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  1. I have the new 2021 issue CD of Dracula / Curse of Frankenstein by James Bernard. It's a great listen, sound quality is excellent to my ears. [It is newly recorded after all, not from the 50s]. When I saw that the album ends with a new bonus track written by a modern composer I thought "oh no, filler material!" but it is actually a really good track and rounds off the album beautifully. Does anyone have this CD, or know of a digital download version? I ask because I suspect there is a small fault on my CD but need to check. Have searched for an online preview for comparison but turned up nothing. Track 1 seems to crash in just a little too quick, like a fraction of a second is clipped off the front, but I'm not sure. I looked at the waveform in Audacity but am still not convinced either way. If I return it, would a replacement CD just have the same fault anyway I wonder?
  2. Oh yes, the earlier 90s expanded edition had unreleased music (and alternates of some description IIRC) and was beyond anything I'd ever imagined would happen, then the late 90s expanded expanded edition had even more and was also amazing. The expanded expanded expanded edition should really be quite something.
  3. Thanks for the info, I thought there must be a lot more actual recordings. A lot of it would be bad takes and false starts, but since the Anthology box set way back when had about five different Main Title takes on it - and all good takes to my ear at least - I've wondered how much good stuff they actually have hidden away! Those Main Title takes are all of course the exact same cue but very different and well worth hearing. If there's rights issues involved then that's a problem but maybe a few highlights could be cleared? The Anthology boxset felt like a miracle from above back in the 90s so maybe history can repeat itself!
  4. When JW says there were 226 minutes of music recorded for Episode IX, any idea how he would reach that figure? It can't be all the music recorded on each recording day, there would be way more, right? Does that figure represent just the final (or preferred) takes of each cue, all added up? If they want to go the Beatles route and do super-deluxe versions of each Star Wars album with every cue plus alternate takes, yes I will pay for that.
  5. Even the preview seems to be gone now. And I never heard it.
  6. Certainly ST-TMP has one of the very best scores I've ever heard, and I also think the movie is one of the very best SF movies too! Makes no pretence at being a crowd pleasing action adventure, it's deep and philosophical, as well as being beautifully shot, designed, constructed. Comparing it to the other ST films is like comparing 2001 to Battle Beyond the Stars. Anyway, I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this board can shed some light on the situation regarding the release of a FULL version of the ST-TMP score. There's quite a bit of music that never made the CD album, plus a LOT of alternates. In some cases the alternate is the one on the CD while the movie version is unreleased. The Main Title is a prime example. While the concert version on the album is awesome, the movie version tops it for me. Superman now has a very thorough release, as do Alien and others; so is there any reason that Star Trek - The Motion Picture couldn't get the same?
  7. Good to hear that the Episode III music is well advanced. As for a video montage, when I said that the structure of the suite would be better suited with Duel of the Fates at the end and a central action piece for the podrace, I didn't mean the exact podrace music (which was only a short tracked section anyway IIRC) but just a piece with some drama to it. Including sound effects and dialogue will smooth over that difficulty though, as any quiet sections of music can be covered by explosions, engines and blasters if necessary! (Although sections of the movie sound will usually already include music, as well as sound effects, so that becoming audible in the mix might be a problem? Unusually, the podrace wouldn't have much of a problem there, with so little music on that sequence.) Listening to the suites though, I'm still leaning to the view that they are far too mellow to accompany a condensed visual version of the saga. I do have the ROTS music DVD but only ever watched it once on the day it was new, so will have to dig it out and see what their edits were like. I'm probably imagining something quite different from the actual intent!
  8. Wouldn't work very well in practice, unfortunately. Imagine scenes of the lightsabre duel, followed by an Otoh Gunga scene, and then Anakin and company arriving on Coruscant, which is followed by some podracing action... it would be a mess. All this cutting and pasting works fine for a musical montage, but for a storytelling montage the structure is far less flexible. Isolating one thread of the story and putting it to one piece of music would work - perhaps the Anakin and Padme storyline accompanied by "Across the Stars", for example. If real work wasn't so hectic at present, that's the one I would have a go at. It's on my "to do" list... Another significant problem with creating a long montage sequence is that a large quantity of shots would be unusable because they contain dialogue. Shots of characters talking with no sound coming out look awful in a montage (it's known as "goldfishing") and once you've discarded all of those, filling a 25 minute suite with shots from just one episode would be impossible. A pacey suite of the main themes (Duel of the Fates, Across the Stars, Imperial March, and the like) would lend itself to a story montage of the whole saga, but I get the impression it's the music that comes first on this project, and quite rightly too because I'm waiting to hear the other episodes' suites!
  9. I'm always wary of fan-made efforts, but I have listened to these Episode I and II suites lately and found them very enjoyable. Would certainly recommend that fans of "Star Wars" music give them a listen. Noticed that the website mentions the possibility of structuring a narrative video edit of the saga to accompany the music suites. I've done a fair bit of editing myself, and to achieve a high quality end product the amount of work involved would be truly horrifying; no wonder the editor pulled out - I'd still be running now. IMO it couldn't work anyway though, because the music suites would need to have been edited with the narrative flow in mind beforehand. For example, "Duel of the Fates" would have to be at the end of the Episode I suite rather than at the beginning, there would need to be a bit of action music about midway for the podrace, and so on. In any case, I suspect that the tracks are also just far too long for a "music video"-style edit (even if the music were re-edited with the narrative in mind). A 25 or 30 minute track for the whole saga could work, I think, but editing a video for it would still be an unenviable task. Hope to hear about an Episode 3 suite before too long!
  10. Crap. What was I thinking... Sorry about the error with the track number as I hastily put up that edit list together. I'll give it another once over to see if there are any more mistakes. Crap x2 I've just used the info to make the complete edit, so it can't have too many errors! Think I shifted some edit points by a second or two in the end credits but that may have been more to do with my unmusical ear trying to fit the sections together. I do recall the track order being slightly different. Rather than: 1 Main Title 2 Yoda's Theme 3 Heroics of Luke and Han 4 Imperial March 5 Training of a Jedi Knight I think it was: (Side 1) 1 Main Title 2 Yoda's Theme 3 Training of a Jedi Knight 4 Heroics of Luke and Han (Side 2) 5 Imperial March and then the rest the same.
  11. A slight correction to the instructions for recreating the original 1980 "Empire" album: 11. THE CITY IN THE CLOUDS SE CD 1 Track 10 (0:00-2:05) Mix in SE CD 2 Track 3 (1:15-3:21) + SE CD 2 Track 3 (3:45-End) should be 11. THE CITY IN THE CLOUDS SE CD 1 Track 10 (0:00-2:05) Mix in SE CD 2 Track 5 (1:15-3:21) + SE CD 2 Track 5 (3:45-End) Took me a while to figure that out - many thanks to whoever worked the rest out in the first place because I'd never have got it all! Am I the first person in 18 months to attempt this edit and notice the typo???
  12. No, you misunderstand... they can't spell licence... as in "Licence to Kill", the well-known film title... Oh, never mind... :roll: Almost forgot, one of my favourite title changes; the 1944 film "Fanny By Gaslight" was renamed "Man of Evil" for the USA. LOL (Probably funnier to Brits I expect!)
  13. Another infamous title change for the USA (although applied worldwide for convenience); "Licence Revoked" was renamed "Licence to Kill" when research indicated that most Americans didn't know what revoked meant! (And they can't spell licence either! )
  14. The Writers Guild of China also recently published their list of the greatest screenplays; they were all Chinese. Of course, the rest of the world just laughs at their blinkered attitudes, pitying those with such narrow views... When they become a free democracy, that will all change, won't it?
  15. Screw being a classic "Star Trek" film, it's a classic science-fiction film! Intelligent exploration of scientific and philosophical concepts, and not a single laser battle in sight - pretty rare for a SF movie. (Plus both Kirk and Spock did have a great deal of the plot based around them. George Takei may not have had much of a look-in, but I can live with that!) The revised "Blade Runner" was an improvement on the original, too.
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