1977

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

I'm here and I'm ready. I don't know what else to say.

Again, the "perfectly valid work of art" was already created as part of the film. When you take away the movie, it's reduced to raw materials; as mere remnants of that art work. However, if you make the right adjustments, you can reshape it into a NEW 'valid work of art', this time as an independent entity. Just as a film based on a book can be its own piece of art. Same story, different pieces of art. Same music, different pieces of art.
 
Anyways....we're going in circles on this.

Ah, how nice it must be to see the world in black and white.

In defense of Rogue One - that was quite a dour film, and the last time I saw it I thought it tried to pull off some moments of levity, but ended up making the film feel like a mish-mash of conflicting tones. Any score would've had to paint that canvas with the same colours and I think Giacchino managed a fine effort in bridging Williams' OT style with his own modern sensibilities. 

Honestly...the catalog team does not deal with digital.  It may be a number of issues I couldn't really explain.

The question is, when in 2021 will it be obvious

Yes, LLL's Black Friday batches are always the soundtrack event of the year for me, even if there are no titles I want, simply because their production values are always superb and I enjoy the fun of the announcements (and everyone's reactions).

Black Friday 2020:
All titles are Giacchino scores...
😏

Did you also discuss cover art?

Because Godzilla is my personal favorite David Arnold score, I guess. The LLL was a godsend.
 
Yavar

Nope.
 
 


 
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=67954&archive=0
 
Seems @Thor was the unwitting instigator LOL
 
Here's exhibit A:
 
 

Nope.
 
 


 
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=67954&archive=0
 
Seems @Thor was the unwitting instigator LOL
 
Here's exhibit A:
 
 

Nope.
 
 


 
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=67954&archive=0
 
Seems @Thor was the unwitting instigator LOL
 
Here's exhibit A:
 
 

Nope.
 
 


 
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=67954&archive=0
 
Seems @Thor was the unwitting instigator LOL
 
Here's exhibit A:
 
 

How dares he refer to the FSM artwork as truly dreadful! This is a fantastic cover with an amazing image.

Nope.
 
 


 
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=67954&archive=0
 
Seems @Thor was the unwitting instigator LOL
 
Here's exhibit A:
 
 

Yeah, I said it, @Yavar Moradi.

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.

That's because JW's scores have more highlights than most other composers'

I tend to avoid expansions (and any score releases for that matter) that feature numerous "bitty" cues as I find them unlistenable. 
 
For most composers, other than JW and a handful of others, I would prefer a "happy medium" approach, that is an expansion that highlights the best cues over an extended playing time, while still eliminating the "filler" and bitty cues. 

That's because JW's scores have more highlights than most other composers'

Frankly, if a specialty label owner can’t follow the rules of the forum and basic rules of decency then I’d rather them not post if it’s all the same.  I don’t mean to be flippant but someone in that position should be able to be more professionalism in an environment like this.
 
Richard’s post was perfectly innocuous and he’s a fine upstanding member of this community.

When we are listening to The Never Feast (Film Version).

Yeah, who needs stuff like food anyway.