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Also at least one other title, but I find it hard to choose between The Red House, Inchon, Gorky Park, and Jason and the Argonauts. Which one of these four would you people recommend the most?
That honestly comes down to what composer you like most, or what sort of musical mood you're in. Jason and the Argonauts is an excellent new recording by the Sinfonia of London. On the other hand, Inchon is the terrible original recording of a really excellent and underrated score...and Intrada has done a great job in making it sound as good as it can. I highly recommend it, unless you really care about sound quality above all -- personally, I listen to it more out of the two.
I've heard their Gorky Park has amazing sound but I confess I haven't made a point of picking it up yet. I just received my order of The Red House (I know I'm bad for not picking it up sooner, but I was a very poor student for four years and then unemployed until fairly recently). I will give it a listen and let you know how it is, but I've heard it's great.
So far the only thing I've listened to from my order is General Electric Theater (last night). Man, I must admit the cover was a turn-off, and the fact that it's just a 35 minute album which one brief track (two in the case of The Stone) for each episode, and many Bernstein-scored episodes not represented at all.
HOW WRONG I WAS -- this is now one of my favorite Elmer Bernstein albums EVER. It is so concentrated awesome; there's a good amount of variety and not a single track which is less than fantastic. The plus side of condensing 30 Elmer Bernstein episode scores (each for a different story, with no thematic material in common) is that it is one of the most concentrated and distilled examples of his brilliance imaginable. It may be short, but all of those 35 minutes (rerecorded for album with an orchestra twice as large as was used on the series) are PURE GOLD!!!
Yavar
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Also at least one other title, but I find it hard to choose between The Red House, Inchon, Gorky Park, and Jason and the Argonauts. Which one of these four would you people recommend the most?
That honestly comes down to what composer you like most, or what sort of musical mood you're in. Jason and the Argonauts is an excellent new recording by the Sinfonia of London. On the other hand, Inchon is the terrible original recording of a really excellent and underrated score...and Intrada has done a great job in making it sound as good as it can. I highly recommend it, unless you really care about sound quality above all -- personally, I listen to it more out of the two.
I've heard their Gorky Park has amazing sound but I confess I haven't made a point of picking it up yet. I just received my order of The Red House (I know I'm bad for not picking it up sooner, but I was a very poor student for four years and then unemployed until fairly recently). I will give it a listen and let you know how it is, but I've heard it's great.
So far the only thing I've listened to from my order is General Electric Theater (last night). Man, I must admit the cover was a turn-off, and the fact that it's just a 35 minute album which one brief track (two in the case of The Stone) for each episode, and many Bernstein-scored episodes not represented at all.
HOW WRONG I WAS -- this is now one of my favorite Elmer Bernstein albums EVER. It is so concentrated awesome; there's a good amount of variety and not a single track which is less than fantastic. The plus side of condensing 30 Elmer Bernstein episode scores (each for a different story, with no thematic material in common) is that it is one of the most concentrated and distilled examples of his brilliance imaginable. It may be short, but all of those 35 minutes (rerecorded for album with an orchestra twice as large as was used on the series) are PURE GOLD!!!
Yavar
In view of these arguments, I guess I'll have to do place another order. 
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Meh, I've been on a Broughton kick lately, but I have all of the ones I resonate with most and don't really ne-....
...wait, is that Boy Who Could Fly on that list?..
..I'll think about it.
..Should I go for it?
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I have looked through the list 3 times now and with all the titles I have already purchased shortly after their release dates, I am not finding any titles that would interest me at the 30% sale price. What confused me was that there are 7 titles that are on this list that were part of the price increase to $21.99. If it was important to increase the price by the extra $2.00 to cover costs, how can they be sold for $6.60 cheaper on the sale? The price increase does not make sense now. If it is because these titles are not moving? That is hard to believe with some of those titles being Blue Lagoon, Blue Lagoon 2, Hustler and Monkey King 2.
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I like how Edward Scissorhands and Boy Who Could Fly are practically the same movie. 
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Of those four, Inchon is the "least" of them. I love Jerry but it's one of his least interesting scores.
For me it may not be one of his absolute *most* interesting...but it's definitely in the top 40% or so at least. I'm really a sucker for his Asian sound...Tora! Tora! Tora! is my favorite but I also love The Sand Pebbles (Chinese Love Theme is far superior to the main love theme), The Challenge (though it took a little while to grow on me), and this.
Are you sure you don't primarily dislike it because of the poor recording? I thought the music really shone when newly recorded in a suite by Tadlow; this was done at great expense to James Fitzpatrick so obviously he doesn't consider it one of Jerry's "least interesting scores"...in fact in his own words he says "Mr Goldsmith at his best":
https://www.facebook.com/tadlowmusic/videos/811133192315906/
I love Jeff Bond's comment (and the man knows his Goldsmith): "This was Goldsmith's last crazy main title I think--he did much more subdued openings after that, but that one was like a lot of his Sixties and Seventies openings, a real piece of showmanship."
Man, I think that Main Title is just THRILLING...such a bummer that a full music video wasn't produced for it! Here are excerpts from another Facebook thread for the same video, to show I'm not the only one who really loves Inchon:
https://www.facebook.com/tadlowmusic/videos/782124341883458/
J. Kremer: "One of Goldsmith`s best asian flavored score."
C. Theuser: "one of Jerry Goldsmiths finest and most effective scores."
G. Gonda: "A superb opportunity to listen this score in its full glory!"
A different video for the curious, this time of the MacArthur march theme (Goldsmith's second for the general): https://www.facebook.com/tadlowmusic/videos/782140598548499/
So yeah, if anyone enjoyed those clips, or the ones on Intrada's site, I'd jump at getting their definitive issue of the score while you still can. 2 disc set with both the complete score and the original album program is a total STEAL at $13.99.
Yavar
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OMG, I don't have GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD and I just heard the sound samples. And it is on sale, sale, sale.
Maybe I can make it over before they lock their doors today!
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