Teasing the Korean

Tony Scott - S/T - Verve (yellow label promo, stereo) featuring "Ode to an Oud," "Homage to Lord Krishna" and "Swara Sulina."

Billy Strange - Secret Agent File - GNP (orange label, stereo)

Does this set include music from the sessions that didn't make it to LP?

Sinatra - Come Fly With Me - Capitol (rainbow, mono, UK pressing). First time hearing this in mono!

Milt Jackson - Second Nature: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy, mono). 70s twofer collection of 50s material.

Recently upgraded my copy of OTL on LP. I had a scratchy mono US pressing, but found a very clean UK mono pressing (not a fold-down). Very nice in mono. Also found a UK mono "Come Fly with Me" at the same time. I know this only in stereo, so I'm looking forward to the mono version. EDIT: Listening now. Boy, you really hear the marimba in the instrumental section of "Brazil." It is buried on the stereo version.

Great, now all I have to do is think of some WEA albums from the early- to -mid-80s that I need on CD.

I've had the LP on United Artists for ages. Some nice stuff on there. Music by Adolph Deutsch, who is probably most famous for scoring "The Maltese Falcon."

I am obssessed with Sonny Lester. Gotta love a guy who had a label as cool as Groove Merchant, and who also did "How to Strip for your Husband" and "How to Belly Dance for your Husband" albums.

What a great film - not at all what I was expecting. No spoilers here, but it kind of starts as a wacky comedy and quickly changes direction. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are both amazing in this film. Apparently, this movie was a big influence on "Madmen."

There's a part early on where Bobby takes the melody to the next chord, and Herbie still hangs on the E for a second (an inherent problem with repetitive tunes) and Herbie hears it and quickly catches up. I love moments like that when my heroes are humanized. It makes me like them even more.

DEATH TO VIDEODROME! LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

Love the MPS stuff, it has that decadent continental sound.

Howard Shore - Videodrome OST - Varese Sarabande (maroon label) I have been seeking this album for DECADES. Long Live the New Flesh!

This version of Herbie's main title from "Blow Up," recorded by B. Hutch with Herbie on the former's "Oblique" album, is pure perfection. Joe's drumming is perfect. This should have been a bonus track on the CD issue of the OST, but contractual issues may have prevented this from happening.

Adolph Deutsch - The Apartment OST - UA (black label, mono)

I hear all of you, but I'm respectfully disagreeing. The Beatles' reputation is solid - They're not going to lose any income because of your beloved Teasing the Korean.

That post was so nice, you had to post it twice! I get where you're coming from but I'll respectfully disagree.

Exactly, not radically different from my perspective. I respect your opinion, though. Also, I noted previously that there were plenty of bad tin pan alley lyrics. I was talking about Broadway and Hollywood lyricists, who were light years beyond the teen pop/rock stuff, of which the Beatles were a part. From a technical and a subject matter standpoint, there is nothing great about their early lyrics. I have not read the book that was being discussed earlier. I suspect that the author was really talking about Broadway and Hollywood lyricists as opposed to strictly tin pan alley lyricists.

I have and, respectfully, I think it's a solid lyric from a technical standpoint, and the subject matter is unusual for a pop tune of its time. It's a far cry from a lyric like, say, "If I Fell" or "No Reply," in which the narrator unwittingly becomes involved in bisexual love triangles because incorrect pronouns were used. For me, a great song has to be solid from both a melodic and lyrical standpoint. So while I can enjoy the teen pop of the early Beatles for what they are, they don't qualify as great songs. Good teen pop records, maybe, but not great songs. Again, things start to shift around the time of Rubber Soul, and there were still some bumps along the way, not only for the Beatles.

Like most teen pop in the rock era, the Beatles' lyrics were pretty juvenile up until Rubber Soul or so. That was standard, the usual teen angst stuff. While there were some lame tin pan alley lyrics, most of the good Broadway and Hollywood lyricists - I'm thinking people like Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, etc. - were light years beyond what was going on in rock/pop, in terms of technique, subtleties, references, rhyme schemes, etc. Rock/pop lyrics began to get more adventurous with the influence of Dylan and psychedelic drugs. While the imagery and subject matter may have surpassed the earlier generation, most rock/pop lyrics tended to remain pretty sloppy in terms of technique.

I have a version on Charly but it works on USA region players. It is decent quality but nothing like you would expect from, say, Criterion.

The tapes for "Fearless Vampire Killers" and "Rosemary's Baby" used for this set were supposedly Komeda's own 1/4" reel mono mixdowns. His widow apparently supplied them. RB features the actual film tracks. The album that came out on Dot, typical for the time, was a re-record, but the arrangements were identical (or close) to those used in the film. The track titles on RB CD are mixed up, and it omits music from the final 20 minutes or so of the film. The Dot album includes the incredible track "Panic," a variation on the main theme using ondioline for the melody, which does not show up on the box set CD (The track is listed but it's not really "Panic"). So, until we get an expanded RB remixed from the multi track masters, we'll need both sources to get an approximation of RB.

Fixed, thanks. Anyone know if the raw footage exists, and if more performances were filmed than we've seen?

I think I've asked this before. Does the original, unedited footage exist? Any chance of an expanded DVD set?