Category: MUSIC

Thanks to the magic of YouTube and everybody posting any and all video they have lying around, this video for Cleanin’ up the Town, by The Bus Boys, has surfaced. The video quality is harsh, but it’s still a fun watch.

Big nod to robert knippels for spotting this gem.

Ryan LeClair emailed me just now – apparently when he and his father went to order their copy of the Elmer Bernstein Ghostbusters film score, they were told by Var�se Sarabande customer service that they were down to ten copies remaining. So if you didn’t get one already, let’s hope they decide to do a second run.

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For those of you who have spent years looking for the Elmer Bernstein Ghostbusters soundtrack or have for those of you that found the bootleg of average quality, it appears that Varèse Sarabande, purveyors of rare soundtracks, is releasing a Sony sanctioned version of the soundtrack.

For $19.99US, plus $6.50 shipping (North America – abroad costs more) you can get your hands on one CD of 39 tracks – the track breakdown covers the same material as the bootleg, if not more, but it is arranged into much shorter tracks, including three “bonus” tracks.

You’d better get one now however, as the run is currently limited to 3000. Ghostbuster fans and soundtrack collectors alike will be looking to get their hands on this one. The website says they will start shipping the discs March 16th.

It’s interesting, Varèse Sarabande carries a number of hard to find soundtracks by Bernstein, including Stripes and Spacehunter!

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[UPDATE] The track listing looks similar to an alternate bootleg (Spook Central lists it at the bottom) – both have 36 tracks. This edition however has the three bonus tracks. The company is a well regarded company, and Ghostbusters, along with their other Club releases, has been reported as official on a number of soundtrack websites.

There was a small, promotional soundtrack released years ago, upon which many of the bootlegs out there are based – it’s very possible that Varèse Sarabande is releasing that same promotional edition, along with the three bonus tracks (one of which is an alternate version of one of the compositions.)

[UPDATE] Interesting fact; Varèse Sarabande is producing 3000 of the Ghostbuster soundtrack – the other three soundtracks are only seeing half as many. So, clearly they expect the CD to be very popular. With luck, perhaps it will spur a second edition. Or maybe a small run of the second movie’s score by Randy Edleman – sure, he’s no Elmer Bernstein, But I still liked it.

Well, with only a handful of days left before Arista Records re-releases the Ghostbusters soundtrack (with two additional tracks), Amazon has finally posted a cover image and it’s… the original!

On the downside, after having at look at the Canadian Amazon site, it appears that the CD won’t be available for another week and a handful of days – March 7th to be exact.

Two years after BMG released a bargain edition of the movie soundtrack, Arista records (who originally relased the soundtrack in the 80s) is set to release a new edition February 28th.

The disc is billed as being remastered, but that’s such a vague term it’s tough to say what that means. What is intersting is that the new CD will featuer a 6 minute version of the Ray Parker Jr. theme and Disco Inferno by The Trammps (the one song conspicuously missing on the original release.) The disc has a SRP of $14.00 $11.98US.

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