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Out of stock, AGAIN. I missed picking it up this time too. 😭
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Love the crazy-souped-up jazz stuff in Jujutsu Kaisen, so much vibrant energy and chaos!
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I should clarify here, because in my haste to write my last post, I came off sounding rather anti-Thor; Whilst I'm fed up with Thor's opinion on C&C releases, I have for the most part of my time here in this forum found his critique and general film opinions to be fairly agreeable.
I just can't abide with the anti-C&C critique...
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I'd say an expansion of this quality being released thirty plus years after the release of the film is no laughing matter, nor is it something to turn one's nose up at.
When these sets are as miraculous as they are to come to fruition, against the odds of studio money and interest, it baffles me that there exists a subset, albeit tiny I'm aware, of people who will insist on backhandedly snubbing these things as inferior.
I'm not in the habit of messing around on here, but for fuck's sake, after all these years I'm so tired of seeing Thor's childish arguments and stance against these releases.
Listening experience is something as subjective as the type of derriere someone prefers, but with these expansions comes the cleanest, clearest sonic improvements that do directly affect listening experience. Why would I want to listen to the 1991 compilation when it sounds like a turd in comparison to later releases?
I'm going to say something controversial here, but to hell with Williams' intended listening experience. Nine times out of ten, I find his editorial decisions to go against what my preferred listening experience is. How many decades are we supposed to wait to hear cues that Williams thought ought to be cut? Or cues that had portions microedited out?
I'm thirty now, and scores like those for the Star Wars prequels remain for the most part incomplete and unavailable to listen to in their full form outside of the films - how many more decades am I going to wait to get a release?
When it happens in 2030, I'm going to find Thor on here, opining that he doesn't need them and the OSTs were more than enough...
Yeah, well waiting, hoping, asking, buying release after release with the promise of future expansions is more than enough for a lifetime.
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Just got around to listening to a bunch of the isolated score cues from the film and oh boy it's a mess. Pulse of the City sounds so jarringly out of place.
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On 27/11/2023 at 7:35 PM, oierem said:
Having listened to the full Isolated Score, I still find some of the copy-pasted sections hard to listen to on their own: they sound jarring, and unnatural (I don't know how Williams was able to conduct some of these), and I find myself trying to identify every small segment before it jumps to another.
I'm OK with taking an idea from a previous score and expanding it (Spiders from MR or The Duel from Tintin). I can even accept taking a big chunk from a previous score and copy-pasting it (Belly of the Steal Beast or On The Tank). But I just can't stand the almost-random usage of a couple of bars from a previous score pasted together with another couple of bars from another score (and on and on)... It doesn't sound good, it doesn't sound musical.
I can't tell you how my heart sunk when I heard all these other cues ripped from other scores, but the more I think over it, the more likely I think it wasn't Williams' choice; it's the editor and Mangold going through Williams' past scores and going 'right, this fits here perfectly and that's that'.
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Instant order! So glad I held out for this instead of going bankrupt over the earlier edition. Haven't been this excited since the Potter release!
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In today's corporate-driven era of content creation, the marketability and ease of throwing content out to make an abundance of paraphernalia and memorabilia, it baffles me that these corporate giants can't or won't go the extra mile to actually give people (who I should add are willing to pay whatever) what they want and produce actual expansions. What are they worried about? Clearly they don't care that collectors already have this material...
In short, Disney should use its capitalistic might and go all-out - actual gold leaf embossed covers, the finest cotton papers in the booklets, posters, collectors cards, every second of recorded music and even the recordings of people still mic'd up when they're taking a shit - EVERYTHING!
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6 hours ago, MaxMovieMan said:I like getting all the tracks I can get to be honest.
This.
Because we all know the agonising helplessness of waiting years for expansions to scores and will probably still be waiting until we're dead.
Anyone can create their own curated listening experience, but they can't make new music appear out of thin air.
6 hours ago, leeallen01 said:When it comes to scores like The Orville etc that has countless hours of incredible music, there should be big releases like they did, having over 4 hours of music to give us pretty much all of the highlights. But with a film like this, with the tracks having a lot of underscore type 'filler' tracks, they really should be cut down to a manageable enjoyable and ultimately interesting listen. And I say this as a diehard JNH fan.
Television scores always get a bum treatment because there simply is not the budget to release twelve or however many episodes there are in a season as scores. I'm still weeping that there are so many lovely cues from Murray Gold's Doctor Who scores that will likely never see the light of day.
Just like Doctor Who, The Mandalorian score releases have a handful of cues from each episode and it leaves you wondering why there isn't more because they've gone to the effort to produce an album, but at the same time, composers and producers are making cuts to make these things marketable in under 2 discs. The whole thing is fucked.
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This has got to be the worst release of a CD ever. It's actually embarrassing how fumbled this release was and still is.
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I do have most of these albums on CD, but for completionists sake, I'd prefer to have these two on CD too!
On 16/11/2023 at 3:56 PM, MaxMovieMan said:Just started listening to the Neon Genesis Evangelion scores by Shiro Sagisu and managed to listen to it all in under a couple days. Overall the series has great music and a surprising amount of musical themes. Rei’s theme has now become one of my new personal favorites. It’s so mysterious and eery yet also very emotional at the same time.
I was also surprised by the sheer amount of music and albums there are. I was a little overwhelmed but after listening to everything and organizing all the themes I have a great appreciation for the work.
Shiro is great, I didn't discover Evangelion until about a year ago and I instantly fell in love with the world and the music.
One of my favourite albums is Evangelion Infinity which includes almost all of the variations of Decisive Battle, it's amazing how versatile it is and how many musical genres Sagisu puts it through!
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Damn Vinyl! What about CD?!
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Thanks guys ❤️
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Anyone know where to get the cd? Amazon US is unavailable and I don't see it listed anywhere else 😭
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23 hours ago, crumbs said:
It's definitely the cue that randomly pops into my head most often, even without listening to the score for nearly 3 months.
What about Tuk Tuk in Tangiers? That's an awesome action cue, and just like TROS's The Speeder Chase, it's obscured by heavy sound fx and cut to pieces!
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I agree with Mangold that Helena's theme isn't the right fit for her character - she's more of asshole than a heroine - but the theme is so gorgeous and Williams' ability to adapt it and use it in different modes is what makes it work.
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Anyone know where to buy quality CD jewel cases? I have several CDs that have cracks that I haven't had the heart to replace because I have a silly irrational notion in my head that the original case should be kept. Yet now that I'm beginning to look after my collection and display it, I need new cases!
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On 20/09/2023 at 12:25 PM, Datameister said:Indeed. I dunno if I'd go for any of the MG scores, but I really like what Don Davis did (mostly). I'd buy it for sure.
Just rewatched JP3 recently and thought Davis comes the closest to matching JW's style. The family theme in that score is one of my favourites.
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Ordered TLW before it goes out of stock again! I've listened to this score religiously since the 2016 expansion, so good for going on walks or doing anything physical with all the rhythmic percussion and action cues!?
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When is this back in stock? I missed out due to financial woes 😰
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Average Netflix/streaming series are somehow able to have wide commercial releases in physical media formats, but Indiana Fucking Jones struggles to produce and sustain an initial release? It doesn't make sense.
I was lucky to order one before it sold out last time, but the packaging they shipped it in did not protect it from cracking on the front of the case 😡
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On 31/05/2023 at 10:59 AM, Taikomochi said:My hot take is the complete Jungle Chase is the best extended setpiece Williams wrote for any of these. Incredible, incredible action scoring, thrilling in its complexity.
Definitely - there's a moment in the beginning (of the full cue) where there's this building momentum and then this declaratory statement of the Indy theme comes swinging in and it always leaves me awestruck how he shifts between all these dramatic modes going from complexity to complexity.
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John Powell's HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD (2019) - 2024 Varese Deluxe Edition
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Didn't Powell mention on his insta story that Hidden World would be shipping from the US store before March?