Just got mine in the mail. Be careful removing the discs for the first time. They are very tight in the hubs and hard to remove. I could easily see someone snapping a disc in half trying to remove it.
So far, sounds wonderful!
...and yet it's the one that has excited me the most on this set, and I know why. It's from my favorite episode, one that I've watched many times, and am thus really familiar with the score. So it's like an old friend.
But I agree that some of these other scores are just epic.
Thanks. I've always guessed that for home media purposes, fewer track numbers are preferable, and that would surely be true for an LP. Trying to place a stylus on, say, track 22 is problematic. I'm not sure that CDs necessarily need that, although I know of the limit of 99 tracks.
Exploring Disc One at the moment. Sounds superb as always.
Neil, question.
Many soundtrack albums are assembled with multiple cues in one track index number. Are these cues found together on the tape reels, or are they assembled into bunches by you, the compilers?
My Volume 2 CD set is in the shipping process, and has begun the bizarre hopping around the state that sometimes happens. I've been quoted as getting the set on Tuesday, but it's been within about 40 miles of home earlier today (Ybor City). Then it shipped out to the Gulf coast (Sarasota) (we're...
If you're curious about tracked scores, check out a book by Martin Grams on THE TIME TUNNEL. He lists every cue used, the composer therof, and the length used for that instance.
It's close to perfect, but when referring to outside cues, he neglects to list which movie score it is from. A good...
Anything with a British pedigree could be subject to PAL speed-up somewhere along the line. I have some PRISONER soundtrack discs with some of the tracks lifted from the actual shows being too fast.
Thanks for the explanations, and yes, I meant alternate opening. Sorry for the typo.
It's truly exciting for this fan, anyway, to hear not only the familiar cues from the show, but to also hear those that were composed for the show and NOT used, plus these variations that may never have gone...
Question for @Neil S. Bulk or anyone who knows for sure,
Within THE TIME TUNNEL soundtrack 3-CD collection from La-La-Land, a few tracks are included for which there's no real explanation. I refer to tracks like:
Disc One: 05 Tony's First Trip
Disc Two: 01 Tony's First Trip (Show Dub)
Disc...
You know, I have newfound appreciation for not only the composers of this kind of material but the music editors who worked on these shows and movies. It's all well and good when you're composing and maybe even directing the music as the film plays in front of you, but the music editors couldn't...
Nice write-up. I can't find anything that I'd disagree on. But I must mention Lyn Murray's "stalking" cues from "One Way To The Moon". To me, these are as memorable as anything I ever heard in STAR TREK, and they were used in several other episodes, so the familiarity is there.
Here's a little better organized post about the various TIME TUNNEL books/publications.
The first one I ever encountered was from Alpha Control Press. They were an outfit that sold a lot of Sci-Fi related stuff back in the pre-Internet days. They'd send catalogs and newsletters about their...
That book was sort of a repress of a title that Mr. Anchors had done before. The earlier one was an odd book with the Time Tunnel pages attached upside down to the Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea pages, so that each half could have a title cover all its own.
When that later edition came out, I...
Just for fun, I dug out my video of the unaired pilot (it's on both the US DVDs and the Blu-rays from the UK) and listened to the closing credits.
The closing theme on that starts in an unusual place for this piece of music. It starts at the big swell before the rhythmic part kicks in. Then...
Great. I was wondering about the unaired version of the main theme. My jaw dropped when I first put that DVD in my player and heard a different take of the theme music. There are subtle differences, but noticeable to a long-time fan who'd never heard it before then.
Ironically, while I have my set (and love it), I got a notice today from La La Land that I hadn't completed a purchase. I went in and there was a TIME TUNNEL CD set in my cart. I don't know how that got there, but I was so anxious, anything's possible. I've since emptied my cart.
My TIME TUNNEL CD set arrived in Saturday's mail and it's a real joy. My congratulations to the team that put this together - my opinion is that they got EVERYTHING right, down to the images and logos used, even the fonts match up with the TV shows episode titles.
The sound is superb and the...