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Eh, the whole soundtrack to Gettysburg already sounds like this. I used to love that score so much, and now it just sounds...empty. But hats off to the keyboardist, he is phenomenal.

It's refreshing that Williams still writes music for new stuff like this. It gets our mind off Indiana Jones.

The Star Wars musical journey was six films of music condensed down to 90 minutes of music, complete with narration to describe the story. This is a complete 3+ hour score played in its original runtime. It's a far superior concept, if you have the patience to stay awake and involved in the whole event. I watched the LOTR Symphony after a long day of work, and could not stay awake for the entire thing. It would have been better to take off, but that's life.

This was posted to YouTube in September as a loving tribute to a great woman. It's quite good, and has been made much more poignant today.

But he's not the first black president. He's the first half-black president. History ought to remember the difference. His black father didn't take a black woman as a wife, it was a white woman who gave birth to his son.

It is a sad day. Star Trek has lost its queen, its first lady, and one of its most beloved icons. She will be missed.

I pity the poor fools going to the inauguration. They say with between 1 and 5 million people there, there will be one toilet for every 6,489 people. That really sucks. Immodium only does half the job.

We get the concert version in the End Credits, that's really enough for me.

Like Liv Tyler in The Two Towers.

Yes, but at least IMAX gives you comfy chairs in that tilted back position so you can doze.

Did anybody get theirs from MovieMusic yet? I was just wondering. I'll probably end up waiting as long as the autograph crowd for a non-signed copy. Joy of joys.

I think J.K. Rowling would be hot in plaid.

Nick's 15, that's why. Fleetwood Mac is a blues-rock band from 1960s Britain that got really popular when they went mainstream pop rock in the 1970s. They're the only band in history to have a girl singer named Stevie and a guy singer named Lindsey who were both lovers.. My #1 favorite Mac song is "Oh Well," a pre-Rumours song. My #2 favorite is "Tusk" from The Dance concert. That is a treat to blast on a set of speakers.

Eh, I checked his profile, he's 26. Shoulda given him more credit than that, I suppose.

No, they're going to outsource that voting to India, also. Bollywood Idol.

I have a feeling if she has anything to say about it, nobody will be allowed to read and perform her works in a hundred years unless her estate can somehow profit from it.

I still think what Clint Bajakian wrote for The Outlaws was a great Morricone homage.

The forum outlaws politics and religion. Pride, namely nationalism and patriotism, can still be done tastefully.

I definitely hear the Funeral March in the Imperial March. Homage, similarity, doesn't matter. Both are great pieces of music. You know you have a popular song when this is its tribute:

What you don't see is the lime in his left hand. This guy is dedicated. Though it depends on how you fell. Left, good. Right, good. Straight down, not good. Bruce is a cold water shark. It takes the Son of Brody to draw him into tropical waters.

Yes, but is Tom Petty the songwriter of today on par with Tom Petty the songwriter of the "classic rock" late 70s/early 80s days? Seriously? Compare Bob Seger's last album to his "Live Bullet" material. Aside from one or two songs, there's no comparison. Springsteen's "Magic" is a very good album, but it's no "Born to Run." Aerosmith started making albums in the 1970s, so "Toys in the Attic" definitely has that classic rock sound, and when they redefined themselves as a ballad band in the 80s, they still made songs that get classified as classic rock. But is "Just Push Play" and their other latest output classic rock? I don't think so. I don't think any artist that started in the classic rock era that still records and tours has retained their classic rock sound when it comes to new material: the aforementioned bands, The Rolling Stones, Phil Collins, Peter Frampton, Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac (yes, they're back), Rush, etc. Oh certainly, they can still perform their old material just fine and make it sound like it did 30 years ago, voice willing. So can any half-decent barroom cover band. A band can have a "classic rock sound" but not be classic rock. The Killers have a glam rock/punk edge sound similar to The Ramones or David Bowie, but they're still a modern (2004 to today) band. That would be saying a composer can write a symphony or suite or something today, in the vein of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, and call it a "classical" piece of music. In the purist sense of the word that would be incorrect, but it happens and nobody contests it. Dire Straits has a classic rock feel because Knopfler is a hell of a guitarist, but I wouldn't call Billy Idol classic rock, I'd call it 80s hair rock. But what does that mean, really? I have no idea. So considering "classic" to be of the highest quality is a delicate issue. If Beethoven wrote a crappy song, would it not be classical music because it's not good quality, even though it was written in his lifetime? Truthfully, I don't know of any "classic rock" stations in my area. The only local station like that reinvented itself five years ago to have the motto "we play anything." So I listen to a superior rock station that plays classic rock, 80s rock, and modern rock all the time. I won't pay XM or Sirius the dough to get satellite classic rock stations, because my library of classic rock is very extensive. Oh, and they won't play disco. Just because it was written in the 1970s doesn't make it classic rock. It is very hard to find a "classic rock" station that plays Syd Barrett Pink Floyd or Peter Gabriel Genesis, because those just aren't mainstream enough.

Why not? This thread and its successors will live on like a chain of Duncan Idaho gholas, patiently awaiting the release of complete two-disc Indiana Jones score box sets. Because that is really all the John Williams stuff that this or any John Williams fan site has left to talk about: new score releases, re-compilations, and how to fill in the blanks with your own bootlegs. We can talk about sexy celebrities and movie screenshots and sports drinks and the geographic location of Texas and Hans Zimmer (7th post in, baby) until the cows come home, leave, and come home again. But, Indiana...this...this is film music.

Don't fall.

I thought this meant Stevie Nicks. Then I saw who started the thread.

I just swapped Disc 5 with the KOTCS disc, so all the unique discs are in a digipak, and my redundant KOTCS is in cardboard.