Now, I know what you're thinking. You want to laugh. I know you do. You're wondering why such a stupid and bizarre request exists. But before you close this thread, let me elaborate.
I think it's agreeable that animation is somewhat neglected in the score release world. For every (excellent) release of The Brave Little Toaster, How to Train Your Dragon or WALL-E, there are scores like Transformers: The Movie, where only a short selection (admittedly a selection of the very best moments) is present on the commercial album, and the only release of the complete score was an extremely limited promo only available to attendees of a convention that took place over a decade ago, or South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Marc Shaiman's work for the latter film is truly brilliant, working the themes of the songs into the scores flawlessly. How do you go about listening to said score? You have to track down a 128kbps bootleg. It seems that even the most obscure live-action films of the past are being dredged up and given excellent complete score treatments, yet you rarely see animated films of the past receiving the same treatment. Off the top of my head, I can only recall Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (another amazing album I am proud to say inhabits my collection) getting a complete score from La-La-Land (they also did the Teen Titans DTTV movie, but since that was recent I'm not counting it). In short, although I'm sure my fellow forumers (forumites? Forumlings? Whatever.) will point out examples I'm missing, to me it seems that when a movie has passed it's money making cycle, i.e. has ceased to sell DVDs in any great quantity and is quietly doing the rounds on TV, if one has not come out then all hope of seeing a score release is gone.
At last, I come to this sad example: Digimon: The Movie. While not the best of films (it was created by taking three different films, chopping them up and putting them back together again, never a good omen), nor the most profitable of films, it has my #1 most wanted unreleased scores of all time. It was officially composed by Udi Harpaz and Amotz Plessner, although some sources say Shuki Levy (composer for the TV series) did some additional, uncredited work. All that has been released so far are two selections from two of the composers. The first is six tracks from Udi Harpaz's site:
http://www.udiharpaz.com/projects/digimonmovie/...and one short suite on Shuki Levy's site:
http://www.shukilevy.com/Shuki_Levy_Onl ... gimon.html...although these tracks do not contain the best parts of the score. See, Digimon was blessed with an extremely catchy techno theme song co-composed by Levy, and it was translated brilliantly (I know I'm using a lot of superlatives in this post, but they are deserved) into orchestral arrangements in the movie. You can hear just a few glimpses of these arrangements in the above links, first in the latter third of 'Final Battle Scene', and an alternate take of 'Final Battle Scene' in Levy's suite. However, my personal favourite moments are when the techno song and orchestral music are combined, such as at 0:50 in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoamwzMk9tUYou do have to concentrate to hear it over the sound effects though. But, if you don't care for the song or listening through intrusive sound effects, here's two fan-made excerpts made through some kind of black magic (they aren't recreations, and the DVD has lots of echoing dialogue and sound effects all around the 5.1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxQVyqOKn0ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFAQi89zAUAnd if you think no-one would care for such a thing, I've seen countless people saying "I've scoured the Internet for years for this". Some examples:
http://thedigiport.com/forum/index.php?topic=8394.15http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 726AAPc3hO...and those were just the ones I could find, there were definitely one or two more places I've heard nothing but 'I wish they'd release this'. True, it may not sell thousands, indeed 1000-2000 could serve well enough, but the people who do buy it will have been holding out for eleven years waiting for it, and I for one shall be the first one racing to secure my copy.
All I ask is that this buried gem be considered and investigated. Thank you for your time.