Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 2017 2-CD La-la Land edition!

[Jay 43,880]

Admin note: This thread is largely hype for the release before it's release date, and then ordering/shipping/"it's arrived!"  talk afterward; Please relocate to the following thread to discuss the actual musical content of the release:

 

http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/27984-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-la-la-land-music-discussion/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News from someone in attendance at the CE3K 40th anniversary discussion panel

 

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,269]

Mike Mattesino announced it. Williams alroved the album assembly

[Jay 43,880]

I beat you by seconds!

 

Thanks for the firsthand report though!

[Brundlefly 2,400]

Now it's gonna be fucking awesome! Anything else? I should sleep now, but I can't!

[Jay 43,880]

Not that I know of, no.

[Incanus 5,882]

Complete E.T. and CEO3K coming! Nirvana!

[Jay 43,880]

I think its fun when expansions come out on anniversary years!

 

Gidget Goes To Rome & Sergeant Ryker for 2018?

[Incanus 5,882]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

I think its fun when expansions come out on anniversary years!

 

Gidget Goes To Rome & Sergeant Ryker for 2018?

You, me, Miguel and Thor would be over the moon!

[Brundlefly 2,400]

It's not the end of the year... it's just two releases... no way Matessino hinted at those in the interview... the Harry Potter box set is still able to come on christmas

[Jay 43,880]

Ah yes, classic "That's cool, what's next?" syndrome.  Only took 20 minutes this time!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,269]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

Ah yes, classic "That's cool, what's next?" syndrome.  Only took 20 minutes this time!

 

Annoying, isn't it!

 

Savor this guys! These are two great scores. Among the best ever.

[Jay 43,880]

Indeed!

 

It's a dream come true to have both available in definitive editions that completely void the 90s incomplete and wrong-take, overlays-and-inserts-missing expansions.

[Manakin Skywalker 5,729]

That'd be funny if I wake up tomorrow seeing a thread saying "Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter expansions announced!" on top of all this.

[Jay 43,880]

[Pieter Boelen 1,030]

How wrong am I to be massively more excited for Harry Potter/Indiana Jones/Star Wars than about ET and especially CE3K?

I feel kind-of guilty for not being more excited now than I am...

 

Anyway, that doesn't stop this from being great, great news!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,269]

Close Encounters is actually a better movie than Star Wars.

[Brundlefly 2,400]

18 minutes ago, Jay said:

Ah yes, classic "That's cool, what's next?" syndrome.  Only took 20 minutes this time!

I know, I know, I'm annoyed by it myself. It's technically even very illogical that one release raises the probability of aanother release. When there are two releases announced one after another I'm completely freaking out, that's it.

 

Well, let's focus on what we've just got. I mean, it's fantastic what we've got!

[Naïve Old Fart 12,142]

6 hours ago, Incanus said:

Complete E.T. and CEO3K coming! Nirvana!

 

In 2017, Christmas officially arrived on 30th August.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,269]

You mean the 30th?

[Bilbo 4,045]

Oh double wow! 

 

I dont onw either OST. I've been holding out for these reissues. 

[Manakin Skywalker 5,729]

2 hours ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Oh double wow! 

 

I dont onw either OST. I've been holding out for these reissues. 

Same here.

 

Honestly I'm not that familiar with ET or CEOT3K, so I was just going through some of the highlights to familiarize myself with the feelings of both. I'm sure everyone here already noticed this years ago, but I recognized what sounds almost exactly like the 'Sith motif' from ROTS; it plays a few times at the very beginning. An instant anchor to hook me into the score.

 

EDIT: Just realized this was the CE3K thread! 

 

[rough cut 1,783]

Along with the E.T. tidbits, this is also great news.

 

Even though CE3K isn't my favourite soundtrack to listen to, there are a few cues I find enjoyable, the Finale especially.

 

It'll be interesting to see how they solve the "inside the mothership" dilemma.

[phbart 670]

So, my instincts about CE3K were right after all, Jay.

 

Now, I must admit E.T. caught me completly by surprise, given that the OST would already see a release with the 4K Blu-ray.

 

I hope I'm not dreaming about all this...

[crumbs 15,762]

Oh my gosh! Complete E.T., complete Close Encounters, a new Star Wars score and a new Spielberg drama score... all in the next 3.5 months! What a time to be alive. Certainly dulls any disappointment of Williams passing on Ready Player One (which makes perfect sense if he wanted a break before starting Star Wars IX).

 

Huge thanks to @La La Land Records and Mike Matessino. I know you're all tireless behind the scenes lobbying for these scores, we couldn't be more grateful of all the work you do.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,142]

5 hours ago, Stefancos said:

You mean the 30th?

 

Rectified. I was going by GMT. I'll give you that one.

[mstrox 7,281]

HOT DOG

[Bilbo 4,045]

2 minutes ago, mstrox said:

HOT DOG

 

Onions, ketchup, and mustard please. Can I get a Coke Zero with that too?

[mstrox 7,281]

Sorry, Coke Zero doesn't exist anymore.  You'll have to have a Coke Zero Sugar instead, or if you're willing to settle, an expansion of CE3K.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,142]

Coke Zero Sugar is alive and well, in Blighty, and bloody awful it is, too!

 

 

9 minutes ago, mstrox said:

HOT DOG

 

#Aaaaah hot dog

I took her love at seventeen

A little late, these days, it seems #

[Bilbo 4,045]

Coke Zero still exists in Ireland.

 

Just give me something that isn't Diet Coke.

 

Expanded CE3K? Urgh, I'll stick to my superior OST presentation! 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,142]

Just now, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Coke Zero still exists in Ireland.

 

Just give me something that isn't Diet Coke.

 

Pepsi Max is better.

 

Just now, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Expanded CE3K? Urgh, I'll stick to my superior OST presentation! 

 

Get thee to a nunnery!

[Bilbo 4,045]

Just now, Richard said:

 

Pepsi Max is better.

 

 

Get thee to a nunnery!

 

Pffft, Pepsi. I only drink that when a place doesn't sell Coke. "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi ok?" "Sure, I don't have any money, is the Monopoly kind ok?"

[crumbs 15,762]

I leave this thread for ten minutes and I'm already lost.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,142]

4 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

 

Pffft, Pepsi. I only drink that when a place doesn't sell Coke. "We don't have Coke, is Pepsi ok?" "Sure, I don't have any money, is the Monopoly kind ok?"

 

Dr. Pepper? R. White's? 7Up? Sprite? Mountain Dew? Irn Bru?

[Disco Stu 15,514]

My preferred soda is caffeine free Coke Zero, which is really hard to find sometimes since I don't live in Utah.

[Quintus 5,912]

What was wrong with this one again:

 

 

A brilliant album which has served me well for years. All the music I want is on there.

[Smeltington 1,806]

3 hours ago, rough cut said:

It'll be interesting to see how they solve the "inside the mothership" dilemma.

 

I'm not very familiar with the Close Encounters score... I've been waiting for a release like this one to get into it    So, what's the story with Inside the Mothership?

[mstrox 7,281]

10 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

My preferred soda is caffeine free Coke Zero, which is really hard to find sometimes since I don't live in Utah.

 

If Caffeine Free Diet Mt. Dew existed anywhere in my area, I'd sell my house and live in that store.

 

 

[Disco Stu 15,514]

Fuckin' Mormons, hogging all the caffeine free sodas.

[ymenard 61]

I can now use the Collector's Edition disc as a mirror!

[Corellian2019 456]

32 minutes ago, Quintus said:

What was wrong with this one again:

 

 

A brilliant album which has served me well for years. All the music I want is on there.

 

It is a brilliant album, and certainly generous for its time, but it was constrained by the limits of running times on just one CD; there were film versions, sweeteners, and a few whole cues that were not included

[rough cut 1,783]

36 minutes ago, Smeltington said:

 

I'm not very familiar with the Close Encounters score... I've been waiting for a release like this one to get into it    So, what's the story with Inside the Mothership?

 

Since there are different cuts of the movie, with and without scenes inside the mothership, there also exists alternate musical versions.

[Jay 43,880]

1 hour ago, Quintus said:

What was wrong with this one again:

 

 

A brilliant album which has served me well for years. All the music I want is on there.

 

 

There's nothing "wrong" with it and no one is taking it away from you.  It's simply not complete (just watch the film, there is music in it that has never been put on CD), and this one is.  Plus, who knows how many interesting early compositions were recorded that got replaced by revisions that no one has heard for 40 years?  On top of that, it will sound better than ever before.

[Disco Stu 15,514]

Heh, Lee thinks he has the glasses from They Live on  

[Quintus 5,912]

I watched Close Encounters last week actually, I never noticed any music which I wanted and didn't have. This is the best music in the film anyway:

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,269]

Did you enjoy the film?

[Quintus 5,912]

Yeah. 

 

[OneBuckFilms 483]

1 hour ago, Quintus said:

What was wrong with this one again:

 

 

A brilliant album which has served me well for years. All the music I want is on there.

Nothing Wrong with it, but more masterpiece is more masterpiece and very welcome. Love this release.

[Koray Savas 2,255]

Quint is the new Thor!

[Xander Harris 8,452]

8 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Close Encounters is actually a better movie than Star Wars.

 

I'll take the movie with suspense and wonder and leaving annoying women for an alien spaceship over the the movie with Harrison Ford arguing with Carrie Fisher in a dumpster with a guy in a gorilla suit making weird noises in the background.