BSX released a terrific recording of the Alan Howarth/John Carpenter cues.
that BSX album is most of/the entire score re-recorded on synthesizer. The Carpenter/Howarth material will sound closer to the movie tracks than the Morriconne, obv.
Yes and the Morricone cues are really faithful too (even replicating some of the room noises from the 1982 original sessions ??)
I just ck'd my 1998 USA DVD and there is no separate score -- isolated or otherwise!! So I have no idea what Wikipedia is referring to?!!!
You’re probably not checking in the right place. It’s not in the main menu but tucked away in the bonus features: "John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary (83:56 with Optional Isolated Score in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo).
Again, those are just selections from the [Varese] album.
While on tour last year, Carpenter gave an interview where he stated that a complete version of The Thing score is forthcoming. Not sure if he was referring to the recent BSX 2LP or something else...
I found the isolated score -- thx for the help.
The BSX score is superb! I found it on Amazon as a download. I much prefer it to my EM-only Varese album.
I'm now confused again. For the non-EM cues, how much of the JC/Alan Howarth stuff was (compositionally) JC and how much AH?
Speaking of AH, someone YouTube'd a segment from one of his 2011 concerts. From what I can hear (poor audio quality from a phone mic, I presume), this guy has got some talent:
Interestingly, this topic led me to discover to another interesting composer whose works I was largely unfamiliar with: Alan Howarth. (sorry to all the Jerry Goldsmith fans posting in this thread!)
I'm impressed with AH's Halloween III. Here it is performed live at the Halloween 30 Years of Terror Convention in Pasadena (late 2008):
Interestingly, this topic led me to discover to another interesting composer whose works I was largely unfamiliar with: Alan Howarth. (sorry to all the Jerry Goldsmith fans posting in this thread!)
I'm impressed with AH's Halloween III. Here it is performed live at the Halloween 30 Years of Terror Convention in Pasadena (late 2008):
THE THING is a great film, and I knew it was popular, but I'm surprised by the huge fanbase interest -- down to incy wincy details -- on display in this thread (by all kinds of members who rarely rear their heads around here).
THE THING is a great film, and I knew it was popular, but I'm surprised by the huge fanbase interest -- down to incy wincy details -- on display in this thread (by all kinds of members who rarely rear their heads around here).
Carpenter's Thing blew me away when it first came out, and I pity people who've only seen it on the small(er) screen. The score was so effective, the fx ahead of their time...
He took the original and added Lovecraft. One of the best horror pictures ever imo.
Carpenter's Thing blew me away when it first came out, and I pity people who've only seen it on the small(er) screen. The score was so effective, the fx ahead of their time...
He took the original and added Lovecraft. One of the best horror pictures ever imo.
I prefer to think Carpenter stayed much closer to John W. Campbell's story, "Who Goes There?", if that is what you mean by "the original".
Not sure that he added lovecraft. He just had the screenwriter (the son of Burt Lancaster) go back to the original source material - the short story Who Goes There?
I have never heard Carpenter in any interview or any commentary mention an intent to infuse Lovecraft into it.
He did go there for In The Mouth of Madness though.
Carpenter's Thing blew me away when it first came out, and I pity people who've only seen it on the small(er) screen. The score was so effective, the fx ahead of their time...
He took the original and added Lovecraft. One of the best horror pictures ever imo.
I prefer to think Carpenter stayed much closer to John W. Campbell's story, "Who Goes There?", if that is what you mean by "the original".
Yah, it is just that. The original story is quite horrific with animals and men "Thinging out". So it's just that. No added HP Lovecraft. The Thing is my second favourite film (after Jaws).
Elite, my ass....oy. Dig that Intrada-style press blurb too - Wow! If it smells fishy, and hasn't been discussed here ad infinitum, probably a boot. I can count on one hand the flash in the pan upstart labels that released 1 or 2 goodies before vanishing....maybe one hand. If it ain't one of the trusted known labels, bevare... take care....DON'T pull the string!!
I was very glad to buy BSXs The Thing for the really well done Carpenter/Howarth synth parts. I always missed them from the all-Morricone soundtrack. And I have to say DESPAIR is one of my favourite tracks ever.
Why do we have members still, who think they have to do a search and find a release on some obscure website of a known score? If a known score gets released there will be two or three htreads here and it'll be a label we either know or one that's still relatively fresh; no hunting will be required.
