Vangelis - Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
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Free Music Notes for Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
Free Music Review: A decent compliment to the bootlegged versions.
Hit: 3 Stars
As the other reviewers comment, this only adds a little bit of actual new music from the film previously unreleased. The rest is re-composition, re-orchestration and disc 3 is all new material from Vangelis.
For blade runner fans, it's still worth having, the material on disc 2 is crisp and of a higher quality than the bootlegs. You can also finally hear a version of "fading away" that does not include Rutger Hauer's magnificent speech.
For Vangelis fans, it's worth having as the first new release in a long time from a composer who more or less appears to be retired at this point. (He is 66 as of this writing and has not released an album or score in 8 years.)
The last few tracks on CD 3 are very good, Spotkanie Z Matka, Piano in an Empty Room and Keep Asking. I am not fond of the remixes-to-a-beat of some of the other songs, but some Vangelis fans might find them to their liking.
Overall it's a good buy but nothing incredible. In the sound track world, a lot of wrongs have been righted, but this looks like one that will never completely be righted by one set of CDs. In the context of all the other blade runner material out there, it rounds off and finishes the collection, though not how many of us would like it to have been. Owing to the ages of the film itself and the people involved, this will probably be the last item we will see related to the film, along with the excellent "Final Cut" version of the film.
Free Music Review: only for real fans!!!
Hit: 3 Stars
Ok....this is one of those products that must be recomended only for fans of Vangelis (wich i am) or colectors of Blade Runner material....the thing is that i can not say is a definitive edition of Blade Runner soundtrack...because is not, i love the movie also and i would like to have the original soundtrack that we listen during the movie and not more music "based" on the film or new creations for the movie.....on the other side i love Vangelis music so im happy to get some new material from one of the best composers ever.
As i said i think this excelent product is only for real fans of Vangelis and Blade Runner.
Free Music Review: Still not the definitive Soundtrack
Hit: 3 Stars
An interesting collection of new and old material. It's great to finally have some of these tracks available at last, but this is still not the definitive soundtrack we've all been waiting for. Won't someone just give us the soundtrack of "Bladerunner" from beginning to end without the revisited songs and reinterpretations? Is that, after 25 years of waiting, asking too much?Free Music Review: Suffering from the usual syndrome...
Hit: 2 Stars
...of Vangelis NOT releasing more often than not what is actually the soundtrack of the movie it's supposed to be.
Let's see here: we find, on CD 1, the exact same record we had in 1994 - but that was expected and announced, so why not. On CD 2, labelled "unreleased and bonus material from BR", there is, actually, very little music heard in the film itself, except from two cues that are well-know, namely "D & R duel", and "Tyrell's Death". That ends here. "Tyrell's Owl", for instance, is anything but the actual music as heard in the film at that moment. As for CD 3, it's nothing more than a hackneyed collection of muzak, with fashionable world music overtones and indistinct speech put in the mix, and absolutely doesn't justify the purchase of the set alone. I doubt I'll listen to it twice.
All in all, I'm super tired of Vangelis NOT releasing, and never will now as it appears, the TRUE, ORIGINAL motion picture soundtrack of Blade Runner. Whatever artistic endeavour there was behind this project, it still is NOT, far from it, the ultimate ressource for BR music, I'm sorry to say. It's different music for the most part, perhaps to some pleasant or good music, but not the BR soundtrack by a long margin.
One word of advice: Keep your Deck Arts bootlegs preciously... They are the most comprehensive collection of BR music that were ever made.
This record set isn't.
Free Music Review: Get it for Disc 2 - forget the rest!
Hit: 2 Stars
Bottom line: Disc 2, having many cues from the original score and NO voiceover, is a gem. Disc 3, in my own opinion, is a waste. If I wanted to hear new Vangelis music, and I don't, I'd rather buy it separately. And as we all know by now, Disc 1 is a re-release of the original '94 soundtrack, ruined with voiceover. Guys, if I wanted dialog in my music, I'd be watching the movie for cryin' out loud. Why not take advantage of the opportunity now to remove the voiceover and remaster it as music only? There are only a few cues on here that are both from the film and have no v/o, and since I already bought this in '94, I don't need it again. What is even more of a let down is that "Tears in Rain" is presented at the end of Disc 2 under a different title. No Rutger Hauer voiceover this time, yet it has been ruined AGAIN with the addition of heavy wind sounds over the music. A very disappointing and confused representation of this beautiful score. Whomever is/are behind the concept of this 3 disc set should be ashamed.