, Star Trek and Chinatown to some obscure gems that will be a discovery for almost everyone, over 140 scores will be featured over the course of five, daily, five and six-hour shows.
Beginning on Monday, February 9 at 4:00 pm EST/1:00 pm PST this very special celebration will continue each day at the same time. As a grand finale, all five programs will be run consecutively, all weekend long, beginning Saturday, February 14 at 12:01am EST.
HEAR AN AUDIO PROMO!!!
Tuesday, February 10 would have been Jerry Goldsmith’s 80th birthday. Join us all week long to remember in music one of the greatest composers to ever write for film.
Jerry Goldsmith’s 80th Birthday Celebration will be available to all Sirius/XM Radio subscribers on Cinemagic, channel 76. Sirius/XM’s CINEMAGIC is also available online to subscribers and as a free, three-day trial for non-subscribers.
Direct TV subscribers can also access Sirius/XM’s Cinemagic on channel 822.
A couple of years ago when shopping around for a satellite radio service provider it was the channel CINEMAGIC which instantly swayed me to XM. Now, the two companies have combined making my favorite channel available to subscribers of either provider. CINEMAGIC does a fantastic job keeping listeners ears tuned to new release scores as well as serving up heaping helpings of the classics.
What favorite Goldsmith score are you hoping to hear?
ScoreKeeper!!!
HEAR AN AUDIO PROMO!!!
Jerry Goldsmith’s 80th Birthday Celebration will be available to all Sirius/XM Radio subscribers on Cinemagic, channel 76. Sirius/XM’s CINEMAGIC is also available online to subscribers and as a free, three-day trial for non-subscribers.
Direct TV subscribers can also access Sirius/XM’s Cinemagic on channel 822.
A couple of years ago when shopping around for a satellite radio service provider it was the channel CINEMAGIC which instantly swayed me to XM. Now, the two companies have combined making my favorite channel available to subscribers of either provider. CINEMAGIC does a fantastic job keeping listeners ears tuned to new release scores as well as serving up heaping helpings of the classics.
What favorite Goldsmith score are you hoping to hear?
ScoreKeeper!!!
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It's a shame that Sirius/XM will probably go the way of the Dodo this year.
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Neither company was profitable for the first 6 years, and the merger did not supply either with the reduced bottom line they hoped for. Howard Stern is too expensive.
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who the fuck triple posts? seriously.
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that people still aren't ready to pay for radio, regardless of how superior it is.
I really enjoyed several of Goldsmith's scores, most of them in movies I didn't love. 13th Warrior comes to mind. -
a very very bored man with very little to do today. That's who.
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god damn you!!
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... is by far his best Star Trek work.Far better than the big TMP / TNG theme, the score to First Contact is delightfully understated, and his main theme that rolls with the credits has so much FEELING in the music...... it's just wonderful in every way.
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... is a wonderful score, and probably my favorite of all of Goldsmith's work.His main theme that plays at the end when Rudy makes that sack of the Georgia Tech QB is so emotional and is at least half of the equation to making this movie an acceptable male-weepy.But it his secondary theme, that we hear during the time Rudy is trying out and when he comes back to join the team during the training montages that is my favorite part of the Rudy score.Happy Birthday, Jerry! You're truly missed by this film music fan!
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CineMagic was taken off the Sirius side of radios last month for a disco music type station that came back along with Backspin taking back a different channel and I'm pissed about it I loved CineMagic for the short time I had it.
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One of the (many) cool things about the channel was the playing of clips between the soundtrack cuts. Listening to the Miller's Crossing one where John Turturro begs for his life always is unsettling. Add to it inspired programming such as PopFlix, interviews with directors, the movie musical segments as well as HiFi/SciFi and their themed movie segments make it one of the truly great things about XM. Now, bring back IT - The History of Pop Music and all will be right with the world.
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You know, it's challenging to pinpoint a favorite Goldsmith score. PLANET OF THE APES may be his greatest work but, you know, I too am partial to RUDY. That may be my all time most listened to Goldsmith score. The training montage, the final game, or even when Rudy reads his Notre Dame acceptance letter on the bench. All represents why I love film muisc. I'm getting teary just thinking about it. Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Ru-dy!
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This shows how young I am, but nevertheless here's the ones I fell for. (No particular order)
1. Timeline (rejected)
2. Air Force One
3. ST: First Contact
4. LT: Back in Action
5. Along Came a Spider
It especially stung when his Timeline work was cut, due to Donner's reshoots that didn't save the movie anyway. No offense to Brian Tyler, but Goldsmith's work was better seeing as I could remember what the hell it sounded like. (BT wouldn't have music that memorable, IMO, until Eagle Eye.) -
I have to disagree with you. I think Goldsmith's STTMP score is his best. So very layered with so many memorable cues. It's his Gold standard, poor pun intended.
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Perhaps not his best work but my current favorite is Goldsmith's score for "Soarin' Over California" a large-format film ride at Disney's California Adventure and Disneyworld. One of his last projects and one of his most haunting.
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I literally JUST got off the phone with Sirius/XM to cancel my account when I pulled up AICN and saw this article at the top. I agree with Eats_sandwich_gets_laid... they'll go the way of the dodo very soon (maybe not this year). Yeah, the content was good (I was a customer for a little over 3 years), but you can listen to Slacker Radio, too, and get the same great (if not better) content with more control over it (and the same functions that Pandora has). Plus, Slacker Radio is free. Just take that $13-$20 you'd spend on satellite radio a month and put that towards an iPhone or some other smartphone that can run radio programs. Sirius/XM was a great concept that was executed so completely poorly.
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that turned me into a Goldsmith fan. John Barry and his Bond work was the man before that. Patton confirmed it for me.A personal favorite is a very overlooked score from Omen 3. The Damien theme that is played thoughout is majestic and manevolent.
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Seriously, no one has mentioned Total Recall yet?
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His score makes that movie as far as I'm concerned, I don't see it working without that iconic music.
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Good call. That's also a great Goldsmith work. That opening theme is big and broad and badass, just like the film's hero. Sets an immediate tone. A lot of critics slammed on the movie's score for being too loud and obnoxious, but I thought it fit perfectly.
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Never heard it, would love to! Anyone care to point me in the right direction?!
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Jack - Soarin' was quite wonderful in its own right.
theoy - Now that you mention it, Total Recall was quite amazing. Especially when you realize it's mostly based around "Mars" from The Planets. -
Total Recall never struck me as a Holst takeoff. You really want to hear a bad "Mars" ripoff, check out Cliff Eidelman's opening theme for Star Trek VI. Blatant.
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was NOT the "First Contact" score, it was monotonous & dull pretty much like the movie, its not Goldsmiths fault he was just serving what he had to work with but there ya go, it SUCKED and I cant believe people even mention it here
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Cheesy fun movie that has an excellent Goldsmith score. It really made the flying/ballet really beautiful.
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First Blood
Alien
Inner Space
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (namely for the new theme & the Enterprise drydock sequence)
The Explorers
SuperGirl
The Challenge (only seen clips of this but sounds great)
Capricorn One
Mulan
Total Recall
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Yep I agree its a beautiful score, it made my list!!!
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I didn't even know there was one..any more details on it at all?
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well aren't you fukin la-de-da man quoting the super obscure work you must be the uber fan
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Because Im NOT paying $150 offa that soundtrack site. F*** you.
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Jerry Goldsmith loved his work on that film. Why don't more people?
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The Best. And I was an early XM subscriber, and I'm sticking with it til the satellites go down in flames.
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I have the soundtrack and its of course good I guess I have more emotional attachment to the others in my list for some reason.
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A recent DVD release has the film with the Goldsmith score. His catelog of work is so deep and so impressive, it is a challenge to find a favorite without going "but whatabout".
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Feb 09, 2009 2:42:10 PM CST
Great Train Robbery. Patton. Papillon. Final Conflict. Legend. B
by no respectable gentleman
Too many great scores to list. Everything in Hollywood movies has gotten better except the writing and the music scores.
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TORA! TORA! TORA!, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, EXPLORERS, THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE, LOGAN'S RUN, GREMLINS, POLTERGEIST, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, LA CONFIDENTIAL, AIR FORCE ONE, HOOSIERS...
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There's a lot going on in that score.
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first contact is a beautiful score. the mqin credits theme is outstanding.
totall recall - despite being a capricorn 1 ripoff - is probably the best action score of the 90s.
basic instinct has an amazong score - strangely sleazy, but serpentine and sexy, the omen - nuff said, plus the ightmare sequence from twilight zone was the first movie score i actually remember. no one does violins like jerry g! -
i always thought it was kinda a guilty pleasure..total recall too
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have it free with my car and i used to religiously listen to Cinemagic on XM at work loved the clips and everything. Sirius teased me for a month with Cinemagic and now i gotta listen to disco shit....sucks
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Congo, Ghost in the Darkness and of course First Contact
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THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL...talk about an amazing score. Who but Goldsmith would think that circus music would work for a post WWII Nazi thriller? Nobody thinks outside the box like JG did. This is what I miss the most.
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FRUUUUNKISSS!
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I have Sirius in my Jeep and on my DishTv at home, but I can't find this. Anybody help me out?
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Feb 09, 2009 5:55:51 PM CST
Jerry Goldsmith is a cool old dude. Thanks SK.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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..Music for the Judge Dredd trailer.I could never find that 3 minute piece anywhere! Not even on itunes.Fuuuucccckk!!
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Anyway, here are some favorite Goldsmith scores:
THE SECRET OF N.I.M.H. (Just fucking beautiful. Nothing against POLTERGEIST, but the wrong score was Oscar-nominated in '82.)
THE 'BURBS (Goldsmith did a lot of great work for Joe Dante, but I have to call this his best.)
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
THE SHADOW
S*P*Y*S (I'm probably the only person who likes this score, but, even with its incredible goofiness, it puts me in a good mood)
ALIEN NATION (this got tossed for some reason, but it's a terrific electronic score)
FIERCE CREATURES (very subdued, but very good)
WARLOCK (honestly, you'd appreciate this better if you've seen the film)
THE FINAL CONFLICT (would that more composers these days write scores like this...)
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Come on, people. Perhaps the most unsettling film score ever written. Beautifully twisted (even with the quotes from "Freud", another astonishing piece.) And let's not forget "Poltergeist", too.
Mine would be: "Alien", "Poltergeist", "Great Train Robbery", "STTMP", "Shadow", "Omen 2" (even though some of the better cues are on "Final Conflict"), "Tora Tora Tora","Freud", the "Flint" duo, "Planet Of The Apes", ", "13th Warrior", "L.A. Confidential" (although "City Hall" retreads a lot of the same ground.)
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the Capricorn One score. Kickass!
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Feb 09, 2009 8:57:55 PM CST
Sorry John Williams, Star Trek Motion Pic best Scifi soundtrack
by picardsucks
Best ever hands down. Listen to it in a rainstorm, so fucking powerful and etheral.
Best Scifi Soundtrack ever. Sorry John Williams, you ripped off the Seven Samurai soundtrack for Star Wars anyway -
Bear does all of the Battlestar Galactica scores & the only Brian Tyler score I like is his Children of Dune score. that's all.
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Since when are Viennese waltzes considered "circus music"? Anyways, I have over 80+ Goldsmith scores in my collection, so to say he's my favorite film composer is an understatement. Secret Of NIMH was one of those early soores that turned my onto soundtrack collecting in the early 90's, and it's still a particular favorite (we need an expanded/remastered version of that one day). Considering just how MANY scores Goldsmith did for movies and TV, it's remarkable how high-quality most of them are. Look at 1978. SIX feature scores that year, and all of them kick ass. Happy 80th, Jerry. We'll always miss you, but your music will live on forever.
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A most underrated score.
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From Star Trek the Motion Picture is the best piece of symphonic music in this history of music. Period. (Also, as much as ST-V was lame, the music was awesome...) Except the Hiroshima song .... gag.
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Much as i do enjoy the 'LA Conf' score, love the Chet Baker-esque horns, the main theme is cribbed/inspired/homage of 'On The Waterfront' - though if you're going to borrow from an American composer, Leonard Bernstein aint a bad choice at all.
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What a legend. His best, for me, are: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Omen, Alien, The Wind and the Lion, Explorers, Gremlins, Chinatown, The Final Conflict...god, they're all brilliant. And Stalkeye is dead on about the Dredd trailer music - absolutely incredible piece.
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was when jerry goldsmith died.
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What a cool score too. Elevated what could have been a generic action film onto a different level.
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Shit, I could be here all day doing this.
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trek 1, trek 5, insurrection, total recall, basic instinct, the mummy. best themes; first contact, voyager, medecine man. no one comes close, except maybe james newton howard
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It was released on an official CD from the park, and later was included on a 2 disc set of Disney park themes that you could even pick up at Wal Mart. But if you want a tremendous experience, check out "Fireworks", an 8 minute epic that Goldsmith recorded on his "Christus Apollo" CD from Telarc. He was the best even, even topping Williams. Total Recall, Chinatown, The Wind and The Lion, the Rambo scores, he was brilliant almost every time he stepped up to the plate. Even some of his generic scores in the 90's ( Chain Reaction, that type) usually had a few standout moments. BTW, I think the First Blood "expanded " release is just a boot with repeated tracks, edited down from the Intrada disc into separate cues. Might be wrong, but the movie did have some cues repeated if I remember right. The Judge Dredd trailer music was rerecorded on Varese's Hollywood 95 disc, also on Jeff Beal's Coming Soon CD of trailer music ( and the original was on a boot of Total Recall some years back). But JG was the master, hands down.
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"Daaaaa Duh....DaDaDaDuuuuuuuh Duh"
Please, stop repeating this over & over & over & over again Jerry!! I know the movie sucked balls but this was one instance when even you couldn't make it enjoyable..but I luv ya.
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