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Lurking Huron0100
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 Posted - June 14 2005 : 01:53:25 AM
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Hi, I'm a newbie to "Last Of The Mohicans" having recently seen the film version for the first time in ten years and buying the soundtrack...
I was reading through the "Mohican" musings pages regarding the soundtrack and they made for fascinating reading. I was disappointed though that there was nothing included regarding the re-recording that Joel McNeely did for Varese Sarabande records.
There were many things that frustrated me about the album. Listened to from begining to end, the sequencing of the tracks is quite disjointed - I found it flowed better when I programmed the tracks to play in the following order:
1. Main Title
2. Elk Hunt
3. The British Arrival
4. Cora
5. River Walk & Discovery
6. The Glade Part II
7. Fort Battle
8. The Courier
9. The Kiss
10. Munro's Office / Stockade
11. Parley
12. Massacre / Canoes
13. Pieces Of A Story
14. Promentory
15. Top Of The World
16. I Will Find You
Even so... I was also frustrated that several tracks were mixed differently from the versions I'd heard in the film and other music from the film was missed out entirely.
Joel McNeely is a composer I respect and I liked the idea of him rerecording "The Last Of The Mohicans" score. I rather hoped that he'd dig out some of the music that had been left out of the first soundtrack. Pieces like:
"The House In Rose Valley"
and
"The Glade Part One"
I also hoped that the tracks "River Walk & Discovery" and "Pieces Of A Story" would be broken up into their respective parts and spaced out over the course of the album - with the tracks presented in chronological order.
I looked at the tracklisting and was disappointed. It seems they've just done a straightforward re-recording of the Jones material with a few of Edelman's tracks tossed in.
I wonder, what does everyone here think of the re-recorded version of the "Last Of The Mohicans" soundtrack? How does the sound quality compare? Which do you guys think is better - the original or the rerecording?
I've tried reading the reviews of online-soundtrack-critics but they all seem to have a gripe against the original. I want to know what the fans think.
What are your thoughts about the
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Light of the Moon
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 Posted - June 15 2005 : 2:12:52 PM
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I have to agree with you. I always thought that the soundtrack was a bit choppy . It starts with something awe inspiring , takes to you swooning , and then leads to war .
I would love to see it reorganized and re-recorded. |
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Yankee
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 Posted - January 13 2006 : 6:01:22 PM
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I downloaded the soundtrack into iTunes and have been playing it on my iPod. I honestly didn't know about the seperate music score until I found it, quite by accident, in the iTunes music store today. I took the combination of the two CDs and created my own, with the scores in the order that I knew they were supposed to go.
By the way, I am not advertising for Apple here, but I have to tell you...the LOTM sounds AWESOME on my iPod! I am hearing parts of these pieces come out that we've never heard before. Absolutely amazing and will always be my favorite! |
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Light of the Moon
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Posted - January 19 2006 : 12:04:40 PM
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Odd...I would have thought this topic to get more responses than this.  |
I live in my own little world - but that's okay, they know me here! |
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Lurking Huron4775
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Posted - January 20 2006 : 10:10:42 AM
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Ummmm...sorry to be ignorant, but....what was wrong with the first soundtrack? I.e., why has someone fixed what wasn't broken and in the process taken us one step farther from what is true and original? What is the purpose of that? I must be missing something here.
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Yankee
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Posted - January 24 2006 : 09:21:54 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Lurking Huron4775
Ummmm...sorry to be ignorant, but....what was wrong with the first soundtrack? I.e., why has someone fixed what wasn't broken and in the process taken us one step farther from what is true and original? What is the purpose of that? I must be missing something here.
Qasimoto
Actually, it's not uncommon at all, especially when an orchestra wants to play their version of the piece. I remember quite a few movie scores being adapted. In this case, the National Royal Scottish Orchestra released a CD of it. There are some parts on it that are not on the official soundtrack and it is interesting to hear their renditions. I think it's great that we now have two CDs and it just reaffirms why LOTM is one of the greatest musical movie scores ever produced. |
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The re-recording of the soundtrack
