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Aug 22, 2016 - 10:57 PM
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Amer Zahid
(Member)
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DRESSED TO KILL
Composed by PINO DONAGGIO
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 360
Intrada's latest is also a first -- reissuing an album still in print. When first released three years ago, there was still room for improvement in the dynamics of the mastering and when it came time to repress this popular seller, Intrada decided to upgrade the master by returning to the source elements (along with some adjustments to the packaging and slight modifications to the track list) before replenishing inventory. Here it is, the re-dressed Dressed to Kill now with dramatically improved mastering.
From the original announcement:
While director Brian DePalma has worked with several different composers, it is Pino Donaggio to whom he has returned time and again since they first worked together on the director’s 1976 masterpiece Carrie. Donaggio’s romantic, melodic style is the perfect complement to De Palma’s tensely erotic visuals, which inspired the composer to write what is arguably his finest score for the 1980 thriller Dressed to Kill. Donaggio provided lush orchestrations featuring an impressive variety of memorable, fully developed melodies.
To bring this expanded edition of the score to CD, Intrada returned to the 2? 24-track session masters and newly remixed everything, creating brand new two-track stereo mixes for this release. Almost every cue was present on these elements, stored in beautiful condition in the MGM vaults; only three cues (tracks 1, 2 & 24) needed to be mastered from the existing two-track stereo mixes made back in 1980. While not every cue was accounted for, this release features a bulk of the previously unreleased music.
In the film, Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), a dissatisfied Long Island house wife, turns an afternoon museum visit into a richly satisfying sexual encounter with a complete stranger. Afterwards, she is brutally murdered in the elevator of her lover's appartment building. Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a high-priced call girl, is the only witness and she teams with Kate’s grieving son Peter, a budding computer genius. Realizing that the killer is one of Dr. Elliott’s patients, the pair hatches a plot to track her down through the doctor’s records.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 360
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10542/.f
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Damn, I have to buy the White Album again...
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Ok...
Will Intrada give discount or any other kind of bonus for all "fools" who, like me, already bought previous version?
If no - I'll be waiting for next sale from them or anyone else.
And I'm really disappointed. So now I'll buy all Intrada's CD ONLY after they post "low quantity or going OOP" alert. Sorry.
Disappointed?? Seriously? WTF?
Intrada released this score in 2013. It was a great release, I bought it, I am happy with it. Now instead of just reprinting the score, they re-issue it with some minor things changed. So WHAT is there to be disappointed about? It's not as if the PREVIOUS release is now all of a sudden worthless and obsolete. Personally, I am perfectly happy with it and see no reason to re-purchase this score. And if you are happy with the previous release as well, there's obviously little point in buying it again. As Intrada stated: this release isn't likely for those who already bought the score. Obviously, this score sells well, they keep it in print, and along the way they did a fresh master. Sounds good to me (whoops, excuse the pun).
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So basically y'all will be okay with this for whatever reason yet if ANY other label did this you'd be burning them at the stake.
Sorry had to say it.
What has been done that warrants burning at the stake? This or any other label? Lots of labels release their recordings multiple times, sometimes with minor changes. I don't see what the fuzz is about.
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"So WHAT is there to be disappointed about? It's not as if the PREVIOUS release is now all of a sudden worthless and obsolete"
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It is if you bought it and thought it sounded wrong in the first place!
This new edition is basically Intrada realising they boobed with the first edition, sucking all the life out of the recording and rendering it worthless!
Now they've re-issued it with, I imagine, the 'wet' sound Donaggio favours in most, if not all, of his recordings.
THIS is the edition I wanted IN THE FIRST PLACE!!
Like others, I will be delaying my CD purchases until the 11th hour now, just in case the 'RIGHT' edition comes along in the meantime (or I can bag one in a sale).
Fair enough, if you thought this all along. I admit, I thought the 2013 Intrada release made the score sound better than I remembered it sounding on previous releases, and I have not heard the current release (so I don't know if it's "wetter"). But isn't it still better you get your "perfect edition" late (as of today) than never? And what if Intrada (or anyone else) decides to re-release the score again in three years, with yet an even newer (perhaps wetter, or wider) master... then THIS current release becomes again worthless and obsolete?
But of course, nothing wrong with delaying CD purchases until the 11 hour if that suits you.
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I don't find anything in what has been said by Intrada that this version addresses the issues raised about the "dry"-ness of the prior version. Unless you can tell by the audio samples (if they are for the new release and not the existing samples)....
(I don't care either way, just wanted to point it out)
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I'd be interested in reinvesting in this score only if the "dry" issue has been addressed satisfactorily. Otherwise, I'll leave this to those who haven't had a chance to get it. It's a great, classic Donaggio score. (And I'm going to get lynched for saying this, but the score is far better than the film itself. There, I said it: Lynch me!) 
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I don't find anything in what has been said by Intrada that this version addresses the issues raised about the "dry"-ness of the prior version. Unless you can tell by the audio samples (if they are for the new release and not the existing samples)....
(I don't care either way, just wanted to point it out)
Neither do I. I rememer that Douglass Fake preferred the DRESSED TO KILL sound as Intrada released it in 2013 over adding artificial reverb to the sound. Some (including Bruce Kimmel) weren't particularly happy with it. In the end, it boils down to a matter of preference. But since Intrada is the label releasing the score, I don't see why this release should sound more "wet" than the previous release.
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Okay, bullshit...how about giving everyone who bought the previous "flawed" release a ten-dollar discount on the price?
Wow, thanks! That's mighty nice of you!
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Okay, bullshit...how about giving everyone who bought the previous "flawed" release a ten-dollar discount on the price?
But it's not flawed, Mr. Jack; it's just had some things that Doug and Roger were bugged by. Before I knew it was coming out again, I thought it sounded superb. I never knew the "wet" version to compare it, too, and I fully understand why that's a bugaboo for fans. But, I actually listened to it again a week ago and thought it sounded really great.
Try being an Elvis fan and having to buy new remasters that correct mistakes from a couple of years ago. I wouldn't dream of calling up Sony/BMG and asking them to refund me for the previous release just 2 years prior, for example. Why would I expect the same of a smaller label that has far less money to dole out?
The decision, in that case, is simple: Do I care enough to invest in a new copy or can I live with the version I have? In the case of DRESSED TO KILL, it's not worth it to me to reinvest in the score. In the case of an Elvis release or, to give a recent film score example, CHINATOWN, it most definitely is. Just gotta choose how much you care about the score.
Not trying to rain on your parade. Just food for thought.
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