{"id":1174,"date":"2010-10-28T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:26:36","slug":"soundtrack-news-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack News & Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This week Fox released their Alien Anthology Blu-ray set, which ports over 99.9% of the extras from the two prior sets, and adds an isolated score track for each film, making it the first time the complete scores for Aliens<\/strong>, Alien 3<\/strong>, and Alien Resurrection<\/strong> have appeared on a commercial release.<\/p>\n

The full score to Alien<\/strong> already appeared in the first DVD set, and featured a batch of unused cues. No word on whether the BRs contain those alternate cues, but DigitBit\u2019s exhaustive review<\/a> and comparison of extras of all prior sets states the \u2018alternate production sounds\u2019 found on the first Alien <\/strong>special edition DVD <\/strong>aren\u2019t on the BR.<\/p>\n

Given Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s Alien<\/strong> is<\/em> available on a non-limited 2-CD set from Intrada, and a 2-CD set of John Frizzell\u2019s Alien Resurrection<\/strong> is due this month from La-La Land Records (albeit limited to 3500 copies), at least two of the scores are fully represented on CD.<\/p>\n

Also of note to those in Region B land and those capable of playing Region B Blu-rays, neat British company Eureka Entertainment has released Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?<\/strong> on BR as part of their Masters of Cinema series.<\/p>\n

Eureka\u2019s collection features a number of titles not available anytime soon on BR in North America, and their Rock Hunter<\/strong> BR has more extras than the R1 DVD released by Fox. Among the goodies<\/a> is an alternate music & effects track, with alternate main title music.<\/p>\n

Also of note is yesterday\u2019s report that the Battlestar Galactica<\/strong> prequel series Caprica<\/a><\/strong> is being axed<\/a> after one season. SyFy will blow out the last episodes, and while they\u2019ve another BG prequel series in the works \u2013 Blood and Chrome<\/strong> \u2013 I think they should grab some of the profits from the hugely successful BG series (it made a mint<\/em>) and make one or however many feature-length movies to wrap up the Caprica<\/strong> storyline, or at least tie it to the new series.<\/p>\n

Fans hate nothing more than being left in the cold with unresolved characters and stories they stuck with for months. At least there\u2019s a solid soundtrack album of Bear McCreary\u2019s music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lastly, here are some soundtrack reviews recently uploaded, with more to come, including FSM\u2019s 5-disc monster, TV Omnibus: Volume One (1962-1976), which offers amazing treats for jazz fans.<\/p>\n

Uploaded late last week are a pair of Les Baxter scores from La-La Land: the music and backing tracks from the bubble-headed Beach Blanket Bingo<\/a><\/strong> (1965); and the biker film Hell\u2019s Belles<\/a><\/strong> (1969), featuring the original album and unreleased cues that offer more musical impressions of the belle belles in Hell\u2019s Belles<\/strong> who may catfight now and then, but never actually ring hellish bells. (Ahem.)<\/p>\n

Silva\u2019s reissue of Brad Fiedel\u2019s superb score for James Cameron\u2019s Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/a><\/strong>. The CD\u2019s release is somehow perfectly timed for the Governator\u2019s recent TV appearances on the news as he comments on a contentious proposition<\/a> with big buddy Cameron, who recently visited<\/a> the Alberta oil sands and said \u2018it\u2019s a gift\u2019 as long as we don\u2019t fudge things up anymore.<\/p>\n

Also from Silva (and wholly unrelated to Arnie & Jimmy) is The Town<\/a><\/strong>, sporting a more toned down electronic m\u00e9lange by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley.<\/p>\n

Lastly, from Intrada comes another rare Gil Melle score. Following the label\u2019s recent release of Melle\u2019s pioneering electronic score for The Andromeda Strain<\/strong> is The Organization<\/a><\/strong>, the third and final installment in the Virgil Tibbs saga on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Melle wrote Andromeda<\/strong> that same year, and it\u2019s amazing to hear the contrast between his all-electronic score and this large orchestral jazz work that really grooves. Not great is the CD\u2019s running time, plus a few picky points that really aren\u2019t Intrada\u2019s fault (but no doubt they\u2019re getting blamed for).<\/p>\n

Melle\u2019s writing is also featured on the FSM TV Omnibus, and I\u2019ll have a review up this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soundtrack news, plus reviews of Les Baxter’s Beach Blanket Bingo and Hell’s Belles (La-La Land), Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley’s The Town and Brad Fiedel’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Silva Screen), and Gil Melle’s The Organization (Intrada)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-iW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}