GIVE US THE SCORE

Oh, please God, no ! Tell me it ain’t so! Soundtrack albums are for listening to film scores, not extracts of dialogue (Pop Eye, Dec. 18). For that, you can readily rent or buy the video.

I can just see it now, sumptuous tracks of John Barry or Jerry Goldsmith being mixed with annoying dialogue bites.

C’mon, give us film music lovers a break. It’s tough enough to find a soundtrack these days that isn’t overloaded with tacked-on songs heard for all of two seconds in the film. Some of us do just want to relax and enjoy the score.

WAYNE KRAMER

Sherman Oaks