I should be seeing these in the mail on Monday:

TOTAL RECALL DELUXE EDITION
AKIRA IFUKUBE: JAPANESE CINEMA MUSIC SERIES

and two Xmas presents for roomie:

"LOVE" by THE CULT
"BRAND NEW KNIFE" by SHONEN KNIFE

(I expect to like em too, that's why I picked em. )

NP: THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (Zimmer/Schwartz)

The Akira Ifukube disc turns out to be a straight reissue, with some updated material in the liner notes, of the very first ever disc of Ifukube's film music, "The World of Akira Ifukube" (1977). No additional music, alas (the Japanese have this peculiar penchant for issuing to CD exact original versions of older LP packages.) Formal Japanese title is "World of Akira Ifukube" but one side of the jewel box calls it (in English) "Works of Akira Ifukube." It will always be the "World" to me, though.

• Music from Great Film Classics by Bernhard Herrmann (one of Herrmann's Phase4 recordings, contains suites from Citizen Kane, Jane Eyre, Devil and Daniel Webster, Mysterious Island and Jason and the Argonauts)
  

The chickens are revolting!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

• Six Degrees of Separation / Small Soldiers (Varese) / Small Soldiers (Boot)
  
• Raggedy Man (Main Title only) / Masada (Varese) / The Shadow

Koyaanisqatsi, Phillip Glass - This is easily the most bizzare score I have ever heard. I love it.
Philidelphia, Howard Shore
Dvorak: The 9 Symphonies, 6CD set conducted by Rafael Kubelik

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Originally posted by John Dunham:
Koyaanisqatsi, Phillip Glass - This is easily the most bizzare score I have ever heard. I love it.

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Koyaanisqatsi is great. I only got it this summer, and by now I've bought 4 more Glass CDs. I couldn't get that damn disc out of my player for weeks!

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Dvorak: The 9 Symphonies, 6CD set conducted by Rafael Kubelik

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I have great Kubelik recordings of #7 and #8, and I've heard a brilliant recording of the Slavonic Dances by him (I only have a boring Maazel version myself so far).

Total Recall: Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
Thirteen Days - Trevor Jones
The Crow: Salvation - Marco Beltrami
Dungeons & Dragons - Justin Caine Burnett

• got LIVE if you want it! (The Rolling Stones)
  
• What Lies Beneath (Alan Silvestri)

• Sphere (Elliot Goldenthal) - Before it disappears from Austrian stores
  
• Star Trek: Generations (DVD)

http://www.gimmefreeomencomplete.com

If that doesn't work, I charge a reasonable fee for giving away his e-mail address!

I'm delighted to finally have ALL the cues from BOYS FROM BRAZIL in sequence, although the sound is on the tinny side and there's the occasional dialogue bleed-through, but it never overwhelms the music. Actually, during "Frau Doring" (perhaps my favorite piece in the score), it's instructive to just barely hear bits of the question-and-answer between Laurence Olivier and Rosemary Harris, when the music quiets and starts again -- it really is a breathtaking piece of music, and I'm dying to see the film again. (My favorite bit of restoration: the first Nazi-music cue in Paraguay, which isn't on the original album. What I wouldn't give to hear Goldsmith conduct a live version of the twenty-minute "Suite" that he constructed for that album ... sighhhhh ...)