So anyway, if you follow the film music world much at all, particularly the licensing of said music for CD production, you'll know that Paramount Pictures (a Viacom company) is and has been the stingiest bunch of fuckers this side of a Hasidic fund raiser for the German arts. Or at least, that was the case...until yesterday.
Apparently, LaLa Land Records has broken through Paramount's steel chastity belt (of death - see, sounds scarier, eh?) and come to some sort of arrangement. The details of said arrangement are known only to the fine folks at LaLa Land and Paramount, but the long and short of it is that "the wall" is coming down - and it's beginning with a real doozy!
Beginning May 12th, at 2:00 p.m. local time, orders will be taken for one complete score to what is perhaps the greatest comedy of all time - Airplane!, composed by none other then the late, great Elmer Bernstein. This, near as I can figure, is the comedy score that defined how to really compose for comedy - that is to say that the music plays completely straight against the absurdity on the screen.
Even if you aren't particularly familiar with the score, or of Paramount's steadfast inability to budge on letting their music out, you should be rejoicing at this news...a literal vault of amazing film music is about to be loosed upon the world. Think about it, complete scores from the likes of say: All of the Star Trek films, Johnny's Black Sunday, a reissue of Chinatown, Basil's Hunt for Red October, the list goes on and on...
May is going to be so fucking AWESOME!!!
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Man, what I wouldn't give for complete recordings of all that Jerry Goldsmith stuff.
Legitimate recordings, that is!
Chastity belt of death, huh?
"What the fuck's Pillow Pants?"
"Pillow pants is a little troll who lives in her pussy."
"Pillow Pants is her pussy troll?"
"Duh. You know how every girl's parents put a pussy troll in them when the girls are young, to keep them from having sex?"
"...Sure."
"Well Myra's is named Pillow Pants. And so even though she totally wants to have sex with me, Myra says if I put my... thing in her, Pillow Pants will bite it off. So, I gotta wait until Pillow Pants gets peed out of her body on her 21st birthday before we can have sex."
Touche
Okay, that is pretty sweet. It's always great when someone finally gets off their ass and looks out the window to see the throngs of good-music-lovers demanding what is theirs, and they decide to stop hoarding it for themselves.
I was a happy, happy man when they released The Lord of the Rings: The Complete Recordings. Save the time I found the bootleg complete score to Kingdom of Heaven, I haven't been that happy since.
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