When will we get a new album release of Home Alone 2?

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

I had to make a new poll now that the Avatar poll is closing.

[gkgyver 1,645]

Who cares?

[Richard Penna 3,667]

Just now, gkgyver said:

Who cares?

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

@Smeltington and @Balahkay so far.

[Smeltington 1,436]

I care deeply.

[gkgyver 1,645]

Who?

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

Trump, go and hide behind your wall.

[rough cut 1,714]

I won’t vote, since I am generally against polls, but I’f Like to state that I am looking forward to the next HA2 re-release.

 

And the remastered OST that it will contain.

[Smeltington 1,436]

My 748 posts speak for themselves!

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

Yeah, it's the only thing you talk about!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Macaulay Culkin looked a bit like Will Robinson from the old Lost in Space TV show in Home Alone 2.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Down the wall and to the left.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

What kind of idiots do you have working here?!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

This is Peter McCallister... the fathhhherrr...

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

You was here last night too, wasn't ya?

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Beat that, ya little trout sniffer.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,490]

I wasn't aware that we needed a new HOME ALONE 2. Do we need a new HOME ALONE 2?

[rough cut 1,714]

Yes!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Not if you have the OST.

[rough cut 1,714]

I have the OST cd. Ripped it myself.

 

The lossless copy is sade and sound on my hard drive. I love it. The sound leaves much to be desired, though.

 

I’ve made a meticulous reconstruction using the remaster. It’s glorious, but... Jeeeeeez, was it a lot of work. Ya’ll know how JW likes to mash up cues on the OST release of things and micro edit tracks - and let me tell ya, he really outdid himself on this one - but I freakin’ I nailed it. Took me weeks.

 

It’s this self made edit I return to whenever I want to listen to HA2. But I would like an official version.

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

So nothing on the expanded releases interest you, apart from the improved sound quality?

[rough cut 1,714]

Yes, yes, of course. Just sayin’...

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

It's a long time since a did any sort of comparison between the HA2 OST and the expanded score, but I remember that the OST was lacking the best presentations of JW's original Christmas carols.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

While I don't listen to these scores anymore, like George Lucas described that ridiculous Episode III mohawk Anakin concept art, the complete HA2 is too...much. The sugary Mickey Mousey orchestrations will induce musical diabetes. It loses focus and is flat out annoying throughout its excessive length and the climax features the main theme so many times it's absolutely ridiculous. Fuck. Even the more focused OST is too long, but at least it isn't 90 minutes.

[1977 1,743]

Weren't the channels reversed on the OST? I seem to recall reading something about that, either on the Varese press release or in the liner notes.

 

EDIT: my mistake, seems the tapes were running at the wrong speed:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20040723084924/http://www.varesesarabande.com:80/details.asp?pid=vcl-1102-1014-2

 

So we really do need this to be re-issued!

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

But that "wrong speed" isn't detectable by human ears.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

No?

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

The claim originates from MM noticing that the cues that are the same on the OST and expanded edition had slightly different lengths.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

People with really good hearing will probably be able to notice the pitch is off.

 

I'm not one of those people.

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

I'm sure at least @Thor finds the pitch on the OST to be superior!

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Credit carrrrrd? You got it.

[rough cut 1,714]

Speed issues aside, the OST cd sounds bad compared to the reissue. You don’t need dog ears to hear it.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I don't think it sounds bad. The reissue sounds brighter and louder, which doesn't exactly help matters. It's fatigueing.

[Jurassic Shark 12,010]

Just turn the volume down.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

9 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Just turn the volume down.

 

That's doesn't help brickwalled music.

[1977 1,743]

Did Labson master the Varese DE?