robthehand

The eight track version right?

I'm guessing this is the one I have on tape then?

If it has, I'm about to buy it. My video's about at the stage where you can't hear the lines anymore... Rob - wondering what this is...

Star Wars quite a few times - but not for a long time, A New Hope not much. I still keep my taped version of the original version - without that Jabba the Hutt cR@p.

Which track on the TPM game?

Or so we're told...

Thanks!

On the anthology, the track "The Last Battle". From where in the film is the first two minutes of music? I can't find it anywhere. I know (or at least I think) that at about 2:00 it segues to "The Tractor Beam" and then "The Battle of Yavin", but what is that first bit?

I know the feeling. Rob - who lives in Berkshire, UK

I'm literally talking about the last chord of that, which seems to be different from the one on the UE...

Several times, yes. The point is that is doesn't appear at all where the liner notes suggest - between "Necros Attacks" and "Approaching Kara". It does, however, appear several times before "Necros Attacks" (after "Koskov Escapes"). If you want to know, it appears four times before Necros Attacks, three times before "Murder at the Fair" and once before "Inflight Fight".

Eh? I mean: the part I'm thinking of starts off with the part Cerrabore mentioned, but at the end there are a few timpani "notes", before it segues to "Lament".

But not the version in ANH.

It was ages ago I saw the film, so I may have remembered this wrong - isn't there some music (not listed in the "tracked music" list (or does it replace something else) where Palpatine first says "execute order 66", just before Obi-Wan's lizard-thing is shot? And also I distinctly remember that the section of TPM UE music you listed did not end that way? Wasn't there a timpani roll or something?

Oh yeah - sorry - I changed the subject I bit there...

Pity - the segue to "Lament" in the film is really nice. Ah well..

Can you give me an *exact* timing for the end of the second part of AOTC music in that track please? None of this seems to work for me!

Three corrections/suggestions to The Living Daylights list: "Where Has Everybody Gone?" should go before "Necros Attacks", since there is no appearance of it where the liner notes suggested. The second half (1:20-End) of "Approaching Kara" is meant to go after "Bond Meets Kara" - it is the music from the scene where Kara goes back to fetch her cello. "Into Vienna" is an alternate, and since the film version is unreleased, should probably go in its place, between tracks 4 and 15. In other words, the list should go: 13. Exercise at Gibraltar 1. The Living Daylights - Main Title 3. The Sniper Was A Woman 6. Koskov Escapes 7. Where Has Everybody Gone? 2. Necros Attacks 14a. Kara Is Arrested (Approaching Kara 0:00-1:20) 5. Kara Meets Bond 14b. Retrieving the Cello (Approaching Kara 1:20-End) 4. Ice Chase 8. Into Vienna (alternate) 15. Murder at the Fair 16. "Assassin" and Drugged 17. Airbase Jailbreak 10. Mujahadin and Opium 18. Afghanistan Plan 9. Hercules Takes Off 11. Inflight Fight 19. Air Bond 20. Final Confrontation 12. If There Was A Man 21. Alternate End Titles

In the tracked music list, Battle of Utapau, is that really the right part of AOTC music? I remembered it totally different to that...

I thought you preferred the soundtrack arrangement:

The Droid Invasion.

I was at my old school a few months ago for a concert (which some people I know were playing in), and I was curious to see that the wind band were performing “Star Wars Main Title”. I have to say, much as I am quite forgiving about bad arrangements for amateur orchestras, that this was the worst arrangement of any theme I’ve ever heard in my life. The middle string section was played the same volume as the rest of the theme, and played by oboes!!!! (and a cymbalist who seemed intent on pounding the living daylights out of the instruments about three seconds after the beat). But that wasn’t the worst of it. The drummer was entirely wrong, playing (irritatingly) about half a second after everyone else. The conductor was awful – if the main theme normally runs at about 1:20, this lasted 3:00 – at least. And there was one absolutely unforgivable error in the arrangement. Instead of going minim, minim, crotchet-triplets, minim, crotchet etc. (almost 5/4 style) this clever arranger (I didn’t catch the name) decided that that would be too difficult for a school orchestra, and arranged it in 6/4 time: minim, minim, minim-triplets etc. What the hell??? And at half its proper speed, it was one of the worst musical experiences of my life. Ugh.

OK, I may have completely misunderstood this, but this means that we shouldn't include the first 0:11 of sqgripping1, right? Again, I may have completely misunderstood this.

OK, I've got another problem (sorry! :oops:): Delorean90 said that "sqdanger1" as part of "The Droid Invasion", should in fact be "sqfight5". But sqfight5 is used in the Super-UE CD 2 Track 13. How does this work?

Funny, GL seems to release just about anything to make money - except the thing that we really want.