Tomorrow Never Dies Score CD News

Quick Report by Lukas Kendall

Good Monday morning. Compass III Records, the new label behind the Avengers score CD (McNeely) and the upcoming Simple Plan (Elfman) album, will release a Tomorrow Never Dies CD with more of the David Arnold score.

When Arnold recorded the music for Tomorrow Never Dies, the album had to be mastered before he had finished with the entire movie. Most of the latter half of the movie therefore went unrepresented on the CD.

Compass III's CD will include much more of the score, including these previously unreleased portions. At present it is unscheduled but it will probably be released this year.

In case you're wondering, there are still no plans for an expanded Independence Day CD, or a score CD at all to Godzilla. Those scores were recorded in the U.S., where the musicians re-use fees make such releases too costly unless they are done at the peak of the movie's visibility. (The musicians must be paid a percentage of their salaries to release the music on CD.) Tomorrow Never Dies was recorded in England, where the re-use fees are paid up-front as a "buy out" and do not apply in the same way.

We'll bring more news of this album as we hear of it!

Have a great day. Hey, get back to work. It's Monday.

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