Why the complete score wasn't released yet is beyond me... What's their excuse in TOTAL RECALL? It was performed by the Nation Philarmonic Orchestra of LONDON, right? So they can say it was because of the terrible re-uses fees, or whatever it is called...

The expanded version leaves off a few choice score moments, such as Quaid (or is it Hauser.....?) seeing Mars for the first time (the big cymbal crashes and such), and the "Two Weeks" cue, which would have been nice. The version I have has really good sound. Slight hiss, but it's leagues above the horrible-sounding version that was out before.

I was told that another label packaged the original deal to release TOTAL RECALL, and that disc would've run an hour, but Varese bought it out from under them for twice the fee the other label was able to pay, and then, to compensate for the amount of cash lost in that deal, forewent the extra fees for extra music. This is only what I was told. It was ultimately worth it to Varese, I understand, it was one of their bigger sellers in the last decade.

I just wanted to create a similar thread, as I thought about the score being recorded by the NSO and why it hasn't had an expanded official release yet. You were faster, Hector.

But WHY hasn't there been a more complete release? The score seems to be regarded as one of Jerry's best (which it IS), and there are no re-ues fees. It should be a good deal for any record company to release it.

The Varese cd of Goldsmith's TOTAL RECALL is still readily available. I'm sure they'll have it at Amazon.

What can I add to what everyone has said about this fantastic score? Despite the omission of plenty of great material, the official release is a 'must have'.


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One thing about the profusion of bootleg CDs -- now that there's a giant RECALL boot, that all the fans are going to snap up one way or another, sooner or later -- any record company is going to realize that only the real collector-FANATICS are going to want to own an "official" release as well. Hence it might not be worth the plunge. If the bootleggers had been quicker to run off RAMBO II, for example, I doubt we'd have seen the Silva release.

There have been exceptions to this -- the BLADE RUNNER boot, for example, wasn't widely known or distributed, and this was before CDRs became such a household item (I never even heard of CDRs until a couple of years ago, and they didn't exist in such volume then). The official release probably sells well.

On the other hand, I'm told that the official release is MISSING music that the bootleg has, and inserts a bit or two of dialogue to boot (although it wasn't terribly intrusive, as dialogue overtracks go).

I'd like to say a few words about the theme.
It is a wonderful theme, but, unlike so many movie themes, it just can't survive outside of the soundtrack. A complex work of beauty highlighting horns, strings and electronics, it doesn't help that the theme is placed on a number of soundtrack compilations where the electronics are:

- unnessecarily augmented(The Great Fantasy Adventure Album - Telarc), or
- stripped away(Frontiers - Varese)

The TOTAL RECALL theme's debt to CONAN THE BARBARIAN is obvious and probably intended, but am I the only one who thinks he also slipped in a bit of a reference to Brad Fiedel's TERMINATOR theme?

Here is the tracklist. Sorry, there were no times included.

Here is the tracklist. Sorry, there were no times included.