Quiz: What beautiful, beautiful thing do "Doctor Who," "To Sir, With Love," "The Prisoner," and "The Omega Man" have in common?
Well, Ron Grainer did the music for all four, if that's where you're going.
Absolutely. I love his work. Why is it so hard to find collections? "Who" soundtracks are available, and if one wants to shell out $60 and up, one might nail an out-of-print "Omega Man" soundtrack off eBay, but dang.
Anyone else have hard-to-find favorites?
I have old vinyl soundtracks (being a collector and all) for
The Swarm
Day of the Dead
Tourist Trap
Dressed to Kill
Dawn of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead (1967)
Jaws 3-D
It's Alive 2
The Avengers, et al (TV Series)
Swamp Thing
Prince of Darkness
XTRO
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Boys from Brazil
Rollercoaster
The Sting II
Sudden Impact and the Best of Dirty Harry
52 Pick-Up
Silver Bullet
TerrorVision
The Protector
The Delta Force
From Beyond
Re-Animator
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The Pit and The Pendulum (Richard Band)
Meridian
Puppet Master 1 and 2
Full Moon Main Title Madness
Evil Dead 2
Videodrome
Near Dark
War Games
Blue Thunder
The Amityville Horror (with disco mix!)
Once upon a midnight dreary I had
Piranha
Creepshow
Martin
but they are sadly lost to time and moves and trades with friends (I'm an IDIOT)
There is more, but I'd have to dig through stuff...
Oh, man, I took a lot of crap when a classmate caught me buying the "Amityville Horror" LP...but I'd forgotten all about that "Disco Mix Version." Gaahhhhh. Scarier than Rod Steiger's performance...
My LPs are all long gone, sadly...though our lists are/were pretty similar, Chadzilla. John Cacavas' "Airport 1975," John Williams' "The Towering Inferno," the silly text on the back of "The Swarm," Pino Donnagio's "Carrie," and Lalo Schfrin's creepy "Rollercoaster." Starlog(?)'s special pressing of Bernard Hermann's "It's Alive (2)"...*sigh*
Fortunately, I've recently scored Goldsmith's "Cassandra Crossing" and "The Swarm" tracks off of eBay. Oh, I have the crappy movies on DVD, but now I have the option of enjoying the good stuff without "enjoying" the bad.
The Omega Man music is excellent. Pure 70's fun. Have you tried file-swapping programs like WinMX? The rare gems to be found on those services are great.
3 great great soundtrack/music albumns:
Slaughterhouse Five (All Glenn Gould/All Bach. Some performances not duplicated on any of his other "official" recordings, eg. organ playing).
The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Hugo Montenegro -- not enough music to make a full LP, so they pad it out with music from A Few Dollars More -- priceless).
The Producers (Much of the music is pointless, but great vocal clips of Mostel, Mars, etc., and, of course, Springtime for you-know-who . . . ).
peter johnson
Offhand I have;
Phatasm
Moonraker
Space 1999
2001: A Space Odyssey (given to me as a present)
And a couple others that escape me at the moment.