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Rest assured that we will soon come out at a very real outcome.
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May 5, 2009 - 11:27 AM
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Thor
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Wonderful! Finally I can get rid of my previous copy, as it's scratched as hell and virtually unplayable after I lent it to a friend of mine... who probably gave it to his cat! 
P.S: waiting for Thor chiming in and saying he's perfectly happy with the original release 
Indeed! Allow me to be perfectly predictable:
I'm the biggest Elfman nut in the world, but this is one of the most pointless releases I've seen in a long, long time - an example of a CD release frequency totally out of control. Not only is the existing album WIDELY AVAILABLE, it's also MORE than long enough already. In fact, it's way too bombastic and "sturm-und-drangey" for me to sit through THE WAY IT IS NOW! I always have to mentally prepare for this album, and even then it's a chore. Releasing an expanded version of this is like kicking you when you're down and exhausted from listening.
HOWEVER, it was a cool surprise, and judging from the response, I'm sure there's a market for it. So good luck, LaLaLand.
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Probably one of the funniest moments in this film is when the head Martian comes to speak to Congress and taps the microphone to make sure it is on.
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Hey LaLaland, yet another GREAT release! Definitely ordered!
I have a question: are the tracks that were recorded in SF identified as such? Or left out all together? I've always been curious which were which since the regular album doesn't say. (And now I'm doubly curious since I just heard the story that Elfman was so dissatisfied with the SF trumpet shakes that he literally came running out of the booth yelling 'That's it!!' when the trumpets played the sh** out of them in the LA sessions :-)
We do indeed have the demo's they did -- The trailer music and the Orch demo of the Main title were recorded up in SF.
As for tracks like the LANDING we all felt the film version was padded out with a lot of filler music (about 1:50 worth) and that the original album presentation was the best listen. The attack afterward is the track FIRST FIRE FIGHT, which was not on the original. That kicks ACK!
We dropped the newspaper cue and a couple of other stingers simply because we felt they were not needed.
We really wanted to include the bonus tracks more than anything else and since we were running out of space on the album some things had to go. If we did a 2 disc set, the 2nd disc would have been around 2 1/2 minutes long and would have cost us twice the price... both with AFM fees and production costs.
MV
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I would insert the smilies "clap" and "not worthy" here if I knew how...
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MV,
Any chance you can release a better remastered version of
TOP SECRET! - Maurice Jarre
including all the Val Kilmer songs?
Since you seem to be doing movies with "!" in the title.
Funny you mention it. There might be some rights issues tied up with Varese and the songs, but it is definitely on my list. When we met ZAZ for Airplane I had them sign my dvd... it's a personal favorite of mine. It's the only film I ever saw that made me pee my pants from laughing so hard. I was about 10 at the time and my buddy Jason and I watched it at his house. We just about busted our guts open. That ballet sequence gets me every time. A truly underrated masterpiece from ZAZ!
MV
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I've never been huge on Elfman's editing of his own cues (see Dolores Claiborne and his Mission: Impossible score, where the longer version of the "Zoom B" cue is on the song album, but not the score album?), and even though I'll probably get this anyway, I'd much rather have more of the score I heard in the film than couple of demos and alternates that pad out the running time. In fact (and I don't mean to be rude, because I'm a fan of what you guys are doing generally), if you thought the extra 2 minutes of "The Landing" was filler, what do you call a demo of the MT?
Where's Ryan to make sense of this?
Shaun
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