More Equalizer music !!! Please?

[shatterhand]

I’m thrilled that Stewart has chosen to share unreleased music from “The Vaults” with all of us! The film/television music is especially exciting to me.

I’d love to hear more unreleased tracks for “The Equalizer” television show, and there’s A LOT of unreleased music from that show! In particular, from the first season, there’s a cool, rhythmic theme played over the opening credits of “The Children’s Song” episode. Also, in a later episode, there’s a bit of quirky piano music used in a scene where Mickey Kostmayer is building a model house out of toothpicks to pass the time while protecting a young woman.

Of course there’s lots of other great Copeland music from that show and other projects.
But whatever Stewart chooses to share is fine with me!

[jedsoon]

i fully second all of the above.

in particular, i remember the sequence where mccall is rigging a cabin in the woods with machine guns/traps, or some such, with really cool music that i don't think was released. plus stew came back full force for the opener of (i think) season three to score and perform, whereas he had only scored the previous season. so much great music in this show's score overall. this era was stew at the top of his form and, while i am sure that a soundtrack to a 20-year old tv show is not likely to be in the offing, this is some of the stuff i would most like to get my hands on. the streaming page is probably the best hope for this copelandite!

threads like this really make me want to convert to being a fan of dead like me. equalizer is the kind of stuff i can get into easily enough, without it necessarily having stew's name attached, but dead comes off as a "horror-lite" teen comedy or some such. sorry to prejudge it, having never seen an episode. i suspect it is only a matter of time, tho!

[shatterhand]

Jedsoon, the only reason I ever even checked out “Dead Like Me” was because I had heard that Stewart Copeland was scoring it, and I quickly got hooked (on the show AND the music). I’d definitely recommend checking the show out (if you can find it on TV since Showtime cancelled it). :D

[jedsoon]

bummer! i thought of this as stew's primary day job. not that he's hurting or anything. didn't season one make it to dvd at least? i have never bought an entire season of a tv show i've not seen even once, but, hey, there's always a first time!

[Crazytrekker]

Where do I even begin to BEG for more music from The Equalizer? The single best-scored TV show from the 80s (and it was up against some pretty stiff competition).

So... personal favourite scores/themes:

Pilot
China Rain
The Defector
The Lock Box
Lady Cop
The Children's Song
The Distant Fire
Mama's Boy
Bump And Run
Reign Of Terror (with lots of cool ideas from The Rhymatist thrown in!)
Dead Drop (Flowershop Quintet - Yay!)
Unnatural Causes
Shades Of Darkness (bloody masterpiece!)
Tip On A Sure Thing
High Performance
Beyond Control
Memories Of Manon
Coal Black Soul
First Light
Hand And Glove (see Shades Of Darkness)
Re-Entry
Blood And Wine
In The Money
Mission: McCall
Inner View
The Rehearsal (another bloody masterpiece!)

Oh the list is endless. Several cues from the above episodes were previously released on the Equalizer LP/CD but it doesn't even come close to the vast quantity of fantastic material Copeland wrote for the show.

Hell, I even liked Bob Christianson's scores for the first 3 episodes of Season 2 (Prelude, Nocturne and A Community Of Civilized Men).

Of course when Copeland ultimately left - DOWNHILL.

So... please release every note. And pop the series out on DVD too, Universal, and not on those wretched DVD-18 discs neither! :-)

John

[Sorea]

hey isnt that stuard's reel daddee in the Equalizer video? how cIa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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brat !

[sockii]

I'm really keeping fingers crossed for Equalizer DVDs at some point--I would definitely buy them! I've already voted for the show at TVShowsOnDVD, you never know if it'll help or not but I figure it can't hurt!

[conroy]

Yeah, what's the delay with getting the Equalizer on DVD? So many crappy and undeserving shows are coming out on DVD. Oh would that they got Stewart to do some commentary tracks or even featurettes if it ever happens (and easter eggs of some of his music pieces from the show).

[sockii]

I'm keepin' fingers crossed it'll show up eventually on DVD. Some of my other favorites from the 80s and 90s are just making it now, so who knows. (They did a beautiful job on the Nowhere Man dvds that just came out, for instance...I'd love to see The Equalizer get a similar treatment!)