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I generally remove them where possible, but sometimes they simply become a part of the album’s unique listening experience for me. The ‘94 Blade Runner is a good example of this. You come to anticipate the dialogue. It functions in much the same way another instrument would. And that’s one case where you really can’t separate the excerpts out. Still, I long for the day that film’s score is released complete, chronological, and without overlaid dialogue.
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I can't stand it. I was very upset to discover how much of the Babe soundtrack was dialogue. I don't really have any other examples in my personal collection because I try to avoid them like the plague.
EDIT: I have Casablanca downloaded but I've yet to listen to it because of the dialogue.
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Definitely not a fan of dialogue on a soundtrack. Most of the Sony edition of The Alamo had too many excerpts that detracted from the listening experience, and I’m not just referring to the tracks that already had dialogue on the LP.
Johnonymous, I also find the dialogue on Casablanca’s soundtrack off-putting. While it doesn’t take care of the rest of the score, the compilation listed below has a clean music-only version of the main title so you might want to try looking for that:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=43717
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No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Unless there is no other option.
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Dialogue on albums is stupid. The musical album exists to showcase the music. If you want to hear dialogue with music, then turn on the movie and close your eyes.
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Definitely not a fan of dialogue on a soundtrack. Most of the Sony edition of The Alamo had too many excerpts that detracted from the listening experience, and I’m not just referring to the tracks that already had dialogue on the LP.
Johnonymous, I also find the dialogue on Casablanca’s soundtrack off-putting. While it doesn’t take care of the rest of the score, the compilation listed below has a clean music-only version of the main title so you might want to try looking for that:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=43717
Thanks! Will have to check that out--I have the old Silva compilation that has a suite by City of Prague Philharmonic but it would be nice to hear the original without dialogue.
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On further consideration, one of the few instances that I can kind of accept is The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy's V/O is non diagetic so it works as a part of the piece of music.
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Mostly no. But three examples I've never minded:
Flash Gordon and Dune on the silly scifi end of the spectrum - I still enjoy playing those albums with the dialogue from time to time, even through I have one of the expanded Dune releases.
Stevie on the more serious end of the spectrum. Which makes sense as it's about the poet Stevie Smith and some of her works are incorporated into the album just as they were into the movie. When performed by Glenda Jackson and Trevor Howard, who am I to argue! (So glad this long-lost LP is available on digital sites.)
On the other hand, for example, I absolutely HATE the dialogue snippets in Addison's brilliant Sleuth - they are utterly random and useless, and play over my favorite number to boot!
I don't recall dialogue in the original Escape from New York, wondering if that's the extended version.
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Not at all a fan. I can live with Spock's dialogue on Wrath of Khan. Otherwise, I can't really think of any soundtrack that benefitted from dialogue and can think of several that were harmed by dialogue. Hannibal is one of the more frustrating albums. Great score, terrible placement of dialogue.
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Not at all a fan. I can live with Spock's dialogue on Wrath of Khan.
Ah, interesting example. That actually is a relatively acceptable version of this, but I think it’s because the music was specifically composed to sync with the voiceover as a monologue and to literally give it space - almost like an opera performance. That said, it would be great to have a version without the voiceover too.
However the Prologue to Beauty and the Beast for example is something that I think does exist separately and tells a story independently of the music. There is one version of an album release that plays without it and it’s gorgeous.
I think the worst ones were the Octopussy soundtrack (which was already too short of an album) and the original Apollo 13 release. Also one of the Phantom Menace albums had a really dopey montage of Duel of the Fates intercut with dialogue from the movies.
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