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Topic: My Trip To Footlight
Eric Paddon
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I made my first visit to Footlight Records since last Christmas. It's amazing to see that they're three issues behind with the copies of FSM that are for sale, and at least one behind for Soundtrack.As always, the tough choices centered around the imports and the boots they and no one else I know of has. Tempted as I was to plunk $65 for that three boot CD Ben Hur set, despite my already having the Rhino one I ended up getting the last copy of the Japan import "John Williams Film Works" which I craved for one reason only, the original 1976 recordings of the Midway "March" and "Men Of The Yorktown March". I'm probably too used to the rerecording after all this time, but the fast tempo of the latter was really hard to get used to at first.
Reluctantly, I also passed up on the boot of "Capricorn One" which I understand is the film tracks and frankly I've been wanting to hear the film mix for some time because there has always been something that doesn't sound quite right with the LP version to me.
posted 07-25-2000 12:46 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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The CapOne boot (I'm tired and don't feel like typing out Capricorn One---oh, damn!) doesn't sound too hot, especially now that there's another version of it "floating around" (now that I've mentioned it, it'll be listed at Screen Archives next week----CAPRICORN ONE---GREAT SOUND!).Shaun
posted 07-25-2000 02:03 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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The film tracks (thank you Brad) and the official album are COMPLETELY different animals. I was always irritated by the official album as well, at least parts of it -- the "theme" never sounded right, kind of a "sweetened" amalgam of the far terser arrangements heard for the opening and closing of the film. On the other hand, the "Breakout" cue on the album, comprised of two different action cues from within the film, is one of the highlights of Goldsmith's work in the 1970s. The movie didn't allow for such a relentlessly mounting piece as that -- "Breakout" as heard on the boot is interspersed with "breaks" for Hal Holbrook's monologue while the astronauts are escaping -- but Goldsmith structured a beautiful version for the album. The album's "Breakout" actually starts with a version of a SUBSEQUENT cue, "Choppers," then turns into a full-bore, no-interludes version of the film's "Breakout."I think it's worth having both. I'd be curious to have both versions of THE SWARM and DAMIEN OMEN II as well. (Curious that these were all done in the same time period. As was his unusual "big suite" approach to the album for BOYS FROM BRAZIL.)
NP: SET IT OFF (Christopher Young)
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