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I have the original CD, because I am a Michael Giaccompletionist.

You can preorder both editions now at 30% at Disney Music Emporium. They just kicked off a sitewide sale for 6/24.

You can preorder both editions now at 30% at Disney Music Emporium. They just kicked off a sitewide sale for 6/24.

For those who missed out (like myself), Hook is back in stock at Mondo: https://mondoshop.com/collections/all/products/hook-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-2xlp
 
EDIT: Aaaaaaaaand they're gone.

Yeah, Dick Donner talks about it on the commentary track for Superman: The Movie. It's been a while since I listened to it, but as I recall he talks about how he realized the theme was saying "SUP-ER-MAN!" the first time he heard it, and that he pointed it out, but (I think) Williams said he didn't do it intentionally.
I need to revisit that commentary track. It's really great.

I feel like I should do an analysis of Always out of pure sympathy.

I was a Project Consultant on this release.  It's my first real credit, and first paying gig in the field, actually.  If anyone was wondering why I stopped posting as frequently this spring, this is why.  Mike and I worked our butts off to make this set as good as it could possibly be.
 
And yes, one thing I did was proof-read the (many!) liner notes

Very cool!
 
Here's a direct link to the Brightcove video, to do with what you will.
 
EDIT: It's officially on YouTube now too.

Meh. If they had to change it up, I wish they would've gone full 80s and gotten Giorgio Moroder.

Meh. If they had to change it up, I wish they would've gone full 80s and gotten Giorgio Moroder.

I think is not exactly accurate but today I'm going to watch the movie again and I will try to find any mistakes. But for now, this is what I found out:
 
02 Prologue
08 Wings & Blasters
09 Utmost Ghost
04 World's Greatest Grandma
03 Ghost in the Machine
07 Ava's Story
05 A Little Nudge
15 Partners
06 Feds
10 Tracker Swarm
13 Quantum Leap
12 Misdirection
14 I Shrink, Therefore I Am
16 Windshield Wipeout
17 Hot Wheels
19 A Flock of Seagulls
11 Cautious as a Hurricane
20 San Francisco Giant
21 Ghost = Toast
18 Revivification
22 Reduce Yourself
01 It Ain't Over Till The Lady Wasp Stings
23 Quit Screwing Around
24 Anthropodie
 
EDIT: I changed the titles format by recommendation of Disco Stu

It's totally one of my favorite JW pieces ever. I get legit excited whenever NBC uses it for breaking news.

Robin Hood! On CD! Finally!

"You're welcome."

I have a sinking feeling it won't.  

I got to see when he came through Austin back in June. It was such a cool show! And all the more amazing since it's the kind of thing I never would have even conceived of getting to see.
 
The band was a bit more rockin' than the mainly electronic sound on some of his scores—that Escape from New York video is a good example. I thought the Halloween theme in particular sounded incredible with the full band.
 
Here's a potato quality pic I took:
 

This. I'm very confused by Jay's excitement.

One CD with the complete score and a small hammer where the second CD should be.
 
?

 

Hint: If you're a white dude telling a minority that everything is fine and they shoudln't be complaining you should probably just not.

Here are the original OSTs released at the same time as the film's release; These were arranged by Williams for listening experience and do not contain the complete scores, but rather the highlights as chosen by him and then re-arranged into a non-chronological order as per his usual MO.
 
SW: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345793
TESB: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345127
ROTJ: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068346287
 
TPM: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345185
AOTC: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345124
ROTS:https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1069977430
 
They also released a collection including all 6 of the above titles, but it actually costs $14 more than just buying each of the above for $6 each, so avoid it!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1041511949
 
 
 
In 1997 Lucasfilm hired Mike Matessino to make 2CD sets for each of the original three scores to be in stores the same time as the SE versions of the original films were in theaters for the RCA Victor label.  These are (basically) completely and (pretty much) in chronological order.  Eventually RCA's license ran out and Sony re-issued them in 2004 with new covers but identical content.  Here those are:
 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id394309338
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id261749656
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id261749251
 
It's hilarious to me that Apple is selling those for $16.99-$18.99 each, because you can get them on CD for $8.39 each on Amazon!
 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVIS
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVJC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVK6
 
So obviously I'd recommend doing that instead.
 
For the prequel scores, Sony expanded The Phantom Menace a year after the film's release, but it was a half-assed job; They simply took the final film audio of the final cut of the film, made a few tiny tweaks, and plopped that on CD.  For some films this would be OK, but TPM's score was massively and extensively re-edited and tweaked around in post-production, with a ton of music getting dropped and/or replaced by music tracked in from other stuff.  So the CD actually includes some passages twice because of this tracking.  It's a mess, but the sound quality is really good if you want to check it out
 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id412454908
 
Though much like the other expansions, you can get it on a real CD for much cheaper
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000051VYS/ref=olp_f_new