My Verdict On The Inspecteur Gadget CD: Wait For Volume 2

Do Not Buy This Lousy CD

Remember my advocacy endure anniversary that you should buy/support the new "Inspecteur Gadget" soundtrack CD behindhand of what could accept been better, like I was planning to do? Well, I accept to yield that back. Today, I've appear to the cessation that the TГ©lГ© 80 CD is not account my money.

Let me explain: I haven't in actuality bought the CD... but acknowledgment to Itunes, I've been able to accept to excerpts from all 12 advance of it. (For those who don't use Itunes, try the French music website Qobuz for alert samples.) And candidly - a lot of of the advance complete appealing disappointing. The affliction allotment is, they COULD accept articulate far bigger if TГ©lГ© 80 had artlessly taken the time to locate able antecedent actual (i. e. bigger LP copies).

First of all, I can affirm that the "crackling of vinyl" mentioned on the PlanГ©tГ© Jeunesse appointment is actual abundant there... and not alone on a few tracks, but on a lot of of them. The French and American affair songs do complete good, but that's apparently just because the masters for these capital capacity accept been taken bigger affliction of than those for the accomplishments music (which are today apparently lost). And that brings me to the capital botheration with this release. About all of the accomplishments music tracks, as able-bodied as the alarming soundtrack-exclusive adaptation of Dr Claw's affair (track 6, "Le affair du Docteur Gang"), accept a LOT of crackling, and some of them complete embarrassingly bad. (The alone barring seemed to be clue 5, "L'usine de chocolat" (Chocolate Factory), area I didn't annals any abrading noises.) This bad complete superior is decidedly black as I apperceive that actual acceptable (or possibly even mint) copies of the French LP are still in existence. XIII Bis Records just didn't yield the time to acquisition them.

Let's compare, for instance, with the fan-done MP3 rip of the "Inspecteur Gadget: Bande originale" LP that has been circulating on the internet for years anytime back basic on this site. There is some attenuate crackling on some of the advance there, to be sure... but generally, the advance in that rip complete great, and MUCH CLEANER than the aforementioned advance on the TГ©lГ© 80 CD! (Click here, actuality and actuality to accept to some of the fan-ripped accomplishments music tracks.) The actuality that an actionable fan rip of the LP sounds far bigger than an official CD absolution proves just how amateurish this aboriginal "Inspecteur Gadget" CD from XIII Bis Records is. This is not alone sad on TГ©lГ© 80's part, it's absolute embarrassing. They bigger go out of their way to accomplish up for this in the planned Aggregate 2 CD.

I'll not go into detail about the added affidavit not to buy this awkward CD release, as you already apperceive them from my antecedent posts: Alone 12 advance on the disc instead of the 25+ advance that TГ©lГ© 80 could potentially accept aggregate from both the French and Australian LPs... the awning angel has been addled for no acumen whatsoever... and oh, yes, there in actuality is one added thing. As you may accept noticed, the actual endure clue on the CD is a "US version" of the Inspector Gadget theme. However, this is not the aboriginal TV adaptation of the theme, but rather an continued adaptation active for 2:50 minutes. (This adaptation was aboriginal released, I believe, as the aboriginal clue of the Australian soundtrack LP "Inspector Gadget - The Music", afore overextension to a few CD abstracts of television themes). I don't accept a botheration with the continued affair song getting there, as it's accurate Shuki Levy; but the one adaptation of the American affair that has absolutely ashore in people's minds over the years is assuredly the beneath TV version. The continued affair on the CD is good, but not about as great... and the affair loses some of its agitation if the song al of a sudden starts over afresh amid through. (Have a accept actuality to adjudicator the continued affair for yourself.) Bottom line: Both the beneath and best versions of the affair song deserve to be included on an official soundtrack release; and the beneath (and best) adaptation is of advance not included. Apparently because the TГ©lГ© 80 aggregation didn't apperceive about (or didn't bother to research) how accepted that original, American TV affair is in the minds of everybody who grew up with it. Again, blah work. And speaking of affair songs: Why did TГ©lГ© 80 change the aboriginal appellation of Penny's French affair "Le affair de Sophie" to "La chanson de Sophie"? As if the mirrored awning angel wasn't abundant of a absurd change. 

All this is sad to say, as I absolutely do like the action and acceptable intentions abaft the abstraction of assuredly absolution iconic 80s TV soundtracks such as Inspector Gadget on CD. But if it's done as sloppily as this, I can't get myself to abutment it. The alone affair giving me a little achievement is conceivably that TГ©lГ© 80's baton Christophe Renaud aboveboard accepted that abounding of the advance on their "Inspecteur Gadget" CD were of bad superior - and that they're planning a aggregate 2 with bigger complete quality. (I accept I was wrong, by the way, if bold beforehand that TГ©lГ© 80 was traveling to seek for the lost, aboriginal masters: what Renaud meant was apparently just that they're gonna acquisition bigger LP copies to rip the music from.) I will not authority my animation for this... but I really, absolutely achievement that Aggregate 2 (whenever it comes out) proves to be a big, blessed surprice. At the moment, however, there's no ambuscade that the best way for you to adore Shuki Levy and Haim Saban's aboriginal Inspector Gadget soundtrack... is the actionable way.