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Absolutely hate it, and don't usually succumb to such recordings. I did get Flash Gordon by Queen which annoyed the hell out of me, and The Story of Star Wars back in the day while we all still enthralled by the film, and there wasn't much in the way of home video. Anyway I don't think things like the latter count. It's not meant as a music album anyway.
I definitely boycotted The Prisoner tv soundtracks that Silva put out prior to the most recent Network release. Utter rubbish. Annoying at the time as I only had the first volume (the actual scores) on the original vinyl release (something I had a very tiny hand in getting made).
And the very first time they released a Doctor Who soundtrack album, they included sound fx mixed in with the music which again, really annoyed me. The excuse was that by then the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were scoring the show as well as providing the sound fx (which they'd always done), and they seemed to think was very little dividing line between them but it really did spoil the listening pleasure. Fortunately they dropped the stupid idea for Doctor Who the Music II...
So the answer to the thread question is an emphatic NO!
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So did you guys also hate the recitations on the Dark Shadows soundtrack?
Most of us don't have that, Onya.
That is pre-'75-Spielberg.
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Some of my favourite soundtracks still have dialogue between tracks, such as Get Carter and Escape From New York. My Question is are you able to tolerate those distractions by ignoring them when listening to a CD or do you programme them out or skip those tracks completely?
I personally remove them on my mp3 player, but can still tolerate them on cd.
The bad habit of putting dialogue(s) on CD stemmed from the time when soundtracks were released on LP and were more or less serving as a collectible from the movie, they were not (always) produced the way they were produced for "musical" reasons, but as a souvenir from the movie. There were no DVDs or Blurays back then, not even VHS copies really. But like all bad habits, they carried over and some still do it.
Soundtracks for Tarantino film do it on purpose, they tend to be needle dropping retro-soundtracks... but when the dialog intrudes in the original score of HATEFUL 8, I find it annoying. I program it out of the way.
In case of, say, Silva's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the dialogue is fortunately added as separate tracks, so one can easily program them out as well. In fact, in cases like that, dialogues get assigned a different "genre" in my collection anyway (Books & Spoken) whereas the music here is "Soundtrack", so it's not problem to play either the album as released or just the music without the dialogue, or just the dialogue without the music.
In a rare case like BLADE RUNNER, I don't really mind the "dialogue", as Vangelis does not use them in souvenir fashion, but integrates them into his musical vision for the score. On the OST album, snippets of dialogue from the movie are used in soliloquy-fashion on some cues, interwoven into the soundscape, so the spoken words become part of the music. In fact, when the Danish National Symphony Orchestra performed "BLADE RUNNER" in concert, they did so WITH the "dialogue" done live as well, as that is now also part of the "score". So I can accept that.
But generally I don't like it and in days of DVDs, Blurays and streaming, dialogue usually serves no purpose on a soundtrack CD other than to annoy those who buy them.
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So did you guys also hate the recitations on the Dark Shadows soundtrack?
That one I didn't mind because they released those tracks on one of the next three lps without the dialogue.
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So did you guys also hate the recitations on the Dark Shadows soundtrack?
Most of us don't have that, Onya.
That is pre-'75-Spielberg.
Have you polled every FSMer to be able to validate that assertion as fact? I'd love to see the science behind this.
No science. No "Politzia", either.
Simply 10 years of observation here @ FSM that the majority of active posters consider 1978 through 1982 as the 'best' years of film music.
The 1950s are 'uncool', and the late '60s/early '70s are appreciated by a sub-set of this niche area.
I never grew up with DARK SHADOWS myself, but it's in my core period of interest (which spans around '48 through '84).
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