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Wonderful! The original CD sounds like ass.
Now, to get a properly-remastered version of the movie (as the ancient Blu-Ray also looks like anus).
FOUR CDs seems like overkill, though.
Is just me, or is there a proctology theme here?
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Wow. I knew there was a good deal more than on the Elfman/Burton box, but I had no idea there’d be enough for a 4CD set.
Yavar
Oh yeah(!) there is plenty of material that Elfman wrote for this movie especially since the film was sliced and diced editorially from it's original 2 plus hour running time down to 105 Minutes in which alot of graphic violence got cut down by the MPAA and most of Casper Van Dien's performance which Tim Burton was happy to cut out of the movie.
I think everyone will be happy with the stuff that will be included in the set considering the amount of alternates and revisions. Is it overkill? It depends on how you look at it but I will also agree that the 67 Minute album was a well put together presentation of this gothic work. Since Intrada had access to everything since it was recorded in London, it was their choice to put it out this way which is fine.
Hopefully, It'll be a good presentation and 40 dollar price tag.
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Jul 23, 2021 - 9:10 AM
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John Mullin
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First off, this is an instant purchase for me, as most Elfman releases are.
That said, I was talking with a friend about how SLEEPY HOLLOW really only has one theme, and I realized that that’s what has always kind of bothered me about the score. There’s a single theme that is the main title, and it plays during Icabod’s tedious flashbacks to when he was a child, and it’s also sort of the love theme, and it also plays at the end, in a major key, when Icabod takes Christina Ricci back to New York.
I’m not sure you can say that the theme is really scoring Icabod, because you also hear it when Michael Gambon tells “The Story” of the headless horseman and at other odd times that aren’t specifically related to him. So what was Elfman scoring? The “atmosphere” of the whole movie? One of the spots where it is the most disappointing to me is at the very end, in “A New Day”. I think it comes off as underwhelming because it’s same theme we’ve cycled through DOZENS of times at this point. How has that theme changed and evolved over the last two hours? What does that say about Icabod and his journey and how he is different now? He's maybe less of a wuss, and he's been professionally vindicated, but is the music really underlining _that_?
Additionally, I really do think that the score suffers from not having a good theme for the Horseman as well. There are a couple "mysterious shit is happening" motifs that I really love, and then the Horseman has kind of a dark fanfare that you hear a lot, but all the action music is kind of like chaotic struggling most of the time. I've honestly always felt that there's something "missing" from this score, and a solid theme for the Horseman might be in, honestly. SLEEPY HOLLOW seemed to call for a big theme, obviously, and it got one. But it could have have used a few more!
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First off, this is an instant purchase for me, as most Elfman releases are.
That said, I was talking with a friend about how SLEEPY HOLLOW really only has one theme, and I realized that that’s what has always kind of bothered me about the score. There’s a single theme that is the main title, and it plays during Icabod’s tedious flashbacks to when he was a child, and it’s also sort of the love theme, and it also plays at the end, in a major key, when Icabod takes Christina Ricci back to New York.
I’m not sure you can say that the theme is really scoring Icabod, because you also hear it when Michael Gambon tells “The Story” of the headless horseman and at other odd times that aren’t specifically related to him. So what was Elfman scoring? The “atmosphere” of the whole movie? One of the spots where it is the most disappointing to me is at the very end, in “A New Day”. I think it comes off as underwhelming because it’s same theme we’ve cycled through DOZENS of times at this point. How has that theme changed and evolved over the last two hours? What does that say about Icabod and his journey and how he is different now? He's maybe less of a wuss, and he's been professionally vindicated, but is the music really underlining _that_?
Additionally, I really do think that the score suffers from not having a good theme for the Horseman as well. There are a couple "mysterious shit is happening" motifs that I really love, and then the Horseman has kind of a dark fanfare that you hear a lot, but all the action music is kind of like chaotic struggling most of the time. I've honestly always felt that there's something "missing" from this score, and a solid theme for the Horseman might be in, honestly. SLEEPY HOLLOW seemed to call for a big theme, obviously, and it got one. But it could have have used a few more!
@ Col. Sanders: Perhaps the complete score will offer new insight. Who knows, there may even be unused themes.
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I think the music is thrilling regardless of being monothematic and I’m happy to have such an impressively thorough release. I don’t think there is an appropriate argument for a middle ground. I am always 100% in favor of getting AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE in the releases we get. COMPLETE is always the goal, and any additional materials that are available like alternates are more-than-welcome and fascinating to listen to and study.
If someone is not interested in all that material then they can just be happy with the original album release when the movie came out. But this business and the demand within it shouldn’t be geared towards “I’d like a complete release, but not TOO complete.”
To me this release should be supported as the gold standard that all releases strive to achieve. The John Williams releases have tended to be firmly in this category such as “E.T.”, “AI”, “Harry Potter”, etc.
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. Great work, gentlemen of Intrada.
Thanks. But Intrada's wonderful designer, Kay Marshall (not to mention other ladies on the staff), might take exception to your kind compliment. 
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To me this release should be supported as the gold standard that all releases strive to achieve. The John Williams releases have tended to be firmly in this category such as “E.T.”, “AI”, “Harry Potter”, etc.
The gold standard? Do you have inside information? All you know is that it is 4 discs. I mean, what do you know that the rest of us do not?
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