'Whole-film' soundtracks?

[evilC]

I could have posted this in Music, but I thought I might as well place it here.

Okay... so I enjoyed Hans Zimmer's music for 'Inception' so much that I got the OST. However, it turned out that very little of the music on the OST reflects what was essentially the 'incidental' music in the film, which is what I enjoyed so much.

Thus, I was wondering: is there a way to get hold of the entire musical 'track' of a film minus all the other film sounds? I'm sure such a thing must exist, but is simply rarely put in the public domain. Can they be obtained, though?

It's all those sequences where the music is just four rotating chords, on high-pitched strings that I loved. The last track on the OST - 'Time' - has the chord sequence that I'm after, but it's 'conventional' in its structure, whereas I want the more ambient stuff. See here, from 1'00'' in. That's the music I want ...on loop ...for the rest of my life! It felt like the music that Boards Of Canada have always dreamed of making, but have never achieved. Thus, when I got the soundtrack and it was all much more 'formal' in its track structure, I was rather disappointed.

[evilC]

'Whole-film' soundtracks?

(Oh, and talking of Hans Zimmer, he's about to commence a tour over here in the next few days. However, at £50+ for a ticket to the London shows, he can fuck right off!)

[Sits]

'Whole-film' soundtracks?

I love the music in O Brother Where Art Thou? but a couple of the versions on the soundtrack are not the same as the ones in the film. A specific example is the one the little girls sing, about working for their Lord. I think I'll Fly Away may be different too.

[ian.64]

'Whole-film' soundtracks?

The exclusion of certain pieces of music from a soundtrack release that appeared in the original score you heard in the movie is a commonplace complaint in film music fandom circles. What happens occasionally is that another version of the score appears down the line a few years after which has all the complete score on it. However, these are limited releases printed by non-mainstream companies who specialise solely in film score CDs for the avid film-music fan and collector, so if you wanted to have a complete score of Inception, best thing would be to wait a bit before googling 'Inception, complete OST' and see what happens.

Zimmer is both popular and highly commercial, so it may happen one day. But its a matter of waiting...

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

'Whole-film' soundtracks?

I've got a few sci-fi ones. The original soundtrack to the Phantom Menace is simply wonderful. As is the one to The Fifth Element.

[Moonlight Shadow]

'Whole-film' soundtracks?

There is the never-ending saga of 'The Keep' soundtrack, what was released had little to do with the actual music in the movie. A subject of frustration for TD fans although there is a decent bootleg of it now (thanks to someone doing some hard graft with an old laserdisc of the movie...)