Comments on: Escape From New York soundtrack reissued

By: beepbeep

beepbeep — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:46:00 +0000

Considering the movie, I would have to say that a cassette tape would be the way to go.

By: bobkat

bobkat — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:08:00 +0000

Most folks overlook it, but many of Carpenter’s film scores were co-written/produced with Alan Howarth, an extremely talented guy. Perhaps it’s just the politics of top billing, but everyone’s always raving about how great “Carpenter’s” music is, when in reality, most of it is “Carpenter/Howarth” music.

http://alanhowarth.com/credits.html

By: Snarf

Snarf — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Well, Morricone wasn’t completely pleased with how it turned out : “ ”I wrote an hour of music for The Thing, and I just can’t believe the way it was ignored,” he frowns.”

Link to snippet of interview with Morricone : http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=73647&forumID=1&archive=0

But then again, there IS more Morricone on the soundtrack album than in the movie.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Oh man, some audiophiles are starting to go at it in this thread!

[cow makes popcorn. puts bowl on floor for dog. leaves room. dog hears audiophiles, ignores popcorn bowl and leaves room.]

By: flyoverland

flyoverland — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:25:00 +0000

ESTL is so bad very few people live there anymore. anyone who can move has moved. North STL is about as bad. The Union Station rehab was a big deal for a few years, then started to wane. I hear they may be re-doing it again. I’m waiting for the movie “Escape From St. Louis.” They will film it in the western suburbs.

By: CognitiveDissident

CognitiveDissident — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:35:00 +0000

I think a high-fidelity FLAC sounds better than vinyl, and vinyl is more time consuming to digitise for your portable player than a CD or MP3 etc.

On the other hand, if the future is anything like Snake’s dytopian energy-starved prison island, you could still play a record with a turntable of some sort, a needle and a cardboard cone, when you’re taking a break from rescuing President Pleasence.
(Try doing that with a CD.)

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:31:00 +0000

Interesting, people are trying to get $50-$100 for the o.g. vinyl on ebay. Good luck with that..

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:00 +0000

Yeah, East St. Louis, and it still looks pretty Escape From New Yorky..

By: doggo

doggo — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:06:00 +0000

bleak & spooky

By: Engineer_

Engineer_ — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:00 +0000

You can listen to it on Spotify as well.

By: Aaron Swain

Aaron Swain — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:04:00 +0000

The expanded Escape From NY soundtrack has been available on iTunes for quite a while, and it sounds great – no re-mastering needed. This vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide and is selling for $27 a pop. While I do love vinyl (and everything Carpenter), I think the electronic version is the better deal…. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/escape-from-new-york-original/id100959866

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:51:00 +0000

It was done by Morricone, but Morricone pretty much use Carpenter’s original composition because he liked it so much.

By: flyoverland

flyoverland — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Little known fact. Escape from New York was actually filmed in St. Louis. Our downtown actually looked like that in many places then. The fight scene was filmed in the then abandoned Union Station which was later rehabbed into a tourist area.

By: Dave Lloyd

Dave Lloyd — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:32:00 +0000

Cor blimey, you’re right! I’d always thought it was his as all the others. Morricone produced a very sympathetic feel.

By: akbar56

akbar56 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:08:00 +0000

Well, The Thing soundtrack was done by Morricone, so it does have a specific quality. Most of his other great films (EFNY, BTiLC, Halloween, etc) John did the most of the music himself.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:04:00 +0000

we must delay the inevitable… HEY I HEAR CASSETTE TAPES ARE RILLY COOL, like way better than records, you can play them in a portable player and maybe hang strands of broken tape from the tips of your fixed-wheel bicycle handlebars, hipsters, because that’s cool eh?

By: Dave Lloyd

Dave Lloyd — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:01:00 +0000

I’d vote the soundtrack of The Thing as the best of John Carpenter’s but none really disappoint.

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:54:00 +0000

Please stop hyping vinyl. I haven’t yet filled the rec room with superb 1970s turntables, tonearms, cartridges and records purchased for pennies on the dollar. Once I have my stash you can turn the hipsters loose to bid prices into the stratosphere.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Those chandeliers.

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:38:00 +0000

I was so blown away by the EFNY main theme when the movie came out that I remember my 13-year-old self recording it through the air from our family TV during the closing credits when it aired on HBO. It (like the theme from Airwolf and Knight Rider) was pure synth bliss for my adolescent self.