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Author	Topic: Is Robert Townson high?

Lou Goldberg Romulan	Been reading a lot of Robert Townson liner notes for Varese issues and he's just too much. Scores that are just ok or even when they are great get talked about as if they are the Second Coming of Christ. Everybody is the greatest composer to ever score films and every score is some kind of masterpiece to rival the great artworks of all civilization. I've heard hyperbole in my day but geesh. Come on RT get some perspective on these things or just knock out the opinions altogether and just stick with the clean facts like any good reporter would.
posted 01-19-2003 02:31 AM PT (US)

Kevin Romulan	Promotion dude. Promotion. Gotta make the stuff look good (no matter how it really is). Kevin
posted 01-19-2003 04:21 AM PT (US)

jonathan_little Romulan	Yeah, he also thinks that Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first digitally recorded film score.
posted 01-19-2003 11:49 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Romulan	Well, er, um, gosh I don't know, Lou, about him. But I know for sure about Glenn R at the trailer court. He is all the time. LOL. And poor Kevin L and Rex G are drunk every single day too. They buy their hard whiskey over across the street and its a miracle in the traffic, that they get across alive. Those two are pretty unhappy and have no life to speak of. Drowning it all out. John.
posted 01-19-2003 11:58 AM PT (US)

rkeaveney Romulan	Robert Townson's liner notes are of course, his opinions. Frankly I'd rather read his gushing over something as dull as NEMESIS then Harry Knowles' fat ass writing about RE-ANIMATOR. Ryan NP: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN -- Mercy! Please, someone, kill me now. Put me out of my misery...
posted 01-19-2003 01:03 PM PT (US)

Ed Romulan	Ask yourself, if YOU owned a small-volume label catering to a limited and, shall we say, rarified audience -- what would you do? The man's gotta make a living. Just remember that the next time a STAR TREK score is described in "Second Coming" terms. I personally forgive him for all his hyperbole when Varese does something like SUNSET BOULEVARD.
posted 01-19-2003 08:25 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Romulan	Look, I gush over certain scores too and in print here at the board. And I can't say I don't like the scores Varese is issuing although I think Sunset Boulevard and Rebecca are lesser quality scores than other still as yet unrecorded Waxman Varese could be doing. Which irks me a bit when RT tries to convince me otherwise. I mean sure it's his opinion or his promotion and it's his label so he can say and do as he pleases I suppose. But if RT wants to tell me that listening to Rebecca is a better experience than getting laid, I wish he'd do it at some chat board and leave his liner notes clear of all that gunk. And just because some moron could come along and be worse isn't an argument to support what he's doing. Though that does remind me of a similar offense in the opposite direction, the notes to the Sony re-issue of Ryan's Daughter (which came some years before the Chapter III re-issue). That had notes by some guy who criticized the score so much that he made me feel like an idiot for buying it! But either extreme seems more than I can bear.
posted 01-19-2003 09:03 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Romulan	quote: Originally posted by Lou Goldberg: But if RT wants to tell me that listening to Rebecca is a better experience than getting laid, I wish he'd do it at some chat board and leave his liner notes clear of all that gunk. LOL
posted 01-20-2003 03:54 PM PT (US)

majestyx Romulan	It makes you wonder why the liner notes are on the INSIDE of the CD. I mean if you're reading it, you've most likely already bought it. If it's supposed to be promotion, he's doing it backwards.
posted 01-20-2003 04:02 PM PT (US)

Dinko Romulan	If we leave the actual liner notes aside, there is still the matter of the nutcase promo blurbs on the website.
posted 01-20-2003 05:19 PM PT (US)

TimT Romulan	Those notes on the website are insane. And I would prefer notes from the composer his/her self.
posted 01-20-2003 08:21 PM PT (US)

Joey168943 Romulan	Nuthin' wrong with being high! 8-D Joey
posted 01-30-2003 10:35 PM PT (US)

SCimmerian Romulan	When I read in the liner notes of Rebecca that he says that it is the best score written for a Hitchcock film, I choked on the corn dog I was eating. Come on now, what an absurd thing to write.Hello Bob, ever hear Vertigo, well of coarse you produced the cd.Hello Bob, how about producing a new North by Northwest? And Bob when are you going to do Mysterious Island?
posted 01-31-2003 12:17 AM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Romulan	If RT were to do another North By Northwest, I'm sure he'd say that was the best score for a Hitchcock film in those liner notes. Or maybe not. Seeing how he considers Alex North to be the best composer to work for films and Rebecca to be the finest Hitchcock score, it's likely he'll champion stranger ideas when it comes to Herrmann, Rozsa, and the rest.
posted 02-01-2003 08:55 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Romulan	That 'old' re-recording of North by Northwest by Varese Sarabande seems to be fairly... umm... lacking from the 30 seconds worth I've heard on the 'net. Whether or not I'd buy a new re-recording of this... I doubt it. I'd rather spend some time extracting the good cues off of the DVD and then writing Rhino telling them I want my money back after buying their crappy sounding CD.
posted 02-02-2003 12:45 AM PT (US)

Dinko Romulan	Crappy sounding CD? Just wait till Rhino releases it on DVD/A. There's already criticism of other Rhino DVD-A's as being an insult to the audiophile format. Disclaimer: I have no news that Rhino will be releasing it on DVD-A. I'm just talking nonsense, so don't quote me on it. [Message edited by Dinko on 02-02-2003]
posted 02-02-2003 06:09 AM PT (US)

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