Day 05 - Your favorite Season soundtrack
Another hard one. Musically speaking, all the seasons are good. All of them. But like yesterday's post, I have three things competing for my heart.
There's season two. While season one laid the foundation, season two is when the score came into its own. Season two represents what Lost music IS to me: crazy, emotional, creepy, nice use of instruments thar, and just all around awesome.
There's season four, which takes the the essence of what's good about the Lost scores and goes to town with it. The season four soundtrack also has the added bonus of including "Landing Party" which, to show you how uncultured I am, is possibly the most beautiful track I've ever heard. Pretty sure that scene in the show brought me close to tears so if Giacchino can top that tomorrow I'm going to be an inconsolable mess.
Then there's season five, an exercise in blending familiar themes (hell, familiar tracks, as it borrows heavily from the season two soundtrack and for good reason) in a way that's just brilliant. And then when it does introduce a new theme, it's a character theme that upstages everyone else's. Which isn't to say the new non-character themes aren't excellent.
If I had to choose, I would choose season four. It's the score at its most fully realized and, in the case of "Landing Party", its most beautiful and emotionally effective. There is, after all, a reason why Giacchino put the "There's No Place Like Home" theme directly before "Life and Death" during That Scene in "The Candidate".
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