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I recently went through this score and most of the CD is the right order but with one or two tracked pieces. The cue titles tend to be quotes from the movie (or lines from the script; similar to Shore's score to Crash), but these cue title quotes sometimes do not come from the segment of the movie covered by the relevant music cue! Confused? Anyway, here's a summary of what I noted whilst watching the movie with the CD: 01. eXistenZ by Antenna - main titles 02. MetaFlesh Game-Pods - Allegra Geller activates her pod through to Pikul / Allegra driving through countryside 03. reality bleed through effect - Pikul digs out bullet to arriving at hotel 04. UmbyCord - Allegra concerned about her pod to arriving at gas station 05. organic pod technology - Allegra outside gas station to Gas with studfinder at Pikul 06. pop your spine with a little hydro-gun - not used in movie 07. a genuine game urge - drive to ski chalet to Vinokur climbing down steps 08. insect boards - not used in movie 09. original Marway tissue architecture - Pikul's bioport accessed in chalet to Pikul enters game / chalet altered 10. Viral Ecstasy - Allegra places micro-pod in Pikul to Pikul at trout farm 11. trout farm - Pikul realises he is "Larry" to Allegra leaves her station at the operating table 12. genius in a game-pod - Pikul pushing trolley laden with parcels to outside Chinese restaurant 13. what's so special about the special? - Pikul shouts "eXistenZ is paused" to being back in the game 14. hypoallergenic weapons - Pikul realises he is assembling a weapon to Pikul has the urge to kill someone 15. an element of psychosis - waiter hacks off piece of gun with cleaver to Pikul tells everyone that things are fine 16. traumatized nervous system - Allegra and Pikul back in the game store to Allegra's assembly bay, seeing the basket (cue dialled out) 02. MetaFlesh Game-Pods - tracked in, finding diseased pod to Nourish appears with a flame-thrower 15. an element of psychosis - tracked in, Nourish flames the pod to back in the burning chalet 17. Anti-eXistenZialists - Allegra queries Vinokur outside chalet to Allegra sees church seats outside in grass 18. industrial espionage happens - PilgrImage female sitting after game "debrief" to Nourish and female say they should study anti-game sentiment in experiment 19. TranscendenZ by PilgrImage - Allegra and Pikul approach the PilgrImage employees to are they "still in the game?" 20. it neural-surged - end titles Hope this helps!

I'll certainly keep an eye out for other conductor's styles to get a better idea of the range of styles that are around. Wasn't Bernard Herrmann frequently accused of being a terrible conductor? I can't help but think that if they were so bad these composers who conduct their own music wouldn't keep getting the conducting assignments and would be encouraged to pass the baton (obviously not Shore as he doesn't use a batton) on to a "professional" conductor.

I don't know what concert you went to in London but from most of the reports I have heard, people are pretty positive about Howard Shore's conducting technique. So "he waves his arms in time to the music." Have you considered that the music may be in time because he is "waving his arms?" Probably not. Whichever way round it actually is, the orchestra seems to be able to cope pretty well. As for his rushing off at the interval I think that he'd probably not want to have too much of an ovation since it was the middle of the performance. He has been conducting for quite a while and conducts most (if not all) of his scores so he has the experience (although he has only recently stopped using a baton when conducting - maybe he was waving his arms so much it just flew out of his hand, never to be seen again?) "Let's have a heated debate..."

I was in contact with them the other week and the tickets had not been sent then. It didn't seem as they had any idea as to when they would be sent. All I was told was that when they are ready for dispatch then they will be shipped. And as with everyone else, I paid for my tickets ages ago - before they had the online booking system up and running. So it was bankers draft payment and that cost me an additional £20. Then there's the airfare to Belgium, and then the accommodation. I wish I had waited for confirmation of the London concert...that would have been much cheaper.

Stefancos, I'm a bit late so you may have already gotten the info you wanted. But if you haven't here's a pointer. Head over to: http://www.teleticketservice.com/v2/main.h...?lang=en&page=1 and scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll find the entry for the concert on the 16th April 2004. It lists the range of ticket prices available. You cannot order the tickets online but have to telephone the "hotline" to arrange payment, etc. (they don't accept credit cards either). Go back to the top of the page and click on the "Practical Information" tab and follow the instructions in the "How to make a reservation by telephone" section. I phoned this morning and booked a couple of tickets (on the 2nd row!) and it was pretty easy. There are two phone numbers - a Belgium phone number (070/345.345) or an international number (+32-34-0000-34). They'll make your reservation then and take your postal address so that they can send you an information pack with details of how to pay (involves your bank). Once payment is received they'll send out the tickets...apparently. Hope this helps.

Yes, this list is certainly at least six months old I think that they tried to put across the list as being the "best soundtrack" list - since it was their listeners who voted for them (I classify myself as a listener, sometimes). However, as with all these types of lists, it is only a list of a certain population's favourites; best tunes. (Not that should not be ignored as isn't a definitive best list (where best is a measure of how, as a whole, the score is) just a favourite list of so-called experts?) In that respect, Woolies Top 10 list is just as informative.

I remember listening to the programme last year when they counted down the Top 30 and I must say that I was surprised by some of the entries - and many of the omissions. I had read that if a film score isn't orchestral and doesn't sound "classically classical" it doesn't stand much chance of being played and hence being voted for. I would imagine that it is the producers of Classic FM who initially decide what will be played. Then the Classic FM listeners will have a limited choice when it comes to voting for the Top 30. If anyone listens to Simon Bates on a Saturday afternoon/evening (Classic FM at the Movies) I sometimes dispair at the choice he makes for certain scores. He still plays a classical piece that appeared in a movie as part of the soundtrack score (Barber's Adagio for strings is a good example). Sometimes I wish I could put together a 3-hour show highlighting the best in movie music (in my opinion).

First score cover that comes to mind is Film Score Monthly's release of the Miklos Rozsa score to THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL. I don't know what it is about it but it is certainly one that sticks in the mind.

I apologise if this has been dealt with at some time earlier. If it has, then could someone direct me to the thread. Did Williams consider how the Fox Fanfare ended when he wrote the beginning to STAR WARS? They seem to fit so well that I thought that it may have been a conscious decision.

I would guess the releases as follows: COMMANDO (James Horner) GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (expanded) (Jerry Goldsmith) MAGIC (Jerry Goldsmith) ROBOCOP (complete) (Basil Poledouris) Maybe right - maybe wrong.

For a minute there I thought that I had posted this but hadn't remembered! This is my first remembered Williams moment also. I had heard the Meco version and that had me hooked. I bought the STAR WARS score on cassette and was surprised it was orchestral but there was no looking back after that. I eventually wore out the cassette playing it constantly on my portable mono-speakered cassette player. Then I came across the 2-LP set when I was on holiday on Skye (Scottish Hebridean Island) and bought it. Played that to death too for years - I remember constantly reading the track notes. Managed to hold off buying STAR WARS on CD until the 4-CD anthology set came out and now have that and the Special Edition. My Williams moment is really when I got started taking an interest and 450 scores later I'm still as addicted as ever. Thanks, John.