> I see what you mean, but I think you're missing some of the point. These
> rerecordings are obviously not meant to fit the film, but are rather meant
> solely to be listened to, so its not necessary for the conductor to follow
> every tempo perfectly or to insist upon making each musical gesture
> exactly the same. In that way, the conductor (and the players) are able to
> be much more musical in some instances, and there are times where I
> believe certain rerecordings have more passion and energy than the
> originals do. Your comparison to the Beatles cover, I think is a little
> off the point here because even the Beatles didn't perform the same songs
> the exact same ways every time, no one does. This is more akin to
> classical music, where you will hear that Simon Rattle and Leonard
> Bernstein interpret Mahler's 5th symphony differently, but both are
> incredible and fantastic to listen to. You don't want to go to see the
> Chicago Symphony Orchestra and hear that they're not performing Beethoven
> 3 because New York already did it. At this point its not about being
> faithful its about being musical and inventing one's own interpretation.

> As for making a little extra money... well there's no problem with that
> eh?

Thanks, Amuro. So maybe I am the only purist out there who dislikes rerecordings masquerading as originals. I am not saying that rerecordings are inherently bad in themselves (although some are awful), some are good -I attend concert performances etc. they're a great idea. What I am trying and maybe unsuccessfully saying is that 'compilation' albums such as Christian is reviewing almost always contain rerecordings and concert versions rather than the actual originals as I would prefer as a collector. And I think the public is often fooled into buying albums of soundtrack music that they believe are the real McCoy when in fact they are not. To go back to my popular music reference...if you buy a standard rock album you can safely assume it is the original, studio recording... if it is anything else it will explicitly state 'live' 'alternative mix' etc however these compilation albums you have to read the very small print to find out if it is the original or not...