Taikomochi

The Battle of Syracuse is unlistenably chopped up in the film. I really don’t understand the wave of comments about how much better it is in the film except that it is longer. The Airport I get. The extended film version is largely untouched and rocks. Battle of Syracuse, though, is honestly better in its album arrangement. What’s in the film is like a child with ADHD screaming at different cars on the street. The sound editors murdered this one.

The opening third is the worst offender. It feels like a complete cut and paste job of schizophrenic borrowing, not just from the Indy scores but from the likes of Minority Report and War of the Worlds as well.
 
I can't believe cobbling together the prologue from such little snippets of Indiana Jones music was very satisfying.
 
The rest 2/3 of the score when it steers into new writing has some quite excellent moments in it. Not on the level of the previous Indy scores but still very nice. 

I'd like to know whether it's safe to buy the first pressing. 

Listening to cues like the second Tuk Tuk cue make me really appreciate the effort Williams put into using quotes in the sequel trilogy scores, like the beautiful transition to Yoda’s theme at the end of “The Sacred Jedi Texts”.  There is an artistry to how these quotes are integrated that I don’t think I fully appreciated until I heard them done poorly. It’s so awkward and sloppy in DoD, downright schizophrenic.
 
I was scratching my head wondering why when people were complaining about the Tuk Tuk second half being missing. It sounded choppy as hell in the theater, and now the isolated score has confirmed that. I mean, I want all the unreleased music I can get, but that’s not one that would be at the top of my list.

best moment in the score for me.
 
so powerful. the bagpipes at 3:05!

At 2:50 of The Motorcade when the evocative rendition of the main theme enters amongst a cacophony of snares and other intense orchestral sounds.
 
 

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

Ah. Respect for MM: gone. Never buying a release of his again!

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

Having film stem bonus loops and edits is tight! Huh, maybe they should have called that release the Ultimate Edition. 

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

Ross is clearly too old to keep up and should have retired instead of having this blemish on his career. Then JW could have written the whole score…

Let's see if I can get this back on track.  The reason that the best score of all time lost to a fleeting, blip on the musical radar is because people can be really, really, really dumb (imho, of course).   

Ross is clearly too old to keep up and should have retired instead of having this blemish on his career. Then JW could have written the whole score…

Way to breeze right past the point of the thread to tell us how you feel about diversity in Hollywood. 
 
It’s such a shame white people can’t win awards anymore.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

I cannot take seriously anyone who unironically uses the word “woke”. Please search for other words to communicate your opinions.

Easy, there wasn't any rules in place to prevent members of confusing "songs" and "score". Plus ,even back in the day they always go for the most "trendy" choice no matter how much it sucks.
 
In the 70's and 80's Blockbusters were automatically excluded from winning best picture in favor of serious dramas (like Kramer vs Kramer ) or "witty" Woody Allen romantic comedy.
The Exorcist, Jaws, Star Wars and E.T should all have won Best Picture by a mile.
 
Around the year 2000 the Academy was briefly cool and LotR won
 
In the  mid 2000's political correctness came into play and since about 2016  only woke movies win anything.

One of the big tragedies for John Williams fans has been the selection of Michael Gore as the recipient of the Original Score Oscar of 1980 for Fame over John Williams' work on The Empire Strikes Back. It definitely remains one of the biggest upsets and surprises in Oscar history.
 
In the newest episode of my show The Best Song Podcast, I offer up the reason behind Fame being included in the list of original score nominees in the first place (especially since there is less than 10 minutes of non-song original music in the movie). I won't tell you here; you'll have to listen to episode 48 of the show to find out. And, I offer up my explanation in the first five minutes of the show, so you don't have to wait long.
 
Does this help to ease the pain of Williams' Oscar loss? Or does it sting even more?
 
I hope you'll listen to the rest of the episode, which features an interview with Dean Pitchford, the lyricist for the song "Fame," and an analysis of the other four Oscar-nominated songs and a brief listen to other songs that were left off the list. Enjoy the show!