QuartalHarmony

At least other countries have the option of watching the 4K Abyss. Its UK release has been cancelled due to the rat scene… Mark

By clearing them from his web browser?

It’s just the tiniest of moments, but on D1 T2 at 0:42, I still think I’m about to hear the Rebel Fanfare. Am I the only one?

Yikes - could have fooled me! Now you say it, I can see it (just)…

On the cover, who's your man in the top right meant to be?

You forgot to add ‘laughably overpriced’.

1) @gps placed it after Mav says Goodbye and before the Love Scene - more than that, I don’t know. 2) Ah, didn’t realise it was a B-side. Is it unused in the film, then, or not? 3) You and me both!

Still enjoying this release on many levels. A couple of questions have occurred to me: 1) Where exactly in the film is Heaven In Your Eyes played? 2) Why is Dogfight #3 (D2 T16) slap bang in the middle of the songs section? If it’s used in the film, it should be on D1; if not, it belongs in the Bonus tracks section, surely? 3) Having listened to the two versions of the main theme (D2, Tracks 10 and 20), I can only hear a few performance differences, yet one is about 30 seconds longer. Can anyone post timestamps of the extra section(s) in T20 please? Mark

The track title ‘Inner City’ on the 1977 SW OST has always bemused me.

Both good, but it’s Hook Prologue for me, every time.

Agree to disagree. I’ve heard those three tracks (DZ, MW & TMBA) with vocals consistently for nearly four decades and it’s now great to hear them without. I have some sympathy for your comment about 1-10 and 1-11 sounding a bit karaoke, but that’s an artefact of the original synth production. I do agree with your comment about LLL’s market aims, so I am surprised they didn’t bin the vintage tracks (2-11, 2-13 & 2-14, none of which is exactly difficult to find on CD, to put it mildly) and use the ~15 minutes you’d then have free on D2 to give you guys the vocal tracks you want (and I’m happy without!). Mark

Mine arrived today: I appreciate the comments above about the lack of vocals, but I’m really enjoying the disc 1 tracks without them. Over an hour of Harold Faltermeyer in his peak-80s synth mode is such a blast. The Anthem early demos are fascinating and Radar Radio is so good to finally hear on CD. Mark

Fantastic! Is there any suggestion of a release date, even an approximate one?

Oh, shame…

Are we any closer to having one of your spreadsheets for Hook, @Jay?

Wikipedia is quite helpful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa#

Lovely - could be a really good, interesting release. In the excerpt posted, Pedroni does a bang-up job of what is a very challenging piano part, and the cello and flute are incorporated imaginatively and sensitively. Shame the flute starts dragging the tempo, especially around 1:00!

History is written by the winners owners.

I'm not aware of it having had a release in anything more than 2.0, but the original master tape could have had all sorts of multichannel malarkey (i.e. multiple microphone feeds) preserved that could be used to make a multichannel version, were someone so inclined. I didn't realise the quad was so immersive - I'm now quite tempted to buy it just to see. Mark

LLL Employee3 seems to be my person:

That's the exact article I checked my facts with before I posted!

For those of us in the UK, that bit was unseen footage until the 2012 Blu-ray release…

Dang it, I could have saved €11 if I'd waited. But then my delivery method wouldn't have worked so I'd have ended up paying crazy postage to the UK. Swings and roundabouts...

Really happy with this - my holy grail track is Radar Radio, which hasn’t ever had a CD release (AFAIK), despite being the B-side of the biggest selling single from the soundtrack. The sheet music folio even had it transcribed! It’ll be fascinating to hear the Anthem demo tracks too. Mark

...or cultivate a friend who lives in the US but travels to your country regularly. That way, you could order it to be delivered to them for much less, then if they (cough cough) decide they don't like it, they could give it to you as a present the next time they're over.