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Jul 24, 2009 - 1:55 PM
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Bibliomike
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Wow! The score is fantastic! And I was surprised at some of the cues I'd forgotten ("Chekov Lies," e.g.). Wonderful product, than you FSM.
I haven't yet read the liner notes (am listening at work), but it does seem like "Kirk Takes Command" is not quite the cue as we hear it in the film, unless my memory is playing tricks on me. Isn't this cue a bit faster in the finished film? Or is it just hearing it stripped of sound effects and dialogue that makes it seem a tad slower and grander? At any rate, I like it, and I will be listening to this version from here on out.
And I'm so glad to have the music for Spock's death scene -- it is really quite touching, and I'm surprised neither it nor the funeral sequence music were in the original release, given that this is, after all, "the one where Spock dies." I trust those decisions will all be explained in the liner notes, which I look forward to reading on the commute home.
Awesome! :-)
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Got mine today too, YEAH!!!
Me too...thanks a lot Lukas & all who made this happen. I'm cranking it up tonight.
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I couldn't wait to get home today because I just knew that the parcel from Screen Archives would have arrived this afternoon. And I was right. I have received my copy of and am currently listening to the Retrograde Records CD of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and to keep things topical, "There Is No Comparison." It blows the GNP Crescendo disc completely out of the water on all fronts. It sounds like the music has been unbound in some great mythic sense.
The sound mix is so much better with a wide stereo spread as opposed to that horrid "mono with presence" vibe on the GNP disc, and as a results sounds don't seem as 'crushed together' as they do on the other CD. This is an extremely colorful score, so the exhuberance of the music would often compensate for the limitations of the sound on the GNP Crescendo disc, but the best way that I could describe the way the music sounds on the new disc is "thunderous." "Kirk's Explosive Reply" really explodes, and when the "Enterprise Clears Moorings" it sails away. "Khan's Pets" was a cue that I was always lukewarm on from hearing it on the original CD, but the clearer sonics on the new one allow the textural writing to come through, and that whole sequence proves to be an interesting segment of the score in a Jerry Goldsmith horror vein (those scratches in "The Eels of Ceti Alpha V" scared the $#!+ out of me).
I was expecting to glide over parts of the score but found the whole thing much more engaging. Frankly, hearing some of the more familiar pieces in the greater context of the entire score (and sounding so good) reveal how much more complex the score is than one would think from the LP selections (excellent though they were). Furthermore, cues like "Kirk Takes Command," "Captain Terrell's Death" and "Enterprise Attacks Reliant" are central to the score as it plays in the film, and there are many nifty little moments liek the mixing of Alexander Courage's theme with Horner's in "Kirk In Space Shuttle" and the ethereal "Genesis Cave." The Big One of this score, however, is "Spock (Dies)," which is one of those moments that just couldn't have fit onto that original LP, but is a wonderful bit of scoring.
This is a score I know intimately. Not only have I played the original album more times than I'd care to admit, but the film is one of my all-time favorites as well. The score itself was something of a holy grail before the GNP Crescendo CD edition; my friend Tim and I went on several far-reaching expeditions in an attempt to track down the Atlantic LP or cassette back in the high school days (it turned out somebody I knew who had nothing to do with my primary clique happened to have the LP). It would take a lot for me to use the term "revelation" in context of anything remotely connected with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and this CD qualifies.
Bravo FSM!!!
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I got my copy today as well as Cain's Hundred and The Split. In a separate package I received Topkapi. Yesterday came the two latest from Intrada.
And when I got home from Austin on Monday, the four latest titles from Varese were waiting for me. I feel like I'm going to puke.
But I'll be putting this on next- later.
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Finally the wait is over. Another score grail given to us...now if they can release the complete score for Star Trek 3 another long over due Horner score to be presented in its entirity. I hope they will press more copies of Journey of Natty Gann as I missed out on getting that added to my collection.
Moviemusic.com still have copies of Natty Gann available.
Not anymore. When you press 'add to cart' it says 'no longer in stock'.
Ebay has copies of Natty Gann left 
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How long do they have a licence? It will be a decade in June!
Damn! Time flies.
I would rebuy it if it was re-released as a 2CD with the remastered album presentation.
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How long do they have a licence? It will be a decade in June!
Damn! Time flies.
I would rebuy it if it was re-released as a 2CD with the remastered album presentation.
There is literally a five second difference (there is a wild insert on Battle in the Mutara Nebula) between the tracks on the FSM and the original album.
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What was done recently for Superman The Movie has me wondering if something similar could happen for the Star Trek trilogy. Both Horner scores and Rosenman's Voyage Home were sourced from film mixes. Does that make them a similar situation to Supes or no? Can the Treks sound better than they already do if different sources materialize someday?
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Fantastic !!! I hope this will be available at Comic-Con !!!
About time !!!!
Good question. I'll be there at Comic-Con preview night, with $20.00 burning a hole in my pocket.
Greg Espinoza
Did Mrs. R ever get around to sewing it up?
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What was done recently for Superman The Movie has me wondering if something similar could happen for the Star Trek trilogy. Both Horner scores and Rosenman's Voyage Home were sourced from film mixes. Does that make them a similar situation to Supes or no? Can the Treks sound better than they already do if different sources materialize?
Noo[oooooooooo!
Enough with the reeereeerrrrremasters.
New stuff dammitt.
Have a.nice day
Brm
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How long do they have a licence? It will be a decade in June!
There is literally a five second difference (there is a wild insert on Battle in the Mutara Nebula) between the tracks on the FSM and the original album.
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Ordered!
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This came out when, 2009ish? Man that was the start of awesome things for Trek score junkies like myself. I remember this thing popped up out of nowhere. And I forgot exactly how it was announced, but I remember reading that the CD was going to be released FIRST at San Diego comic Con and then released days later to the masses. The Screenarchives booth was the first place I went to before anything else. Grabbed it, tossed it in my bag and moved on to the next thing. I think that same weekend, on Sunday, mere minutes before the Convention closed, I walked by a woman who had just bought LLL’s Batman 89 release. I stopped her dead in her tracks and asked her if I could see it, because i thought it was a bootleg! She told me where LLL’s booth was and again I ran over there to get it just before they closed. Good times yall.
In the years that followed, we got every Trek film score, and several volumes of music from al of the shows.
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