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| Fesarius | Jun 9 2007, 11:05 AM Post #1 |
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I just purchased the three-volume (three disc) set of TOS music. In a word, astounding. I have been wanting this for years (thank you for the suggestion, Fire!) and it is a purchase I won't be forgetting anytime soon. All of the great themes are there, and most importantly for me, these are the original soundtracks from the episodes (none of the redone stuff by numerous orchestras, that while done admirably, often lose the magic of the original somehow). Highly recommended. There were also other CDs of music for TNG, DS9, and VOY, but I am not interested in those. But other might be, so I thought I would mention it. They are available on Amazon.com, and probably other places as well. |
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| fireh8er | Jun 9 2007, 01:40 PM Post #2 |
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^^^ CSB, I'm glad you enjoy them. They are some of my favorite CD's. I listen to them and the soundtracks to the first three movies on regular basis. I haven't picked up the soundtracks to the other series yet, but I probably will in the future. I also have the soundtracks(TOS) redone be The Royal Orchestra. They aren't too bad. I really enjoyed the track named Goodbye, Mr Decker.
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| Fesarius | Jun 9 2007, 03:47 PM Post #3 |
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^^^ CSB, I love them. I listened to two of the discs today, and one yesterday. I've seen others out there (for TOS), but these seem to be the best ones there are. It is part of a three-disc boxed set (a Collector's Edition, according to the packaging). As you know, I also love the scores to many of the films. I particularly like TMP, TUC, and NEM. I have often put on the first film, and while working in another room, just left the film on to listen to the score.
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| fireh8er | Jun 9 2007, 08:25 PM Post #4 |
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I used to do the same thing before I got the soundtracks. It's good to know I'm not the only one who does that.
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| Fesarius | Jun 9 2007, 09:53 PM Post #5 |
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^^^ Great minds and all.
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| LoriCiani | Jun 10 2007, 06:31 PM Post #6 |
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I have the Star Trek 30th Anniversary Special CD which was given to me as a gift from my husband. It has quite a selection from TOS to Voyager. The orchestral suite from The Inner Light, track 8, is very good. |
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| Fesarius | Jun 10 2007, 09:50 PM Post #7 |
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^^^ I saw that CD when I was ordering the ones I've mentioned in this thread. It did look quite good. I also saw one entitled Ultimate Trek.
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| LoriCiani | Jun 11 2007, 01:16 PM Post #8 |
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Thanks Fesarius, I'll get my husband on to that one.
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| Fesarius | Jun 11 2007, 02:38 PM Post #9 |
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^^^ :lol: Maybe I could just send him the list?
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| Franko | Jun 11 2007, 10:57 PM Post #10 |
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For some reason I still find much of the situational soundtrack in TOS to be more "moving" than anything from the other series. The music in episodes like "The Empath" for instance still bring me to tears. As for TNG, the first three seasons featured some very specific soundtrack themes. It seemed though, after BOBW, someone made the rest of TNG's soundtracks rather "generic". If you don't believe me, watch "Datalore" in stereo. "The Defector". "The Dauphin". Some of that stuff is fabulous. |
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| Fesarius | Jun 12 2007, 08:54 AM Post #11 |
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Franko, Agreed. I just ordered the music from The Empath (and other episodes). The title of the album is Star Trek, Volume Two: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Mirror Mirror, By Any Other Name, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Empath). As I've stated on a few occasions, TOS music has the ability seemingly to transport me to another time and dimension. And, many of the selections on TOS are stand alone works, even though I can see the episodes unfolding before my eyes when I listen to it.
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| Fesarius | Jun 14 2007, 02:29 PM Post #12 |
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I just received my fourth and fifth (out of a total of six) CDs of TOS music. (One of these six is a collector's item of the sound effects used in the series--some 69 tracks worth!) This one includes music from Charlie X, The Corbomite Maneuver (with a selection entitled, Fesarius Approaches--LOL), Mudd's Women, and The Doomsday Machine. I was moved by what G. Roddenberry had to say about the music on the inner sleeve. (The boldface is mine. I love that excerpt, as it describes what I believe to be true about much of the fifteenth-century music I have devoted my life to studying.) "In the years before, we had watched science fiction fail time and again in film and television. We believed it was because it had been too often centered mainly on science and gadgetry. Thus our first request to the Star Trek music composer: 'Don't give us electronic beep-beep-beep music; give us Captain Blood!' It was a shorthand way of saying that our new television series was to be about what satisfying drama is always about...which is people. In all fiction, including science fiction, happenings become entertaining only as they impact upon us through the invented emotions or invented characters with whom we are identifying. Perhaps the most remarkable of music's mysteries is its power to transport us in this way into other bodies and events and places, letting us magically overcome the limits of our own identities. The success with which our composers worked this magic and their major contribution to Star Trek's success is recorded here in ths album." |
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| Fesarius | Jun 18 2007, 10:23 PM Post #13 |
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Today, I received my final TOS original music CD. This one has music from Mirror Mirror, By Any Other Name, The Trouble With Tribbles, and The Empath. I haven't listened to this one yet, but I do recall that the music from The Empath, like some of the stock music used in The Paradise Syndrome, hasn't been used in very many (if any) other episodes. The score for The Empath is particularly ambitious and engaging. It will be a treat.
Fire, I hope you can pick these two CDs up some day. They compliment the three-disc set we've discussed before very nicely. Besides, the music on the first of these (and probably the second, I'll find out this week) is almost all new music than that found on the triple box set (which is awesome, as you know).
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| fireh8er | Jun 18 2007, 11:14 PM Post #14 |
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CSB, I have the first of the two CD's(Charlie X, The Corbomite Maneuver Mudd's Women, and The Doomsday Machine) and I'm looking to buy the second CD and the sound effects CD soon. I also have and enjoy several of the movie soundtracks. If I could only get The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier andThe Undiscovered Coutry, I'd be set.
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| Fesarius | Jun 19 2007, 12:10 PM Post #15 |
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^^^ CSB, I wish I could beam them to you.
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I have often put on the first film, and while working in another room, just left the film on to listen to the score.
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