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I might buy the LP?
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I don't think that we should use hyperbole with this release, and please don't expect a perfectly balanced stereo image here, it's mono and comes from the same stems. The LLL CD was 13 years ago! and it was wonderful then, and a holy grail that we were all waiting for. This is just an update of the long out-of-print album using new technology that Chris has worked hard, as any other label working with any of the wonderful sound engineers and producers around that we all know could have done.
Jose
You seem to be a class act, sir.
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What you need to do is see the film, moolik. Then the score will click for you as the masterpiece it is. It’s on Criterion and also streaming on Paramount+ I think.
Yavar
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Sigh. Again, this was written for a film. I think it’s a masterpiece of film scoring and perhaps if you actually experience it in the film it was written for, you’ll agree. I wasn’t saying it was one of the most enjoyable album listens. 
Yavar
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Gloomy? Depressing? Cold? I'm in.
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I adore the brittle "love theme" from this SO much. I wouldn't call it "sterile" in the least. It's heartbreaking, really.
Yavar
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I was fortunate enough to see Seconds for the first time *in theater* almost two decades ago (my how time flies), in film class during the year I spent at USC. Jerry Goldsmith wasn't even my favorite composer at the time...he was probably top 5. And I went into the film blind. I didn't even know who had written the score.
It blew me away. One of the greatest experiences I've ever had seeing a film in theater. It was powerful, upsetting, surprising... a real gut punch. And the score was exactly what the film needed.
Now having explored Goldsmith's work further, I can see that the score was an outgrowth of sorts of his work on Thriller... just bigger and even better. And I love how sometimes he plays like a dark sibling to The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint (my single favorite Goldsmith work, from around the same time) -- those haunting string trills in particular!
After you have a chance to see the film and experience the score in context, moolik, I'd be very curious to learn what you think of both.
Yavar
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What does "Keep Rockin'" refer to?
Does the source music of the bacchanal sequence (the flutes and chanting during the grape-stomping "orgy") appear anywhere on this new disc?
This is a tremendously eerie and haunting score. For anyone not certain about getting this, don't be!
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