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[Koray Savas]

You call that a binge? I'm about to plunk down $200 on Intrada titles soon

[Marian Schedenig]

I'm never getting a break with the label constantly releasing new stuff. Here's the latest batch:

Goldsmith: The Shadow 2CD
Goodwin: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Korngold: Elizabeth and Essex - Classic Film Scores (Gerhardt) - replacing an old CDR
Mansell: The Fountain - replacing a download
Rota: Music for Film (Muti)
Steiner: Now Voyager - Clsasic Film Scores (Gerhardt)
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire
Young: Entrapment

[Jason LeBlanc]

Young: Entrapment

How is that one?

[E.T. & Elliott]

I somewhat begrudgingly and finally got the 2011 remastered deluxe version of Innuendo by Queen. The greatest album of all time? Yes.

Anyway, I'll try this remaster out and I'll definitely keep the bonus tracks. The consensus among the hardcore audiophile Queen fans is that the 2011 remasters were typically just louder and compressed. However, Queen and Queen II did benefit from the remasters.

[Marian Schedenig]

I have all the 2011 remasters and the 2005 release of Night at the Opera and the 93 News of the World. I haven't really noticed a difference between the two Operas, but the 2011 News sounds much better than the flat 93 version.

Young: Entrapment

How is that one?

After one listen: Pretty much as you'd expect. Traces of Species and the later The Core, with a slight Basic Instinct vibe and the usual dash of Aliens.

[E.T. & Elliott]

It's still the greatest non soundtrack album of all time. That and Dangerous by Michael Jackson.

[avalanche]

I too have amassed another large shopping cart at LaLa Land and Intrada. Just waiting to place the orders. There's seven Goldsmiths in there... Shadow, Great Train Robbery, etc.

Non score discs I recently picked up were the first 12 of the Frank Zappa reissues. A few - Burnt Weenie Sandwich, Chunga's Revenge, Absolutely Free and Hot Rats - are a revelation.

[Wojo]

You call that a binge? I'm about to plunk down $200 on Intrada titles soon

It's a small binge nonetheless. As I recall, I spent a pretty penny several weeks ago on my large TMP order, and weeks before that with the mono box set. They're adding up, and as long as I can keep myself from ordering the $400 video card I have my eye on, they might stay small.

[Richard Penna]

I went on a small binge on Amazon marketplace. Got this lot for an average of £4 each:

(I've got bits of the JW scores, but for ~£2 each, can't say no)

Amistad
Seven Years in Tibet
Far & Away
Backdraft
X-Files: I Want to Believe
X-Files: Fight the Future
X-Files: The Truth and the Light
The Last Castle

Decided to wait for some 'extended samples' before buying North by Northwest. Some key cues (not samples on their site) need to sound a lot better to be worth it.

[indy4]

Went ahead and purchased FSM's first release of Not With My Wife, You Don't!

[indy4]

Saw A Copland Celebration: Volume 3 (Vocal and Choral Works), a 2 disc set, for only $6. I've been meaning to sample some Copland so I bought it. The release includes:

- 10 "old American songs" (I'm guessing these were just arranged by Copland)
- 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
- In the Beginning
- The Tender Land

[Koray Savas]

The Shadow - Jerry Goldsmith
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith

[Miles Prower]

Just got Daniel Barenboim's recording of the Beethoven symphonies (http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B00076YOPY/). A friend alerted me to this one, I'd been looking at Karajans almost exclusively. For under $19 including shipping, I don't have huge expectations, but the samples sound good.

[Marian Schedenig]

I have and love the Karajans (the 60s cycle, supposedly his best). I'm also having an eye on the Gardiner, which is cheap and supposed to be great. And the price point shouldn't dictate your expectations. There are great cheap recordings, and there are expensive not so good ones. Plus all these reissues with high profile names usually have good prices. You can get all sorts of complete first cycles around €20 to 25.

[Richard]

You call that a binge? I'm about to plunk down $200 on Intrada titles soon

A few years ago, I spent £240 (about $400) on soundtracks, but it did include The Blue Box, all three volumes of Amazing Stories, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and the Intrada 2-CDs of Alien, and The Boys From Brazil, among others. Worth every penny!

The most I ever spent on a single CD was £60 ($90) on the Hook 2-CD boot.

[Faleel]

[Richard]

Excellent choice, Faleel! Do you have, or do you intend to purchase the others?

[Faleel]

I have ROTK on amazonMP3 already (stupid decision), so ROTK will mainly be bought for the 5.1 DVD's now (hoping I will be able to remove some of the cast performances.)

[Wojo]

Just got Daniel Barenboim's recording of the Beethoven symphonies (http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B00076YOPY/). A friend alerted me to this one, I'd been looking at Karajans almost exclusively. For under $19 including shipping, I don't have huge expectations, but the samples sound good.

This is the set of Beethoven's symphonies that I own, simply because it was dirt cheap at Walmart. It's on my list of albums that I intend to re-rip into FLAC, which is basically every CD I have owned longer than four years when I started archiving in high bitrates. I've started with Jaws and the first two LOTR CR's. Fun fun fun. Back to the Beethoven tin can, it's an ok set, I guess. I don't like the slow temp of the Sixth because I'm used to the more uptempo presentation from Fantasia, but anybody with a decent sized classical music collection ends up with several versions of most of the symphonies anyways.

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Richard, I own all of those albums you mention, and I agree!

[Richard]

Why would you want to do that, as they are integral to the film?


Having said that, I NEVER listen to "When You're Alone"...

[Jason LeBlanc]

I prefer removing the cast singing in the LOTR scores too. If I want to hear them sing I'll watch the movie. i don't need them over my score.

[Faleel]

I think it depends... if its a real song, then I may include it, if its just a some snatch of a VERY slight melody.. no.

[Jason LeBlanc]

I'm personally not a fan of listening to ANY cast performances when trying to enjoy Shore's score, but i do agree that The Edge of Night, Eowyn's funeral song, and Liv Tyler's song are better than the two Ian's brief ditties or Aragorn's mumbling, etc.

[Koray Savas]

[Miles Prower]

Guess who's a dummy that didn't update his shipping address! Sigh... I get to wait a couple more days for Ludwig van.

On the bright side though, just pounced on this: Nibelungen (Janowski). Like new, $14 (a dollar a disc, not too bad) and by all accounts it's a pretty good recording. And the seller's in Cali as well, so the wait won't be as long. This is exciting!

[Marian Schedenig]

On the bright side though, just pounced on this: Nibelungen (Janowski). Like new, $14 (a dollar a disc, not too bad) and by all accounts it's a pretty good recording. And the seller's in Cali as well, so the wait won't be as long. This is exciting!

I'm rather interested in this myself. Seems to be getting pretty good reviews. And Theo Adam as Wotan with better sound quality than on the (excellent) old Böhm Ring is tempting.

[Miles Prower]

I was going to save my pennies for the Solti, but for $14 and those reviews, what kind of idiot would pass THAT up?

If you buy it before I get through the whole set (which'll take a while), let me know what you think!

[Jason LeBlanc]

Thought about pre-ordering the new Dave Matthews Band and Matchbox 20 albums as well but decided I'd rather listen to them first before committing. The C&C album was $7

[Koray Savas]

Okay pre-order. I was about to say Babel doesn't come out for another month.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Yea that's why I haven't pre-ordered 2nd Law yet, its so far away

[indy4]

I picked up Sinatra's album Come Fly With Me as well as a live recording of Shostakovich's 5th symphony and Mendelssohn's 4th, performed by the Wiener Philharmonic.

[Marian Schedenig]

Conductors?

[indy4]

Sir Georg Solti

[Miles Prower]

My life's going to be pretty German for a while.

[Wojo]

Das ist gut!

[alicebrallice]

[Koray Savas]

Divenire is an amazing album. Love Einaudi.

[alicebrallice]

Divenire is an amazing album. Love Einaudi.

"Fly" just completely blew me away when I heard it in Intouchables.

[Koray Savas]

I discovered him through the trailer for The Reader.

[Richard]

I picked up Sinatra's album Come Fly With Me...performed by the Wiener Philharmonic.

I'd buy that for a dollar!