Noooo....
I've talked about this before, but I was completely obsessed with his Braveheart and Titanic scores. Definitely must revisit those now. Braveheart in particular.
I need to listen to more of his work. What are other people's favorites?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWwAjwJe4E
I was among the obsessives as well. There was a point in my childhood where I would pretty much only listen to soundtracks, and the big romantic ones were definite favorites. I quickly learned that Horner was a master at the romantic theme: Braveheart, Titanic,
Legends of the Fall, Land Before Time, Apollo 13, I ate it all up, the closet romantic I was, headphones on, dreaming away.
There was one particular part of the Braveheart theme (just after 01:06 in the clip JB posted above), that completely destroyed me. That little break in the flow (God, I wish I had a musicians vocabulary), where you've been floating away, and suddenly it does two little jumps back and forth, a little jolt out of the flow. I would hum this little part over and over, eventually making up my own little lyrics (and how goddamn into-my-soul embarrassing they were).
Years later I heard
Black is the color of my true love's hair for the first time, and lo and behold, the very same little jumpy back-and-forth is there! At least to my ears it sounds extremely similar. Listen here, at 00:17-ish.
I then started obsessing over that song, and it's still one of the pieces of music I hold most dear. A big part of that is how it throws my thoughts in the direction of being 11 years old. Listening to
Black is the color, I'm secretly listening to Braveheart.
if i had to pick one:
it's the epitome of STAKES! THRILLS! SUSPENSE!
his new world score has really endured for me too.