Joe Brausam

“What the hell is this?” was also his reaction when he heard Rogue One for the first time.

Thanks for the tip, I just picked it up with The Thin Red Line - this 30% off sale is great!

The only thing that feels nicer than listening to a great piece with horn is when you try playing a note into one and it comes out clear. 

I just presumed MV is too mean to shell out for a new clamshell.

I think it was a good track to play at Easter when my nephews were searching for eggs in the garden!

SOLD OUT

Good music accompanying the train.

Oh yea, it's Horner in his prime
 
Just listen to the Reunion and End Titles track for free on your streaming service of choice to get an idea of it

I say we ban everyone from posting here unless it's to announce the TROS publication.

Same. 

Every time I see this thread bumped my heart leaps, then I keep getting disappointed.

Every time I see this thread bumped my heart leaps, then I keep getting disappointed.

Every time I see this thread bumped my heart leaps, then I keep getting disappointed.

Every time I see this thread bumped my heart leaps, then I keep getting disappointed.

Out of all the Williams scores that received some sort of expansion already (not counting FYCs), the ones I'd most want to be revisited for a new definitive edition would be
 
1) Last Crusade
2)Temple of Doom
3) Phantom Menace
4) Hook
5) Return of the Jedi
6) Empire Strikes Back
7) Raiders
8) Star Wars
 

I couldn't hum a single theme from Black Panther.
 
Avatar's best moments are beautiful and lovely. I dislike the film but love the score.

It’s like over here where people find problems with the music when looking at the waveforms rather than what they can hear. Over there’d they’re zooming in and judging a film on screenshots. 

Had a miniscule, teeny-tiny bit of involvement in this one behind the scenes a while back. Glad to see it come to fruition. 

This is the soundtrack release of the year. I can't think of anything of more importance, or of greater historical value.

You are so, so right.  This might be Spielberg's masterpiece.  Like Coppola did in Apocalypse Now, Spielberg put his heart and soul into this film and this sequence encapsulates why the film and score are perfect. 
 
One of my favorite memories was on my flight back to Los Angeles after a wonderful experience performing with Marin Alsop and the amazing musicians and friends in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  My instrument wouldn't fit in the overhead, so had to fly in a seat.  Evacuation rules required it was the first row window seat to not block any passengers in case there was an evacuation.  So my instrument and I were boarded first and in the front row.  Next were a group of 20 senior citizens that were all part of the Honor Flight Network (a non-profit organization whose mission is to transport Veterans to Washington DC to visit memorials dedicated to their service and sacrifice).  
 
This was one of the most enjoyable flights I had ever taken making the five-hour flight feel more like 30 minutes it was over so quick.  The man sitting next to me was known as the “kid” because he was the youngest one at 87.  He was a rear gunner on a B-17 bomber.  I told him I was a pilot which excited him as we began talking aviator to aviator about what he saw and experienced flying dozens of dangerous missions, the fright of the Luftwaffe, friends he lost, and the incredible randomness of great tragedies.  He almost started tearing up recalling a routine mission with several of his friends where all on board died because the plane simply flew into a mountain.   
 
I could feel the cold, noise, smell, fear, cramping, claustrophobia inside the rear and belly turret of these long missions over enemy terrain.  He said the introduction of the P-51 Mustang was a game changer because they would now have armed escorts on their dangerous missions who were as agile (probably more so) than the Luftwaffe.  They frequently didn't even know what happened to their friends.  After difficult missions, they simply returned and noticed airplanes missing.  No word of what happened to their friends...are they now POW?  Did the plane ditch in the sea?  Were they survivors hoping to be rescued?  They had no answers, just an empty bunk where their friend used to be.  How terrifying it must have been to fly these missions before the P-51 where it must have felt like they were a large sitting duck!  Now at least, they had a chance.
 
Half way through the flight, many of these men had to go the bathroom so my front row chair became a rotating door of great stories from these incredible veterans.   One consistent story I heard was how much they all revered one of the passengers on the flight above all else.  Finally, he made his way to the front row seat awaiting the bathroom.  When he sat next to me, we started talking and I saw his cap "101st Airborne Screaming Eagles" Infantry division.  My jaw dropped.  He was a paratrooper on D-Day who jumped from a glider behind enemy lines in the middle of the night during the Invasion of Normandy.  Against incredibly bad odds, he survived the battle telling me that night, he lost half his company.  Just imagine, in a 24-hour period losing one out of two people you trained and bonded with.  Since this was 2014, I recall he was 92.  That would make him 98 now.  I don't know his name or if he is still alive.  I will never forget him and I knew him for maybe a minute.  
 
They are true heroes. It was incredibly humbling to meet these heroes and I was reminded of them seeing interviews from Normandy on the 75th anniversary and think of them every time I see Saving Private Ryan.  I will never forget meeting them and hearing their experiences first hand.

This forum has  a "report post" feature and this is now the most reported post we've ever had in the entire history of this forum.
 
This post is a reply to one short sentence: "Seems like 2015 is when the BF slate started having really high profile releases"
 
I am shock and dismayed that a label representative, let alone a label owner, would choose to sign in to our forum to post a reply like this to what is a very innocuous post.
 
The post never read to me as "Boy, LLL sure sucked in the past, 2015 was the year they FINALLY got good!", it read as "Boy, 2015 is when they kicked things up a notch!"
 
There are many "score collectors" who don't happen to like Star Trek music, or don't happen to like Lethal Weapon music, or don't happen to like Home Alone music.  Why would you want to bully and shame them when all they did was express positivity towards different titles?
 
This forum is full of film score fans who are constantly praising and purchasing from all the specialty labels, and LLL gets more attention than any label for a number of factors, such as the sheer amount of John Williams releases you've put out, and the fact that we skew younger than a forum like FSM so there is more discussion of 80-00s scores and you've also released more of those than the other labels.

Day after day our forum members are constantly say positive things about LLL and we as a collective are always looking forward to seeing what's next, and I have spent lots of my free time doing what I can to promote LLL releases in the forums as well as via main page articles, which gets shared all over social media, providing more exposure to the great work you do.

I can't believe you'd decide to come here and pick apart a post that you perceived as a negative one, when there is an ocean of positivity on this site about LLL across too many different threads to ever count.  I also can't believe that you'd go beyond disagreeing with the opinion shared, but also elect to call his statement "stupid" and a "dumb ass comment".

I think you should apologize to Richard, who has provided two followup posts that detail what it was he was actually trying to say:
 
 
 
And I hope in the future you don't plan to attack your paying costumers on our forums, even if they do express a dislike of something you've released.  Every single score collector on planet earth has different opinions of which scores they like and which they don't.  You should know that as a whole, we appreciate and admire everything you do, and can't wait to see what's next.

I think that's the most logical reason. I guess it will be out when orchestras will fully resume activities and concerts, hopefully next year.

Kathy, clearly your intentions were good and an honest attempt to shed positive light on John Williams. Don’t be turned off by the absurd reactions you got from some members. Welcome to the board.

This is why this board is stagnating. As soon as someone new shows up they're scared off immediately.