SevenYears

When you are in your Itunes... Right click the song, and make select get info, and bring up the Info tab, make sure that all the info entered is the same as your other album, and it will match up... You can also modify the track number so it is the same as the Victory Celebration track... that way they will show up next to each other in the list. (I am more interested in complete John Williams... and always kept this song on there, because I wondered if he had anything to do with conducting it.)

Thanks for the quick answer. I am now going to delete this song from my iPod.

I know that "Jedi Rocks" was composed and arranged by Jerry Hey. Does anyone know if John Williams had any involvement with the recording of this music? Did John Williams conduct this new music for the Special Edition? Thanks.

I was hoping somebody would help me out here... I want to complete my John Williams/Boston Pops collection, and www.classicalrecordings.com/johnwilliams used to have a great complete listing of ALL the cd releases of John Williams and the Boston Pops, but I have not been able to get on that web page for a long long time, and neglected to print out the page for reference. Does anybody have a complete chronological listing of ALL the cd releases of John Williams and the Boston Pops or know another website that has a complete listing. I have found a couple other websites that list the concert cds, but there are a lot of holes. Any help would be appreciated.

Goodness, I think you misinterpreted the meaning of my post on a couple points. 1) For gosh sake's never stop expressing your opinion, and I never meant to give you the impression to do otherwise. My original post was not about people not expressing their opinion nor was it directed at an individual poster... I just noticed lurking around these boards that for a John Williams fan site, there seemed to be a whole lot of anti-George Lucas posts that have been going on for a long time. And I was really just curious why there was so much anger and hatred in posts calling for people being fired, or insults directed at an individual... these aren't constructive posts but basically telling George Lucas to step down and let somebody else have control of his creative vision because he is talentless or has lost it, etc. Why not more constuctive criticism, why not point out what you don't like in a constructive way, why not list movies you like and just not list the new star wars films on them, why not spread joy not anger. I still know there are going to be angry feelings, but my surprise is that there are still angry feelings about Star Wars, so many years after the new films have come out, and they just don't stop. I don't see this with other films. Just these. 2) I also didn't mean to say that all Star Wars films are as good as one another. In fact I very definitely don't agree with that. I think that the first two are the better of the films, but again I also don't think they are some stellar Shakesperean case study on perfect film making either. They have their flaws as well. It just also surprises me that when people talk about the bad dialogue in the new films, they seem to infer that the older films had great dialogue. Which I would argue they don't. Perhaps the older films have better dialogue than the newer ones, perhaps, but they all suffer from emotionless obvious dialogue that ranges from bland to the ridiculous. But I also find it to be part of their charm. What is weird is all of a sudden these new films are the worst ever made... worse than Porky's 3 or Cheerleaders Go Calypso. I still think they are good films, not these dreadful nightmares people make them out to be. I mean people who "hate" them also mention they own them on DVD and still watch. It seems if you hate a movie, you would watch it once, not purchase it for multiple viewings. That doesn't make sense. I guess I just didn't understand why so much energy was being spent over such a huge stretch of time to try and tear down something, convince people something is bad, insult somebody for making them... why not take another road and recommend a film you did like, or constructively suggest something that might have worked better... And I did not mean to upset you with my post, which it looks like I did. I was just trying to be helpful because I found I enjoy talking about the things I like more than I do talking about things I don't and putting down others. Again, no attacks, and I hope my trying to be funny did not offend. I was trying to bring some lightness to yet another in a very long series of angry 'I hate George Lucas' threads. And no, he is not my brother. P.S. I don't think George Lucas is a saint, I wish he would respect John Williams music more, and make a final final final cut before asking him to score it. I think the editing of the chase music from Attack of the Clones did not do justice to one of John Williams' best recent works. John Williams is a god, and George Lucas' failure to fully appreciate that prohibits me from ever sending him a Xmas card.

Actually, I remember during Empire that there was a lot of friction between Kershner and Lucas, because Lucas pulled a Spielberg on Poltergeist and took control over a lot of the film, and Kershner was not given a lot of freedom like he had hoped. Here is Irvin Kershner's complete credits: SeaQuest DSV (1993) (TV) Robocop 2 (1990) Traveling Man (1989) (TV) "Amazing Stories" (1985) TV Series (episode "Hell Toupee (1986)") Never Say Never Again (1983) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) Raid on Entebbe (1977) (TV) Return of a Man Called Horse, The (1976) S*P*Y*S (1974) Up the Sandbox (1972) Loving (1970) Flim-Flam Man, The (1967) ... aka One Born Every Minute (1967) (UK) Fine Madness, A (1966) Luck of Ginger Coffey, The (1964) Face in the Rain (1963) "Ben Casey" (1961) TV Series "Cain's Hundred" (1961) TV Series Hoodlum Priest (1961) Young Captives, The (1959) "Rebel, The" (1959) TV Series "Naked City" (1958) TV Series Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) I really see no evidence here that it was Irvin Kershner who MADE Empire Strikes Back great. Never Say Never Again was hardly the best of the Bond films. In fact it is argued to be one of the worst.

The third one definitely will be the darkest, because we know that the bad guys come out on top. It would be kind of funny if he somehow worked it out to be a happy ending, and the ewoks came out and sang their yub nub song at the end. I just think that people expecting to see each and every character killed on screen in detail are going to be disappointed. In fact, Padme cannot die in the third one, since she will not die for a few years after it ends, since Leia has memories of being raised by her. I can't see there even being a death of Jar Jar scene. I am guessing we will see Dooku and Mace meet their end, and maybe a couple other Jedi. But I doubt we will actually bear witness to the extermination of all Jedi, including the young ones.

What I don't understand is where the audience who didn't like Phantom Menace, but went and saw Attack of the Clones, didn't like that one, but are still planning on seeing Episode III, but are already complaining on how bad it is going to be. I really don't understand this mentality. I liked the first Matrix film, I didn't like the second one, so have no desire to see the third. I won't be, some five years from now, still complaining and moaning how the Matrix franchise is ruined, how the Warchoski brothers need to hand over their movie idea to new directors and writers, how they need to listen to fans, how they will ruin any sequel that they ever conceive as long as they have anything to do with it, how they got lucky with their first movie and obviously have no talent... I don't see where this comes from? I loved the first two Godfather movies, didn't like the third one, but am not bitter about it. I don't have all this pent-up hostility towards Francis Ford Coppola that no matter how vocal I am about it, I can't just seem to let go of and move on. I just go and see movies that I think I will enjoy and avoid the ones I don't think I will enjoy. And I also find it bizarre that people feel artists should be slaves to their audience. This sort of Annie Wilkes in Misery attitude where the artist should be tied down and write exactly what the audience wants them to write or suffer horrible physical pain. We should stand over the shoulders of painters and yell in their ears "Put more blue there!" "Paint a bird there!" "What in the hell do you think you are doing?" "You either paint the picture I want the way you want it, or you give your ideas and inspiration to other artists (who apparently can't think up things on their own) and let them do it, because they will do it better, I know this for a fact, I can see into the future, and I know, know in my heart and soul that any other artist will paint your ideas better than you can. No! I am not going to go bother somebody else, I am going to stand right here and keep screaming about your artwork until you do exactly what I want you to do, exactly how I want you to do it, because it is all about me not about you, it is my 2 hours and $7 not your three years and millions of dollars, my life, not yours." Maybe somebody can explain this self-involved hostility to me, this bizarre sense of betrayal over a film. I think the Star Wars movies are simple fun movies, all of them have bad dialogue, bad acting, and stretches where there is no action... even Empire Strikes Back has the sophmoric written "love" scenes between Han and Leia, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are not acting wunderkinds, the whole middle of Empire drags with long dialogue scenes with a rubber puppet. the dumb scene inside of the asteroid slug, Yoda's painfully obvious and poorly written bits of wisdom... and then Return of the Jedi with the midgets in bear suits and the ridiculous yub nub dialogue, and also a horribly lengthy and talky middle section... These aren't classics of well written, well acted, well directed, well paced, well edited filmmaking that people seem to remember. These are Saturday Matinee style, fun children's movies. I think the difference is that people are remembering them through younger eyes, and when they re-watch them, they hear "dialogue" which brings fond memories of the past. But we are all older now. So very much older. And these suggestions of darker more violent movies, counting out death scenes that people are lusting for, and less jokes and fun and more violence are the wishes of adults, not the children who these movies are intended for. Honestly, all this adult hatred for the films, and emotions that cannot be let go, and seeming obsession with how bad they are and what a failure the artist is, is only guaranteeing that they will be classics by our younger generation. If not already, since they all 5 appear in the top 20 grossing films of all time. Apparently, there are some people out there who are enjoying them.

I was just wondering if anybody has heard the isolated score on the Criterion Collection's release of the Killers featuring John Williams score. It says score and effects track and was wondering if there are still gunshots and doorslams mixed in with the score, or if it was truly isolated. Also, any thoughts on the quality of the score? Just wanted to know before spending $40 on the film since I am only interested in John Williams music. On that topic -- I have two other DVDs with isolated scores -- Witches of Eastwick and Superman. Do you know if any other John Williams scored film released on DVD have isolated scores as well? Thanks to anybody with an answer!