As an update TO MYSELF, the opening Globotech cue, heard over the logos, is not the film version. I had hoped that this official release would contain everything from the pickup sessions that none of us has had, but alas, both versions of the cue on this set are alternates. Bummer. Really loved the film version of the cue.
Just tell me it has ALL of the action material when Allen is under attack on the telephone pole.
Skip to the 20 minute and fifty second mark in this to hear Jerry talk about Waxman being his favorite Golden Age composer, and hear him conduct The Spirit of St. Louis.
The best part of this was just hearing Jerry talk. He's got a fantastic 40's era radio voice.
As an update TO MYSELF, the opening Globotech cue, heard over the logos, is not the film version. I had hoped that this official release would contain everything from the pickup sessions that none of us has had, but alas, both versions of the cue on this set are alternates. Bummer. Really loved the film version of the cue.
I've had this on all morning and I love it. I never really got into the film or the OST, honestly, but this disc is playing great to my ears. I did have a few versions of the b***leg (boob-leg?), and to me this plays way better. The combined cues really help it flow, and I love hearing the previously unavailable-even-on-the-b*** cues, such as "Fire In The Hole", which is amazing.
so after all VS did not use all the material from the recording sessions?, the score is not complete?
I don't know about that. I think everything that was on the bootlegs made it, as well as a lot of additional material that never saw the light of day at all before now. I would assume it's all here, but I don't know the film well (and I'm not going to take the time to learn it).
They sometimes do that. I recall The Burbs using a different take for the cue that leads into the end credits (Pack Your Bags) . Perhaps a creative decision?
I wouldn’t say that. They produce a lot of stuff and maintain a high level of quality. Soundtrack fans can be incredibly hard to please, aggressively demanding (US Marshals - complete!) and totally unforgiving. Varese have released some of my most cherished CDs and I’m always looking forward to their next announcements.
And the more stuff that keeps getting added to these releases pushes them into being 2-disc sets and then the same people complaining now will complain when they then have to pay more for a 2-CD set. You know it's true.
Jewel case arrived looking like a tractor drove over it.
I relate. Last 2 orders from VS arrived severely munched. Thankfully this order arrived okay...but not without luck. It was tossed into a classic dollar store bubble mailer.
It was tossed into a classic dollar store bubble mailer.
Almost every CD I ever order – including from Amazon – is packaged into a mailer like this (and when I sell CDs on eBay, this is what I ship them in). The only disc that has arrived crunched in recent memory was "Who Frame Roger Rabbit"… but that came in a box from Intrada.
It was tossed into a classic dollar store bubble mailer.
Almost every CD I ever order – including from Amazon – is packaged into a mailer like this (and when I sell CDs on eBay, this is what I ship them in). The only disc that has arrived crunched in recent memory was "Who Frame Roger Rabbit"… but that came in a box from Intrada.
Weird.
In the end, it's a crapshoot no matter what gets used. I'm sure when the CDs arrive from the pressing plant some of them are already crunched (I had an average of 5 per hundred cracked when I pressed) and they just get sent out with the hope that the customer just shrugs it off which, let's face it, most of us do. It could also be an inside job and someone from VS doesn't like me and someone from Intrada doesn't like you.
I ordered this one on the day it as announced and it arrived, intact in a Pregis #0 Air-Kraft Shipping Mailer (kind of like a Jiffy Bag), in the UK in today's post - I wasn't expecting it for a week at least. Haven't cracked the CD open yet though....