Month: November 2015

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – TIMES SQUARE (8-track Version)

28 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

8-track tapes would be pretty much gone from U.S. music stores by 1982 (almost the same time as CD players made their debut), but in 1980 they were still a viable release format. As did the cassette, the 8-track loses the back cover and interior gatefold artwork. The front cover

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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Times Square (Cassette Version)

19 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Cassettes may have already overtaken records as the biggest selling format by 1980. They didn’t sound as good, but they were portable and convenient, and that’s always more important. There was rarely an effort to duplicate the full art of a record album on the relatively tiny insert, though. We

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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “TIMES SQUARE” (U.K. Edition)

10 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The biggest difference here is that Tim Curry is completely gone. There isn’t even a red circle where Nicky’s badge would be. We’ve seen that before on the promotional “slick”, which was displayed in record stores in the United States. Why each country had their own idea as to this

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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “TIMES SQUARE” (Canadian Edition)

1 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The music on the Canadian edition of the Times Square soundtrack is identical to the US version. All the international editions are musically identical. (I suppose some might sound better or worse than others, but none of the actual tracks are different.) That’s why, other than the few examples I’ll

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