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I walk into a certain store and just buy it. The proprietor always orders a bunch of these hot new releases and puts one aside for me. I have connections. Duh, me too. Although I'm not sure how much I'm gonna listen to it... 😂 Here you go. Watch this video and you'll get a very good idea what this score is all about. Actually it's a very lovely, very emotional score... Kind of underrated. I suspect that in many respects it's on the same level as Sabrina, Angela's Ashes, orThe Book Thief, as far as quality and general appeal go.

I was never a fan of the EU... 😂 That's one reason.

Somehow I'm certain this one won't sell out for some time... Maybe in 5-6 years!?

I actually like the Always adaptation found on the Spielberg/Williams Collaboration album! That one's definitely my most listened to track from Always... Don't know the OS album at all, although I probably listened to it once or twice years ago.

I'm excited we're getting a new JW expanded score, sure, but I gotta admit, Always is among my least listened JW scores. Considering that it's a score which was written at the height of JW's career (right between the Indiana Jones trilogy and the new phase which was kicked of by Jurassic Park/Schindler's List), that's rather telling... But I'll definitely get it, one way or another, and look forward to really delve into this score. Oh, I've seen the movie only once, and thought it's nothing to write home about.

Yeah, films like The Post, Bridge of Spies, and Ready Player One! Although The Post still has a great score...

This will likely be released on Netflix in 2023... If we're lucky.

Right! Nice job looking up and going through JW's filmography one by one... 😂 OK, game's over.

Wait, Leonardo DiCaprio?

He didn't technically star in the movie, anyway. He just lent his voice for a short scene... Kinda like Ben Kingsley in the same movie. Kinda like Morgan Freeman in War of the Worlds.

I like the stringy part at the very beginning that sounds like the beginning of A.I. You know what I mean.

This was just a test and you fell right into it... Dear Lord. 😂 My point was, how much harder and more interesting it is to try to think of a major actor who only starred in one JW-scored movie.

Awesome!

Wow, didn't even know this existed.... Is this really the original orchestral score as written by James Horner and his orchestrators? Or was this transcribed by a third party?

I don't know, but why not ask @mxsch? Anyway, I'm arguing for not throwing it out...

Why throw it out, though? You don't have to listen to it... I mean, would I throw out my wife just because I have a younger, hotter girlfriend?

Home Alone 2?

Well, I know what I asked, but many people who respond apparently don't... Exactly. Apple and orange.

You're talking about the score, right?

Well, true. So that leaves only Kevin Costner.... I told you that's much more interesting!

It'd be more interesting to find out which big actor had only 1 movie scored by JW, since, obviously, that would be the highlight of their careers... Off the top of my head: Julia Roberts - Hook Robin Williams - Hook Dustin Hoffman - Hook Kevin Costner - JFK Brad Pitt - Seven Years in Tibet Anthony Hopkins - Nixon Mel Gibson - The Patriot

And why? Also, which tracks are the highlights of each score for you? I've had both scores for a long time, but I'm only now trying to really get into them...

My God, saw this just now. This comes rather unexpected, but... Instant buy! 'Nuff said.

Off the top of my head... 1. Summon the Heroes 2. Rescuing Sarah (Expanded) 3. Journey to the Island 4. Mischief Managed! 5. Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith

Do you know Cole Porter? He's written hundreds of songs. And half of them sound similar to each other. I think calling this an arrangement or a reworking is going a bit too far. They're just similar. At least that's what I think.