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I just checked the Amazon page for Transformers: The Score. Almost two months since it came out and it’s continuing to rack-up impressive sales: right now the overall Amazon music rank is #257, which isn’t bad given all the other releases that have come out since then. In the category of Orchestral Pop it’s at #6 and its #10 in both Classical and Movie Scores!

Where it’s really shining though is the Amazon customer reviews: Transformers: The Score has been given a consistent average of 4 and 1/2 stars. And out of 52 ratings so far, 41 of them have given the CD the full 5 stars!

Okay, I’ll share a lil’ story about the CD. A few weeks ago, Lisa and I went down to Georgia for her cousin’s wedding and then we stayed on through Thanksgiving (that’s where we did the deep-fried turkey at). After the ...

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So it’s now early Thanksgiving morning and in case anyone is wondering: yes, this year I am deep-frying a turkey! It’ll be the first I’ve done in two years. I didn’t fry one for Thanksgiving last year because I had to work all day at the TV station. Here’s a pic of the 2005 Thanksgiving fried turkey and the one I did the previous Christmas and Thanksgiving 2004. You’ve no idea how much I missed doing one and how much I’ve been looking forward to this Thanksgiving. I started prepping the bird yesterday and just gave it a checkup and even pre-cooked, it smells delightful!

It must be borne in mind however that deep-frying (or Cajun-frying) a turkey is an EXTREMELY dangerous procedure! Every year, there are dozens (hundreds?) of accidents involving turkey frying that result in damaged homes, some even thoroughly destroyed and worse: severe injury including ...

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It was actually my wife Lisa who discovered it. A few days ago she was at the Best Buy in Burlington (North Carolina) shopping with a friend and she spotted Transformers: The Score, the soundtrack CD composed by Steve Jablonsky from this summer’s smash-hit movie (and also the CD that this blog may or may not have played some role in trying to expedite its release 🙂 sitting on the rack in the music section. Although Transformers: The Score came out on October 9th, it has been notoriously hard to find in regular retail outlets. In fact, just about the only way most people have been able to reliably purchase a copy is via Amazon.com, where it’s been selling consistently well (currently #80 in music overall and #10 in soundtracks).

Here’s a photo of it at Best Buy (looks like they’ve got quite a few in stock)…

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Right now I’m listening to the CD of Steve Jablonsky‘s score for the movie D-War (it was mostly marketed as Dragon Wars when it came out here in the U.S.). It’s the third time that I’m playing it and admittedly it’s very hard to put movie soundtrack music in context without having seen the movie itself yet. But as a standalone album, the D-War score still rocks the house! I’m going to give it a full review as soon as I’ve had a chance to check out the film when it becomes available on Netflix.

As for the real reason I’m posting here (amid what may or may not still be my sabbatical from blogging): if you have a Facebook account and are also a fan of this amazing composer, a few days ago I started up the Steve Jablonsky Appreciation Group. So if you enjoy Steve’s work ...

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A friendly reminder in case you’ve been watching it, that in just less than six hours from now the eBay auction for the copy of Transformers: The Score signed by Transformers composer Steve Jablonsky will be ending.

All proceeds from this auction will be going to benefit music education in Rockingham County (North Carolina) schools.

EDIT 10/26/2007 6:31 a.m. EST: The auction was a great success! The winning bid for the CD was $312.

Thanks again to Transformers composer Steve Jablonsky, and the Transformers fan community which helped spread the word, for doing this to assist with music education here in Rockingham County 🙂...

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Someone… or someones… out there is trying to run a scam involving our auction on eBay for the copy of Transformers: The Score signed by Steve Jablonsky.

Last night, through the item’s eBay page, I received a question from Crystal, (which you can read for yourself toward the bottom of the page, just below the big photo of the signed CD). Here’s what she told me (and I’ve put this scammer’s name and e-mail address in bold)…

Hi Chris. I got a message through my e-mail from Mr Rhichar (rhichar2dgerer@gmail.com). They said they were you and that I won the CD by default. I figure its a scam. I know you are selling it for a good cause. If you would like I can send you the entire e-mail. I figured it wasn’t you. Thought you should know about it. Crystal (aka Uniapeg)

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NOW can we see a wider release for this thing?

After its first week out, Transformers: The Score, Steve Jablonsky’s orchestral soundtrack for the blockbuster movie, has debuted at #172 on the Billboard 200 chart and is #13 on Billboard’s Top Soundtracks. This comes in spite of what MTV has noted was a limited store release with about 4300 scans at the cash registers.

Meanwhile, the Transformers score CD continues to do well at Amazon, where it is now #39 in overall music (having increased in rank in the past few days) and is currently #5 in soundtracks.

Someone… probably a lot of someones… at Warner Brothers Records needs to very strongly consider getting this thing out to a lot more outlets. They are sitting on a goldmine with this CD and the demand is only going to get bigger now that the DVD is out and ...

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It’s a funny thing: I’ve been so wound-up about the release of Transformers: The Score last week, after months of crusading for the thing, that when the actual movie came out on DVD a few days ago it was something that I had almost overlooked! I’m still ransacking the music shelves at all the local stores for the score CD, by the way: it’s still not turning up anywhere. I may have to break down and get it off of Amazon, which I’d rather not do only because I like picking stuff off of shelves and ringing it up at the register. But Amazon really is a terrific place to find stuff especially if you can’t locate it on your own, so that might have to be the route to go. In the meantime, the copy that Steve Jablonsky sent is still not being played, out of solidarity with everyone ...

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Here we go fast and furious: the copy of Transformers: The Score signed by composer Steve Jablonsky has just been listed on eBay!

Bidding starts at $25. Along with the signed CD of the Transformers orchestral soundtrack, you get a Certificate of Authenticity (I spent hours last night trying to figure out the right way to make that out, then wound up going for a pretty-much straightforward affair) verifying that this thing is what it claims to be and why we’re auctioning it. And just for fun, I’m gonna throw in a copy of the online petition – signed by Yours Truly – that may or may not have helped matters along but it sure seems to have raised a stink over the summer, didn’t it? 😛

100% of the proceeds from this sale will be going to help fund some music education projects in the public schools here ...

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There’s not nearly as much news about Transformers: The Score as I wish I could relay to y’all tonight. But here ’tis…

First, word is that Warner Records is still “scrambling” to distribute the score CD. Someone told me that this past week was something of “a shock” regarding demand for this album.

Amazon is still reflecting the shortage. Earlier on Friday morning the site said that it would again be in stock on October 20th. Right now it’s saying that the product “Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks” although some who ordered the CD this past week said on Friday that they received e-mails from Amazon stating that their orders are either about to ship or are already on their way. As of this writing according to Amazon’s product page for Transformers: The Score it is holding strong at #35 in music sales and #4 in movie soundtracks. ...

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