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    Rank The Score Albums

    Now that Trent and Atticus have a few scores under their belts, I thought it was high time that we started ranking the score albums. Keep in mind that I'm not including Trent and Atticus' solo work here, especially since Atticus has done more solo score work than Trent.

    Anyway, my ranking so far:

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    Patriots Day

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    So far....

    1. Gone Girl
    2. The Social Network
    3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    4. Quake

    I haven't had the chance to listen to Before the Flood and Patriots Day in their entirety at this moment.

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    FINALLY listened to patriots day this morning...so here's my ranking (also, the top two change depending on my mood)

    TGWTDT
    Gone Girl
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network (while it's still great, i don't find myself going back to it on a weekly basis like the other three above...also, docked points for reusing Ghosts material )
    Patriots Day (the last few songs on this are incredible but the first half was just "fine"...but i've also only listened to it once, so far)

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    i'm sorry.

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    The Social Network
    Patriots Day
    Gone Girl
    TGWTDT (too long)
    Before The Flood

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    1- The Social Network
    2- Gone Girl
    3- Before The Flood
    4- Patriot's Day
    5- TGWTDT

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    Sad statto that I am, I've attributed 5 points to 1st, 4 to 2nd etc, to come up with a ranking, based on average score for number of votes cast (as not everyone's heard all the albums). Ignoring Quake, not a film score, ranking is thus:-

    1 - GG
    2 - TSN
    3 - TGWTDT
    4 - BTF
    5 - PD

    I'll update if we get 5 more votes...!

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    1. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    2. Social Network
    3. Gone Girl
    4. Before the Flood
    5. Patriots Day

    Although I don't think I've spent enough time with the last two. It took me a while to digest GWTDT for it to be my favourite
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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbie solo View Post
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    i'm sorry.
    So would this be 2 ?


    I'm kidding after reading your posts in NIN Random Thoughts.

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    Back to the thread, I couldn't help myself with Bobbie Solo

    1) The Social Network
    2) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    3) Patriots Day
    4) Gone Girl
    5) Before The Flood

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    But... I love them all equally and for different reasons... I've never in my life understood "ranking" things...

    EDIT: Also, it saddens me to see Before the Flood so low on lists so far. It's really fucking good! That TR/AR/Gustavo Santaolalla/Mogwai combo makes me feel tingly in my cockals...
    Last edited by NIN64; 04-07-2017 at 08:05 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRoswell View Post
    Now that Trent and Atticus have a few scores under their belts, I thought it was high time that we started ranking the score albums. Keep in mind that I'm not including Trent and Atticus' solo work here, especially since Atticus has done more solo score work than Trent.

    Anyway, my ranking so far:

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    Patriots Day
    Updated to include "The Vietnam War".

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    The Vietnam War
    Patriots Day

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    1. The Social Network -- The OG. I don't think any other score has had the same level of substance as here (#2 comes close), and so much of it feels more fleshed out and layered than their later works.
    2. Before the Flood -- Even if not fully TR/AR, I utterly adore this album. If only it would ever come out on CD!!
    3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- May be nearly forty tracks but nearly all are great, the moody, brooding atmosphere is wonderful, and it has some intensely beautiful songs on it. I think it transports you to the film (or, specifically, to a winter wasteland) perhaps better than any of the other scores.

    4/5. The Vietnam War/Patriots Day -- Maybe it's just because they were released near each other, but these two sound basically the same to me in terms of sound, the only real difference being that the Vietnam War has some real bangers added into the mix. All of the more quiet songs seem interchangeable. I definitely like both of these, to be fair, and there's some songs that really stand out to me in particular, but they don't come near the level of the top three for me.



    6. Gone Girl -- This is really people's favorite?? It's the only one I hardly ever listen to. I know it's kind of what they were going for but it just feels too... plasticky, contrived, or something, and none of it stands out at all. But hey, to each their own!

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    Gone Girl, much like the film, has a lot going on under the surface. The ticking clock mentality of "The Way He Looks At Me", the Mike Garson piano in "Just Like You", the sledgehammer effect of "Consummation". The fact that it was their third collaboration with Fincher also means that the three had finally found a rhythm with each other, which is evident by how well the score compliments the film. That's not to say that their other two Fincher scores don't compliment their respective films, but to me, "Gone Girl" is the best fit overall, which is why I place it above "The Social Network" and "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".

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    The Social Network Is easily my favorite. It’s the only one that almost sounds like a NIN album to me. The other stuff lacks that “NIN magic” and sound. I can’t really get into them. I love the entire NIN catalog, and I love Social Network, but i just can’t get into the other scores. Perhaps I’ll try them again this week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wormwood View Post
    The other stuff lacks that “NIN magic” and sound.
    I completely disagree.

    And since we have a couple more scores to rank...

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    The Vietnam War
    Bird Box
    mid90s
    Patriots Day
    Last edited by BRoswell; 01-30-2019 at 11:02 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRoswell View Post
    I completely disagree.

    And since we have a couple more scores to rank...

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    The Vietnam War
    Bird Box
    mid90s
    Patriots Day
    im trying to like them. Plan on listening more. It just doesn’t sound anything like the NIN I love. But it’s true that my listening experience with them is lacking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRoswell View Post
    I completely disagree.

    And since we have a couple more scores to rank...

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    The Vietnam War
    Bird Box
    mid90s
    Patriots Day
    im trying to like them. Plan on listening more. It just doesn’t sound anything like the NIN I love. But it’s true that my listening experience with them is lacking. Perhaps i haven’t given them a fair go. I didn’t like Eoth Teeth at first but grew to love it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wormwood View Post
    im trying to like them. Plan on listening more. It just doesn’t sound anything like the NIN I love. But it’s true that my listening experience with them is lacking. Perhaps i haven’t given them a fair go. I didn’t like Eoth Teeth at first but grew to love it.
    well...that's because it's not NIN. you have to think of the scores as something separate. even though they're created by the main core of NIN, they're not NIN, and they're not meant to be. if you change your expectations and just enjoy the music for what it is instead of what you think it should be/want it to be, you might find you enjoy it a lot more!

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    Since this thread's back around, may as well contribute:

    1. The Social Network
    2. mid90s
    3. Patriots Day
    4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    5. The Vietnam War
    6. Bird Box
    7. Before the Flood
    8. Gone Girl

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    1. The Social Network
    2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    3. Gone Girl
    4. Patriots Day
    5. The Vietnam War
    6. Bird Box
    7. Before the Flood
    8. mid90s

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    1. Watchman: Volume 1
    2. The Vietnam War
    3. The Social Network
    4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    5. Gone Girl
    6. Watchman: Volume 2
    7. Mank
    8. Before the Flood
    9. Watchman: Volume 3
    10. Patriots Day
    11. Bird Box
    12. Mid90s
    13. Waves
    14. Quake
    15. Soul

    Notes: I love the TR&A soundtracks so much. I work in an environment where I can listen to music, but I can't really play anything too harsh or controversial, so I tend to not play Nine Inch Nails tracks that have lyrics at work. The TR&A are great because I can listen to these at work for the most part. Let me start out saying about my list, I never imagined that an album would surpass The Social Network or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - these two albums after easily a hundred listens or more are so amazing. I remember when I first listened to the Vietnam War I was blown away but it did remind me a lot of TGWTDT and it seemed somewhat repetitive in some parts, but after time, I just kept coming back. The aggressive and punch and cool little unexpected pieces thrown in the songs really make this fantastic for me. I decided to split Watchmen into three separate albums, although they're connected, they each have own their own sound. If I were to combine the Watchmen volumes into one, it easily would still be in the number one spot. I can't believe they were able to make something so good, I feel like this was the apex of their work. Mid90s is where I start to listen to, but not really have strong feelings for. I think I can only list maybe 1 or 2 title tracks from Mid90s, Waves, Quake and Soul each, that's not to say I've only listened to them 1 or 2 times, I have listened to each probably 30 times or more, but I never stop what I am doing to see what the title of that song was. Soul is in last, it's not because I hate it, it's simply the least memorable for me outside of the movie - Epiphany is the only song that grabbed me out of the whole album. I'm actually surprised Soul is getting more award recognition compared to Mank (to me, a far better album). As far as all the one-off tracks, they're great, but they're not albums so I didn't list them.

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    Excellent thread. For me is:
    1. TSN
    2. Quake
    3. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    4. Soul
    5. Waves
    6. Patriots Day
    7. Watchmen (as a whole)
    8. Gone Girl
    9. Vietnam War
    10. Mid 90's
    11. Bird Box
    12. Before the Flood
    13. Mank

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    1. The Social Network
    2. Mank
    3. Watchmen 1-3
    4. TGWTDT
    5. Mid 90's
    6. Soul
    7. The Vietnam War
    8. Waves
    9. Gone Girl
    10. Before The Flood
    11. Patriot's Day
    12. Bird Box
    (I haven't listened to Quake yet)

    These guys are astounding at approaching music not with a pre set formula, but with a unique wavelength for every story. The more I listen, the more I discover different thought patterns hidden in the musical nuances.
    That's why I love their work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRoswell View Post
    I completely disagree.

    And since we have a couple more scores to rank...

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Before The Flood
    The Social Network
    The Vietnam War
    Bird Box
    mid90s
    Patriots Day
    UPDATE!

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    The Social Network
    Before The Flood
    The Vietnam War
    Watchmen
    Waves
    Bird Box
    mid90s
    Soul
    Patriots Day
    Mank

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    Not sure where else to put this, Louder ranked the 15 most known TR&AR scores. I agree with... some of this.
    https://www.loudersound.com/features...s-score-ranked

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    Sheesh, some of those placements are brutal. At minimum, I'd have Waves and mid90s a lot higher, and Gone Girl and Empire of Light way lower.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
    Not sure where else to put this, Louder ranked the 15 most known TR&AR scores. I agree with... some of this.
    https://www.loudersound.com/features...s-score-ranked
    Since this was posted in the other thread, and with a few more scores under their belts, I figured it was high time to resurrect this thread.

    Gone Girl
    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    The Social Network
    Waves
    The Vietnam War
    Watchmen
    Before The Flood
    Bird Box
    TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
    Bones & All
    The Killer
    Patriots Day
    Empire Of Light
    Soul
    mid90s
    Mank

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorast View Post
    Since this thread's back around, may as well contribute:

    1. The Social Network
    2. mid90s
    3. Patriots Day
    4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    5. The Vietnam War
    6. Bird Box
    7. Before the Flood
    8. Gone Girl
    Okay, let's do this again:

    1. The Social Network
    2. Watchmen (collectively)
    3. TMNT
    4. mid90s
    5. WAVES
    6. Mank
    7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    8. The Vietnam War
    9. Soul
    10. Bones and All
    11. Bird Box (extended)
    12. The Killer (tentative, haven't listened enough yet)
    13. Patriots Day
    14. Before the Flood
    15. Empire of Light
    16. Gone Girl

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    Dragon tattoo
    Gone girl
    Before the flood
    Watchmen
    TSN
    Vietnam war
    TNMT
    Soul
    Patriots day
    Waves
    Bird box
    The killer
    Mank
    Empire of light
    Bones n all

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