Since this thread has been resurrected from the dead :-), I'll take the opportunity to inform the John Barry soundtrack aficionados here that one of the Holy Grails of soundtracks, Barry's score for Disney's The Black Hole, has finally been released in an expanded edition by Intrada Records. It's the real deal, folks, not a re-recording, with over 20 minutes of never-released material and a booklet with extensive behind-the-scenes notes on the film, the soundtrack, and the long and arduous journey to release it on CD, nearly 32 years(!) after the film premiered.
(Long story short: the original digital master was discovered in 2006, the obsolete 3M Digital Recorder used to record it had to be tracked down and MacGuyvered into operation, various small errors had to be corrected here and there... they even had to work around the devastation of the 2009 Nashville flood! The booklet tells the whole story in blow-by-blow detail, but suffice it to say that it really was a labor of love.)
How is it? I listened to the whole thing this morning on the way to work, and even on my car stereo, the sound quality blows away the restored version released on iTunes a few years back. And for someone who has practically memorized the whole score (and the film itself), listening to the new material was almost literally like listening to a brand-new soundtrack.
If you want it, Intrada is the only place to get it. It's currently on backorder (I ordered mine the second I saw the story on Ain't It Cool News!), so you'll have to wait to get it, but it's worth it at twice the price, IMHO.
