Tom Guernsey

So, people seem to like this one.
 
Outside of the film (that I am lukewarm on) I've never heard it.
 
Hey, this is pretty good! I mean, there's nothing really "new" here from a Goldsmith perspective. It's Jerry doing what he was great at. Bit of Air Force One. Bits of Star Trek Insurrection / Nemesis. Swirled in with Lawrence of Arabia. (There are actually some bits that sound kind of Mask of Zorro! How often did THAT happen?)
 
But I have to say, this is a hoot. I don't know what's new and exciting on any expansions.
 
I think Ron Jones took a bite out of this for his video game score Starfleet Command 2. I never realized how Goldsmith that sounded, since it was such a departure from SFC 1 and the Star Trek sound in general.
 
Why is Mumia Attack "explicit"?
 
EDIT: OK, Camel Race is pretty spectacular, isn't it?

Over the course of the past two years Leigh Phillips has successfully self-produced new recordings of 79 minutes* of previously unreleased Jerry Goldsmith music written for eight episodes of the long-running TV anthology series The General Electric Theater (*including the gorgeous 9 minute bonus score called "Autumn Love", written for the CBS Music Library in the late 1950s). Last year Leigh already announced his intention to produce a new recording of Lionheart in 2024, but this is a mammoth project which requires a great deal of planning and materials. There is a chance he might be able to start a smaller project beforehand, and so with his blessing we are going to conduct a poll online to see what film music fans might be most excited for him to tackle next. At Leigh's suggestion I'll still include an option for Lionheart for folks who truly see that as their highest priority (the prospect that they are most eager for) out of these, and allow TWO votes for each person, from this list.

This vote absolutely WILL impact what Leigh prioritizes next, so please don't hold back in sharing your thoughts and preferences here! (But please don't suggest other titles not on this list of options, such as In Harm's Way or The Satan Bug -- these are bigger projects and Leigh doesn't want to consider any of those until Lionheart is done.)

1. Thriller Volume 3: Fairly self-explanatory... as a follow up to the two beloved Tadlow Music volumes co-produced by Leigh years ago, this would include suites from the four remaining Goldsmith scores for the series which have not yet received modern recordings, plus suites from three Morton Stevens scores. To find out the scores Leigh has in mind, plus hear samples from them (taken from the DVD M&E tracks), check out this short podcast conversation with Leigh:
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/8425660-odyssey-interviews-leigh-phillips

2. Jerry Goldsmith at Climax Mystery Theater: Uniquely in his entire career, Goldsmith was the primary composer for this live (and originally in color, for those with the right equipment!) anthology TV series during its entire four-season run. With a few exceptions, whenever an episode required original music, he was the one who provided it. But unfortunately, many of the easily-accessible extant episodes of this series are ones which didn't require original music, so we have exactly three hourlong episodes in our possession for which Leigh could reconstruct the scores by ear, and use to produce a new recording: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (written for only three instruments in 1955, Leigh is a particular admirer of this one and would like to let it shine in modern sound), "Trail of Terror" (which has a lovely romantic theme that stands out in a few cues), and "A Matter of Life and Death" (my personal favorite -- just watch at least the beginning of this episode and marvel at the thrilling opening cue which sounds like fully mature Goldsmith, around 2 minutes in):
 
 
3. Jerry Goldsmith at The CBS Radio Workshop: Aside from "The Thunder of Imperial Names", re-arranged for wind band, none of Jerry Goldsmith's radio compositions have ever been released on album. That was one of four segments of the CBS Radio Workshop episode "1489 Words" which I and my cohosts at The Goldsmith Odyssey regard as Jerry Goldsmith's very first masterpiece, written earlier in 1957 before he even tackled his first film score Black Patch. Basically a series of four concert works setting famous poetry to music, conceived for narrator and orchestra, each one of them is a gem but especially the first lengthy segment "The Highwayman" which is positively spine-tingling at times. If you don't know this work already, check it out here in its original radio version narrated by Jerry's friend, actor William Conrad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFleK1sVxQs
For this new recording project, a version of all four pieces both with and without narration would form the centerpiece of the final album. But Goldsmith creatively scored at least a half dozen episodes of this series total, over a one year period. Here is our podcast coverage of his first score for the series, very much in his modernist style:
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/14067728-episode-41-storm-cbs-radio-workshop-1956
He also first crossed paths with Ray Bradbury on this series, brilliantly scoring a pair of short story adaptations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWiDEj-6Xbk
All in all, his music for this show constituted the most creative and experimental of his '50s output.

4. Three Western Premieres by Jerry Goldsmith: The western genre was one in which Goldsmith particularly excelled, and we have access to three projects he worked on which have never before been released on album: the dark score for the lost 1959 feature-length Playhouse 90 "Out of Dust" (IMDb's synopsis: "On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death"), a contrastingly light and energetic score for the unsold 1961 half-hour pilot "Mister Doc" which eventually was folded into the final season of The General Electric Theater (IMDb's synopsis: "Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century"), and last but not least Goldsmith's final work for CBS Radio, the 1958 western adventure series Frontier Gentleman, for which he composed the main theme and three full episode scores. Listeners of The Goldsmith Odyssey will remember that from our pilot episode, where we played some excerpts from all three Goldsmith scores for the show:
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/653347-episode-0-live-television-and-radio

5. Jerry Goldsmith's All-Synth Scores, for Orchestra: Alien Nation and Runaway seem generally well-liked, but with the latter in particular I think most Goldsmith fans tend to agree that the composition itself is much better than the very dated synths. Since Jerry basically "orchestrated" that score for synthesizers, I have long thought it would translate particularly well to a real orchestral ensemble, with synth being just an added element for some sci-fi flavor. Goldsmith's other all-synth score Criminal Law may be one of the most generally-hated scores of his entire career, but wait until you listen to this Leigh Phillips mockup which gives an idea of what it could sound like if performed by an orchestra. In my opinion, it's like hearing a whole new score!
https://mega.nz/file/eyQVAZaA#UqwCtT_L9TCdzlLU7Ox0KxMwE6BwGADwgiCjKYun_Xo
 
Leigh has been intrigued by the prospect of arranging these for orchestra for well over a decade now, and has floated the idea of tackling a 20 minute suite of highlights from each score to create an hourlong album. If there's enough interest, maybe the shortest score Criminal Law could even be recorded complete (the Varese album leaves off a few cues) because with 20 minutes from each of the other two scores, the whole thing would still fit on a single CD.

6. I am most eager for a new recording of Lionheart.

HAPPY VOTING! (Remember, you can choose TWO.)

Yavar

I admit that the great cover (well, great poster) was an element in deciding to give it a go. It's not for everyone though.
 
 
I'll probably bang on about this until the end of time, but the day we stop using 'Williams' level' as an indicator of a high quality score will be a good one.

Solo is here!
 

 

Sorry. But I am getting a little tired of these 90% always same concert programs on Deutsche Grammophon CDs. No matter how good the orchestras are. 
That reminds me a little of the time when Pearl Jam were publishing tons of bootlegs of almost all their concerts.
Something like that is a great souvenir for those who were there. Or for people who don’t already own other concert recordings. But I already have enough. I am out for this.

Thor's exactly right, this happens on a regular basis and has for many years now.  About twice a week sounds about right, it could be even more than that

I guess Danny needs all the money he can get nowadays...

Yep, in the end the only actual advantage of the UK store for anyone is the quicker ship time if you're ordering something that's in stock.
 
At least one of my recent DEs says 'discs made in the EU' so unless their packaging is behind the times politically, they're pressing them somewhere in mainland Europe and shipping them over to the UK. If that's going to cause up to a month's delay and extra costs for every release, there's very little point of the int'l store for anyone who buys everything at release time (i.e. us).
 
Varese could alleviate these problems to an extent by doing simultaneous digital releases for everything where they legally can.

Someone on Facebook (admittedly not always an entirely reliable source) has said that the official expanded release is missing a cue from the boot/sessions, Hellboy Vs Nuada - anyone able to confirm or deny?

They should have got Bradley Cooper to conduct all of Mahler’s Second Symphony and put that on disc… 

What's worse is that, as the screengrabs you posted suggest, their int'l arrangement isn't quite all glued together. There is https://intl.varesesarabande.com/ which is the branded front door, but it's run by https://intlstore.concord.com/ and the fulfilment is done by some company called Sandbag whose support page is just some generic ticketing system.
 
It's also very unclear how you go about creating an account from the Varese front door - I think you have to go to Concord's site to do that. The old int'l store worked fine from a technical perspective. This is just bad design across the board.
 
I've raised a ticket to cancel my current order and I've reordered from the US site. I was originally going to just wait for it but the whole sellotaping together of this process has irritated me.
 
The price difference could maybe be explained by the cost of shipping over a load of units to the UK? (perhaps from mainland Europe) They're charging nearly £5 for only 2nd class delivery though, which itself is extravagant. No risk of customs of course but I can barely remember the last time they took any interest in a CD.

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/rock-a-doodle-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-robert-folk-tj-kuenster/r34fkkpjwqx1a
 
Will be buying later in the evening. Samples sound so great after suffering through the german promo, lol.
 
Don't see the CD on quartet yet :/
 
Edit:
Don't know about the technical side but the score itself is pretty great. I didn't remember it being this zany.

I just stumbled on this wonderful interview with Chris Malone about the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack. He goes over a lot of what he talks about in his old pdf document and also corrects some mistakes he made. I'm only like 40 minutes into it but I've learned a ton about the exact formats that the OT scores were recorded onto, I'd highly recommend giving this a listen

Have they called Bear McCreary yet?

For non-US customers, you might be wise to look at your options before ordering from the Varese international store. The new titles are an astonishing £27 rather than $25 (£20) from the US store. Charging over a third more from their international store seems pretty shoddy. I shall be ordering from elsewhere. 
 
(And as a very specific addition of insult to injury, for Guernsey, their international store doesn’t recognise Guernsey as a U.K. postcode, which most online stores do, and it tried to charge me £13.99 recorded delivery instead of a fiver for standard U.K. delivery. I’d have been a bit less pissed off if they had taken the VAT off as it’s not technically chargeable on Guernsey shipments but they didn’t even do that. A strongly worded email has been sent). 
Update. The automatic “we got your email” response directs you to their FAQ page…
 
 

Have they called Bear McCreary yet?

What If...? by Laura Karpman. This is probably some of the best scored Marvel content out there. Each episode has its own unique sound, thematic content and is very much reminiscent in style of the Shirley Walker's Batman: The Animated Series (and other DC animation). I sort of wish now they give Karpman the next Avengers film because she clearly knows how to balance out all the different ideas created by other composers and create a fairly coherent whole out of this multitude of, often disparate, ideas. All of this while maintaining the sense of fun, so much welcome in the MCU.
 
Karol

Yeah but was it his wiener philharmoniker or his wiener symphoniker?

Have they called Bear McCreary yet?

A Star Wars-related wang is perfectly capable of popping up repeatedly, if Mattris' constant reappearances in the Disenchantment thread are anything to go by. 

Yeah but was it his wiener philharmoniker or his wiener symphoniker?

Yeah but was it his wiener philharmoniker or his wiener symphoniker?

If you ever wanted to know if Anakin still had his wiener after being burned in Mustafar, don't worry! Just look at his crotch
 

Hah... They should remake it as No Time to Diet. 163 minutes of Daniel Craig eating donuts.