[GerateWohl]

There are some composers where you are not hugely impressed by their work. But there is one score from these composers which you find exceptionally great.
You might like some scores of these composers good enough. But just one stand really out. Or they just wrote one score.
Which are these?

My list would be something like this:

Black Dahlia – Mark Isham
The Last Unicorn – Jimmy Webb
Clash of the Titans – Laurence Rosenthal
Watership Down -Angela Morley
The Dark Crystal- Trevor Jones
Moby Dick – Philip Santon
Conan The Barbarian – Basil Poledouris
The Matrix Trilogy – Don Davis
The Others – Alejandro Anemabar
Magnolia – Jon Brion

I know, some of these don’t have a reputation as one hit wonder. But for me they are.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Cool topic! Let me think a bit about that.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

First of all, pretty wild to see Isham, Jones and Poledouris on your list, GerateWohl — great composers with a variety of scores on their resume.

This question can be answered in a number of ways — there are composers where I only have one score, because I’m not familiar with the rest of their work. Or I AM familiar with their work, but have only landed on one to own. Or they’ve just done one, or close to one. Etc.

So taking ALL of that into consideration, I would need to list literally HUNDREDS of “one-off” titles in my collection. But I’m going to limit myself to famous or semi-famous composers with pretty extensive catalogues (in film music and/or non-film music), and choose 10 from them. So maybe something like:

Air – THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
Carter Burwell – ROB ROY (well, plus the WSA compilation)
Goblin – SUSPIRIA (plus a compilation)
Jerome Moross – THE BIG COUNTRY
Michael Land – THE DIG
Paul van Dyk – ZURDO
Sergei Prokofiev – ALEXANDER NEVSKY
Simon Franglen – AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
Toto – DUNE
Tom Tykwer & co. – PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER

[GerateWohl]

Good list, too.
I thought Goblin has quite a record of famous scores, e.g. the Euro cut of Dawn of the Dead.

Tom Tykwer & co. – PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER

I find their score for Babylon Berlin quite good as well.

Many seem to claim Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy to be a great singular score effort.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yeah, with Goblin I like quite a few individual themes, but outside SUSPIRIA, I’ve rarely grabbed on to the scores as a whole.

Daft Punk’s TRON: LEGACY definitely needs to be on the list, although I have all their studio albums as well, so it’s certainly not alone in my collection.

[GerateWohl]

Not sure, if you are familiar with Babylon Berlin. But the score has a nice Golden 20s sound.

Eine Frau in Berlin

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yes, I’m familiar with it, somewhat. Didn’t quite do it for me when I sampled it awhile back, but I probably need a systematic walkthrough of that whole Tykwer/Klimek/Heil world again. LOLA RENNT is another cool one that I need to reassess.

[Forfatter]

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