OK, So I have made a few posts here in the past with some, How can I put it? Interesting recordings of TV and Film theme tunes. So I thought I'd create a thread where I can place all the, for the want of a better word, Musical pieces. Some of the links here will be from my other posts, but it will be good to keep them all in one place.

"Beware all who look below, for ye shall hear all manner of horrors"

Right, so I have warned you all, any complaints about going mad or blood coming from your ears are null and void, in other words, It's your own fault ;)


The London Starlight Orchestra plays The Untouchables and Other Movie Hits

Ah the delights of the London Starlight Orchestra, AKA A Close Call, Andromeda Project, The Broadway Stage Orchestra, Hollywood Studio Orchestra, The London Studio Orchestra, The New Star Orchestra, The Philippe L'Auran Royal Club Disco Stars, Space Magic, Star Inc., The Studio London Orchestra and may well they use these aliases, for the obvious reasons. I do not want to be done for slander so I will make the next statement "this orchestra a superb in their realisation of the musical masterpieces that they perform" ..... enough said. Check out the "Raiders of the Lost Ark March" a delight in anyone's books.



TRACK LIST

1 The Untouchables 3:16
2 Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Raiders March 2:49
3 Beverly Hills Cop 2:58
4 Full Metal Jacket - Sniper 3:25
5 Chariots Of Fire 3:41
6 The Mission 2:48
7 Desperately Seeking Susan - Into The Groove 3:17
8 Superman 3:43
9 A Star Is Born (Evergreen) 3:18
10 Diamonds Are Forever 3:35
11 The Never Ending Story 3:39
12 An Officer And A Gentleman - Up Where We Belong 4:06
13 Antarctica 4:10
14 Xanadu 3:28
15 Bilitis 3:44
16 Nobody Does It Better 5:00
17 Running Scared - Sweet Freedom 6:02
18 Moonlighting 2:37
Total time 62:53

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"Like a Nightmare more shall appear"


TELEVISION'S GREATEST HITS (Previously in it's own thread, but placed here for convenience)

OK, maybe not terrible, but certainly...err...an acquired taste. This disc contains possibly the Funkiest version of the Star Trek and Superman (TV Series) themes you'll ever hear and the most turgid version of Hill Street Blues. I'm don't know what Orchestra performed these pieces, and maybe it was a 13 year old in his bedroom on his Casio CZ1

If you like to hear different versions of classic TV themes then this is the disc for you. If you want to hear the themes as they should be then this is NOT the disc for you :D



TRACK LIST

1 Miami Vice
2 L.A. Law
3 M.A.S.H.
4 Cheers
5 Fame
6 Dynasty
7 Happy Days
8 Dallas
9 Star Trek
10 Quincy
11 The Rockford Files
12 Magnum
13 Moonlighting
14 Relayance Of Spies
15 Superman (T.V. Theme)
16 Kojak
17 The Muppet Show
18 Hawaii 5-0
19 The High Chapperal
20 Shaft
21 Bonanza
22 Hill Street Blues
23 The "A" Team
24 Charlie's Angels

Released on the Double Play label

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BLOCKBUSTING THEMES (Previously in it's own thread, but placed here for convenience)

So do you want to hear John Williams ET theme played on a synth, Dirty Harry on a Fairlight, Halloween on a Casio? Well maybe not quite that bad ;). The orchestra on this CD is The London Theatre Orchestra. The only reference I can find on this band of merry minstrels is on LastFM who say:
"The London Theatre Orchestra are a British Orchestral group that concentrate on playing theme songs from a variety of well known films, shows or genres."

An interesting CD I picked up for 50 pence in a charity shop today. Hear these tunes as you've never heard them before. I have ripped this disc via dB Poweramp Converter as MP3 V0 at extreme quality (which is more than can be said about the content, I'm not selling this am I LOL)



Track Listing:

1 Friday The 13th Written-By � Manfredini* 3:31
2 ET: Extra Terrestrial Written-By � Williams* 2:56
3 Blade Runner Written-By � Vangelis 3:55
4 Match Of The Day Written-By � Stoller* 1:20
5 Live And Let Die Written-By � McCartney* 2:54
6 Psycho Written-By � Herrmann* 3:34
7 Emmerdale Written-By � Hatch* 1:48
8 Columbo Written-By � Goldenberg* 2:09
9 Miami Vice Written-By � Hammer* 2:01
10 The Spy Who Loved MeWritten-By � Sager*,Hamlisch 2:47
11 Hill St. Blues Written-By � Post* 3:52
12 Carrie Written-By � Donaggio* 2:53
13 NYPD Blue Written-By � Post* 2:12
14 The Exorcist Written-By � Oldfield* 4:05
15 Halloween Written-By � Carpenter* 5:00
16 Dirty Harry Written-By � Schifrin* 2:41
17 Silence Of The Lambs Written-By � Shore* 2:49
18 The Fly Written-By � Shore* 3:57
19 Home And Away Written-By � Perjanik* 1:22
20 Neighbours Written-By � Trent*, Hatch*2:45

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Space Themes

OK Another Crappic...sorry... Classic album for you from those masters of music mayhem Double Play. Released exactly 17 years ago, this has to go down as a biggie baddy. Tracks 1 to 5 are your disco theme classics. Do you remember back in 1977 when Meco released the disco version of the Star Wars Theme? of course you do it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1, 1977 in the US and stayed there for 2 weeks, it even got to number 7 in the UK charts. Yes that's the one, do you remember how bad that was? Well you haven't heard bad. Listen to track 2 and that's bad.

In 1896 Richard Strauss, composed Also Sprach Zarathustra, little did he know that it would be turned into a disco theme 99 years later in 1995 as heard on track number 4. I'm sure if he'd been composing in 1995 this is how he would have done it!!!!

Track 5 is our first Star Trek outing on this little jem, and I can see the red shirts all boogieing on down to this little number. I'm sure I could hear Spock playing the Vulcan Lute or is that Vulcan Lyre in the background or maybe I'm just a liar ;)

Another mistake on this CD (apart form the mistake of actually releasing it), which I have reproduced so that you can experience the full crappiness of this release, is that they transposed tracks 6 and 7 so when you think you are listening to The Empire Strikes Back you are in fact listening to Battlestar Galactica. The Star Wars theme hear is truly heart chillingly bad. I would vote this as the worst version of the Star Wars theme of all time, unless you know different. If you do have an even worse one then please post a link in this thread:)

Track 8 is just brilliant. For a change the music is good... No really, I mean it. It is played really well. Even the singing is....passable...well sort of, but they have actually reproduced the the speech sound bites from the movie. These are pretty bad. The best bits are Dales lines, which are clearly spoken by a man then pitch shifted. I think flash will be in for a shock on his wedding night, as this Dale has something other woman do not have! LOL.

Track 9 says it's The Return of the Jedi, Personally I would have really titled this Luke and Leias theme as opposed The RotJ.

Track 10 is the Wrath of Khan. When it starts you think it could be a John Carpenter track, however, it soon bursts into life, and whizzes along at such a speed that you feel that the money in the studios electric meter was about to run out and they had to complete it in double quick time. As with the Star Wars theme I have to vote this the worst version of The WoK theme I have heard, go on..prove me wrong.... I dare you.

Track 11 is the Cantina band from Star Wars. There is something intrinsically wrong about this track, a certain discord between the instruments. I must admit this track makes me laugh. If you remember those 16bit games from your Mega drive or Atari ST, then this music will sound familiar.

track 12 is our third Star Trek offering "Star Beyond Time" and is not that bad to be honest. It is probably the best track on the whole album.

Track 13 brings the disco back again with "The Conversation" from Close Encounters. I think if those aliens had been played this they would have taken their sorry arses back to their home planet and told ET to stay at home.

Track 14 The Search for Spock....Yuk, just YUK!

Track 16 Is The Eve of the War from Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds, all I can say is I prefer this to his 2012 re-recorded version

Track 17 is the last Star Trek track and it's the funky disco version of the original series theme. If Phase Two had ever been produced then this should have been the theme.

The less said about the Yodas theme the better.

[COLOR="#FF0000"]So, happy 17th birthday Space Themes, next year you become an adult and we can send you to prison for your crimes against music.



Track Listing:

1 Theme From E.T. Composed By � J. Williams* 3:56
2 Star Wars Theme (From: Star Wars I) Composed By � J. Williams* 3:20
3 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Composed By � J. Williams* 3:15
4 Also Sprach Zarathustra (From: 2001 A Space Odyssey) Composed By � R. Strauss* Other [Composed By] � Arr. N. Bayers 3:53
5 Star Trek TMP (Main Theme) Composed By � J. Goldsmith* 3:00
6 The Empire Strikes Back (Battlestar Galactica)(From: Star Wars II) Composed By � J. Williams* 1:32
7 Theme From Battlestar Galactica (The Empire Strikes Back) Composed By � S. Phillips* Written-By � G. Larson* 3:00
8 Flash (From: Flash Gordon) Composed By � B. May* 2:37
9 The Return Of The Jedi (Luke and Leias theme) (From: Star Wars III) Composed By � J. Williams* 3:53
10 The Wrath Of Khan (Star Trek II) Composed By � J. Horner* 3:13
11 Cantina Band (From: Star Wars) Other [Composed By] � D. Williams 4:09
12 Star Beyond Time (From:Star Trek) Composed By � J. Goldsmith*, L. Kusik* 2:38
13 The Conversation (Close Encounters) Composed By � J. Williams* 3:46
14 The Search For Spock (Star Trek III) Composed By � J. Horner* 3:28
15 Dune (Desert Theme) Composed By � Eno* 5:07
16 The Eve Of The War Composed By � Wayne* 4:10
17 Star Trek (TV Theme) Composed By � A. Courage*, G. Roddenberry* 3:28
18 Yoda's Theme (Star Wars II) Composed By � J. Williams* 3:36

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Space Themes

OK Another Crappic...sorry... Classic album for you from those masters of music mayhem Double Play. Released exactly 17 years ago, this has to go down as a biggie baddy. Tracks 1 to 5 are your disco theme classics. Do you remember back in 1977 when Meco released the disco version of the Star Wars Theme? of course you do it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1, 1977 in the US and stayed there for 2 weeks, it even got to number 7 in the UK charts. Yes that's the one, do you remember how bad that was? Well you haven't heard bad. Listen to track 2 and that's bad.

In 1896 Richard Strauss, composed Also Sprach Zarathustra, little did he know that it would be turned into a disco theme 99 years later in 1995 as heard on track number 4. I'm sure if he'd been composing in 1995 this is how he would have done it!!!!

Track 5 is our first Star Trek outing on this little jem, and I can see the red shirts all boogieing on down to this little number. I'm sure I could hear Spock playing the Vulcan Lute or is that Vulcan Lyre in the background or maybe I'm just a liar ;)

Another mistake on this CD (apart form the mistake of actually releasing it), which I have reproduced so that you can experience the full crappiness of this release, is that they transposed tracks 6 and 7 so when you think you are listening to The Empire Strikes Back you are in fact listening to Battlestar Galactica. The Star Wars theme hear is truly heart chillingly bad. I would vote this as the worst version of the Star Wars theme of all time, unless you know different. If you do have an even worse one then please post a link in this thread:)

Track 8 is just brilliant. For a change the music is good... No really, I mean it. It is played really well. Even the singing is....passable...well sort of, but they have actually reproduced the the speech sound bites from the movie. These are pretty bad. The best bits are Dales lines, which are clearly spoken by a man then pitch shifted. I think flash will be in for a shock on his wedding night, as this Dale has something other woman do not have! LOL.

Track 9 says it's The Return of the Jedi, Personally I would have really titled this Luke and Leias theme as opposed The RotJ.

Track 10 is the Wrath of Khan. When it starts you think it could be a John Carpenter track, however, it soon bursts into life, and whizzes along at such a speed that you feel that the money in the studios electric meter was about to run out and they had to complete it in double quick time. As with the Star Wars theme I have to vote this the worst version of The WoK theme I have heard, go on..prove me wrong.... I dare you.

Track 11 is the Cantina band from Star Wars. There is something intrinsically wrong about this track, a certain discord between the instruments. I must admit this track makes me laugh. If you remember those 16bit games from your Mega drive or Atari ST, then this music will sound familiar.

track 12 is our third Star Trek offering "Star Beyond Time" and is not that bad to be honest. It is probably the best track on the whole album.

Track 13 brings the disco back again with "The Conversation" from Close Encounters. I think if those aliens had been played this they would have taken their sorry arses back to their home planet and told ET to stay at home.

Track 14 The Search for Spock....Yuk, just YUK!

Track 16 Is The Eve of the War from Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds, all I can say is I prefer this to his 2012 re-recorded version

Track 17 is the last Star Trek track and it's the funky disco version of the original series theme. If Phase Two had ever been produced then this should have been the theme.

The less said about the Yodas theme the better.

So, happy 17th birthday Space Themes, next year you become an adult and we can send you to prison for your crimes against music.



Track Listing:

1 Theme From E.T. Composed By – J. Williams* 3:56
2 Star Wars Theme (From: Star Wars I) Composed By – J. Williams* 3:20
3 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Composed By – J. Williams* 3:15
4 Also Sprach Zarathustra (From: 2001 A Space Odyssey) Composed By – R. Strauss* Other [Composed By] – Arr. N. Bayers 3:53
5 Star Trek TMP (Main Theme) Composed By – J. Goldsmith* 3:00
6 The Empire Strikes Back (Battlestar Galactica)(From: Star Wars II) Composed By – J. Williams* 1:32
7 Theme From Battlestar Galactica (The Empire Strikes Back) Composed By – S. Phillips* Written-By – G. Larson* 3:00
8 Flash (From: Flash Gordon) Composed By – B. May* 2:37
9 The Return Of The Jedi (Luke and Leias theme) (From: Star Wars III) Composed By – J. Williams* 3:53
10 The Wrath Of Khan (Star Trek II) Composed By – J. Horner* 3:13
11 Cantina Band (From: Star Wars) Other [Composed By] – D. Williams 4:09
12 Star Beyond Time (From:Star Trek) Composed By – J. Goldsmith*, L. Kusik* 2:38
13 The Conversation (Close Encounters) Composed By – J. Williams* 3:46
14 The Search For Spock (Star Trek III) Composed By – J. Horner* 3:28
15 Dune (Desert Theme) Composed By – Eno* 5:07
16 The Eve Of The War Composed By – Wayne* 4:10
17 Star Trek (TV Theme) Composed By – A. Courage*, G. Roddenberry* 3:28
18 Yoda's Theme (Star Wars II) Composed By – J. Williams* 3:36

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Hmmmmmm, No comments guys? My sendspace account shows these albums have been downloaded quite a few times.

OK, only 30 downloads and no "likes" or "comments" from anybody. I shall presume there is little interest in this thread, not that I blame you, the music is bad, I just thought people would be interested in them for "a bit of a laugh" (as I am with these charity shop discs ;) ). Do not worry, I shall cease the uploads of these CD's and my inane prattling LOL

:DH.T.A.P.:D

PCM

I love this simply for the way it was written. This was hilarious and helped my day start off not as bad :p As for the music, as a person starting out and making my own work, even I know not to make these mistakes xD I just don't know how they can be allowed to release such nonsense at times... ah well, at least it's all a good laugh in the end, eh?

I thank you for these intentionally terrible cover themes, and will check out how bad they are when I have nothing else to do, which for me right now, is every day :p bahahahahaha

Hey Pearlcorderman, I only downloaded the first one (don't have a courage for others) and after a quick listen I just deleted it. Yes, as you said numerous times, that was just horrible. What I don't understand is, if they want to make a compilation disk, why don't use the original recordings? Is the licensing of original performance waaay to expensive, than to record it all over again? Or they just thought that by re-recording these themes on cheap synths and casio keyboards they are adding more artistic flavour to the original compositions? Something smells fishy here....

Anyway, thanks for the effort, even if it hasn't much response. I totally understand it. Thank god that 90's are over, and with it these horrible cds.

Had to pick up Space T's. Sounds like a real winner. Also, thanks for the laughs! This thread had me in stitches!

I love this simply for the way it was written. This was hilarious and helped my day start off not as bad :p As for the music, as a person starting out and making my own work, even I know not to make these mistakes xD I just don't know how they can be allowed to release such nonsense at times... ah well, at least it's all a good laugh in the end, eh?

I thank you for these intentionally terrible cover themes, and will check out how bad they are when I have nothing else to do, which for me right now, is every day :p bahahahahaha

I'm glad my musings gave you a good start to the day. I try to do these in a comedic way, but had started to wonder if people thought I was just being rude or crass. Thank you for your kind words. :)




Hey Pearlcorderman, I only downloaded the first one (don't have a courage for others) and after a quick listen I just deleted it. Yes, as you said numerous times, that was just horrible. What I don't understand is, if they want to make a compilation disk, why don't use the original recordings? Is the licensing of original performance waaay to expensive, than to record it all over again? Or they just thought that by re-recording these themes on cheap synths and casio keyboards they are adding more artistic flavour to the original compositions? Something smells fishy here....

Anyway, thanks for the effort, even if it hasn't much response. I totally understand it. Thank god that 90's are over, and with it these horrible cds.

I would imagine the costs of the rights would be far higher on such compilation albums if they used the original tracks as not only would they have to pay the composer but they would also have to pay the artists their rights as well. So re recording with the likes of The Starlight Orchestra, who probably do this for a Cup of Tea and a corned beef sandwich, seems a much better option to maximise their profits. I just find it so funny to listen to these versions, they make me laugh. One day I shall make a CD of the worst tracks from all of these CD's. It will be the Horror of all horrors, and when my kids are naughty I shall lock them in their rooms wioth that CD playing ;)

Thank you both for taking time to comment here :)

:DH.T.A.P.:D

PCM

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Had to pick up Space T's. Sounds like a real winner. Also, thanks for the laughs! This thread had me in stitches!

Thank you, I'm glad it gave you a giggle. :)

Do we hafta listen to them?!?

I had the Space Themes album years ago, bought it from Woolies for 99 pence and had forgotten all about it until this thread - not downloading it because Doubleplay would have had more success if they had just given some monkeys kazoo's but the guy doing the Dale Arden dialogue on Flash is bizarre and I wish they had gone full Terry Jones Monty Python because then I'd have kept the CD

Do we hafta listen to them?!?

Only if you want to enter the sadistic world of Tring and Double Play. To misquote DUKE ORSINO from the Twelfth Night "If music be the food of love, then this load of old tat would be a moldy piece of old cheese between two slices of stale bread.

It is a dangerous world Doctor Go, but No you do not have to listen to them ;)

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I had the Space Themes album years ago, bought it from Woolies for 99 pence and had forgotten all about it until this thread - not downloading it because Doubleplay would have had more success if they had just given some monkeys kazoo's but the guy doing the Dale Arden dialogue on Flash is bizarre and I wish they had gone full Terry Jones Monty Python because then I'd have kept the CD
Now that would have made the track something special. I can just imagine it now "Flash, Flash he's a very naughty boy". I miss Woolworths, you could get some classic crap from there you really could. I bought my Geoff Love Star Wars and Other Space Themes LP from there on the Music For Pleasure label. Now they were interesting compositions and they certainly will not be appearing on this thread, as Geoff was not that bad. Maybe some would disagree, but at least he had a real orchestra. Mind you the images on the front were not very accurate, probably due to trying to avoid having to pay copyright. A very interesting looking USS Enterprise. Those extra narcells...... Hmmmmm didn't they use that idea in "All Good Things" on the Enterprise D in TNG?

I've actually listened to some original soundtracks, and have made my own arrangements on the keyboard, just as an exercise in composing for full orchestra. It was a ton of fun, and a lot of the end products were pretty accurate... though I'd never imagine releasing anything I did on CDs.

I have a feeling a lot of these albums are from folks who did the same... and then had the guts to try to sell their end products. I wonder how they even got the rights to release the album without getting sued by the copyright holders.

But, they're definitely cheaper to license for a compilation CDs. I know that similar albums (with Western movie themes) were utilized for Disneyland's Frontierland since it was a lot cheaper. Guess they figured, nobody would notice The Good, The Bad and the Ugly played by a Casio. :-P

I've actually listened to some original soundtracks, and have made my own arrangements on the keyboard, just as an exercise in composing for full orchestra. It was a ton of fun, and a lot of the end products were pretty accurate... though I'd never imagine releasing anything I did on CDs.

I have a feeling a lot of these albums are from folks who did the same... and then had the guts to try to sell their end products. I wonder how they even got the rights to release the album without getting sued by the copyright holders.

But, they're definitely cheaper to license for a compilation CDs. I know that similar albums (with Western movie themes) were utilized for Disneyland's Frontierland since it was a lot cheaper. Guess they figured, nobody would notice The Good, The Bad and the Ugly played by a Casio. :-P

I have a truly bad version of The Good the Bad and the Ugly somewhere. Most of these CD's were relegated to the loft/attic. I must see if I can find that album.

I think that the record lable must have paid the rights to the composer for these CD's otherwise I'm sure they would have had their pants sued off.

So you are a musician, it would be interesting to hear some of your arrangements, maybe you might post a few on this site one day for us to listen to.

Love such crazy cover-versions of my favorite themes.

Could you re-upload your posts on mega?
That would be great.

Thank you ;-)