Pieter Boelen

Just for clarity's sake: The Pirates of the Caribbean game music I refer to was written by Yuri Poteenko, a Russian composer.

So far the best new music I've heard this year is John Debney's Lair. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is pretty good, but could've been better. Beowulf is nice, but I am looking forward to a possible eventual bootleg with the proper score without the bothersome modernisms. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I find more enjoyable than Goblet of Fire, but it's still a far cry from any of the John Williams ones. I haven't listened to The Golden Compass in full yet. What I heard sounds nice, but not impressive. I like parts of Stardust, but I have not yet been able to find anything of particular interest in there. But I haven't listened to that one in full yet either. I wonder what are your thoughts on Stardust? Which tracks are the best? Is there any good action/adventury music in there?

I got some help and now I have a tracklist that seems to be in the correct order and with the right names. I am going to re-order all tracks, give them better names and edit some of them together where appropriate. I really like Van Helsing. It's no "The Mummy Returns", but it's better than most action scores nowadays. People say it sounds like MV, but I'll take Alan Silvestri over MV any day.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb has got some pretty good parts and it does sound like Indiana Jones without being too familiar. Nice usage of the Raiders March in some tracks. A Cat Named Mittens, Have You Met Her Thunder? and If you Could Use a Doorknob from Age of Mythology are also very good indeed. And there's some very cool stuff in the music from the Pirates of the Caribbean 2003 PC game. This music has nothing to do with the music from the films and actually sounds like it is orchestral and appropriate to the time era. Lair is extremely impressive all the way through, especially in its complete form.

Nobody?

Woops. I should learn to read. Times two.

Another release of The Sea Hawk? Hadn't a new complete re-recording been released not so long ago? On the same two discs as "Deception"?

If anybody has the fixed pitch and speed version in a higher bitrate than 128 KB/s, I would be most interested.

Thanks to Melvin Frohike, I now have a better version that has the speed and pitch of the music tracks corrected. This allowed me to re-add the album end credits to the finale track with a much less awkward edit than on my previous version. So I think I now have what would probably amount to the best Temple of Doom extended version currently available. If you want this new version, just drop me a PM and I'll send you the download link. The files are in 128 KB/s MP3. It's the best quality I have it in. I will take no credit for any of the work done on this one. It was made by one of the forum members here, but I don't recall who. The only thing I did was to modify the end credits track. I re-added the OST end credits ending instead of having the film version that had some music edited out. Thanks to Melvin Frohike's files, this edit is now much less awkward.

I tried to compile the complete Van Helsing score into a better version by combining some of the split tracks (Transylvanian Horses, Attacking Brides, etc.). I seemed to notice a whole bunch of misnamed and misordered tracks, especially in the beginning of the score. Could anybody please give me a hand in figuring this all out?

John Debney wrote Cutthroat Island, one of the best scores ever. Period. He can't be that bad. Lair is also pretty good.

Is it just me or is it possible to vote for multiple options?

The parts with really bad SFX are edited out, but that still leaves us with a lot more goodness than the OST does. There's some parts that do have SFX, mostly in the beginning of the score, but mostly that's just jungle ambience.

You can get it in MP3 from Soulseek. That's where I got it from. I uploaded the files I have now, so if you want them, just send me a PM. Actually, I would've expected most forum members to already know of this one. It was made by one of the forum members here and was discussed before. I don't remember who did it though. I thought it was gkgyver, but judging by his post in this thread, it appears not.

Take an audio recording program that can record straight from your computer's sound card. I use "All Sound Recorder XP". I also use that for ripping End Credits from DVDs.

There's quite a lot of bootlegs around in perfect sound quality. The Mummy Returns, The Polar Express (promo with some score tracks), Independence Day, Kingdom of Heaven (complete), The Chonicles of Narnia: The Witch, The Lion and The Wardrobe (extended), Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Dinosaur, Air Force One, First Knight, Mulan, Star Trek X: Nemesis, The 13th Warrior, The Mummy, Timeline (Rejected), Chicken Little, Lair (complete), The Scorpion King, Jurassic Park III and Troy (Rejected) come to mind.

Probably a combination of both. I think it's supposed to start around 6:03, but it sounds so un-"Imperial March"-like, that I can't hear it in there even though I do believe you when you say it's there.

Still haven't been able to hear that one. It's sounds like an impressive finale, but to me doesn't sound like the Imperial March. I tried to hear it, but so far I failed.

I am uploading the thing, so everyone who wants it, send me a PM and I'll give you the link once it's done. It has more music than the OST and the OST music is also on there in the original OST sound quality. The new music has very low SFX levels and sounds very listenable. Most new tracks don't have SFX at all or just a tiny bit. It's not complete, but I would definitly consider it better than the OST.BTW: I think there are some bootlegs that do have better sound quality than the original release. It is said the "Independence Day" and "First Knight" bootlegs sounds better than their OSTs. Though I have not heard the OSTs, so I cannot compare.

There is a ToD bootleg that really has surprisingly little sound effects. It's not complete, but it's much better than the OST. I'm pretty sure that this track came from that bootleg.

If anybody still wants to see the pictures, they're still up on www.theraider.net .

I don't care if the end result is good. The defining word being "if". Frequently the end result isn't good.

Where?

I don't know IF they DO have effect. But it's worth a try in case it does have effect. It's not like it's much trouble, is it?

Very cool. That middle image actually looks like archeology. (I'm not referring to Harrison Ford's age here)