Pieter Boelen

Could you tell me where the correct place would be for these tracks? It really bothers me that they are after the "Battle for Asylia" track, because that should be the last action track. I want to move them around and put them where they belong. Unfortunately it seems that the cover download link does not work for me at the moment.

I have uploaded the whole thing. PM me if you want the link.

The one time I listened to the Voldemort track, I almost fell to sleep. Is that normal?

I thought something similar until I heard Cutthroat Island. Hearing that score put my opinion on the PotC score firmly into perspective. I would be quite interested to know why you think the PotC scores are superior to Cutthroat Island.

No, I didn't. I got them from Soulseek. It would be great if GoodMusician could some day make the best Last Crusade version possible though.

So is it better or not? I can upload it if people want it. It has some tracks missing though: Dunn & Duffy Circus Train, Iskenderun, Der Königgrätzer, Der Königgrätzer (Alternate) and The Birds of Charlegmagne. I only have these tracks in 128 KB/s myself, so I would prefer to replace these with higher bitrate tracks first.

I am not exactly the best person to judge the sound quality; I can't really hear the difference between 128 KB/s MP3 and CD-quality audio. But to me the music does sound better. It does seem it is missing at least one track: the Dunn & Duffy Circus Train track.

Does anyone know of an Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade soundtrack in good sound quality? I now have one and the sound quality seems to be pretty much better than on the previous bootleg release. The track order is severely messed up though.

This review of a Lair promo is also interesting: http://www.tracksounds.com/reviews/lair_pr...john_debney.htm

Interesting: John Debney talks about scoring Lair: http://blog.us.playstation.com/?author=4025

I'd say the lengthy final battle cue: Disc 2 Track 8: The Battle/To Dawg's Ship/Morgan Battles Dawg/Dawg's Demise/The Triumph (17:52). All other tracks are excellent as well, but since this is the longest, it must be the best. As far as I'm concerned, this track alone is a very good reason to buy the 2-CD set rather than the OST, because it contains a lot of brilliant material not heard on the OST. There is no material on the OST that is not on the extended version as well, so you're not missing out on anything. Now in addition to that there are also "Morgan In Command", "A Lady Scorned" and "Betrayal" amongst the previously unrelesed, which also make very welcome additions. These are just a handful of tracks I highlight, but as far as I'm concerned just about all tracks are masterpieces in and of themselves and the entire score to Cutthroat Island is the most aweinspiring score written for a pirate movie I have ever heard.

Can this teaser trailer be found anywhere?

I love Indiana Jones. It's my favourite film series still. The films and scores are all brilliant. I used to consider the Last Crusade the best Indy score, but now my favourite Indy scores depends on the track I'm listening to. Now I am listening to Nocturnal Activities, so Temple of Doom is my favourite score.

With or without dialogue?

I don't want any parodying in Indiana Jones IV. Neither parodying the other Indiana Jones films nor any other films. Except for one small tiny funny reference to one other Indy film, similar to the RotLA references in the other two films.

I hope that rumours that area 51 and aliens have anything to do with Indy IV are completely unfounded. If there's one thing I DON'T want to have in Indiana Jones, it is aliens.

1. The Mummy Returns 2. Back to the Future 3. Back to the Future III 4. The Polar Express 4. Van Helsing I find this quite hard. Alan Silvestri is a great composer, but horribly underused.

Let's put it this way: Being melodramatic is also one of the main unfortunate things with the two sequels. I like the sequels, but I think a lot of the fun from the first film was lost. I personally hope they'll do a fourth film at one point which is just plain fun and not all too dramatic.

Being melodramatic is one of the main unfortunate things with those scores. I liked the first one for its sense of fun, the second contained too much drama for my taste and the third had some good fun tracks and some dull dramatic ones.

Up Is Down is definitely good; too short though. Drink Up Me Hearties is enjoyable. But none of these tracks come even close to the brilliance of Cutthroat Island. True. Master and Commander is a really good film and the music works great in the film, if not as stand-alone music. Cutthroat Island island I find to be an enjoyable film, mostly because the amazing music lifts the film up very much indeed.

As long as Cutthroat Island exists, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End can never be the best pirate score. As far as I'm concerned anyway. I only consider Hook to be an extremely good score with piratey elements; not a pirate score.

Satisfyablish perhaps. But the scores all sort-of end in a low rumble, which is not impressive to me. This mainly applies to He's a Pirate, which really doesn't end in an impressive way. I like truly impressive finales to tracks, such as in the examples provided in my previous posts.

I find that any and all Pirates of the Caribbean scores don't have a truly satisfying end. Neither in the films nor on the soundtracks. It seems that Hans Zimmer has great trouble writing proper finales like in Cutthroat Island, Star Wars or Indiana Jones in any case.

One down, one more to go.What I said was: "John Williams definitely confirmed writing for Indiana Jones IV, possibly unreleased music being released from Star Wars and John Williams possibly writing for Harry Potter again: Not a bad week, is it?" The first still rings true. Therefore: One up, one down, one to go. I never did truly expect that Star Wars release to be what we wanted it to be, but we could hope, couldn't we? Same for John Williams for Harry Potter. I don't actually expect that to happen either, but I would be most pleasantly surprised if it did.

At one point in time I might have mentioned PotC in such a context, but my opinion on that score has been put firmly into perspective by Cutthroat Island. Cutthroat Island IS one of the best scores ever composed. Pirates of the Caribbean, as enjoyable as it might be, is merely that and has no level of excellence.