1) Prince of Egypt (Chariot Race and The Burning Bush)
2) Black Rain (Nick and Masa)
3) The Lion King (This Land/King of Pride Rock)
4) The Rock (The Chase)
5) Backdraft (Show Me Your Firetruck)

I listed my favorite tracks from their scores as well. The Chariot Race track from the Prince of Egypt can be found on the Promo CD available at local Wal-Mart stores.

1) Broken Arrow (Nuke or Greed)
2) Backdraft (Show Me Your Firetruck)
3)The Peacemaker (Chase)
4)The Thin Red Line (Journey to the Line)
5)Drop Zone (Too Many Notes - Not Enough Rests)

1. Fools of Fortune (The Island)<-- does anyone know about this score?! It's Brilliant, almost 100% orchestral and Zimmer conducts the orchesra, but yet no one ever mentions it!!

2. Backdraft (Fighting 17th/Show Me Your Fire Truck)
This is another good one that was popuplar, but I think most people have forgoten it.
BTW Fighting 17th was the first piece of music I heard from Zimmer.

3. Beyond Rangoon (Brother Morphine)
I never heard anyone talk about this score before.
I think Brother Morphine would be perfect trailer music, but It never happened.

4. Prince of Egypt (Burning Bush)
I thought in this one that Zimmer wrote the perfect theme for God.

5. The Rock (Main Themes)
Who doesn't like the themes?

It's a good time to be a Zimmer fan...lots of great sounding stuff lined up for him.

1: Backdraft
2: The Thin Red Line
3: The Power of One (how come no one ever talks about this one?)
4: The Lion King (this and no three are interchangeable)
5: The Prince of Egypt

By the way: Ihr alle wisst ja dass Hanz Zimmer Deutsch ist obwohl er in England fuer eine lange Zeit gelebt hat und jetzt hier in den Staaten lebt.

Scott

Here it goes:

1. Toys
2. The Rock (Let's not forget Williams and Glennie-Smith)
3. Backdraft
4. Broken Arrow
5. Drop Zone

Wen kümmert es? Das ist mir scheißegal. Hans braucht Geld, korrekt?

mir ist es auch egal wo er herkommt, ich wollte nur ein wenig in Deutsch schreiben.

Yeah, it's Harry Gregson-Williams, not JOHN Williams like Matt thought it was.

Recognition of composition credit for The Rock differs a bit between the movie credits and the soundtrack credits. If I recall correctly, Zimmer and Gregson-Williams wrote the main and ending themes. Zimmer independantly wrote another piece or two and the rest of the score (majority) was written by Glennie-Smith and Gregson-Williams.

The movie titles only credit Zimmer and Glennie-Smith; however, the soundtracks credits composition to Zimmer, Gregson-Williams and Glennie-Smith. Regardless, Hans' influence is there, with everyone.

I always though it was interesting how much the Shuttle Crash cue (from Armageddon) and the Shower Room Massacre cue (from The Rock) sounded so much alike in terms of theme, style, instrumentation, etc. Both are Gregson-Williams..

References: (just in case you think thats all (B/S)
1. a) http://www.cinemusic.net/spotlight/1999/hgw-interview.html
b) http://www.ifiji.com/yumbo/hgwinfo.htm

2. August'97 issue of Film Scoring Monthly during Zimmer's interview for The Peacemaker.

3. You said that's the first you've heard him (Gregson-Williams) have to anything with the Rock?
His name is on the CD!

... Well ok then.

Sorry if I assumed your were referring to John Williams. It's just that not too many Williams out there in the composing world who can be recognized with solely his last name.

If you are not the Matt that e-mailed me about the "Trapped in Paradise" score, then somehow there's TWO "Matt"s on this board. Is that even possible?

Anyway, ONE "Matt" had e-mailed me telling me that he was able to obtain the "Trapped in Paradise" score and was going to sell it to me. I gave him all the necessary info to send it to me, but never got any replies. Anyone here recognize this other "Matt?" (Now I check back, this other Matt did indeed have a different e-mail address than the Matt that is I am currently writing to)

Tim,
I believe your references, but the opening credits of The Rock read "Music by Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer."

James