Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Hmm...I have the CD version of ESB and while the tracks are in a fucked up order, it's different than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Yeah I recently got that album. That is just the weirdest sequencing.The sequence makes more sense if you reverse the sides. So side 1 became side 2 for me and vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Yeah I recently got that album. That is just the weirdest sequencing.The sequence makes more sense if you reverse the sides. So side 1 became side 2 for me and vice versa.Yes I was just about to comment on that. And isn't the CD about 30 minutes shorter than the old LP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I still want a high quality LP rip of the US version (double vinyl album) of The Empire Strikes Back. Something tells me this version stands for the best listening experience.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Yeah I recently got that album. That is just the weirdest sequencing.The sequence makes more sense if you reverse the sides. So side 1 became side 2 for me and vice versa.Yes I was just about to comment on that. And isn't the CD about 30 minutes shorter than the old LP?Originally released as a 75-minute double LP with gatefold presentation in the USA, Canada and Japan, in the rest of the world only a 41-minute, 10-track single LP version was released (using same artwork, but losing the gatefolf presentation and a booklet, and with notes and some photographs printed on inner sleeve). Interestingly, tracks were arranged very differently in the single LP version.First CD release was marketed by Polydor in 1985, comprising the 10 tracks of the abridged international LP. The 75-minute version was not available on CD until the 1993 release of the 4-CD set (Star Wars Anthology) that also included some (at that time) unreleased tracks. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The 75-minute version was not available on CD until the 1993 release of the 4-CD set (Star Wars Anthology) that also included some (at that time) unreleased tracks. But not with the same sound or track order as the 75-minute LP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurkensalat 340 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The 75-minute version was not available on CD until the 1993 release of the 4-CD set (Star Wars Anthology) that also included some (at that time) unreleased tracks. But not with the same sound or track order as the 75-minute LP.Yes, this is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I still want a high quality LP rip of the US version (double vinyl album) of The Empire Strikes Back. Something tells me this version stands for the best listening experience. Alex A HQ rip of the full TESB LP has been available to download on the internet for decades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I think Alex doesnt believe in downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I taped bits of Star Wars by holding a cassette recorder near the left speaker of the TV, including the entire Battle of Yavin. I realized I liked it so much that I wanted to find the soundtrack, even though my best friend at the time told me it was only background music (she later became a soundtrack nerd herself). My dad found and bought the SW Anthology for me in 1995, and the rest is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I still want a high quality LP rip of the US version (double vinyl album) of The Empire Strikes Back. Something tells me this version stands for the best listening experience.AlexA HQ rip of the full TESB LP has been available to download on the internet for decades...Please, give me a link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2017507 - You may embed videos of - or include a link to sites that stream - copyrighted material. However, links to sites where copyrighted material can be illegally downloaded are not allowed. You may link to legal streaming/download sites or to places where people can listen to your own compositions or recordings, for example.08 - Discussion of music CDs before they are in stores (ie when they "leak" to the internet) is allowed, as is discussion of leaked recording sessions, sheet music, and other bootlegs. HOWEVER:a) You may not post a link to, or name of, any site where this material can be illegally downloaded.b) You may not offer on the public forums to send this material to anybody who PMs you.c) You may not ask on the public forums for somebody to PM you a link to this material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The first album I owned was Close Encounters. I don't think I picked it up myself; I believe my dad owned it, and I found it one day. It came as something of a surprise that you could actually listen to the music from a movie without actually watching the movie. I was quite taken with the idea, and started collecting almost immediately.The first Williams album (cassette, really) I secured of my own volition was Superman: The Movie. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I taped bits of Star Wars by holding a cassette recorder near the left speaker of the TV, including the entire Battle of Yavin. I realized I liked it so much that I wanted to find the soundtrack, even though my best friend at the time told me it was only background music (she later became a soundtrack nerd herself). My dad found and bought the SW Anthology for me in 1995, and the rest is history.Exactly. Except it was CE3K for me and about eight years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Never was there a more exciting time than when you started and slowly discovered the man's filmography. Though i shamefully have to admit that i stole a lot of this stuff. These compact discs just were too expensive for a 13-year old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I'm calling the police! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 About time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 And still a favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 About time. Koray Savas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Does anyone have the Star Wars Anthology on cassette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yes. A bunch of ninety minute tapes I made myself that distributed Disc 4 to their movies that I used before I owned a portable CD player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Well, I mean an official version. According to Amazon, such a thing exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I've never seen it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Neither have I! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yes. A bunch of ninety minute tapes I made myself that distributed Disc 4 to their movies that I used before I owned a portable CD player.I did that too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I did it with CD-Rs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I didn't get CD-Rs until three years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Home Alone on cassette. Listening to it is actually one of my earliest memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Never was there a more exciting time than when you started and slowly discovered the man's filmography.You're not kidding. It was a magical time to be a kid, seeing those epics in the theater as some of my first movies. It was one of the best periods in decades to start collecting scores in general, too, with the great Goldsmith and Barry scores of the late 70s and early 80s, the dawning of James Horner's career, Basil Poledouris at his peak, and, of course, the Golden Age of Williams. I've always considered myself extremely blessed to have cut my teeth during that particular period in cinematic history. Stempel and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 907 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 The short answer is Superman and the Varese's Star Wars Trilogy CD bought back in early 91 How I came to buy those two and what happened next is told in this just completed 6,600 word WordPress extravaganza! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I don't remember. I think it was JURASSIC PARK -- copied onto a cassette from a friend's CD in 1993. A couple of years later, I bought the CD myself (after having worn the cassette out). Around the same time (1995?), I also bought the Filmworks compilation, which was another gateway into Williams' works. So it's either JURASSIC PARK or that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 On 10/31/2011 at 5:59 PM, Thor said: My answer isn't terribly original either. First Williams soundtrack I got was -- if memory serves -- a cassette copy of a friend's CD of JURASSIC PARK, ca. 1993. I had already been aware of Williams for a couple of years before that, though, but only as a name. The first Williams compact disc I got was, again if memory serves, the Filmworks compilation CD (which I no longer have, unfortunately). Or it could have been a CD upgrade of the same JURASSIC PARK. My first score ever was again a cassette copy of the TWIN PEAKS CD, ca. 1990(?) and the first soundtrack CD I got was THE COMMITMENTS in 1991. Prior to that, I was mostly into other kinds of music, although the seed was sown with lots of electronic music, concept prog albums and those "LSO Plays Classic Rock" thingies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Awesome! I had no idea I had posted in this previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,531 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 On 22 April 2015 at 5:25 AM, Gnome in Plaid said: Home Alone on cassette. Listening to it is actually one of my earliest memories. I suppose it has to be somewhere in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Obviously like everyone else who grew up in the 80s and 90s my childhood was saturated with Williams music, but the first CD of his music I bought with my own money was The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration at a Barnes & Noble. There are many performances on there I generally prefer to their original soundtrack versions! Especially "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I had Jaws 2 on 8-track. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 On Monday, October 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM, fommes said: My first introduction to both John Williams and Indiana Jones. Cool that it would be included on a CD like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kühni 485 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 . Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 9 minutes ago, nightscape94 said: Cool that it would be included on a CD like that. That's a 1991 compilation from Austria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I was 7 when I watched the movie in the theater. I had read all the books up to that point and after seeing the adaptation (which I hated back then) I kept humming all the music. My aunt got me the soundtrack a month later for Christmas. That was the start of my soundtrack collection and my Williams fascination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 2 hours ago, Kühni said: This one, bought in October 1995: As posted earlier, I have you beat by 13 months: 3 hours ago, Bespin said: That's a 1991 compilation from Austria. Is it actually an Austrian release, or is it just that the CD was pressed in Austria? Sony used to have (or perhaps still do) one of their biggest pressing plants in Austria, as far as I know, and I guess many of their European pressings come from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 22 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: As posted earlier, I have you beat by 13 months: You still have the receipt?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Austrians keep scrupulous records! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Except for when I buy clothes I tell every cashier I encounter, "I don't need the receipt." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Are you Austrian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 No, I am American and therefore the opposite of scrupulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 But do you have scruples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I've heard no complaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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