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WOW, really? And there isn't even a rerelease for It's Alive or Double Life/Indemnity since...when? Dumb.
FSM officially premiered It's Alive in 2012, their fifth-to-last release ever. It's still in print and doesn't need a rerelease. Double Indemnity was released in as-complete-as-possible form in 2015 by Intrada. It went out of print about a year or so ago, so probably too soon for anyone to bother with a reissue.
A Double Life, Rozsa's second Oscar-winner, has on the other hand never been released (outside of a fine re-recorded suite on one of Rozsa's Polydor recordings in the 70s)...this may mean the original recording has been lost to the ages and we can only hope someone decides to spend the (considerable) money to fund a complete new recording.
So nothing about this is dumb.  Well, maybe aside from Varese Encoring Runaway: The Deluxe Edition before encoring the far superior The 'Burbs: The Deluxe Edition...I'm sure they had their reasons, though.
Yavar
Wellll I have and love the FSM It's Alive, and would STILL LOVE a rerecording. I actually think that score deserves it more than some of his more popular like Gulliver. It's so representive of his late era experimentation, and in that sense is nearly as important as Taxi Driver. In a way, it's also related to Wrong Man...however I like IA better than the former.
Waittaminute...there was an Intrada Indemnity???????????????? (eyes bugging out)
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Waittaminute...there was an Intrada Indemnity???????????????? (eyes bugging out)
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9968/.f
Almost 40 minutes of the score, which is all that survived. Sounds great though! I think the rest may have been available on an isolated music & effects track.
Yavar
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Waittaminute...there was an Intrada Indemnity???????????????? (eyes bugging out)
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9968/.f
Almost 40 minutes of the score, which is all that survived. Sounds great though! I think the rest may have been available on an isolated music & effects track.
Yavar
Hmm...you know, I've seen that before but passed over it because I thought it was a suite collection...but hey I can deal with my Rozsa in suites, Background to Violence kicks bootay!
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Look at the tracklist. Not suites, just the complete surviving elements from multiple Paramount noir scores, including the majority of Double Indemnity.
Yavar
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Look at the tracklist. Not suites, just the complete surviving elements from multiple Paramount noir scores, including the majority of Double Indemnity.
Yavar
Heyy got some Friedhofer on there, too! I can tell this will be a Grail to me...also the expanded Lost Weekend.
Oh dear, I'm talking Rozsa on a Jerry topic. I'm hopeless!
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Oh c'mon WA.
There are tons of ALIEN threads you could have RESURRECTED!
( pun intenended?)
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Oh c'mon WA.
There are tons of ALIEN threads you could have RESURRECTED!
( pun intenended?)
Bwa!
(I love corny stuff btw).
That was a weird movie imo.
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Nothing against you WA. You boys are high-larry-us. Are you really that starved for female attention? If some dude posted they just bought Aliens you'd probably condemn him for taking so long to buy one the greatest scores of all-time.
Yavar, does your wife know about WA? Wait, don't answer. She does.
As a matter of fact, I find WA such a pleasant presence on this board, she is one of the very few members here I *have* commented on to my wife! I'll let others speak for themselves, but honestly her gender doesn't play into it for me -- unless you're saying her unusual degree of friendliness and enthusiasm is tied to her gender. I guess males do tend more to be jerks online than females do! I will confess that two other ladies, joan hue and edwzoomom, are among my other favorite members of this forum, but you don't see them getting as much attention because they are pretty thoroughly exposed to film music and aren't actively soliciting advice!
I guess I *am* starved for enthusiastic film music newbies, particularly ones who are open to older composers. You might not recall, but not too long ago we had another enthusiastic newbie here who was full of the excitement of discovery for all of our favorite composers. This one professed to be male, if I'm not mistaken. I had several great interactions with him (similar to WA) and would have continued, but the poor guy got slammed pretty hard here when he dared to voice a less-than-enthusiastic opinion about Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Adventures of Robin Hood. Instead of engaging with him respectfully, so many grumpy old men here took such great offense and attacked him for sharing his opinion that they scared him away. (Way to advance the cause of film music, guys!) Before I even had the chance to reply to his latest post, he had deleted everything he wrote and virtually disappeared.
If you want another example head on over to the JWfan forums, where I actually joined a few months ago (after just lurking for a while) because there was an enthusiastic young user going by Josh500 (presumably male?) asking for people's Top 5 Goldsmith scores, Top 5 Horner scores, etc. ad nauseum. But he had enthusiasm and a desire to learn which appealed to me, so I found cause to engage. All of these posts on this forum and that one are available if you want to confirm what I'm saying. The fact that you bring gender into this says more about you than it does about me.
If I am perfectly honest, one personal aspect of WagnerAlmighty that *has* affected me is the fact that she is a working composer. There are few of them willing to engage with us directly on this board, much less wide-eyed and open relative newcomers to the film music canon, influenced by Herrmann and Rozsa, eager for discovery of Newman and Goldsmith...THAT is something greatly to be nourished and encouraged in this day and age of homogenized McScoring.
Yavar
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Nothing against you WA. You boys are high-larry-us. Are you really that starved for female attention? If some dude posted they just bought Aliens you'd probably condemn him for taking so long to buy one the greatest scores of all-time.
Yavar, does your wife know about WA? Wait, don't answer. She does.
As a matter of fact, I find WA such a pleasant presence on this board, she is one of the very few members here I *have* commented on to my wife! I'll let others speak for themselves, but honestly her gender doesn't play into it for me -- unless you're saying her unusual degree of friendliness and enthusiasm is tied to her gender. I guess males do tend more to be jerks online than females do! I will confess that two other ladies, joan hue and edwzoomom, are among my other favorite members of this forum, but you don't see them getting as much attention because they are pretty thoroughly exposed to film music and aren't actively soliciting advice!
I guess I *am* starved for enthusiastic film music newbies, particularly ones who are open to older composers. You might not recall, but not too long ago we had another enthusiastic newbie here who was full of the excitement of discovery for all of our favorite composers. This one professed to be male, if I'm not mistaken. I had several great interactions with him (similar to WA) and would have continued, but the poor guy got slammed pretty hard here when he dared to voice a less-than-enthusiastic opinion about Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Adventures of Robin Hood. Instead of engaging with him respectfully, so many grumpy old men here took such great offense and attacked him for sharing his opinion that they scared him away. (Way to advance the cause of film music, guys!) Before I even had the chance to reply to his latest post, he had deleted everything he wrote and virtually disappeared.
If I am perfectly honest, one personal aspect of WagnerAlmighty that *has* affected me is the fact that she is a working composer. There are few of them willing to engage with us directly on this board, much less wide-eyed and open relative newcomers to the film music canon, influenced by Herrmann and Rozsa, eager for discovery of Newman and Goldsmith...THAT is something greatly to be nourished and encouraged in this day and age of homogenized McScoring.
Yavar
What a wonderful post! But WOW on the Korngold. I think your friend should come back, I can't imagine folks here would bear that much of a grudge (they've forgiven me for some embarrassing stupidities lol!).
Yes, those four favorite film composers of mine (and among my top ten composers of music, period)
have given me all kinds of inspiration and happy writing days. It's so strange how I really didn't listen to film music (even my childhood JG favorites) until Man of Steel...then shortly after went ridiculously NUTS over the Golden and Silver age guys!
Some of it had to do with my looking up "film composers who were also great composers" on Google or similar and seeing Bernard right at the top of the list. I remain staggered by the man's ability to evoke at times both alien yet somehow familiar (even comforting) atmospheres, such as the brilliant "Little Girl Lost" and the majority of "Beneath the 12 Mile Reef", as well as the super classics we all know and love.
Learning about my big four film composers has been one of the most impactful to my composition since my falling in love with Wagner and Beethoven's music many years ago Those two rocked my world like no other, but my first hearing the Ben Hur Ouverture provoked analogously rapturous listening experiences..Greatest Story Ever Told, King of Kings, Fahrenheit 451, Freud (in its Bartokian way).
Have I heard a late-era Beethoven or "Brandenburg Concerti" era Bach level of writing in film music? No...but then, I'm not sure there's ANY music that level before or since. Have I heard pieces that stand up to, oh...say, Mahler's seventh, Strauss' brilliant "Alpensinfonie", Copland's finest? Oh hell yes. And this estimation is coming from a graduate.
Paucis verbis, you folks listen to one heck of a lot of great music!
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Once , I got slammed down for lackluster Korngold appreciation..
Dusted myself off and kicked wrinkled Golden age butt!
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Nothing against you WA. You boys are high-larry-us. Are you really that starved for female attention? If some dude posted they just bought Aliens you'd probably condemn him for taking so long to buy one the greatest scores of all-time.
Yavar, does your wife know about WA? Wait, don't answer. She does.
As a matter of fact, I find WA such a pleasant presence on this board, she is one of the very few members here I *have* commented on to my wife! I'll let others speak for themselves, but honestly her gender doesn't play into it for me -- unless you're saying her unusual degree of friendliness and enthusiasm is tied to her gender. I guess males do tend more to be jerks online than females do! I will confess that two other ladies, joan hue and edwzoomom, are among my other favorite members of this forum, but you don't see them getting as much attention because they are pretty thoroughly exposed to film music and aren't actively soliciting advice!
I guess I *am* starved for enthusiastic film music newbies, particularly ones who are open to older composers. You might not recall, but not too long ago we had another enthusiastic newbie here who was full of the excitement of discovery for all of our favorite composers. This one professed to be male, if I'm not mistaken. I had several great interactions with him (similar to WA) and would have continued, but the poor guy got slammed pretty hard here when he dared to voice a less-than-enthusiastic opinion about Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Adventures of Robin Hood. Instead of engaging with him respectfully, so many grumpy old men here took such great offense and attacked him for sharing his opinion that they scared him away. (Way to advance the cause of film music, guys!) Before I even had the chance to reply to his latest post, he had deleted everything he wrote and virtually disappeared.
If you want another example head on over to the JWfan forums, where I actually joined a few months ago (after just lurking for a while) because there was an enthusiastic young user going by Josh500 (presumably male?) asking for people's Top 5 Goldsmith scores, Top 5 Horner scores, etc. ad nauseum. But he had enthusiasm and a desire to learn which appealed to me, so I found cause to engage. All of these posts on this forum and that one are available if you want to confirm what I'm saying. The fact that you bring gender into this says more about you than it does about me.
If I am perfectly honest, one personal aspect of WagnerAlmighty that *has* affected me is the fact that she is a working composer. There are few of them willing to engage with us directly on this board, much less wide-eyed and open relative newcomers to the film music canon, influenced by Herrmann and Rozsa, eager for discovery of Newman and Goldsmith...THAT is something greatly to be nourished and encouraged in this day and age of homogenized McScoring.
Yavar
Magnificent reply.
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Once , I got slammed down for lackluster Korngold appreciation..
Dusted myself off and kicked wrinkled Golden age butt!
(Randy Savage impersonation): "ooooooo YEAH!"
Golden and Silver YAY!.
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