Over on Tracksounds.com, Doug Adams (author of Music of Lord of the Rings) discusses Howard Shore’s score for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Stream the Episode 54 of The Soundcast directly from the site, or download the podcast and listen later. In the episode, Adams discusses the effect of the format on film experience, how the score caused people some headscratching, and why this whole thing is just a huge “game of themes.” It does take the panel a fair chunk of time to actually get down to talking about the OST. If like me, you find that frustrating, you might want to skip the first 10 minutes or so.
Episode Highlights
00:00 Blunt the Opening and Doug Adams Intro
05:46 What we were expecting from this film
9:58 General reactions and comparing to Lord of the Rings
11:45 Reacting to the film and it’s music (spoilers)
31:21 Headscratching: Reacting to the score
49:56 A Game of Themes?
78:50 Wrapping it up
[The Soundcast]
Yesterday Peter Jackson and team unveiled Neil Finn’s song from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Today, Empire has the full soundtrack for your listening pleasure. Listen, enjoy and get a taste of what we’re in for come December 13 when the film hits screens. Note: this stream is working — we have confirmations from readers in both the USA and the UK. It does seem to be finnicky though, and we’re not sure why. We can only wish you the best of luck when you click to listen! Continue reading “Listen to the full Hobbit soundtrack on Empire!”
So we’ve heard ‘Radagast The Brown’ in its entirety. And we’ve heard one-minute previews of every the tracks. Now Fandango has a preview of ‘The Adventure Begins’ on their Soundtrack of the Day page. It’s pretty sweet — go check it out if you haven’t already! Continue reading “Preview Shore’s ‘The Adventure Begins’”
This French website has a preview of 60 seconds from every song on the soundtrack to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I guarantee that anyone who loves Tolkien will be really pleased by Blunt The Knives in particular. Spoilers! Continue reading “Preview 60 seconds from each song on the Hobbit soundtrack!”
