July 17, 2006
everyone needs to stop hating Arabs and Hans Zimmer
Everyone needs to stop hating Arabs. Arabs are our friends. [this post was edited; used to say: Muslims are or friends, but i was very tired and cranky at the time I wrote it so don't get pissy with me, I made a brain-typo. Thaanks Mal]
Ok so music review time. Oh and yeah, graduating from Music High School, interning at the BSO, and singing with countless groups at the Hippo, Lyric, and Myerhoff, as well as teaching for six years does qualify me to do this, so shut up bitches. You know who you are.
While Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest was not the sequel most of us were looking forward to, there has to be some consideration for the Score.
Hans Zimmer is mostly known for his complete crediting (even though it was a collaboration) in Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. He takes a break from his Chinese Harp thing he had going on there and gives us a new, playful, sometimes- time period appropriate score for Pirates 2.
Let’s take the most downloaded piece as an example. Named amply 'Wheel of Fortune" (most likely for the huge fight scene in the movie) this piece is a Hodge podge of the main themes in the movie.
Opening us with not so good synth and violins, it immediately has a beat kept up by violins two and a mixture of percussion. Orchestration quickly comes in (thank GOD) and there are random male voices in the back ground that sound more like an Army "HUUAH" then anything else. For lack of things to do Zimmer quickly transitions into "Jack's theme" and ads a shit load of gongs.
We slow down and we hit, the CELLOS....well if Zimmer didn't do anything else correct he sure as hell hit it with the cellos. Now I am a cellist, so I'm a little biased, but it was good...really.
Shit I'm listening to it now and there is more of that overly epic music box to organ-esque drama.
More cellos come in, theme, then followed by orchestra. Love that cello. Not to mention the performer is really GOOD.
THE MAN THE....shit caps locks, where were we..o, ok, the man changes which theme he's in more then I change my underwear, and this piece is waaaaay too short. I mean, it's the bloody end tittles, keep it going.
All and all, ignore the synthesizer, and the sporadic turrets like quality of the piece (not to mention he tried way too hard on the ending) and everything’s ok. Download it for shits and giggles it's cute. Or email me up ( westwinnebago@gmail.com ) and I'll send it to you, itunes style.
Pat on the back Hans Zimmer, you can do it by yourself, and you don't need training wheels anymore.
Posted by west at 10:32 AM | Comments (4)
June 27, 2006
Dear Everybody
NEW THINGS LEARNED:
Happy Hour
Bloggers from bmore like to meet each other so they can be clique-ie in real life, rather then on the web. O! and they consume massive amounts of alcohol while doing so. I WANNA GO!
Blogroll
Blogrolls are the new(er) fancy term for a list of links. Got trendy I guess. I'll stick with "read" on my side shit and fight THE MAN.
Saw X3, and I dont care who you are, thats entertainment right there. I think I was the only one who clapped when Cyclopse (scott)...well...I'm not gonna give the story away, but in all fairness I...fucking hate him. It also gave me a new respect for Jean Grey...even thouh I still fucking hate her too. The girl who played Kitty Pride, who I fucking hate, looked like she was twelve. Beast was the shit. 'nough said.
I've stepped away from my usually semi-educated posts, filled with actual grammer to give you this little taste, of mainstream comic book movie heaven.
thank you,
west
Posted by west at 09:40 AM | Comments (1)