Jurassic Park 20th Anniversary OST (Digital only release)

[Romão 2,274]

The others I had noticed (they are probably more obvious), but the two cues that comprise Hatching Baby Raptor are unusually coherent

[Jay 37,281]

I agree!

Another favorite "track contains 2 cues from different parts of the movie" of mine has always been "The Rescue Of The Princess" from Star Wars.

[Jilal 569]

OH LAWD, mY EARS.

This was mixed for shitty iPod headphones.

I agree. The dynamics are reduced too much for my taste and IMO, that improves nothing. Isn't everything mixed for shitty iPod headphones these days? The same thing happened to The Hobbit, although there it's much more obvious.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

When it comes to combining cues and making them feel cohesive, JP is one of the most successful Williams' albums.

[LongTallJodie 59]

I agree with the "it's too loud" crowd. While it's certainly not brick-walled, there's definitely less dynamic range on the remaster. It's like they're afraid of passages flowing from quiet to loud in the same cue. When EVERYTHING is loud, some cues just lose their impact.

[Faleel 5,333]

On the flipside though its really annoying to hear a cue really well, with full emotional impact, and then have it drop to barely audible, and lose it,

[Jay 37,281]

Luckily the volume changes can be fixed while still using the remastered sound, so there's that

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I'll be sticking to my trusty 1993 CD for this one, apart from the new tracks.

I always loved how it sounded.

[Joni Wiljami 1,206]

Yeah, that 1983 CD is a real classic.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

LOL, 1993 Pasi. You aren't quite that old yet...

[MSM 126]

I think he means he prefers RotJ over JP.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Not if he has taste!

[Joni Wiljami 1,206]

Damn you Stefan and damn that possibility to edit without leaving fingerprints...

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Always use the quote function when correcting someone!

You have been taught a valuable lesson today my slow-witted Finnish friend!

[Joni Wiljami 1,206]

You immoral, reckless Lying Dutchman!!

My revenge will be unprecedented.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Bring it! Reindeer games!

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

To be fair, the iTunes store doesn't use DRM anymore - not that I like the store.

Yes. That bit wasn't directed at iTunes.

Maybe we'll wake up tomorrow and the complete SW prequels will be on itunes

I hope not!

When it comes to combining cues and making them feel cohesive, JP is one of the most successful Williams' albums.

Cues: Absolutely. I love the way the cues on the album are assembled. The album as a whole, not so much. And I suppose the way cues from all over the score are merged into single tracks is the reason for that.

[brenn 1]

Man, I could just cry right now...

[King Mark 3,625]

IF they re-mastered The Lost World score at the same time they dug out the tapes for Jurassic Park, and assumeing there will never be a 3D TLW release...I would expect TLW expanded score soon or not at all

[Jay 37,281]

Yes.

[Faleel 5,333]

I would expect that the missing Rescuing Sarah section, would be presented somewhat like Remembering Childhood was: as a seperate track.

[Jay 37,281]

Nope - it's not a separate cue, its a microedited out section.

[King Mark 3,625]

Seriously I don't remember any of the unreleased music in TLW. I'd have to re-listen to some DVD rip boots

[crumbs 14,300]

Pray that if we ever get TLW expanded, a label handles it and not JW. Because those microedits will never see the light of day if JW has any authority on the release.

[Faleel 5,333]

He did the hook release, and the micro edit on remembring childhood was released as a seperate track

[King Mark 3,625]

Wasn't it a separate cue anyways?

[Faleel 5,333]

Nope - it's not a separate cue, its a microedited out section.

He could have it microedited into perhaps say, the unreleased The Raptor's Appear

or perhaps it will the full unedited cue will be presented at the like Presenting the Hook (Extended Film Version) from the LLL Hook.

[Score_Fan 36]

I mean, I don't want to complain, because unreleased music is unreleased music.. but it's a shame that not only could they still leave only 2 minutes 40 seconds unreleased on something that doesn't have to worry about disk space, but that this won't even get a CD release. However, I am extremely happy about this.

[lairdo 726]

Exciting news indeed!!! I remember this being mixed across the hall from my office and being invited in to see the reels as they were done. It was awesome to hear the film come together, and it remains one of my favorites.

Is anyone else getting a message that the soundtrack is not available in the US iTunes store? The link on the JWfan.net story produces this error as does searching for it on iTunes.

I hope there was not some sort of limit hit in terms of downloads.

[scallenger 481]

Hmmm maybe they have it down to fix the errors?

[Jay 37,281]

Hopefully that is the case

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Me too!

[Jay 37,281]

He did the hook release, and the micro edit on remembring hollywood was released as a seperate track

Huh?

[Incanus 5,713]

He did the hook release, and the micro edit on remembring hollywood was released as a seperate track

Huh?

Faleel obviously means that the Follow That Shadow segment of Remembering Childhood was included as a separate track and not as part of the whole sequence where it belonged to. I have no idea where hollywood came into the sentence though.

[Jay 37,281]

Ah, that's funny he typed Hollywood instead of Childhood.

Anyway, like I said, that's an entire cue that was previously unreleased - not a microedited out section.

It's a different case than the Rescuing Sarah situation

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I would hardly call Rescuing Sarah a micro edit, a pretty significant portions was hacked out

[Jay 37,281]

I understand that, but its still "a portion of a cue" and not "an entire cue".

[Incanus 5,713]

Yeah not exactly a "microedit". And it removes one of the best parts of the whole cue.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I understand that, but its still "a portion of a cue" and not "an entire cue".

I know, but to me the term micro-edit means removing a short part, maybe a few seconds to tighten up the pace or whatever.

What JW did to Rescuing Sarah I can only call a "hack-job"

[JohnnyD 1,220]

I was so excited to buy the Jurassic Park 20th Anniversary Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,

but now I can't because it is currently unavailable in the U.S. store. Why is this? It was available yesterday. I really want to get this.

[Incanus 5,713]

Let's hope that they are fixing the issues there were with some tracks (reportedly they had glitches) and the release will be back up in iTunes ASAP.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I never thought 11 minutes of music would bring about so many unknown members.

[Jay 37,281]

It may "only" be 11 minutes, but its 7 complete cues, covering a wide variety of ideas, in one of Williams' best and most-loved scores

When inserted into the flow of the score rather than tacked on to the end, it really enriches the presentation of the score pretty drastically.

Though, the cues by themselves in the order they are presented does make a really nice 11 minute suite on its own too.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Pity they really can't be edited satisfactory.

[Faleel 5,333]

It's a different case than the Rescuing Sarah situation

Would the "Presenting the Hook" situation be closer to the Rescuing Sarah situation then?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Does it really fucking matter?

[Jay 37,281]

It's a different case than the Rescuing Sarah situation

Would the "Presenting the Hook" situation be closer to the Rescuing Sarah situation then?

Nope. Again, Williams chose to skip over an entire cue, he didn't chose to edit out a portion of a cue.

Does it really fucking matter?

Not at all. Don't ask me why he keeps bringing it up.

[Faleel 5,333]

No it doesn't really matter, people just keep making corrections.

[Richard Penna 3,669]

I mean, I don't want to complain, because unreleased music is unreleased music.. but it's a shame that not only could they still leave only 2 minutes 40 seconds unreleased on something that doesn't have to worry about disk space, but that this won't even get a CD release. However, I am extremely happy about this.

I took a listen to the 3 unreleased cues on youtube, and The Trouble With Dennis, although short, is rather good. There's a very clean BD rip going around, but somehow it seems wrong to contaminate my otherwise clean set.

So yes, it's a pity Williams didn't want to make the whole score available and close the book completely.

But there were no indications at all that we were going to get any more material any time soon, so the 11 minutes we have is beyond amazing.

[Incanus 5,713]

I think Williams wanted to present these bonus pieces as much as a musical narrative of their own and thus joined those cues with crossfades and all. Which of course in making a chronological edit is a bit frustrating as you can't separate the cues so satisfyingly. I seem to remember that some bonus cues in the Indy Box had the same problem, where JW had shown Bouzereau how to make a satisfying experience without presenting a complete score.

Williams seems also to be allergic to cues shorter than a minute and rarely has such on his album. The JP opening is a rare case where such short cue appears one of his albums.