Well, got my replacement disc. Thanks so much SAE! Just in time to find another defect with my Disc #5, and... you guessed it, some pages of the book splitting apart. I will email them again.
I absolutely love this set, I couldn't be happier with it. Thanks to Lukas, and everyone else involved with it!Lukas, any chance of a Rocky collection too?
I think FSM did really a great work with releasing this magnificent box. As I was very interested in the FSM SUPERMAN collection I ordered it as soon as it appeared here and I got one of the box-sets of the first edition of 3000 units. I think all four Superman-movies now musically are more than completley represented - specially Alexander Courage's complete score for SUPERMAN IV. Alexander Courage really did a great work for this movie and unfortunateley his music was chopped down when the movie was cut for financial reasons. It always must be a disappointment for a composer when his music either is trimmed down or planned score albums are cancelled. Also a great gift in this box is that there is the music for the animated SUPREMAN-series by Ron Jones. Perhaps of his scores for this series and other great scores will appear here or on other labels as I think Ron Jones also is a very interested and extremley talented composer. Besides that I hope that FSM will launch such great Filmmusic-Boxsets as this for other great Movie-Series. Thank you Lukas. You really did a great work with this.
You know how everyone has their "Holy Grails" and many here have a dozen of them.
This was mine.
The Superman scores are at the core of my love of film music and never before has even the already available music had such wonderful sound and loving presentation. The complete scores to the 3 sequels were always on my wish list and I would even watch the hideous Superman IV just to listen to the music.
The release of this box brought my film score intrest full circle. This was THE set I wanted, and nothing about it disappoints in the slightest. There's nothing about it which makes me say "wow, this is great, but it's too bad they didn't..."
You guys did it, you satisfied my search and my hunger. Nothing released since has touched my interest as much.
Wasn't there a SUPERMAN V or something released a while back? Was that part of the series (musically speaking)?
Superman Returns was a semi-reboot that kinda sorta loosely picked up the story five years after Superman II. However, from a musical perspective, John Ottman wrote the sequel score that he never felt Superman really got (although one can make a case that Superman IV would have qualified if anybody could have heard it outside of that... film).
Superman Returns was a semi-reboot that kinda sorta loosely picked up the story five years after Superman II. However, from a musical perspective, John Ottman wrote the sequel score that he never felt Superman really got (although one can make a case that Superman IV would have qualified if anybody could have heard it outside of that... film).
I see. So does it incorporate the Williams themes?
I guess I'm about 10 years late to the discussion here, but I was wondering if you knew... was the original 1987 CD release of Superman: The Movie also taken from the six-track 35mm music masters?
I would imagine so, but wacky things happen in the movie industry like losing original tapes and films. On the back of the original CD the producers apologize for being able to hear "limitations of the source tape." So they might have taken the music from secondary sources, but then again digital audio was fairly new in 1987 and it might have just been the limitations of the technology.
I imagine it was taken from the same album masters the original vinyl was derived from.
Still enjoy the original album presentation very much, and have the Japanese CD which featured the full vinyl album program on one disc, without the track deletions of the first US release.
The 1978 Warner lp master, which was the primary source for both the 1987 and Rhino discs, was a two track tape (probably 1/4") at least 3 generations removed from the original multitrack master tape (which is presumed lost). In a couple cases (March of the Villains for instance), the lp master is all that exists. The 35mm 6-track film mix was not known to exist until the film was remastered for dvd in 2001.
Also that disclaimer was Warner's standard one of the 80s. It appears on almost every disc they put out at the time including ones they recorded digitally!
I will email them again. 
Lukas, any chance of a Rocky collection too? 
