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Surprising the disc isn't sold out. A mere 3000 copies and it's still available. I'd rank The Illustrated Man as one of my favorite Goldsmith scores and in my opinion, one of his best. The 60's seem to be his most inspired period. And I would guess, in some ways the environment in that business was much more free and open minded. Seems to me composers were permitted to let their minds work in a way that's much more effective than much of the horseshit that rolls down from the Hollywood hills today.
The FSM disc is really a well produced package. It's obvious that you guys take much pride in what you do, and to me, that's reassuring in this day and age of so much half stepping and half assing.
The film is a classic. Rod Steiger plays the role of the psychotic drifter perfectly.
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And that cool photo in the booklet of Jerry with the mod hair and goatee is icing on the cake!
1968 Los Angeles must have been a hell of a place. I didn't get there until 1979 and by that time many of the Topanga hippies had gone completely insane.
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I spent a lot of time listening to this score back in the 80's when I wrote about it for my undergraduate thesis. Even after all those listenings I still enjoy it immensely.
One of the copyists at WB saw me looking at the music and told me to look for the "tin can tree" that is used in a couple of places (he said he had worked on the parts for the score). So I was thrilled to see a photo of the "tree" in the packaging!
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Mar 24, 2012 - 1:02 PM
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Francis
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As much as I dig Goldsmith, I can't stand "Illustrated Man"... the annoying female voice, the monotone flute, the thin orchestration, the tacky pre-Logan's Run synth effects, the Twilight Zone TV leftover material, the string/guitar plucking... I'd easily put it in his worst scores list, it goes nowhere just like the movie which aside from a couple of interesting ideas was ultimately a big waste of time. Hard to believe he composed it after Freud, Planet of the Apes, Satan Bug... easily superior scores to this one, again IMO.
I still don't know why it's there on the Goldsmith tribute concert dvd Varese put out (the sheet music for Mr. Baseball was missing?). Nothing against the FSM CD, just not a big fan of this score. Surprised to see this much praise for it really.
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See, Francis? That's what's great about this place. You "dig" Goldsmith, you rate highly PLANET OF THE APES and other "challenging" (my inverted commas) works previous to THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, yet you can't stand THE ILLUSTRATED MAN!
So now I just have to say that I believe THE ILLUSTRATED MAN to be one of Jerry Goldsmith's very greatest scores, and the FSM release sublime (I still have the beermat version - it's under my glass right now). And I think the film itself is sorely underrated, or misunderstood or something. I haven't seen it for a while, but I felt there was something quite unique about it - I'm sure Mr Goldsmith's score helped in elevating my opinion of the film beyond what it may have really warranted - but isn't that what film scores are supposed to do? Either way, you don't like it, others do - I say potayto and you say potatto.
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See, Francis? That's what's great about this place. You "dig" Goldsmith, you rate highly PLANET OF THE APES and other "challenging" (my inverted commas) works previous to THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, yet you can't stand THE ILLUSTRATED MAN!
So now I just have to say that I believe THE ILLUSTRATED MAN to be one of Jerry Goldsmith's very greatest scores, and the FSM release sublime (I still have the beermat version - it's under my glass right now). And I think the film itself is sorely underrated, or misunderstood or something. I haven't seen it for a while, but I felt there was something quite unique about it - I'm sure Mr Goldsmith's score helped in elevating my opinion of the film beyond what it may have really warranted - but isn't that what film scores are supposed to do? Either way, you don't like it, others do - I say potayto and you say potatto.
And I think the film itself is sorely underrated, or misunderstood or something. I haven't seen it for a while, but I felt there was something quite unique about it - I'm sure Mr Goldsmith's score helped in elevating my opinion of the film beyond what it may have really warranted - but isn't that what film scores are supposed to do? Either way, you don't like it, others do - I say potayto and you say potatto.
Ray Bradbury agreed.
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You've obviously never heard "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room". 
