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I thought it might be fun to see what titles the vinyl enthusiasts would like to see in the future.
The nice thing about this is, the sky's the limit, so even the juiciest titles could be possibilities.
Here's some titles that seem like natural fits for me:
LLL titles:
- The Warriors
- Batman (Hefti/Riddle)
- The Howling
- Wavelength
Kritzerland:
- Carrie
- The Fly / The Return of The Fly
- The First Nudie Musical
- The Little Shop of Horrors
FSM:
- Coma
- THX 1138
- Body Heat
- Bullitt
Just some initial thoughts. What are yours?
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The Aleph recording of Bullitt is coming out on vinyl pretty soon, FYI.
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Apr 2, 2014 - 10:09 AM
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John-73
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The Indiana Jones & Star Wars trilogies. The original Empire LP sounds spectacular, as does Steve Hoffman's 1993 DCC LP pressing (better than the very slightly muffled sounding CD equivalent), and I'd be great to have a full set of albums cut from the masters, with superb sleeve artwork, liner notes etc.
The Psycho soundtracks too!
What I'd also like to see from soundtracks on vinyl though is transparancy from the record labels about how the files were transferred to the LP master. It's far too common for bog-standard 16-bit digital files to be converted to analogue, and transferred to LP (the full process is but a Google search away, if anyone is interested, and as modern LPs aren't cheap, you should be  ).
If the LP has been cut from higher-res digital files (24/96 or higher), or even better a full analogue signal chain from mastertape through to finished product with no conversions, then the advantages are potentially there to hear...
LPs cut from 16-bit digital files are a waste of time (unless buying just for the artwork!) and you'd be best getting the equivalent CD, which will sound better as it hasn't gone through the extra steps to make it suitable for transferring to LP.
Most people don't care though. It's an LP so should automatically sound 'warm', 'fantastic', 'analogue' etc.
Know your source!
John.
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The Black Hole & The best of the Bonds.
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FSM:
- Coma
That's an interesting choice because the already existing LP sounds different from the FSM edition and yet -- if i remember it well -- both editions are from the same recording sessions but with a different mix. Two completely and complementary listening experiences on a gatefold LP edition : that would be awesome.
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COMA seems like a natural fit for a new vinyl edition, but I kinda doubt it has enough name recognition to warrant it. Then again, Death Waltz did TWINS OF EVIL and THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, so what do I know? I do have the original LP of COMA, and boy, it's fun.
Practically any major genre title from the 70s or 80s would be a great fit. I'd also love to see more Les Baxter stuff get put out on wax. Those would be a lot of fun. Any of the AIP / Corman titles, really. Italian horror soundtracks seem to be selling well, but I'd love for some of the labels to consider all that great funky 70s cop-movie music. THE FRENCH CONNECTION, for example, or THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3. God, I'd love to hear PELHAM on a turntable!
With all the BATMAN anniversary stuff that Warner is working on over the next year or so, it would be great to see one of the labels do the '66 BATMAN. That would be a blast to have.
Didn't know that BULLITT was coming -- will have to check that out!
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Accidental double post. Apologies.
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Good thread topic and some excellent choices listed already. I'd love to see vinyl reissues of some of Giorgio Moroder's most requested and best remembered scores, but in addition to the previous album versions of the cues, I'd like to have the "movie versions," such as the iconic "Chase" as it appears in film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS. Moroder obviously has a large following outside of film music aficionados and these would crossover well to djs and dance, disco, house, synthwave, and electro fans, in the same way that so many of the Death Waltz releases already have.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
SCARFACE
AMERICAN GIGOLO
CAT PEOPLE
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I'd like to see scores that never made it to vinyl during the 60's appear magically, as if . . .
But the interesting thing is there were plenty of soundtracks that were not long enough and had to be paired with other scores, like Seconds, for example.
BTW, Pelham 1, 2, 3 was released on vinyl.
And another thing, Mondo's release of Danny Elfmans's opening and closing themes to Batman The Animated Series on 7 inch discs with four different artsy covers were sold out in less than 30 minutes just yesterday. There's a mean hunger out there for vinyl and film music.
When will our specialty labels take the plunge?
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Is that a screen name? Sounds like something from Thunderbirds.