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  1. Incanus
    I don't think it's a skipping noise but rather the percussion beats that sound almost like it.
  2. Incanus
    I had to say it. It bears repeating (and often too).
  3. Incanus
    I think the score is great but the movie is not so brilliant. It would be a long list if I would tell you all the irritating things about the Ep III. Lucas can't direct. He cares more about the CGI effects than his characters.
  4. Incanus
    I noticed the odd sound of the percussion on the first time I ever listened to the score. I do not know what it is but it does not bother me any more. It just sounds a little strange nothing more. Peculiar and heavy sound.
  5. Incanus
    Quite true but that does not lessen my jealousy It would have been wonderful to be there on the recording sessions and part of the whole scoring process (even as a spectator). Actually any Williams recording session would do just fine
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    I made myself a promise I won't get into a debate about Superman here but still (so much for that promise) I must say I concur with Steef and Marian about the score. The beginning before Metropolis contains the strongest music of the score although the score is there with Williams' best. Of course Flying Sequence and Love theme are highlights of the second half of the score. THe action music is better in the end of the movie as well. I wonder have they yet nailed the final design of the Box as Doug said they have been working on it for quite awhile? BTW I am so jealous to Doug (explanation in the quote):">>>Given what the LOTR scores sound like in the films, I would think that the tracks would be the lengths of cues, which wouldn't be so bad.>>> This is pretty much dead on. And don’t worry, it’s quite easy to navigate to favorite moments. Heck, I’ve been doing it while typing just to answer a few of these questions. I think this is one of the perks of being associated closely with the LOTR scores, a preview version of the set (that what I presume Doug has got).
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    Wow that is a better list than I could have made (or would have bothered for that matter). It looks very nice but is pure conjecture even if its based on Doug Adams' description of the cue arrangement. Also the way they are going to handle the alternates is still unclear. Are they going to include them at the end of the discs or on the last disc or on the DVD or what? I myself am waiting for the release for the cue list. I do not want to speculate (even though it is fun ) since it only adds my anticipation, which is already high enough. #8 "Rabbi! From Dublin!"(4:20) LOL LOL ( you do know it's "Crebain! From Dunland!")
  8. Incanus
    I think the decision to release the three scores separately was economic. A single set would have cost too much for an average concumer (though I would have bought it no questions asked ) Now the price is lower but I think the cost of the three sets together will be higher than if it would have been just one complete set. But the price does not matter that much. The music is worth it. But the wait has been long as this release was promised as early as 2003 (I remember Soundtrack.net interview). Still it's not 20 years as with the Old SW Trilogy scores. These are great times for film music fans. So many old gems are being rereleased. Some of course do not think so (like Thor on FSM MB). FOTR is my favorite of the three scores but as they all are part of a large whole I have to say I like the whole composition very much.
  9. Incanus
    I think Doug Adams has been very forthcoming with his information about the release but because of the strict policies to keep things secret he can't reveal us all he knows. He is very apologetic about it everytime he posts to the MBs. Still I like that we have some one as a sort of middle man between us and Howard Shore and his music. Doug answers post and question to best of his ability which probably would not happen e.g. in Williams' case (no aide would answer us if we even knew who tha person would be). Still I find that 2 months of waiting is very agonizing. I even wonder do they plan to release the score every where at the same time? Finland tends to be little behind in the releases now and then (TTT soundtrack was released here 2 days before the rest of Europe for some reason). I just hope they are not going to delay it any longer. And if only there would be some detailed description of the Box.
  10. Incanus
    LOL LOL That must be one hell of a piece of music.
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    Images

    Incanus replied to Incanus's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS

    Thanks for all the information. I read the DVD interview which was very interesting. Williams has done truly something different with Images. He seemed very enthusiastic about the project. I have slowly begun to appreciate the score more.
  12. Incanus
    We should not argue about the importance of themes here in LOTR thread. Some just like themes more than others. This subject could be perhaps continued in the General discussion.
  13. Incanus
    I would not care much for October myself either 8O but alas I have an important thesis to write for my class in university and I have only October to do it as I have to present it in November so the month is kind of vital to me
  14. Incanus
    Did youy find the page yet Steef?
  15. Incanus
    Well Doug has answers to many but not to all questions. The link does not work for some reason. Go to the http://www.moviemusic.com and Message board, Movie Soundtracks where the is a thread called LOTR Package update. Doug has few answers to the questions people have been asking about the FOTR release.
  16. Incanus
    I tried to put here alink to Moviemusic.com MB where Doug Adams answers few questions concerning the FOTR release but the link did not work. I try to direct you to the page in the next reply. Marian do you really think the themes are not important? I'm appalled 8O Themes are everything!
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    Images

    Incanus replied to Incanus's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS

    I am listening to the Images as I type this and I must say it brings to my mind so many Williams scores. Jaws (more savge string work on several cues), Jane Eyre (Blood Moon, a great fugue like piece), HP PA (the Dementor music with all that creepy strings). I must say the human voices grunting, breathing and moaning as in agony are quite effective and unsettling. Does anyone know what are the strange percussion effects he uses on many cues?
  18. Incanus
    It is not first time (and surely not the last ) that my message has somehow duplicated itself. Message board has thrown me out for so many times I have tried to send a post I don't care to remember. And now it duplicates my messages. Great And no, I don't hear it douple in my head :roll:
  19. Incanus
    General Grievous Great cue with a furious momentum.
  20. Incanus
    General Grievous Great cue with a furious momentum. Can't get it out of my head.
  21. Incanus

    Images

    Incanus posted a topic in JOHN WILLIAMS

    Images is a strange entry in Williams' canon. I heard it just a couple weeks ago and I was perplexed. This is the kind of music I though Williams had never done (I mean strange and totally weird). The score has a main theme (which is gorgeous but reminds of HP scores for some reason) but besides that it is all creepy and terribly disturbing soundscape, which was evidently the point as the movie describes a mental breakdown of sorts (information from IMDB). I have yet to listen through the whole album (I could not stomach more than few cues at a time even with the album being so short as it is). Maybe I learn to appreciate it in time. What are your thoughts on the Images? A masterpiece or just a weird entry in Williams' CV?
  22. Incanus
    Narnia is going to receive three different soundtrack releases. Check out this link: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/2005052...1705282300.html I think it is absurd but money is what counts for the record company and Walt Disney right?
  23. Incanus
    Har har har!!! Ye truly are a master of witticisms.
  24. Incanus
    Wagner's Ring Cycle is analyzed to bits by the musicologists and the amount of motifs would be smaller if they would not count all variations as new themes/motifs in the same family. LOTR has a great amount of motifs but 80 seems quite high (though it is possible). Still Shore wrote the score for 4-5 years whereas Wagner wrote his operas during 26 years. Wagner had time to sit down and weave such complex inter relations between themes and variations (not that Shore did not do this but he had ultimately less time). I do not think we should count every new variation of a theme as a new motif (Star Wars would have so huge amount of motifs ). That just complicates matters too much. But if a composer makes a difference between the variations of a theme as representing something new instead the character ect. what it was first used for then it is so. End of story. But we rarely get to hear these things from any film composer so the LOTR release with Doug Adams' book is a great and rare treat.
  25. Incanus
    Of course. That is why ask you. People here know better than in IMDB.
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