I think 28 Weeks Later was a 500 release, but i gave it away to my friend, as her husband played the zombie in the film whose picture was under the CD when you lifted it up.
I have original Label X Lps and CDs of Body Heat and Dragonslayer--all 4 numbered. The LPs are 45rpm! and the Body Heat was extremely hard to get and much in demand prior to the FSM release.
Also have original promo LPs of Images and Robin and Marian and some old odd thing on LP coupling Coogan's Bluff and General With the Cockeyed Id.
I have a few promos, but don't know how "limited" they were, probably a few hundred or so, hard to say.
I also have the Music Box ORCA release, which was already limited to only 500 but then recalled, so I don't know how many of it are in the wild, but not too many presumably.
Same here. I also have the accidental issue of PRACTICAL MAGIC with the Michael Nyman tracks which I randomly bought new at a Best Buy before it got pulled.
Danny Elfman and Michael Wandmacher's score for MODERN VAMPIRES (aka THE REVENANT) from 1998 never got a soundtrack release, not even a promo. But some very few CD-R copies were made by director (and big brother) Richard Elfman for select few individuals. Back in the early 2000s, I was sent one of them by Richard's then-girlfriend after we had struck up a conversation by e-mail. I don't know how many were made, but it can't have been more than a handful.
Of course, these days I'm sure you'll find the music on Youtube or wherever, or in the dark corners of the web. But I pride myself in owning the original, 13-minute CD-R. Incidentally, the same package contained a small poster of the film, signed by both Richard and Danny. This is now framed.
Hope you've done a backup of this, since you never know when or if a cd-r disc will stop working.
The "Tomb Raider Dark Angel Symphony" by Peter Connelly which was a kickstarter album. There was no specific number revealed but I don't think that there are more than 1000 copies.
I think 28 Weeks Later was a 500 release, but i gave it away to my friend, as her husband played the zombie in the film whose picture was under the CD when you lifted it up.
I have the Love Actually FYC disc, not sure how limited that may be.
I have that one too. FYC discs for films have two levels of rarity.
The easiest to find are those that were nominated for an Oscar because every Oscar voter got one.
The more difficult ones to find are those that were not nominated for any awards in the end, like Love Actually, because those discs were sent to a MUCH more limited group. Usually they just went to the music division of the Academy and some other guild voters.
The exceptions with Oscar-nominated FYCs are any scores that have a genre following (like Star Wars) or that have a pop/cult following (like Trent Reznor). Those can fetch high prices even if they were nominated and sent to everyone, because non-film score collectors want them for their NIN or Star Wars collections, etc.
I also have the accidental issue of PRACTICAL MAGIC with the Michael Nyman tracks which I randomly bought new at a Best Buy before it got pulled.
I was an obsessive Nyman fan after Gattaca came out, and I bought that CD the day it came out. Only the first pressing had his music, the later pressings had music from Silvestri's replacement score.
The two Nyman tracks on the album are both concert versions.
"Convening the Coven" is my favorite piece he has ever recorded, and possibly my favorite piece of music ever, period.
It's VERY different from the cue in his actual score for the film. He adds a lot more instruments and makes it more epic.
The other track, "Maria Owens," which doesn't seem to be online, is basically a concert suite of his music from the opening portion of the film.
He later said in an interview that it was the best score he ever wrote.
He reused some of the Practical Magic music in his score to The Claim about two years later. Unfortunately, most of that score was dumped as well, leading to a temporary falling out with director Michael Winterbottom. At least the album for The Claim contains the score for that, as he intended it.
He also used one of the melodies from Practical Magic in his score for The Actors, a small British indie film with Michael Caine, a couple of years after that.
He clearly loves the score, he had Virgin license "Convening the Coven" to place on his "Best of" film music album in 2001:
I have no idea how limited they are, but I have both the "Civil War Journal" and "The American Revolution" soundtracks by Christopher Stone from back in the 90s. The only way to get them was to order the videotapes of the series that they advertised at the end of each episode on A&E and then they sent you a copy of the soundtrack along with the final volume. I have a few friends that are history buffs that have tried to get me to part with them, but I love the music too much.
2) "Symphony No. 8" also by Michael Nyman. Written for the 150th anniversary of BASF, the German chemical company. Only released on CD as an internal promo at BASF. I got it by emailing their head of marketing in Munich and begging for it. He gave me his personal copy.
3) "Through the Only Window: Music for Ahae" also by Michael Nyman (trend here) This album contains music written on commission by Nyman for Ahae, a South Korean religious cult leader who exhibited photography, thousands of photos he shot from the same exact window of his house, where he lived in seclusion. The music played at those exhibitions as background music.
Ahae apparently led a huge apocalyptic Christian cult in South Korea, where they're apparently very popular. His work as a photographer was somewhat separate from the cult. Ahae wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, so he rented out grand spaces around the world, like the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the Waiting Room of Grand Central Station, using cult funds, to give the appearance that his work was being exhibited in major galleries.
His cult also apparently owned that South Korean ferry boat that sank about ten years ago, tragically killing al those children. There was a major financial/political scandal afterwards and Ahae was implicated. He went on the run and became South Korea's Number 1 Most Wanted criminal for a while. Finally, his body was discovered in a field, chopped up into little pieces. And no, I'm not making any of this up.
Although the album was released on Michael Nyman's personal label, MN Records, it was NEVER sold at his website, nor was its existence ever even MENTIONED there. Instead, the album was available ONLY through the cult's website, based in upstate New York, for some reason. I only learned about the CD after the whole scandal had hit the news, but before his body was found. I ordered the CD for like $40, with mandatory FedEx shipping, and doubted I'd ever get it, but some loyal cult member at the HQ in NY sent it off to me and I got it the next day.
BTW, for anyone intrigued by the Ahae scandal in my post above, here's a whole fascinating, lengthy thread from back when it was unfolding, day by day:
I once bought a 4(!) cd set, from an official wellknown distributor: Hellraiser by Christopher Young, with Safety reel and safety mixes: original Score Mixes and Fragments, with 4 factory printed cd'rs, I gues this is a very rare set. No clue how many of these sets have been produced and sold like this.
I bought a CD on ebay about a year ago "The Fantastic Film Music of Albert Glasser, Vol 1". It was issued on Starlog Records SRS-1001 in the 70s as an LP. It never got a CD release but some time ago Varese were looking into the idea of doing it and pressed either 1 copy or a very small number of CDs complete with the same artwork as on the LP to evaluate the prospect. A release never happened and my copy came from the private collection of the Late Robert Townson or one of Varese's Engineers ?. I had the LP back in the 70s and always liked the suite from The Boy and the Pirates, the only piece on the LP "In STEREO", so bidding for the CD (sealed) was an easy decision to make. There was never a Vol 2.
Wow! I would absolutely pay real cash for such a CD. Lucky devil.
