"Hans Zimmer or John Williams While Painting?" Topic

Never heard of Zimmerman.

Winston
If you are referring to Hans Zimmer I am very surprised even I, who does not normally watch films, know and use some of his work. A top film score composer.

x42

I'm a Led Zepplin fan myself.

I am not really sure what this pole is for. For music to painting to, I would normally use a play list containing many composers and artists that I think is appropriate to what I'm painting. I have voted 'Sabaton' but most on the list are used along with lots of other artists and composers.

x42

I'm partial to Antti Martikainen
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With x42brown. You don't just "paint figures with soundtracks." You paint ancients to Miklos Roscza, Science fiction to Williams, WWII to Goldman--or a collected soundtracks from WWII--Western gunfight to Elmer Bernstein and so forth.

But with due respect, not Zimmer. Yes, he's probably second or third-best they have left these days, but in the glory days of Hollywood music, from Korngold through Newman and Tiomkin to Goldman, he'd have been second or third tier.

It's "Daft Punk" -- the post left off the apostrophe before the "s".

Iron Maiden:
The Trooper – the Crimean War
Back in the Villiage, Indavders – Medieval raiding
Aces High, Tailgunner – WWII
Alexander the Great – duh …
Genghis Khan – duh, again …
Sun and Steel – SciFi
Run to the Hills – Plains Indian Wars
Murders in the Rue Morgue – VSF

… and so on list

Newman-Randy. But not his various soundtracks.

But let's face it I have 1,200 vinyl records to choose from, from AC/DC to Warren Zevon, with a few dozen soundtracks on the side. With so much great music in the world who limits themselves to soundtracks?

always been a Steiner kinda guy … but Korngold in a pinch.

I prefer to listen to a variety that includes Williams AND Zimmer along with Horner, Goldsmith, Bernstein (both), Steiner, Korngold, Newman (both), and one or two others.

With me its Scottish bagpipes, Celtic music, and "legends" country music.

Jim

Shore, Williams, Horner, Goldsmith, Mozart, Zimmer, Queen, possibly in that order.

Sisters of Mercy

Black Label Society

Switchblade Symphony

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Black Sabbath

Nine Inch Nails

Marilyn Manson

etc…….

Zimmer, yes, but also James Horner and Gregson-Williams.

Other Gregorian Chants, Benise or other Spanish guitar in general, Mozart….

You know, what we really need is too complicated for the polling mechanism.

But is there a link between music played and castings painted, and if so, what is it?

Myself, I'd figure the people painting to Black Sabbath or Nine Inch Nails were doing Warhammer or functional equivalent, with the orchestral types running to uniformed historicals, but I'm only guessing.

Robert, I think that's a pretty good guess.

Other – Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Other – various Classical (Vivaldi, Teleman, etc.) or Medieval, Renaissance, Tuvan or other folk.

If your going orchestral score then it's Howard Shore. Or Basil Poledouris.

Nah, for movie soundtracks it's Ennio Morricone.