HARRY POTTER 1-3 Complete Score Releases Confirmed

[redishere 697]

I like how this is slowly turning into a Removing-Stickers-Lifehacks thread,

while we "patiently" wait for November 23rd. Or was it the 13th?

[Richard Penna 3,671]

I feel like applauding any time there is a sticker on a CD case and it just peels off.

 

There is no such thing as 'patiently' waiting for a BF release, don't be silly.

[redishere 697]

1 hour ago, Richard Penna said:

There is no such thing as 'patiently' waiting for a BF release, don't be silly.

 

Couldn't agree more. That's why I put those scare quotes

[bollemanneke 3,337]

So how do we think MM has tackled all the short HP3 cues? Would JW have approved a chronological presentation? Might we get cross-faded long tracks? These are the things that keep me awake at night now.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

8 hours ago, redishere said:

 

My thoughts exactly. I don’t mind the “limited 2CD edition” stickers. The only ones bothering me are the SIAE silvery stickers: only italian stores have them (SIAE is the italian society managing royalties and copyright), and they are almost impossible to peel off ‘cause they are heavily glued and they are already sliced in six or seven wavy pieces, as you can see in the picture I posted. Hate those things.

I know these. They're on every second Morricone CD that I buy! I gave up trying to peel them off, after having tried it once.

[redishere 697]

1 hour ago, bollemanneke said:

So how do we think MM has tackled all the short HP3 cues? Would JW have approved a chronological presentation? Might we get cross-faded long tracks? These are the things that keep me awake at night now.

 

I feel you. I keep asking myself the same thing. I kinda like how the shortest cues from the leaked HP1&2 recording sessions have been merged together (I don't know who did it) to create a sort-of "deluxe" edition, but in HP3 a lot of cues are quite fragmented so I really don't know how MM will arrange them. 

 

I also wonder where some source music cues will be put (like the Leaky Cauldron music in HP1, or some alternates): will they be presented chronologically, or will they be put at the end of the tracklist? And more importantly, who cares? I do.

2 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

I know these. They're on every second Morricone CD that I buy! I gave up trying to peel them off, after having tried it once.

 

Damn italian stickers travelling miles and miles to bother fellow JWFans  

[Amer 2,080]

15 hours ago, redishere said:

 

while we "patiently" wait for November 23rd....

It is 23rd. And its my Birthday! So its a date I cant forget. Mark your calendar then 

[Arpy 4,145]

10 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

So how do we think MM has tackled all the short HP3 cues? Would JW have approved a chronological presentation? Might we get cross-faded long tracks? These are the things that keep me awake at night.

MM will tackle them by bending down to their height so they feel more comfortable talking to longer cues.

 

[redishere 697]

3 hours ago, Arpy said:

MM will tackle them by bending down to their height so they feel more comfortable talking to longer cues.

 

 

Sounds about right. Good guy MM is the hero we definitely deserve

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

So I've gone all this time without having a clue that there was an alternate ending to Azkaban leading into the end credits. I was looking at the score today and saw the cue "A New Broomstick" and decided to have a go at mocking it up together with the originally planned end credits going into Hedwig's Theme. I then found Datameister's great version but kept going anyway. Have a listen if you'd like:

 

 

Anticipation levels at an all time high.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Great mock-up! Love the detailed violin mix!

[redishere 697]

35 minutes ago, Docteur Qui said:

So I've gone all this time without having a clue that there was an alternate ending to Azkaban leading into the end credits. I was looking at the score today and saw the cue "A New Broomstick" and decided to have a go at mocking it up together with the originally planned end credits going into Hedwig's Theme. I then found Datameister's great version but kept going anyway. Have a listen if you'd like:

 

 

Anticipation levels at an all time high.

 

Great, great stuff! A really good job, sir.

[1977 1,743]

Wonder what art they'll be using for the covers (sticker-free of course).

[King Mark 3,625]

November 23rd

Will this be one of the greatest JWfan days ever or the beginning of our slow descent into madness?

[mrbellamy 6,272]

10 minutes ago, King Mark said:

the beginning of our slow descent into madness?

 

Wayyyy too late

[Holko 9,499]

We're up to our average hairline in madness.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

I wonder what JWfan was like in the pre-LLL days.

[1977 1,743]

19 minutes ago, King Mark said:

November 23rd

Will this be one of the greatest JWfan days ever or the beginning of our slow descent into madness?

 

It will be one for the books

 

[King Mark 3,625]

15 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

I wonder what JWfan was like in the pre-LLL days.

 1999- 2010 The dark days . All Williams expansions were but a distant mirage while we had to endure multiple Goldsmith releases of the same title nobody wanted like Poltergeist 2

 

All we had to do  was slavishly editing SW prequels expanded scores from nano seconds of video game file.

 

And when we did have a Williams release it'd be screwed up like the Indy box

 

Actually the End of the Dark Days was the HPSS sessions leak, which led to multiple JW sessions leak within a few months and the start of LLL expanded releases.. when was that?

[1977 1,743]

53 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

I wonder what JWfan was like in the pre-LLL days.

 

It was great. We had all those lovely FSM Silver Age releases along with the odd Intrada and Varese Club surprise. 

[redishere 697]

Me if anything HP-related pops up in ten days:

[Score 770]

9 hours ago, Docteur Qui said:

So I've gone all this time without having a clue that there was an alternate ending to Azkaban leading into the end credits. I was looking at the score today and saw the cue "A New Broomstick" and decided to have a go at mocking it up together with the originally planned end credits going into Hedwig's Theme. I then found Datameister's great version but kept going anyway. Have a listen if you'd like:

 

 

Anticipation levels at an all time high.

 

Very nice! I prefer it to the final film version. I guess the scene was changed, hence the cue had to be rewritten.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

10 minutes ago, redishere said:

Me if anything HP-related pops up in ten days:



Ah, Merry Christmas Mr. Bean. Great episode.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

5 minutes ago, Score said:

Very nice! I prefer it to the final film version. I guess the scene was changed, hence the cue had to be rewritten.

I prefer the film version (regarding the broomstick scene). This version here is more in line with the child friendlier first two scores.

[redishere 697]

4 hours ago, The Illustrious Jerry said:

Ah, Merry Christmas Mr. Bean. Great episode.

 

Love it. I lose it every single time Bean forgets to turn the imaginary volume knob up. 

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

15 hours ago, redishere said:

Love it. I lose it every single time Bean forgets to turn the imaginary volume knob up. 

 

[Smeltington 1,436]

22 hours ago, King Mark said:

Actually the End of the Dark Days was the HPSS sessions leak, which led to multiple JW sessions leak within a few months and the start of LLL expanded releases.. when was that?

 

I downloaded it on October 26, 2010, so it must have been around that time. I remember that and the CoS leak very well. They were big moments in my life... moments that I wasn't able to share with the important people in my life, because nobody cared. Haha

[King Mark 3,625]

So Dark Days= 1999--2010

[Trent B 337]

22 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

I wonder what JWfan was like in the pre-LLL days.

 

More dull than it is now.

[Taikomochi 1,136]

16 minutes ago, Smeltington said:

 

I downloaded it on October 26, 2010, so it must have been around that time. I remember that and the CoS leak very well. They were big moments in my life... moments that I wasn't able to share with the important people in my life, because nobody cared. Haha

 

I had to go to my friend’s house because my internet was not stable enough to get the HPSS leak without the download dropping. Good times

[Smeltington 1,436]

See, this is how you can tell a true JW Fan. You remember where you were when the HPSS sessions dropped

[bollemanneke 3,337]

I only remember when Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows dropped. I was studying for a Spanish grammar exam when I suddenly got hold of them. Sweating and discarding all the Spanish tenses, I listened to some tracks, had crazy and feverish conversations with a few fellow HP fans and even passed the exam the next morning.

[A. A. Ron 1,738]

1 hour ago, Smeltington said:

 

I downloaded it on October 26, 2010, so it must have been around that time. I remember that and the CoS leak very well. They were big moments in my life... moments that I wasn't able to share with the important people in my life, because nobody cared. Haha

 

Same here. I almost had a heart attack.

[Smeltington 1,436]

It was too good to be true, and still is!

 

I was in a hotel, where a client had put me up for the week, with my DESKTOP computer that I brought with me because I didn't have a laptop at the time. I downloaded the HPSS sessions over the hotel wifi, and the first thing I listened to was Voldemort's Theme from the Children's Suite.

 

When Chamber leaked, and I first listened to it, I was at home in Atlanta, and it was the day before John Williams conducted the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. At the concert, JW included Fawkes the Phoenix   B-)  Perfect synergy! Maybe he knew......

[MrJosh 892]

I remember when Chamber of Secrets leaked because I had just finished making myself a nice complete edit with dvd-rips....if only I had just waited a little.

[redishere 697]

I actually found out about the leaks just recently, and I freaked out because I remember when I first bought the HPSS soundtrack, in 2001, I was so disappointed a lot of cues were missing. On the other hand, I've been desperately searching for PoA since 2004 so I'm quite tense these days.

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

I found out about the HPSS leak probably around a year after it happened (maybe less, I'm not exactly sure when it leaked). COS on the other hand I was on the main page of that website that must not be named, and it was the first post. I flipped out a bit, then realized it was probably just yet another hoax. Then I downloaded it, and realized it was the real deal. First cues I listened to were the Quidditch cues, which I had been looking for forever.

[redishere 697]

9 hours ago, Manakin Skywalker said:

I found out about the HPSS leak probably around a year after it happened (maybe less, I'm not exactly sure when it leaked). COS on the other hand I was on the main page of that website that must not be named, and it was the first post. I flipped out a bit, then realized it was probably just yet another hoax. Then I downloaded it, and realized it was the real deal. First cues I listened to were the Quidditch cues, which I had been looking for forever.

 

The Quidditch cues in COS are incredible. So much energy.

I recently listened to those while going for a walk in the countryside, my heart was pounding in the end.

[crumbs 14,301]

3 minutes ago, redishere said:

 

The Quidditch cues in COS are incredible. So much energy.

I recently listened to those while going for a walk in the countryside, my heart was pounding in the end.

 

Yes, it's phenomenally conducted and performed. I'm not sure Williams really wrote anything though, the whole thing seems like adapted music from PS and AOTC.

[redishere 697]

3 minutes ago, crumbs said:

 

Yes, it's phenomenally conducted and performed. I'm not sure Williams really wrote anything though, the whole thing seems like adapted music from PS and AOTC.

 

Probably, yeah, but the infamous AOTC-inspired cue in COS is impressive: I don't know why, but I find the one in AOTC a little bit dull in comparison.

[crumbs 14,301]

Just now, redishere said:

 

Probably: but the infamous AOTC-inspired cue in COS is impressive: I don't know why, but I find the one in AOTC a little bit dull in comparison.

 

Yes, funnily enough the COS interpretation of that music is much more athletic, intense and tight. Amazing the difference a conductor can make, because the musicians were probably almost exactly the same across scores.

 

Worth noting that Williams was competing in a soundscape of loud engines and Coruscant noise, however, so he may have approached the AOTC cue differently (streamlining the musical approach to help punch through Burtt's stupendously obnoxious noise).

[redishere 697]

33 minutes ago, crumbs said:

Worth noting that Williams was competing in a soundscape of loud engines and Coruscant noise, however, so he may have approached the AOTC cue differently (streamlining the musical approach to help punch through Burtt's stupendously obnoxious noise).

 

Williams vs Doppler Effect

[Arpy 4,145]

No! Chase Through Coruscant is fan-fucking-tastic! 

[Holko 9,499]

It's great but Quidditch is better. It also has bits from the beginning of the Phantom Menace podrace.

[MrJosh 892]

I'd like to know the story behind that, I hope the liner notes tell us. 

 

"I asked John, what should I adapt for the Quidditch match? He was in a bad mood that day and snapped back at me, 'here, use this stuff from the Star Wars II, George will probably splice it up anyway!' and so use it, I did!" -William Ross

[Jay 37,287]

9 hours ago, crumbs said:

the whole thing seems like adapted music from PS and AOTC.

 

8 hours ago, Holko said:

It also has bits from the beginning of the Phantom Menace podrace.

 

And the Ludlow's Demise riff too.

 

 

You guys are so right, the piece has freaking amazing energy. I was just listening to it yesterday and marveling at it's energy actually.  It's like they knew it wouldn't be on the OST so didn't try to craft something original or that had any kind of balance. It's just freaking balls to the wall the entire time, and I love it!

[Holko 9,499]

The Ludlow's Demise bit is also in the PS Quidditch cue, it's CS' Quidditch Pt.3 which is a hodgepodge of SW.

[MrJosh 892]

I think I know what I'm going to listen to when I get home...

[Jay 37,287]

3 minutes ago, Holko said:

The Ludlow's Demise bit is also in the PS Quidditch cue

 

Hmm, true, I guess it's more disguised in HP1, and more obvious to me in HP2

[Brundlefly 2,385]

53 minutes ago, Jay said:

And the Ludlow's Demise riff too.

I have been thinking about that phrase for at least 5 minutes, but now I know what you mean, without having listened to The Quidditch Match.

 

Now that somebody mentioned it, I absolutely agree on the similarity.