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Ordered!!!! This is the most exciting month of film score releases for me all year. Nothing against the other labels, as I've made my love for La La Land Records very apparent, but holy cow. I've dreamed of these three scores, complete, and lined up next to each other by my stereo system for years.
Does anyone know if a special case will be released to hold all three CD cases?
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Ordered! So glad this has the preview music to Part III - I've been wanting that ever since I saw the movie as a kid.
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Does anyone know if a special case will be released to hold all three CD cases?
I would doubt it since 2 of them are from Intrada and the other is from Varèse.
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Ordered! So glad this has the preview music to Part III - I've been wanting that ever since I saw the movie as a kid.
Silvestri's Wild West theme for Part III is probably my favorite 2 minutes of music from the entire trilogy. Brings a smile to my face every time I hear it.
The blasted thing has been stuck in my head since the weekend.
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Ordered!!!! This is the most exciting month of film score releases for me all year. Nothing against the other labels, as I've made my love for La La Land Records very apparent, but holy cow. I've dreamed of these three scores, complete, and lined up next to each other by my stereo system for years.
Does anyone know if a special case will be released to hold all three CD cases?
I don't think Varese works together well with other labels, or else this might sound believable. You could always just slide the discs and liner notes into the LP to CD "handbag" and write "STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS THE BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY COMPLETE SOUNDTRACKS COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY ALAN SILVESTRI" on it in marker.
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Handbag thinks it's gonna drown!
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So taking everything we know, we can confirm that...
Intrada's Single Disc Re-issue of the first Back To The Future score IS A NEW REMASTER. I know when things are done from 'the ground up', some things should undoubtably be different. If this CD sounds better than the original, I'd like to know.
Not really, according to Roger:
"When Mondo expressed interest in putting this out we realized the existing 16 bit CD master wasn't sufficient. So Doug had to go back to the original transfers and start over to create a master for the LP. He took the opportunity to redo a CD master as well. Does it sound better? Probably. Will it be revolutionary? Probably not."
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Bob Gale proposed a slipcase but it would have meant bringing Varese, Intrada, UME and Universal Studios together on it. Who would pay for it? Who would produce it? Who would sell it? These projects all started 6 months ago and it was enough of a feat to get them all mastered, designed and announced (including the vinyl) in conjunction with the other related activities.
Mike M.
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[Here's Doug's longer answer about BTTFI from the Intrada Board.]
Roger answered beautifully. I created a new master, yes, but the original Universal vault elements didn't "improve" with age nor did anything else per se. Sometimes re-mastering means little more to the listener than knowing there were new parts with which to manufacture from. It's really one of the most abused terms since it means almost everything being reissued on CD these days is ostensibly a remaster. Add a new track, change the sequence by a track, even add just one extra second of silence between two tracks and - voila! - you have to create a "new" master. Anyway, it's a frequently abused term since it often promises more than it delivers.
So with all that said, I personally don't think there is enough of an improvement here to warrant re-purchasing the disc, which I mentioned in my capsule on the website. Perhaps there is just ever-so-slightly more low end down with the basses and cellos and the tiniest additional "air" around the upper strings and brass. But those are really very subtle changes from what was done the first time around. We did create a 24-bit master this time, yes. But the audio differences are still pretty small. There is only so much one can do when re-visiting the same master elements - unless one really screwed up the audio the first time around. While that can and does happen - I don't think it happened on BTTF.
So the bottom line is, if you want to have your Intrada library remain totally complete (we should be so lucky) then it's probably worth another $20 to continue on that path. But beyond that, this release is aimed at the wider general market who has little interest in various alternate cues and just wants to enjoy the score to a massively popular movie. Keep in mind we sold the maximum allowable units under our deal (10,000). I'm willing to gamble that more than half of those went to fans of the movie. Not to "us" soundtrack collectors. Plus this release allows us to be a big part of Universal and Amblin's much-wider marketing scheme on the entire trilogy. With Varese doing Part III, Mondo on vinyl detail, Universal on the Blu-rays and us on both Parts I and II, it appears we're in great company.
--Doug
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Bob Gale proposed a slipcase but it would have meant bringing Varese, Intrada, UME and Universal Studios together on it. Who would pay for it? Who would produce it? Who would sell it? These projects all started 6 months ago and it was enough of a feat to get them all mastered, designed and announced (including the vinyl) in conjunction with the other related activities.
Mike M.
I figured as much. Thought it wouldn't hurt to ask though. Thanks for the information.
I'm ordering Part III tomorrow, I already own Part I from Intrada's release a few years ago. This will make for an awesome listening experience on the long commutes to work. Hearing the alternate cues for II and III will be interesting.
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Great interview, thanks for sharing!
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