Comment by Intermernet

Ok HN, a challenge.

I have given this challenge to many, and I'm either completely mistaken, or the world has forgotten something.

In 1984, as many of you may know, Giorgio Moroder released his version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis". This is a moderately good version of the movie, but would be superseded by newer versions with more recovered scenes etc.

Moroder's soundtrack, however, was brilliant. He brought in many of the stars of the time to do songs (Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant etc) and they were good songs. He also wrote a lot of original incidental music for this version.

2 versions of the soundtrack were released. One has the pop artist's tracks and a couple of Giorgio's originals, and the other has the complete soundtrack (all of the pop artist's tracks and all of Giorgio's music).

Both were released in multiple countries.

Both were released on CD

The first, shorter version was released on Vinyl.

Apparently the second, longer version was never released on Vinyl.

Except... After seeing the movie in 1984, my mum ordered the soundtrack (specifically the longer version) at HMV in Parramatta in Sydney (Australia). It took a few weeks to arrive, and I happened to be there when we picked it up (at the age of 7 or 8). I remember it vividly, because it was a multi-disk release, and it had a gorgeous fold out sleeve. The only problem was that mum had ordered the CD version, and they had ordered the vinyl version. They subsequently re-ordered it, we picked up the CD a few weeks later, and I still own that CD.

Problem is, I want the Vinyl version. I've asked the internet, I've asked record stores in multiple countries, I sent an email to Giorgio Moroder's nephew(?) (no reply) and it doesn't seem to exist.

I'd put this down to imagination except for the fact that Australia (and Japan, and probably elsewhere) has a track-record of receiving weird / customised versions of records, and some of them seem to have disappeared from the official databases.

So, if anyone out there feels like doing some sleuthing, that's the challenge. Find the Vinyl version of this[0], or prove it doesn't exist. (I know, proving non-existence is impossible, but it's worth a try!)

Either way, it's a great soundtrack, and worth a listen!

[0]: https://archive.org/details/Giorgio-moroder-metropolis-score