Bear McCreary’s Rings of Power Soundtrack is Breathtaking
And I haven’t even seen this show yet.
(Note: follow the plethora of links in this story to hear some of the amazing tracks I’m talking about on YouTube)
I listen to a lot of soundtracks. In fact, movie/TV show soundtracks is my favorite genre of music. It has been probably ever since I got the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and fell in love with John Williams’ work (of course I’d heard him before in Star Wars, Superman, and Indiana Jones, but it wasn’t until Potter that I really began paying attention to the music). When I was a kid, almost all of the music I listened to were the instrumental pieces of artistry that composers like Williams and Danny Elfman and Howard Shore wrote for the movies that I loved.
And over the years, there have absolutely been soundtracks that I’ve listened to repeatedly; I played Williams’ “Window to the Past” constantly while reading books, so much so that for a while I associated the track with Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart book more than I did with the Harry Potter movie it was written for. I listened to Star Wars, Star Trek, and Pirates of the Caribbean so often that I could play them on piano without ever once needing the sheet music. And I memorized both the soundtracks and their accompanying movies so well that just…
