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Buy however it's cheaper. Same discs.
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I just want that weird electronic pulsing thing for when Damien stares at the dog, just before the nanny dies.
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I prefer the mix on Damien Omen II on the original Silva Screen CD issue.
The Varese is otherwise excellent in all respects, but the frog-croak-chorus elements are mixed too low on the original album version. The Silva better matches the nutso vinyl from 1978, especially the beginning of Broken Ice, which I remember playing for my quizzical orchestra/choir director way back when
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Of course, part of the OST recording of DAMIEN—OMEN II was damaged.
I don't know if advances in audio restoration mean it could be improved.
So, yeah, for me there's a BIG case to be made for a final, definitive edition of all three:
THE OMEN, finally complete
DAMIEN—OMEN II, with the damaged OST elements improved if possible
THE FINAL CONFLICT, complete
And, forgive me, but I also think there's a case for THE OMEN to be presented both in the original album version (where the opening titles are blended with the unused version of 'The Altar' as a spookie way to close out the album) and in film version (where the opening titles are discrete).
Cheers
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Jerry Goldsmith just plain out-deviled all the other post-Exorcist tripe and trash—of which these Omen movies are examples of the best studio knockoffs that could be assembled—with fantastic operatic stuff that will long outlive its inspiration.
That's the kind of phase Goldsmith, Barry, and John Williams were all in simultaneously in those days: regularly showing up muddled and middling source material by producing masterpieces for junk on a regular basis. Thank providence they all got some projects worthy of their talent.
I envision a complete surround-sound hi-res master download package from Robert Townson of all these scores in one package. Opera is starting to sell as downloads; and these scores are every bit as worthy as classic opera recordings. Whaddayasay, Bob? I know you love these scores. Think big, like you did on Spartacus, and do Varese's first mastered-for-hi-res-download mega-quality package out of this material.
If you could get the price at around fifty to sixty bucks, I think it would do gangbusters.
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A postscript here, but indulge me, these scores are some of my favorites:
I'm sure these original tapes don't have rear-channel audio, but I think a surround sound remaster would be the only way to do justice to the chorus and satanic whisperings of a cue like "The Ambassador" from The Final Conflict, as well as the best way to bring out the mezzo piano strings and their legato surges that really drive "Trial Run".
Plus, imagine how good the heraldic horns in "The Hunt" would sound with a soundstage expansion of some sort.
Such great source material deserves every re-processing trick that can be thrown at it for maximum archival score-nerd pleasure.
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These should get the Michael Mattessino full restoration treatment. And I would love SACD releases for *any* great film scores.
Yavar
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