Jump to content

1977

Members
  • Posts

    3,440
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

Reputation Activity

  1. Like
    1977 got a reaction from phbart in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    A bonus I found lurking inside the box:
     

     
    Also from Premiere mag, this time 1998.
  2. Like
    1977 got a reaction from phbart in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    @Tallguy and anyone else who cares, here you go:
     

     

     

     

     

     
     
  3. Like
    1977 reacted to Jay in The Legacy of John Williams (Website & Podcast)   
    The latest podcast episode covers Heidi and Jane Eyre with Mike Matessino and @John Takis!
     
    https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2023/12/21/heidi-and-jane-eyre-podcast/
  4. Thanks
    1977 reacted to GerateWohl in Soundtracks, Compilations, or other recently purchased Music   
    I must confess, it was actually Amazon.
  5. Haha
    1977 reacted to Bespin in Soundtracks, Compilations, or other recently purchased Music   
    I bet @Jay is like me when I work for Universal France!
     

  6. Surprised
    1977 got a reaction from aj_vader in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    It's pity that 1. Polygram never provided the album masters to the producers and 2. certain cues had to be taken from film stems (the rebel escape from Hoth).
  7. Haha
    1977 got a reaction from CatastrophicJones in James Horner's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) - 2023 2-CD Intrada   
    "And thanks to Sara Horner who had the tapes and was cool with their release, and accepting the inevitably nosy blog posts like this one!"
     
    Cool indeed!
     
    If only Mrs Barry was so accommodating.
  8. Haha
    1977 got a reaction from OneBuckFilms in James Horner's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) - 2023 2-CD Intrada   
    "And thanks to Sara Horner who had the tapes and was cool with their release, and accepting the inevitably nosy blog posts like this one!"
     
    Cool indeed!
     
    If only Mrs Barry was so accommodating.
  9. Like
    1977 reacted to Tallguy in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    I say "scan" to mean "picture on the internet". Photo would be outstanding. Thank you!
  10. Like
    1977 got a reaction from JTN in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    I need to check those too then! Bloody digipaks. 
     
    I fortunately have a spare set of the TPM UE discs.
  11. Like
    1977 got a reaction from JTN in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    Yeah I read that on FSM I think. I literally have not looked at mine for more than a decade but I should.
  12. Sad
    1977 reacted to JTN in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    That happened to my sets! The surface of the discs had some sort of white substance on them after a while, so I stopped playing them and played the jewel case versions instead. It was caused by the glue, you say? Wow!
  13. Surprised
    1977 got a reaction from JTN in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    That reminds me, I still need to check my SE digipaks to see whether the discs have gone rotten (apparently a thing caused by the glue used in the cardboard packaging). Fortunately I also have the jewel case versions.
  14. Like
    1977 reacted to GerateWohl in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    I won't bore you again with the story how I lost and regained the Return of the Jedi disk of that box.
    And I don't remember where and how I bought it. Must have been around the time it came out.
    Still I would say, these disks have the best single disk program for each movie. Even though the Mynock Cave Escape is painfully missing in the TESB program.
    And, what I especially like, it has a version of the main title without the end titles extension on the bonus disk.
  15. Like
    1977 reacted to Mr. Hooper in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    Ah yes, it must've been in 'Premiere' that I saw it too. One of the magazines I'd often peruse and not buy.
  16. Like
    1977 got a reaction from JTN in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    I remember seeing to my utter surprise and elation the listing for this in the Movie Boulevard soundtracks mail-order catalogue in 1994.
     
    Shortly thereafter I was browsing through some magazines at the local newsagent and I came across an ad in an issue of Premiere magazine. I promptly bought the mag and proceeded to try to scrutinise the tiny print on the photo to make out which tracks were previously unreleased.
     
    I still have a clipping of the ad safely stored within my Anthology box, which I of course ordered promptly on hearing of its release. What a fantastic set this was at the time, and virtually unprecedented if I recall correctly.
  17. Like
    1977 reacted to Erik Woods in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    I documented my experience with the Star Wars Anthology and DCC's Radiers of the Lost Ark in this blog post I wrote back in 2010. 
     
    http://www.cinematicsound.net/film-scores-i-was-excited-to-buy/
     
    -Erik-
  18. Love
    1977 reacted to Tallguy in Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology turns 30!   
    There are a lot of nerdy things that I can go on about at length. This is certainly one of them.
     
    I don't remember what the magazine was where I saw an ad for this box. Starlog? The Star Wars fan club? It was NOT a prominent ad. But... What the hell was this? The description was... Vague? I wish I still had a copy of it. There had to be something that made me drop everything I was doing (probably not much) and drive to the music store. ( @Yavar Moradi do you remember Hastings in Prescott?) And they had it. I remember my jaw dropping and staying there when I read the contents. Final Duel. Everything from the 2 LP Empire. The second Cantina song.
     
    It's still the prettiest collection I own, IMHO. The Blue Box and the Star Trek TOS box come close. I think it's the larger format book that puts it over the top. The notes are wonderful. And you can't go wrong with Star Wars OT pictures and art. I still love the black disc covers with the nearly black logos on them. And the three discs with McQuarrie art and the fourth with Williams. It's sitting to my immediate right, next to the Blue Box.
     
    I know we have a bunch of old timers like me around here. You understand. You probably have your own memories about this box. Do share!
     
    For you youngsters: You have no idea. Not just in terms of Star Wars, but even in terms of expansions like this just weren't done back then. This might not have been the first but it had to have been close. We kind of take it for granted that if we just hold out long enough that eventually one of the THREE or FOUR specialty labels will crack the arrangements and we'll get Star Trek, or Harry Potter, or even something like Lord of the Rings that comes out expanded / complete almost out of the gate.
     
    I love the SE disks. And I still listen to the original LP programs regularly. But I can't think of any soundtrack release (yes, even including the Star Trek discs) that had the emotional high that this box did. It still kind of does!
     
    Thirty years. Amazing. A long time ago....
  19. Like
    1977 got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in Jerry Goldsmith - City Hall (2023 Varese Deluxe Edition)   
    I'm surprised this wasn't released digitally.
  20. Surprised
    1977 reacted to Edmilson in The Official Intrada Thread   
    I dunno, throughout his career Zimmer has established himself as the "anti-Williams" (not that it was a conscious thing, I'm sure Zimmer respects and admires Williams). That said, WW84 was such a departure towards a more traditionally orchestral and optimistic (without that Nolan/Snyder/Villeneuve "dark and disturbingness") that yeah, can be considered a step he gave into a more JW-like score.
  21. Surprised
    1977 reacted to JTN in The Official Intrada Thread   
    Yep, WW1984 is definitely Zimmer's version of Williams' Superman: The Movie. 
    He couldn't or didn't want to do it in Man of Steel, but he clearly wanted to try his best with this score. And imho he nailed it.
  22. Confused
    1977 reacted to Edmilson in The Official Intrada Thread   
    TBH, almost all of the scores I mentioned here have bootlegs floating around the internet (Perfect Storm, The Postman, TWoE, Goldenthal's scores, HP 7.1 and 7.2) so that'll make the (very long) wait for definitive editions a little easier.
     
    Except JFK. JFK never leaked nor anything. And now we may never listen to the complete score because people managing Warner Bros are a bunch of cunts.
     
    Come on Oliver, couldn't you have done your movie at Universal? BOT4J was so successful, they'd be thrilled to collaborate with you again... 
  23. Like
    1977 got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in The Official Intrada Thread   
    Let's hope, but for now there is plenty of other stuff the labels are able to access so I'm looking forward to that.
  24. Really Sad
    1977 got a reaction from enderdrag64 in The Official Intrada Thread   
    Warners is no longer licencing to any of the labels. So no Perfect Storm or The Hand (or Pelican Brief for that matter).
  25. Really Sad
    1977 got a reaction from Tydirium in The Official Intrada Thread   
    Warners is no longer licencing to any of the labels. So no Perfect Storm or The Hand (or Pelican Brief for that matter).
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Guidelines.