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[Quint]

You know how it works; you're stranded on a desert island and you get to choose just THREE of your most beloved (score) discs to accompany you. You can only have ONE disc per album, so choose wisely. Which 3 would it be?

I'd have to go with:

LotR FotR: Original Soundtrack.

Star Wars, from the Anthology.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Original recording expanded and remastered.

They are probably my absolute must haves.

[Wojo]

You mean we can't rip our entire soundtrack collections to 64 kbps MP3 and bring three CD-R's along? Blast!

[Stefancos]

Jaws (Joel McNeely Rerecording)
Star Trek The Motion Picture (expanded Sony release)
Conan The Barbarian (expanded Varese release)

[Quint]

Is the Joel McNeely Rerecording of Jaws really that good?

[Wojo]

Pan's Labyrinth
Superman: The Movie (disc 1 of Rhino release)
The Empire Strikes Back (from the 1993 Anthology)

[Stefancos]

Is the Joel McNeely Rerecording of Jaws really that good?

Yes and it is by far the best sounding one of the 3 Jaws releases.

[Richard Penna]

LotR: FotR - Original Soundtrack
The Water Horse - with itunes exclusive tracks
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

[Mark Olivarez]

Is the Joel McNeely Rerecording of Jaws really that good?

No it's awful. The sound does not make up for the lackluster performance.

[Trent Bennett]

What if there's no electricity on the island, what if your batteries run out on your portable CD player? You'd be royally screwed. I don't like subjects like this.

[Quint]

Well one thing's absolutely certain; your toy lightsaber would have to go.

Is the Joel McNeely Rerecording of Jaws really that good?

No it's awful. The sound does not make up for the lackluster performance.

Ah, cheers for the heads up. Was just about to order!

[Mark Olivarez]

Well I must warn you that I'm in the minority when it comes to this recording.

[Hlao-roo]

You know how it works; you're stranded on a desert island and you get to choose just THREE of your most beloved (score) discs to accompany you. You can only have ONE disc per album, so choose wisely. Which 3 would it be?

Lost: Season 1
Lost: Season 2
Lost: Season 3

[Stefancos]

Ah, cheers for the heads up. Was just about to order!

Apart from Mark, who's lost his mind, the recording is very well regarded.

[Quint]

Maybe someone would be kind enough to let me sample one of the better cues

In your opinion Steef, is it superior to the ost recording?

[Stefancos]

Sound quality wise it is far better then the OST and the Collectors Edition.

The performance by the RSNO is superb, nicely balanced, gutsy and powerfull when it needs be.

[Maglorfin]

- Superman: The Movie (disc 1 from The Blue Box)
- Star Wars (disc 1 from the 1997 edition)
- Alien (disc 1 from the Intrada edition)

[Koray Savas]

You know how it works; you're stranded on a desert island and you get to choose just THREE of your most beloved (score) discs to accompany you. You can only have ONE disc per album, so choose wisely. Which 3 would it be?

Lost: Season 1
Lost: Season 2
Lost: Season 3

Hahaha, awesome reply.


I'd go with C'era Una Volta Il West, and I don't care about the rest.

[Quint]

Lost: Season 1
Lost: Season 2
Lost: Season 3

Hahaha, awesome reply.

Frankly, I'd rather take Castaway.

[tjguitar]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Original recording expanded and remastered.

?????

[Henry Buck]

Hmmmm.

Machaut's Mass and Dvorak's Te Deum Laudamus
Star Wars edited down to one disc
Babes in Arms

[Mark Olivarez]

Star Trek TMP - 20th Anniversary Disc.

The Empire Strikes Back - Anthology

King Kong vs Godzilla- LaLaLand release.

[Bryant Burnette]

Conan the Barbarian
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[king mark]

I dunno

[Quint]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Original recording expanded and remastered.

?????

http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/B000002P2X

[Drax]

Alien Nation
Criminal Law
Mom and Dad Save the World

[robthehand]

Carousel (NT revival cast)
Superman: The Movie (my own one-disc edited version, or if I can't do that, disc one from the blue box)
Vertigo (Joel McNeely re-recording)

Babes in Arms

Which recording? (I've been meaning to buy a recording ever since I saw the show last year, can you recommend one?)

[scissorhands]

Ran (Toru Takemitsu)
The Red Violin (John Corigliano)
Minority Report (John Williams)

[Henry Buck]

Carousel (NT revival cast)

Is that the 1993 London Revival or its 1994 US run? I find the London version is amazing, while the US version isn't so good (the actress playing Julie is incredibly grating). Though both CDs have some unique musical inclusions.

Babes in Arms

Which recording? (I've been meaning to buy a recording ever since I saw the show last year, can you recommend one?)

1999 City Center Encores! Cast. It's great. The only other recording I know of (on CD) is the 1989 Broadway Revival, which I've also heard good things about. There are some interesting changes to the music in the Oppenheimer rewrite of the show (e.g. a reprise of "My Funny Valentine" interpolated into "Babes in Arms"; I'd like to hear that on CD.

[Marian Schedenig]

You know how it works; you're stranded on a desert island and you get to choose just THREE of your most beloved (score) discs to accompany you. You can only have ONE disc per album, so choose wisely. Which 3 would it be?

Lost: Season 1
Lost: Season 2
Lost: Season 3

Hahaha, awesome reply.

Not quite, since it'd need 4 CDs.

[RuBen_Kenobi]

-ESB
-Superman the movie
(both are 2 discs, but I´m thinking on scores, nor albums)

-The third one should be E.T., but could be LOTR FOTR (3 dics!!)

[robthehand]

Carousel (NT revival cast)

Is that the 1993 London Revival or its 1994 US run? I find the London version is amazing, while the US version isn't so good (the actress playing Julie is incredibly grating). Though both CDs have some unique musical inclusions.

London (NT = National Theatre), I didn't even know they'd recorded the US transfer of that production. I know the London album isn't anywhere near complete, but I'm very happy with it overall.

[Omen II]

By a fortunate coincidence, film composer Randy Newman will be the guest on the actual Desert Island Discs radio programme this Sunday, 19th October at 11.15 GMT. If anyone is interested, you can listen at the BBC Radio 4 website here when the programme airs. It is usually repeated once during the week too. I wonder what pieces he will choose?

[tjguitar]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Original recording expanded and remastered.

?????

http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/B000002P2X

I thought the original album was a different recording altogether?

Anyway.


I have the original and the 20th anniversary version.

[Desplat13]

Hmmmm.




Beauty and the Beast
Hook
The Empire Strikes Back edited down to one disc.




Maybe.

[Greg1138]

Disc 2 of the "Chess" concept album
Star Wars - anthology version
Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai

[Romão]

Ran (Toru Takemitsu)
The Red Violin (John Corigliano)
Minority Report (John Williams)

While that might not be necessarily my choice, I do feel that's a quite wonderful and varied selection.