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Amazon USA
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2Z3FQVR/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
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https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0C2Z3FQVR/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C2Z3FQVR/?tag=imwan-21

Description
Introducing Sound Tracks by Jimmy Page: a special edition box set bringing together JP’s extraordinary compositions for the films Lucifer Rising and Death Wish II along with additional archive material for the first time.

The quadruple box set is available now and new discs Lucifer Rising: The Second Coming and Death Wish II: Expansion include rare, never-before-heard tracks.

Speaking about the release, Jimmy explains; “The archive material and work included here serve as an illustration of the ongoing process at the time of these two projects.”

Recorded at Jimmy's home studio in Plumpton and The Sol studio in Cookham in the late seventies and early eighties, Sound Tracks features an all-new booklet containing a written track-by-track insight by Jimmy Page for the archive material amidst a stunning collection of original artwork across 36 pages. The quadruple gatefold CD case and booklet is housed inside a soft-touch matt black slipcase.

Tracklist
[CD1: Lucifer Rising]
1. Lucifer Rising - Main Title
2. Incubus
3. Damask
4. Unharmonics
5. Damask - Ambient
6. Lucifer Rising - Percussive Return

[CD2: Lucifer Rising - The Second Coming]
1. Lucifer Rising Early Mix
2. Sonic Textures 1 - Earth
3. Sonic Textures 2 - Air
4. Sonic Textures 3 - Fire
5. Sonic Textures 4 - Water
6. Sonic Textures 5 - Ether

[CD3: Death Wish II]
1. Who's To Blame
2. The Chase
3. City Sirens
4. Jam Sandwich
5. Carole's Theme
6. The Release
7. Hotel Rats And Photostats
8. A Shadow In The City
9. Jill's Theme
10. Prelude
11. Hypnotizing Ways
12. Main Title

[CD4: Death Wish II - Expansion]
1. Jill's Orchestral Theme
2. Alternate Jill's Theme
3. 9M1
4. City Sirens
5. Baby I Miss You So
6. Hey Mama / Swinging Sax
7. Carole's Theme - Strings
8. Prelude
9. Country Sandwich
10. A Minor Sketch

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Did anyone get this when it was an exclusive through Page's website? I found the old thread for this, looks like it was initially offered in 2015, and there were a lot of people interested but the shipping was 21 GDP which seemed to scare most off (unfortunately, a shipping rate like that seems about standard these days). I had interest then, but ended up not doing it because the price would have been somewhere around 75-80 USD when factoring in the exchange rate. I might go for it now.

It looks like it will be very expensive. The current price on Amazon UK is £82.40, which comes out to over $100 US. If we're lucky they won't be just factoring in exchange when coming up with a retail price on the North American sites, but I have a bad feeling. I'm certainly not paying $140 Canadian for a 4 CD set.

I remember this from back then and didn't get it for the reasons that you mentioned. I'll probably get it now.

WARNIING!

it's really not very good at all.

try to check t out before you buy it, especially att he prices you guys are talking.

Do you have it, Renny?

in a time long ago and in a land far away i had death wish on vinyl and my good friend had one of the others, hard for me describe, but i can tell you with 100% conviction it is NOT led zeppelin in any way shape or form.

i think between the two albums we might have gotten through each of them once, only because no one wanted to get up and change the record.

to the very best of my recollection, they are just not very good, and at those prices.......

Thanks!

I have the Death Wish soundtrack on vinyl as well, and I think I only ever listened to it once or twice as well. Probably the only track that was a bit interesting was "Who's To Blame."

I grabbed a used copy of the CD version off eBay a while back. It deletes “Big Band, Sax, And Violence” and adds “Main Theme” (basically, “Who’s To Blame” without vocals) at the end of the DW2 disc. Another half hour of cues and ideas make up the DW2 bonus disc, and two discs (totalling one hour) are dedicated to Lucifer Rising. All in all, spooky stuff. The booklet is nice.

It’s mostly incendiary music (Lucifer Rising) and not very interesting.

As for Death Wish II, The Firm played a number of songs from that when I saw them, and “Who’s To Blame” is excellent with tricky riffs, “Prelude” is a good classical piece and “City Sirens” is great.

At least those songs were great with Paul Rodgers singing them.

The rest is pretty awful.

Jimmy was still strung out at the time of Death Wish II, but it got him working again.

I thought the price on Amazon was about 35 GBP, but I was probably getting Amazon's site mixed up with Page's website (which currently has it at 30 GBP).

If Amazon US gets it, and it's not an import at import prices...I'm hoping it gets down to about 50 USD and I'll definitely consider it then.

I still have the Death Wish 2 soundtrack on vinyl, although I haven't listened to it in over 25 years as that is how long I have been without a turntable. Like everyone else, the only thing I can really remember getting into was Who's To Blame.

But I'm not really anticipating getting blown away by this collection if I get it. Would be going in considering it a pick-up just to be a "completionist." Even if it's "two listens and then on the shelf forever, to me it makes more sense to pick up something like this which is music I don't have on CD rather than blow my money on another remaster of music that might sound a tad bit different but probably not any better than what I already have.

That's pretty much how I am looking at it. If I can get it for about $20 a disc, I'll be happy to add it to my collection.