Star Trek: TMP complete score coming June 5th!!

[Data Holmes]

Indeed.

 

[Indysolo]

And here's the track listing (and a really cool behind the scenes video).

http://trekmovie.com/2012/05/18/exc...s-for-star-trek-tmp-complete-score-bts-video/

Neil

 

[Christopher]

Hmm, a bit awkward having the film score broken between CDs -- but I guess that's all the more reason I should finally get an MP3 player so I can make my own playlists and such.

Why is the film version of "The Meld" counted among the alternates? I thought all the tracks on disc 1 and the start of 2 were the film versions.

And I wonder what the "excerpts" from "The Force Field" and "The Cloud" are, and why they're separated out for the additional tracks (in disc 3, track 18).

 

[Basill]

Hmm, a bit awkward having the film score broken between CDs -- but I guess that's all the more reason I should finally get an MP3 player so I can make my own playlists and such.

Why is the film version of "The Meld" counted among the alternates? I thought all the tracks on disc 1 and the start of 2 were the film versions.

And I wonder what the "excerpts" from "The Force Field" and "The Cloud" are, and why they're separated out for the additional tracks (in disc 3, track 18).

Since the score section has the "The Meld" and "A Good Start" blended as one track (as it is presented in the film), the alternate section "Meld" appears to be that track alone according to it's length. It is immediately followed by "A Good Start" on the alternate section, though I have no idea what [discrete] entails in this context, unless maybe it's just another way of saying the same thing; it's the lone version.

Those two "excerpts" are equally baffling but certainly have my curiosity spiked on high.

I am just so happy about this release. I haven't been visiting the movie score and soundtrack aficionado sites for the past few months and this just dropped out of the sky yesterday. My Pavlovian response was immediate.

 

[Brikar99]

Hmm, a bit awkward having the film score broken between CDs -- but I guess that's all the more reason I should finally get an MP3 player so I can make my own playlists and such.

Why is the film version of "The Meld" counted among the alternates? I thought all the tracks on disc 1 and the start of 2 were the film versions.

And I wonder what the "excerpts" from "The Force Field" and "The Cloud" are, and why they're separated out for the additional tracks (in disc 3, track 18).

Since the score section has the "The Meld" and "A Good Start" blended as one track (as it is presented in the film), the alternate section "Meld" appears to be that track alone according to it's length. It is immediately followed by "A Good Start" on the alternate section, though I have no idea what [discrete] entails in this context, unless maybe it's just another way of saying the same thing; it's the lone version.

Those two "excerpts" are equally baffling but certainly have my curiosity spiked on high.

I am just so happy about this release. I haven't been visiting the movie score and soundtrack aficionado sites for the past few months and this just dropped out of the sky yesterday. My Pavlovian response was immediate.

Maybe they're alternate takes, and instead of putting the entire cue they decided to just have the parts that are different?

 

[Amasov]

I have the 1999 release. I'm curious, what music is missing on that one?

The track list hasn't been made available yet, but going by the information that's out there, these are the cues that are not on the Sony album:

Overture (the Sony album uses the album recording of "Ilia's Theme")
Goodbye Klingon
Goodbye Epsilon 9
Pre-Launch
TV Theme
Warp Point Eight
No Goodbyes
TV Theme (different take than the earlier one)
Warp Point Nine
Meet Vejur
Micro Exam
Spock Walk (the first part of it)
Inner Workings (the end of it)

Also, Goldsmith wrote about 20 minutes of music that was all thrown out and not used. That's all on this album and has never been officially available before. And then there's the fact that the original album and the 1999 Sony album used all sorts of different takes and rarely the takes used in the actual film, which this release does. To paraphrase Captain Decker, this is an almost totally new Star Trek - The Motion Picture album.

There is no comparison.

Neil

I don't know it a tenth as well as you do.

 

[Indysolo]

Why is the film version of "The Meld" counted among the alternates? I thought all the tracks on disc 1 and the start of 2 were the film versions.

The "film version" of "The Meld" has a beam overlay and awkward fade out. It was duplicated here so people can't say, "You left the beam out!". It's not something Goldsmith composed or intended, which is why it's a bonus track.

And I wonder what the "excerpts" from "The Force Field" and "The Cloud" are, and why they're separated out for the additional tracks (in disc 3, track 18).

You'll just have to hear those treats for yourself.

Neil

 

[cbspock]

Track list

And today TrekMovie can reveal the full track listing for the set…

DISC 1 (72:06)

THE FILM SCORE

1 Overture 1:43
2 Main Title/Klingon Battle 7:01
3 Total Logic 3:54
4 Floating Office 1:08
5 The Enterprise 6:02
6 Malfunction 1:30
7 Goodbye Klingon/Goodbye Epsilon Nine/Pre-Launch 2:10
8 Leaving Drydock 3:32
9 TV Theme/Warp Point Eight :50
10 No Goodbyes :53
11 Spock’s Arrival 2:03
12 TV Theme/Warp Point Nine 1:49
13 Meet V’Ger 3:06
14 The Cloud 5:05
15 V’Ger Flyover 5:01
16 The Force Field 5:07
17 Micro Exam 1:13
18 Games/Spock Walk 9:51
19 System Inoperative 2:03
20 Hidden Information 3:58
21 Inner Workings 4:04

DISC 2 (74:31)

THE FILM SCORE (cont’d)

1 V’Ger Speaks 4:04
2 The Meld/A Good Start 5:37
3 End Title 3:16

THE UNUSED EARLY SCORE

4 The Enterprise [early version] 6:05
5 Leaving Drydock [early version] 2:39
6 No Goodbyes [early version] :55
7 Spock’s Arrival [early version] 2:00
8 Micro Exam [early version] 1:15
9 Games [early version] 3:49
10 Inner Workings [early version] 4:43

THE 1979 ALBUM

11 Main Title/Klingon Battle 6:50
12 Leaving Drydock 3:29
13 The Cloud 5:00
14 The Enterprise 5:59
15 Ilia’s Theme 3:00
16 Vejur Flyover 4:56
17 The Meld 3:15
18 Spock Walk 4:17
19 End Title 3:16

DISC 3

ALTERNATES

1 Overture [long version] 2:50
2 Main Title [alternate take] 1:44
3 Total Logic [alternate take] 3:49
4 Malfunction [early take] 1:28
5 Goodbye Klingon [alternate take] :35
6 No Goodbyes [alternate take] :53
7 Spock’s Arrival [alternate take] 2:01
8 The Force Field [alternate take] 5:04
9 Micro Exam [alternate take] 1:14
10 Games [early synthesizer version] 3:48
11 Games [alternate take] 3:48
12 Inner Workings [alternate take] 4:05
13 V’Ger Speaks [alternate take] 4:03
14 The Meld [film version] 3:16
15 A Good Start [discrete] 2:27
16 Main Title [album take] 1:44

ADDITIONAL MUSIC (74:37)

17 Main Title [first raw takes] 7:21
18 The Force Field/ The Cloud [excerpts] 2:33
19 Beams and Synthesizer for V’Ger 4:04
20 Beams and Synthesizer for Ilia :59
21 Synthesizer for Main Theme 1:44
22 Main Theme From Star Trek: The Motion Picture [Bob James] 5:24
23 A Star Beyond Time [Shaun Cassidy] 2:43
24 Ilia’s Theme [alternate] 3:33
25 Theme From Star Trek: The Motion Picture [concert edit] 3:25

Total 3CD Time: 3:41:13


-Chris

 

[doubleohfive]

Indysolo beat you to it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Looks wonderful!

I already have the Bob James 45 rpm single, but not the Shaun Cassidy one (but I do have an LP with a female voice singing the song).

 

[cbspock]

Too bad they didn't put the MECO version of TMP theme / Klingon Battle on the disc

-Chris

 

[Indysolo]

Looks wonderful!

I already have the Bob James 45 rpm single, but not the Shaun Cassidy one (but I do have an LP with a female voice singing the song).

The Bob James track on this CD runs longer than the 45!

Neil

 

[Therin of Andor]

The Bob James track on this CD runs longer than the 45!

Yes, I noticed!

 

[arch101]

Jeez- and I've ONLY been waiting 33 years for this. Good thing I've stayed healthy!
I agree with the poster above who said its worth whatever they're asking. Wonder if we'll crash the site on the 5th?

 

[cbspock]

Cool video of the alternate track of the flyby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KrL27HLofX0

and the goldsmith interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TpcJPm80TPQ


-Chris

 

[RyanKCR]

I do hope to be able to get it. When can I log on to order it? I'm in the Eastern Timezone.

 

[xortex]

Does anyone know how much of the score Steiner contributed to? And it didn't win an oscar. What do you have to do to win an oscar? That proves it's who you know. The original Enterprise onceover music was interesting - the one that Wise said didn't have a theme - except for the fact that it was prominent there as well until Goldsmith played it on the piano for him and he realized Goldsmith was a giant and the real deal. Most of the time it's hard to see a giant like that close up. He was probably looking at his ear or a pimple on his nose. It was crude but very gallic much like Horner's score would be for TWOK to come but just so vastly superior. The man understood space and most certainly complex harmonies though he said the composing came rather easy to him but unquestionably extremely appropriate to ideas in a movie he had not even seen yet. He captured V'ger's essance better than the writers did. Like William's theme for ET, who Speilberg set film to rather than the reverse.

 

[Balrog]

It goes on sale at 1:00PM Pacific Time, so it's 4:00PM your time.

 

[RyanKCR]

Thank you. I hope I'm not working that day.

 

[Warped9]

It goes on sale June 5.

Here's a small preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIyAeS4IQ0

Neil

Oh, dear god, that's awful. So glad they didn't use that.