Comments on: Original Soundtrack Album Cover Promo Display

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:36:43 +0000

There has never been an official CD release of the Times Square soundtrack, even if the eBay sellers believe what they have to be authentic. I've seen a few auctions of that CD claiming it was an "Official Fan Club" release, which I thought was funny since as far as I know my old Yahoo group was the closest thing there ever was to a fan club. And although we were working on it at one time, we never got around to producing a CD. I'm pretty sure that even the vinyl edition was never re-pressed after 1980. The eBay CDs turn up all the time so if you really want one you just have to wait. I have one of them and it's not bad, but they cranked up the treble to make it sound more like a digital recording which results in it sounding a little shrill. Look up Urgh sometime; as I understand it nearly every time it was shown or broadcast, different songs were edited in and out, so there's no real definitive version!

By: See-Ye Tan

See-Ye Tan — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:07:52 +0000

Just found your site….your dedication is indeed admirable. Recently I’ve been looking up things on Times Square movie….all because of losing a bid on Ebay for a CD of the soundtrack, which i believe could possibly be a home-made bootleg disc..?? Or was there really a very-rare & limited European-issued CD few years ago…??
Anyway, I do have the double-vinyls somewhere in my study.
I do recall the movie and its soundtrack with much fondness. I’m a Malaysian and back in 1980 in my high school days, Times Square soundtrack cassette made a big impression on me while the rest of the population in Malaysia were besotted with ABBA or The Bee Gees. I was already a Gary Numan/ Tubeway army fan then but I must say Suzi Quatro’s ‘Rock Hard’ was a great opener.
I am now an Australian resident and spending a lot of my time digging up & seeking bits of my 80s past….only recently I bought ‘Urgh, A music war’ DVD….cheers!