If you've been into film music for a long time, you've seen a huge number of titles released. You have some great ones-- well-produced CDs of excellent scores-- that got set aside as new ones came in. Then the day comes to re-discover how great an old CD is.
Today I revisited THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (LLL, 2010). The CD is not all that old, but it has a fine vintage quality and I haven't played it in a while.
This edition stirred up some controversy over the question of whether it's in true stereo or not, with one poster (I recall only one) actually denouncing it, but I honestly love the sound.
Equally important to me: the completeness, with so many bonus tracks. I never thought I'd have the film version of "The Morning After" with vocal intact, but here it is along with the indelible Williams score. Magnificent.
Have you gotten re-acquainted lately with an excellent CD that sat untouched for too long?
That resurrected Dark City thread made me blow the dust off my copy and rediscover Trevor Jones' terrific score all over again after (probably?) years of non-listening.
If you've been into film music for a long time, you've seen a huge number of titles released. You have some great ones-- well-produced CDs of excellent scores-- that got set aside as new ones came in. Then the day comes to re-discover how great an old CD is.
This edition stirred up some controversy over the question of whether it's in true stereo or not, with one poster (I recall only one) actually denouncing it, but I honestly love the sound.
I think that certainly some tracks on the album are genuinely stereo, well if not, some kind of 2 channel mixdown at the very least. The fact that other tracks are most certainly mono probably bares this out. If the stereo effect was indeed created artificially then why not do this for the whole album? I agree with you about the vintage quality to the album. I only recently listened to all the bonus tracks and enjoyed the heck out of them.
Where is everyone? This is a good topic I love reading about revisiting older scores that may have been acquiring dust for a year or maybe several years.
Today I rediscovered a really great compilation called THE ESSENTIAL ENNIO MORRICONE FILM MUSIC COLLECTION, a two disc CD set recorded in Prague. I usually prefer original recordings, but some of the tracks in this compilation are really very good. I especially enjoy THE MEN FROM SHILOH because it is much longer than the original short TV theme with a larger orchestra and a choir.
Last week I revisited QUIGLY DOWN UNDER.
Tomorrow I'm revisiting Karlin's THE STALKING MOON.
Jerry Goldsmith's wonderful multi-level score for the four segment Twilight Zone The Movie. I bought it as soon as FSM released it but only listened a couple of times. Gave it a spin recently and it is indeed a marvelous presentation of one of Jerry's 1980's classics. I'll be listening again soon.
Tomorrow I'm revisiting Karlin's THE STALKING MOON.
I have finally begun the onerous task of archiving my collection to my PC, and that has been a wonderful opportunity to give some of the gems from my collection another spin (on my regular stereo system) before re-shelving them. It can be a challenge just keeping up with new releases, on top of CDs one has owned for a longer period of time. Coincidentally, the two titles above are ones I have enjoyed playing again, the former not having had much play since the years after its release (and no doubt due for an expansion).
Others I have enjoyed revisiting are CINEMA PARADISO, BODY HEAT (The FSM expansion and the Varese re-recording), the Serebrier-conducted Shostakovich scores, and FIVE FINGERS as re-recorded splendidly by Morgan/Stromberg.
Back to a new title as I write, however: the freshly expanded LAST STARFIGHTER! Splendid stuff.
