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INTRADA Announces:



BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Composed and Conducted by DAVID NEWMAN
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 269



In spite of the great amount of source music and guitar performances, David Newman's score to the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure gets a considerable amount of screen time. In fact, it dominates much of the funny and fanciful history lesson with serious, orchestral writing that plays it straight. “It was pretty clear where music was going to go, and what it needed to do,” explained Newman. “It needed to let the jokes play, but it needed to play Bill and Ted’s relationship seriously and with some heart—without being sentimental. We didn’t want to comment on what goofy idiots they were, but we wanted the audience to be able to laugh at it and laugh with them."

A soundtrack album released in 1989 was filled with rock and metal songs, but David Newman’s score was completely absent. Now the composer’s witty, playful and heartfelt companion to the excellent adventures of Bill and Ted makes a triumphant appearance on compact disc, displaying his penchant for sweetness and melody in the comedy genre, along with the action and excitement of a full-blown sci-fi epic. All of the music Newman recorded at his sessions is featured in crisp stereo sound and presented from the original ½″ three-channel session masters and a two-track stereo session DAT that contained some of the electronic keyboard cues.

In the film, Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) are two best-friend dudes trying to make a most triumphant video for their band, Wyld Stallyns. Their career aspirations are jeopardized by the threat of flunking history most heinously, so Rufus (George Carlin) flies in from the future to help them and keep the excellent future they will spawn on course. Careening in a high-tech phone booth through time, the two distinguished colleagues bag several notable figures from their class assignment— Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln—to arrive at the school auditorium just in time to make one bodaciously triumphant presentation (and pretty much save humanity).


INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 269
Retail Price: $19.99
Available NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8816/.f

A great 80's movie with that perfect blend of songs and original score.

Happily bought and payed for.

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Most Wanted Unreleased scores:
Howard Shore's AN INNOCENT MAN (1989) Touchstone/Buena Vista
Richard Halligan's THE OCTAGON (1980) American Cinema
Sante Maria Romitelli's GOD'S GUN (1976) MGM/Cannon
Trevor Jones' FREEJACK (1992) Morgan Creek

I believe the album was very difficult to be prepared, but now it will be in my CD player for weeeeeks ! And next to the second opus in my collection ! Thank you the dudes from Intrada !
By the way, I'm completely in love with Tarzan from Newman (released by Milan), one of his greatest recent works !

Fantastic score - one I never expected to be released. Ordered along with Crawlspace

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Top 10 Grails: Revenge of the Ninja/Less Than Zero/Making Contact/Cobra/Over the Top/Highlander/Time Bandits/Top Gun/Listen to Me
Last 5 purchased: Jaws/Jaws 2/Back to the Future II/Back to the Future III/Nightmare Elm Street Box/Amityville Horror

Excellent 49min
Bogus 43min

Sooooo glad these scores weren't released as a twofer!
That would have been a bogus journey!!

Ordered!!!
Thanks Wyld Hamstyrs!

Thank you San Dimas I mean Intrada.
EXCELLENT! release
Wished I got Bogus Journey when I had the chance now

Guys, I just wanted to say thank you for this release which I've been waiting for since 1989, and… uh…

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!

Great release! Thank you Intrada!

Now it's time for The Flintstones!!

Can't wait to receive my copy. Thanks Intrada!!!

Just got my copy today from the Creature Feature signing...and all I can say is THANK YOU Intrada!

So Doug/Roger... I have to ask.

Is the catalog number of 269 an indication that the release was delayed a few months (All the other Special Collections in the 260s came out from December through February), or was it a deliberate decision because of the "Okay, if you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of? / Sixty-Nine!!" exchange in the film?

It's possible that its release was delayed a bit to coincide with, or set up, the David Newman signing.

This is a fantastic album that judging by the notes was quite a bit more involved in preparing than I would have ever expected.

As for the art, I've actually taken a liking to moving the Intrada Special Collection logo to the tray card when the artwork is otherwise busy looking. It works great for the Crawlspace covers as well. If I remember correctly, the change was done before at around the time of another excellent Donaggio release; Déjà Vu indeed.

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Karl Morton IV

"Enjoy every sandwich."
-- Warren Zevon

Oh I would dare to say Tarzan is the best David Newman I have heard since The Phantom !