> I didn't really give this enough listens to evaluate past 'This won't make my top 20,' but to repay the favor when you respond to some of my more outlandish picks,

> Hahahahahahahaha no.
LOL yes, I deserved this.

Honestly, in addition to thinking it really hit that Bernstein-adjacent sweet spot, I thought it was a HUGE asset in an otherwise decent-enough film (which I saw over the weekend), especially all of Simonsen's mystery/family material.

But, yes, CC and I and a few others may be on an island with our high praise.

> Bruh...
I tried. It worked well enough on film. But it was an album that, with the exception of one track, I could really only appreciate intellectually. The Wendy Carlos-style synth stuff is obnoxious standalone.

> Don't you mean DUNC(an Idaho)?
Gosh, with all the praise thrown at that movie, I'd frankly forgotten about that joke.

> Lennertz!
I didn't get to any of his stuff outside of LOS - so maybe shame on me. But honestly a Carl Stalling-style score probably wasn't gonna move the needle.

> I'm unfamiliar with this, wasn't Madden a big train guy?
Madden was claustrophic, and spent much of his announcing career driving around in a giant custom-made bus.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1990/11/26/busmans-holiday-coast-to-coast-commuter-john-madden-likes-what-he-sees-as-he-rolls-across-america-in-his-suite-on-wheels

> Which one?
A few tracks from Sato's Reach Beyond the Blue Sky. It's only available on CD (my one random Japanese vendor purchase of the year), and I would be genuinely shocked if more than 5 people on the board have heard it.

Even taking into account that one should go in to most Sato albums assuming they'll be a bit all-over-the-place, you can still imagine my surprise when getting about halfway through the Volume 2 and thinking 'is...is that an ONDES?'

> Anyway, I have Rio Conchos saved in my spotify library to check out, I guess the new release isn't significantly different?
Maybe some minor sonic tweaks. HUGE difference if you're like me and had only heard the original CD mastering. Negligible if you've heard the prior remaster.

> My brain got a hangover trying to make sense of this sentence.
Yeah, it wouldn't be a big post from me if there wasn't at least one esoteric line.

After spending a good portion of the back half of 2020 listening to a Gerald Fried episode score from a more uneven Man from U.N.C.L.E. season, I figured it was worth recognizing at least one great track / sequence I played over and over.
https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=90176

I suppose we could also call it the 'Hey, I have 5ish minutes before my next meeting, what should I put on?' award.

That Fried music ('groovy medieval jazz') would be a perfect fit for a Wes Anderson movie.