Star Trek Soundtracks
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Well, I bit the bullet. After searching almost daily I have finally bought the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection Volume 1 at a ‘reasonable’ price. I still paid more than I wanted to for it but I got it at less than half the price that everyone else is selling it for currently, so considering the going rate I got a bargain. I paid about 3-4 times its original sales price + shipping. 
I also notice that Star Trek Voyager Collection Volume 1 is now also sold out at Lala Land. Luckily I have that one.
I also notice that Star Trek Voyager Collection Volume 1 is now also sold out at Lala Land. Luckily I have that one.
Well, my latest (extremely rare) soundtrack has arrived! Does anybody know why the barcode has a hole in it? This album is still sealed and looks new?
Just look at these *amazing* episode soundtracks that I get to listen to now though!
You have to admit that is one mighty fine selection of episodes and their scores.
I cannot listen to this at the moment though, I still do not have a CD player.
Just look at these *amazing* episode soundtracks that I get to listen to now though!
You have to admit that is one mighty fine selection of episodes and their scores.
I cannot listen to this at the moment though, I still do not have a CD player.
That makes sense, I did not buy this one direct from Lalaland Records as I have done with all my other sets. The hole is an annoyance more than anything.
I was wondering why there is not much music from Way of the Warrior on either of the DS9 Collection sets. I have a few tracks on the Final Frontier Collection and also the 30th Anniversary set though which I think covers most of that episode. I actually forgot how good the score from The Die is Cast is, from which WOtW is very derivative (also Generations). Which came first - Generations or The Die is Cast? 
One of my favorite tracks so far on my new set is The Die is Cast: Demolished/Escape/Hard to Digest which is a relatively long track at 8:25.
Also, some of What we Leave Behind’s score is spine tinglingly terrifying! It never stood out to me in the episode itself originally but on my car speaker surround sound it is quite outstanding.
WWLB also has some beautiful tracks, listening to Finality/The Way you Look Tonight now.
One of my favorite tracks so far on my new set is The Die is Cast: Demolished/Escape/Hard to Digest which is a relatively long track at 8:25.
Also, some of What we Leave Behind’s score is spine tinglingly terrifying! It never stood out to me in the episode itself originally but on my car speaker surround sound it is quite outstanding.
WWLB also has some beautiful tracks, listening to Finality/The Way you Look Tonight now.
Looks like La-La Land is re-relasing their TOS collection as a series of 2-disc sets called the 1701 Collection. Limited to 1701 units each. It's using the same masters as the 2012 complete collection.
The first one has music from the second, third, and fifth discs of the 2012 collection - the second and third discs in their entirety plus The City on the Edge of Forever from the fifth disc. The rest of the fifth disc is library music so I'm curious to see how they'll handle that or if they'll just skip it. They also skipped past the first disc in the 2012 collection, but that's identical to GNP/Crescendo's TOS Volume 1 soundtrack (The Cage/Where No Man Has Gone Before) so I imagine they may simply not include it in the 1701 Collection.
The first one has music from the second, third, and fifth discs of the 2012 collection - the second and third discs in their entirety plus The City on the Edge of Forever from the fifth disc. The rest of the fifth disc is library music so I'm curious to see how they'll handle that or if they'll just skip it. They also skipped past the first disc in the 2012 collection, but that's identical to GNP/Crescendo's TOS Volume 1 soundtrack (The Cage/Where No Man Has Gone Before) so I imagine they may simply not include it in the 1701 Collection.
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I hadn't realized those were newly-sourced cues. I thought they were alternate cues. Time to re-organize my TOS playlist!
Heh, I thought they were just re-releases, I snagged that set for the TAS music so didn’t pay great attention to the rest of it.
Lakeshore Records has released the soundtrack from SNW's "Subspace Rhapsody" today! Careful with that link; the song titles are listed. I don't think they're overly spoilery, but don't click if you're cautious.
Meanwhile, I got my 1701 Collection Volume 1 a couple weeks ago and it's excellent, as all of the La-La Land releases have been. The sound quality is amazing for a 56 year old show. The liner notes are quite informative. It's also interesting to see where some of the often-used cues came from in the first place, like Ruk Protect / Ruk Attacks from "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and several cues from "Charlie X" which I remember in other episodes. (Others, like the music from "The Corbomite Maneuver", were more obvious in their source episode.)
Meanwhile, I got my 1701 Collection Volume 1 a couple weeks ago and it's excellent, as all of the La-La Land releases have been. The sound quality is amazing for a 56 year old show. The liner notes are quite informative. It's also interesting to see where some of the often-used cues came from in the first place, like Ruk Protect / Ruk Attacks from "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and several cues from "Charlie X" which I remember in other episodes. (Others, like the music from "The Corbomite Maneuver", were more obvious in their source episode.)
I might buy this soundtrack before I watch the episode. I may enjoy the episode more.
La-La Land's got two more entries in the 1701 Collection since the last post: Volume 2 and Volume 3.
Volume 2 largely completes the re-release of Season 1's music from the 15-disc collection, though it omits a few library cues and the sound effects. It also includes the first Season 2 disc from that collection (Catspaw/Friday's Child). Unfortunately, it also omits Nichelle Nichols' Beyond Antares. According to a post on FSM, they "didn't want to deal with clearances again" for some of the vocal tracks, which is a shame (especially since Uhura is on the cover!). On the plus side, the post does confirm that they're using the new masters released in the 50th Anniversary Collection where appropriate.
Volume 3 jumps around and collects most of the remaining Fred Steiner music (from Discs 8 and 12 of the 15-disc collection - everything but a few Season 2 library cues on Disc 10 that were re-released on the 50th Anniversary Collection from the new masters). It does include the missing track from Spock's Brain that was included on the 50th Anniversary Collection, so we might get those library tracks on another release.
They're planning on three more releases in this collection, which looks like more than enough room to collect everything that hasn't been re-released yet. Based on that FSM post, it seems like the major omissions aside from vocal tracks will be a number of cues from Where No Man Has Gone Before, Amok Time, and The Doomsday Machine that GNP/Crescendo doesn't include on their releases.
Volume 2 largely completes the re-release of Season 1's music from the 15-disc collection, though it omits a few library cues and the sound effects. It also includes the first Season 2 disc from that collection (Catspaw/Friday's Child). Unfortunately, it also omits Nichelle Nichols' Beyond Antares. According to a post on FSM, they "didn't want to deal with clearances again" for some of the vocal tracks, which is a shame (especially since Uhura is on the cover!). On the plus side, the post does confirm that they're using the new masters released in the 50th Anniversary Collection where appropriate.
Volume 3 jumps around and collects most of the remaining Fred Steiner music (from Discs 8 and 12 of the 15-disc collection - everything but a few Season 2 library cues on Disc 10 that were re-released on the 50th Anniversary Collection from the new masters). It does include the missing track from Spock's Brain that was included on the 50th Anniversary Collection, so we might get those library tracks on another release.
They're planning on three more releases in this collection, which looks like more than enough room to collect everything that hasn't been re-released yet. Based on that FSM post, it seems like the major omissions aside from vocal tracks will be a number of cues from Where No Man Has Gone Before, Amok Time, and The Doomsday Machine that GNP/Crescendo doesn't include on their releases.
Only three more? I knew that The Cage and Where No Man... had some rights issues or something and thus wouldn't carry over from the original 15-disc collection, which I sadly missed. By that math, I was thinking there should be seven volumes overall at 2 discs each.
But be that as it may, this is a wonderful collection for those who didn't get the original back then, or, as I did, didn't take the opportunity to get all the episodic scores when they were out as digital releases. Listening to them just goes to show that, movies aside, great Star Trek scores kinda died off when Ron Jones stopped doing TNG, or respectively Berman issued his decree that scores going forward had to be sonic wallpaper. Just released got one of the DS9 collections from LaLaLand, and boy is that a chore to sit through. Bland as bland can be.
You also need to subtract The Doomsday Machine and Amok Time.
Correct. The rights to those four episodes are still held by GNP/Crescendo, which has only released them as incomplete faux-stereo mixes (as opposed to the full original mono releases in the 15 disc set). Taking out the vocal tracks and some other odds and ends (such as special effects) and putting slightly more music on each disc than the 15 disc set is enough to remove another disc and get the rest on 12.
I agree that early TNG had some of the best scores of Berman-era Trek (McCarthy had some good stuff in the early seasons too) and his decision to dull down the music was shortsighted and dumb, but I do think that there are some bangers in the later years. A few that come to mind quickly: The soundtrack to Dark Frontier is a great action piece. Year of Hell has a beautiful track when Janeway decides to stay on Voyager. For the Uniform had a fun track when they're leaving the station manually. Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang is a nice period piece. They seemed to let up even more in Enterprise, which has some good stuff such as Regeneration (composed by Brian Tyler, who went on to much bigger things) and much of the fourth season (especially In a Mirror Darkly).
That said, there is a lot of generic filler in there. You just have to find the gems among the muck.
I see. That's too bad because these are two classics.
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