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Bring on the Ultimate Editions with music as it was heard in the film, edits and all! Because that is what people want! Apparently. Film music fans are such weirdos.

Storm the gates! We must lower TGP's defenses: Hans Zimmer sucks! It takes 8 of his ghostwriters to come up with generic RCP crap! All music that is not orchestral and modelled after a particular period of time is inferior! Star Trek Generations is an empty film devoid of any emotional impact! I can come up with most modern film music by playing random notes on a piano in three hours! This!: 😂 ! Welsh women aren't attractive! JWFan Platinum shall RUE the day they charged a man with as little fortitude as TGP with the task of gatekeeper to their territory!!!!

Yes! Me and my girlfriend. Will be there together with Emilio Audissino and Simone Pedroni with his wife.

Don't be surprised if Disney Records passes over MM in favour of one of their own producers, because industry politics and territoriality.

QFT And with Empire's warm, vintage sound quality, what more could anyone ask?

And Jurassic, which is one of Universal's biggest properties. Didn't we assume that a speciality label would never get to do it after the anniversary release? With SS at the tiller of Indy, and his relationship with MM, it doesn't seem out of the question to me for a speciality label to do them. I don't understand why Jay is so insistent that it won't. SW is a bit different as it's probably the biggest of them all, and expanded OT sets have been in the wild for years. But I don't think we're in an era when things are off the table just because they're owned by a mega studio.

This user is a 25 footer. Three tons of him. I'm kind of dying at this reference on Jedi 94's page.

Hubris by John Powell Alien 3 by Elliot Goldenthal Papillon by Jerry Goldsmith Grizzly by Robert O. Ragland New Nightmare by J. Peter Robinson

I'm a particularly big fan of the opening of this Henry V suite:

In general, and not just for JW titles, I don't like the concept that they take money from the customers not just before shipping the items (which would be fine), but even before receiving the items from the manufacturer. If they say that an item will start shipping on day X, as a customer I assume that they physically have all the CDs already.

The William Walton scores for Sir Lawrence Olivier's Shakespeare films are suburb as are the films. Plus there is more than a little bit of Elgar in Walton's Shakespeare scores such as Elgar's elegantly beautiful funeral from Grania and Diarmid. Damn you Brits, you're so good at this sort of stuff. It's quasi Wagner, Sibelius, and Ravel but uniquely Brit.

Star Wars!!!!11

Here's a piece I wrote for a rescoring assignment (clip is from Coraline). I went with a much more traditional orchestral sound than the original score (which I hadn't heard prior to writing). Recorded with the Prague Orchestra, I'm mostly happy with the recording except for a few misinterpreted trills (didn't have enough time or communicative ability to fix it during the session). Had a lot of fun writing it, hope you enjoy!

Found this on instagram, looks like Across the Stars was arranged for her. This is especially interesting since the Yo-Yo Schindler's list one was more of a transcription probably.

Good guys, bad guys, made up words.

Here, took me two seconds of googling:

Of course they'll get MM! Why wouldn't they hire Mickey Mouse?

Nonsense!

That's an excellent film. I think this one might be better though. Perhaps not as thrilling or ambitious on an immediate level. It's much too subtle for that. But it comes off as the work of a more mature storyteller.

Yes! I'm logging onto PayPal now!

Disney knows the OSTs are all you need.

It must be bloody difficult playing violin with a horde of glowing yellow and purple ropes attacking you. And using a lightsaber for the bow seems like a particularly egregious violation of OH&S protocols. Where on earth is their HR representative?

Hans is just jealous Powell's Kung Fu Panda music is better.

Well we are in essence waiting for perhaps 2 minutes of extra music and liner notes so I think I can wait for this release arrive in its good time.

No she was perfect in her role. I found the other supporting actors much more interesting though. Daisy Ridley is still a great actor and, as I said, a fetching lady.

With that in mind, maybe they should revert the music back to its original form, the one with...John Williams leading the orchestra.

Do you really celebrate the first anniversary of the order date?

The narration is quite separate. I don't think the music and narration ever overlap and it is very rare - like 5% has narration so don't let that be the reason you avoid these.

Shogun by Maurice Jarre. Cause it was his birthday yesterday. Quite a good set from Intrada, by the way. Karol

It's John Williams: The Complete Sessions! It has to be! Karol

Albert Square.

Clearly you are not a member of JWFan Platinum.

Same! I am a pretty big fan of Sakamoto, and his async album was my favourite album last year. Anyway, this thing is way too expensive, and especially since I already owned most of the music before I discovered his list. I decided to just grab some of the tracks that he mentioned which I didn't have before and through someone I managed to access parts of the booklet that comes with the CD to read some of the comments on all the various tracks. I can't improve much on his list and think it is exceptional, I agree with the vast majority of it. I think only two of the tracks were previously unfamiliar for me, I hadn't heard the Lai track, but I agree that it is great, even if it doesn't make my personal top 25. Also the François de Roubaix track was news to me, another great track, maybe Roubaix at his best. Bespin - your Spotify list is not entirely correct, you have picked some of the wrong versions of the tracks he selected and not all of it is on Spotify. The specific Takemitsu track he selected for the CD is not the entire 5 minute suite thing, it is the 1 minute something track which I uploaded to YouTube above. I uploaded the track from Blue too, which I included among my top 5 tracks of all time. It is hard to think of more intimate film music, it is hard to think of ambient music done better than it in film, the only possible exception I can think of is Eno's For All Mankind, which inhabits a similiar kind of soundscape as this, but both are different. It is also hard to think of other film music were spoken word is used on this level. I accidentally deleted the booklet that comes with the CD that I partly got access to, but in it Sakamoto and a few critics/professors (I can't remember exactly) discuss all his picks. His picks are not discussed in great detail, but more like brief thoughts on his picks. It might be of interest to some of you reading this, here is one or two of the things I remember reading in it: Steiner in his film music was apparently superior to Korngold according to Sakamoto. He also said that Gone with the Wind was of high quality too, even if he prefered the moody track from King Kong - probably Steiner's best. He also said something about that Pierrot le Fou didn't impress him first, the music that is, but it is one of his favourite films and he seems to have grown to love the music too, despite his initial impression. The Tiomkin from The Alamo he included for selfish reasons, I think he said something that it was one of the first film scores he remembered and that he loved. At a later date, Sakamoto selected some of the best music movies - some of the movies that according to him have the best music, here is the list of the movies he selected for some events: A Streetcar Named Desire East of Eden Blue The Garden King Kong Jose Torres & Jose Torres part 2 Kwaidan Beauty and the Beast Solaris (the Tarkovsky film) Stalker Nostalghia The Sacrifice India Song Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert Elevator to the Gallows Pierrot le Fou Hiroshima Mon Amour The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Histoire(s) du cinéma Ugetsu Citizen Kane Ivan the Terrible The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari I wish more top film composers selected their favourite film music like this, even if I probably would disagree a whole lot with say what Zimmer, Giacchino etc might have selected. Sakamoto strikes me as the person with the best taste in music, not just going by his film music list, but also the fairly recent restaurant playlist which he made, this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YY3rAwm9tldNhlBmuMqgY I will say that I don't love everything he included here, but at least it is an interesting list which is to me pretty rare. Most of it was new to me too - I made a few wonderful discoveries thanks to his restaurant playlist. I love this track for instance: Gotta love that minimalist influence - new-age at its best. So first North is the most underrated film composer of all time, followed by Rosenman and third would probably be Simon Fisher Turner as the third most underrated film composer of all time. I am not very familar with Fisher Turner, even if I have always loved Blue since I saw it years ago. I sampled The Garden on Spotify after I saw Sakamoto including it among his best music movies, but unlike Blue, I don't think I will love this one, but I will give it a try at a later date I suppose.

Luigi's Mansion 3 coming to Nintendo Switch Remake of Kirby's Epic Yarn coming to 3DS Super Mario U & Super Luigi U coming to Switch

Any update on shipping?

I just unleash an obnoxiously massive barrage of whiny messages at Cherry Pie whenever I love or hate a score. It's easier on the rest of you if I just annoy him!

Aaron Paul Joins ‘Westworld’ Season 3

I'm going to this and am very excited. I guess the Imperial March will be one of the encores and maybe Jaws/Indy the other?

First clue for next week's new Intrada title This REALLY sounds like Horner's Willow except for the "sci-fi" part. What other possibilities are there? http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7961 UPDATE: Roger chimed in to seemingly confirm it's NOT Willow Yeah if all you read is blah blah blah fantasy blah blah blah. Possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fantasy_films_of_the_1980s Batteries Not Included? Mac and Me? Ghostbusters II? Honey I Shrunk The Kids? I think Batteries Not Included is the most likely candidate.

Ah Jay, that’s too straight forward and uncontroversial. Can you be a bit more vague and make it sound like some shit went down?

... He knows something. In addition to Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List; very excited!

I don't like when people are mysterious with their posts instead of just saying what they want to say

You're thinking of John Williams. https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/may-the-fourth-spotlight-on-joann-kane-music/ Maybe there's some small adjustment here and there by the time his sketches are sent to the scoring stage, but I bet you that no one wants to be the guy who bungles up a John Williams cue, or surprises him when he gets up to the conductor's stand. Williams knows exactly what he wants in terms of sound and orchestration and no one is going to stand in his way. That "imitation sound" could be him trying to replicate a style from many years ago that he's sort of gotten past in his everyday writing.

Man of Steel.

I thought Perseverance is our favorite...

It really whips the llama's ass.

https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/how-neil-armstrong-biopic-first-man-achieved-lift-off-1202925131/amp/?__twitter_impression=true