I like the score and have owned it since 1990. Just not certain it warrants a re-issue or that there would be a significant number of listeners who would buy it. Been a long time since I listened so I don't recall if the sound quality is subpar, but I kinda remember it sounded a bit canned...?
I swear I JUST put this back onto the ipod last night, since the weather just turned cold.
I only play this in Winter, the score is so chilly & unemotional. It's great though, I love Isham's textural writing here, and that slow meter 'ping' of cymbal taps that keeps the tempo.
A revisit would be ok I suppose, since the Milan cd didn't get around much - and my copy is gold, the kind of gold that will eventually bronze
I've had this since around the time the movie came out. Love the movie and like the score a whole lot. Very chilly main theme; otherwise very subdued and textural.
My copy seems OK, made a fresh rip just last year.
Even gave this a listen a few days ago. The perfect accompaniment to a movie narrated by a dead woman. If this got a re-release, I think you would see it take a loong time to sell even 1000 copies.
Loved the film and loved the score in the film, but never listened to it much on CD.
But listening to the main theme now, I'm struck that it sounds like a cousin of Jerry Goldsmith's Brotherhood of the Bell from twenty years before, allowing for the differing standards of what sounded contemporary in each period.
Reversal of Fortune
Brotherhood of the Bell (this clip does not start as a good representation of what I'm talking about, it's more frenetic than the opening theme, but I didn't find that on youtube.)
Well, this terrific film is finally out on Blu-ray, wonderfully remastered by the Warner Archive Collection. I have always really enjoyed it, but this time, listening to the lossless audio track, I was really struck by Mark Isham's main theme and score.
I see CDs were released in 1991 by Milan (US, France) and Victor (Japan and possibly South Korea), but obviously they are long OOP. Apparently these albums only run 36 minutes. I'm not sure how much music was written for the film, but hopefully, it could at least be re-released in a remastered, if not also expanded form.
