My record budget is on the small side. $50 per paycheck. Normally this means a couple records per month or, like in this case, I buy a great big box set of all the scores from all the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (except for FvJ and the remake), and go deep, deep into the hole and wait months until I’m back in the black.
Pretty worth it, though. For one thing, the art on these covers is amazing. Especially the backs of them (which I was inclined to post but just couldn’t live with the extra clutter on an image indicating more photos are attached). The production is good, and it’s very interesting to hear how different composers interpret the series and need for scores.
Well… really it’s just this, Christopher Young’s huge symphonic score, and five people trying to rip Bernstein off.
We’ll get into that later.
For now, the reason I bought this in the first place was because this is the only score that ever really creeped me out. It wasn’t the vocal stingers included (not a fan), but the echoes that really did me in. The electronic drum hits and then it echoes down a hall into your fuckin’ nightmares.
You know what it reminds me of? You remember White Zombie’s “Electric Head Pt 1”? With the vocal swells right before the industrial drums start?
That. This reminds me of that and that ALSO freaks me out.
No clue why exactly, but it does so when I saw this box set standing all alone in a record store that specializes in video game soundtracks, I knew I had to buy it.
It just had to happen.
Was it worth it?
Ehhhhhh, the art IS really good and some of these scores are pretty fantastic but we’re talking 3/7 - MAYBE 4/7 are great and that’s a horrible ratio when you’re talking about this high of a price.
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