Comments on: You can listen to the entire soundtrack for The Hobbit right now

By: ElVox

ElVox — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:32:00 +0000

No longer available :(

By: Ken Breadner

Ken Breadner — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Fair enough. I get that soundtracks can be exceptional. But for me, anyway, movie music is meaningless without a visual context…

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:16:00 +0000

He gets the girl.

By: Marc45

Marc45 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:57:00 +0000

Cool but I sure hope it doesn’t give away any spoilers. I want to see the movie to see how it ends ;)

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:04:00 +0000

Shore is a man of many talents. Remember him on SNL with his All-Nurse Band? Just count the blues stars!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFEwwstYMA

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Some people really like soundtracks. If there were no market for soundtrack albums, nobody would release them. When I was in 8th grade, I bought the Return of the Jedi soundtrack, and would always feel a frisson at the climax of Williams' "Luke and Leia" theme. (Don't judge me too harshly; I was an 8th grader from a trailer park.) I used to get lots of productive writing done while listening to Snuffy Walden's soundtrack for the miniseries of The Stand, and more recently I'm having a harder time enjoying playing the Halo 4 campaign without Marty O'Donnell's music. His soundtrack for Halo 2 is probably my favorite videogame soundtrack ever, and is much more cinematic than it needed to be. Shore's soundtracks for LOTR were iconic and stirring, sez I, and hearing his Hobbit score just provokes further excitement in me to see the new movie already. Can't wait! To more directly answer your question, Jackson's visuals, the production design, the casting, and above all the story are why I'm going to that movie. But the music will be one of the main reasons why I go more than once.

By: Timmo Warner

Timmo Warner — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:07:00 +0000

Nobody (as far as I know), but plenty of people listen to soundtracks to hear the soundtracks. I still say the score for Bram Stoker’s Dracula is amazing.

By: Ken Breadner

Ken Breadner — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:02:00 +0000

Umm, I don’t mean to be crass, but…who goes to a movie to hear a soundtrack?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:31:00 +0000

Man, so far it’s predictably wonderful. I think Shore had his work cut out for him in one instance: Maury Laws’ melody for “Over the Misty Mountains Cold” from the Rankin-Bass cartoon is a tough act to follow, and Shore almost seems to tip his hat in that direction.

But now I’m all hot and in the mood for some beardy dwarf-on-troll action. ”Extinguish meeeee!”