Jeron

THe bootleg of Total Recall is a great listen, I can't wait for an official cd with better sound!
Thanks Varese!

I mean, last month is announced a complete (inasmuch as we know of) Phantom Menace score, and all people do is whine and complain that they "didn't get it all the first time like they were supposed to."

Now, years later, we get the complete score for Total Recall, and people welcome it with open arms.

Now, I'm not against having more music from this movie, but why the differences in accepting the two? And dont' say it's because of Lucas.

How many people on this board are going to buy it that already had the bootleg, I wonder? (I don't have the bootleg, though had long intended to get it as a supplement to my original disc. Now I guess I won't have to.)

Kevin, re: the difference between accepting this and not whining about PHANTOM MENACE: it's a year after PHANTOM MENACE came out, they did NOT apparently get it right the first time (I don't have the original disc, as I was expecting an expansion to happen, though NOT so quickly), and you suggest we should not say it's about George Lucas: sorry, but it is, and that's all it is.

The reasons we didn't have a longer TOTAL RECALL the first time are irritating as well, but Varese is at least making up for their ten-year-old mistake ... I wonder if Goldsmith will have any input into the album's production. I remember reading an eyewitness account of Goldsmith and Bruce Botnick mixing the album: Botnick favored a quirky little cue called "Howdy, Stranger" (for the Jonny Cab sequence, I think), but Goldsmith nixed it for the album.

"Almost every note Goldsmith wrote!" Cool cool cool cool cool ...........

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Originally posted by Kevin:

Now, years later, we get the complete score for Total Recall, and people welcome it with open arms.

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How about we were devoid, robbed, cheated, mobbed, mugged of our rightful listening minutes everytime we purchased a Goldsmith score, until recently.

Also I noticed that a lot of record companies are rerealising all of their back-catalog titles (LP's included, remastered) on digital disc because they want to preserve the analog masters. Now is a better time as ever to release the score digitally and in that same process create a digital master (which stores/sounds better) than the old analog master tapes which are degrading rapidly.
For new scores a new rule applies. The scores are being recorded directly onto the digital domain. Hence.... they can be preserved for years. But expect them to be rereleased, expanded and digitally remastered every 15 years or so (because digital audio is now at a 40 or more bits resolution) or digital discs are passe.... store them directly onto optical sticks the size of a toothpic. It's a cycle I have been observing for quite some time.
The degrading of the analog tapes is not only what makes it possible to rerelease the scores onto digital disc, often the re-use fees no longer apply.

NP-TOTAL RECALL-Jerry Goldsmith ******/*****
In honor of that great man ;-)
Yes you've read it right: 6 stars out of 5. Only a few a scores earn this rating.

Cheers,

Goldsmith found scoring the movie so labor-intensive that he said afterwards he wasn't going to be scoring any more action movies. Heh Heh Heh ...

First the TPM expanded, then Total Recall and the Austin Powers scores.... It's going to be a Groovy two months baby!!!!! Yeah Baby Yeah!!!!!!

On the other hand, there already was a direct-to-video sequel. No, the score was not composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

Frakes handles action material well, he probably would be a pretty good choice for this material; should he be hired, I'm pretty sure that the project's budget wouldn't neccesarily support a Jerry Goldsmith score. However, as the existence of this thread proves, I could (and hope to) be proven wrong.

http://us.imdb.com/Details?0136674

I do have the expanded boot and the sound is acceptable but there are some key sequences missing. Most notably the famous 'two weeks" scene when Quiad's fat lady disguise goes haywire. The boot also contains the catfight scene.

Still, this delux addition is a must have for me. I hope the "extensive" notes go into detail about the process of what Goldsmith really put into the score.

10 years later this classic is finally starting to recieve the respect it always deserved!

TOTAL RECALL's main title's debt to CONAN THE BARBARIAN is obvious, but I always felt that Goldsmith was also referencing THE TERMINATOR in the second half of the theme as well. It would make sense: I kind of thought Goldsmith was kind of sending the picture up in some ways, as the picture already does to itself (the previously mentioned "F*ck you a*shole sequence, and Arnie's later, identical evaluation of his "other self.")

NP: hmm, maybe I'll put in ...

Hipi-hipi-HURRRÁ!!

Anyone have info on the Track Titles/Times yet?