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I’ve spent the last couple of days listening to this again. It’s always nice when a “grail” still gets played a lot after it’s been released. Sometimes it isn’t the getting, it is the having.
Yes, this post is for all the people who said “Once this is out, no one will ever mention it again.” Ha!
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I very often revisit this CD.
Along with the LLLR ST:TMP, it's one that I often feel a hankering to get back to. 
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I had the time and I was in the mood this morning, so I just played The Black Hole Special Edition straight through. What a great score, and a definitive CD for it!
I'm so glad the fullest form of this music was rescued from digital extinction. Bravo.
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maybe this has been said before but it would be nice if new releases had the date in the subject line. Once in a while I jump with enthusiasm over a "new" release only to discover it's an ancient thread...
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Wait a second, am I late to the discussion? Ha, ha... but seriously, this release is now selling for nearly triple digits. But, it was available (for $20) for years. No limited edition on this one.
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If you like John Barry at this period of his career, then you should love this score. It's along the lines of King Kong, Moonraker and a little bit Starcrash but with its own identity. It's very lush and sweeping, mysterious and emotional, heroic and sinister. It's been one of my favorites since I saw the film in the theater.
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Barry is very intriguing. He looks for something in the film he can grab hold of, and it's often something dark and gloomy within the characters themselves. In this case, where the characters didn't have much of anything within, he latched onto the the swirling, deathly black hole itself and came up with a formidable theme to base his score a a round.
When the producers wanted a 'Star Wars' sound, Barry dutifully complied, though I don't think he was inspired to do so. So, he treated the request as an intellectual exercise and composed what he described as a 'retrograde" version of 'Star Wars.'
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Barry is very intriguing. He looks for something in the film he can grab hold of, and it's often something dark and gloomy within the characters themselves. In this case, where the characters didn't have much of anything within, he latched onto the the swirling, deathly black hole itself and came up with a formidable theme to base his score a a round.
When the producers wanted a 'Star Wars' sound, Barry dutifully complied, though I don't think he was inspired to do so. So, he treated the request as an intellectual exercise and composed what he described as a 'retrograde" version of 'Star Wars.'
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But I agree with you release dates would be nice and yes, sometimes I get duped when an old thread is bumped. 
At least FSM was gracious enough to send me a copy of Body Heat chapeu gratis, and I was able to replace Black Cauldron for only ten bucks.