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For those using iTunes, copy and paste this list for Disc 2:
The Saucer - Night Rendezvous / Plane Crash Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Saucer - Oversight Observation / Landing Site Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Saucer - Saucer Interior / Alien Artifact Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Saucer - Car Crash / Captured Annie / Incinerated Car Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Saucer - Fight, Action, Fight / Saucer Departs Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Saucer - Reformed Annie Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Enemy - Prologue Irving Gertz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Enemy - Gail's Feeling / Blake's Recovery Irving Gertz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Enemy - Drop Me In Town Irving Gertz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Enemy - Broodin' Mood (Willard Jones) Irving Gertz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Quantity: Unknown - Graveside Narration / Valuable Cylinder Richard Markowitz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Quantity: Unknown - Laser Beam / Lab Fire Richard Markowitz The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Condemned - Prologue I, II Sidney Cutner The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Condemned - Prologue III, IV Sidney Cutner The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Valley Of The Shadow - Carterville, USA / Electronic Zap Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Valley Of The Shadow - Quiet Grief / Earthquake Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Valley Of The Shadow - Purple Gas / Town Replay Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Valley Of The Shadow - Cool Fool (Don Ralke) Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Watchers - Maggie & Paul Sidney Cutner The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Watchers - Power Station Sidney Cutner The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Spores - David Arrives / Vincent Vs. Jessup Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Spores - Disgusting Seeds / Exit Lt. Mattson Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Spores - The Plantin' Of 'Em / Hot House Fire Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Condition: Red - No Avail / Fight Sidney Cutner The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Prophet - Alien Sermon Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Prophet - Brother John's Trap / Brother John Loses Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Prophet - Sister Clair's Story / Sobbing Sister Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Prophet - Smiles And Chatter Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Prophet - Sunset Strip Watusi (Don Ralke) Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Captive - Two Police Officers / Recriminations Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
The Captive - Back To The Drawing Board Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Counter-Attack - Mortally Offended / They Need Regeneration Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Counter-Attack - David's Girl Duane Tatro The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
Beachhead - Main Title, Pilot Dominic Frontiere The Quinn Martin Collection Volume 2 [Disc 2]
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Nov 15, 2019 - 2:33 PM
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Graham Watt
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THIERRYYYYY!!!!! I keep callin' to you here, but you're not paying me any attention! You even wrote a message on the "For MV" questions thread (he's too fed up with us to reply to anyone) - but I've been keeping you up to date! Now listen up - You ordered from Music Box? They have it listed "in stock" now. Let us know when you get it, and above all- after you've listened to it of course - your thoughts.
I dithered about this one, and so I'm still waiting for it to appear as "available" at Rosebud in Spain, then I'll order - although I know I should pre-order... I just have very vague memories of "studying" at university when it was on the telly in the '80s - I have a particularly strong/vague memory of a friend/flatmate going "BAAAWAaau" every time Dom Front went on a pitch bender. But I think I'd like to hear (own, possess) this. I'm almost more intrigued at the prospect of hearing the Duane Tatro material on Disc 2 than I am intrigued by how Dom Front's pitch-bending may conjure up images of my student buddies in 1983/84 (?) That really unorthodox Tatro theme from Queen Martin the First's volume (THE MANHUNTER - 0:54 seconds) had me exploring his fascinating jazz history, and remembering some startling TV Movies he did. One was THE HOUSE ON GREENAPPLE ROAD. That was a Queen Martin TV Movie, and it scared me even when I was too old to be scared by mere title sequences and music for make-believe telly things.
As I'm on a rant - and kind of dovetailing back to my opening comments - What do you European-based folkies do when ordering a CD? I only occasionally go through the US-based outlets. I did go direct to La-La-Land for something I really needed to have, about six months ago? Something by some Gil Mellé guy maybe? Did I mention him before? I just couldn't wait for that to arrive in the European stores. But I generally wait and get "bulk" purchases (three, sometimes four CDs at once!!!), mainly because I'll ask for a few European-pressed titles along with the US-pressed stuff, and so it works out cheaper. Apart from that, I'm trying not to be obsessive.
So - THE INVADERS... Not ordered yet.
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New hi-fi up and running.
Now playing: THE MUTATION
Great to hear extra little details here and there after years of hearing this music only behind dialogue and sound.
I'd recognise Dominic Frontiere's string arrangements anywhere. I think he got the players to really rein in their vibrato, lending his music an eerie sound when required.
Yes.
The main reason I don't like Golden Age scores is.the way the strings play.
You have a good ear!
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Jan 26, 2020 - 10:08 AM
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Graham Watt
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There are a few threads already about this release. Can we make this one the official one please?
Well Graham, since you asked that question more than two weeks ago and nobody replied, I guess we could interpret that as a yes. Go ahead, it's fine by me.
Thanks!
Right then, any more comments about the actual MUSIC on this release? I've given it all a good few spins and am really beginning to love it. I took a while to warm to it but now I've been taken over.
I think I made the mistake at first of wanting to take in everything in one go, as if it were a long film at the cinema with no intermission. Hey nutmegs, that's not the way you HAVE to listen to soundtracks! Disc 1, the all-Frontiere CD can get a bit head-doing and seemingly repetetive after about an hour. It's all pretty intense, and I used to think that it was very "samey" all the way through. Then I relistened to the scores one by one, and while the pitch-bending "BAAWOoou" does begin to grate, each score is indeed a separate entity with its own character and emphasis. The same thing happened to me when listening to QM 1's DAN AUGUST scores, and particularly FSM's ASSIGNMENT VIENNA (Grusin) scores on the TV Omnibus release from a while back. You have to separate these things or they just tend to wash over you in the end.
I can't say what my favourite Frontiere-scored episode is here - each one has something unique about it, but the overall flavour is the same. A LOT of it is in the style of THE OUTER LIMITS (even though THE OUTER LIMITS had a wider scope than THE INVADERS, given the range of stories and the amount of music written), and some of the motifs are seemingly repeated from one episode to the next, but with many more variations than a first casual listen would suggest.
"The Mutation" seems more moody and mysterious than the others overall. The action cues towards the end of the episode begin to pile up and are curiously old fashioned, reminding me of the Skinner/ Salter (?) monster mash fight scenes from the mid-to-late Universal horror cycle.
"The Experiment" has some terrific complex writing in it, along with the jittery unnerving material. Quite bold and powerful. Again there are a few seconds which seem a throwback to Herman Stein's theme from TARANTULA - a coincidence I'm sure.
"The Leeches" has the advantage of making brief use (twice) of the closest thing to a love theme in the entire set - a really beautiful flute piece followed by solo violin. Very OUTER LIMITS, and not in the least corny. But the moody/scary/action/paranoid cues are already beginning to become a jumble in my tiny mind. Wait - Was that bit that I'm thinking of actually in "The Leeches"? No, it was in "The Mutation." Wait - perhaps it was in all three. And so it's time to listen to it again. And lo and behold it actually IS worth listening to all this great music two hundred times.
Disc 2 didn't do much for me on first listen. It seemed characterless and routine. But stick with it nutmegs. If you appreciate good music, even if it may be deemed run-of-the-mill by people who don't care or know that real composers wrote real music for '60s SF TV shows, you'll be rewarded by several revisits. Well, I was at least. Sidney Cutner? Wasn't expecting much but it's solidly good writing. The Richard Markowitz is very good too. Hang on, I can't quite recall the details of that one - time to play the two CDs from beginning to end for the rest of my life. The Irving Gertz actually WAS a throwback to his '50s SF sound. It may sound a decade out of date, but he was a splendid composer. The Duane Tatro stuff is REALLY interesting - I'd been intrigued by this guy ever since I saw THE HOUSE ON GREENAPPLE ROAD ("A QUEEN MARTIN PRODUCTION!!!") when I was a newborn baby. Duane Tatro interested me so much that when the computer was invented in 1943 I investigated his career. He was only 16 then but already playing with Stan Kenton, I think! But he's still alive, just about to turn 93. Are there any interviews with him out there? Watch the other side of the board - I might do a thread on his jazz album(s).
I like most of the source cues too, mostly by Don Ralke. Hang on, I think I really REALLY like the sultry, mellow jazz one by Willard Jones (?). It's all good "girls in bikinis dancing around the pool" music. The only one I don't like too much is the Frontiere strip club one from "The Mutation". Never was a fan of strip club music.
La-La Land - You did good! I like this set! I'm not such a crazy nutmeg that I'd say it's the best thing since the invention of the wheel, but it's one of the best things that's happened to me in my miserable January 2020 existence so far. Oh, and although I'm not an audiophile, the whole thing sounds spectacular! Yeah!
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