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Listening to it right now and enjoying how well balanced the music is. As always with later Williams. If you want to hear a score where you get tired and bored of the horn solos latest after 20 minutes just listen to Howard Shore's eXistenZ. Then listen again to Williams' Saving Private Rian. What a bliss!

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I use the opportunity again, that I believe still, that somehow Patrick Doyle's Non Nobis Domine might have been some kind of template or at least Inspiration for Hymn To The Fallen. And don't come again with the one is British and the other one is americana. The similarity in melody, tone, the repetetive construction and the context of the pieces are there. And I found Hymn to the Fallen rather atypical for Williams at that time. Not the rest of the score, just HTTF.

I do. Both pertitions mentioned in the SW petition thread endet up with about 500 votes which is for sure far below the number of potential buyers of these sets. What scares me a little is the ridiculously high price of this new Indy set. If we can expect a big 20 disk Star Wars set with 30$ per disk I might be out, even though it might be the set of my dreams. But 600$ plus shipping and tax and customs for a bunch of soundtrack CDs? I don't know...

Better than Williams' Boston Pops recording?

Yes. And in a way he ended his film series with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on a perfect note.

Yeah. I think, he will never make this 10th movie.

After the petition failed so dramatically, we must face the fact, that us hardcore soundtrack fans are just a bunch of a few hundred nerds, that are not worth the effort from Disney's perspective. But the only fact that gives me a slight hope, that my grandchildren's grandchildren might face one day a proper Star Wars release, is that they let Intrada release the complete score of Solo on CD (and complete Rogue One on vinyl).

Temple of Dooms was the last time that Spielberg seemed to take the series kind of serious as an original hero story. All sequels including Last Crusade looked already like a parody of the franchise.

There was an officially released soundtrack album, that contained mainly songs and an 18 minutes suite of the score. I managed to get the promo from a soundtrack shop at the time, the only promo CD that I own.

If you accept that this is not a movie about what a bad thing war is but about that war is actually good when each of your enemies is a racist sadistic coward, like in this movie, then you have a good time watching. When I compare Saving Private Ryan with The Thin Red Line, which came out the same year, I have to say, Spielbergs movie left more of an impression to me. And the score is better.

Listened to the OST, and your comment sums it up quite well.

So far my favourite song from the album:

Question: Is there any information out there when this is planned to premiere?

Yeah I mean, she is stone old, probably dry as the desert and... turned to dust. Would be almost impossible for everyone. (I apologise in advance for that tasteless joke, but I couldn't resist.)

Too late. Round is too old for that.

At last I remember what the four opening horn notes remind me of. Yeah, I know it's different. But, sorry, in my head there is a link.

Update after listening twice: Apart from the two first singles the album misses the most important ingredience of a good Rock album: cool guitar riffs. And the two songs having at least one aren't that great.

They are for sure better than the new ones.

I think, I almost could subscribe that list. But in the meantime Riot Act is one of my favourites of theirs.

Maybe you should then listen to Eddie Vedders album of songs for Sean Penn's movie Into the Wild. One of my favourite singer songwriter albums. Great songs. By the way, for me Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains were musically quite different rockbands. Nirvana sounded to me at first like a super polished mainstream Imitation of the Pixies, Soundgarden like kind of a LED Zeppelin wannabees, Alice in Chains came rather from that 80s Rock corner and Pearl Jam... I had never heard anything as groovy and emotional in rock music before their debut Ten. I was totally hooked. Probably also because I first heard them live in concert and not on record.

My grandmother reached 104. And she used to say, until hundred years everything was a joke. But then life became difficult. But she wasn't travelling that much. Neither conducting famous orchestras.

Anybody else already listened to the new Pearl Jam album, that came out just today? I was a big fan. And I like the title song well enough. And after first listen I can say, the album is better than the last one. But somehow it seems to me since Gigaton they have given up on originality. But that is also what I thought when I heard Vitology for the first time and now I love that album. Time will tell.

I wouldn't have thought, that he goes again for three concerts in a row. Last time he was quite exhausted after three days, four if you count the open rehearsal. for youngsters. He spipped the last encore "Princess Leia's Theme" on day two and three already. So, I would have thought, he cuts it a little shorter next time.

I am in.