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: Disappointing indeed
Hit: 2 Stars
The soundtrack's extended saga is as annoying as the many iterations of the film itself. Don't get me wrong, I love both music and movie (saw every version in the cinema upon their various releases) and as works of art, they both earn 5 stars. I just would be happy with one version of each, unadulterated. For me the 1992 Director's cut made a great film better -- now stop there. As for the music, the bootleg Esper edition did the best job giving fans most of the score, in sequence, with some key dialogue (lots of Deckard & Rachel, and Roy's valedictory speech left intact), and with the extra music Vangelis included on his official '94 release. My attitude towards soundtracks is that if I like a film's score, I want it, so strip out the dialogue (well, maybe not in this case!) and let us hear the music as it appeared at the moment of viewing. I love all classic Vangelis (Spiral, China, Masque -- you name it) but this triple-disc set is just a scam. Or a sham. Or both.Free Music Review: Meh
Hit: 2 Stars
Here I was hoping we'd finally get the song that plays at Taffey Lewis' bar, but nope. Just a few minutes worth of extra bleeps and bloops added on to what I already had. If don't already own the 1994 version then I guess this might be worth picking up, otherwise save your money.Free Music Review: Is this the promised end?
Hit: 1 Stars
One track on this album has the absurd title "Unveiled Twinkling Space." It fits the album well because the album is all twinkling. It's all wind chimes and cheesy wind effects and almost no music from the movie "Blade Runner."
I'm not a Vangelis fan. I think he's pretentious, for one thing. For another, I think he's got very little creative talent. He tends to take about eight notes and repeat them endlessly, without even varying the tempo or the key. He can't think of codas--all his pieces fade out or fade into one another. There are exceptions to all these observations, of course, and they tend to be the strongest cues on this album.
What I am is a "Blade Runner" fan, and a film music fan, and I'd really like to be able to listen to music from the movie without dialogue, sound effects, and dumb wind noises interfering with my enjoyment.
What's the point of the dialogue that we hear over "Main Titles?" If I wanted to listen to dialogue, I'd watch the movie again. It's not even the best lines from the movie--just Harrison Ford listing a bunch of numbers (from the Esper sequence). I love Rutger Hauer's closing soliloquy, but when I listen to music, I'd like it to be music, not a soliloquy. Vangelis must have understood something of this, so he reprises "Tears In Rain" on the second CD, without the dialogue. But unable to let the music stand by itself, he inserts a wind effect over the whole track. Where's the wind in "Blade Runner?" Rain I see, but wind? If only there were rain and no wind, or wind and rain, but why wind and no rain?
I also don't see much point in CD 3. Music inspired by the film. It doesn't really evoke the film, though--most of them some like John Barryesque lounge music cues from 1960s Bond movies. The last track seems to be entirely composed of wind and a child asking a series of questions.
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Six cues on CD 2 contain music actually used in the film. Eight cues on CD 1 contain music actually used in the film. In all, that's less than an hour of music.
I can't really complain. I knew what I was getting, and bought it anyway. I don't feel like I was conned out of my money. I bought with my eyes open. I just wanted to hear the music from "Blade Runner." Like Deckard entering teh Bradbury building, or Baty dying without distracting dialogue or sound effects. It's a humble wish, I think, and I don't think I'll ever get it.
But I see, if no one else does, that the Emperor Vangelis isn't wearing any clothes.
Free Music Review: A dissapointment compared to the cheaper Soundtrack CD
Hit: 1 Stars
Do not waste your money on this 25th anniversary "soundtrack" as the additions you pay the extra money for aren't the soundtrack. I have both the previously release CD Soundtrack and this, the 25th Anniversary Edition and was extremely disappointed at the two extra CDs in the 25th Anniversary you get for the extra money.
The 1st CD is the same as the previous soundtrack CD release (which is only $10).
The 2nd CD is supposed to contain unreleased music from the movie, but obviously Vangelis didn't have access to the movie sound samples (like he did with the original soundtrack CD) or its score apparantly, so he inserted what sound like MIDI reproductions of things like sirens and other sounds from the movie. The annoying part is you're not only constantly thinking that's not the sound, your thinking its horrible! It sounds like things a 14 yr old would make on his computer to sound like a siren etc. - which is way annoying. The music isn't the same either, making you think he didn't have the old score and just recorded what he remembered from all those years ago - some of its closer to the movie some of it is very far away from what was in the movie. It makes the 2nd CD so bad, it'd be better if it wasn't there. I've litterally deleted the files off my computer because I know I'll never want to listen to them again.
The 3rd CD doesn't have much to do with Blade Runner at all and seems to be a vehicle to get out some latest song creations which, really aren't that great (by Vangelis standards). It's not as bad as the 2nd CD but has no relevance.
Get the soundtrack CD (for $10) and not this 25th Anniversary product where you pay an extra $15 for 2 extra CD's of not what you are wanting. Its too bad it could have been such a great CD set, but alas its not.
Free Music Review: MORE OF A RIPOFF THAN THE BOOTLEGS!
Hit: 1 Stars
We'll try this a third time (since they seem to have lost it the first two times)
I've deleted most of my review, since others have covered the same ground in a more suitable-for-family-reading fashion (Bless you, Zaroff, for nailing this bird we've been flipped to the Wall of Shame.)
So, it's the "complete music from the film" eh? Fhtagn! David Cordes, in his very generous 3 star review, details the other releases that have more right to call themselves complete.
My copy of this waste of ones and zeros has been making the rounds with the gang, and the printable response has so far been, "Thanks for saving me the money."
>sarcasm mode--ON<
Thank you sooo much, to the label and Vangelis, for making us have to shell out tons more cash to the bootleggers for what we want.
>sarcasm mode--OFF<
I wish I hadn't pre-ordered this turkey.
PS--Amazon exclusive my arse!