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If you've heard Star Trek II and SWTWC, then you've heard a note.
Holy TOLEDO you're not kidding! This is... well, it's comically delightful! It's definitely the Battle in the Mutara Nebula's long-winded little brother. Also Kahn's Pets, Surprise Attack... it's like a big, ad-lib rehearsal for all of the the happy swashbuckle of Wrath of Kahn.
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Yes, its a gorgeous score that I dip into with some frequency.
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The Horner score is a personal favorite of mien and one of my absolute favorites by him. I surely didn't think it would get released anytime soon, then the FSM CD was announced -- that was a good day. :-)
I am still awaiting another one by him, "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper". I think that was CBS, too. I remember Lukas asking in a thread here for suggestions, pointing to the UCLA(?) collection of donated CBS tapes. So many goodies but unfortunately FSM didn't closed shop before those (and an Omnibus Volume 2).
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May 23, 2022 - 3:40 AM
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Graham Watt
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One of the great things about turning into a brainless mollusc that only buys one soundtrack a year is that I always find my wish list getting longer, and I never pine for things which the labels might release in ten years time. Buy dis CD today, and stop thinking about what's still to come!
So this came in as part of the latest batch, and what a joy it is. If somebody had said that I had to listen to 20 minutes of Hillbilly music, with banjo, accordeon etc, I'd have commited suicide. But the Goldsmith here is from 1971 when he could do little wrong. THE HOMECOMING may be The Waltons (no relation to the guy channeled by Frank Cordell), but it's great. What Goldsmith could do with so little was amazing. Heartfelt, but never schmaltzy. A lovely score.
The Horner is a delight too. Just pre-TREK II, this has some of that film's hallmarks, but it's a sprightly listen in its own right. I think I might even prefer this "before he was famous" Horner to the mega-budget Horner we got later on. A wonderful breezy listen (except for the spooky bits in the cave). I think my dwindling mollusc brain detected that the main rhythm was "possibly influenced" by Goldsmith's THE (FIRST) GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. But I'm only saying that to appear clever. I'm not you know.
Buy dis CD! It's been out for eleven years! Why dwell on the future! It might never happen!
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