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Feb 24, 2012 - 6:04 PM
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TJ
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Just picked this up for silly price (£0.01) on Amazon. Was apparently released as "Greatest Action Hits" in the US. Music from Superman, ET, Star Wars movies and Indiana Jones stuff.
Mixed reviews (to say the least!) on Amazon - wondered if anyone here has experience of it? Your thoughts?
I think it's just fine. One of those releases had each movie as one long track, I didn't enjoy that, the performances are solid and I want to say it has the film version of Temple of Doom end credits, which not all recordings have.
Ha, you can see my review on Amazon from June 2005! I feel old! and I feel like my grammar was even worse when I was in college....
Is this guy kidding??
Roy Budd and the LSO play nice version of these classics Williams scores. I agree with the guy who said lumping them into big tracks was a bad idea...and I don't understand it either because this CD was released in the UK as Big Screen Adventure with the Superman and Star Wars seperated into tracks...and I think if you can find that, pick that one up instead, but you can pick this up here for under 5 bucks used, and its defintiely worth it. Roy Budd and the LSO give competent re-recordings of these Williams scores which is alot better than the synthesized drivel on a bunch of these budget albums. This one's a winner in my book. I especially like the Indiana Jones medley.
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Feb 25, 2012 - 2:01 AM
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MusicMad
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This brings back a few memories ...
I suppose it must be early/mid 80's when Roy Budd released a double vinyl LP of themes recorded with the LSO (a Google search leads me to: The Fantasy Album Double 12" vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve/ cassette 1984. BBC Enterprises Ltd. REF 547) and I recall one review at the time which asked ... Why?
Given the availability of the themes (most of them anyway) in OST and other cover versions, why had Mr. Budd invested so much time - and, apparently his own money - in producing these recordings?
I recall making up a C90 cassette tape of most the music and it was a regular listen. I don't recall the complete track listing and things became a little confusing when CDs of the material appeared.
A few years later I got hold of a CD which included quite a few of these recordings plus some others (which never seemed as good to me with, I think, his recording of Mr. Goldsmith's The Final Conflict being a notable exception ... I don't think this track appeared on the original album release).
Edit: see http://www.popsike.com/ROY-BUDD-LSO-THE-FANTASY-ALBUM-UK-2LP-1984-SCIFI-OST/310217565990.html which lists the tracks as:
Side 1: Raiders Of The Lost Ark / Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Superman.
Side 2: E.T., Supergirl.
Side 3: The Complete Star Trek Suite (Comprising the TV Theme, Star Trek - The Movie, The Wrath Of Khan and The Search For Spock), Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger, Alien.
Side 4: Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - Return Of The Jedi, Dr Who
Then in Mar 97 I came across a cheap CD release: Big Screen Adventure which focused on the works of Mr. Williams from those original recordings ... 11 tracks (with E.T. being the longest single suite).
I'm glad I bought it though I rarely play it: no, they're not the OST recordings but they are good representations of those scores. I'm tempted to acquire the other CDs so as to re-create the original albums which were a better listening experience. I recall that his suite from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger was better than the OST (which rarely interests me).
Mitch
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Feb 25, 2012 - 2:37 AM
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Mike West
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Very interesting-
in the 90ties I discovered a CD called "Space Movie Themes" by Budd with the LSO,
quite good performances, not really outstanding but solid and inspired. And it had the
"Han Solo and the Princess" as concert version for example and a Star Trek Suite combining
music from all films (at the time of the recording = TV and I,II,III)
Great cover dominanted by Star Wars characters, Superman on the other side etc.
In the booklet of that CD there was another one called "Fantasy Movie Themes" with Indiana jones
dominating the cover.
I looked for that CD and never ever found it then and forgot about it.
Interestingly, I somehow remembered in last december and found a CD and bought it for 1$ -
it was not really sure if it would be that CD because there was just the title and the LSO, no cover (amazon) - but it was that CD.
DIfferently from the SPace movie themes, a lot of the arrangements are NOT original, for example
the Indiana Jones arrangement is really completely different, much more marching band like and starting with a different section from the march than the original march.
Anyway, those two CD apparantly have been reassembled for that other CD.
I would not be overly enthusiastic about those recordings particularly because the LSO raises the expectations - they are fine but not outstanding.
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This?
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Frontier-Original-Master-Recording/dp/B002XNH07S
That looks like a good set!
I really like the FINAL FRONTIER set - if only for the SUPERGIRL suite, much of which Budd takes at a ludicrously faster tempo than Goldsmith's original. Sadly, the high-speed Budd version was the one I first heard, so when I got the Varese LP of the soundtrack I didn't understand at first why it was so slow....
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This?
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Frontier-Original-Master-Recording/dp/B002XNH07S
That looks like a good set!
I really like the FINAL FRONTIER set - if only for the SUPERGIRL suite, much of which Budd takes at a ludicrously faster tempo than Goldsmith's original. Sadly, the high-speed Budd version was the one I first heard, so when I got the Varese LP of the soundtrack I didn't understand at first why it was so slow....
There's also very good arrangements for The Wild Geese and The Mark of Zorro.
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