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KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 11:35 am Kow Otani, Bear McCreary, and Michiru Oshima are my top three choices, in that order.

Since we have six votes, my secondary choices were Reijiro Koroku (The Return of Godzilla), Koichi Sugiyama (Godzilla vs Biollante), and Takayuki Hattori.

Not a huge fan of the other Monsterverse composers; Shin Godzilla’s score was the laziest thing since Godzilla vs Gigan, and one of the worst aspects of that movie; and the composers for Final Wars were hit and miss.

David Arnold’s score for GINO was actually pretty good... but I feel it’s better to keep names attached to that film away from the franchise going forward...

shadowgigan wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 12:24 pm

KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 11:35 am Kow Otani, Bear McCreary, and Michiru Oshima are my top three choices, in that order.

Since we have six votes, my secondary choices were Reijiro Koroku (The Return of Godzilla), Koichi Sugiyama (Godzilla vs Biollante), and Takayuki Hattori.

Not a huge fan of the other Monsterverse composers; Shin Godzilla’s score was the laziest thing since Godzilla vs Gigan, and one of the worst aspects of that movie; and the composers for Final Wars were hit and miss.

David Arnold’s score for GINO was actually pretty good... but I feel it’s better to keep names attached to that film away from the franchise going forward...

Shin's score may have been lazy, but I will say the original pieces composed for the film were brilliant.

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How did I not realize Hattori scored the anime trilogy?!

KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 12:32 pm

shadowgigan wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 12:24 pm

KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 11:35 am Kow Otani, Bear McCreary, and Michiru Oshima are my top three choices, in that order.

Since we have six votes, my secondary choices were Reijiro Koroku (The Return of Godzilla), Koichi Sugiyama (Godzilla vs Biollante), and Takayuki Hattori.

Not a huge fan of the other Monsterverse composers; Shin Godzilla’s score was the laziest thing since Godzilla vs Gigan, and one of the worst aspects of that movie; and the composers for Final Wars were hit and miss.

David Arnold’s score for GINO was actually pretty good... but I feel it’s better to keep names attached to that film away from the franchise going forward...

Shin's score may have been lazy, but I will say the original pieces composed for the film were brilliant.

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How did I not realize Hattori scored the anime trilogy?!

You’re right, the original pieces were generally fantastic.

That unfortunately just makes it all the more disappointing to me.

KK42 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 11:35 am Shin Godzilla’s score was... one of the worst aspects of that movie

tbeasley wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 5:25 pm Was never a fan of the Biollante score, and considering how awful a person Sugiyama is, I wouldn't mind his continued absence.

Today’s Doodle celebrates the 107th birthday of Japanese composer Akira Ifukube—a prodigious talent in classical music and cinematic film scores widely known for his work on the original soundtrack for the “Godzilla” movies of the 1950s.

Akira Ifukube was born on this day in 1914 in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, into a distinguished family lineage that traces its origins back to at least the 7th-century. A passionate listener of European musical scores as a teenager, he aspired to intertwine his deep-rooted national identity into original compositions, an idea further solidified after listening to Russian composer Stravinsky’s 1913 emotive orchestral piece “The Rite of Spring” at 14 years old.

In 1935, Akira left home to study forestry at Hokkaido University, where he wrote ”Japanese Rhapsody,” his first original orchestral number. Following a brief stint as a forestry officer and lumber processor, he chose to pursue music composition full time. In 1947, he released the first of his more than 250 film scores that he produced over the next half-century. The height of his film score career came in 1954 when he wrote the soundtrack for “Godzilla,” whose signature roar he created by taking a resin-covered leather glove and dragging it against the loose string of a double bass.

Outside of his lifelong work as a composer, Akira served as president of the Tokyo College of Music starting in 1976 and published a 1,000-page book on theory entitled “Orchestration.” The Japanese government honored his lifetime achievements with both the Order of Culture and the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

Happy birthday, Akira Ifukube!

Terasawa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:11 am Godzilla vs Biollante composer Koichi Sugiyama died September 30, age 90.

LegendZilla wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:31 pm As for Ifukube himself, If I could I would travel back in time to the Showa era and recruit Ifukube to score a Godzilla film in the present.