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Proof!?

Even deaf people?

Peter

La petite fille de la mer &
La mort du loup
right?

Groundbraking album! A celebration of some of my favourite instruments, the Hammond Organ, the Mellotron and the Clavinet.

Yup, you beat me to it! In fact, "La Mort du Loup" is even more of a favourite than "La Petite Fille..." for me. The latter, however, is the one that always appears on 'best of' albums.

But really...the WHOLE album is bliss.

You're exactly right on both points!
Vangelis prog-rock-roots (Aphrodite's Child) are clearly noticeable in this one.

What I find irritating is that the Decca release gives no hint that this is a different recording. On the contrary, it purports to be an expansion of the MCA release.

I had the expanded Decca once, but didn't care for it much. So I sold it. If I want to have a great listening experience of the score, I'll put on the old MCA. If I want to experience it the way it is in the movie, I'll watch the movie.

I don't have such a strong nostalgic connection to this one, however, as I do JURASSIC PARK. That's the one I know by heart to the tiniest detail.

NP: KICK-ASS (various)

It's a bit all over the place (for obvious reasons, given the number of composers involved), but when it's on, it's really on -- whether sarcastically over-the-top and heroic or down-to-earth and beautiful.

Now, I was 5 years old when JAWS hit the cinemas, so - not likely. I really started buying soundtracks around 1990, so maybe Dances With Wolves. No wait - I bought that one afte it won the AcAw, so that would have been 1991. I mostly saw films on video or on tv so, I don't know.

NP: Jurassic Park Bonus Tracks - John Williams

"The Coming Storm" and "Hungry Raptor" are on repeat for the next little while!



-Erik-

Chariots of Fire was so popular that I don't think there was a human being on the planet who could escape from it at one point.

I think the next soundtracks I bought from a newly released film were King Kong and a few years later The Deep and Star Wars, even back then I was busy trying to hoover up earlier scores rather than current releases and unlike now it was bloody difficult to find anything.

In fact, finding something like Mary, Queen of Scots by John Barry or Obsession by Bernard Herrmann or Patton by Jerry Goldsmith, for example, was always a revelation because unless you'd caught a credit on a TV showing it was the surprise of a favourite composer doing the music to a film that you didn't know they'd done the music too, hell, back then it wasn't even uncommon for the films poster to have no credit for the films composer.

I can't. I think a cassette copy of the TWIN PEAKS CD may have been the very first soundtrack (ca. 1990?), but that was really before my film music interest kicked in. I think THE COMMITMENTS was the first soundtrack I got on CD, but that wasn't a score. So I don't really remember. JURASSIC PARK was early, but I'm not sure it was the first. I have a handful of candidates.

The MCA CD of JAWS -- since we talk about that -- wasn't untill the mid to late 90's, at the earliest. Before that, I only had a couple of tracks on the FILMWORKS compilation CD.

I think I can say for a fact that before 1990, I had no conscious film music interest whatsoever. I was interested in other genres -- like prog rock, old rock, some contemporary pop and electronica. Symphonic music in the style of "LSO plays Classic Rock". Of course, all of this naturally evolved into a soundtrack interest.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Vol II Herrmann

The last number of years really have been an embarrassment of riches when it comes to great archival releases I never thought would see the light of day but these have got to be near the top of the list. So many fantastic mini Herrmann scores!

Yes.

Excellent. I'm sure someone has already done this somewhere, but clearly we need to know the right order to play the tracks in. Jurassic Park is one of those albums I actually rearranged myself anyway (since it's a bit silly in released form, with the end titles in the middle and all).