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Good and Different

Lorenzo M. in the Hollywood CA Area | North Hollywood, CA USA | 06/10/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"What I liked best about this album were the arrangements and orchestrations of some of my favorite themes. It's also a 2 CD album with 30 themes. A few I have never heard, but most were favorites.Lost In Space, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Knight Rider and Seaquest are some of my favorites. Techincally very well done as well. The mixes with the orchestrations are really incredible. And fun!Even the original Star Trek theme has a soprano vocalist that sounds exactly like it did in 1966. Even the Thnderball theme was a great hoot listening to a fairly accurate soloist singing it.This is a collectors album for those who like different versions of their favorite themes and they at 3:00 minutes or more in length. Very cool!"

"Not the Originals" does not = Not Good

English Pearson | MS, USA | 08/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've read a few people complaining about this product and cannot think why. True, these are not the original soundtracks, but they are very well done nonetheless. As a person who has certainly been burned by similar collections before, where the orchestra consisted of a few guys overdubbing on various instruments backed by--save us--a synthesizer, A-Z delivers. My favorite is the well-deserving headliner. The new Battlestar Galactica series has some good things going for it, but the opening music is not one of them. The performance on this CD really shines, as does SeaQuest, Space: Above And Beyond. On the other hand, themes that weren't so orchestral, such as Red Dwarf and Dr. Who, are not as good, but still enjoyable.



To get an idea of how to regard this collection, forget about 'original' and think "A fantastic Fantasy TV-Theme performance of Boston Pops-style orchestra." If you like those (as I do) you'll love this."