Wonderful interview, loved Kraft's comments about the difference between owning music on a physical format vs. digital downloads. And this might have just convinced me that I should own this set.
Seems like only yesterday, doesn't it, folks, that people were vehemently complaining about the exhorbitant price of Varese's SPARTACUS box. I wonder how many of us have the wherewithall to splurge on the asking price of this single item soundtrack purchase, never mind the quantity of discs or the quality of the works?
Ye gods, I'm still trying to scrounge $150 for that Ron Jones set. I could easily peel away $20 for a single disk of 'PeeWee's Big Adventure', though...
Looks awesome and already ordered, my only slight frustration is that the expanded discs aren't in film order and just have the extra tracks stuck at the end. Hopefully the packaging indicates the correct order, but seems a bit daft to go to such effort to produce such an amazing set and produce the CDs in a slightly daft fashion (unless it's like the Bond scores where there's some mental licencing issue which prohibits them from sequencing in film order). Still, at least it's easily fixed with iTunes... roll on Christmas.
I'm certain that's the case...but even if the box/cases don't list the correct order, with a release of this kind you can guarantee that some smarter person than me somewhere will have the chronological lists up before most people have even received the set....
....always had utmost respect for people that have that kind of ear....
Looks awesome and already ordered, my only slight frustration is that the expanded discs aren't in film order and just have the extra tracks stuck at the end.
That's a major, major plus, IMO - and a compromise to people like me who hate chronological presentations and prefer album presentations instead. My only head-scratcher is why two of the discs didn't follow this premise and instead opted for having all the track in chronological order (i.e. no album considerations).
My only head-scratcher is why two of the discs didn't follow this premise and instead opted for having all the track in chronological order (i.e. no album considerations).
From reading the liner notes, it sounds like Danny just decided he wanted them like that on a whim. Who can fathom the ways of the Elf? I guess he felt that with some albums, the musical progression of the themes etc made much more sense in chronilogical order, and it was a personal thing for him to see those ones restored to be heard in the "correct" way.
What I'll never understand is the divided way the Edward Scissorhands album has always been
I guess he felt that with some albums, the musical progression of the themes etc made much more sense in chronilogical order, and it was a personal thing for him to see those ones restored to be heard in the "correct" way.