- Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:43 pm
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Way to revive a thread, Vi-res.
My memory could be fuzzy, but I think the first scores I bought (not soundtracks) were The Fog and Escape from New York. The Fog was a real eye-opener as I realised how great it was divorced from the images (although still triggering memories of the film). Sometime after that I started buying scores for films I haven't seen, although i still prefer the added dimension of having both images and sounds in mind when listening.
I listen to lots of scores, but I do have a disproportionate amount of horror scores. There are a few reasons, including:
- John Carpenter
- Carpenter-esque (over-used, but there are still a lot of scores out there that owe a debt to the man)
- horror is my favourite genre, so I've seen more horrors than anything else
- horror scores, more often than with other genres, are often integral to, or up front, in the film. Like horror films, I often find horror scores are more 'effective' (sweeping generalisation)
- the horror score 'genre' really spans so many musical styles - It Follows, Cannibal Holocaust, Halloween, Martin, Candyman; none of them sound alike. Liking 'horror scores' actually means very little in terms of what 'type' of music you like.