TownerFan

When the boxset will be released and in our hand we all be happy and smoking the peace calumet pipe together

I agree. I'll not take anything for granted until I'll listen to the boxset with my own ears.

I'm sure "Indy Climbs" surely will be at the end of the "British Relief" cue. The thing that doesn't make sense with a 3:26 duration of "Return to the Village/Raiders March" is that said cue can't be splitted or cut at that time mark. I just hope they didn't do a hack editing job on that.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but since the beginning we started to worry for things that in the end were revealed non-existent, so I hope the pattern will repeat for track timings too. However, the "Desert Chase" timing is not correct, even if they put the original edited version. As for the fact that Disc 5 is not maxed out at full capacity, I believe that re-use fees were the problem, but there's also the possibility they purposefully didn't include everything for being open to other re-releases in the future.

These track timings look right for the most part, but probably there's some error here and there ("Desert Chase" being the first)

There's clearly something wrong, at least in Raiders track timings: the "Desert Chase" duration on the original album was 7:42, not 7:31. So, unless they have cut another ten seconds for this release, I guess "Desert Chase" will be the complete unedited version. As for Temple and Crusade, everything seems to confirm our speculations. The only thing that sounds strange is the short duration of "Return to the Village", but maybe they reported the wrong duration also there.

Impressive. Here's to another 50 years of great music!

I guess the clips have been uploaded, but they still have to properly link them to the boxset page. It happened also a few weeks ago with Intrada's Cinderella Liberty, when someone discovered a few days before the announcement by finding the preview clips on their directories. Sometimes film score fans are better than crime detectives...

I guess that it was Williams' original intention. The two cues are written to be continuous. For the DCC release it was probably an artistic choice to leave the beginning of the End Credits march clean.

"Indy's First Adventure" complete, "On the Tank" and above all "Wrong Choice, Right Choice".

I would say "The Scroll/Trek to Pankot Palace", "Approaching the Stones", "Short Round Helps", the whole bridge sequence and "Return to the Village". In the end, I'd say I'm eager to hear the whole thing. I still can't believe it's really coming.

Both tracks sounds great on my speakers, even though they're 128kbps AAC files. Raiders has a vibrant, pristine sound and Last Crusade seems to have a rounder, richer mix than the OST. I guess in few days we'll have track timings and more sound clips available.

I know it has been previously released on LP. I suspected that the ** stood for "Previously Unreleased on CD", but for a moment I hoped for a little unexpected surprise. Well, not that I'm complaining... I think we're being lucky enough with all the unreleased stuff that is coming.

It says that Irena's Theme is a part of the suite. Maybe Williams composed another theme for the movie which had gone unheard until now?! Actually it's a more developed concert version than the one presented on the CD. He performed it in Chicago and Boston last August. Also, I'm wondering if "A Whirl Through Academe" is a reworked concert version of the piece heard in the film.

On the SoundtrackCollector.com page, the track "Uncovering the Ark" on Disc 5 is labeled as "Includes previously unreleased material" (while all the others except the "Raiders March" are labeled as "Previously Unreleased"). Now, we know that the second part of the "Well of the Souls" track on the DCC 2-LP contained both "The Discovery of the Ark" and "Marion Into the Pit". Now, could it be that "Through the Wall" has been included into this track for this release?

Yep, that's from La Piovra (aka The Octopus), a very popular 80's Italian tv series, in which a heroic cop fights the mafia. The first season was handled by Riz Ortolani, but Morricone wrote scores for some of the subsequent seasons. The score to Frantic, the Roman Polanski film starring Harrison Ford, has a very similar style.

Bootlegs existed well before the digital download/DVD rip era.

Horner's Danger Motif is stolen from Rachmaninov's 1st Symphony. Wagner, Die Walküre/Siegfried/Götterdämmerung, the "Unmuth" motiv. Yep, but you can find it also in Rachmaninov's 1st Symphony as well (it's the opening of the first movement). Actually, Horner "borrowed" a lot from this symphony for his Troy score.

The boxset is now available for pre-order at Play.com too. 47,49 euros with free shipping.

Horner's Danger Motif is stolen from Rachmaninov's 1st Symphony.

I saw the movie only once so far, and it was last May. I guess that quote slipped away from my ears.

Oops, sorry. I missed some of the older posts. Thanks!

At the beginning of "Warehouse Escape" there's a short passage that sounds very similar to an action section of "Ah, Rats!!!" from Last Crusade (the sequence when the catacomb goes on fire). Did anyone else notice it? Well, I think Williams composed "The Adventures of Mutt" as a kind of concertized version of that section from the "Jungle Chase". When he introduced the piece at the Boston concert last May he said "you can listen to this piece in reel 6 of the movie", or something like that.

I hope Play.com will put it up as well.

When you pre-order an item on Amazon.com, they only charge it at the moment of the shipping and at the lowest price available.