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« Reply #120 on: December 12, 2009, 09:04:55 PM » |
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Ha! I'll second the formaggio review. I'm often at odds on how to describe the italian soundtracks (so I often avoid it on SBR). Depends what you like. Some of them just have a hundred different versions of the main theme (mystery version, love version, suspense version, marching band version etc.). A lot of the music on this one would sound good in a montage of a ladies shopping trip. Few of the Italian soundtracks really pay off all the way through, but have a couple of knockout tracks. There are usually bossa novas, tunes for driving the coast in a convertible, and some just plain silly tracks. The action cues are often cymbals and wordless vocal scatting. There are these other "mystery? type cues that I don't know how to describe. Just a kind of quiet musical noise for sneaking around scenes. The sheer variety of musical styles on some soundtracks is part of the fun. They also combine tracks a lot so the beginning is nothing special, but then breaks into a kick-ass version of the theme. They're really just kind of weird, which I like a lot, but others may not.
Taste is relative, but some with a little more of a payoff are A.D3 Operazione Squalo Bianco, Agente 077 Missione Bloody Mary, Colpo Maestro Al Servizio Di Sua Maesta Britannica , Missione Morte Molo 83 (not the one paired with Agente 077 Dall'Oriente Con Furore), OK Connery, Operation Lady Chaplin, Rapporto Fuller Base Stoccolma, Requiem Per Un Agente Segreto, Slalom, Troppo Per Vivere ... Poco Per Morire, and Upperseven. All on CD!
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« Reply #121 on: December 13, 2009, 09:06:01 PM » |
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A lot of the music on this one would sound good in a montage of a ladies shopping trip.
Dammit, I should have had this yesterday. Lots of cocktails involved as well.  Thanks for the thoughts guys. Still undecided, but it's good to know how it compares. |
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« Reply #122 on: February 11, 2010, 08:08:38 PM » |
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« Reply #123 on: February 11, 2010, 08:58:36 PM » |
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Oh wow. Thanks for the news, Johann! I love my 100% Cotton CD, and I like the prospect of eight new tracks, but I don't know if I can justify the upgrade for ONLY eight new tracks. Hm. As for the remastering, that's certainly nice, but the old discs don't sound bad!
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« Reply #125 on: February 19, 2010, 11:52:57 PM » |
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Great stuff - thanks for the tip!
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« Reply #126 on: February 20, 2010, 04:56:33 AM » |
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Brilliant news about the Jerry Cotton soundtrack - many thanks Johan!
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« Reply #128 on: February 25, 2010, 11:06:57 PM » |
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That would have been lovely if I hadn't bought the Network 3 CD set. I'll wait for the next 4 CD set with the 321 page booklet and inflatable Number Two chair. Why do people keeping doing this with soundtracks? Drives me mad. |
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« Reply #129 on: February 26, 2010, 01:22:36 AM » |
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Anyone heard of this flick? Digitmovies is putting out a CD soundtrack by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino's for "Totò d'Arabia" described as a "secret agent Lawrence of Arabia parody AKA "Totò of Arabia" directed in 1964 by Spanish director Josè Antonio De La Loma and starring the great Italian comedian Totò (stage name of Prince Antonio De Curtis)."
And just in case there's some confusion... The Network Prisoner set was music written for the show. This New one is sound library stuff. Music written and sold to a sound library... in this case the Chappel sound library... and then "leased" for the show. So - 3 discs of completely different music.
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« Reply #130 on: February 27, 2010, 10:22:04 PM » |
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I saw the film about three years ago. I think I even posted about it. It was moderately entertaining. If I recall, Toto is a cook or butler for spymaster Sir Bains (Georges Rigaud) who auditions his services as undercover secret agent: all the famous spies are defunct or otherwise engaged (movie franchise names are dropped and joked about). And so he gets the job and sets off in disguise to protect UK oil interests in Arab lands. Best parts include spaghetti stars like Nieves Navarro as a not entirely trustworthy sex kitten and Fernando Sancho as a sheik, the star's risque interactions with a sexy harem, and footage of urban Spain with contemporary movie marqees, neon signs, fun fairs and the like. To be honest, I don't recall the score at all.
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« Reply #131 on: February 28, 2010, 10:10:54 PM » |
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Yeh - didn't rock my boat - must be an Italian comedy thing - like franchi & ciccio or whatever they are called (super mario chuckle brother moustachio huge box office gross out monsters)...guess I'm more francophile - I understand bourvil / louis de funès.
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