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While I'm excited about the prospect of finally having more tracks from Mark Snow's X-Files and this will be a guaranteed 1st day buy, the whole idea of distilling and compressing 9 seasons of original scores into a 4-CD set is dissapointing. Could we distill the 10 Star Trek film scores onto 4-CDs? Could we compress the 6 Star Wars scores onto a 4-CD collection? Something that's important to someone is going to get left off.
I'm here to go to bat for something that is shockingly absent from the current LaLa Land list: The 3-episode mythology arc of "Gethsemane/Redux/Redux II."
In "Gethsemane," think of the trek to the ice cave, the magnificent climbing theme that recurs and develops magnificently througout the episode...Scully's chase after Michael Kritschgau in the Parking Structure...The scene where Mulder discovers the alien body is gone...In "Redux," there's several cues that accompany Mulder's search within the bowels of the Pentagon, layers of intense musical revelation as Kritschgau's leads him on...In "Redux II" (which is on the LaLa Land list) there's the haunting melody of Scully's cancer diagnosis and Mulder's torment...As CSM lures and confuses Mulder further with another clone Samantha in the diner, the music longs for the truth...The final sequences at the Hearing, the assassination attempt on CSM, the acutal assassination of Blevins and the recovery of Scully, the music here is not wallpaper, it simply is the emotional glue that makes this 3-epsiode arc hold together.
Also, the same could be said for the scores in the 2-epsiode arc "Tempus Fugit/Max." The music here is awesome, the horror and terror of a jetliner crash and aftermath. It's also full of Snow's usual musical pathos.
Please, I hope LaLa Land (and Mark Snow) don't overlook these five episode scores, they best exemplify the X-files at it's peak. Mark Snow acheived what Jerry Goldsmith was fond of saying, ..."The function of a score is to enlarge the scope of a film. I try for emotional penetration - not for complementing the action." Lesson taken, lesson learned, lesson executed.
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I have revisited some episodes recently (the show received a re-run here) and i totally forgot how great this show was scored. I guess lalaland could easily make this 8 discs for the first 5 seasons and would still sell 3000 copies in a minute. But i also have to admit that some scores, especially from the first season, are not of the same league as scores of later seasons, so if something needs to be dropped, i would have no problem if its mainly first season material.
On the other hand, it could also be a great idea to just release mostly complete scores from all conspiracy/mythology episodes on this first 4 disc set as a volume one, to highlight the musical development that takes place within this connected storytelling arc (as chromaparadise pointed out, there is a lot of developmet going on that could otherwise remain unnoticed if these episode scores are too condensed) and save the unrelated episodes for a volume 2 and maybe a volume 3 set. Maybe its also wise from a business perspective to do so. I guess most people are most interested in the mythology episodes anyways, so there might be a higher demand for those and it leaves the possibility for much more releases open.
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Guys, there is one thing that is going to ensure more than one set of music for this series and that is SALES.
The first volume of Batman: TAS sold out in a month, and yet its been a year with no news of a second release. 
Not our fault. As I have written about many times before it is up to Warner Bros and they have new policies in place. Perhaps in time more music will come out.
MV
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Mar 29, 2010 - 3:09 AM
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Muldfeld
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There are so many musical moments missing!
Although it was on "The Truth and the Light", the music during the teaser for Season 2's "3" is a must!
The music during Mulder's monologue at the start of "Colony" is worth inclusion. In that same episode's autopsy scene, there's some nice music, too, which is reused during "Endgame" when Mulder and Samantha converse in his apartment.
"Colony" also has a nice peace starting with the scene in which Scully discovers the address of a bag at which experiments are being done with fetal tissue; this segues into a following scene in which she calls Mulder and into the next in which Mulder arrives home to Martha's Vineyard; this music is reused when Scully, held hostage by the bounty hunter, calls Mulder from a payphone and at the start of the bridge scene in "Endgame".
I also love the music that begins when Mulder is hugging Samantha outside their Martha's Vineyard home; the music continues into a scene of Scully leaving her apartment and into another with Mulder trying to call Scully and talking to Samantha about the bounty hunter.
The music during the "previously on" segment that leads into "Endgame" is the best of Season 2! If I recall correctly, I also enjoyed the synth-heavy music during which Mulder confesses to his father that Samantha has been killed and during which he enters the address his sister left him.
Also, I absolutely adore the music from Season 3's "Apocrypha" (two thirds of the way into the episode when Mulder meets the Well-Manicured Man in New York's Central Park) that was also varied upon for Season 4's "Tunguska"/"Terma"!
I loved the piano-driven music from Season 4 premiere "Herrenvolk" during which Mulder and Jeremiah Smith are first entering the colony town and then see the Samantha clones.
Also, Season 4's "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" when a young Cigarette Smoking Man is waiting outside a church in which Martin Luther King is speaking. Beautiful, majestic piece.
I also remember liking the music from Season 4's "Tempus Fugit" in which Mulder finds Max Fenig's body among the dead.
I like that very cool piece from Season 6's "The Beginning" when Cigarette Smoking Man walks sexily down the hallway toward the operating room where Gibson Praise is held.
I also remember liking the music during which Mulder is happily building a sandcastle with his child-like self at the very end of Season 7's "The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati".
Please make sure to include the theme music from Season 3 as it was significantly improved over the first two seasons with slight horns in the background and just a much nicer mix!
Also, although you thankfully mentioned "Paper Hearts", make sure to include the melody that runs halfway through the episode when Mulder examines the skeleton remains of a young girl. Gorgeous stuff!
In addition, although you've listed "Two Fathers", please make sure to include the music that starts the first scene in which we see Cigarette Smoking Man speaking as a narrator. Similarly, please include the music that ends "Momento" with a transition from Mulder in the hospital to Cigarette Smoking Man in Skinner's office. Again, even though it's listed, please include the music during which CSM and the Heavy Set Man talk near the start of "Redux II". I've always loved that and wanted it on CD since I recorded it on VHS all the way back on November 9, 1997. That's a damn long time!
Thanks very much.
I actually emailed lalaland a couple of weeks ago about the possibility of getting more than 4 CDs worth of music and no one answered; it might have been helpful to be directed to this board. Thank goodness for Frank Spotnitz's blog.
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i would make this a best of.......
we do not need every note of the episodes selected
as you can see in my "cue sheet' for FEARFUL SYMETRY.
I left out music that is repetitive or less than exciting
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Not our fault. As I have written about many times before it is up to Warner Bros and they have new policies in place. Perhaps in time more music will come out.
What can we, the consumer, do to help you get more Batman TAS music out there?
Be patient. 
MV
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Not our fault. As I have written about many times before it is up to Warner Bros and they have new policies in place. Perhaps in time more music will come out.
MV
I certainly hope so. WB has also enacted new policies within their home video division, such as limiting their classic film restoration efforts to post-1952 (no fullscreen) movies only.
Nothing would be more welcome right now than a second volume of BTAS. Please make it happen
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