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We're listening to this release right now (onto track two of THE FINAL OPTION as I type this), fresh outta the mailbox, and I am SO glad that Kritzerland released these two scores on a single CD. They are completely different in style, each great in its own right, yet are very compatible for back-to-back listening.
Bruce, I hope you don't ever start outsourcing the liner notes for your releases. I really dig your candid approach, insightful comments, and personal anecdotes. Keep on doing what you do so well.
Thanks for that. I was so hurt when my name did not show up in favorite writes of liner notes - I went and had some chocolate mousse cake I was so distraught.  Seriously, one of the joys of doing these is to do the liner notes because, as you've probably noticed, I don't just put out anything - I really have to like it or have some connection to it.
Our next title, for me, is a bit of a Holy Grail, a score few probably know from a film that probably isn't widely known (although it should be). The composer is one of my all-time favorites and the release was a complete fluke - I'd asked about this way back when I first started with MGM but no tapes existed so it wasn't possible. But I am nothing if not persistent and I had a brainstorm that happened to be correct and suddenly everything fell into place really quickly.
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sounds like another hit in the pipeline bruce!
Blue kirby - if you like Budd, you'll like who dares wins (f option).
I dont think you can go wrong with Billion Dollar Brain - the main theme is just great with all the pianos and the love theme on ondes is great. Originally on LP I found general midwinter's march a little repetitive but it serves the film well.
tough to second guess someone's taste butI dont think you would be disappointed.
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I received my copy on Saturday, it sounds great! Thank you!
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Miguel Rojo
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Finally got mine last week. Very much enjoying it.
shame the original thread got locked as I fear its feedback has got a bit lost.
The CD is great, worth it for Billion Dollar Brain alone!
I used to have the old LP of Who Dares Wins so I had forgotten that there are one or two fairly naff tracks on there - the ones that are for the female performance artist that incorporate with the traditional American themes in (no disrespect intended but this isnt normal Budd to me) however, that said, the main theme is so delicious - as are all its variations - that it is still a good score to have. Very good value for money.
I've had the Brain score on in the car twice now and it is magnificent. It really takes me back to the first time I saw the film and those computer keys opening credits at the beginning. Its possible Ive missed it when listening to the CD but I recall from the film - and I think the LP too - that the rather monotonous march for General Midwinter's army that goes on forever and ever and ever - seems to be missing, albeit there seems short hints at it. I recognise the theme where Caine and Maldon are chasing the trucks on the ice but I dont recall hearing this march? I think it begins when Midwinter inspects his troops and it carries on when they load into the silver tankers. It is quite possible I didnt hear it and was preoccupied in the car or perhaps it was omitted from the tapes and is not on the CD? Or maybe, to save us all from driving us mad, they left it off?
Bruce, can you sort out my memory here? know ye of such a track? Did I miss it on the CD?
(Please be sure, it aint a favourite track so in no way am I bemoaning its exclusion, if thats the case). Just intrigued.
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Finally got mine last week. Very much enjoying it.
shame the original thread got locked as I fear its feedback has got a bit lost.
The CD is great, worth it for Billion Dollar Brain alone!
I used to have the old LP of Who Dares Wins so I had forgotten that there are one or two fairly naff tracks on there - the ones that are for the female performance artist that incorporate with the traditional American themes in (no disrespect intended but this isnt normal Budd to me) however, that said, the main theme is so delicious - as are all its variations - that it is still a good score to have. Very good value for money.
I've had the Brain score on in the car twice now and it is magnificent. It really takes me back to the first time I saw the film and those computer keys opening credits at the beginning. Its possible Ive missed it when listening to the CD but I recall from the film - and I think the LP too - that the rather monotonous march for General Midwinter's army that goes on forever and ever and ever - seems to be missing, albeit there seems short hints at it. I recognise the theme where Caine and Maldon are chasing the trucks on the ice but I dont recall hearing this march? I think it begins when Midwinter inspects his troops and it carries on when they load into the silver tankers. It is quite possible I didnt hear it and was preoccupied in the car or perhaps it was omitted from the tapes and is not on the CD? Or maybe, to save us all from driving us mad, they left it off?
Bruce, can you sort out my memory here? know ye of such a track? Did I miss it on the CD?
(Please be sure, it aint a favourite track so in no way am I bemoaning its exclusion, if thats the case). Just intrigued.
Not sure about the track you're speaking of - everything that was on the LP is on the CD, as it was on the FSM Treasury Box set. The only thing we did was work on the sound.
Less than fifty left now.
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It was a drumming march, Bruce, very relentless and repetitive.
anybody else know the theme I mean from this film?
it's by Shostakovitch, I think it's from his 9th Symphony or his 11th.
Steve
Well, that would explain it. Since Varese now likes to do this, less than forty-eight.
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