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Feb 13, 2003 - 10:32 AM
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AndrewH
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New CD albums - End of an era
Well, with these new releases it’s the end of an era for many of us. Longer for some than others.
Bearing in mind that the old releases barely had 40 minutes of music on them, its clear that the old albums will quickly become redundant.
For the younger members of the group who perhaps aren’t familiar with the old vinyl releases, these were very limited as to the amount of music that could be placed on them so the album producers had to think carefully about which tracks to put on. I think when us oldies bought them, we were fairly certain that much of the music in the film would never appear on an album release. The only way a complete soundtrack could be have been released would be to have had a double album but these were typically very expensive and the record companies, understandably, were more interested in record sales. There were double album releases but these were largely confined to musicals where the music WAS the film. The old soundtrack albums were more along the lines of a pop album with a list of tracks that were tunes in their own right. Whereas now we would question why have the complete theme song at the start and end of an album such as Octopussy, or A View To A Kill? In those days it seemed to make more sense. Of course there were exceptions where the end title track was not quite the same as the original, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me( by the way are we going to get the rugby version of the theme tune on the new release? I hope not), The Man With The Golden Gun.
However in the old days, I did look forward to hearing each soundtrack as I received it. These were a lot rarer in the old days. It wasn’t like buying a run of the mill pop album, you sometimes had to do a lot of work to get hold of these soundtracks. Whereas now we can trawl through the internet for all sorts of items with relative ease, in the seventies and eighties, it was a case of trawling though the record shops, in different towns, each of which might have had a small section devoted to soundtracks. You may have got the odd advert selling second hand albums in the fan magazines if you were lucky. I do recall in 1980 trying to obtain the OHMSS soundtrack and Raise The Titanic( which was never released as it turns out) from the local library who did a microfilm search throughout the county but there was no trace of either. It wasn’t until 1982 that I finally obtained a vinyl copy, second hand, of OHMSS which I still have in the loft. Of all the John Barry compositions I have heard, hearing this for the first time remains a major highlight of my Barry listening days. I put the needle down on Ski Chase first thinking it was the Escape From Piz Gloria track(how many others thought this?). Of course this was also in the days before videos were widespread so you had to go on memory what the music in the film was. It was only when I saw the film again on TV that I realised it was the second ski chase. Still a great track but the first ski chase would have been better. I’m not sure that the piano version of All The Time In The World which never appeared in the film was a wise move as the Gumbold safe music would have seemed more appropriate but again I think this was due to the fact that the album was meant to highlight the ATTITW tune to some extent. But we just accepted not having it like not having the fight music in DAF which didn’t appear on the album either.
So listening to the new CD albums reminds me of those days when we used to eagerly place the vinyl albums on the turntable for the first time and lovingly protected those little grooves by holding the album by the edge and centre only. If you were lucky you could get the United Artists original release, or failing that you could perhaps buy a more recent release by Sunset Records. I usually built up my collection from the odd visit to the London stores. The jewel in the vinyl crown was to get hold of a japanese release (I never did), which reportedly were the best quality of all, but also expensive. Was it due to deeper grooves or something? The argument was always that these albums would “last” much longer.
Remember catching your breath when you dropped them accidentally, making a tape cassette copy to avoid overplaying the record? So while I’m prepared to throw out the old CD releases. The old vinyl albums do hold a certain sentimental value of an era of buying these soundtracks that has now passed forever.
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The filmorder for DAF anyone ?
This looks to be correct. If there are any errors, please let me know.
13 1 14 6 9 15 16 17 18 19 4 20 3 5 8 2 11 10 12 7 21
Neil
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