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Graham Watt Standard Userer	Hey, where is everybody? December's half-gone already. DIRTY HARRY (Lalo Schifrin) - the new Aleph release of this excellent score. Great great great. Will be getting MAGNUM FORCE and THE ENFORCER when they come out. This is part of the reason I got into film music in the first place. MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC (selections from THE MOLE PEOPLE by Heinz Roemheld and Herman Stein; THEM by Bronislau Kaper; IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE by Herman Stein, Irving Gertz and Henry Mancini; and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA by Mischa Bakaleinikoff) - now this is an absolutely great re-recording of these scores, beautifuly done. This is the OTHER reason I got into film music. I really must hand it to producer David Schecter on this. This is a top-notch package, and the booklet in itself is just amazing, packed with information about who did what on those old patchwork scores. Sound is splendid, playing very faithful to the originals etc. I can't rate this highly enough, in fact, it's funny, but the music in itself is almost a secondary pleasure. Almost. Will be putting my order in for MORE MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC soon. THE HAMMER VAMPIRE FILM MUSIC COLLECTION (selections from LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES and KISS OF THE VAMPIRE by James Bernard; VAMPIRE CIRCUS by David Whitaker; and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE by Harry Robinson) - I didn't even know this existed, so I snapped it up immediately I saw it. I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that this may have been GDI's last release. These scores are incomplete, and I think that they just put together the only existing bits of those old scores (as they did for their FRANKENSTEIN compilation?), which doesn't really make for a completely satisfying listen. VAMPIRE CIRCUS in particular is wooly-sounding, and perhaps some of the best cues were lost for all the movies on the disc, so none of the pieces really build up to a climax, resulting in the architecture being all wrong. But just look at all those great Hammer composers here - even if the CD is imperfect, I think it's as perfect as we'll get, certainly if those were the only existing cues left. And, of course, this kind of film and music is what got me into film music in the first place. Did I say that about anything else?
posted 12-12-2004 01:39 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Standard Userer	I'm here. The question is, where is my money?
posted 12-12-2004 01:49 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	Graham: Are you in close proximity to a college record library? If so, see if you can find an old vinyl copy of Schifrin's Rock Requiem. The title is self-explanatory. Or rather semi-explanatory. Because not all of it is rock music. Some of the tracks are jazzish or bossa-novish or mod-a-go-go cheezpoppish. Some of it is brilliant modern-classical choral music. And the infuriating thing is that it still hasn't been transferred to CD. [Message edited by Luscious Lazlo on 12-12-2004]
posted 12-12-2004 05:57 PM PT (US)

SBD Standard Userer	In the last few days: Cellular (John Ottman) Addams Family Values (Marc Shaiman) [Message edited by SBD on 12-13-2004]
posted 12-12-2004 08:19 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	Luscious, no such SF concept exists nearby, I'm afraid. I don't think I know "Rock Requiem", but I remember (very vaguely) both "Black Widow" and "Towering Toccata". There was some crossover stuff on those too, although I think there were also, sadly, frightening leanings towards disco strutting on display. Still gotta love Lalo.
posted 12-13-2004 04:04 AM PT (US)

rkeaveney Standard Userer	'More Improvised Music From Alexander' - Vangelis 'Drone and Synth Percussion Christmas' - Graeme Revell 'Music From Films With The Word "Terminal" In Them' - Various (feat. music from: 'The Terminal' by Williams, 'Terminal Velocity' by McNeely, 'Terminal Invasion' by Manfredini, 'The Terminal Man' by Bach) 'Music From and Inspired by The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album Inspired by The Film Spongebob Squarepants' - Various Ryan
posted 12-13-2004 07:40 PM PT (US)

SBD Standard Userer	In today: Heart of Darkness Infinity O Pioneers! Shadow Conspiracy (NP, by the way) True Women All have been obtained in Intrada's Amazing Bruce Broughton Blowout! I trust you've all taken advantage of this as well?
posted 12-15-2004 03:26 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	I also saw the INtrada ad a few days ago and will be ordering three of those Broughtons later this week: 1. Heart of Darkness 2. Ballad of Lucy Whipple 3. O Pioneers Also have these on the way in mail 1. Mountbatten 2. Agony and Ecstasy/Prologue-Varese Club 3. Music for Westerns-Friedhofer, Waxman, Herrmann etc. Also ordering Adolf Deutch scores on Marco Polo Adventures of Mark Twain-Steiner-only 8 bucks Cherry 2000/No Mans Land have gotten several more recently too: Timeline and Great Train Robbery Big Wednesday Extraordinary Gentlemen score by T Jones, really good and several others. J.
posted 12-15-2004 04:39 PM PT (US)

JohnHJohnson Non-Standard Userer	My only purchase this month (so far), has been The Jungle Book, which arrived this morning from The Film Music Society. So far,I'm enjoying this score. My other CDs I'm expecting will be: Lawman, Shadow Conspiracy and Dark Crystal.
posted 12-16-2004 10:38 AM PT (US)

Eric Paddon Standard Userer	Pre-Christmas: -Sheena (Hartley) Mussolini: The Untold Story (Rosenthal) Christmas Day!: -Mutiny On The Bounty (Kaper) The Agony And The Ecstacy (North/Goldsmith) Julius Caesar (Rozsa) Beloved Infidel (Waxman) The Story Of Ruth (Waxman) Cimarron (Waxman)
posted 12-25-2004 07:41 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Standard Userer	SWAT (Elliot Goldenthal) Ever After (George Fenton) Dangerous Beauty (George Fenton) The Village (James Newton Howard) Meet Joe Black (Thomas Newman) Hamlet (Dmitri Shostakovich) - and Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)
posted 12-25-2004 08:27 AM PT (US)

Alexborn007 Standard Userer	On Dangerous Ground (Hermann) Home Alone 2: Deluxe Edition (Williams) Hawaii (Bernstein) Ace Combat 05: The Unsung War (Various) Hana-Bi (Hisaishi) Sleepy Hollow (Elfman) Flight of the Phoenix (Beltrami) Merry Christmas guys Enjoy the day! NP - Ace Combat 05: The Unsung War [Message edited by Alexborn007 on 12-25-2004] [Message edited by Alexborn007 on 12-25-2004]
posted 12-25-2004 09:20 AM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	Got for Xmas: Indiana Jones Trilogy Boxset E.T. Collector's Edition The Simpsons Season 4 Boxset
posted 12-25-2004 09:47 AM PT (US)

CindyLover1969 Standard Userer	I got Far From Heaven on Christmas Eve, and the Star Wars trilogy box set on the day itself (plus Spider-Man 2 and The Final Countdown came for me in the post Dec. 24 as well).
posted 12-25-2004 11:38 PM PT (US)

craig Non-Standard Userer	Hey, everyone! New to the board. And a score fanatic. I got reeeeeally lucky these past few days before Xmas. I got my hands on the scores to "The Game" and "Philadelphia" (Howard Shore), A Perfect Murder (James Newton Howard), "Carlito's Way" (Patrick Doyle), And the soundtracks to "The Family Man", "Anywhere, But Here", and "Heartbreakers" to complete my Elfman collection.
posted 12-27-2004 08:17 AM PT (US)

Dalboz Standard Userer	Shrek 2 (score) Finding Neverland Birth
posted 12-27-2004 08:45 AM PT (US)

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