Arrival to Earth

[ehowton]

I'm too old to have grown up with Transformers. I'm familiar with it, but never watched it. My son became interested in the cartoons and toys a couple of years ago, and was sore excited when news of the movie began to surface. I wanted to take him to see it in the theater, but that never materialized, so to make up for it, we got it the day it was released on DVD, and sat and watched it as a family that Friday night.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

My wife has watched it at least a dozen times now. I had downloaded the score prior to having seen the movie, and I found the tracks short, and uninspiring. No surprise since The Island though tepid, was at least consistent. But as I watched the movie again and again, and started picking up cues and finding that I enjoyed the music immensely, realized I didn't have the score. What I had, it seems was the video game score! Armed with this new found information, and after hitting stores for about a week - I finally ordered it online. It came today!

I then began down that emotional roller coaster: Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,18,20 - ^*Different Version in Film

The last time I was this crestfallen was when I purchased the score to The Saint and discovered the Title Track was on the CD was different than the one they used in the film.

Then I became angry! "How can they call this the score?" I screamed at my wife! "Under half the tracks actually appeared in the film!" So I started doing a little research. Wikipeidia offers:

This may refer to the fact that these tracks, though complete on the CDas originally scored, are not heard in their entirety in the film or are broken up.

When has that ever justified "Different Version in Film?" It hasn't. So I grow increasingly frustrated. Still, my wife had listened to it the car all day...told me it gave her goosebumps and she wanted a copy of it. Maybe, just maybe, I'll give it a try...

Yeah, its that good.

Comments

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

The notation on the album artwork might have occurred because the album artwork was prepared at a later date, when they knew which version would be appearing in the film, but too late to change the disc selections.

In other cases, the album producer might not mention it because it might not be necessary to... most of the takes used on the original Fellowship of the Ring CD are different from those appearing in the films and on the Complete Recordings, but making such a notation would be distracting given that the differences tend to be minor.

Don't forget, many classic film score albums, including most of the work of Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein's The Ten Commandments, Franz Waxman's Taras Bulba, John Williams' Dracula, Ernest Gold's It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and many others are completely different recordings that what appear in the film.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

The Ten Commandments was one of my early lessons. My father has all of those. We'd get all roused up watching the end of that movie and put on the soundtrack record, and just...lose interest.

We always ended up listening to Ben-Hur.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I was unaware that your dad has the same passion for film music that you do. You've been at this game a long time.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

That's likely where I picked it up. We'd visit the record store after a particularly rousing score in a movie.

It probably started with Star Wars. What a grandiose score that was when first heard in 1977! I'll never forget it.

I remember buying The Black Hole, Chariots of Fire and even Cat People on vinyl when I was younger. We both started with classical music used in films, onto classical from there, eventually graduating to opera.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

That's likely where I picked it up.
I know I got my liking of the oldies and (though I hate to admit it) country-western from my Mom before she died. We had a large vinyl collection as well as eight-tracks and cassettes.

Come to think of it, she must have loved music just as much as I did if not more. I bet I get a lot from my mom that I don't know about. Maybe I should try to dig up my dad.

Anyway, I don't really remember when or how I got into scores. I just remember that I noticed that the music was really moving or catching and started collecting it.

Speaking on vinyl, I think you'd enjoy this story.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

heh - read the comments. Yeah, another name for that title is, Vinyl May Not Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin.

Driving down the road, I pull out my 12-inch album, and slide it into this HUGE FRIGGIN SLOT in my dash.

lol...

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I agree. Vinyl isn't portable and I don't think we'll go back to 45 singles. What would be interesting is if they could improve the range of vinyl while keeping it's warm properties.

P.S. Your avatar doesn't look like a bee.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

P.S. Your avatar doesn't look like a bee.
Your avatar doesn't look like an aircraft carrier.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]