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I just purchased the earlier edition with nicer artwork but less music. What kind of stuff is it missing from the Cometa one?
The 1979 Cometa LP and the 1981 Web Records LP both contain 12 tracks, with runtime duration around 30:40.
I never owned the Swedish CD from 2007. It appears to be a re-issue of the LP program plus one additional 4-minute cue (track #13) to yield about 34:34 minutes.
Track#s 14 through 23 on Cometa's 2012 CD seem to me to be basically alternate takes.
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Interesting, thanks.
The additional cue from 2007 appears to be a reprise of the “love” theme.
From watching the film it seems like they left off some of the more atmospheric, scary stuff. The original album focuses more on the adventure/romance stuff. (Or maybe that was tracked from an entirely different film)
Never saw the film, myself, but I think AIP/Corman added footage and additional music not part of the Italian production.
Luciano Michelini's music for this flick conjures, for me, associations with John Scott's orchestral work in the fantasy genre. It's a nice listen, but it's not 'horror' to me.
L'Isola degli uomini pesce almost feels like a soundtrack from a decade earlier, like a late-'60s fantasy (such as Wally Stott's CAPTAIN NEMO).
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I got my hands on the Cometa edition and it definitely sounds better. The extra tracks are mostly very slight alternates, but there is some previously unreleased film versions in there too, such as the second to last track, which is for the scene on the beach with Barbara Bach feeding the Fishmen.
Whoever put this album together made some pretty big errors though. Some of the stuff they try to pass off as bonus material is simply half a cue, cut off midway. Some are also mislabeled.
I’m glad to have both versions though because the old artwork is just gorgeous.
What a great score.
Glad you love it.
I hope more FSMers get 'into' Italian soundtracks.
Unsure if 'The Mutant' (plus any other interested FSMers) owns much European CDs or not, but might I suggest some items (in reverse chronological order) you might wish to explore:
1987 Killer Crocodile by Ortolani
1983 Zeder by Ortolani
1978 Killer Nun by Alessandroni
1977 Yeti by Romitelli
1975 Ritratto di Donna velata by Ortolani
1971 Lady Frankenstein or La terrificante notte del demonio by Alessandroni
1971 Light at the Edge of the World by Piccioni
1966 La lama nel corpo by de Masi
1961 Il gigante di Metropolis by Trovajoli
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1987 Killer Crocodile by Ortolani
1983 Zeder by Ortolani
1978 Killer Nun by Alessandroni
1977 Yeti by Romitelli
1975 Ritratto di Donna velata by Ortolani
1971 Lady Frankenstein or La terrificante notte del deminio by Alessandroni
1971 Light at the Edge of the World by Piccioni
1966 La lama nel corpo by de Masi
1961 Il gigante di Metropolis by Trovajoli
Thanks I’ll check those out. I also recently discovered Tentacles(Tentacoli) , which I absolutely love.
If you're into Italian Gothic horrors from the '60s, there are a number of soundtracks from flicks with Christopher Lee or Barbara Steele. Plus all those soundtracks from Mario Bava movies! 
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