I have yet to listen to mine, I have only just received them. But I am curious to know, did anybody else get a spare booklet, if so why? I dont know why I got a spare booklet. It looks almost identical to the one sealed within the box set.

TheSaint.786, September 13, 2008; 9:40 AM

Hello,

On the SAE website they said some of the booklets were printed improperly. On some booklets the printing was crooked and some were cutt wrong, So they reprinted the booklets and sent the new ones with the orders, Thus the delay in shipping.

Best Regards,
David Phoenix, AZ.

deg63iami, September 13, 2008; 10:18 AM

I got a spare booklet as well. However, both the spare booklet and the booklet in the sealed box display the asymetrical cutting (the spare booklet is even more asymetrical though). I can live with it, as the booklet doesn't look that impressive anyway. All in all I have to say the box does show its "budget box" character. The clamshell boxes fall apart and crumble almost from just viewing them. Sticking to the jewel case dogma was not a good measure here.

Having said that, I find it hard to single out a single score - I found almost all enjoyable. It's a great box despite the shortcomings mentioned above. Contents over packaging.
OK, John Addison was some kind of discovery to me. Never had a score by him before and was pleasantly surprised.

handstand, September 13, 2008; 11:14 AM

Does anybody knows if they'll sell some of those scores separatly?

Best regards,
Eric, France.

boutin.eh, September 13, 2008; 3:26 PM

I'm still waiting for my box set so I can only quote those favorites that I've heard & enjoyed in the films -- The Fortune Cookie, The Apartment, the Hefti, the Addison, Billion Dollar Brain, The Fugitive Kind. Some of the other scores will be interesting revelations for me.

"Does anybody knows if they'll sell some of those scores separatly?"

Eric--no, as Lukas Kendall from FSM explained, they had to acquire one licence for all the titles at once and releasing them together in one box was the only economical way to go. So sadly no separate releases.

-Dorian

42zaphod, September 13, 2008; 4:54 PM

David

Thanks for letting me know about the booklet. I can't see the difference between the two though, but hey, who am I to argue; I got a spare booklet.

Eric - Some of these scores are available on vinyl but not all. Which in particular were you interested in as I have some vinyls.

TheSaint.786, September 13, 2008; 5:45 PM

It's a hell of a boxset.

Can someone tell me, does the booklet credit the blues singer on "Let Me Out" from "The Fugitive Kind"?


victoravalentine, September 14, 2008; 9:29 PM

"Unknown Singer."

By the way, all the notes for this and the other big box set of westerns are posted on line at www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/.

weavercp, September 15, 2008; 2:31 PM