[Malte Müller]

I was just thinking of your statement, Malte, about these two different terms, ‘good film music’ and ‘good music’, by which it is simply impossible to decide, if a film score is good or not, if you haven’t watched the film. By my definition, I can call a soundtrack great even though I haven’t experienced it in context of the movie.

I just think that you cannot evaluate a “film”score if you don’t know how it is used (or intended as that is not always the same as we know if directors mess around…). I certainly have and had lots of scores before I ever saw the movie it belongs to.

Great film score, but bad stand alone music.
(That’s just not something that can conceivably exist.)

Good roundup, Nic. I think it is again highly subjective. For example we both consider Goldsmith’s PLANET OF THE APES of of the greatest film scores and also a great standalone listen. But this is certainly a type of score quite some will disagree on the listening experience…