The ALEPH cd from lalo schifrin is the best I've heard.
It's a rerecord by Schifrin himself, but faithful to the original. Top Notch effort.

fswric, October 8, 2004; 2:35 AM

The Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/4njqk) tracklisting for the WB France CD seems identical to the Aleph records release, with 18 tracks. Do they have different material or is the WB France version just the imported version?

bustamanted, October 8, 2004; 9:40 PM

Thank you for your help. I'll definitely be picking up that Warner Japan release. Nothing can compete with that intro sequence music for those amazing opening credits.

bustamanted, October 9, 2004; 11:57 PM

The fact is, if it's the EXACT music from the film you're after, NONE of the
available versions contain it. The original (shorter) version (commonly
referred to as the "album" version) was itself a re-recording. The more recent
Aleph re-recording at least attempts to recreate the sound of the actual film
score ... for example, the film's Main Title has a percussive passage towards
the end that was never featured on the album version, but is quite faithfully
recreated on the Aleph CD.

stephenlister, October 10, 2004; 10:43 PM

Well, having received my 12 track WB Japan version today, I can safely say that I have wasted my money. This is not the music as heard in the film, but the "jazzier" version issued. I should have gotten the Aleph release...which was $10 cheaper and had most of the album plus the original score re-recording.

Here's hoping that Tower Records has a return policy for opened items.

bustamanted, October 16, 2004; 11:00 PM

To each his own.

American_Nightmare, October 17, 2004; 8:06 AM