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Don't worry I plan to cover all the recorded concert suites and the Imperial March definitely qualifies, I'll talk about the alternate take then

Most of the speed adjustments are pretty minor actually; less than a percent The ANH remasters (1993/1997/2018) never had any speed problems because they were all sourced from the same 35mm magnetic film source which has sprocket holes guaranteeing its always played back at the same speed ESB has always been remastered from tape. For tape sources they're supposed to speed correct using a tone baked into the recording, but evidently they did not do this correctly. On the 1993 set there are some tracks with multiple cues where the cues aren't even consistent with each other, you can see an obvious pitch difference in the tone for back to back cues Ex: The Training of a Jedi Knight on the 1993 album: You can see the obvious cue splice at 0:45 made all the more apparent because the two cues are at different speeds

#2.10 ESB (1980) - 3m1 Drawing the Battle Lines (Wook link)

It definitely depends on the score whether cue titles are available or whether it just has a generic "Title Name (cues)" entry. Sometimes those entries can be useful too though, they might have the cue titles listed as alternate titles, but not always. Another helpful trick with GEMA specifically is the "publisher work code" field, which can often be used to sort cues chronologically. I've also seen scores where the BMI work codes are chronological. GEMA work codes are generally useless as far as I can tell

I do like EDM, but I prefer tracks you can hum

Ugh and I had just almost forgotten about this album All kidding aside I didn't really like it at all. Actually I found that specific track you linked almost unlistenable, it's basically 10 minutes of pure noise. I was really surprised by all the positive comments when I first saw it on YouTube I am glad people enjoyed the album but I am not one of them 😅 This I can agree with. The "Niamos" track from Andor was some of the only music I liked from that show (well the opening 20 seconds or so anyway)

I just checked the theatrical and extended cuts and the microedit is in neither. The music edit on the OST snips out the section for the shots of Gimli and Legolas from 2:34:05-2:34:13 in the theatrical cut / 3:23:06-3:23:14 in the extended cut (3:20-3:28 in the below video):

My favorite part of probably the entire trilogy is The Mouth of Sauron from the ROTK CR. Especially the whistle for Frodo not remembering the Shire, and the Grey Havens theme for Sam carrying him, but also the intertwining of the Fellowship theme and the Mount Doom music, it's just brilliance throughout. I was shocked to discover how badly microedited this is on the OST, they deleted like 8 seconds of the buildup for no reason. Just compare the section at 5:50 on the CR: To the section at 2:02 on the OST:

It's so interesting that every single recording session photo I've ever seen from Empire has always been from the same day. It's always the day Through the Window/Yoda's Entrance/Attack Position were recorded. I've seen 3 different pictures of Through the Window, and 1 of Attack Position, and none of any other cue. Though of course you can also make lots of photos of This Is Not A Cave/Carbon Freeze by screenshotting the BBC doc, and those were recorded a different day based on comparing everyone's clothes

Yep and further Rieekan's next line (which is kept in the final cut) is "Send Rogues 10 and 11 to Station Three-Eight" which he says specifically to address the distress call

#2.9 ESB (1980) - 2m4 The Probe Scanner (Wook link)

Skeleton Crew seems to just be the same OST master

I do wonder if Williams had originally planned a 2LP program for Jedi. It seems unlikely to me that he would have recorded so many concert suites if he'd know it would only get a single LP - especially the Jabba the Hutt suite being cut down and combined with a score cue screams to me a compromised release, not too dissimilar from what would later happen to the children's orchestra suites for HP1

Not even just less music but even the packaging sucks No liner notes or orchestra list like the first two, just a handful of pictures