tunequest

This past weekend, I saw The Simpsons Movie and must declare that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I know it's become a bit of pastime to bemoan the show's decline, but honestly, you won't find much cynicism coming from me with regards to the movie. The plot is straightforward, but fittingly expansive and engrossing for a motion picture. The jokes are actually rather good, largely avoiding the Homer-is-so-grossly-incompetent-that-its-not-funny-anymore humor that ...

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Paramount Pictures closed its legendary Stage M this past August. The stage opened in 1932 and since then, many famous and notable film scores have been recorded on it, including The Ten Commandments, Out of Africa, as well as a great portion of Star Trek's music. More recently, Danny Elfman's score for Nacho Libre was laid down there. try this Google search to see some more examples of music that ...

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I've talked about this before, but it keeps happening and I need to remind myself that nothing nefarious is going on. For the fourth time since I started the tunequest, I've had to question the randomness of my ipod. first, there's cex's being ridden and being ridden instrumentals, which were played pretty much back to back. Then there was Danny Elfman's Batman scores. more recently, the device decided to play ...

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in baseball that's great. on the tunequest, not so much. two danny elfman scores from 1996 made their way through my ears to my brain this week: mission: impossible and mars attacks! and while i enjoyed both films more than the general public seemed to, i had a mixed response to their scores. this week marked the first in the 4 years i've owned those scores that i gave them ...

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The score to the first Men in Black motion picture features the usual trademark quirkiness one would expect from composer Danny Elfman. This soundtrack is good, with stellar opening and closing title suites as well as good thematic material and interesting action cues. The score also noteworthy in that it's one of the earliest examples that I can think of that mixes electronic percussion with a full-scale orchestra.

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what a day! 91 songs played and 5+ hours of listening. that's what i need to be doing everyday. it's not likely to happen, but it is something to strive for. also, it seems that this tunequest page has managed to obtain a google pagerank of 4 in just over a month. from what i understand, that's pretty good, so huzzah for tunequest! bjork [selmasongs] ...

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exclusively composed music today it seems, mostly from film and television, though the most excellent slavonic dances were mixed in as well. bavarian radio orchestra performing dvorak's slavonic dances op.46 joseph loduca [army of darkness] alan silvestri [back to the future] christopher franke [babylon 5: in the beginning] the boston pops performing select john ...

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65 looks like an impressive number, but today it's not. whereas the 66 songs from yesterday represent just over 5 hours of music, today's 65 only amount to 3.5 hours. this is partially because the severed dreams soundtrack is only 33 minutes for its 22 songs, while mahler's 6th from yesterday clocks in near 90 minutes but counts as only 4 songs. in any event, i did hear some ...

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