You're sitting down, listening to newly purchased CD, nothing out of the ordinary. Then, out of nowhere, a motif, theme or cue is played with such vibrance/gusto/power that you just go crazy with excitement and its all you can do to keep any sanity.

For me its happened (maybe more than once ) with these scores:
Children Of Dune-Summoning the Worms
The Planets (Dutoit)-Mars
Back To The Future-Clocktower Part II
The Rocketeer-Flying Circus

So, has this ever happened to you (air- conductors pay heed)?

Jack

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Originally posted by Alexborn007:
Has this ever happened to YOU?

You're sitting down, listening to newly purchased CD, nothing out of the ordinary. Then, out of nowhere, a motif, theme or cue is played with such vibrance/gusto/power that you just go crazy with excitement and its all you can do to keep any sanity.

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Sure, these are what I call Golden Moments. It's usually associated with an unexpected adrenaline rush - often in action music, a countdown sequence, a big boom, tension released...

Michael Kamen is doing this a lot. There is "The Runway" cue in Die Hard 2 which I think is awesome, although its role model - "Bishop's Countdown" in James Horner's "Aliens" - is the true classic in this respect. His "Exit Berlin" cue in "Shining Through" has also a fantastic, overblown and absolutely wonderful romantic release after an intense build-up. Great stuff.

Other Golden Moments are the elevator sequence in "The Hologram" in Jerry's "Total Recall", and there is a fantastic action sequence in Basil Poledouris' "Starship Troopers" which I love. A more recent example is the second piece at Brian Tyler's "The Hunted" CD.

mikael

Hey DC, welcome to MM.com!

Off the top of my head, I'd have to say:

X2, Children of Dune, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and of course (and there are people here who were witness because they where THERE and they know who they are )

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

--Brian

NP: Nemo!

I had Gerhardt's Elizabeth and Essex Korngold re-recording playing one day and it had played up until the cello concerto from Deception. When I first got this disc I had a terrible time trying to listen to this 12 minute track and most of the time I just skipped past it. So this time I tried to actually listen to the track and loved the damn thing. It was "eureka!" and the music finally clicked. I absolutely love the middle of the piece where the orchestra does this sad sounding "double sigh." I can't describe what the heck that means, but the cello does its melody and then the orchestra responds with two strong notes. It really caught me... I can't believe I disliked this music before, or at least never really gave it a chance.

Another piece of music that suddenly struck me was the Aria from 'Salammbo' in Citizen Kane on Gerhardt's Herrmann disc. This was another one of those tracks that I just skipped past for months when I first got the disc ("operatic music, yuck!") I finally listened to the track and it just floored me. The ending is amazing with a fantastic performance from both the vocalist and National Philharmonic Orchestra captured by a flawless recording.

The other day I was blasting the main titles from Waxman's Untamed in the car. I've loved this piece of music ever since I first heard the audio clips on FSM's website, but I never noticed something about the last half minute or so of the music. I was always listening intently to the french horns which do a broad rendition of the theme, but I had never noticed all of the notes supporting the french horns... The rest of the orchestra, especially the strings, trumpets, and upper woodwinds, have a whole boatload of notes that they're playing that I had never paid much attention to. The musicianship just blew me away. I couldn't believe that I had never really paid that much attention to the massive number of notes being played at the end of the main title cue.

"Ecstasy of Gold" from Good, Bad, Ugly still sends chills down my spine every time I listen to it.

I'm tired and about to go to bed but from the top of my head I'll mention ...

The Mutant from Total Recall

The Hunt from Final Conflict

We're Jungle Creatures and Chinon/Eleanor's Arrival from The Lion In Winter

Mian Title from Agnes Of God

...oh there's SOOOO many...

ALL of Conan The Barbarian

I too never tire of Ecstasy of Gold. Still play relentlessly three tracks from The Big
Country and most of Magnificent Seven. When in need of more subdued physicality, I
play the sublime To Kill a Mockingbird. I still feel an impact from JNH’s Dinosaur and
Addison’s A Bridge Too Far and from Rozsa’s perfect twins Ben Hur and King of Kings.

NP The Cardinal. (Stately and lovely.)

I just took a listen to the Mr. Roberts music on "Legends of Hollywood Volume 2" and I never noticed how similar it was to the theme from Untamed. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

I hope Varese does a fifth volume of Waxman music since I'm running out of Waxman CDs to buy!

On screen:
Main title - Elfman's Planet of the Apes
Main title - Spider-man
Main title - Red Dragon

Hmm.. I love Elfman's main titles... add to that Batman Returns, Batman, Beetlejuice, and Dead Presidents...

And many,many,many and many more

The rest of the score I didn't hear until I saw the film, and immediately after I went out to buy it. I was especially taken with the use of Metamorphosis II for Ed Harris' character, as it's a piece I really took to when it was released on Solo Piano a few years back.

Both generally make me immensely ecstatic and unusually uplifted. There are, goodness, MANY others that would qualify, but I would probably put those two above first.

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Originally posted by Crono/Kyp:
(and there are people here who were witness because they where THERE and they know who they are )

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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"Crazy" does not really properly sum it up. :-P