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I haven't been polite enough to have stated this in earlier announcement threads, but I also like this new approach of a short Fake/Feigelson podcast to promote the newest release, including relevant history.
Otherwise, I'm certainly among those who -- trapped in our wish fulfillment -- were expecting Doug's "headline" of a few weeks ago to have been about a Jerry Goldsmith score from the 1960s. (Doug's paraphrased language: one of his favorite soundtrack albums of the '60s, from a prolific composer who had turned out one masterpiece after another in that era, earlier reissued on CD only with disappointing sound quality, and not being the actual film tracks.)
In offline conversations I've told two fellow collectors (both Goldsmith fans like me) that we had to consider that Doug possibly meant either Elmer Bernstein or John Barry; but prolific-with-serial-masterpiece-LPs-in-the-'60s wasn't likely to include very many other composers. So it turns out to be Barry and KING RAT ... with a gorgeous new booklet cover option as well.
Nice work with your teasing, Doug! I hoped for a Goldsmith (and told one of my friends that nobody bothered guessing LILIES OF THE FIELD as that out-of-print CD from a '60s LP that didn't sound great, although admittedly there wouldn't have been "a lot of people" clamoring for that); I was prepared for the announced title to be a Barry; but I never expected KING RAT. I've had the Mainstream LP since the '70s and picked up the earlier Legacy CD reissue when it appeared. Only a few years ago did I finally sit through the picture, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies: It's grim, drab, and depressing (appropriately so), and I would have been content never to watch it again. But Doug's podcast remarks did emphasize the significant differences between the content of that (for many of us) long-familiar album and what Barry actually wrote and recorded for the film. Owners of the existing album will find the true score a different experience; I just don't know about taking in the movie itself again to aid my study of the film-tracks disc.
My decision now will be which to play first -- HOWARD THE DUCK (which I've never heard) or KING RAT (which will be so different from the album I've known). Thanks so much, team, for making such options even possible!
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