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I'll check back five times a day until Black Friday.

This has been a pleasant surprise! Ya’ll had me worried with the “repetitive” comments! I had gotten the impression the Dracula theme would be loudly blasted every few seconds on every cue! Okay, not really, but still, expectations were surpassed. The OST was a nice playlist if one just wants a little taste of this score’s scrumptiousness rather than the whole banquet, but I felt it definitely needed some breathing room. Whereas the whole thing really builds a darkly enchanting lusciously lustful atmosphere that held my attention all the way through. I’m sure some cues can be trimmed later for the sake of losing some fat, but overall it’s a magnificent towering gothic melodrama. I might love The Fury more for its simplicity, but this one was some captivating night listening as well.

"Han Hero" (unlisted) "Han B" (unlisted) Does anyone remember who performed these?

It will be Potter. JWfanners can feel it in their wands.

Thanks for clarifying this. I see a problem then. Its true we have all the music but since there are two different sources for the score and original LP, with a different mastering or sound mix... We don't have the full original night journeys (sans choir, I know) sourced from the complete score tapes. So if one uses the track from the LP program, is there a noticeable change in sound quality and mixing?

Not really. Something weird happened when they put the OST program on CD back then, it doesn't sound right. The sound is muffled and pinched. For the new Varese DE, they took the original 1979 analog LP master than they used in Britain to make the British pressings of the LP, transferred that, and used that for Disc 2 of this set. It sounds much better than the old Varese CD, and is literally the exact same takes, edits, and mix throughout, just finally sounding the way it was meant to be heard.

Probably not teasing because the biggest one has practically been revealed already?

Jaws C&C Playlist with all the source music. That's so much more funny with the source music hehe

Yep that was me! I was going off the lead sheet that leaked before we had heard the track.

I was never a big fan of Across the Stars, but I love the new arrangement. It makes it sound like a theme expressly written for violin and orchestra, one of Williams' finest of this century.

I prefer my movie endings explained to me in the first 15 minutes. That way there isn't any confusion later on.

So that interview used to slam the Maestro here is rubbish

There is no source music in the set. All of score cues absolutely are.

Lincoln OST Well this was a surprise! Instead of an hour or a bit less of Americana Horn (as I stupidly expected), we have a varied and enjoyable experience with nice motifs and textures! And just when it starts to get "boring", there comes a fiddle+banjo almost-source, Battle Cry of Freedom or a piano solo to spruce things up! Really liked it, though not quite as much of an instant love as Geisha.

Psycho 2 - many years since I last saw this ... as good a sequel to Hitchcock's classic as one could hope for, I'd say. Damn, Meg Tilly was cute as a button.

Early 2000's soundtrack promotion!

Guess these three badboys will be stuck on repeat in my cd player until some light will be shed on this BF ordeal.

24 hours is like 3 weeks!

So... listening o the tracks.... I hear the choir in both versions of night journeys????? EDIT: LOL NOPE. I had selected both files and dropped them in cooledit and somehow it opened both together, one as left and other as right channel. never hapened to me before.. i must have done something strange

Superman is barely exciting anyway. Already been released so many times. I'm hoping for some new stuff. As for my vote in the poll: "I do believe in faeries!"

Classic song. Also an accurate description of JWFan when Potter isn’t announced

I rarely listen to the "ADDITIONAL TRACKS" of an expanded set, I put them in another folder to make sure they don't play at the end of the score, when I listen to them! hehe This is funny, because I compare all the tracks of Charles Aznavour and Roy Orbison. I listen to two WAV files at the same time in Audacity, to spot the alternate tracks and the different takes of a song. Maybe it's why I can't do it for John Williams too, that's too much for me! And I trust Mike Matessino and @Jay about that. Maybe one day, I will have fun to do that with John Williams's music too!

Superman Schindler’s List No Potter

Across the Stars is such a beautiful theme and I'll never get tired of it. So I welcome the new arrangement with open arms. Karol

Henry V by William Walton.

Is it wrong that Morricone's roast of Tarantino makes me like the man even more now? I mean, he makes a lot of valid points that I wholeheartedly agree with, despite coming off as a dick.

You seem to be the Trump of this board, spouting rubbish in a vain attempt to gain attention from others. I think it’s very sad to be frank.

847 minutes approx.

Morricone probably thinks his movies are trash because they are. I mean the last one which he did had a woman being violently assaulted over and over again and a guy sucking another guy's dick. I'm sure he was expecting a bit of a classier western when he agreed to do it.

If we could find a way to increase the gravitational pull then in theory we could speed this up. (I'm pretty sure I got physics terribly wrong here) Karol

I'm seriously confused right now, why is everyone talking about The Thing score like it's Carpenter's? It's Morricone's through and through, outside of the theme! You think Carpenter would write something like this? A full on string canon in a horror film, I mean come on!

Hours instead of days. Now we have minutes instead of hours.

The Vampire is arrived today in Paris Charles De Gaulle aiport... Can't wait to recieve it! Can expect it home for tuesday or wenesday, maybe. 😜

You could PM them, though...

Always around 5 minutes Amistad around 40 minutes Angela's Ashes definitely more than 1 minute! I would say around 15 minutes, but I don't know Born on the Fourth of July around 25 minutes JFK an unestimateable amount of music, but it's a lot Munich around 5 minutes + one long alternate The Terminal around 10 minutes + many alternates Azkaban around 45 minutes + 45 minutes alternates? Less than 5 minutes: Lincoln, Presumed Innocent, Sleepers, The River, Sabrina, Stepmom

Non-believers in the Potter-pocalypse will be punished with hellfire.

I don't know how to answer this question. It depends on what you really mean by "thoroughly different"; I'm not really sure how to interpret that. The OST LP was 39 minutes and featured 2 versions of the same cue within it, is EXTREMELY non-chronological (with cues from the ending appearing right away at the beginning, and cues from the beginning right before the finale), and omits some themes you can only hear in the complete score. The new complete score main program is 66 minutes and is much more chronological, showcasing everything Williams came up with for this project in a very nice way. Personally, I think the new 66 minute main program is a far superior way to enjoy this score than the old 39 minutes OST LP program, but obviously you should listen to both and decide for yourself, shouldn't you?

Child’s Play 2

I hope nothing. Saving money.

I loved it.

Didn’t J. Carpenter tell him he wanted a score that does nothing?

It’s not Morricone’s fault The Thing is basically white noise!

Who cares? The OSTs are perfect.

That's what I always assumed.

I didn't see this until now. Williams apparently wrote an advance review of Morricone's upcoming book/biography that is out next year: "Throughout his long and distinguished career, Ennio Morricone has consistently proven to be one of the most imaginative and idiosyncratic composers in the history of cinema. This book reveals the powerful personality behind his brilliant work and will be rewarding reading for anyone interested in the magic of music in film." -- John Williams https://www.amazon.com/Ennio-Morricone-His-Own-Words/dp/0190681012/

I was listening to some opera when I heard something that reminded me of a track in Solo... It probably wasn't a temp track though haha

Valerian > RPO > Avengers