Holko

It's almost as cheap as the TT CR!

Totally unexpectedly met the Spielberg-Williams collab set in the local tech store, so I couldn't leave the poor guy there all alone! Weirdly, I think I enjoyed the 3rd disc the most on the first listening. It had the most new material for me, and I liked most of it - Afrika, Escapades, and Immigration and Building were almost worth the price of the whole set. Most of the first disc and half the second I already know by heart (although new arrangements and recordings are always nice), and I don't like how inexplicably Hook-heavy the second disc is. (Not that any of it it's bad by any means, but a third of the tracks reserved for it seems overkill.) I also saw the JW conducts music from SW with BPO 2CD, but I left it there for now. The first disc will be completely redundant when I get the upcoming E.T. and the inevitable SWOT set, and for the second disc, I'll have to look into how good that Planets performance is.

Who's the one crying witch hunt when they're the one joining in with something completely irrelevant just to contradict the general mindset?

You just can't accept being the extreme minority here and take everything that can be considered mildly conflicting with your views personally (even if it has nothing to do with you), so you must let your voice be heard.

Tried this one on him already, didn't work.

Sorry, mixing up threads. I mean if you think "definitive" only refers to your tastes, how was it constructive to say only the OSTs are definitive, when the guy was asking about the LLL releases, and thus surely, his definition of "definitie" is different?

OK, fair enough. Just one question: what did your comment saying you define "definitive" differently than others add to the E.T. conversation other than proving once again how self-centered and pretentious you can be?

No. The Jurassic Park OST is incomplete and non-chronological, it is not definitive. You're happy with it, others are not. The LLL Jurassic park has everything anyone could want, so it is definitive. Wanting even more from it, wich at this point could only be messed up takes, would be what I consider insane.

I've always had a problem with this " words are subjective and they can mean whatever I want them to" attitude to language, I think most can have a proper objective meaning. To me, a definitive score release clearly means that no sane person (yes, it applies to everybody - we don't live in our own little language bubble) has any reason to want a reissue, at least until the whole technology becomes obsolete.

No idea but now we have it! Isn't it exciting?

The alternate version of Stay With Me, from the previous release(s?)

OK, do we have enough info to approximate how long the ride suite is?

FUCK YES

Will everyone also be this tense on Tuesday when we're waiting for it to go on sale?

Oh. I really should learn to read one of these days.

Really, Anakin's theme is hidden in there?

@igger6 I believe this might be what you're looking for:

It'll only be truly complete with the Twilight Zone theme!

Guess we'll find out on Friday. Too bad I can't order it yet, because nobody will be home until December to receive it.

Tracklist coming this Friday! From the picture, it seems it'll indeed start with the OST on Disc 2, also a lot of bonuses!

CE3K for the first time. It must have been groundbreaking in '77 , but I feel it hasn't aged too well. It's obviously all supposed to be a slow, gradual buildup for the big finale, but it was more of a drag for me, and it didn't always fill the time with the right stuff. For example, when Roy builds the mashed potato mountain and lays in the shower, I thought the family all crying and the wife flipping out on him was unwarranted, we haven't seen enough of his madness for it to be believable. The two standout pieces where I actually thought the tension and slowness were well done were Barry's abduction and the finale from the pair reaching the airstrip all the way to the end of the jamming session. These are such masterpieces that I actually would slog through the movie again just to witness them properly in context once more. Other bits that stand out are Roy's first encounter in the car and the design of the tall alien we first see. It was so weird and uncommon that I was pretty disappointed by the little girls in rubber masks and gloves and the stiff animatronic puppet after them. The music didn't do much for me, it works really well with the pictures, but I wouldn't listen to most of it on its own - that is, except for the end duet. It's a wonderful feat of scoring, it gives personality to the aliens, and it's an entire bit of dialogue you can follow and understand all through two instruments communicating and interplaying, like how the aliens get upset when the guy just repeats the message over and over, and they virtually slam their fist on the table by finishing the last two notes on full volume, shattering glass, then they calm down and try to educate us. The slow build towards harmony between the two voices is truly a masterful piece of musical storytelling.

Ah yes, the late Tauriel of dubious and questionable memory.

A very nice bonus would be to hear at least a few early versions of The 5 Notes just in piano mockup form, how JW would have presented them to SS, finishing with the final version a few times. Could be a nice opening for the second disc, as well as insight into the production.

This seems like the perfect score and opportunity to finally start going down the landslide of buying scores legally.