James Horner - the Perfect Storm: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Artist: James HornerEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Coming Home From The Sea
- The Fog's Just Lifting...
- Let's Go, Boys
- To The Flemish Cap
- The Decision To Turn Around
- Small Victories
- Coast Guard Rescue
- Rogue Wave
- There's No Goodbye...Only Love
- Yours Forever (Theme from The Perfect Storm) - John Mellencamp
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Free Music Review: Horner's best score the best part of a bad movie.
Hit: 5 Stars
IMHO, this is James Horner's best score by far. Its filled with gorgeous melodies, brilliant orchestrations, exciting uses of percussion and unusual mixes of instruments. (Where else have you heard full symphony orchestra with electric guitar and a prominent celtic drum? Amazingly, all these work together beautifully when featured together in two of the tracks.) The wonderful melodies flow from the orchestra in quick succession, changing from one melody to another seamlessly - the mark of a true genius composer. This is not a non-stop exercise in 'pretty-pretty' music, like so many of Horner's music. This score bursts with excitement, action and bravado. And unlike Titanic, the synthesizer is almost non-existent.
I listened to this score today for the first time in several months, and it brought tears to my eyes in a few moments and I got shivers down my spine for most of the CD. Yep, for me its that good.
What a pity that James Horner's most recent works have not been anywhere near as good as this one. He seems to concentrate on 'pretty music' these days; music that is easily digested with a first listening, then forgotten about once you have learnt the score. This magnificent score, on the other hand, is in one section moving and glorious, then the next moment dramatic and all mayhem.
The Perfect Storm could possibly stand as the peak of James Horner's creative achievement. What a pity such effort went into the music for a movie that was such rubbish.
the Perfect Storm: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
There's no shortage of irony in film composer James Horner's cinematic triumphs with oceanborne disaster. Titanic, of course, became one of the most mega-successful orchestral soundtracks in history. While The Perfect Storm may not scale those commercial heights, it's a worthy, if differently nuanced, companion piece. With his score revolving around a rolling, six-note motif that perfectly evokes the waves of the North Atlantic, Horner colors the tale of the doomed fishing trawler Andrea Gail and her crew with a dramatic restraint that often brings to mind the best work of John Williams and John Barry. Horner's score builds on a dramatic tension between the brass and the strings (and even an apropos metal-guitar lick or two), before climaxing in a pair of lengthy cue-suites ("Coast Guard Rescues" and "The Rogue Wave") that masterfully conjure menace and pure terror from a skillful alchemy of challenging tonality and orchestral color. And, of course, there's a marketing-driven, tacked-on pop song, "Yours Forever," a collaboration between John Mellencamp and Horner (built around the same six-note motif) that's solid if not spectacular; Mellencamp delivers it well and survives with his dignity intact. --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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