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I've just one burning question- for those of us outside the US (I'm in the UK) what will be the safest/best way to purchase the set? Direct from La La or from someone else such as SAE? Do any of them use courier/insured etc for such expensive packages? Customs charges be damned, I need to own this set after loving the show since I was a kid.
And yep, registered interest and got confirmation email back. Only hope they can make enough sets. Wish there was an option to release them as individual season boxes though. Surprised they are going for one monster package, it might disuade many who would have bought them had they been staggered/more wallet-friendly.
I expressed some same issues. I've had some troubles with LLL's shippings. Medal of Honors were quite securely packed in a hard cardboard box, similar to those used by SAE for instance. So I think they'll take this one as seriously as the Medals. I'm still thinking I might order from SAE if it's not too much more expensive there. I've never noticed that any of these retailers would have a insured option.
And I think it would have been better to release this in several volumes and not as such a megabox. But that's just, once again, a Finnish person complaining.
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I know what I'm getting for Christmas. Cannot wait to hear sound samples. Interested in the new fidelity of "The Cage". "Monster Fight" from the GNP release is a sonic mess.
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Aug 11, 2012 - 7:44 AM
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Joe E.
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I am so stoked about this. I'm absolutely crushed by my finances, but somehow, I'll find a way...
sorry i didn't have time to scan this thread. amazing news and an incredible release. can i trade in my gnp discs now that this is coming into being? or are those rerecordings or some other variation that makes them worth saving?
From the sound (heh) of things, I don't think there'll ever be any reason to play them again once one has this new set, but I for one intend to hang onto them for the liner notes and such, if nothing else. Even if the new notes are a zillion times more comprehensive, it's always nice to have additional perspectives and whatnot.
All the library cues will be included--believe me, some of my favorite cues are library cues (especially from season two) and it was paramount (no pun intended) that they all be included in this set. Mark my words--if you heard the music in the series, it is on this set, every variation, every library cue, every source cue I can think of. That, plus stuff you've never heard before--and it all sounds pretty stupendous.
There is some material in stereo--I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed by the sound of this set though. For instance, if you recall the sound of the GNP release of The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before, it's pretty shrill and in fact I found myself rarely going back to listen to that stuff and having sort of a dim view of the music over the years because of that. Now that stuff almost sounds audiophile quality to me, and it's really made me completely reappraise Alexander Courage's music. The Enterprise Incident is another score I never really liked, and now I love it. Also Mullendore's Conscience of the King, which I always found too far outside the style of the rest of the series music, stands out as a real achievement and an absolutely fascinating score. And those are the scores I was NOT all that into previously...to not only get new appreciation for those, but to hear the scores I've always loved for years--Who Mourns For Adonais?, Friday's Child, Metamorphosis, Return to Tomorrow—finally in great sound has been revelatory.
The only rerecording included on the set is the new recording of the TOS main title done for the Trek Remastered series.
Holy cats, I can't believe how astonishingly comprehensive this set is! Every note of every score by every composer, including unused material (!), from every episode of all three seasons of a show that began running over forty-five years ago?! Wow. And I thought the Star Trek - The Motion Picture release was impressive (and I still do, actually).
Thanks so much, guys. I can't wait.
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I'm just speechless! I received my confirm email from LLL.
(late fall 2012) Standing by to purchase
I've signed up twice, once last evening and once this morning, and have yet to get a confirmation email. And I've looked in my spam box. I actually don't use a spam filter for that matter. So what's the deal?
I signed on last night Dana, and got an immediate response. (??)
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The complete scores to classic trek in one giant 15 CD BOX?
HELL YES!
I never thought this would ever happen but 15 CDS? I never thought it would take that much considering a lot of music was reused during the series ( That Amok Time fight music was used for practiclally every fight scene! )
BRING.IT.ON!
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Aug 11, 2012 - 8:49 AM
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shadowman
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I was convinced that the ST:TMP set was the release of the year, well, I was wrong! But what a year- a 3-disc TMP and now a 15-set TOS box. Thank goodness we are still getting physical releases, and that CD isn't dead just yet. Imagine if they were releasing the latter download only?
Well, 2013 cannot possibly match such a double-whammy as TNP and TOS. Others have noted how lucky we are right now. I'll just add this sobering observation - we are on the crest of the curve, folks, its all downhill from now on. Twenty years from now, we'll all be saying 2012 was the best year ever for soundtracks, the closure of the FSM label was the beginning of the end.
Or maybe, the end of the beginning!
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That Amok Time fight music was used for practically every fight scene!
It's actually pretty interesting how they picked what scores to reuse and when, particularly in the second season when the scores becomes even more bold and recognizable. The Amok Time fight music, for example, was used primarily for "set up gladiatorial fights" in such episodes like Gamesters of Triskelion or Bread and Circuses. But for outdoor location fights (A Private Little War), the music from Friday's Child might be used. If there was a space chase of battle, The Doomsday Machine was hauled out.
Whether is was because of reuse or daily reruns of the episodes in syndication, or both, classic Trek music sticks in my brain and I never go long without humming something.
Out of all the scores, only I, Mudd falls flat for me. Yet, I am prepared to have my mind changed when I hear it on this amazing set. Oh my God, I really can't wait for this. I am also very much looking forward to the unused stuff and that cue in Space Seed that was used only once when Kirk is freeing Khan from the malfunctioning chamber. Sounds like Steiner and might be from Balance of Terror, considering the theme.
It must be great to be the guys who worked in this and who have heard it all.
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