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Sep 23, 2016 - 5:19 PM
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filmusicnow
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First of all, I am not talking about archival or retrospective releases by the boutique labels, nor am I talking about lavish box sets.
Rather, I am talking about single-disc albums - LP or CD - released concurrently with the TV show and intended for a more general audience.
So with that in mind, what are your favorite TV soundtrack albums, and which do you think are particularly well conceived? The music does not have to be identical to that on the show, but rather capture the feel of the show.
I will list several, but I want to hear what others think before I post any examples.
It would have to be the "Dick Powell Presents Music From Four Star Productions" which contained the original soundtracks from original themes from their television series. I could also include Mancini's "Peter Gunn" and Goldsmith's "Q.B.VII" albums, but they were rerecordings. If I would have to include for television soundtracks taken directly from the source itself, they would be Rosenthal's "Peter The Great" and "The Bourne Identity".
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CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
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Sep 24, 2016 - 3:01 AM
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Thor
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I would offer Angelo Badalamente's Twin Peaks album, the first one at least.
That would be my pick too.
Other favourites -- and sticking with your criteria so it doesn't merely boil down to 'favourite tv scores' (which many will undoubtedly do in this thread -- include in no particular order:
LOS BORGIA (Angel Illaramendi)
OUTLANDER (Bear McCreary)
BABYLON 5 (Christopher Franke) -- the first two 'general' volumes, at least
KARAOKE/COLD LAZARUS (Christopher Gunning)
THE KNICK (Cliff Martinez)
HUMANS and UTOPIA 2 (Cristobal Tapia de Veer)
MAD MEN: ON THE ROCKS (David Carbonara) -- even though I've never seen a single episode of the show
DICK POWELL PRESENTS... (various)
LONELY PLANET (both volumes)
ISABEL (Federico Jusid)
THE BLUE PLANET (George Fenton)
FROZEN PLANET (George Fenton)
SHOTGUN SLADE (Gerald Fried)
AMAZING STORIES (all three volumes, but especially the first -- this may not count, though, since it was released decades after the series. But it had no original album at the time)
MIAMI VICE (Hammer's own 2CD set, this may not count as it was released in the early 2000s, after the previous song/score volumes, plus it's on 2 CD's -- then I'll pick "volume 1" from 1985 instead)
M SQUAD and CHECKMATE (Williams et.al.)
MANNIX (Lalo Schifrin) -- the rerecording album, does that count? Or do I have to pick the original soundtrack album?
MOONBEAM CITY (Night Club)
MÄTSAN TARINA and TALE OF A LAKE (Panu Aaltio)
HALT AND CATCH FIRE (Paul Haslinger)
GUNSHI KANBEE (Yugo Kanno)
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Onya, I can't recall any album which was released concurrently with the broadcast of a television show which has ever satisfied me.
All my faves had to wait 20 to 30 years before surfacing onto an album.
-) the first release of any of Dominic Frontiere's music for The Outer Limits (1963/'64) occurred on CD in 1993.
-) the first release of the original recordings made by Alexander Courage for Star Trek happened in 1985.
-) a very small amount of music from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-'68) got issued on a CD set during 1997.
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My personal favorites:
MINI-SERIES
THE STAND by W.G Snuffy Walden
TV Series
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA original Series by Stu Phillips
Ford A. Thaxton
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Onya, I can't recall any album which was released concurrently with the broadcast of a television show which has ever satisfied me.
Wow, you and I have had very different experiences!
When I was 12, I tape recorded episodes of Star Trek & The Outer Limits "off air" [from broadcasts on UHF television channels - not the original runs (which were before I was born)]
Since the music tracked into these segments have been burned into my brain from many repeated listening, I am rather glad that there were no LPs when these shows were new.
While I love the music in these 1960s shows, in retrospect I don't care for the mindsets of the '60s record producers and the tastes of the record-buying public in those times.
Both producers & customers wanted their music to be 'adjusted' for listening experiences.
This meant modifying dramatic music into popular music molds.
Just imagine a DOT LP from 1967 which transforms the original music from Trek into cocktail tunes, dance numbers, bossa novas, shakes, etc.
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