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    tranders65 reacted to Jay in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Isolated Score Track   
    Yes, people mentioned hearing this 1941 lift when the film was in theaters. 
     
    Surprisingly, there is no organized list of all these little repurposed bits yet, so specific timestamps for anything like this are welcome!
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Toillion in John Williams Writes New Theme for ESPN College Football Championship - OF GRIT AND GLORY   
    Sez you- this Georgia fan loved last years game 😂 Can understand other viewers not being as excited by it though. 😉
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    tranders65 got a reaction from IheartMelissaBenoist in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Brando in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from crumbs in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from BrotherSound in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Jay in HOOK Ultimate Edition - MUSIC Discussion   
    Listening to it right now - Jay, trying it with Disc 3 first and so far the music sounds FANTASTIC.  Best I've heard it sound easily, not that it's a surprise.  Enjoying the psuedo-conceptual-musical angle so far and can't wait to dig into the score-proper after.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Brando in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Score in the film) - SPOILERS ALLOWED!   
    I'm still somewhat stunned even after having it happen over and over again at how many people do stay thru end credits to see if there's something else coming (and there have been a good many people stay after in the movies I've attended the past few years - not a large group, mind you, but still more than a few).  Heck, they even check for after-credits scenes in older movies in a ton of Youtube reaction videos I occasionally watch, even though up until the Marvel movies started that pretty much hardly ever happened.   And pretty much still never happens unless it's a superhero movie.  Same thing happened when I saw DoD - older couple leaving from the row behind us looked at me and my wife and said "Well, guess no extra scenes" and I was like "Yeah, there's never been any extra scenes in any Indiana Jones movies", lol.
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Disco Stu in John Williams Writes New Theme for ESPN College Football Championship - OF GRIT AND GLORY   
    And as a Georgia fan I was eating it up, even if I got bored in the 3rd quarter, lol.  I'm okay with the 12 team system they're starting with, although I wouldn't be sad if UGA slid in a three-peat next year before the bracket system starts in 2024.  And got chills listening to JW's music, which I desperately want to hear sans voices/SFX.
     
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    tranders65 got a reaction from GerateWohl in Scherzo For Motorcycle and Orchestra (revised)   
    Actually it’s not- at least in the film release. The film as released just had the end credits pretty much as it exists on the CD release. Then once the movie hit streaming platforms/Disney Plus/DVD/Blu Ray, the end credits were lengthened pretty considerably. I think they replaced the part of Rey’s theme as recorded for the end credits with the concert version and inserted Scherzo for X Wings in there as well. 
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Romão in John Williams' DRACULA - MUSIC ONLY discussion   
    Okay, gonna have to disagree with you on that, Jay- there are so many moody, melodic short cues in that stretch! Do not ask me why, because there’s no rhyme or reason to why certain cues hit people the way they do, but I have always, ever since I got the LP way back in probably 1983 or 84, loved that little short  beginning to “Give Me Your Loyalty” (the beginning of “The Abduction of Lucy” on the original release). 
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Andy in Your Top 10 JW Scores   
    Guess everyone is gonna have a lot of these in common:
    1. Star Wars
    2. Superman
    3. Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom
    4. Empire Strikes Back
    5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    6. Jaws
    7. E.T.
    8. Close Encounters
    9. 1941
    10. The Cowboys
     
    And then, just barely out of reach, Witches of Eastwick, The Force Awakens, Return of the Jedi, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Jurassic Park
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    tranders65 got a reaction from SteveMc in Your Top 10 JW Scores   
    Guess everyone is gonna have a lot of these in common:
    1. Star Wars
    2. Superman
    3. Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom
    4. Empire Strikes Back
    5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    6. Jaws
    7. E.T.
    8. Close Encounters
    9. 1941
    10. The Cowboys
     
    And then, just barely out of reach, Witches of Eastwick, The Force Awakens, Return of the Jedi, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Jurassic Park
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Bryant Burnette in What is John Williams' most repetetive score?   
    Yep, I had the same reaction - I've listened to all of Williams released scores many times and it's definitely one of my least favorites for that exact reason.
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Bespin in What is John Williams' most repetetive score?   
    I actually have no idea, Jay - but I'm betting I am, lol.  I'm 55.
    I'm very very selective.  
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Edmilson in John Williams' 2021 anniversaries   
    You bunch of punk kids- I was in high school when Raiders came out and was married and out of the house when Hook came out. 😂
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Jay in John Williams' 2021 anniversaries   
    You bunch of punk kids- I was in high school when Raiders came out and was married and out of the house when Hook came out. 😂
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    tranders65 got a reaction from crumbs in John Williams' 2021 anniversaries   
    You bunch of punk kids- I was in high school when Raiders came out and was married and out of the house when Hook came out. 😂
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Andy in Most Perplexing JW OST Omissions   
    As King Mark already mentioned, too many to list, but to me the biggest glaring omission in JW Original Soundtrack history has to be The Helicopter Sequence from Superman.  It's the first public appearance of the character in the movie, a huge rescue, and a musical highlight....and is nowhere to be found.  Even as a 12 year old boy first getting the LP I remember wondering how the crap that cue was left off the soundtrack.  
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    tranders65 reacted to Omen II in Eiger Sanction: Due for a Remaster?   
    Does your question refer to Earthquake or The Eiger Sanction, @crumbs?
     
    Almost all of the source music in The Eiger Sanction is by John Williams, the exception being a minute or so of Chopin's Nocturne in E flat major heard emanating from another apartment as Wormwood climbs the stairs prior to his killing right at the beginning of the film.  Most of the other source music (totalling about 12 minutes) is heard at Ben Bowman's ranch in Arizona while Hemlock prepares for his assignment on the Eiger, although there are also a couple of quasi source music pieces as Hemlock and Jemima get it on after he picks her up during a plane flight.  The source music is similar in style to much of the source music in Earthquake.
     
    I agree with others' comments that a presentation of the full score would be revelatory.  Not only is the OST a complete rerecording (as was the case with Jaws, Earthquake, The Missouri Breaks, etc.) but much of the brilliant music for the climbing scenes in the last third of the film is not represented at all.  Just one example is the music for the scene where the French climber Montaigne is mortally injured in a rockfall, a classic Williams action cue that can be counted among his best work of the 70s, in my opinion.
     
    Incidentally, most of the source music in Earthquake is by John Williams, although he cannot claim credit for the Hare Krishna chant!
     
     
    Candice Rialson plays an art student who tells Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) that she will do "anything" to get a better grade.  He tells her to go home and "study her little ass off"!
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Smeltington in John Williams' April 1980 debut Boston Pops performance (2020 HD broadcast)   
    Geez, how did I miss this entire thread until today?!  Jay, just read through your recap, and I distinctly remember watching this on our local metro Atlanta PBS station when it aired.  I would have just been finishing up my 9th grade year of high school and was super pumped to see Empire, and remember hearing Yoda's Theme and The Imperial March for the very first time on this show.  Had no idea what would happen musically in the sequel, so for some reason I thought Yoda's Theme was going to be the new Main Title music - do not ask me why.    To answer one of your thoughts on Threepio and the Main Title performance, I believe that indeed was Anthony Daniels in the suit for that concert.  He mentioned several places in different interviews I've read that he had a blast conducting it, so unless I am totally confusing it with something else, that should be him.
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    tranders65 reacted to igger6 in TRoS - the film an embarrassment, the score buried?   
    I would actually argue that, whatever its other faults, TRoS actually comes closest to that pulpy sense of fun.  The movie has the zippy humor and fist-pump moments of Episode IV in spades, and its biggest failing is that it fails to properly land the enormous Star Destroyer of a mythology, which Star Wars hadn’t yet become the last time it had that sense of pulpy fun.  

    Same goes for the TRoS score.  Its two major action set pieces, “The Speeder Chase” and whatever we’re calling Lando’s unreleased return, come closer to the spirit of “Chasm Crossfire” than anything since the Ewok battles. Compare them to the frantic pseudo-fun of “The Falcon” or “The Fathiers” or “A New Alliance” and see what I mean. (You can make a case that “Canto Bight” has that spirit, too, but that sequence leaves such bile in my throat that I can’t dissociate it enough to tell.)
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    tranders65 reacted to Thor in TRoS - the film an embarrassment, the score buried?   
    Save the movies? The first two are great, easily favourites of each respective year. The third leaves something to be desired, but still a solid 20th place on last year's list.
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    tranders65 got a reaction from Ricard in EARTHQUAKE - LLL Music Discussion   
    My set showed up earlier than I expected - got it yesterday and it just shipped on Thursday afternoon.  From CA to KY in pretty much a day and a half - pretty good time.  :)  I spent the day yesterday listening through everything and, even as a long-time JW fan from back in the late 70s, with this set and some of the other releases that have come out the past few years, I'm getting a much better appreciation for the 1970-1975 era.  I never cared much for Earthquake and it's easily been the least favorite of the disaster movie scores, but this release is fantastic!  It's still, like the other two disaster scores, a lot of atmospheric music, but the actual film cues add a of meat onto the listening experience that wasn't there on the original LP.  
     
    One reason I never cared much for that release was due to the source cues and special effects all over it.  I clicked immediately with the Lunch with Remy cue and had to go back and listen to the album's Something for Remy because I didn't remember that melody being in there.  Turns out I like it 100% better speeded up like the film version is as opposed to the jazzier and slower approach from the LP.  And the theme for Jody is actually one of the most heavily used of the motifs throughout the entire score.  Go figure.  Anyway, the sound is phenomenal, as I expected it would be, so definitely great to have this out finally.
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