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I might be wrong, but didn't you say at one point that the 2012 edition also used the film stem for the end of Flight to Neverland? Maybe that explains why it didn't make the OST?

For violin and orchestra?

You man, you stoopid, stoopid man! Bad form!

I'll take it further. Open with Granny Wendy, but Wendy's Entrance first. That way you're literally gently being guided into the world.

Something I just realised: it's crazy that Williams chose the alternate ending to Flight to Neverland for the OST. I have no idea why one would even score it that way.

Happy birthday, Maestro! It would be foolish to even try and thank you in words for all the wonderful music.

Thanks! Yeah, I mean, it's nice, but seems a weird choice to include on the OST.

Any chance we could get a breakdown at some point of which cues were recorded when? It would be great to see what cues were recorded after the infamous OST had been assembled. (Also still hoping for Harry Potter 1 recording dates...)

Little Girls - Annie 2014 - YouTube And the chorus is in my head now.

Aww, I love Irish accents, bad or not. I'm very modern in that way.

Out of stock again! At this rate, this will be OOP before the year ends.

Peter Pan, 2003. First half okay, second half almost done and I really don’t care anymore. Stupid children. Isaacs is better than Hofman, Julia Roberts is better than this Tinker Bell. Score is not better than Hook, contains outstanding moments, but sometimes leaves you wanting more and also lacks reverb. Apparently I write like Intrada now. I want to live with fairies.

London Fields. Not nearly as bad as people claim it is. Maybe a bit weird at times, but certainly rewatchable. And I've finally seen Amber Heard in something.

Finally started listening to Jane Eyre. I will never understand how they got away with such crappy quality in 1970. They really, really could have done more. Why hire JW if this is your sound budget?

God, Hook was so epic I didn't even stop to think today is flyer day.

Deep impact, first half. The mastering sucks big time.

Yes yes I'll take it back. I just hate iinferior arrangements, no matter who plays them.

In the middle of Johnny English Strikes Again. Anyone know what that great dance number is that JE dances to and that they couldn't include on this fine album?

But some arrangements actually benefit the piece. Listen to Prague's Mischief Managed and... urgh.

Well, I did say their string section is amazing. It's the arrangement bit I take issue with. Find me three recordings of Mozart or Beethoven symphonies arranged for orchestra played by an orchestra. The licensing issue must be sorted out. Surely it can't be that problematic as Constantino Orts, for one, uses nothing but Williams' signature editions? And Keith Lockhart. It's not even arranging per se that is my problem, it's arranging and devaluing the piece in question. I have nothing against adding more woodwinds to Pirates of the Caribbean, that brings something to the piece.

They would be fantastic if they stopped playing sickening arrangements. Play the pieces or don't play them. Yes, I know about licensing, but I don't care. Nobody arranges Mozart for orchestra either. Do it right or don't do it at all. Their string section in particular is outstanding.

Let me make it easier for you. Anything City of Prague --> recycle bin. They've released so much garbage and so little of quality that I don't even bother anymore.

Deep impact. And it did not leave one at all. The main incentive to pick this movie was obviously James Horner and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of looking forward to getting to know another of his scores, as derivative or predictable as it might be. It’s great music. And I loved the uses of minor and major keys, or sometimes no key at all to leave you wondering whether an action was going to to out good or bad. Not sure about the bells at the end. What is it with Horner scoring movies in which everybody dies? The end is just stupid. Waves destroy shit without score, we get a lot of details about which parts of America are destroyed but nothing about Europe or Africa, ‘cause Murica is the only thing that matters I guess. Everybody, literally everybody, I ‘cared’ about died, and the two people I would have gladly given up made it. Elijah Wood and Téa Leoni aren’t my favourite actors anyway, so… Yeah. Let us begin with the score.

The art and soul of boredom by Hans Zimmer, or the attempt to try and meditate before accepting it's just mostly all pointless droning. End, please.

But we already know everything, we're not going to be surprised I think, whatever they try. I'm much more interested in them filling gaps that the movies left. Re-reading the series and just started Half-Blood Prince. Man, they have stuff to rectify in that one. Such a cheery book and such a dull film.