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HMMMMMM.... Can "THE CONQUEST OF SPACE" be far behind?
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Oh, yeah, I'm buying this watermelon.
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Absolutely EXCELLENT release! I keep saying I don't need any more CDs and then something like this comes up! Some of us have been championing these scores for what seems a lifetime! What marvelous, inventive music. I'll be giving ROB CRUSOE ON MARS a few more spins to get in the mood!
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Sep 13, 2011 - 9:26 AM
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Mark Ford
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Although I'm a big 50s sci-fi movie fan, I had never seen The Space Children until it was riffed on MST3K. I have since seen it in its original version. Jack Arnold directed some of my favorites from the era: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man and It Came from Outer Space. For the most part all of his sci-fi films were solidly directed, intelligent entries into the genre. The Space Children has a message and solid direction as usual of the veteran cast and the children, but ultimately for me comes off as a bit dull in the telling which is more to do with the scipt. The score however brought some much needed color and atmospheric eeriness to the proceedings and helps make it a better film for me. As a standalone listen, the score is a veritable compendium of 50's sci-fi music and manages to do so without the ubiquitous Theremin!
Anyway, how can a movie that stars a solemn Mr. Drysdale sans toupee, a drunken Professor Roy Hinkley and Uncle Fester in swimming trunks, together with a giant glowing brain, be all that bad!
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I too received my copy and gave it a spin in my truck while driving today....SPACE CHILDREN sounds amazing...the quality of sound for it's age is wonderful. As a synth guy myself I love the Novachord usage. There's a recurring motif throughout the score which reminds me of ALIEN (a low pulsing sound) and also some percussive Novachord notes with echo that remind me of STAR TREK TOS (the Talosians). I wonder if Jack Cookerly was playing it?
COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK's theme reminds me of Gort's theme from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (a good thing) The momentary faint bits of audible talking from the M&E track don't bother me.
Lukas, I salute you, sir....for releasing yet another treasure for my scifi archives. THANK YOU.
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BTW- THE SPACE CHILDREN features Sandy Descher in a role as one of the kids...(she was the little girl who screamed "THEM!!! THEM!!" in the film of the same name)
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hmmm....hard to believe this isn't being discussed by more folks. Hope it's selling well.
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I did my duty. Just waiting to get it now.
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Charles, your enormous space brain does you proud. The organists were Jack Cookerly, Chauncey Haines and Wesley Tourtellotte. We'll get the complete orchestra list on the site in due course.
Lukas
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THIS arrived today-
THIS is the best godam listen I've had in a while- Wow- WOWIE- WOW--
Scary stuff, kiddees...
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