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Jun 8, 2019 - 5:56 AM
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dtw
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Well that's the weirdest CD situation I've ever encountered. (And I've had a copy of Simon Boswell's Hardware where the tracks are listed correctly, but insist on playing out of sequence, even when ripped to MP3 files.)
A week or so after the above post about the cancellation of this disc, the CD reappeared on Amazon as available again. Odd, I thought. But I re-ordered, from a well-trusted seller I've used many times before.
Today it arrives. Or at least *something* does.
Jewel case, properly shrink-wrapped (although the cellophane isn't the type that new CDs are usually in); booklet artwork looks fine. So I unwrap it and open it.
Hmm.
This is a CD-R, and NOT a properly pressed CD. Not only that, but the printing on the face of the disc is the worst I have ever seen: the coloured background has banding across it like a clapped-out inkjet, and the legals text round the perimeter is fuzzy. I have seen bootlegs that look way more professional than this.
Still, I stick it in the kitchen CD player and set it going.
First track doesn't sound much like the samples I'd heard: kinda elegiac piano and strings music. Oh well, I think, perhaps it starts off thoughtful and then kicks into the jazzier stuff later on.
Nope. Gentle piano-and-strings stuff all the way through. This is clearly NOT the Hustle soundtrack. Pleasant enough, but not what I ordered. Another giveaway is that there are 18 tracks, despite the booklet saying that The Hustle has 22.
Taking it out of the kitchen CD player and sticking it instead in my laptop CD-ROM drive, hoping it would do that fancy automatic recognition thing that computers seem to be able to do nowadays, I discover that what's ACTUALLY on this disc is...
The Sun is Also a Star original motion picture soundtrack by Herdis Stefánsdóttir.
...Riiiight.
(Or rather, wroooong.)
{Email now sent to vendor requesting refund.}
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This is a standard procedure by Sony Classical since past ~ two years. Around 70% of Sony's previously annouced CD releases are cancelled at the day of the premiere, or are available only in US as a CD-R, and EU physical CD releases are cancelled.
Since past 6 months we have:
Escape Room (cancelled release, available only as LP)
Valley Of The Boom (CD-R only - US)
Arctic (CD-R only - US)
Captive State (CD-R only - US)
Wonder Park (CD-R only - US)
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Sorry, Escape ROOM by Brian Tyler 
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Jun 15, 2019 - 4:30 PM
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Sampo
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Well that's the weirdest CD situation I've ever encountered. (And I've had a copy of Simon Boswell's Hardware where the tracks are listed correctly, but insist on playing out of sequence, even when ripped to MP3 files.)
A week or so after the above post about the cancellation of this disc, the CD reappeared on Amazon as available again. Odd, I thought. But I re-ordered, from a well-trusted seller I've used many times before.
Today it arrives. Or at least *something* does.
Jewel case, properly shrink-wrapped (although the cellophane isn't the type that new CDs are usually in); booklet artwork looks fine. So I unwrap it and open it.
Hmm.
This is a CD-R, and NOT a properly pressed CD. Not only that, but the printing on the face of the disc is the worst I have ever seen: the coloured background has banding across it like a clapped-out inkjet, and the legals text round the perimeter is fuzzy. I have seen bootlegs that look way more professional than this.
Still, I stick it in the kitchen CD player and set it going.
First track doesn't sound much like the samples I'd heard: kinda elegiac piano and strings music. Oh well, I think, perhaps it starts off thoughtful and then kicks into the jazzier stuff later on.
Nope. Gentle piano-and-strings stuff all the way through. This is clearly NOT the Hustle soundtrack. Pleasant enough, but not what I ordered. Another giveaway is that there are 18 tracks, despite the booklet saying that The Hustle has 22.
Taking it out of the kitchen CD player and sticking it instead in my laptop CD-ROM drive, hoping it would do that fancy automatic recognition thing that computers seem to be able to do nowadays, I discover that what's ACTUALLY on this disc is...
The Sun is Also a Star original motion picture soundtrack by Herdis Stefánsdóttir.
...Riiiight.
(Or rather, wroooong.)
{Email now sent to vendor requesting refund.}
I got a copy from Amazon, & it's the same thing: 'The Sun is Also A Star.' This must have been a large mistake.
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Just saw the movie and loved it. A remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which was a remake of Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando. Anne Dudley's music is witty and very much in the jazzier vein of her Jeeves and Wooster music. Downloaded the score, which is a wonderful listen--and refreshingly short, just 32 minutes.
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