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Tonight in Boston…

Alright so the cover art is definitely going to be one of these...
 

 

I'm reviving this page.

You know what a...cautious fellow, he is 

WAIT A MINUTE ... you weren't expecting to find these, and yet you went shopping in the hat and jacket? Hmm ...  

I remember finally ripping the ROTS DVD to my PC a couple years after it came out and being amazed by how "great" it looked... and this was with some terrible, free mid-2000's DVD ripper (which of course compressed the picture even more). 

I did, but I couldn't think of anything funny to do with it.
 
…well, perhaps this:

IP: Steven needs a better composer than you for this.
JW: I know, but they're all drunk.
 

Maybe not that much within the movie but there's an underlying element of "stupid brown people couldn't have built all that, it must have been aliens!" to the concept.

The trilogy tap into well-established mythical ancient artifacts that already have centuries of background to them in various literature. KOCS taps into debunked hoaxes and racist conspiracy theories. DOD apparently taps into... a thing that was found?

I think they’re referring to the 2004 DVD release, which was mixed poorly at the start of the battle when the X-Wings start attacking. I’m not sure if it’s mixed out, but it’s definitely mixed low, and is hard to hear. I think the rear channels get swapped at some point, as well.
 
Despite their issues, I’ve probably seen those versions more than any of the others, and have a lot of nostalgia for them.

I'm a fan of lost media, I find the subject of media that was seen once and is now lost fascinating. A YT channel I follow did an episode last week on E.T., and I knew of this deleted scene before but forgotten about it, but basically there was a scene after the Departure where Elliot and the boys are playing D&D and Elliot is game master. As they're playing, the camera pans up and we see the device E.T. built to call home. Channel claims after John Williams' majestic cue was written, Spielberg decided to cut the scene since the cue gives you the emotional ending already. Has anyone else ever heard this claim before? Video is timestamped at the scene I'm talking about.
 

Do you guys remember the music edit of The Battle of Yavin from the '04 release? @Manakin SkywalkerSent it to me a little while ago and I didn't realize they cut out a chunk of the first cue.

They were thinking
 
No music will give it a quasi documentary feel, consistent with some of the editing and direction. 
  The brilliant sonics alone would mirror the WWII airplane engines and rat-a-tat-tat sounds from the old dogfight footage that inspired and temped the scenes. 
  The first initial bombing runs would leave suspense up to the viewers and not telegraph what would happen if there was no score. 
  The final bombing run by Luke would have more dramatic intensity and catharsis if the music picked up after Red Leader got vaporized, and Luke Skywalker was now in charge of the final chance. 

Oops!

I feel like anytime I see a post related to Mondo it's never anything good....That sucks, hopefully they get you a replacement.

I’ve decided to email them and ask if I can return it for a replacement. I know the color will remain the same but I hope I can get one that sounds better at least. 
 
Apparently, a lot of people had yet to receive their copy yet. Mondo sent out an email saying that the rest of the orders are being delayed another two months due to a quality control issue. It sucks that they sent so many out to people that sound bad. Hopefully the second batch is better. 

I think it's more that as Williams fans, we take pride in how much he's been able to keep his artistic integrity and sense of authorship through this business. So it means a lot that in his 90s he's still keeping that level of control over his music even as the modern filmmaking process would understandably make it harder than ever. 

It's literally called "John Williams Fan Network", not "Other Composers Who Scored John Williams Franchises Fan Network".

Only this entire thread: https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/35337-williams-didnt-stop-until-he-had-written-over-two-hours-of-music-for-indiana-jones-5/
 
 
I love it when you panic due to people thinking that someone other than your overlord wrote an Indiana Jones score.

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Even allowing for the fact that it’s a mock-up it’s considerable more awkward than the final version, cycling through a couple of ideas before hitting the point where we rejoin the credits music as we know it. Prime time to repeat my affection for the original (used!) version of the finale/end credits segue over the later versions. Much prefer the chasing strings than the brassier version from Empire onwards. 

Well, here's a mockup of it
 
orig52-60.mp3  
 
 
 
Nope, definitely not there.  It's completely unreleased.

The music we think of as "The Throne Room" and "End Titles" was originally written by Williams as one long single cue: 12M2 End Titles.
 
When it got to the recording stage on March 12th, they recorded it in two pieces.
 
bars 1-51 = "The Throne Room"
bars 52-end = "End Title"
 
Later, Williams beefed up the first 9 bars (52-60) of the end credits opening, and these new bars were recorded on March 16th along with the original bars 61-72 in order to easily slot the new recording into the existing one.  They called this new 21-bar recording 12M2X.
 
If you listen closely to the original analog edition of the Star Wars original soundtrack (IE, the original vinyl, or the early 90s 2-CD set) you can CLEARLY hear the bad 1977-era analog edit as "The Throne Room" transitions into 12M2X, and when 12M2X transitions into the rest of the end credits.
 
For the 1993 4-CD anthology, the edits were redone digitally and sound much smoother, and same with the 1997 2-CD set.
 
 
The original opening of the end credits is the only thing recorded for Star Wars that didn't make it onto the 1997 2-CD set, and remains unreleased to this day.
 
 
Here's the page of the 1997 2-CD set's booklet that shows the recording dates, and takes used
 

Peak film-music fanatic moment. We have a short clip from 40+ year-old concert piece which has been played and recorded to death by professional and amateur orchestras alike, and someone decides it's worth taking up 17 seconds of Youtube's video storage just because it was in a trailer. It even has an out-of-tune timpani to boot. Just because you could...doesn't mean you should. </rant>