Okay, I give up. I have looked and looked for A) a legitimate version of this song or B) a CD-quality mp3. The closest I came to it was a torrent file that, I was told, was probably no longer any good, as it’s a year old. It’s not on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. It’s not on The Two Towers soundtrack. It is not, as far as I can tell, commercially available anywhere.
I want the background music to this video. It’s called “Requiem for a Tower,” and I want the full orchestral version, with choir, and I want the 6:44 (or thereabouts) version. Nothing else will serve. Nothing. I. Want. This. Song.
I cannot find a decent quality version of it for love nor money. This is close to what I want, and legal version, but it’s not available to buy. The three songs available for (pay) download aren’t this music. This is the music that was sent out with the international version of The Two Towers trailer, and nowhere else. It was widely available for download when the film was released, but obviously, those files are long gone.
I would be happy to purchase it legally, but, well, I can’t. It doesn’t exist, except in that trailer, or ripped out of it by people who loved the music when they heard it four years ago.
If anyone out there has a CD-quality version, or just a link to one, I will be eternally grateful. You have no idea how obsessed I get over things. Sometimes it’s music, sometimes it’s a television show, sometimes it’s a movie, once it was a game called Photon (the precursor to Laser Tag, and I even flew to Dallas to play in a tournament at the original Photon site, and yes, that was a bit much, but hey, I was in my twenties). The good thing about my obsessions is that none of them were ever of the drugs or alcohol or gambling type, so the worst that happens is I spend a little money on a DVD or three.
Mind you, a simple Google search isn’t going to do it. I’ve spent the last week searching for this song. The best I can come up with are songs that I need to rip with a program that I don’t possess, but which I’m thinking more and more of getting. Except there’s no guarantee that the videos I’ve found will have decent quality music in them.
So. A plea for help, from an obsessed blogger to her readers, before heading off to bed.
Try this:
http://www.ilyka.mu.nu/sound/Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20-%20The%20Two%20Towers%20-%20Main%20Theme%20-%20Requiem%20for%20a%20Dream.mp3
But if that isn’t it, shoot me an email. And Google “limewire.” It’s a big help on obscure/no longer available for money music like this.
Ilyka, if you ever give up The Boyfriend and decided you’re gay, and I ever give up men and decide I’m gay, I’m going to marry you. (Well, we’d have to find a state where gay marriage is legal.)
Thank you SO much. That’s exactly the version I wanted.
I loved Photon! I used to play at a place in Maryland. Those helmets, I.D. cards and codenames… I got all the counselors at the camp I worked in hooked.
For what it’s worth the actual trailer version IS what is provided for sale on iTunes as part of the “Requiem for a Tower” album, released by Corner Stone Cues – they are the ones who wrote the music for the trailer!
The YouTube link above is to a FAN trailer using a FAN remix that mimicks the theatrical trailer music, and runs over six minutes long. That is the track Meryl was seeking (and ultimately found). But please don’t confuse the fan remix (which was all over the net) with the ACTUAL trailer music, which is legitimately available now for sale along with many other good tracks from Corner Stone Cues.
Best,
Dan
http://www.soundtrack.net/