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I miss Jerry Goldsmith..... :-(

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Just put a few songs on my ipod from Damien-Omen 2 and the other day I was enjoying my recently purchased re-issue soundtrack for Logan's Run. I guess I was so used to him being everywhere I wanted him to be, scoring so many of my favorite films with such perfection, that i'm not used to him being gone. I can think of nobody else with such a long list of my personal favorite films, most of them filled with unmatched innovative, creative(and sometimes groundbreaking)character. Sure, you have the usual list of suspects credited with the blockbusters(some that are pretty good I will admit), but who could come up with the memorable moods from 'Papillon' or the pure originality we heard in 'Planet of the Apes' and 'Logan's Run'. Wish there were more to come but there aren't. I guess I'll continue to fill the gaps in my collection with the multitude of masterpieces that he's left for us.

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I agree. I love John Williams's film music too, but Goldsmith was the best. Telarc... - jeffreybehr 14:03:44 02/16/06 (0)
...released an SACD of him conducting his music that I LOVE--I never refile it, it lives right next to my discplayer. #SACD 60433, 'The Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith'. He conducts the LSO in EMI's large Abbey Road studio; Philips recorded it for Telarc and it sounds FABULOUS in multichannel--natural, spacious, just like a real orchestra playing in real space.
It starts with my fave, a short suite from 'Star Trek: TMP'; my 2nd fave is a maybe-3-minute suite from 'Air Force One' that starts 5-1/2 minutes into the 2nd track. Wait'll you hear those French horns in harmony!
Oh yea...it has one of those BIG, very-low-frequency bass drums that the British seem to love, and Jerry plays the hell out of it. BTW all the bass is left in the 5 channels; the LFE channel is empty.

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