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Super 8 (Music from the Motion Picture)

Michael Giacchino

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Director J.J. Abrams wasn’t shy about calling Super 8, his 2011 coming-of-age sci-fi film, a love letter to Steven Spielberg, so it only makes sense that composer Michael Giacchino would craft a score that echoes the glory days of Spielberg's partner in crime, John Williams. For this movie set in the summer of 1979, Giacchino manages to capture the nostalgic patina of the American Midwest without shoving it down the listener's throat, serving up a heady combination of wistful sunset motifs and bombastic yet whimsical action cues that clock in at under a minute and a half, before majestically sewing it all together near the soundtrack’s end with the splendid “Super 8 Suite.” Spielberg and Williams' iconic themes may never find their match, but Abrams is wise to keep Giacchino as his right-hand man, as with each new collaboration, the pair inches closer and closer to greatness.

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Looking Back (now with Stereoscopes!) . . . .

Michael Giacchino's score for Super 8 harkens back to a time when children would shell out a quarter for comic books at the corner candy store and play out all day long until, running back home at twilight, they would smell of dirt and sweat and the sweet summer tang of fresh grass. It is music full of the wide-eyed wonders and the wide-eyed terrors that only children can have. It is music that would have flowed from the golden years of John William's incomparable imagination, when he raced around the world with Indiana Jones and flew across the face of the moon with E.T. and discovered lost ships in middle of the desert. It is full of simple joys and heartbreaking rememberances. I treasure it all!

Giacchino is the new Zimmer!!

This is a score that recalls a different time. This recalls a bit of childhood. They are songs that make us remember those old days. Lively, intriguing and very, very full of feelings. Michael Giacchino is an enthusiastic, he still fits in very film genres: Drama, comedies, Action, Thriller, Animation, and more. It combines many sounds, forming an "ark," an ark of variations were fantastic! The tracks 1,2,7,13,31 and 32 are the best songs on the album. In fact, all are wonderful, but there are those who excel. Giacchino is the mixture of Hans Zimmer, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and Thomas Newman together. He deserves six stars for this extraordinary score! Well Done.

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Biography

Born: October 10, 1967 in Riverside Township, New Jersey

Genre: Soundtrack

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Composer Michael Giacchino grew up fascinated with both movies and music, and he's gone on to an ideal career writing scores for a number of acclaimed films, television series, and video games. Michael Giacchino was born in Riverside Township, New Jersey on October 10, 1967, and grew up in nearby Edgewater Park. As a child, he developed an interest in animation and began making stop-motion cartoons, but discovered his favorite part was selecting the music that would match the action. After high school,...
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