Richard Penna

I believe whoever rescored What Dreams May Come had something like 6 days. Marco Beltrami had 17 days to write I, Robot.

I've pretty much stopped buying films DVDs, give that Blu-ray rips can be downloaded easily, and we're no more than perhaps 6 months away from getting a Blu-ray player of sorts. I don't see any point in someone buying this who has the first set. No commentaries, no DTS (I heard that Lucas apparently doesn't care for it - hey George, how about thinking of someone else for a change?), no deleted scenes. If they really want to make money it should be a simultaneous Blu-ray and DVD release.

You don't. There's tons of other legal places to download.

Has some good parts and a nice theme. Nothing special though IMO.

I only have maybe a couple of hundred 'normal' songs on here, and I generally listen to them in isolated moments as we all have moods when we need something different

You could just press the plunger and blow this place up now. I mean seriously, nothing good can come from this thread - unless you pick yourself because you've been secretly harbouring the complete Indy trilogy for the last year.

I watched 4 seconds of that then turned it off. We've had far too many great themes ruined with 'lyrics' (*yeugh*)

Why would God want someone else to die? There's room on the planet for the odd person living forever. And he has talked this through with John? I thought he loved us all... PS, there are currently 5 people on this board it would be truly, um, fascinating, to meet.

KotCS without a doubt. I think a brand new score beats expansions in this case, given that we already have a nearly complete Raiders.

Wow. May 22nd, get here, now.

I'm waiting for the PC version. I play Vice City and San Andreas a lot, although most of the time it's just driving like a maniac and blowing things up. Then there's spawning a helicopter... the discovery of which made several evenings go by very quickly indeed.

I like a lot of Beltrami's work. I, Robot for instance was a great listen last night. Gotta say - that cover for Iron Man looks rubbish IMO.

I agree that 265k is fine. I noticed last week that I'd somehow replaced my copy of Lady in the Water with a 160k version, despite owning the CD. But I believe that once you get down to 128, it starts sounding flatter, and 96k sounds plain crap in busier parts.

iTunes Plus is a load of bull. And I've read that it's 256k, not 320. 128k is basically the lowest bitrate possible before the loss of quality is properly noticeable. In this day and age, no one has an excuse to distribute music like this. Haven't found Roar anywhere 'questionable' yet.

My comments were really just referencing the words 'hard rocking'. They don't fill me with confidence in a new score for a film with lots of explosions and a human robot walking around. And I'm not trying to give Djwadi a hard time - his work on Prison Break for instance is very good and appropriate for the context.

That's the thing - giving people an opportunity to pay for something. It's one of the tank-sized holes in the music industry's arguments - they keep saying online music is a huge business, but when you put 3% of your catalogue on it, and only let customers living within 2 postcodes buy it. I'll happily pay my 79p for an mp3 of Roar. Just tell me where...

He scores Prison Break. That's all I know about him. When you say 'hard rocking', is that meant literally? If so, my low expectations just dropped through the manhole cover and into the world of the molepeople (pathetic attempt at a Simpsons reference).

I wouldn't buy it from iTunes even if it was available over here. As it stands now, I'll be looking for other means to get hold of Roar - legal or otherwise.

They're so 90's.

They're pretty to look at, but the sheer effort required to pull it out of its case, pop it in the computer and press play just drains me. And the only CD player I own is a 10 year old ghetto-blaster that I haven't used in about that time.

There's some amazing brass work in LotR - it's just used in some unusual ways. But I agree with the overall point. I just listened to Rabin's score to National Treasure 2 before promptly deleting all but two tracks. It all has that wall of chopping strings that a lot of MV/RC music has these days. What's aggravating is that it probably isn't synth - it's just the orchestration and at least in Zimmer's case, the recording method, yet we know from listening to some of the smaller scores that most of them do have talent waiting to escape.

I thought that was a great cliffhanger - all hell breaking loose and even the doctor not having a clue what to do. That 'dance' that the sontarans did was a little odd though... and the kid joining in BTW - I love your signature Greg. Which episode is it from?

Got the Varesssse (just making sure I'm pronouncing it right) 30th anniversary set from 7Digital. There are a few tracks not to my taste (Rodriguez' stuff and some of other more modern tracks) but overall it's an inspired selection, and it's definitely true what they say about these sets - they open you up to material you would never otherwise hear, either because they are composers you've never heard of, or the films didn't interest you. Thinking about whether to get Lost S3 on a real CD or not (decided Indy definitely deserves that treatment). I don't own either of the first two so there's arguments on both sides.

Seconded, thirded and flaming well fourthed!!!

Nope. The guy's a waste of space. Now Hans Zimmer - there's a guy we can all look to for wisdom.