Brief Encounter

1. Where Do You Start?

2. Valley of the Dolls

3. Aspen

4. Solitude

5. Two for the Roade

6. Italian Rain

7. Brief Encounter: To Last a Lifetime

8. Girl Across the Way

9. Fancy Free

10. Oblivión

11. Crazy World

12. Jean

13. Clelissima

Brief Encounter,David Budway,Alanna Records,Contemporary Instrumental,Easy Listening,New Age

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Soundtrack From The Original Motion Picture

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Forbidden Colours
Brilliant!
Essential Sylvian / Sakamoto collaboration
This is still No.1 in my list of favorite music
Beautiful, complicated and haunting

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Soundtrack From The Original Motion Picture

Manufacturer: Milan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

ASIN: B0000015IO
Release Date: 1994-10-11

Tracks:

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Batavia
Germination
A Hearty Breakfast
Before The War
The Seed And The Sower
A Brief Encounter
Ride, Ride, Ride (Celliers' Brother's Song)
The Fight
Father Christmas
Dismissed
Assembly
Beyond Reason
Sowing The Seed
23rd Psalm
Last Regrets
Ride, Ride, Ride (Reprise)
The Seed
Forbidden Colours

Album Description

Actor and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the world's best musicians. He creates music with a unique style that combines western, classical, symphonic composition, Japanese traditional sounds and experimental electronic music. Out of print for many years until now, the soundtrack also contains a vocal performance by David Sylvian, best remembered as leader of the popular U.K. rock band Japan.

Customer Reviews:

Forbidden Colours.......2004-10-19

My college roommate bought this when it was released. I have always loved the Forbidden Colours version with David Sylvian's vocals. A real gem of a song.

Brilliant!.......2004-05-20

This is the soundtrack to the 1983 feature film "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence". Sakamoto, who was in the now-legendary New Wave/synth group Yellow Magic Orchestra, composed and performed the entire evocative score. Addtionally, Sakamoto starred as a Japanese POW camp commandant, along with British POW's Tom Conti and David Bowie (as an Australian commando). The movie, while a disappointment at the box office, is quite an experience; a strange drama set in a Japanese-run POW camp in the Dutch East Indies in World War II, but worth watching. The ending is emotional; you may shed a few tears at the end!

As good as the film is, the soundtrack is stunning, especially the title track; it's haunting, mesmorizing, and powerful. (The only clunker is the David Sylvian vocal on the "reprise" at the end, which was not on the film's soundtrack.)

At the very least, get this brilliant soundtrack!

Essential Sylvian / Sakamoto collaboration.......2003-09-03

This CD disappeared for some time, I remember hunting for years to find it again. This re-release gives fans of the movie and the two artists another chance to listen to a fine Sakamoto piece. Sakamoto was in Yellow Magic orchestra, Sylvian in Japan and then on his own. The collaboration with Sylvian is one of many: Bamboo Music/Bamboo Houses and Sylvian's first 3 solo albums -- all amazing when Sakamoto adds his unique keyboard touches. "Forbidden Colors" stands away from the rest of the album, I think, a wonderful song, one of my favorites.

Buy the movie, it's still available, enjoy Bowie against Sakamoto and Tom Conti's fine performance. Then, you'll need this album.

This is still No.1 in my list of favorite music.......2003-08-12

I watched the movie for the first time when I was 21.

I listened to the entire soundtrack for the first time when I was 18.

I have known the melody of the title theme....since I was in elementary school.

I always whistled this melody without knowing what the music was called or who it was by.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence was the soundtrack of my life.

PS.
I have recently noticed the track #2 on disc #2 of the compilation Clicks & Cuts 3 (on Mille Plateaux), by Antonelli Electr., starts with a melody that is very remniscent of one of the short tracks on Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. It made me really excited...

Beautiful, complicated and haunting.......2003-04-12

close your eyes and enjoy this work of art

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Marillion in its beginnings
A great CD, buy it before it go out of stock

Real to Reel/Brief Encounter
Marillion
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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B-Sides Themselves
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ASIN: B000005RS1
Release Date: 1997-06-16

Tracks:

Assassing
Incubus
Cinderella Search
Emerald Lies
Forgotten Sons
Garden Party
Market Square Heroes

Tracks:

Lady Nina
Freaks
Kayleigh (Live)
Fugazi (Live)
Script For A Jesters Tear (Live)

Album Details

Re-released at Mid-Price with the Mini CD Brief Encounter.

Customer Reviews:

Marillion in its beginnings.......2003-05-17

This is a combo of two live EPs from the early 80's (not really a box set).

It's interesting to listen to it to get a feeling of what the band was like back when it was starting to gain a bit of fame. It's the only place to listen to some of the early songs in concert, as sang by Fish...a real nice complement to 'The thieving magpie'...it's also one of the few places to find the studio version of 'Freaks'

A great CD, buy it before it go out of stock.......1999-05-20

Some songs makes the CD really worth: the live version of "Cindarella Search", expecially the lead guitar, is wonderful. Some other songs, like "Lady Nina", are nice, but have to be labeleled definitively as "B" sides. These are the minority on the CD, and after all I think this is a very good one. I liked the first edition which missed "Keyleight", "Fugazi" and "Script for a Jester Tears" and I think these three songs add a great value to a CD which was already good.

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Brief Encounter
Eddie Daniels
Manufacturer: Muse Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008AP7
Release Date: 1994-03-16

Tracks:

Brief Encounter
Child Is Born
Path
Sway
There Is No Greater Love
Ligia

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Prime Marillion
Reel To Real/Brief Encounters

Real to Reel/Brief Encounter
Marillion
Manufacturer: Sanctuary UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000508EE
Release Date: 2000-10-31

Tracks:

Assassing
Incubus
Cinderella Search
Emerald Lies
Forgotten Sons
Garden Party
Market Square Heroes

Tracks:

Lady Nina
Freaks
Kayleigh (Live)
Fugazi (Live)
A Script For A Jesters Tear (Live)

Album Description

2000 re-issue featuring their 1984 live album & their 1986 five track mini-album 'Brief Encounter' with 3 live tracks. Both digitally remastered. 2000 release. Double slimline jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Prime Marillion.......2001-09-06

Suffice it to say that any Marillion disc with Fish fronting the band is a sure bet. This is a must-have for any true Marillion fan. 'Real to Reel' is simply superb, check out 'Cinderella Search', amazing, as is the entire disc. Disc 2 is also very worthwhile capturing the band in great form. Remastered and it sounds great.

Reel To Real/Brief Encounters.......2001-03-18

This is a "live" album with all that entails. Marillion/Fish always do a wonderful job before an audience. The music can stand without all the studio tricks. If you buy this ablum for no other reason buy it for "Forgotten Sons" and "Cinderella Search" these song were made to be heard live.

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Real to Reel/Brief Encounter
Marillion
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000DZSH
Release Date: 1997-11-04

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RtR is THE live Marillion album
Fantastic live release...but what the HELL is that?

Real to Reel/Brief Encounter
Marillion
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060PCH
Release Date: 2002-03-05

Tracks:

ASSASSING
INCUBUS
CINDERELLA SEARCH
EMERALD LIES
FORGOTTEN SONGS
GARDEN PARTY
MARKET SQUARE HEROES

Tracks:

LADY NINA
FREAKS
KAYLEIGH
FUGAZI
SCRIPT FOR JESTERS TEAR

Customer Reviews:

RtR is THE live Marillion album.......2004-08-17

'Magpie' is a fine release in its own right, but RtR is definitely rawer, more intense, and more immediate because of it. This album is a great primer for newcomers to Marillion.

Fantastic live release...but what the HELL is that?.......2002-12-19

Am I losing my mind, or does the above image for this remastered edition read "Reel To Real"? I even blew up the image so that it couldn't be said I simply have bad vision--and I do, but when it comes to all things Marillion, I have the memory of a stickler.

The original title of this release was "Real To Reel"--a play on words, titled appropriately by wordsmith and former Marillion vocalist Fish, to indicate a live concert ("real") that's been recorded ("reel"). As in reel to reel tape. Get it? I simply cannot believe that this was remastered and approved for re-release with such a glaring error. What's next, the mis-spelling of the very band's name? Ah, standards. Nobody seems to have them anymore.

All of that nitpicking aside, I realize that I still haven't done what I came to accomplish when I decided to take a stab at this review. My original intent was to highly recommend this cd, and I stand by my recommendation, complaints of ignorance and the laziness of professional typesetters aside.

"Real To Reel" was originally released as a gift to Marillion fans worldwide, those who perhaps never had the opportunity to witness this phenomenal band live. Released just after their second studio album "Fugazi", it acts as a snapshot of a band approaching the peak of their creativity, and as a testament to what all true Marillion fans already know about the rawness, power, and downright depth of their live performances.

As in the case of Bruce Springsteen, the one thing you'll always hear about Marillion is "you've gotta see them live". This is true for both Marillion and Springsteen. But unlike The Boss, Marillion is one band that has the capacity to deliver in both live performances and studio albums.

"Brief Encounter" was a short little promotional item that was initially released to try and give that added boost to Marillion's near nonexistent North American popularity with the radio-friendly "Lady Nina". Whether it worked or not, it soon became something of a collectible for the live recordings of "Fugazi", "Script For a Jester's Tear", and what would be Marillion's greatest hit, "Kayleigh". The only problem, it was only available on vinyl and cassette--until now.

Tracks:

Where Do You Start
Valley Of The Dolls
Aspen
Solitude
Two For The Road
Italian Rain
Brief Encounter: To Last A Lifetime
The Girl Across The Way
Fancy Free
Oblivion
Crazy World
Jean
Clelissima

Album Description

This may be a solo piano performance hard to equal. The consummate artistry of pianist David Budway's solo stylings are an absolute must for everyone who loves the marvelous acoustic piano sound. Romantic moods permeate each album cut. "Super-romantic, lush... standouts are 'Aspen' and title tune." -Stereo Review. Other notable tunes include: Mancini's "Two for the Road," " Where Do You Start," and "Italian Rain."

Customer Reviews:

Brief Encounter.......1999-12-24

David Buday is truly an inspiration. my wife christina and I love his music so much we played it at our wedding. you will forever be a part of our lives and memories. marc and christina

THIS CD TRIED TO BE SOMETHING IT'S NOT........1999-03-11

THIS IS THE FIRST DAVID BUDWAY CD THAT I HAVE BOUGHT. THE PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THIS CD IS THAT HE TRIED TO PUT TOO MANY OF HIS OWN SONGS ON IT. HE USED SOME SONGS THAT WHERE HOUDEHOLD NAMES BUT NOT ENOUGH. HE SHOULD STICK WITH SONGS THAT PEOPLE KNOW AND ENJOY.