Recent Purchases: Scores - Part I

That hymn is not a Zimmer composition, of course, but one of the most famous traditional hymns of all time, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" (used in many other films too, like TITANIC).

I guess, but the "muffledness" of it was intentional, of course, the famous lyrics:

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

...coming through as almost through a pillow, connoting a cry from the crampled and claustrophobic submarine, deep beneath the surface.

No, it's peril. As in those in danger on the sea and in need of a saving prayer.

Oh, I always understood it as perished. Maybe because I thought it's really a funeral hymn.

I actually love it, but I was shocked that, from all people, Joep bought it!

Some scores are just good because of the memories. Like in the case of Crimson Tide.

New scores:

Ji-woong Bark - Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom
Pascal Gaigne - Azuloscurocasinegro
Franco Battiato & Rens Machielse - Plantage Allee (second copy)

Found it in a secondhand shop.

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True!

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Double True!

Made my first substantial online purchase of CDs in many months today. For a while I've been content to go the iTunes / occasional CD store visit to get the odd score over the last five months. Today I thought it high time to get a package in the door again:

- Five Man Army (Morricone)
- Fantastic Mr Fox (Desplat)
- New Moon (Desplat) - pre-order
- The Informant (Hamlisch)
- Marco Polo (Armand Amar)
- Le Voyage en Ballon (can't remember composer's name)
- Amelia (Yared)
- EDIT - Oh, and The Red Canvas, that Rozsa-esque score everyone is excited about!

Downloads and itunes EXCLUSIVELY are bound to diminish one's listening experience, or chop it up in pieces. I recently tried searching for options to help me re-boost my listening experience enjoyment and i was led to film music vinyl (lp's) which i hope they'll bring a drastic change for me, a much needed one, both film music quality-wise (very few new releases are available in the format) and also due to the whole "process" of the lp buying and listening business

South Pacific's only released as a download. I don't know if it's due a physical CD release.

I don't know about the others - though I'm hoping that Mikael can sort something out with Ed Butt's Yellowstone.

No, I use the correct and original title. That's very important to me. However, I can understand some titles are hard to remember in their original language.

Alan, i have thousands of mp3s which i listen everyday. It's not a matter of mp3 vs lp or anything, just the whole experience of collecting and listening to vinyls or cds, i.e. physical contact, smell, artwork etc etc instead of plain mp3s on hard disk. It's a psychological thing, not a matter of quality we're discussing here.

There was me flying off the handle with my post.

Sorry!

When I think back to when I was buying LPs I find that I got the same pleasure of unwrapping and playing the discs as I do when unwrapping CDs. What I most remember from the LP days was actually finding the title. Shops back then held very few soundtracks (I'd have to order them from independent outlets that seemed more prepared to order "weird" items like soundtracks) - due to the fact that few soundtracks were released - and a lot of my purchases were as a result of unexpected finds. That was the great thing for me.

Nowadays - CD or mp3 - it's relatively easy to get any title you want (legally or otherwise) so there's very little effort needed to find something other than where to look for the online outlet.

Maybe that's why there's the constant "want...want...want" mentality of a lot of people (myself included). People have their Holy Grail titles that they are constantly wanting released. And when it is finally released there's a short time where people are glad but then there's the want of the next release. FSM and Intrada are good examples: as soon as titles are announced up pops another topic anticipating the next release!