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Ever on CD?
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Ever on CD?
excerpts in the BOX..
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I think it got a CD release in Spain sometime ago. I'd love an FSM take on this one, with lots of extra cues and alternates. There's some great 'out there' jazzy/electronic stuff in this one and the main theme is proper catchy. I'd love the main title as heard in the film to be made available, the album may have been a re-recording.
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Ever on CD?
Regrettably, no. I had the lp and it had some catchy themes on it. I recall reading an interview with Goldsmith where he mentioned he didn't care much for the project.
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I believe the Dot catalogue is now owned by Universal - so maybe Intrada?
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I believe this and WARNING SHOT are the only Goldsmith lp's never to be officially released on CD. Citadel managed to pull off releasing FREUD on their old lp catalog and it was in print for years, but never as an authorized cd release.
And, of course, WARNING SHOT was entirely re-recorded by another artist, and substandard to the OST.
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Per Steven's input: while it probably wasn't high on Goldsmith's favorite list either, we'd like to suggest it's a perfect example of something "minor" still providing major pleasure
(which also goes under the the definition of a PROFESSIONAL: someone who can produce even when they aren't feeling properly "inspired") ... 
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Sebastian intrigues me, as I know the score (and film) to only exist as an album cover photo in the Soundtrack Album Cover book published ten years ago. Any more comparisons to other Goldsmith scores from this time frame?
Well, it kind of had a 60's mod spy sound to it, I remember having a cassette tape I played in the car circa 1977-78 that had cues from SABASTIAN and OUR MAN FLINT on it.
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SEBASTIAN was a great little LP that came out concurrent with the release of PLANET OF THE APES in '68.
Finally catching up with the film on a television showing in the early 70's, I had to admit that the film recording had a somewhat fuller sound, especially the main title, although more broken up with dialogue interludes than the album re-record. It's very much a last gasp of the "Mod
60's", but well worth seeking out.
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Dec 7, 2007 - 9:08 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Sebastian intrigues me, as I know the score (and film) to only exist as an album cover photo in the Soundtrack Album Cover book published ten years ago. Any more comparisons to other Goldsmith scores from this time frame?
Well, it kind of had a 60's mod spy sound to it, I remember having a cassette tape I played in the car circa 1977-78 that had cues from SABASTIAN and OUR MAN FLINT on it.
Track 8, The Trip, is one of my favorite Goldsmith cues, with its cool Apes-like percussion reminding us it comes from the same mind that gave us Planet Of The Apes.
That track ended up on a number of compilations I made of trippy music in the 80's.
Listenable, somewhere between the Flint scores and The Last Run. If you like listening to attempts at sounding hip and mod in the 60's that didn't quite make it--and thus became their OWN kind of hip and mod--you might enjoy it. Not a must-have, though.
Sounds "essential" to me! I've always been interested in this era of film scoring, and the fact that Jerry is behind yet another one of these only makes it all the more desirable.
NP: THE LAST RUN (1971 turned out to be quite an interesting year for film scores!)
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SEBASTIAN was the first LP I ever bought from the old 58 Dean St Records shop in London.
The theme was rather catchy, and the whole thing gave off a sort of 'swingin' 60's British vibe'. It could almost have been written by an Englishman (I always find it somewhat similar stylistically to Stanley Myers's KALEIDOSCOPE score).
I must say I found the *film* SEBASTIAN an awful mess - Goldsmith's music was the only really good thing about it for me.
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