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| This is a comments thread about Blog Post: FSM Giveaway—Raksin 5CD Set by Lukas Kendall |
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WOW. Thanks for the generous offer, Lukas.
I got:
THE BIG BUS
BULLITT
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
THE SPACE CHILDREN / THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK
NOT WITH MY WIFE, YOU DON'T VOL. 2
RICH AND FAMOUS / ONE IS A LONELY NUMBER
And a whole bunch of Raksin! I can't wait.
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I've been thinking of picking up some FSM CDs when I get my credit card balance paid off sometime within my next two pay periods. I'll definitely be making that at least $100 in FSM CDs now!
(Incidentally, while looking at the FSM CDs on my shelf earlier I remembered that I'd bought Diane a couple years back. I listened to it for the first time in a long time and thought, how could I have forgotten this?! If you don't have it yet, check out the samples and give it a go!)
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I was going to purchase the TV Omnibus vol. 1 anyway, so this is a pretty painless way to get the Raksin set.
DONE!
Merci Lukas!
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I picked this up at Amoeba for only $29.99. I forgot to get it when it came out and thought it was out of print so I picked it up. Little did I know it's still available and sold for $59.95. It was underneath the regular soundtrack section near the floor, first time ever I somewhat went through those and I found a good one.
Haven't listened to it yet, I will do it tomorrow for sure now!
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Lukas describes very well what it was like "in the olden days" (before he was around), going into record shops and seeing an LP by somebody like Bill Conti or John Scott or Charles Fox.... or Galt MacDermot, looking at it, thinking "Hmm, this might be quite good", buying it, taking it home and more often than not becoming a fan of the composer's work. If you were really lucky you might even have picked up a "must-buy" Goldsmith or Williams the same day. That's how I got to know the works of Conti, Scott, Fox and MacDermot. That and TV. I'd have picked up a David Raksin LP back then too, if there had been any, for the same "Hmm, this might be quite good" reason.
So why haven't I picked up the Raksin set yet? Because there are still too many Goldsmiths and Schifrins and Rozsas that I never got around to getting. That would explain why I don't have THE SWIMMER either (one that I would have most definitely picked up on LP in 1977, going "Hmm, this might be quite good").
Yes, I think it's a great idea to explore outside one's comfort zone, and I hope this idea is a success. I just hope the offer hangs around long enough for me to pluck up the courage to ask my dear wife if we can spend more money on "music that all sounds the same!" (insert LOL)
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BESIDES the $112.00 order I just placed, I will go ahead and order FIVE copies of WAIT UNTIL DARK that I planned to give as Christmas presents this year, each one containing a card saying "THIS is why I love movie music." And get another Raksin set for NADA....
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This shows the genuine pioneering spirit of LK. By hitting upon exactly that strategy, not only does he shift material, but he campaigns for great composers like Raksin, whose work is never a disappointment, and great.
His agenda is always to speak for this music, and to educate. If these composers were all still with us, being interviewed, basking in their resurrected fame, LK would be a household name today, synonymous with ther music and getting it released.
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Well, this a good deal for those who do not have most the FSM titles that they are interested in and I am not going to buy extras to sell later. I went through the catalog again and saw one title that I am interested in, but it is an unlimited release, so I will get it in time.
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Great offer:
Made me fill some gaps in my collection
- Marathon man
- Outland
- Quentin Durward
- The wrong man
- The satan bug
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