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Pretty sure that's all there is for these two scores, unless you wanted to add source music (looks at La La Land...) and the Connection album arrangement of the first film's theme.
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Is the isolated score track from The French Connection in stereo? Most of the cues included on the FSM disc were monaural, and I was wondering if new sources had been found.
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I was excited about the prospect of an isolated score track for the first one, but I really don't think it sounds that much better than the archival Fox sound of the CD.
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Feb 18, 2016 - 2:28 PM
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Graham Watt
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I just relistened to the FSM release for the first time in a while. Don't know why I'd put off the re-spin so long. It's great! And I say that it's great because it has something which many otherwise "good" soundtracks don't have. It's interesting. It's really interesting music. It's not "just" jazz or funk or avant garde, in fact it's impossible to pigeon-hole. It satisfies me on a musical level, but it stirs my brain cells too. Some people might find it a bit annoying even, but sometimes you have to verge on the annoying to be interesting. And I'm not talking about my posts.
Speaking of "interesting", I love how in those links to old André Previn interviews that are dotted around here, he'll say that something is "not interesting", or that he likes something because it's "really interesting music". Goldsmith for example, got the Previn seal of approval for being "interesting". And the Don Ellis scores are great on many levels, one being the "interesting" level.
By the way, the music that really stuck with me ever since I saw the film for the first time was, as is the case with many, the "Subway" track. What great music! Nearly a normal groove track, but it's almost like it's played badly, with some of the instruments lagging behind, just like Popeye Doyle puffing heavily as he runs through the streets, and just veering off-key. That's interesting to listen to! The liner notes state that the only master that could be found had the trumpet solo coming in towards the end. I've always wondered if that means that the same cue was used in the film but with the trumpet solo "removed", or "before it was overdubbed" or something. I know that the cues were chopped and changed a lot for the final version of the film, but do the liner notes mean that the music for that cue is actually heard in the film but without the trumpet? I was really familiar with the groove and the piano, which are prominent on their own before the trumpet, so I don't know if maybe it's only the pre-trumpet bit that's used in the film. Or is it actually the full piece in the film with the trumpet gone?
Sorry, I realise that I've expressed myself in a pathetic way. I don't even follow what I've just written. I don't even know if it's "interesting", but it is to me.
Oh, and more apologies. This is about a possible re-issue. I've just realised. I don't know if there'll be one or not. I hope there is, because if you haven't got this great music you're a nutmeg.
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