[havershaw]

@ScoJo ughhhhhh, that’s terrible!

[inksb]

We all love Horror films around here but that right there is real life horror. That sucks so much Scojo. Hope it get's resolved easily and quickly.

[ScoJo]

Just kinda shocked that a label would package so poorly, but in all fairness this has literally spent a period of time laying submerged in a puddle! :O

[ScoJo]

To make up for the above fiasco, I'm crazy thrilled that this gem (which I teased earlier) arrived from Japan today in beautiful condition. Can't believe I finally have this in the racks, and to think that way back in the day (pre internet) this pressing was talked about as if it was perhaps just a myth.

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[inksb]

To make up for the above fiasco, I'm crazy thrilled that this gem (which I teased earlier) arrived from Japan today in beautiful condition. Can't believe I finally have this in the racks, and to think that way back in the day (pre internet) this pressing was talked about as if it was perhaps just a myth.

Professor ScoJo, educate on this. I am unfamiliar with it.

[ScoJo]

To make up for the above fiasco, I'm crazy thrilled that this gem (which I teased earlier) arrived from Japan today in beautiful condition. Can't believe I finally have this in the racks, and to think that way back in the day (pre internet) this pressing was talked about as if it was perhaps just a myth.

Professor ScoJo, educate on this. I am unfamiliar with it.

Come sit closer, young gelfling... by the fire...

So I can't tell whether you mean on the film too, but that's unlikely - in any case, this is Michael Small's brilliant funk/suspense score to the classic 1971 Jane Fonda/Donald Sutherland murder mystery thriller.
The legend goes that this ost LP was bootlegged by someone in a production house, off hours, and it was sold in 1977 in unknown quantity. No track titles or markers, just two slabs of Small at his best.
It's always been hard to find, I certainly never saw one in the wild and as I say it had a near-mythic status for me in the days before search engines and online after market.
Harkit Records booted their own release (almost certainly from a copy of this OG vinyl) in the 90s, itself not easy to find - I sold mine to a pal to part fund scoring this beauty. A couple of CD boots followed.
An official CD release by FSM in 2007 paired it with All The President's Men.

You'd recognise the fantastic, eerie main theme from it's appearance in Homecoming S1. The entire score is varied and weird and seventies-funky as all hell - the track 'Bree's Abandon' is a stone cold floor filler.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1ViyrRGXI

Small is one of my all time fave thriller composers, lots of his scores are still unreleased on wax - Parallax View, Night Moves, Marathon Man, All Presidents Men, Star Chamber... on and on, incredible scores.

[texasvinyl]

Nice!!

Ink this one was a bootleg. But made with legit stampers on the sly or something like that, I have a terrible memory.

I do see these in the wild with some regularity but always with a huge price. There was one I was eyeing for a half price books coupon day, but then covid happened and I became a hermit.

[Hatter313]

Marathon Man hunt is real....

I have the CD split with Parallax View. every now and then i hit a 70's thriller kick and small is a BIG part of that.

[inksb]

Come sit closer, young gelfling... by the fire...

Doumo arigatou gozaimasu

An interesting story and one that makes me a little more jealous of this. I actually haven't seen the film so I'm assuming it's something I should remedy?

[ScoJo]

Come sit closer, young gelfling... by the fire...

Doumo arigatou gozaimasu

An interesting story and one that makes me a little more jealous of this. I actually haven't seen the film so I'm assuming it's something I should remedy?

The movie is slow, dark, sinister, kinky and fascinating in that way that the best of 70s post-Watergate/Nam Hollywood cinema does so brilliantly. Both Fonda and Sutherland are career best, and this was the start of an incredible 70s run by director Alan J Pakula (all scored by Michael Small)
I saw many of them as a kid and (along with the writings of Jim Tompson and Harlan Ellison) feel they had the most lingering effects on my worldview.

[zuko]

Fonda … career best

The club scene = 🔥

[havershaw]

Wow. What I’ve heard of that Klute score is great. Too bad it’s not easier to find. Congrats, @ScoJo!

Today’s delivery:

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[static14]

Sutherland is good in everything he does, Jane Fonda is brilliant in Klute.

[Hatter313]

Sutherland is good in everything he does, Jane Fonda is brilliant in Klute.

My biggest problem with klute is that it’s honestly her movie, not his...why is it called Klute. He’s great in it, but I feel like he’s a supporting character.

[static14]

Fair point.

[CrossedPete]

My city has been in lockdown since mid November. Only essential shopping was allowed. Today I was finally able to visit some local record stores again. I went a little crazy but couldn’t help my self

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[ScoJo]

Good stuff Pete. Big fan of those lesser-discussed TD scores, and love Razor's Edge/Nitzsche - that main theme! <3 <3 <3

[EvanCampbell]

To make up for the above fiasco, I'm crazy thrilled that this gem (which I teased earlier) arrived from Japan today in beautiful condition. Can't believe I finally have this in the racks, and to think that way back in the day (pre internet) this pressing was talked about as if it was perhaps just a myth.

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Awesome grab Scott...love that score.

[zuko]

My city has been in lockdown since mid November. Only essential shopping was allowed. Today I was finally able to visit some local record stores again. I went a little crazy but couldn’t help my self.

Love the sleeves of those recent Écoutez Le Cinéma releases, so clean 😍

[static14]

Won’t get a chance to spin it until tonight.

[ScoJo]

Wow. it's real!

[Mateo Sanboval]

[havershaw]

A pair of Guido and Maurizio DeAngelis scores.

Kinda slept on these originally but i was lucky enough to get Il Grande Racket locally yesterday, and then Roma Violenta arrived today (had to use eBay to find a local seller for that).

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[horrorfromthetv]

Won’t get a chance to spin it until tonight.

Mine shipped

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[Bezulsqy]

I have some unpacking to do.