Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I just finished the lovely album for Conti's An Unmarried Woman.

High Risk by the underappreciated Billy Goldenberg is up next.

Just finished listening to a few of my newly acquired scores from under the tree.


"American Friends" by Georges Delerue
"The Beastmaster" (expanded) by Lee Holdridge
"Airport" by Alfred Newman

Tonight's playlist was as follows:


The Dirty Dozen - Frank DeVol
Jack the Bear - James Horner
The Stunt Man - Dominic Frontiere
Summer and Smoke - Elmer Bernstein

Giving Michael Kamen's Brazil a spin around the block recently.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

I last gave Brass Target a play through. I'm quite pleased with the product and the return of the Club series in general. I suppose that the slow Club release frequency makes these vintage Varese albums all the more special. It was funny to read in the notes about the film's producers wanting more music after the initial scored viewing just for the sake of having more music with no artistic discussion as to why.

I also gave Serpico a listen. That's a perfect album arrangement if I've ever heard one.

Over the weekend, I gave Elmer Bernstein's Birdman of Alcatraz a spin (which I purchased recently cause it was going OOP and after reading good reviews), and I gotta say it is really good music. It certainly hits the nail on the spot in the drama department. You could almost say this gives his superior score for To Kill a Mockingbird a run for it's money.

Listening today to the following:

Shadow of the Vampire - Dan Jones
Yes, Giorgio - Michael J. Lewis/John Williams
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Quartet label) - Miklos Rozsa
Ship of Fools - Ernest Gold
Where's Jack (LP Transfer) - Elmer Bernstein
The Tale of Despereaux - William Ross

Today:
Maurice Jarre: A Passage To India (Quartet/Tadlow)

I've been in the mood for Maurice Jarre for the last few days.

In my cd changer today:


Ravagers - Fred Karlin
Joseph Andrews - John Addison
Dracula: Dead and Loving It - Hummie Mann
The Martian Chronicles - Stanley Myers
Manon of the Spring - Jean-Claude Petit

Today so far I've listed too:


Frantic - Ennio Morricone
Diamond Head - John Williams
Soldier of Fortune - Hugo Friedhofer
Something Wicked This way Comes - James Horner
Christopher Columbus (lp transfer) - Riz Ortolani

The Light at the Edge of the World - Piero Piccioni
Shipwrecked - Patrick Doyle
Blow out - Pino Donaggio

playing The Abyss Deluxe Edition a lot.
i've had the original vinyl since it was released in 89, but it was never one of my favs, now though, the new and improved sound has given me a burst of unexpected nostalgia - i was fourteen when it first came out, and obsessed with cameron - and the long sparse tracks like searching the montana and bud's big dive that many soundtrack fans might classify as uninteresting i find to be really epic, the tones and textures Silvestri uses are consistently arresting to me.
a surprise winner for me to start the year with.

The Swan - Bronislau Kaper
Dressed to Kill - Pino Donaggio
The Fury - John Williams
The Train - Maurice Jarre

I'm listening to Bernsteins' 'The Buccanneer' and Hans Salters' 'The Far Horizons' and I've ordered Waxmans' 'Demetrius and the Gladiators'. The thing is these are all Kritzerland releases and the only beef I've got with them is (a) No track Timings on the CD cover or liner notes and (b) the liner notes themselves can be frustratingly vague on certain aspects. Take 'The Buccaneer' for instance I have got the DRG release where it states that 'music composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein' whereas the Kritzerland release points out that the recording is taken from the original masters but is played and conducted by Kurt Graunke and the Graunke Symphony Orchestra in Germany. Now I assume that this is because of the musicians union strike in Hollywood about that time but had Intrada been releasing this recording I would like to think that Dougg might have put some more information about that situation in his contribution to the liner notes. (One blessing is that the pipe and drum music recorded is played by a genuine Scottish military band, 1st btn Royal Scots, based at the time in Germany.)

La Lune Dans Le Caniveau (The Moon In The Gutter) -Gabriel Yared The vinyl pressing I've had for years, recently bought the 1989 Milan CD for a decent price.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy