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Nothing like that on the LP.
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Nothing like that on the LP.
It's VERY quick, and probably hard to notice without fairly decent headphones, but I don't recall this on the LP either...
Very true, though I would assume the engineers at Varèse have enough of a budget for a decent pair of headphones. 
I, too, have just compared my Club copy with the excellent transfer a friend made me a few years ago from my mint and then-sealed LP. It's not on there for sure. Man, what a bummer. I don't see any good reason for it, quite frankly. Bloody annoying. And Varèse has a history of that: HALLOWEEN III and BLUE VELVET both have glitches on their first tracks that they never bothered to correct, glitches that were not on releases of these titles by other labels, so they clearly were not in the masters.
On another note, prior to buying the club release, I had a version I found in cyberspace, of course, with an added track just called "Theme," which runs 3:09. Anyone else know what this is and where it's from? Was this a concert version or is it another piece from the film that wasn't on the original release? It has some synth flourishes that I don't remember anywhere in the film. It's nice but I have no idea where it comes from. I'd purchase a legit version of it if it were on something commercial.
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Can't say I agree. I think both the original and the remake score are decent, and quite similar. Elias has done lots of better scores in his career though.
Have you heard his score from The Son Of No One?
Haven't heard that one, no. What kinda style is it?
I know you're a big j. Elias fan and i loved his earlier stuff like Vamp and Two Moon Junction. I thought the original COTC was a truly brilliant horror score that stands the test of time. I do think the remake score has a similar sound at the start but listening to it for any length of time makes you suddenly realise its not going anywhere. There doesn't seem to be any highs or lows in it, its just like one big track hitting the same note for about 40 minutes. In the original you had the creepy main title, the quiet dreamy, slightly threatening tracks and then the pounding exciting moments. There is no track for me on the remake that even approaches how wonderful Burning The Cornfield from the original sounds.
I just don't seem to get Mr Elias recent output. I found Pathfinder disappointing and even his follow up to the excellent Prayer Cycle didn't do much for me. As the original COTC was so brilliant i really thought a reworking of it was going to be something special.
Well, I still haven't seen Son Of No One, and there is no soundtrack, so I don't know what style it is in. But I have my doubts that it will be very interesting, as Elias' two other recent scores for director Dito Montiel, A Guide To Recognize Your Saints and Fighting, wasn't particularly good. And Elias hasn't scored Montiel's two newest films, Empire State and Boulevard, scored by Elias' "assistants" David Wittman and Jimmy Haun. So I have no idea what Elias has been up to the last 2 years. But I agree that Part 2 of his film music career (2006-) has been kind of a disappointment, taking into consideration his great stuff from 1984-1994.
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