From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Valley Girl/Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls & Shatner/Nimoy...on CD?!
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 03:15:02 GMT
Organization: None for me, thanks . . . I'm driving.
Summary: Detailed information at end of post
Followup-To: rec.music.misc

(Believe it or not, the crossposting's appropriate . . . but please mind
your followups, people.)

I can't believe anyone had the balls to do it, but a company called "Media
Archives" just released some stuff I *never* thought I'd see on CD: one
disc with the soundtrack to Russ Meyer's _Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls_
paired with the impossible-to-find _Valley Girl_ OST, and another with
William Shatner's _The Transformed Man,_ Leonard Nimoy's _Two Sides Of
Leonard Nimoy,_ and Shatner's three "performances" from this year's MTV
Movie Awards.  (I'm not sure if they got all of _Valley Girl_ -- I've never
seen an original and there's only six tracks claiming to be from it.)

Sound quality is nothing short of amazing.  Except for the Shatner/MTV
tracks, which amount to less than three minutes of stuff at the tail end
of a disc that's over an hour long, all the material was mastered from
impeccable copies of the original albums -- there's a tiny amount of
surface noise, and a little (stylus?) distortion on loud passages, but
you'll probably only notice it with headphones or if you're listening for
it carefully.  On top of that, the packaging is easily commercial-release
quality . . . all four covers are reproduced in full-process color and if
they weren't shot from mint-condition LPs, they have to have been shot
from the originals.  The inner rings reveal that the discs themselves are
both JVC pressings (!), "limited editions" of 1000 copies each, and
"Copyright 1990" (but that last is clearly nonsense).

All in all, these things are straight-up bargains -- you'd be hard-pressed
to find any *one* of these four albums for on vinyl for the price either
of these two twofers were going for ($25 each), and there probably are
only a handful of copies of the albums on Earth that sound as good as the
ones they mastered these bootlegs from.  Whoever they are, Media Archives
did a fantastic job all the way around.  I can't decide which I want them
to bootleg next, the _Heavy Metal_ soundtrack or all those Brady Bunch
albums . . .

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Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls -- Original Soundtrack To        bootleg [1992]
	The Film By Russ Meyer / Valley Girl -- Original
	Motion Picture Soundtrack

    CD:	1992 US	(Media Archives MF-9201-2) [bootleg]
	[Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls -- OST]
	  3:12	The Sandpipers: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
	  2:20	Carrie Nations: Come With The Gentle People
	  2:54	Carrie Nations: Look On Up At The Bottom
	  2:33	Strawberry Alarm Clock: Girl From The City
	  2:53	Carrie Nations: In The Long Run
	  2:41	Stu Philips: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (instrumental)
	  2:20	Carrie Nations: Sweet Talkin' Candy Man
	  1:59	Carrie Nations: Find It
	  2:39	Stu Philips: Ampersand (instrumental)
	  2:05	Carrie Nations: Once I Had Love
	  3:42	Strawberry Alarm Clock: I'm Comin' Home
	  3:12	The Sandpipers: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
	[Valley Girl -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
	  3:04	Bonnie Hayes with The Wild Combo: Girls Like Me
	  3:28	Sparks: Angst In My Pants
	  2:32	Josie Cotton: School Is In
	  3:19	Plimsouls: Everywhere At Once
	  2:47	Josie Cotton: Johnny Are You Queer
	  3:38	Bonnie Hayes with The Wild Combo: Shelly's Boyfriend
	[51:18]

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William Shatner: The Transformed Man / Leonard Nimoy: Two       bootleg [1992]
	Sides Of Leonard Nimoy

    CD:	1992 US (Media Archives MF-9202-2)
	[William Shatner -- The Transformed Man]
	  6:19	King Henry The Fifth / Elegy For The Brave
	  6:51	Theme From Cyrano / Mr. Tambourine Man
	  7:47	Hamlet / It Was A Very Good Year
	  3:04	Romeo And Juliet / How Insensitive (Insensatez)
	  9:39	Spleen / Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
	  3:38	The Transformed Man
	[Leonard Nimoy: The Two Sides Of Leonard Nimoy]
	[Mr. Spock:]
	  2:21	Highly Illogical
	  2:17	The Difference [Between] Us
	  2:10	Once I Smiled
	  3:04	Spock Thoughts
	  2:17	By Myself
	  2:35	Follow Your Star
	  2:45	Amphibious Assault
	[Leonard Nimoy:]
	  2:21	The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
	  2:40	Cotton Candy
	  2:47	Gentle On My Mind
	  2:44	If I Were A Carpenter
	[Bonus Tracks: William Shatner Live At The 1992 MTV Movie Awards:]
	  1:16	I Wanna Sex You Up
	  0:45	You Could Have Been Mine
	  0:53	Everything I Do, I Do It For You
	[68:13]

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