Label Threads The Official Varese Sarabande Thread

[publicist 4,643]

The River fluoridation controversy.

[Jay 37,353]

The River was an MCA LP, later issued onto CD by Varese in the 90s, just like Earthquake or Eiger Sanction, or Conan The Destroyer or whatever else.

 

Nothing unusual or complicated about this.

[crocodile 8,008]

My dream is shattered now...

 

Karol

[Jay 37,353]

Universal Pictures has been licensing their scores to all the labels.  Heck, Mike has been hired by Universal Pictures to go through their catalog and get titles out on various labels as The Heritage Collection (Child's Play 2 was just announced today).  It seems likely that The River will come out expanded at some point, there's just no way to know which specialty label it would be from ahead of time.

[crocodile 8,008]

Fingers crossed. I consider this to be one of my "holy grails" at this stage. I haven't got any album of this.

 

Karol

[Jay 37,353]

I have the Varese CD but barely listen to it, I would LOVE a new expanded edition as a catalyst to re-discover the scores.

 

That's what happened with Stanley & Iris and The Cowboys, I rarely listened to those scores before, now I love em!

[crocodile 8,008]

The Cowboys is really good. But the Tanglewood concert makes me want to have that suite as well.

 

Karol

[publicist 4,643]

'The River' album is perfect as it is.

[Jurassic Shark 12,069]

4 minutes ago, crocodile said:

The Cowboys is really good. But the Tanglewood concert makes me want to have that suite as well.

 

Karol

 

A Cowboys suite that's different from the recorded one?

[crocodile 8,008]

And I don't have it.

 

Just now, Jurassic Shark said:

 

A Cowboys suite that's different from the recorded one?

No, I think it was already on one compilation.

 

Karol

[Jurassic Shark 12,069]

It's better than Stepmom.

 

3 minutes ago, crocodile said:

And I don't have it.

 

No, I think it was already on one compilation.

 

Karol

 

Just buy By Request then. The suite is much better than the complete score.

[Ollie 1,059]

1 hour ago, crocodile said:

The Cowboys is really good. But the Tanglewood concert makes me want to have that suite as well.

 

Karol

 

 

If you don’t have this album, I highly recommend it. It has the Cowboys suite.

 

[Jay 37,353]

That's a great album!

[Jurassic Shark 12,069]

This one's seriously a mandatory JW album.

[crocodile 8,008]

They actually had it at the Tanglewood gift shop but I looked it up on Amazon UK and it's even cheaper there. I might just pick up a used copy for £1.

 

Karol

[Jay 37,353]

I was hoping Philips would issue a box set of his run with them like Sony did for their run, but alas, I doubt that will ever happen, or that they'll ever get remastered.  Pity

[Brundlefly 2,385]

Hoping for: Air Force One and The Matrix - whatever the other title(s) would be doesn't matter, it would already exceed the two batches from 2018.

[Ollie 1,059]

1 hour ago, crocodile said:

They actually had it at the Tanglewood gift shop but I looked it up on Amazon UK and it's even cheaper there. I might just pick up a used copy for £1.

 

Karol

 

1 hour ago, Jay said:

I was hoping Philips would issue a box set of his run with them like Sony did for their run, but alas, I doubt that will ever happen, or that they'll ever get remastered.  Pity

 

 

That’s the 2nd oldest cd I have in my collection. I’ve have it for almost 32 years.

[Dr. Rick 1,157]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

I was hoping Philips would issue a box set of his run with them like Sony did for their run, but alas, I doubt that will ever happen, or that they'll ever get remastered.  Pity

 

Same here, but I decided instead to procure them 2nd hand for cheap from eBay and Amazon.  There were some stinker releases that I most likely will never listen to again but there were some really good ones as well!

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

1 hour ago, crocodile said:

They actually had it at the Tanglewood gift shop but I looked it up on Amazon UK and it's even cheaper there. I might just pick up a used copy for £1.

 

I told you to get it, but you wouldn't listen to me.

 

It's essential for the Cowboys overture and the Liberty Fanfare.

[Bryant Burnette 654]

12 hours ago, Jay said:

The River was an MCA LP, later issued onto CD by Varese in the 90s, just like Earthquake or Eiger Sanction, or Conan The Destroyer or whatever else.

 

Nothing unusual or complicated about this.

 

Nothing complicated about people thinking it's Varese, either, since the CD is from Varese.  You should really try to talk down to people less often.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

He's under a lot of stress running this dump!

[Ollie 1,059]

So Varèse actually dropped a hint.

 

Here's a little teaser for what's heading your way with the new CD Club batch this Friday...

 

 

[Dr. Rick 1,157]

 

Was just about to post this and your message popped up LOL

 

Looks like Air Force One for sure, not certain on the other two?

[Ollie 1,059]

UFO = Maybe Starman?

 

Horse = Man From Snowy River or The Reivers?

[Jay 37,353]

Woah

[Brundlefly 2,385]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

Woah

Indeed

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Air Force One confirmed!

[Brundlefly 2,385]

Just now, Koray Savas said:

Air Force One confirmed!

The first time that this kind of post is serious and true.

[Jay 37,353]

I suppose the horse can be a stand-in for any western title, and the UFO can be a stand-in for any film about aliens or sci-fi in general.  But yea, the middle one's gotta be Air Force One!

[Brundlefly 2,385]

AIR FORCE ONE!!!

[Jay 37,353]

Also I wonder if this means the batch will only have 3 titles, or if there will be more but they are only teasing 3 of them

[Edmilson 7,436]

Horse?

 

Oh, I would love an expanded edition of Thomas Newman's The Horse Whisperer, it's one of my favorite scores of his... Though, since I haven't watched the movie, I don't know if there's much unreleased stuff.

[Jay 37,353]

That's a Touchstone (Disney) film that had an OST on Hollywood Records, so it's Intrada territory, not Varese

[Disco Stu 15,495]

When are these being announced again?

[Jay 37,353]

On 9/23/2019 at 1:22 PM, crocodile said:

 

 

Karol

 

[Edmilson 7,436]

5 minutes ago, Jay said:

That's a Touchstone (Disney) film that had an OST on Hollywood Records, so it's Intrada territory, not Varese

 

I was just joking, but thanks for the info anyway.

 

Still, I'm not so sure if we would get this wonderful score expanded... So far, the only Thomas Newman expansion I've seen is Shawshank Redemption. I've not seen no label tackle his classic scores from the 1990s, like Horse Whisperer, Little Women, Oscar and Lucinda, Meet Joe Black, The Green Mile... I'm not sure if this is because they think it would sell poorly, or because of an actual disinterest by Newman, or what have you.

[Jay 37,353]

I have no idea, but I would guess those would sell poorly. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

T. Newman’s OSTs tend to be pretty comprehensive anyway. Don’t think I’ve ever desired an expansion for one of his scores. 

[Richard Penna 3,686]

Yeah - Newman tends to include most of the score because of all of the shorter cues that other composers would omit. He's the opposite of JW/Zimmer.

 

Shawshank has about 15-20 mins of unreleased music and that's on the higher end. I suspect most of his early 00s albums have fairly little missing.

 

There have occasionally been scores where I'd like the odd extra cue here or there (Road to Perdition comes to mind), but a full-on expansion never seems necessary. Even with Shawshank, I made my own 45 minute OST.

[Trent B 337]

Dude if Air Force One is actually happening I'm gonna be one happy camper!  Although while I won't be able to get it hopefully I can get a rip of it from someone.

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

If you’re going to pirate it anyway it’s already been out there in complete and good sounding form for some time now...

 

Yavar

[mstrox 6,651]

1 hour ago, Mr. Manfrenjensenden said:

So Varèse actually dropped a hint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

On 9/24/2019 at 9:59 PM, Brundlefly said:

Hoping for: Air Force One and The Matrix - whatever the other title(s) would be doesn't matter, it would already exceed the two batches from 2018.

 

...The year that brought us Dracula: The Deluxe Edition, The Cowboys: The Deluxe Edition, Small Soldiers: The Deluxe Edition (I love this score more than AFO now), and On Dangerous Ground: The Deluxe Edition??

 

Yavar

[Trent B 337]

21 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

If you’re going to pirate it anyway it’s already been out there in complete and good sounding form for some time now...

 

Yavar

 

If I were able to buy the actual CD I would so don't judge me.

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

The T. Newman expansion I desire the most is Little Women, which MV expresses interest in doing on the FSM board...my favorite Newman score and there’s good music unreleased...

 

 

15 minutes ago, Trent B said:

 

If I were able to buy the actual CD I would so don't judge me.

 

I’m not. It’s not as if I’ve never downloaded anything. I was merely pointing out that there’s no need to wait for Varese when the complete work of Goldsmith, McNeely, and Newman has been released unofficially but in great sound, already...

 

The reason I’m excited for AFO is that I’ll be able to actually own an official physical copy with liner notes. But the score’s already “out there” in great sound for those inclined to look...

 

Yavar

[Richard Penna 3,686]

Is there much missing from Little Women? I had a rip of the iso score at one point and there didn't strike me as being much to add to the OST. Could be remembering wrongly.

[Jay 37,353]

Hey everyone! A lot of good people work very hard to make specialty label releases happen, and many of them read this forum. If you have plans on pirating their work instead of paying for it, that is your prerogative, but please share those thoughts on any other place of your choosing, and not our public forums. Thank you very much! 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I thought we could openly discuss bootlegs?

[Faleel 5,346]

10 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

I thought we could openly discuss bootlegs?

Jay is referring to Trent's comment about getting a rip of the Varese release if it is AFO because he cannot a afford to buy it.