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I'm surprised one of the labels hasn't released this yet.
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It's not a "BSX release". It's a "promotional" edition produced many many years ago by Supertracks (aka Supercollector) - longer in runtime than the old MCA LP, but omitting one of the "disco" tracks from the LP. This CD was widely available over all the years, by Supertracks itself and then, after the label and shop officially closed, they sold it on Ebay. Now BSX solds it again.
And: I don't see any loss in quality during the last tracks. What do you mean?
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I have the bsx release and that last track, my favorite, has horrendous hiss. The score needs a mastered job... not sure if the bsx is complete though... anyone know?
You mean "Murphy's Law"? It's one of the two non-score disco-tracks of the theme produced for the original MCA LP-album. It has nothing to do with the film. It's an album track performed by a group around Rubinstein called "The Beepers" and was the last track on side 1 of the LP. The other disco track exclusively produced for the LP, a "dance version" of the main theme which was closing the original LP side 2, is missing from the CD version by the way.
And again: neither it is nor it ever was a BSX release. It's a promo album and strictly speaking it's forbidden to talk about it on this board.
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Hmm..I seem to remember that a version I saw of the film used "Murphy's law" over the end credits.
It depends on where you saw the movie. Blue Thunder had it's world premiere in late January/early February of 1983 in Germany. This version had the original End Title music Rubinstein composed for the scene ("Ride With The Angels") intact. You can still hear this piece in the German DVD of the movie. For the US release three months later (in May 1983) the piece was replaced. The German version was also a bit longer than the US release (http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=4680869), but because of the US video master this scene is not on DVD anymore.
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It may be so that some of the missing music on the CD is available on the LP; in the cues "River Chase" and "Hide and Seek," which run 12 minutes (as separate tracks) compared to 6:59 as a combined track on the CD.
It's a misnomer on the LP. The LP track "River Chase" is on the CD as "Adios J.A.F.O.".
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I must apologize for some misinformation I gave above. I've just rewatched my Blue Thunder DVD. Also here, in the German version, the original "End Title" music is gone. It's now, like everywhere else, "Murphy's Law", perhaps due to the new 5.1 mix. My confusion came perhaps from the old German VHS tape I still have ("Das Fliegende Auge"), which has "Ride Of The Angels" at the end (like I saw it back in early 1983 in the cinema) and which also has the scenes which were deleted for the US release (see link above).
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