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Personally I would sooner labels targeted scores that have had no CD release before, rather than ones with a more than adequate representation already. LEVIATHAN is fun, but it's NOT a great Goldsmith score and certainly NOT a great film. It doesn't need expanding in the way that, say, EXTREME PREJUDICE didn't need expanding (those extra tracks are, to me, entirely redundant) but ALIEN or STAR TREK TMP did.
This should really be on the lower priority rung. There are scores out there than haven't seen any light of day at all.
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I'd go for a new and expanded release of Leviathan 'in a flash' Here's hoping we get some previously unreleased Goldsmith too.
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Personally I would sooner labels targeted scores that have had no CD release before, rather than ones with a more than adequate representation already.
Then many lables would go out-of-business while trying to get SECONDS, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM or whatever out.
Oh, I know. But the thing is, something like NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER is a very low priority for me. I'm happy enough with the Edel issue to not upgrade (especially in the current financial climate). Similarly I'm happy enough with the original CASSANDRA CROSSING to leave the expanded Prometheus, for a while at least. And if there's only about another 10 minutes of LEVIATHAN, is it really worth doing?
It's not just Goldsmith, of course. I'm currently listening to STARCRASH - the Silva issue that was paired with UNTIL SEPTEMBER. What is there about the BSX version to get me to upgrade? The sound seems okay to me (obviously the clearer the better, but I'm not a fanatic about crystal sound quality unless it's exceptionally poor, such as FSM's ON DANGEROUS GROUND) and there's only one bonus track.
The thing is, the money's staying in the bank. I'm not spending on current expansions whereas I would be more likely to spend on titles new to CD. (An exception to that is LINK, which is so hard to find legitimately at a rational price that it might as well be unreleased.)
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Personally I would sooner labels targeted scores that have had no CD release before, rather than ones with a more than adequate representation already.
Then many lables would go out-of-business while trying to get SECONDS, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM or whatever out.
Oh, I know. But the thing is, something like NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER is a very low priority for me. I'm happy enough with the Edel issue to not upgrade (especially in the current financial climate). Similarly I'm happy enough with the original CASSANDRA CROSSING to leave the expanded Prometheus, for a while at least. And if there's only about another 10 minutes of LEVIATHAN, is it really worth doing?
It's not just Goldsmith, of course. I'm currently listening to STARCRASH - the Silva issue that was paired with UNTIL SEPTEMBER. What is there about the BSX version to get me to upgrade? The sound seems okay to me (obviously the clearer the better, but I'm not a fanatic about crystal sound quality unless it's exceptionally poor, such as FSM's ON DANGEROUS GROUND) and there's only one bonus track.
FYI, in the case of most of the titles you have mentioned that have been reissued, you seem not to take into account that the earlierr releases have been out of print for over a decade or longer and where quite costly to get if you didn't get them then they first came out.
In the case of NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER it was going for $30 to $50 dollars on Amazon.
the UNTIL SEPTEMBER / STARCRASH for quite a bit more.
The newer editions (In my biased view) sound better then the original releases and in come cases have extra tracks that really deserved to be on the original.
In the case of THE CASSANDRA CROSSING, the new disc features the entire score as well as the album version (with improved sound as well).
Of course you have decide what you want or don't, but there are alot of facts that impact what is released or not.
Ford A. Thaxton
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