First of all, I understand that Rabin's music is an acquired taste that not everyone enjoys. However, for those of us who DO enjoy his music, why have there been so few of his scores released in complete/expanded form? There are plenty to choose from:
Armageddon Bad Boys 2 Bad Company Coach Carter Deep Blue Sea Exorcist: The Beginning G-Force Glory Road Gone in 60 Seconds The Guardian National Treasure 1 & 2 Remember the Titans Texas Rangers Torque 12 Rounds
While some of those mentioned DID have a release, they were all too short and missing major musical moments; I'm looking at you, Gone in 60 Seconds and Deep Blue Sea! I understand that putting together complete/expanded releases is not a simple process, but I look at my collection and have to wonder why I have multiple releases and re-releases of some scores and so few of Trevor Rabin. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what HAS been released and I'm grateful for it. I just think it's time we start getting some of these hidden gems.
I don't own any of his score CDs in my collection, but I'd be interested in Armageddon and Deep Blue Sea from that list, since I love those films and have watched them many times. Otherwise I'm not familiar with the rest of his output.
As you said in your opening post, an "acquired taste".
I had a feeling from a lot of those titles that there would be the involvement of percussion and synths, which I don't mind in the scores that I've got, but some of those examples seem a bit 80's sounding, which I'm not so keen on.
But I'd still be interested in the two that I mentioned. I would have thought Armageddon is in LLL territory, so I'm surprised they haven't already tackled that one.
Texas Rangers sounded good, and could be a nice addition to my Westerns collection.
I always figured there must be a logistical issue (rights, HGW's involvement, etc) holding up ARMAGEDDON because that seemed like it would be a popular expanded title. Given the companies involved I'm assuming it would have to come from Intrada, and as there is plenty to be released from the Disney vaults maybe it's just not a priority.
Thanks for the response MV! Glad to see at least one of the major labels has an interest. Bad Boys 2 would be a great release, and I'm sure will contain MANY alternates
I also forgot to mention THE 6TH DAY, another fun, experimental Rabin score that is probably 60%+ unreleased. I believe that was a Varese OST, so fingers crossed they'll expand it some day.
Bad boys 2 may happen in 2016. Things got delayed at Sony due to the hack.
MV
Oooooooh. Mancina does some really cool stuff in that score, often writing against the action with interesting textures. I always hoped this might see the light of day.
Bad boys 2 may happen in 2016. Things got delayed at Sony due to the hack.
MV
Oooooooh. Mancina does some really cool stuff in that score, often writing against the action with interesting textures. I always hoped this might see the light of day.
