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Some more details from MV (via FSM Board): Now is as good as a time as any to share some info with all of you We are doing our "Black Friday Announcement" a wee bit different this year. Instead of us announcing titles starting at 12 am pst we are going to announce them three hours earlier at 9 pm PST November 24, Thanksgiving Day for us Yanks. We can now confirm it will be 5 titles. Knowing how volatile the economy is all over we opted to let you guys know in advance what the costs are for the titles so you can gage how much you may want to spend $29.98 $29.98 $39.98 $29.98 $21.98 Furthermore, we hope to have the following titles back in stock and ready to ship once we start taking orders for the FINAL FIVE on Nov 29 starting at 12 pm pst THE JOHN WILLIAMS HARRY POTTER BOX SET BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 4 CD SET BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA 3 CD SET (FINAL BATCH) WONDER WOMAN 3 CD SET (FINAL BATCH) In January 2023 we will be releasing 2 titles, then after that, we are taking a hiatus for a few months -- No new titles for February or March 2023. We will be focusing on getting out of stock titles BACK in stock during those months. In April 2023, we will be back to our regularly scheduled program with an exciting slate of releases we hope you will enjoy! See y'all on Turkey Day! MV https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=149651&forumID=1&archive=0

Only one… if it's done right.

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I’m making sure Disney knows I’m serious about my suggestion.

Not sure where to post this, but just finished my oil painting of Howard Shore and thought I'd share it. I actually decided to open a separate artwork dedicated thread in 'other topics' for anyone to share their artwork.

I'm sorry to people who like the score for the series but I got to get something of my chest. I just listened to the 2nd volume and honestly, I feel it's horrible. I feel bad for Britell because he's very talented but what he was asked to do hear is just awful. It's not enjoyable Star Wars music, it's not even very enjoyable music overall. How is it we get 3 albums, totalling almost 3 hours, of this. And don't have more music from Williams' prequel/sequel scores and Mando S2. I honestly don't get it. I remember about 3 months ago before the show started I was going through Britell music like Succession & Cruella and being so excited for what he would do with a Star Wars score. But, for me personally, this is actually the worst result. I've always understood people who said that not all projects in the SW universe should have a certain sound (or sound like Williams). I feel Kiner, Göransson & Holt/Ross all made things their own and did something interesting, but with those scores I still felt it was part of SW. I was always open to a composer trying something new, but if this is the result, I don't want that anymore. I respect people who enjoy the music, but I think it's just awful and can't believe how this is a score to a Star Wars project.

As much as I want to continue to joke about Hook. I slightly disagree. Let's say the Concord set of Temple of Doom had everything besides the rope bridge percussion and film version bit of fast streets of Shanghai and those would be included on a new release. You bet your ass I'd be ordering that immediately. Hook is just one of those scores to many people here. And that's fine.

I love this time of year around here

Here's a crazy idea. Fellowship of the Ring as one of the titles that was delayed. Originally planned for its 20th anniversary last year and now nicely ties in to the renewed interest in Middle Earth and it's music. Remastered and presenting the music as intended I'll keep dreaming...

TROS is unfortunately let down by both an OST with too many missing highlights (Falcon Flight, Rey Trains, Advice, Parents, etc.) and a pretty lackluster film presentation, microedited, tracked to death, and frequently buried under sound effects. But it’s actually my favorite of the three, even though TFA is my favorite OST and TLJ is my favorite in the film. Just bring on all three in complete form!

Sneakers might be a possibility for a 30th anniversary expanded release. 10 years ago LLL said they tried to expand it but was turned down with no explanation given. In those 10 years LLL has done a ton of Universal (and Sony) titles so that makes me think there's a chance.

I look back on the Winter and Spring of 2016 with affection as a very exciting time in my life for several reasons, and one of them is that the entire period was soundtracked by listening to the Force Awakens OST almost daily. And here's a picture I took in June of that year of the Millennium Falcon hologram in the vinyl release, a very silly gimmick

Said expansion also fetching high prices on the secondary market these days. So even if there isn't a redone version, the previous attempt being made available again would get the score onto more hands still.

Oh that's fantastic news! I can handle staying up until midnight my time to join in the fun! The 3am my time announcements basically meant I didn't see them until I woke up on Friday some 5 hours into the madness

You know it would be wild if the Williams release came from none of these boutique labels and instead came from Disney in December. ..like Indy Box set …

As long as it stays nice I would be down. They might really not know that people want this stuff

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This is a tough one for me. Rey's theme is the best of the three movies, but the middle part of TFA drags for me. TLJ is consistently good, but rarely great (The Fathiers and The Spark, though, are great). RoS is the most fun for me to listen to from beginning to end, though I have to begin with a strict regiment of mental exercises to detach the music from the the mess of the film (and abominations such as the lack of The Speeder Chase). So, TFA for film and RoS for album.

Also the FotR CR replicates some tracking that replaced parts of cues.

TFA all the way. Probably the SW album I actually listen the most

It's a great film and fine score, but for me it doesn't quite live up to the standards of Robbins' other famous Merchant/Ivory work, like HOWARD'S END, A ROOM WITH A VIEW or his magnum opus THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with their steely, circular movements. Maybe because it's a little too eclectic.

John Barry - The Lion in Winter [Nic Raine]

Hook has had exactly 2 releases. The original soundtrack album in 1991, and an incomplete expansion produced by Didier Deutch in 2012, which was only in print for about a year before it sold out in the summer of 2013 and had been unavailable since. Any other "releases" you might have seen on the internet are unofficial fan edits / bootlegs.

Valley of the Dolls 55th, The Screaming Woman 50th, Star Wars 45th, Yes Giorgio 40th, Witches of Eastwick 35th, Amistad, Seven Years in Tibet, The Lost World 25th. Catch Me If You Can, Attack of the Clones 20th, Lincoln 10th, The Last Jedi, The Post 5th.

But the hand refuses to even dripfeed us! And even when it does it's moldy and rotten (Hunchback Legacy)

BSG is a modern tv score classic. The show was unafraid to have the music take center stage frequently and to great effect. Bear was firing on all cylinders on BSG (and so far on ROP too).

100%. It's far more interesting to have two starkly different JW scores in this late period of his career. I can't wait to discover both.

No it's good, really good in fact, and God knows I'm not a fan of 60s film music recordings... but the re-recording appears to be a must too (anyway it's recommended by James Southall and it appears we very often shares the same tastes) and it contains a suite from Mary, Queen of Scots.

I want to know which other film composers, if any, would go to these same lengths if given the same opportunity as JW. Maybe I’m wrong, but my belief is they do not exist. This is part of the reason I love JW. Not just as a creative human being who bridges two musical worlds, but as the idea of a creative human being who bridges two musical worlds. He’s the embodiment of the intellectual curiosity I would hope to see in the world’s greatest film scorer, if such a person did not already exist in JW.

Yeah, or an expansion of: Yavar

Tom’s posts are funny. He doesn’t need to make any excuses. I like to laugh pretty easily, so I hand out emoji’s like they’re candy. I like where you’re going with this. The preferred changes would be rewrites and new sessions rather than edits. Because alternates, right?

You’re my spirit animal for the next few months.

Thanks for the heads up! Here are the individual links: Empire of Light (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) [16 cues, 00:35:34]

The difference is that Tom is funny.

MP3 links still working, so we still have the soundtrack album freely available (though there might be somebody at Searchlight pictures getting reprimanded for uploading the commercial album) And kudos to Searchlight for uploading 24bit 48Khz wav files, again

Top men.

I think they are more than aware that we want more Star Wars music.

You have almost 50 years worth of fanfares, marches and brilliant overtures he wrote for the movies, including quite a few for Spielberg. In this case, it was not the right approach. It's a very personal and intimate project for the director, and Williams agreed that the film needed only a few cues and that the vernacular had to be restrained. He wanted to be respectful because the story is about Steven's family so I can imagine he didn't want to intrude too much.

Just realized there's a contact us part on that site. It'd be a shame if they received a bunch of letters from us...

‘Andor’ Season 2 Begins Filming November 21st in London

Samples in general don't have much appeal to me anymore. In the Tintin/Lincoln days when I was desperate for any new JW music sure, but it kind of devalues the track when I finally hear the whole thing

Hook fans explaining why it will be a Black Friday release again this year like

I applaude this choice. I wish more filmmakers were this uncompromising in retaining musical continuity when the OG isn't available, by hiring close collaborators who know the style, instead of pure name value that goes into business for itself. *Cough* RoP *cough*

Hmph. Cancelling after S3 I probably wouldn't have minded much, but S4 was good and would have deserved a proper closure followup season.

It is in my opinion, the best thing Star Wars that's ever been made after the original trilogy. It's not saying this show is amazing but it is a good show. And yes, finally the empire is getting some flesh and brain. I'm so enjoying the slow burn approach! I agree with you @Arpy about the music being pretty anonymous. But it's perfectly doing its job in the show. And the lack of epic and romantic themes doesn't really bother me. Maybe because Disney succeeded so well in destroying the franchise that, apart for the classic trilogy and the prelogy scores (the only good thing in that second cycle IMO), I don't really enjoy Sir Williams and the other composers' works for what followed.