DarthDementous

Before I got to listen to this track in full (I had already seen the movie) I saw that people were underwhelmed and disappointed by this which in turn disappointed me because I thought this would be one of the most stand out tracks. However, when I listened to it boy was I wrong. From the moment the main theme of it started playing I fell in love with it, to me this is an instant classic that belongs up with the best of the Star Wars themes. It just perfectly characterizes the Rebellion in a grand militaristic way and the concert rendition at the end was even better. Seems like a bit of an inversion of the Imperial March yet it also feels like an extension of the Rebel Fanfare just... so good. Can't wait for a track analysis of this.
P.S. The sound of the instruments in the main theme sounds so perfectly OT for this as well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/how-the-new-star-wars-begins
Oh my days, the music sounds so magical. There's a lot more snippets of the score including a BEAUTIFUL rendition of the Force theme, I seriously had tears in my eyes when it started playing because its so well-stated.
The music preceding the title crawl sounds very Star Wars and more like the OT as I said about the other tracks, its quite ominous so there's no musical spoilers there to what it entails.
Star Wars is back, baby.

Haha, JJ. Abrams: "This music will be studied by fans".
Yes indeed, one tracked second of music and you will be dead.

I highly recommend the Star Wars Oxygen podcasts by Rebel Force Radio, hosted by David Collins who has served as lead sound designer of many high-profile Lucasarts projects like Star Wars the Force Unleashed, Star Wars Republic Commando and someone who is very knowledgeable in the music. Accompanying him is Jimmy Mack who co-hosts some of the other Rebel Force Radio shows but brings a certain joy and brings up interesting points of discussion, great chemistry between the two. They've been breaking down the ENTIRE score for every Star Wars movie and are currently on Episode 3 (but they'll be putting that on hold to discuss TFA at the end of this month) and that is past the soundtrack, I'm talking movie cues and even tracking in alternate music or music that was cut (most frequent in ESB where the sound effects often took center stage).



Each of the movies took an average of 5 episodes to get through and they are LONG, never less than an hour so its insanely in-depth.



Archive of all episodes with download links: http://www.shotglassdigital.com/releases/?a=3554

Forgive me as I'm new to this forum, but why are so many of your recent posts so childish and reactionary? Not to mention that you actually HOPE it fails rather than maintaining low expectations, wanting to ruin it for everyone else. I'd be curious to see some actual god damn reasoning behind your *ahem* cynicism other than you not liking the look of Harrison Ford which is...an odd thing to be annoyed by.

Forgive me as I'm new to this forum, but why are so many of your recent posts so childish and reactionary? Not to mention that you actually HOPE it fails rather than maintaining low expectations, wanting to ruin it for everyone else. I'd be curious to see some actual god damn reasoning behind your *ahem* cynicism other than you not liking the look of Harrison Ford which is...an odd thing to be annoyed by.

Here's a video with much better sound quality. I'm convinced it's definitely John Williams because I don't often hear that sort of quick motif flourish that he's known for in his action music, especially in imitators as they normally go after their own Williams-sounding themes.

24Now someonefun124 (also known as Regular Poster), one of the Twelve, was not with the posters when Stefan came.
25So the other posters told him, "We have seen evidence of a new recording!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the unedited post and put my finger where the screenshot is, and put my hand onto Williams' sketches, I will not believe."
26A week later the posters were in the forum again, and someonefun124 was with them. Though the post was edited, Stefan came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
27Then he said to someonefun124, "Put your finger here; see the screenshot. Reach out your hand and put it onto John's handwritten sketches. Stop doubting and believe."
28someonefun124 said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
29Then Stefan told him, "Because you have seen the screenshot, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
30Stefan performed many other signs in the presence of his fellow posters, which are not recorded in this book.
31But these are written that you may believe that Williams wrote new music for the trailer, the work of Abrams, and that by believing you may have life in his name.