Itunes - "The New Musical Cast"- Page 2

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:33pm

Don't they have a recording of Chess like this?

[Nickhutson]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:38pm

I am sure you are right - I am not going to question your knowledge. But, I am sure Alan has some vito.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:43pm

Well, I don't know for sure, I would just assume that they're having to pay rights to record these songs and release them which would mean that the authors are getting some money out of it.

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:52pm

I must assume Eagle Eye has certainly agreed to Mechanical Licenses for these recordings.

Now-a-day, you must go through an online distributor to get your music on iTunes. It is a long process and iTunes (and the distributor) are very careful about what is allowed.

They will usually do a preliminary copyright check, to make sure the licensee (the company or person submitting the album) has 'musical clearence'. That's why it takes 4 to 6 weeks for digital albums to become available...

While I have no idea how reputable Eagle Eye corp is and although these recordings are f*cking terrible, there's no way they would distribute and produce illegal DPD's. Especially considering this is a fully-developed company.

They would be caught within a week and sued up the ass.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 6:16pm

Oh my gosh, on 'The Boy Friend' cover do they really have a drawing of a pregnant woman?

This is all atrocious and hilarious.

[enroutetothesky]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 6:21pm

Um, wow. These hurt my soul.

EDIT: I think my favourite album cover is for Hairspray.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3849/hairspray.png Updated On: 3/22/09 at 06:21 PM

[biggest CHENO fan]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 7:25pm

HAHAHAHA! That cover is killing me. It looks like a bad porno DVD cover.

[pair-o-dice]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 9:44am

I Know Where You've Been

priceless

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 1:51pm

bahahah. I love The Boy Friend one :)

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 3:07pm

The Hairspray one looks more like RENT than Hairspray.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 3:46pm

And West Side Story looks more like Grease.

This is atrocious. I'm laughing so hard right now!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 6:49pm

Why does the Sweeney Todd recording cut all the songs sung by...Sweeney Todd? Could they not get a man in the "studio" the day they recorded this?

The orchestrations on Chess sound the same as the London recording, heh.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=277923876&s=143441

Yeah. Fidler.

[breakfree303]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 7:12pm

Oh my gosh, I bought one of those!
I didn't know it was fake...
Well, the "Joseph..." isn't too suckish.
It's just not great.
But I was listening to the other ones, and wow are they "interesting".

[henryt]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 8:10pm

I literally jumped a foot in the air when I heard them start Hard Knock Life. I think they put ten adults in a room and told them to sing in their most squeaky voices. My ears still hurt.

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:37am

Why is "There's No Business Like Show Business" in the Annie album????

Good Lord.....

[LotteTBS138]

Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:00am

I will say, I like the HAIR album cover... that actually looks like it could work. But the Jersey Boys Experience??? 3 dreadful version of each song?!!!

This is all hilarious and people have too much time on their hands!

[gypsy101]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 3:29am

So I have just stumbled upon the albums discussed in this thread tonight while looking for the new Annie soundtrack on iTunes, and I instead discovered something greater. I was a little surprised that the OP of this thread had the exact same thought as I: the version of Tomorrow from the Annie in this outrageous series of seemingly ilegal recordings sounds straight out of Flashdance. I listened to the preview a few times out of sheer horror and then again because I thought the lady actually had a pretty good 1980's pop voice. Why is There's No Business Like Show Business on the album? I guess Irving Berlin was popular during the depression.
I listened to a preview or two from most of the albums on the list, some terrifying me with their utter lack of talent and a few entertaining me with their utter lack of regard to good taste and a sense of what is right and wrong in musical theater on the whole. Most of the highlights were discussed on this same thread in 2009 but they are all still true five years later: Fantine is played by a man, Javert doesn't really know how to scan lyrics, Maureen is terribly underpitch, the cover art is particularly horrendous especially for the Lion King, Little Shop of Horrors, High Society and the Boy Friend.
The girl playing Eliza Doolittle was actually pretty good on I Could Have Danced All Night and girl playing Christine Daae wasn't terrible. Pretty much everyone else I heard was a disaster just waiting for a trainwreck to be a part of.

Fun bonus: the itunes reviewers are hilarious in their ineptitude to smell a scam, I assume most of them were straight though, because gays would never even think of buying off-brand musical cast recordings.

Mama Mia indeed.

[beilis32]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 2:36pm

These recordings make me sad. Why do they have that version of Chess and not the original Broadway cast? (At least I couldn't find it. Is it on Itunes?)
The one guy on the Les Mis one is clearly trying to imitate Colm Wilkinson, to no avail. But their Christine in Phantom isn't bad...

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 3:05pm

Isn't this Chess?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chess/id251513840

Update: Looks like that is the original concept album. On Amazon, there is no option for digital download for Broadway cast, so it's not an iTunes issue, probably a rights issue getting it available digitally. Can't fault iTunes for something the production isn't making available digitally. Updated On: 11/17/14 at 03:05 PM

[jpbran]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 3:29pm

These are definitely not a "new thing." Nor are they a product of online music stores... These are the same carapfests when you used to see "music from PHANTOM" cassettes in the checkout lane at Walgreens. I think I bought something similar for Les Mis in the early late 80s.

[beilis32]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 4:10pm

Thanks for the clarification. I guess I will just have to wait, sort of like how the original version of Drood wasn't on itunes forever and then one day it randomly appeared. I just want to download David Carroll's glorious "Anthem"!

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/17/14 at 5:05pm

Actually, the $9.99 Chess CDs on Amazon are all used, so this title seems to be out of print on all formats. But if you want it, buy the CD, rip into iTunes. If it's already OOP, it seems unlikely a remastering is in its future.