New, 14-disc Ron Jones TNG soundtrack box set!
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Anyone who buys this is already gonna have the BOBW soundtrack anyway. That's currently the only Trev TV soundtrack I own.
Yeah, come to think of it, it's actually nice that it won't render my existing BOBW CD obsolete or redundant. Just think of that one as a 15th disc that came out two decades early.
Granted Whill, just thought it was worthy of mention. Yes, I do already own the GNP "Best of Both Worlds"
Jones and Rick Berman had different philosophies of scoring. Berman believed the music should be minimally melodic and not stand out, and Jones refused to go along with that.
It was noted in various interviews at the time with McCarthy and Jones that Berman didn't want the show to sound "tracked", i.e. that the same cues and themes were being dropped in whenever a certain character or situation appeared onscreen. This was of course a reaction to the shadow of TOS, where, love it or hate it, those recycled music cues for fights, the ladies and nerve pinches became part of that show's style and part of a source of ridicule. Berman wanted TNG to be taken seriously as a drama that happened to be science fiction, thus he wanted to the music to function as it often does in your standard nighttime lawyer or doctor dramas, except without the needle dropping of pop songs.
The irony is that in its later seasons, especially when it was just McCarthy and Chattaway alternating, the sameness of the scores from week to week gave a sense that show was indeed simply re-using the same cues from last week. And I say this with the greatest amount of respect for both these two composers and also really liking a lot of what they composed for TNG, regardless of the restrictions placed on them.
The irony is that in its later seasons, especially when it was just McCarthy and Chattaway alternating, the sameness of the scores from week to week gave a sense that show was indeed simply re-using the same cues from last week. And I say this with the greatest amount of respect for both these two composers and also really liking a lot of what they composed for TNG, regardless of the restrictions placed on them.
Would be cool to have, but way too expensive for my budget.
Just found out about this this morning! Very interesting.
Haven't decided whether or not to get it yet.
Hope it does well, as it may result in other sutch box sets being released.
I'd realy like to see 1 for DS9 season 4 onwards released. I can also think of more than a few cues from Voyager and Enterprise that I'd very mutch like to have.
Haven't decided whether or not to get it yet.
Hope it does well, as it may result in other sutch box sets being released.
I'd realy like to see 1 for DS9 season 4 onwards released. I can also think of more than a few cues from Voyager and Enterprise that I'd very mutch like to have.
This Ron Jones-specific project is a labor of love from Lukas Kendall of FSM, as he stated in his post at their message board, so I am not sure it will be followed by similar box sets for the other series. It would indeed be great to hear some of those scores on disc from the latter seasons of DS9 and VOY. I know that the great guys who run the specialty soundtrack labels such as FSM and LaLa Land would like to do it, but it's all a matter of negotiating with the studio...
I found out about this a couple of weeks ago and think it's fantastic but like most others probably out of my price range unless I get it for Christmas.
I imagine that with even with 5000 units, this set will stay in stock for months to come. Due to its price and niche appeal, it will not go as fast as the recent PREDATOR and SPACE CAMP limited editions. FSM's box sets for SUPERMAN and Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Collection are both still around, several years after their initial release. No worries, take time to save your pennies!
I WILL be getting this, and pre-ordering it as soon as possible. I LOVE Jones's music, some of Trek's best.
It appears that the extended liner notes are already online!
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/box05_intro.html
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/box05_intro.html
And here it is: http://filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm?cdID=451
Boy, those samples are good.
Neil
Boy, those samples are good.
Neil