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 Posted:   Mar 4, 2025 - 9:00 AM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

I agree with both Stephen and Nicolai. Your CDs are unlikely to be destroyed, but backing up everything is easy and a reasonable precaution.

I live in Los Angeles and we had ten people over to watch the Oscars. Five of them (three families) lost their every possession in the fires in January. (They are a small percentage of the people I know who lost everything.)

So yes, odds are your CDs are fine. Just as the five friends eating cheese at my house Sunday night assumed their stuff was.

But the only things they have now (besides the stuff purchased since their homes were destroyed) are the few things that were in their cars and whatever they had stored digitally in the cloud.

No storage is perfect. But you can help your odds.

 
 Posted:   Mar 4, 2025 - 9:36 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

Speaking as someone who DID lose their whole collection in a burglary (about 35 years ago) and is also a qualified professional in Business Continuity (which focuses on risks of loss and compromise), the best strategy is...

Yes, own CDs.

But rip those CD in lossless format, so you don't lose the music if you lose the CDs, and download everything you buy as digital, otherwise you're at risk of streaming services removing content.

Back your digital library up to Cloud storage.

But also back it up to at least two removable hard drives in case the Cloud provider sinks or you need to recover your music without internet access.

Keep at least one of those hard drives some place other than your house. Maybe a garage, your desk at work, or your car. Maybe even in your phone if your phone storage can be expanded.

That should pretty much cover all risks except the most extreme events—but for those events, you probably won't care.

It sounds like a lot of hoo-ha, but given how cheap removable hard drives are, the speed of USB-C and fibre broadband, it's not that expensive and it's easy to maintain once set up.

Another option is to have friends who can digitally replenish you if you lose things.

Cheers


Sounds like a plan.

 
 
 Posted:   May 8, 2025 - 6:18 PM   
 By:   connorb93   (Member)

I finally received my copy today and I'm very happy with it. In the film some tracks got shuffled around and deleted, so this is basically what's in the film:

1. Arrivals
2. The Morning After (instead of the opening "Home Late" portion from "Cash")
3. Cash (2:20 – end) / The Bomb (joined in the film as on the original album)
4. Next Time
5. The Set-Up
6. Dust (0:00 – 1:33)
7. A Nice Fellow (La-La Land version) = You Ready? (1:04 – end)
8. The Plan (revised)
9. Out of Business
10. The Bank (revised) (0:48 – end) (the opening 48 seconds are the same as "Out of Business")
11. The Bank (revised) – Continued
12. Identities
13. To Mexico
14. No Friendlies
15. Positions
16. A Good Chance
17. They Don't Care
18. Fighting
19. A Deal

Intrada crossfades both "You Ready?" and "You Ready? (Revised)" into a single track. Frankly, for the final confrontation at the end of the film only the original "You Ready?" makes any sense (a clean version can the heard in the original album track "The Funeral"). Though it went unused, it seems that the revised version was appropriated for a scene in the middle of the film when Cash visits Sarita at night. The revised version drops the opening trumpet triplets and goes back to the supense/heist motif at the end when the scene cuts back to Hackett's men in the sewer. That motif wouldn't make any sense at the end of the film. A clean opening of that track can only be found on the La-La Land edition where it's called "A Nice Fellow" and placed where it appears in the film. The actual "A Nice Fellow" premiered by Intrada doesn't appear in the film at all. It was probably intended for a subsequent scene where that line is spoken.
It's strange that Intrada's liner notes claim that La-La Land's "A Nice Fellow" was incorrectly labeled as previously unreleased and was instead the opening portion of the album version of "The Funeral" when in fact it wasn't. That particular version ("You Ready? (Revised)") was at that point indeed previously unreleased. Only the original "You Ready?" opens "The Funeral".
I wonder why "Out of Business" is denoted as previously unreleased though. It is the same music that opens La-La Land's "The Bank (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)" (same as Intrada's "The Bank (Revised)").
Anyway, now we finally have the complete score in great sound quality. Just hold on to your La-La Land edition if you want to listen to "You Ready? (Revised)" on its own.


Do the liner notes specify the crossfade of two cues? I don't have them for the new album, but comparing the LLL "A Nice Fellow" with Intrada's "You Ready?" cue, it sounds like the LLL piece is just an edited version of "You Ready?" as it plays fully on the new edition. Where the opening trumpet figure pops in is pretty apparently skipped over and then cuts out a repeat or two of cash's theme. So is it the same cue on both albums but just different edits? Unless the notes specify an original and alternate, that's what it sounds like to my ears.

 
 Posted:   May 8, 2025 - 10:27 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

I remember somebody mentioned that the the castanets in the La La Land release were more sonicly pronounced in the cue: "A Deal"

Can anyone elaborate what exactly are the sonic differences in the mix etc this time around ?
I might add the La La Land edition to my collection because I really find this score fascinating and enjoyable having picked Goldsmith's electronic vibe for the first time to my taste.

 
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