Saturday, October 10, 2026

Pere Ubu - Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987-1991 [2018] (4 x CDs)

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Pere Ubu - Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987-1991 [2018] (4 x CDs)

Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987–1991 gathers a period in Pere Ubu’s history that often sits in the shadow of their earlier, more celebrated work, yet it reveals a band still pushing forward with curiosity and intent. Released in 2018 on Fire Records, the collection brings together singles, B sides, live cuts and rarities from a transitional era when the group was reshaping its sound after the turbulence of the mid-eighties. The material shows how Pere Ubu carried their avant rock instincts into a new decade while exploring different textures, rhythms and production approaches.

The late eighties lineup brought a sharper, more angular feel to the music. Tracks from The Tenement Year and Cloudland sessions show the band experimenting with cleaner surfaces, brighter tones and more direct structures, yet the underlying tension remains. David Thomas delivers vocals that feel both theatrical and intimate, drifting between spoken fragments and melodic lines. The guitars move from jagged bursts to chiming patterns, supported by keyboards that add colour without smoothing the edges. The rhythm section keeps everything grounded, giving even the most eccentric moments a sense of drive.

The early nineties material adds another layer. Songs from the Worlds in Collision era show Pere Ubu leaning into pop forms while keeping their odd sense of humour and emotional ambiguity. The rarities and live recordings included here offer glimpses of how the band approached these pieces on stage, often stretching them into looser, more exploratory shapes. The collection highlights the group’s ability to shift between clarity and chaos, always guided by a distinctive artistic voice.

What makes this set valuable is its archival focus. It presents a coherent picture of a period that can feel scattered across various releases, giving listeners a chance to hear how Pere Ubu navigated change while remaining unmistakably themselves. It is a thoughtful document of a band in motion, still searching, still inventive, still committed to the strange beauty at the heart of their music. (B)

Special Thanks to Capt.Hatemonger for sharing this box set.

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CD1

01 Pere Ubu - Something's Gotta Give 5:05

02 Pere Ubu - George Had a Hat 4:00

03 Pere Ubu - Talk to Me 3:29

04 Pere Ubu - Busman's Honeymoon 4:29

05 Pere Ubu - Say Goodbye 4:38

06 Pere Ubu - Universal Vibration 2:19

07 Pere Ubu - Miss You 4:20

08 Pere Ubu - Dream the Moon 3:24

09 Pere Ubu - Rhythm King 4:27

10 Pere Ubu - The Hollow Earth 3:34

11 Pere Ubu - We Have the Technology 3:00


CD2

01 Pere Ubu - Breath 3:58

02 Pere Ubu - Race the Sun 3:17

03 Pere Ubu - Cry 2:32

04 Pere Ubu - Why Go it Alone? 2:48

05 Pere Ubu - Waiting for Mary 3:22

06 Pere Ubu - Ice Cream Truck 2:49

07 Pere Ubu - Bus Called Happiness 2:49

08 Pere Ubu - Love Love Love 3:20

09 Pere Ubu - Lost Nation Road 2:17

10 Pere Ubu - Nevada! 3:20

11 Pere Ubu - Flat 2:21

12 Pere Ubu - The Waltz 3:27

13 Pere Ubu - Pushin' 2:28

14 Pere Ubu - Monday Night 2:14


CD3

01 Pere Ubu - Oh Catherine 2:52

02 Pere Ubu - I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue 3:58

03 Pere Ubu - Turpentine! 2:39

04 Pere Ubu - Goodnite Irene 4:08

05 Pere Ubu - Mirror Man 3:27

06 Pere Ubu - Don't Look Back 4:04

07 Pere Ubu - Worlds in Collision 3:40

08 Pere Ubu - Life of Riley 2:34

09 Pere Ubu - Over the Moon 3:06

10 Pere Ubu - Cry Cry Cry 2:43

11 Pere Ubu - Playback 3:26

12 Pere Ubu - Nobody Knows 2:33

13 Pere Ubu - Winter in the Firelands 3:06


CD4

01 Pere Ubu - Down By the River 2:40

02 Pere Ubu - Around the Fire 3:12

03 Pere Ubu - Like a Rolling Stone 2:59

04 Pere Ubu - Invisible Man 2:47

05 Pere Ubu - Fedora Satellite 1:59

06 Pere Ubu - Fire 3:40

07 Pere Ubu - Bang the Drum 3:51

08 Pere Ubu - Postman Drove a Caddy 2:58

09 Pere Ubu - Wine Dark Sparks 3:05

10 Pere Ubu - The Wire 3:15

11 Pere Ubu - The B Side 4:44

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Friday, October 9, 2026

Beatles - Beyond The Rainbow (A Butterboy Compilation) (5 X CDs)

THE BEATLES

Beatles - Beyond The Rainbow (A Butterboy Compilation) (5 X CDs)

We’ve all spent years, some of us decades, exploring every corner of the Beatles’ catalogue. We’ve lived inside these songs, argued about them, ranked them, defended them, rediscovered them, and passed them down like heirlooms. And yet, even with all that passion and knowledge, there remains a truth that is rarely articulated, Beatles’ music is not just a body of work. It is a spectrum, a radiant, prismatic unfolding of human emotion.

For years, anthologies have tried to capture the Beatles’ essence through chronology, genre, chart success, or cultural milestones. But none of those approaches reveal the deeper architecture of their music. None of them show how the Beatles mastered emotional color. None of them illuminate the way their songs inhabit distinct emotional worlds.

That is why this new five‑disc chromatic anthology, Blue, Gold, Red, Green, and Purple matters. It reframes the Beatles not as a timeline, but as a rainbow of beauty, a spectrum of unrivalled performance. It reveals the band’s emotional DNA. It shows how their music moves through human experience with a clarity and expressive power no other band has ever matched.

This set is not a re‑shuffle. It is a revelation.

BLUE - The Nocturnal Heart of the Beatles

Every Beatles fan knows the quiet songs, the introspective ones, the fragile ones. But when you gather them together, I’ll Be Back, If I Fell, Julia, Long, Long, Long, For No One, something extraordinary happens. You hear the Beatles’ emotional core.

Blue Beatles is the world of night‑time introspection, where harmony becomes confession and melody becomes vulnerability. These songs are not simply “sad.” They are structurally delicate, harmonically subtle, and emotionally precise. They reveal how deeply the Beatles understood the architecture of longing.

Placed together, Blue becomes the foundation of the entire anthology. It grounds the listener in humanity before the spectrum expands. It reminds us that behind every innovation, every experiment, every explosion of creativity, the Beatles were, first and always, masters of emotional truth.

GOLD - The Sunlit Radiance of Melodic Brilliance

After Blue’s nocturnal stillness, Gold arrives like morning light. Gold Beatles is the world of warmth, optimism, and melodic generosity. Songs like Penny Lane, Here Comes the Sun, Good Day Sunshine, and All My Loving glow with a brightness that feels effortless, but is anything but.

Gold reveals the Beatles’ mastery of crafted joy. These songs are built with architectural precision, buoyant rhythms, luminous harmonies, melodic arcs that feel both inevitable and surprising. Gold shows how the Beatles used major‑key clarity not as simplicity, but as design.

Placed after Blue, Gold becomes a release, a lifting of emotional weight. It shows the band’s ability to write songs that breathe, songs that open windows, songs that feel like sunlight on the skin. Gold is the Beatles’ gift of warmth, and in the context of the anthology, it becomes the second emotional pillar of the rainbow.

RED - The Electric Flame of Rebellion

Then comes Red, the world of fire, electricity, and forward momentum. Red Beatles is the band at their most kinetic, most confrontational, most alive. Revolution, Helter Skelter, Day Tripper, Hey Bulldog, these songs burn.

Red reveals the Beatles’ rhythmic intelligence. Heavy drums, driving bass, electric riffs, blues‑modal hybrids, these are not accidents. They are deliberate choices that create a sense of motion, urgency, and rebellion. Red shows how the Beatles used electricity not just as sound, but as emotion.

Placed after Gold, Red becomes a surge. It transforms warmth into action. It shows the Beatles’ ability to ignite, to provoke, to energize. Red is the turning point of this anthology, the moment where emotion becomes fire.

GREEN - The Psychedelic Horizon of Imagination

After the flame comes the fog. Green Beatles is the world of imagination, surrealism, cosmic drift, and studio experimentation. It is the Beatles at their most visionary. Strawberry Fields Forever, Tomorrow Never Knows, I Am the Walrus, A Day in the Life, these songs dissolve reality.

Green reveals the Beatles’ mastery of psychedelic architecture. Modal harmony, drones, tape loops, orchestral swells, dream‑logic lyrics, these elements create music that feels like a world unto itself. Green is not chaos. It is design. It is the Beatles using the studio as an instrument, using sound as landscape, using harmony as atmosphere.

Placed after Red, Green becomes transformation. It shifts the listener from physical intensity to metaphysical exploration. It shows how the Beatles expanded consciousness through sound. Green is the psychedelic horizon of the anthology, the place where imagination becomes infinite.

PURPLE - The Transcendent Fusion of All Beatles Colors

Finally, we arrive at Purple, the world of synthesis. Purple Beatles is the fusion of Blue emotion, Gold warmth, Red electricity, and Green mysticism. It is the Beatles at their most mature, most elevated, most transcendent.

Purple gathers songs like Let It Be, Hey Jude, Something, Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road. These are songs where multiple emotional worlds coexist. Blue fragility meets Gold glow. Red intensity meets Green serenity. Purple is the Beatles’ emotional language, unity.

Placed at the end of the anthology, Purple becomes resolution. It completes the journey. It shows how the Beatles evolved from emotional fragments into emotional wholeness. Purple is the culmination of the rainbow, the moment where all colors blend into transcendence.

Why This Set Matters to Beatles Devotees

As Beatles fans, we’ve heard these songs countless times. But this chromatic anthology allows us to hear them differently. It reveals connections that chronology obscures. It shows how the Beatles moved through emotional worlds with unmatched mastery. It highlights their harmonic intelligence, their structural innovation, their expressive clarity.

This set enhances the value of the Beatles’ catalogue by giving it architecture. It transforms familiar songs into a symphonic experience. It shows that the Beatles were not just great songwriters, they were painters of emotion, sculptors of feeling, architects of human experience.

The uniqueness of this set lies in its ability to make the Beatles feel new again. It reframes their work as a rainbow, a spectrum of beauty, a prismatic unfolding of human expression. It elevates their music into a unified emotional journey, one that moves from fragility to warmth, from fire to imagination, from transcendence to unity.

For devotees like us, this anthology is not just a listening experience. It is a rediscovery. It is a reminder that the Beatles’ genius is inexhaustible. It is proof that their music still has new ways to surprise us, new ways to move us, new ways to illuminate the human heart.

This is the Beatles as a rainbow, and we, as lifelong fans, finally get to see the full spectrum. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Beatles - I'll Be Back 2:22

02 Beatles - If I Fell 2:19

03 Beatles - This Boy 2:16

04 Beatles - Not A Second Time 2:06

05 Beatles - Things We Said Today 2:35

06 Beatles - Michelle 2:42

07 Beatles - Yesterday 2:05

08 Beatles - All You Need is Love 3:51

09 Beatles - For No One 1:59

10 Beatles - Eleanor Rigby 2:06

11 Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping 3:00

12 Beatles - I'm So Tired 2:03

13 Beatles - Julia 2:54

14 Beatles - Blackbird 2:18

15 Beatles - Cry Baby Cry 3:02

16 Beatles - Long, Long, Long 3:06

17 Beatles - Because 2:45

18 Beatles - Yes it Is 2:42

19 Beatles - I Will 1:46

20 Beatles - Good Night 3:11


CD2

01 Beatles - Good Day Sunshine 2:09

02 Beatles - Here Comes The Sun 3:05

03 Beatles - Penny Lane 3:00

04 Beatles - All My Loving 2:07

05 Beatles - Eight Days A Week 2:43

06 Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand 2:26

07 Beatles - She Loves You 2:21

08 Beatles - I Feel Fine 2:19

09 Beatles - We Can Work it Out 2:15

10 Beatles - Drive My Car 2:28

11 Beatles - Hello, Goodbye 3:28

12 Beatles - Getting Better 2:48

13 Beatles - Got to Get You Into My Life 2:29

14 Beatles - Your Mother Should Know 2:28

15 Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing 2:00

16 Beatles - I Should Have Known Better 2:43

17 Beatles - Birthday 2:42

18 Beatles - Words of Love 2:04

19 Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love 2:11

20 Beatles - All Together Now 2:10


CD3

01 Beatles - Revolution 1 4:15

02 Beatles - Helter Skelter 4:29

03 Beatles - Paperback Writer 2:18

04 Beatles - Day Tripper 2:48

05 Beatles - Ticket to Ride 3:09

06 Beatles - Back in The U.S.S.R. 2:42

07 Beatles - Hey Bulldog 3:11

08 Beatles - Taxman 2:37

09 Beatles - Lady Madonna 2:17

10 Beatles - Get Back 3:07

11 Beatles - Come Together 4:19

12 Beatles - You Won't See Me 3:20

13 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 2:53

14 Beatles - You Can't Do That 2:34

15 Beatles - The Night Before 2:35

16 Beatles - I'm Down 2:31

17 Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 2:24

18 Beatles - Run for Your Life 2:21

19 Beatles - She Said She Said 2:36

20 Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy) 7:47


CD4

01 Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever 4:07

02 Beatles - Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds 3:28

03 Beatles - Rain 3:01

04 Beatles - Glass Onion 2:17

05 Beatles - She's Leaving Home 3:35

06 Beatles - Being for The Benefit of Mr Kite 2:37

07 Beatles - I Am The Walrus 4:35

08 Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 2:49

09 Beatles - Blue Jay Way 3:55

10 Beatles - Only A Northern Song 3:24

11 Beatles - Love You To 2:59

12 Beatles - Within You Without You 5:04

13 Beatles - It's All Too Much 6:25

14 Beatles - Dear Prudence 3:55

15 Beatles - Across The Universe 3:48

16 Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows 2:57

17 Beatles - A Day in The Life 5:35

18 Beatles - I Want to Tell You 2:28

19 Beatles - Nowhere Man 2:43

20 Beatles - Flying 2:15


CD5

01 Beatles - Let it Be 4:03

02 Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere 2:24

03 Beatles - She Came in Through The Bathroom Window 1:58

04 Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 2:09

05 Beatles - Norwegian Wood (The Bird Has Flown) 2:04

06 Beatles - Something 3:02

07 Beatles - Oh! Darling 3:27

08 Beatles - Martha My Dear 2:28

09 Beatles - Golden Slumbers 1:31

10 Beatles - Carry That Weight 1:36

11 Beatles - I'll Be Back 2:22

12 Beatles - The Inner Light 2:36

13 Beatles - Sun King 2:26

14 Beatles - All You Need is Love 3:48

15 Beatles - Hey Jude 7:10

16 Beatles - Two of Us 3:35

17 Beatles - I Me Mine 2:25

18 Beatles - For You Blue 2:32

19 Beatles - The Fool on The Hill 2:59

20 Beatles - The End 2:21

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

REUPLOADS # 158

REUPLOADS # 158

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VA - Soul Jazz Records Presents Venezuela 70 Vol.01 [2016] + Vol.02 [2018] (2 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2022/03/va-soul-jazz-records-presents-venezuela.html


Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Classic Columbia & Okeh Sessions [2002] (8 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2023/03/joe-venuti-eddie-lang-classic-columbia.html


Bread - Retrospective [1996] (2 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2024/03/bread-retrospective-1996-2-x-cds.html


VA - Easy Tempo Vol. 01 - 10 [1996 - 2000] (10 x CDs)

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2023/04/va-easy-tempo-vol-01-10-1996-2000-10-x.html


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BB LUCKY DIP #566

BB LUCKY DIP #566

Lucky Dip's will be a mystery gift to those who choose to pick them up. 

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Today's topic: MIXED BAG


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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

VA - A Strange Light from the East, Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72 (3 x CDs)

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VA - A Strange Light from the East, Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72 (3 x CDs)

Strange Light from the East captures a moment when Western musicians began listening differently. Between 1965 and 1972, curiosity about Indian classical music, Japanese folk traditions, Middle Eastern modes and Southeast Asian timbres reshaped rock, folk, jazz and emerging psychedelic forms. This compilation gathers those explorations into a coherent story, showing how Eastern influence entered Western music not as a passing fashion but as a genuine search for new emotional and spiritual dimensions.

The earliest tracks reveal how raga principles transformed Western songwriting. Modal structures replace chord progressions, drones create a sense of suspended time, and sitar, tambura and tabla introduce textures that feel both ancient and startlingly modern. Folk artists adopt Eastern melodic contours, creating songs that move with a quiet, contemplative grace. Their music feels intimate yet expansive, shaped by an awareness of traditions far beyond the usual Anglo‑American frame.

Psychedelic groups push further, using non‑Western percussion, bamboo flutes, hand‑played drums and sustained harmonic beds to dissolve the boundary between rhythm and atmosphere. These pieces often unfold slowly, inviting the listener into a space where repetition becomes meditation and timbre becomes narrative. Jazz players add another layer, blending Eastern scales with modal improvisation and spiritual intensity. Their work suggests a dialogue rather than an imitation, a meeting point between traditions that share an interest in transcendence.

The compilation also highlights how film, theatre and avant‑garde composers absorbed Eastern ideas into orchestral and experimental settings. These tracks show how the search for new colours extended beyond popular music, influencing broader cultural movements that valued openness, reflection and cross‑cultural exchange.

What makes A Strange Light from the East compelling is its sense of discovery. The musicians here are not borrowing exotic sounds; they are expanding their vocabulary, finding beauty in unfamiliar shapes and creating music that feels exploratory, hypnotic and quietly transformative. It is a portrait of an era when Western music looked outward and found new ways to express depth, calm and wonder. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Bert Jansch - Anji 3:13

02 Yardbirds W- Jeff Beck - Heart Full of Soul 2:30

03 Byrds - Eight Miles High 3:37

04 Riot Squad - I Take it We're Through 2:51

05 Cyrkle - Turn Down Day 2:36

06 Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows 2:36

07 Misunderstood - I Unseen (Ibc Acetate) 2:02

08 Butterfield Blues Band - East West 13:14

09 Tuesday's Children - A Strange Light From The East 2:25

10 Big Jim Sullivan - She's Leaving Home 2:37

11 Dantalion's Chariot - This Island 3:56

12 Flower Pot - Wantin' Ain't Getting' 2:05

13 Zodiac - Libra - The Flower Child 3:31

14 Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens 3:05

15 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Buddha 2:09

16 Yardbirds W- Jimmy Page - White Summer 3:57

17 Fugs - Hare Krishna 3:22

18 Misty Wizards - It's Love 2:11

19 Hi Revving Tongues - (The Psychedelic) Illusion 2:09

20 Spirit - Girl in Your Eye 3:18

21 Lemon Pipers - I Need Someone (The Painter) 2:45

22 Twilights - Devendra 1:50

23 Chad & Jeremy - Sunstroke 4:13

24 Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup - Which Dreamed It 2:34


CD2

01 Spencer Davis Group - After Tea 3:21

02 July - The Way (Unreleased Version) 2:02

03 Tales of Justine - Sitting on A Blunestone 2:39

04 East of Eden - Waterways (Demo) 6:41

05 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Air 3:11

06 Tomorrow - Real Life Peppermint Dream 3:20

07 Rascals - Sattva 4:26

08 Incredible String Band - Koeeoaddi There 4:47

09 Pretty Things - Bracelets 3:42

10 Merrell Fankhauser & Hms Bounty - A Visit With Ashiya 3:23

11 Ceyleib People - Menyatt Dyl Com 4:13

12 Nirvana Sitar & String Group - Head 2:51

13 Stooges - We Will Fall 10:18

14 Blossom Toes - Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head 2:55

15 Humble Pie - The Light of Love 3:01

16 Pentangle - Once I Had A Sweetheart 4:38

17 Walter Horton & Martin Stone - Netti Netti 11:55


CD3

01 Shocking Blue - Love Buzz 3:48

02 Clark-Hutchinson - Impromptu in 'e' Minor 8:20

03 Lynne Pike - Given Time 3:06

04 Jeremy Harmer - Tuesday P.M. 2:17

05 Blonde on Blonde - Spinning Wheel 2:48

06 Hubels - Hippy Dippy Funky Monkey Double Bubble Sitar Ma 3:05

07 Third Ear Band - Ghetto Raga (Edit) 8:56

08 John Renbourn - Lamento Di Tristan 1:57

09 The Fox - Butterfly 3:27

10 Meic Stevens - Yorric 8:49

11 Ananda Shankar - Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:38

12 Nitai Dasgupta - Baitha Tano 4:27

13 Abacus - Song for Brunhilde 4:37

14 40 Watt Banana - Nirvana 2:56

15 Pandit Kanwar Sain Trikha - Folk Piece in Kahwra 4:37

16 Wizz Jones - American Land 4:02

17 Yes - Siberian Khatru 8:55

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Bernard Herrmann - The Film Scores On Phase 4 [2021] (7 x CDs)

PHASE 4

Bernard Herrmann - The Film Scores On Phase 4 [2021] (7 x CDs)

Bernard Herrmann’s music has a way of entering the bloodstream. It doesn’t decorate a film; it defines its emotional temperature. The Film Scores On Phase 4 gathers a vast sweep of his work, presenting it with clarity that lets you hear how deeply he shaped the sound of twentieth‑century cinema. Across seven discs, the set moves through psychological thrillers, fantasy epics, science‑fiction landmarks, Shakespearean drama and late‑career reflections, revealing a composer whose imagination never stood still.

The Hitchcock material remains astonishing. Psycho still feels like a shockwave, strings slashing, rhythms tightening, tension rising with every cue. Vertigo and North by Northwest show Herrmann’s mastery of melodic suspense, themes that circle and swell like the psychological states they mirror. Marnie adds a different shade, built on sweeping lines that carry both beauty and unease.

Elsewhere, the collection highlights Herrmann’s versatility. Citizen Kane moves between grandeur, nostalgia and fractured memory, its cues shifting like the film’s structure. The fantasy and science‑fiction scores, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Day the Earth Stood Still — reveal his gift for orchestral colour, using timbre and rhythm to conjure worlds of wonder, menace and mystery. These pieces feel alive, as if the orchestra itself were a creature moving through the story.

The Shakespearean selections show Herrmann as interpreter rather than composer, conducting Shostakovich, Walton, Rózsa and Bliss with weight and clarity. His reading of Hamlet is sombre and elegant, full of emotional gravity. The British film suites that follow add warmth, charm and a sense of mid‑century craft.

The box closes with Obsession, one of Herrmann’s final scores. Its music is haunting, romantic and filled with the sense of an artist nearing the end of a long, brilliant journey. The cues move between dreamlike beauty and sharp suspense, echoing the qualities that defined his career.

What makes The Film Scores On Phase 4 essential is its scope. It presents Herrmann not just as a composer of iconic moments, but as a master craftsman whose work shaped the emotional language of film. For collectors, it is a definitive archive of his orchestral imagination. For listeners, it is a reminder that Herrmann’s music does more than accompany images, it transforms them, giving cinema its pulse, its shadows and its soul. (B)

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CD1

01 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) Prelude 4:25

02 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) The Madhouse 2:04

03 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) The Murder 0:49

04 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) The Water 0:57

05 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) The Swamp 1:52

06 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) The Stairs, the Knife & the Cellar 2:28

07 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) Finale 1:53

08 Bernard Herrmann - Marnie (1964) Prelude 4:43

09 Bernard Herrmann - Marnie (1964) Hunting Scene) 5:26

10 Bernard Herrmann - North by Northwest (1959) Overture 3:07

11 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958) Prelude 2:51

12 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958) The Nightmare 2:06

13 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958) Scène d'amour 5:36

14 Bernard Herrmann - A Portrait of "Hitch" (from "The Trouble with Harry") (1955) 8:14

CD2

01 Bernard Herrmann - Jane Eyre (1943) Selections 13:17

02 Bernard Herrmann - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Interlude 6:39

03 Bernard Herrmann - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) The Memory Waltz 4:18

03 Bernard Herrmann - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) The Memory Waltz 4:18

04 Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) Overture 2:47

05 Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) Variations 5:42

06 Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) Ragtime 1:51

07 Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) Finale 3:03

08 Bernard Herrmann - Based on music from "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941) Sleigh-Ride 1:59

09 Bernard Herrmann - Based on music from "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941) Swing Your Partners 2:36


CD3

01 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) Mountain Top and Sunrise 2:10

02 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) Prelude 2:04

03 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) The Grotto 1:04

04 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) Salt Slides 2:44

05 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) Atlantis 2:52

06 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) The Giant Chameleon and The Fight 2:02

07 Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) The Shaft and Finale 1:58

08 Bernard Herrmann - The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Overture 2:13

09 Bernard Herrmann - The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) The Duel with the Skeleton 2:13

10 Bernard Herrmann - The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Baghdad 3:58

11 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Outer Space 1:58

12 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Radar 2:23

13 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Gort 0:42

14 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The Robot 1:55

15 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Space Control 1:18

16 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Terror 1:58

17 Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Farewell and Finale 1:26

18 Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Prelude 1:39

19 Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Fire Engine 1:17

20 Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Bedroom 1:50

21 Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Flowers of Fire 1:53

22 Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Road and Finale 4:02


CD4

01 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) Introduction 3:23

02 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) Ball at the Palace 3:05

03 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) The Ghost 5:17

04 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) Scene of the Poisoning 4:20

05 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) The Arrival and Scene of the Players 2:51

06 Bernard Herrmann - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a (1964) The Duel and Death of Hamlet 2:41

07 Bernard Herrmann - Richard III (1955) Prelude 10:00

08 Bernard Herrmann - Julius Caesar - Suite (1953) The Ides of March 3:21

09 Bernard Herrmann - Julius Caesar - Suite (1953) Caesar's Ghost 2:49

10 Bernard Herrmann - Julius Caesar - Suite (1953) Approach of Octavian's Army and Death of Brutus 6:14


CD5

01 Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Island (1961) Prelude 1:59

02 Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Island (1961) The Balloon 2:53

03 Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Island (1961) The Giant Crab 3:36

04 Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Island (1961) The Giant Bee 2:52

05 Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Island (1961) The Giant Bird 3:10

06 Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Prelude 2:35

07 Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Talos 2:20

08 Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Talos' Death 2:43

09 Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Triton 3:22

10 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Overture 2:26

11 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Minuetto - Wapping 2:03

12 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Hornpipe 1:19

13 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Lilliputians 1 & 2 3:22

14 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Victory 1 & 2 1:28

15 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Escape 0:40

16 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) The King's March 2:00

17 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Trees 2:24

18 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) The Tightrope 3:02

19 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Lovers 2:53

20 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) The Chess Game 1:25

21 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Pursuit 1:48

22 Bernard Herrmann - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Finale 1:04


CD6

01 Bernard Herrmann - Anna Karenina - Suite (1948) Overture 1:43

02 Bernard Herrmann - Anna Karenina - Suite (1948) Forlane 2:39

03 Bernard Herrmann - Anna Karenina - Suite (1948) Love Scene 2:10

04 Bernard Herrmann - Anna Karenina - Suite (1948) Finale 4:29

05 Bernard Herrmann - Oliver Twist (1948) Fagin's Romp 2:20

06 Bernard Herrmann - Oliver Twist (1948) Finale 4:40

07 Bernard Herrmann - An Ideal Husband (1947) Waltz 4:46

08 Bernard Herrmann - An Ideal Husband (1947) Hyde Park Galop 1:41

09 Bernard Herrmann - Escape Me Never - Suite (1935) Escape Me Never (Ballet) 3:20

10 Bernard Herrmann - The Invaders (1941) 49th Parallel 3:25

11 Bernard Herrmann - Things to Come - Suite (1936) Prologue 2:35

12 Bernard Herrmann - Things to Come - Suite (1936) March 4:42

13 Bernard Herrmann - Things to Come - Suite (1936) Building of the New World 2:08

14 Bernard Herrmann - Things to Come - Suite (1936) Attack on the Moon Gun 1:36

15 Bernard Herrmann - Things to Come - Suite (1936) Epilogue 3:25


CD7

01 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Main Title 1:55

02 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Valse Lente 1:30

03 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Kidnap 2:33

04 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Newsboy 1:44

05 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) The Tape 0:29

06 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) The Ferry 2:44

07 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) The Tomb 1:19

08 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Sandra 6:48

09 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) - The Original Soundtrack Recording (1976) The Church 1:55

10 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Court's Confession 1:52

11 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Bryn Mawr 2:01

12 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) New Orleans 1:01

13 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Wedding 2:34

14 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Court - The Morning After 0:30

15 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Court Signs Papers 1:38

16 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Sandra Finds Briefcase 1:42

17 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Court Arrives at Wharf 0:42

18 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) The Plane 1:04

19 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Court and LaSalle's Struggle 2:29

20 Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) Airport 2:23

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