Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Re "Doug's Corner" - having fallen out of the habit of watching 24 I didn't see the TV movie (although I'm sure Sky will repeat it before showing the new season; the end credits will run untampered with over here - apart from announcers talking, screens being shrunk...), but if the end title music was left off Varese's CD it might be because the two previous albums both open with the full version of Sean Callery's theme music - vol. 2 has the orchestral version as done for the videogame (only the opening bars and the last 40 seconds or so get TV airings) - and maybe the full version is what's heard at the end of the movie. If/when it pops up on a repeat screening I'll check and report back.

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"Now I don't wanna kill you and you don't wanna be dead!"

Or alternately, listen to this link:

http://www.televisiontunes.com/24_-_Ext ... rsion.html

If the music over the end credits of the TV movie is anything like this, mystery solved.

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"Now I don't wanna kill you and you don't wanna be dead!"

Doug, (besides the fact that you're right that a CD should close off decently,) this piece has been released twice, once as a download-only promo for the 24 Game, and the other time on the second Varèse CD. It's the same piece, though it has been edited - very roughly - in the Redemption credits to make it a bit longer (there's repetition of some stuff and then a cut forward even).

Callery writes music for the show that goes from serviceable (and most of the music released on the first two CDs is, unfortunately, more of the techno-oriented stuff which is not so good. Selection of the music is really bad on the first, but already much better on the second.) to highly enjoyable and dynamic. I've always regretted that, when the show took off, they didn't switch to orchestral music (or rather a mix of orchestral and synth), as they did for the game. (How ironic is that - the game gets orchestral music, the series doesn't.) I would go nuts if the arguably best track on the CDs (I haven't got the Redemption one though), 'Closing in on Marwan', was rerecorded with the 'orchestral' parts played by, well, an orchestra.

Finally, my thoughts when the credits played (I watched Redemption yesterday for the first time) were that this would have been an excellent place to actually expand on the already existing 'theme suite', albeit in synthesizer form (the first CD features the same thing but it's the original synth suite). That's something I've never got: as a director, I would want to have my composer do something fresh and expand on the theme or do an alternate African version or whatever instead of a bad cut-and-paste job; as a composer, I would actually lobby to do that. Well, their motives remain shrouded in mystery, I presume.