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Inspired by JTW's response in another thread (see below), I'd like this one to be where people put their 'edited playlists' for albums that run too long or feature repetitive tracks and need a bit of work, in these expanded and C&C days.
I find myself doing it 95% of the time these days.
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"Ha. Sorry Jim, but I find that the original hour long CD seems to never end.
Even Goldsmith himself stated regret at releasing the album so long.
I think I whittled it down to one of those old Varese 25-30 minute programmes and it flows much better"
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By: JTWfan77 (Member)
"I would love to see your playlist for The Russia House: The Whittled Down Edition. I'm a bit of a whittler myself"
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And for the record, my RUSSIA HOUSE album (which runs about 22 mins*) is thus;
1.Katya
2.Introductions
3.The Conversation
4.Training
5.Katya & Barley
6.First Name Yakov
7.Barley's Love
*please feel free to tell me any tracks you think I am missing that are essential to you on RH.
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Dec 6, 2017 - 9:54 AM
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Thor
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What's a "whittler"? 
I've also been "forced" to make these kinds of playlists in the last few years for certain kinds of scores, when even the commercial releases have followed the niche labels and released overlong and repetitive soundtrack presentations. A properly arranged album by the composer or producer will ALWAYS be preferred, but when that's not the case, you resort to "emergency measures".
I recently did one for BLADE RUNNER 2049, which I posted over in that thread.
I also fairly recently did one for Lisa Gerrard and James Orr's 2:22 (which is 90 minutes in its original presentation), down to a decent 48-minute playlist. Same with BRIMSTONE and THE GOONIES. I'm trying to copy/paste from iTunes, but there's no copy/paste function. Damn!
Others on my to-do list are: THE STAND, JUSTICE LEAGUE, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, the two BEVERLY HILLS COP albums, the OLSENBANDEN box, MOANA and many others.
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I'll post my BLADE RUNNER 2049 - The Ambient Edition tomorrow from work.
Thanks for THE GOONIES Thor. I've never gotten round to that one and it is overlong.
JTW, please post some of your proudest and effective whittles.
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Dec 6, 2017 - 2:25 PM
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Thor
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I'll post my BLADE RUNNER 2049 - The Ambient Edition tomorrow from work.
Thanks for THE GOONIES Thor. I've never gotten round to that one and it is overlong.
JTW, please post some of your proudest and effective whittles.
Would be interesting to see if your BR is similar to mine.
My playlist post was buried in the big BLADE RUNNER 2049 thread, where everyone talks endlessly about the packaging, sound quality and postal issues, but hardly ANYONE talks about the actual music. So here's the post again:
"The 90-minute soundtrack release is almost unlistenable, IMO. So I assembled this 53-minute playlist for anyone wanting a more succinct listening experience (with emphasis on the Vangelis-like stuff over the "action" stuff):
1. 2049
2. Sapper's Tree
3. Rain
4. Sea Wall
5. Memory
6. Mesa
7. Joi
8. Wallace
9. That's Why We Believe
10. All the Best Memories are Hers
11. Blade Runner
12. Almost Human
In addition to removing some tracks, I've also rearranged the sequence slightly to allow for better listening. That is, I've kept "Mesa" (as the best track) midway. I've put "Sea Wall" and "Wallace" as 4 and 8, to break up the ambiance cues slightly. While the long, 10-minute "Blade Runner" contains segments I'm not too fond of, it also works as an end credits suite of sorts.
I think this will work for me for now."
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Lee Holdridge's Mists of Avalon in the style of a Varese 90s album:
1. Morgaine's Journey
2. Igraine Meets Uther / Arthur Is Born
3. Children Leave / Vivienne's World
4. Morgaine Grows Up
5. Running Up the Hill / Guinevere
6. Merlin's Wisdom / Merlin's Death
7. Morgaine's Despair
8. Vivienne's Death
9. Finale
(38:41 total time)
This for me greatly improves the experience and journey of the score. That said, I'd still love for Varese to do an expanded Deluxe Edition because I suspect the score has more highlights which I would want to incorporate into a longer but still whittled-down playlist.
Yavar
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I don't whittle down, like say Thor, but on some rare occasions if I don't like parts of cues of some cues, I'll make a personal edit in a preferred listening order.
An example is "Contract on Cherry Street", which I made into an excellent listening experience that tells a musical story from start to end.
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Dec 6, 2017 - 8:57 PM
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1977
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JTW, please post some of your proudest and effective whittles.
I have to out myself, I'm a whittler in name only, that is, I plan to whittle and I want to whittle, but have never actually whittled. Yet. 
I've been meaning to get to work on Innerspace and Ghostbusters, as I love the scores but just cannot get through those expanded presentations.
I believe the Innerspace album with songs was missing the gas attack cues (don't have the album, so cannot confirm), which are some of my favourite bits of music from the film, hence my desire to revisit that title. I'd also like to include the Rod Stewart cover of Twistin' the Night Away at the end, as the last track on the LLL ends rather abruptly.
I've also been toying with creating a hybrid Ghostbusters album with some of the more iconic songs and about 20-30 minutes of score, but it is going to require some editing with Audacity.
It would be fun to include the Cindy Lauper songs at the end of your Goonies playlist, Thor.
Also would like to create a 40 minute presentation of the original Star Wars double album, to match the shorter ESB and ROJ albums. I'm pedantic that way.
Anyway, I hope to tackle these soon, and will post the resultant playlists.
Someone did a whittled Blown Away on that score's thread, was it you Kev?
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