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I now regret buying the Sony version since the only thing it has to offer that the Varese doesn't have is the Steel Drums cue. As you can see from that Google spreadsheet, the Sony version actually contains *four* previously unreleased score cues besides that unreleased Steel Drums source cue. EDIT: Got distracted before posting and I see someone else beat me to it. Yavar
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So really people should be annoyed with Sony AND Varese.
Already done and done. Sony has shown they're not too good at what they are doing and they don't understand the overwhelming base of collectors. I'm skipping this, naturally, and waiting for them to pull their heads out of their butts and just let La La Land do it.
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I am so disappointed to read all those comments about the sound mix on the Sony release. I had missed out on the Varese edition and was hoping for a re-release for years. I guess I will have to purchase the Sony release as the Varese one is way too expensive on the secondary market. I would prefer to wait for a proper new release carrying all the missing tracks and corrected sound mix but I presume that it could take several more years. Do you guys think that a situation similar to the Home Alone 25th anniversary release could be happening again? I remember that Sony had issued a re-release of the original 1990 Home Alone soundtrack in 2015 and barely a month later, LLL came out with a superb and vastly superior edition. Is there anything preventing a specialty label from working on Ghostbusters while Sony hold the rights? That would be the best-case scenario!! I think I will wait one month before buying the Sony edition, just in case a surprise announcement comes along... Sony has stopped all licensing soundtracks to third parties.
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I prefer the Varese better. Ill just take the “mossing cues” from the Sony and add it to the playlist.
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I bought the CD a couple of days ago. I'm totally satisfied with it, just as I was Varese Sarabande's 2006 release. And like the 2006 Varese CD Club release, this mastering really has a skimpy bottom-end. I think Varese mastering engineer Erick Labson tried to boost the low end in the studio, without success. All-in-all, two successful CD releases of a 1984 Hollywood score recording done just before the Digital Audio Compact Disc was even available for commercial releases.
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Jul 5, 2019 - 8:41 AM
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mstrox
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I missed the Varese and was very happy for this release. I don't mind the reordering for listening experience, which plays fine. It sounds great to me. My only two regrets are that 1) the album is missing some cues from the movie, which is a choice I don't think our specialty labels would have made - and I doubt we'll see another release anytime soon, or ever - and 2) that they didn't license the songs to go on this release, especially the 3-4 big ones (Ghostbusters, Saving the Day, Magic, whatever that one is that plays when they're going out on calls early on). I own the OST, so I have the songs, but I would have liked to hear them in their place on this. Regardless, I'm very grateful to finally be able to listen to this score, beyond the two tracks on the OST. The labels have been so good to us over the past decade or two that this was my biggest remaining "holy grail."
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I think the Sony is way more faithful to how the masters likely sound compared to the Varese, which sounds a tad muddy by comparison. The Varese sounded pretty much like it did in the film. The Sony sounds clearer for the most part, but it's botched up in other places (sequencing, bass/percussion on "We Got One" etc). Neither release is perfect, but it's what we'll have to live with for at least a decade until someone decides it's worth another remaster.
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This isn't a score I know inside out. But I'm listening on Amazon music and it sounds nice. Dana's Theme is the amazing track I never knew I needed.
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