Recent forum discussions mentioning this 23 year old title spurred my memory and I dug this thing out to see just how "5.1" the 5.1 soundtrack of this release was. I honestly could not remember, and since it pre-dates even the original QQ, I don't think there had been much discussion here about it at all.
Well I ripped it to MKV then extracted the audio to check it out on the PC. Amazingly enough, there are actually 6 songs with 5.1 mixes! They are not "wow" mixes by any stretch. Some of the songs in the film do not use the rear channels. The six songs that do are as follows:
Come and Get It
Maybe Tomoorrow
Day After Day
Apple of my Eye (Excerpt)
Name of the Game (Alt Version) (Excerpt)
Take it All (Pretty Good 5.1 on this one)
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Come and Get It" has pretty much echo/ambience in the rears. The left front is mostly bass, the right front is almost the same audio as the center, which makes this particular mix kind of a fudge. Here's a look at the wav file:
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Maybe Tomorrow", their very first Apple 45, released while they were still configured as "The Ivey's", has an OK surround mix, still nothing special though.
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Day After Day" - This one is more like "wide stereo", Not a real surround surprise, that's for sure.
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Apple Of My Eye", their farewell song to the Beatles and their last Apple 45 and Album is only in the film for the first verse. This mix isn't bad really. It's a shame it's not the entire song.
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Name of the Game" - This is the original version of the song that you can find on the later release CD's from Apple with the bonus tracks. It's not the version you remember from the original album. Again, the surround mix on this one is not too bad. Not great, but better than the earlier songs on this DVD. Like "Apple of My Eye", this is not the entire song.
And finally, the last song with a 5.1 mix is "
Take it All", which is a really good Badfinger/Pete Ham tune - in my book anyway. Here, the song is almost complete (It fades at 3:45) and the 5.1 is the best of the bunch.
