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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

UPDATE: We now have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/jANPycCmVd I'm excited to announce that I have recently become the admin/bureaucrat of the previously abandoned Film Music Wiki over on fandom.com. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to bring the site up to an acceptable standard, but I hope to eventually make it the de facto source of information regarding film scores. There are other sites with info of this nature on the internet but all of them are incomplete and you'd need to cross check several sources to get all the info you want. For example, if I were trying to research the first Harry Potter score, I could find the existence of and a little bit of info on the OST and the La-La Land set on Discogs, but no mention of the sessions leak. Discogs also doesn't present any sort of comparison between what material is on the OST and what material is on the La-La Land and how they overlap and how they don't. Discogs also wastes a lot of space covering reissues of OSTs, which while possibly interesting from a collector's perspective they don't really matter from a musical perspective. If I instead check out the excellent Chronological Scores / Soundtracks blog, I would learn of the existence of the sessions leak, and sort of get an idea of how the music is used in the film, but I still wouldn't know the exact differences between the releases, or exactly what alterations are made to cues in the final film. The Chronological Scores blog is also designed to be more of an editing guide than an informative breakdown of a score, which means on its own the information isn't complete. If I dug a little bit deeper I might find Jay's fantastic spreadsheet breaking down the all the releases of the score in relation to the original sheet music. This would provide a proper comparison of the releases and give most of the information I would want, but it still doesn't cover how the music is edited for the final film. Also, none of these sources go into detail about how the score was written or how different themes are utilized or when or where it was recorded. There are of course other sources that would provide this information, but I think you get the point. I want to provide one centralized source of information for film score fans to get an idea of what exists for any given score and presents most of the information they might want (cue lists, release breakdowns, behind-the-scenes info), while also linking back to all these other excellent sources. To me, it seems a wiki is the perfect way to accomplish that goal. Plus, with the high search rankings of Fandom sites, it has the added bonus of increasing exposure to and awareness of film music for the general public. Also, I should note that I plan on covering not just "film" scores but also television and videogame music as well. Lastly, I want to provide a roadmap of some of what I have planned: Obviously, I am only one person, and I will not be able to do all this on my own. If anyone here is interested in participating as an editor I'd love to have the help. Thanks!

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Re-upping this because of some recent news: I sometimes pop in on the Wookieepedia Discord server from time to time, today I just saw the baffling news that one of the oldest admins and bureaucrats just got perma-banned with no warning for ridiculous reasons. He had a personal wiki with an archive of the old Wookieepedia IRC chat on it which contained some messages that were supposedly seriously offensive - what those messages were I don't know, and it honestly doesn't matter. The point is they weren't even his own words, the archive had been up for several years (and the contents of it were more than a decade old), and he was never contacted or asked to take them down (which he says he would have had he been asked) - the first he heard that it was a problem was the message informing him he was to be perma-banned. Most of the users there don't agree with the decision but there's nothing they can do. Add to that I heard just a week or two ago the Zelda wiki just left Fandom as well. This idea is starting to seem more and more appealing. The main problems are finding a different host and paying for server costs when there's zero traffic. There's also the fact that finding editors is hard enough as it is, one or two people can't create an entire wiki from scratch by themselves. It's one thing to move an established userbase somewhere else where at least some of the people will move to a new site, it's quite another to build from the ground up where you're unlikely to get much traffic at all

This new guy who took over and is canceling stuff left and right is a real poop head