Death Waltz Records has announced a new edition of Akira Ifukube's complete score to the 1954 Godzilla. It appears to be identical to the now out-of-print (and expensive) La La Land CD. Death Waltz has the complete playable score up on their site for a limited time.
Death Waltz Records has announced a new edition of Akira Ifukube's complete score to the 1954 Godzilla. It appears to be identical to the now out-of-print (and expensive) La La Land CD. Death Waltz has the complete playable score up on their site for a limited time.
"But the original - and, for many, still the best - Godzilla is the Toho creation of 1954, and its soundtrack is now available in full for the first time in its sixty year history, courtesy of Death Waltz Recording Company."
Obviously the people who worked on this release never heard about this release:
It seems clear that Death Waltz's claims were in reference to its availability on vinyl.
Death Waltz's claims, maybe. Their website at least says "For the first time ever on vinyl..." (although they don't go out of their way to mention the prior CD releases).
But the Empire article uses no such qualifiers. It says this is the first time the soundtrack has been available in full in its sixty-year history, full stop. Shoddy reporting.
Death Waltz's claims, maybe. Their website at least says "For the first time ever on vinyl..." (although they don't go out of their way to mention the prior CD releases).
They would appear to have no reason to. If the ad for the album states that it's a vinyl release and the ad itself appears in the vinyl section of their webpage, then any prior CD editions wouldn't be relevant for them to mention. I agree, it looks like Empireonline worded it VERY badly.
The internet is woefully inadequate on information about 50's & 60's-era vinyl Godzilla scores. It's very possible that Death Waltz's edition IS the first time the score was available on vinyl (with this track configuration, that is). I was just imagining for a moment owning a first edition Godzilla '54 vinyl--that would be a really cool thing to have (if it even exists).
"But the original - and, for many, still the best - Godzilla is the Toho creation of 1954, and its soundtrack is now available in full for the first time in its sixty year history, courtesy of Death Waltz Recording Company."
Obviously the people who worked on this release never heard about this release:
"But the original - and, for many, still the best - Godzilla is the Toho creation of 1954, and its soundtrack is now available in full for the first time in its sixty year history, courtesy of Death Waltz Recording Company." Obviously the people who worked on this release never heard about this release: http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Godzilla.html I guess they were not one of the many thousand people who purchased the cd when it came out 10 years ago for the Big guy's 50th Anniversary. lol MV
Yep. Pretty interesting they would omit that info. They are, after all, a soundtrack label. so you know they know about the La La Land CD. Greg Espinoza
Except Death Waltz didn't say that. Empireonline said it and they aren't a soundtrack label. So it was Empireonline's error.
Except Death Waltz didn't say that. Empireonline said it and they aren't a soundtrack label. So it was Empireonline's error.
And it seems MV has addressed this to Empire.
"You might want to correct your article. This soundtrack has been released in FULL 10 years ago for the 50th Anniversary of the film AND it contains more music than what is presented on this release.
And it seems MV has addressed this to Empire. "You might want to correct your article. This soundtrack has been released in FULL 10 years ago for the 50th Anniversary of the film AND it contains more music than what is presented on this release. Here is a link to the La-La Land Records release: http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Godzilla.html Also, the complete score was released by Toho a few years back as part of a multi disc box set called the Godzilla Perfect Collection." You go, MV! Greg Espinoza
I just noticed that a few minutes ago, too! Awesome!
The Empire Online article says, "This new release has been remastered from Toho's original Godzilla source material..."
Yeah, I read that too. "Remastered" could mean almost anything. Maybe some guy loaded a Toho CD into an audio editing program. And considering Empireonline's blunder--documented previously in this thread, I'm not really looking to them for any sort of authoritative information. That particular ball would be in Death Waltz's court.
It's not earth-shattering, anyway. Just curiosity, more than anything else. I'm always interested in the mechanics of how these releases come about. How arrangements are made, how the actual material changes hands and so forth.
