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Vol 1 through 3 were all digital releases, the way music is usually released in 2025.  This looks to include some, not all, tracks from those releases.  Lofi as a music genre is ambient electronic music for studying or chilling out.
 
I’ve already heard some of this and it’s not for me (and it’s not Williams-heavy - there are lofi versions of plenty of Williams’ music by musicians if you go looking, but it’s not the Official Star Wars Lofi Album for whatever reason).  but I agree generally with Thor that a concept album is much preferred to the 300th orchestral recording of Main Title, The Imperial March, etc etc etc.

Man, Valorum is on the screen for like 30 seconds and the only things we know about him are from Palpatine who is incentivized to lie.  It doesn’t surprise me that Lucas claims some sort of real-life proxy for him, but let’s be honest: Valorum shares as much onscreen with Clinton or Nixon as he shares with Ariana Grande.  Maybe less with the politicians, since he does have a beautiful blue dress.

Lion King all the way. I don't actually like most of the songs in The Prince of Egypt

THE LION KING wins every category for me, easily, even though I think THE PRINCE OF EGYPT is fine in all. But funny to see that I'm the odd one out (for now). Age difference?

Man, Valorum is on the screen for like 30 seconds and the only things we know about him are from Palpatine who is incentivized to lie.  It doesn’t surprise me that Lucas claims some sort of real-life proxy for him, but let’s be honest: Valorum shares as much onscreen with Clinton or Nixon as he shares with Ariana Grande.  Maybe less with the politicians, since he does have a beautiful blue dress.

Man, Valorum is on the screen for like 30 seconds and the only things we know about him are from Palpatine who is incentivized to lie.  It doesn’t surprise me that Lucas claims some sort of real-life proxy for him, but let’s be honest: Valorum shares as much onscreen with Clinton or Nixon as he shares with Ariana Grande.  Maybe less with the politicians, since he does have a beautiful blue dress.

Vol 1 through 3 were all digital releases, the way music is usually released in 2025.  This looks to include some, not all, tracks from those releases.  Lofi as a music genre is ambient electronic music for studying or chilling out.
 
I’ve already heard some of this and it’s not for me (and it’s not Williams-heavy - there are lofi versions of plenty of Williams’ music by musicians if you go looking, but it’s not the Official Star Wars Lofi Album for whatever reason).  but I agree generally with Thor that a concept album is much preferred to the 300th orchestral recording of Main Title, The Imperial March, etc etc etc.

Ah. Again, intriguing. I find that kind of radical rethinking much more interesting than the umpteenth orchestral rerecording. Loved those Meco disco versions from way back when, for example. Also have a church organ version and the Terry Trotter jazz version in my collection.

Greetings, everyone!

We have been shipping out our last 4 titles all week so many should have those in Hand shortly and we hope you enjoy them.

On March 12, Dragon’s Domain Recordings will be releasing three new titles, all centered around a science fiction theme that we believe will be of great interest to our customer base. Normally, we provide audio clips as hints, but this time, all three titles are so recognizable that we will skip that step.

Additionally, later this month, we will be introducing some new digital-only releases that should also pique your interest. More details on those will come soon.

What I can share is that one of the scores is from the late 1970s, another is from the late 1980s, and the final title will be a two-CD set reissue of two beloved recordings from the 1980s. We are thrilled to bring this back into print, newly remastered for improved sound quality.

Let the guessing games begin.

So, be sure to visit our site on March 12 around noon Pacific time to discover these exciting new releases!

Best Regards, 

The Staff of BSX and Dragon’s Domain Recordings

Why bother?  There weren’t any Star Wars or Marvels.

This is Die Hard for me, an overrated score coasting by on the love for the movie it accompanies. 

The Special Edition posters of the OT are my favorite since the SE VHS is what I started out with.

Never heard of the guy.

The irony is, this used to be parody.  
 
 
 

I'm not even sure we're getting that. The Hobbit trilogy has many flaws. First they tried to turn a somewhat short book for children into an epic 6-hour trilogy. Now they're trying to turn, what, 3 lines of appendixes into a 2.5 hour big budget movie?

@Nick1Ø66:
 

Yeah, the Spielberg directed movies without Spielberg as a director are never quite as good

I like Powell a good bit, though with a few exceptions I think Im mainly talking about early-career Powell.  For me, Powell is the best graduate of the Zimmer club - his scores use a lot of the instrumentation and techniques but rarely if ever gets bogged down in driving ostinato junk music or sound design.  He’s not afraid to use big, bold melodies and typically his melodies are engaging and create a mood or feeling in the listener outside of the movie, which is more than a lot of recent scores do for me.
 
With that said, the dragon movie scores are ones I never really “got.”  Some of the theme melodies feel a little cliche to me - thinking about maybe what you’d call the main flying theme?  It sounds like a ton of other Powell stuff that came before it, but also kind of like trailer music.  Don’t ask me why.  I’m sure it’s a me problem.  It also has to do in part with my age (no nostalgia) and my general shrug at the three movies, each of which I’ve watched a few times now since I’ve had a kid.  The scores are fine, but they’re not something I’ll ever think, “Oh, I should listen to that!”

Sticking together is what good waffles do!

Boy, if I had known we were talking about porking I would have been paying more attention to this thread!
 
Everything is immoral unless I’m doing it, in which case it is an upstanding choice.

Boy, if I had known we were talking about porking I would have been paying more attention to this thread!
 
Everything is immoral unless I’m doing it, in which case it is an upstanding choice.

I didn’t notice the matte issue at all when I was a kid either, on a grainy pan and scan VHS that I’m sure we taped off of an HBO free preview on TV or something.   It’s pretty clearly lousy on sharper formats - DVD, Blu, and 4K - but it’s also not a big deal, who cares.