Alan Silvestri's THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018)

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

The CD version probably omits a lot of redundant tracks. It'll probably be all you'll need.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 minute ago, Margo Channing said:

The CD version probably omits a lot of redundant tracks. It'll probably be all you'll need.

 

True.  But I'm perfectly happy to make a playlist and only own it digitally.  Fewer and fewer scores I feel the need to own on CD.  Pretty much just my few favorite composers still working.  All due respect to Silvestri, I love many of his scores, but he's not in that club for me.

[MedigoScan 324]

I think track 28 is a suite of sorts as well

Or the first part of the end credits

[Wojo 2,453]

I don't see a digital pre-order at Amazon, so is this iTunes only? 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

It'll be available to purchase on Amazon digitally tomorrow for sure.  They're just not offering a preorder for whatever reason.

[Jay 37,249]

23 minutes ago, Woj said:

I don't see a digital pre-order at Amazon, so is this iTunes only? 

 

It's not Friday in the USA yet.  It will be on Amazon US at midnight PST tonight.

[filmmusic 1,822]

I'm sorry, I'm confused, Is this the new La-laland?

[Jay 37,249]

It's a new score by composer Alan Silvestri to a comic book movie called "The Avengers: Infinity War", which opens in theaters tomorrow.  The OST album is on Disney Records.

[crocodile 7,973]

Hey, maybe LLL are releasing this 2-CD edition tonight.

 

Karol

[mstrox 6,637]

Well it can't be Avengers AND Harry Potter AND Alien 3.

 

(it's Alien 3)

[Fargo 297]

The score was put on YouTube this morning, it stayed up a whole hour or so. Gave it a listen -

 

Spoiler

it's a whole lot of blah, bland, blerg. Nothing stood out - no themes besides Silvestri's Avengers theme from the first movie.

 

Though I didn't make it all the way through before the playlist was removed.

[MedigoScan 324]

I do think Thanos had a theme

but I really cant quite be sure

 

33 minutes ago, mstrox said:

Well it can't be Avengers AND Harry Potter AND Alien 3.

 

(it's Alien 3)

 

why

we already have the ISO score

[Wojo 2,453]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

It's not Friday in the USA yet.  It will be on Amazon US at midnight PST tonight.

 

Thanks amigo. So I'll buy it tomorrow-ish.

[mstrox 6,637]

Just now, MedigoScan said:

why

we already have the ISO score

 

The ISO score isn't a music release.

 

It's also full of film edits, etc.

 

This will be the first-ever expanded album.

[MedigoScan 324]

But I am used to the film edits now

 

But mostly I am mad that HP3 was even mentioned in a sentence without it being true.

[Jay 37,249]

49 minutes ago, Fargo said:

The score was put on YouTube this morning, it stayed up a whole hour or so. Gave it a listen -

 

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it's a whole lot of blah, bland, blerg. Nothing stood out - no themes besides Silvestri's Avengers theme from the first movie.

 

Though I didn't make it all the way through before the playlist was removed.

 

I'm listening now, I'm on track #16.

 

So far, its really pretty bland.  Nothing is really standing out.  There's tons of action music, but its all pretty similar to each other as well as what Silvestri's done before.

I like the dark/brooding music that I assume is for Thanos, but a little goes a long way and there's a lot of it in this presentation.

 

I wonder how succinct and tight the physical CD OST will be instead....

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

8 minutes ago, Jay said:

So far, its really pretty bland.  Nothing is really standing out. 

 

Nice review of most of The Abyss.

[Jay 37,249]

The Abyss is amazing!

[MedigoScan 324]

Yeah for some tracks I wouldnt having truncated versions (which are probably on the CD)

I do like some of the action pieces (primarily at the start and ending, the middle meanders a lot)

[Jay 37,249]

"Forge" had a pretty good big fanfaric version of the Avengers Theme

[Matt C 452]

After seeing the movie, I was bitterly disappointed Silvestri didn't reference Elfman's superior hybrid version from Ultron. But it was nice hearing Captain America and the tesseract themes pop up again.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

43 minutes ago, Matt C said:

After seeing the movie, I was bitterly disappointed Silvestri didn't reference Elfman's superior hybrid version from Ultron.

 

Whoever expected that to happen?

[Matt C 452]

41 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

 

Whoever expected that to happen?

 

I didn't expect him to do it.

 

It would've been nice if the Russo Brothers asked him, though.

 

But better than what Henry Jackman would've done with this.

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

5 hours ago, Matt C said:

After seeing the movie, I was bitterly disappointed Silvestri didn't reference Elfman's superior hybrid version from Ultron. But it was nice hearing Captain America and the tesseract themes pop up again.

 

 

Does anybody know if these show up on the soundtrack at all? I think the tesseract theme is in the Undying Fidelity track, but I haven't caught Cap's theme yet. 

[toothless 963]

Gave it a quick listen this morning… It's not bad but I wish there was a cue like "Looking For A Truck" from RPO. It's so much more Avengers-esque.

[Arpy 4,145]

So the score's another Justice League situation? 

[crocodile 7,973]

No, it's a good score. It's just a matter of editing a playlist down.

 

Karol

[mstrox 6,637]

Sounds more like it's another Avengers situation (man was I disappointed by that first Avengers score, too).

[Bilbo 3,709]

Listening to it it sounds like there’s some good stuff in places but I don’t think I’ll be able to listen to the whole thing. Way too much modern blockbuster noise 

[Jay 37,249]

There's a nice 40 minutes presentation of all his new ideas in here somewhere

 

 

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The Digital Deluxe Edition is now available to buy/stream in the USA:

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/6Ltf5m1jvSomNQ0bhfuj5O?si=8FsbSFidRZeLNEIkINweww

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CLFCBSN/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1375728446

https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bxnj3jmzs3sdwhiuw3gtqbzicxe

 

Even in 24bit/48khz FLAC

 

http://www.hdtracks.com/avengers-infinity-war-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-deluxe-edition

https://www.7digital.com/artist/alan-silvestri/release/avengers-infinity-war-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-deluxe-edition-7788543

 

 

 

Also, the tracklist of the physical CD OST has been revealed, and you can actually buy it digitally right now (in 16/441 flac) instead of the 2 hour Deluxe Version if you want:

 

1 The Avengers 0:25 
2 Travel Delays 2:43 
3 Undying Fidelity 5:05 
4 He Won't Come Out 2:31 
5 We Both Made Promises 2:22 
6 Help Arrives 4:21 
7 Hand Means Stop 2:37 
8 You Go Right 4:26 
9 Family Affairs 3:51 
10 What More Could I Lose? 3:36 
11 A Small Price 3:17 
12 Even for You 2:14 
13 More Power 4:07 
14 Charge! 3:28 
15 Forge 4:22 
16 Catch 6:04 
17 Haircut and Beard 3:02 
18 A Lot to Figure Out 2:01 
19 The End Game 2:17 
20 I Feel You 2:48 
21 What Did It Cost? 2:25 
22 Porch 0:59 
23 Infinity War 2:35 
TOTAL TIME - 1:11:36

 

 

Source: https://www.7digital.com/artist/alan-silvestri/release/avengers-infinity-war-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-7788544

 

 

 

 

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Whipped up a comparison betwixt the normal and Deluxe OST. Almost every track was extended for the DE

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQN8OvRKiNbt9zDm9oVxBas4Wt47yuh3vTONHiX7G4uVKnAB3xzlO_IJB9BQS2RNag4Ed5FVIWRU6mW/pubhtml

[MedigoScan 324]

Seems the CD does skip a few of the tracks I already felt were skippable

(allthough I think Field trip was one of the more fun tracks)

 

also I feel like a lot of tracks are just patchworks of different scenes

Like 'One Way Ticket' is 4 scenes rearranged in a nonsensical order

 

I can say one thing, I can certainly tell this OST was made by Silvestri, unlike with the first Avengers.

The action stuff has that Predator/BttF feel to it

[Jay 37,249]

Just finished my second listen of the OST - on much louder speakers this time - and appreciated the score much more than my first listen yesterday

 

It's looooong, though.  Not the style of score I enjoy listening to for 2 straight hours.  I look forward to checking out the shorter version.

 

And yea, Field Trip is indeed a highlight track, I noticed that one this time

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I couldn't understand why people thought the first Avengers score sounded like Zimmer. No it didn't.

[MedigoScan 324]

Maybe they were thinking of Avengers 2 or Thor Dark World

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Those hadn't come out yet.

[crocodile 7,973]

26 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

I couldn't understand why people thought the first Avengers score sounded like Zimmer. No it didn't.

Maybe because he used more synths than in The First Avenger.

 

Karol

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It's not like synths are a Zimmer trademark.

 

When people were making this claim in 2012, I was holding my breath for some pastiche of Zimmer's drawn-out, broad strokes style... and it wasn't that at all.

[James 119]

The complaints were more about the sound of the synthesizers being very dated. Very 80's.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

In the space of 24 hours I've gone from:

 

CD preordered

 

to

 

CD preorder cancelled, planning on buying digital release

 

to

 

Ehhhhh, better download illegally first to see if I like it

 

to

 

Not planning on buying this soundtrack

 

I'm seeing the movie today though so that might change my mind.

[Jay 37,249]

All my hype for the score deflated pretty quickly once I started listening to it

 

It does improve on second listen though, and ideally starting with the 71 minute version for a while and only delving into the 2 hour version later is probably the way to go

[Bilbo 3,709]

71 minutes still seems a bit long. 

[MedigoScan 324]

71 minutes is just the standard length for scores nowaday

Better get used to it

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I definitely didn't expect Black Panther to have a better, more interesting, more melodic score than Infinity War.  What a world.

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

So it's the usual Silvestri-on-autopilot score?

 

[Fargo 297]

Yes

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

If I had to score both a Spielberg film and a superhero movie within the same time span, I'd probably care quite a bit more about the Spielberg project.

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

You want me to prioritize your film? Show me the money!

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Okay, let me guess.. You guys hate or dismiss this score at first, post continuously about what a disappointment it is, film music is dead, all hope is lost...then weeks later, the thread is updated with posts about how the score's starting to grow on ya! How suddenly there's actually some interesting stuff here!

I've got ya'll figured out. ;D 

[crocodile 7,973]

Jeez guys, you like to moan!

 

Karol

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

I moan whenever Wonder Woman is on-screen.