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Sep 13, 2014 - 1:13 AM
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BUMRAP
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Been collecting soundtracks and listening since well, around 1965. Then I saw an ad for the Mickey One soundtrack in a Playboy magazine, and hunted in the usual bay area locations. The MGM album astonished me. I never heard anything like it before...or since. I consider it to be one of the top five recordings of anything in my music library. I'd say it got me into collecting soundtracks. The more esoteric, the better. My lungs are probably contaminated with the used record dust one gets from flipping through albums in stores. Naturally, I checked out Stan Getz after this, and earlier Sauter material. Mickey One is not background material. Now, the CD is out of print, but easy to find on Amazon. The curious thing about this score is that the actual music in the film is not half as wide open as the original album was. Normally this would mean that the music was smoothed out for the LP. It's the opposite. The lp blows the doors off the film track. Now the CD release has both versions. It's pretty obvious which is which. The original MGM pressing was fair, at best. God, remember the quality of MGM's 2001 LP? This ain't no dynagroove recording. So, the CD solves that issue. I could go on and on about this recording...it's so life affirming. Ecstatic. Great extras on the CD, and the album has a pull out folder...note the rear pic!
Last year I completed a short film called
Bum Rap - A Noir Fantasy, and it's dedicated to all the important influences of film and music that shaped my mind. It's up on youtube in HD. Hope you can catch it. It's not available on Iphones or mobile media like Ipads. It wants to be seen and heard on the bigger stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH7vdg8m9MY
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Sep 13, 2014 - 8:35 AM
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OnyaBirri
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This was one of my first soundtrack LPs also. Agree in general about MGM pressings, although I unloaded my shrill stereo and traded up for the mono.
At the time I got it, I knew of both artists via the jazz world, and had a number of the Sauter-Finegan albums.
It is indeed a crazy, all-over-the-map record, like some manic jazz nightmare. Parts of it are a tough listen. Aren't there passages with polka music?
I finally saw the film recently when I was on 1960s New York jag. Other films included most of Cassavetes' output, Who Killed Teddy Bear, and Mr. Buddwing. The film was problematic and confusing, but, ultimately, I would give it a thumbs up.
If you don't already have it, pick up the Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter collaboration "Focus," a Verve LP which I believe pre-dates "Mickey One" by a few years. It is/was on CD. It is not as jagged or nervous as "Mickey One," but Sauter's charts are deep. I'm not sure if Getz is quite in the same place as Sauter in terms of musical approach - he at times falls back on devices that don't necessarily fit the music - but it is still very good.
Finally, check out Sauter-Finegan if you have not already. Their albums date from the early-50s hi-fi era, and sparkle with that irresistible, futuristic space-age modernism.
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