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Talking of Donald Sutherland, isn't an improved CD of Donaggio's excellent "Don't Look Now" long overdue?
Love the score - not sure what the rights situation is - it was on TER?
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Bruce, I've been thinking seriously about buying this entirely unknown-to-me set of scores. And yes, the set of scores is a factor in my thinking, beyond just the first.
That's not something I'm going to do the first day something obscure comes available. And I'm guessing that I'm not alone in this. I need to time to decide.
But what you wrote was so insulting to me personally, that it actually does make it hard to want to purchase it.
Maybe you didn't intend to be insulting. Maybe you just wanted to demonstrate for us the way things have to work in this business.
But I can't understand how you think berating those of us who do read your threads, and buy many of your releases, and are seriously considering buying more, is in any way helpful to your own needs.
We are your allies, and simply because we don't necessarily respond to something does not make us less so.
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It's all egos.
Can't run a business without egos.
However, after hearing the samples, I'm definitely ordering this one. This music sounds so unlike what I'm used to hearing from Paul Glass that I'm definitely interested.
Have a nice day, y'all...
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I'm not familiar with the films or the music and I'm only familiar with Glass's work for 'Bunny Lake Is Missing'.
However, I've listened to the samples a few times and I really do like this brooding, haunting style of music so I will definitely be ordering.
Thanks for this one, Bruce.
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Bruce, I've been thinking seriously about buying this entirely unknown-to-me set of scores. And yes, the set of scores is a factor in my thinking, beyond just the first.
That's not something I'm going to do the first day something obscure comes available. And I'm guessing that I'm not alone in this. I need to time to decide.
But what you wrote was so insulting to me personally, that it actually does make it hard to want to purchase it.
Maybe you didn't intend to be insulting. Maybe you just wanted to demonstrate for us the way things have to work in this business.
But I can't understand how you think berating those of us who do read your threads, and buy many of your releases, and are seriously considering buying more, is in any way helpful to your own needs.
We are your allies, and simply because we don't necessarily respond to something does not make us less so.
This post is in response to the handful of people who have clearly misunderstood the point of my post (and BTW I'm hardly the first label to come on this board and mention low sales and how that will impact future like releases - I can dredge up those posts if anyone would like me to). Here is what I wrote: "I have learned a valuable lesson today. The sales to our usual soundtrack folk here are the worst we've EVER had for any title. These are seriously good scores so it's a little shocking to me. The good news is I don't care because this title is selling to WWII buffs and a whole other audience - so sales are actually just fine. The lesson learned is we could have sold the exact same amount had we just kept it at Overlord, a thirty-six minute score. We would not have sold one less copy, hence the extra time, dough, and effort to make this an incredible deal and keep the price to our regular one CD price was for nothing - it will not happen again, I can assure you."
I really and truly don't see this berating you're talking about. I see frustration that soundtrack fans aren't even opening this thread (even though I don't say that here), and I see that I could have saved a lot of time, effort and money (this CD took a year to bring forth, the longest time for any of our projects) by only doing Overlord and not worrying about making it a more attractive package, since that has resulted in almost no sales other than those for Overlord itself. So, to me insulting would have been calling people dopes or fools for not buying it - I don't see that I did that anywhere and I'm sorry if anyone thinks I did, but that wasn't the POINT of what I wrote.
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I'm unfamiliar with the films and the director, which fits in to what you wrote Bruce, that he never got the brass ring he deserved. I'll seek out Overlord on Netflix, and am looking forward to the CD.
DO rent this from Netflix Michael. It's available now, bluray later. I actually found it initially listed at Amazon, and those reviews were superb. Which is how I rented it at Netflix first - then I purchased it. It's beautifully composed black & white cinematography meshes very well with actual war footage kept by the British Government. Hope you enjoy it! How and why this film disappeared is a mystery. You should love the score in the film; I think.
Thanks for the recommendation Dave. I think I'll wait for the Blu-Ray, as the subject matter interests me, and am also a fan of great cinematography, so the purchase will be worth it.
Bruce, thanks again for making so much wonderful film music available to us. I've been introduced to so many new films, filmmakers and composers over the years because via the myriad of score releases through your label and all the others.
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Exactly the response I expected from you, Bruce.
I wrote hoping that it might be helpful to explain why something you write can be hurtful, that it might not really be achieving anything to do so.
I have always stayed silent on your remarks of this type, but thought it important for you to know that it may simply be counterproductive.
In case you cared.
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In the past, I've made enthusiastic suggestions here re 'Overlord' which is a stunning score to a very fine film. Ten times better than most Hollywood pap about D-Day, frankly.
Glass's score is beautiful, and slips with ease from a Glenn Millar smoochy, lazy style to full-blooded Vaughan-Williams, but not of a cheap or pastiche nature.
And the film, especially the poignant 'laying out for burial' symbolic scene in the morgue, and the very sad shots of the dead and wounded being loaded for transport, plus the aerial bombing footage, all very deep. How anyone can be dismissive of this score, I dunno.
Still, you can't have everything ....
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Exactly the response I expected from you, Bruce.
I wrote hoping that it might be helpful to explain why something you write can be hurtful, that it might not really be achieving anything to do so.
I have always stayed silent on your remarks of this type, but thought it important for you to know that it may simply be counterproductive.
In case you cared.
Exactly the response I expected from you, Sean 
Seriously, I have explained my post all I'm going to. I made it VERY clear in my original post and I made it clear again. I don't know how much clearer I can be frankly - whatever I may think about people who don't even open a new release thread to check it out, that is not what I posted about. I posted that to go the extra mile on a title like this was, in the end, not worth it for Kritzerland, as the resulting sales would have been the same whether the extras were on it or not. I just can't see what was "hurtful" - there's NOTHING "hurtful" in my comments. I can agree with you to ease your pain, but I don't understand the pain or the reaction.
Also, at the time I made the post there were less than four hundred views of this thread, which was, at that time, a little wacky to me. NOW there are over 1800 - that's more like it, so if my post made this get some people to at least hear the samples, then that's a good thing
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