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"I have to bring up Carter Burwell's score. It's terrible. Absolutely obvious and at times really hideous. Distracting in some spots, aping Howard Shore's LOTR score in others. Disappointing to say the least, as I really liked his work on THE LADYKILLERS and his contributions to O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?."

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"When he heard there was a new movie being made about the Battle of the Alamo, Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson figured there would surely be a CD featuring music from the film.

Then "The Alamo" co-star Billy Bob Thornton told him that there wasn't any such album in the works."

If you're average pedestrian, you'd probably read into that excerpt that there was going to be no ALAMO soundtrack album. I can't seeing it being read any other way.

Or is this one of those "no weapons of mass destruction actually means there are weapons of mass destruction" type deals?

All we need is a CD of "music" (the way Benson thinks of it) from THE ALAMO featuring 32 takes of one song, like this ugly CD.

Since studios like to release a song inspired album for films, it made sense to me at least.

Besides I would expect the average person to expect a song album.

I was just rewatching FEAR last night, and I think that despite the sort've truncated nature of the score -- there's only 3-4 themes/variations on them -- It's a beautiful, throbbing, wonderful piece of scoring. I imagine put together, it'd only be worth about maybe 20-25 minutes of music and there ain't a lot of demand for it, which is why it's never come out.

But there are several suspense romantic/drama cues and, of course, the main title/closing title theme -- all wonderful, terrific stuff I wish I had on CD.

Anyhoo, peace out.

you can email me if theres one you want (planksofwood@hotmail.com)...

A Goofy Movie (With Don Davis)
A Knights Tale Original Soundtrack
A Knights Tale Score
Adaptation
And the Band Played On
Assassin(s)
Being John Malcovich
Blair Witch Project 2
Conspiracy Theory
Doc Hollywood
Fargo & Barton Fink
Gods and Monsters
Hamlet
Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
It Could Happen To You
Kalifornia
Man who wasn't there
Millers Crossing
Mystery, Alaska (Bootleg)
O Brother Where Art Thou
O Brother Where Art Thou (Promo)
Psycho III
Raising Arizona - Blood Simple
Rob Roy
Selected Cues (Promo)
Simone
Spanish Prisoner (Bootleg)
Storyville
The Alamo
The Big Lebowski (OST)
The Chamber
The Corruptor
The Generals Daughter
The Hi-Lo Country
The Jackal Score (Promo)
The Rookie (Academy Promo)
Three Kings
What Planet Are You From (Bootleg)