Which JW score contains the best expanded/unreleased material?

[natedog 7]

Up till now i've only listened to OST's but having purchased my first ever expanded release soundtrack in Minority Report, it got me thinking about other scores from Williams with previously unreleased music.

So I was wondering what is everyone's favourite expanded/unreleased score? And also are there any stand out tracks that you feel should have been included on the OST albums?

[crumbs 14,304]

For pending expansions, The Force Awakens, considering much of the unreleased 80-90 minutes of music is unknown (JW said he recorded 178 minutes in total, of which only about 93 minutes is available via the OST + FYC).

 

For scores already expanded, any of Return of the Jedi, Temple of Doom, Hook, Artificial Intelligence or The Lost World for the pure volume of incredible unreleased (even unused) music. My personal favourites being the latter two, considering the other 3 expansions are a complete mess in desperate need of MM's attention.

[Arpy 4,145]

The Lost World, simply because I didn't notice or really care for the score until the LLL release. Now it's some of my favourite film music and most played in the last three years since its release! 

[Holko 9,499]

Most of them. But in a lot of cases it's not just the individual highlights but the whole presentation, experience and structure that make complete scores heaps better than their OSTs.

[King Mark 3,625]

The 1997 Star Wars SE's

Harry Potter box set
Indiana Jones Box set

[Montre 79]

The Phantom Menace

[Jay 37,300]

The box sets for Star Wars (ok, those are individual 2CD sets), Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter are essential

 

So are Close Encounters & ET

 

Then I guess The Cowboys, Jaws, Superman, Jaws 2, 1941, Dracula, Empire of the Sun, Home Alone, Hook, Home Alone 2, AI, Minority Report are next

 

 

Best individual cues JW has written that he chose to not put on the OST album, but have turned up on expanded albums:

 

• Father and Son & Quint Meets His End from Jaws
• Stand By from Star Wars
• Navy Planes, Lost Squadron, Watching The Skies, The Cover-Up, Who Are You People, and Outstretched Hands from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Kryptonquake, Jonathan's Death, The Helicopter Sequence from Superman
• The Probe Scanner and Losing A Hand from The Empire Strikes Back
• In The Jungle, The Rolling Ball, The Book, To Nepal, The Medallion, Uncovering The Ark, The Airplane Fight, German Sub, The Nazi Hideout from Raiders of the Lost Ark 
• Stay With Me and End Credits from ET
• Fight in the Dungeon, Battle Plans, Faking the Code, Rebel Forces Captured, First Ewok Battle, Fight With TIE Fighters, The Ewok Battle, Leia Is Wounded, The Battle Rages, More Duel, The Explosion, Vader's Death, Through the Flames from Return of the Jedi
• Once In A Vial, Out Of Fuel, To Pankot Palace, Approaching The Stones, Short Round Escapes, Saving Willie, Short Round Helps, The Broken Bridge, British Relief from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Bringing Them Back from The Empire of the Sun
• the third Young Indy cue, Journey To Austria, The Austrian Way, Room In Flames, On The Tank, Wrong Choice Right Choice from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Listening To Carson & Walking Home from Home Alone
• The Bedroom, Looney Wendy, Hook's Entrance, Stop That Clock!!, Daddy Is Peter Pan?, The Death Of Rufio, The Sword Fight, Winning By A Hair, The End of Hook, Exit Music from Hook
• The Encased Mosquito, The History Lesson, The Coming Storm, The T-Rex Chase, Hungry Raptor from Jurassic Park
• Corporate Helicopters, Pain Of Glass, Reading The Map, Ludlow’s Speech, Monster On The Loose from The Lost World
• David Studies Monica, Monica’s Plan, Immaculate Heart, To Manhattan, The Specialist Visits from AI
• Harry’s Wish and Hagrid’s Entrance, Harry Gets His Wand, Hagrid’s Flashback, Lonely First Night, Fighting the Troll, Filch’s Fond Remembrance, The Dark Forest, Voldemort,Nimbus 2000, Family Portrait from Harry Potter 1
• Creating the Red Balls,  Presenting the Precogs, Don't Run John from Minority Report
• The Writing on the Wall, Quidditch Second Year, Petrified Colin, Petrified Hermione from Harry Potter 2
• Dumbledore’s Warning, The Big Doors, Brief Snow Scene, Dueling the Dementor, Reading the Map, The Confrontation Scene, The Rescue of Sirius from Harry Potter 3

 

[Bellosh 3,390]

A truly complete Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

 

Listening to the 2008 Concord release + bootleg tracks makes for a wonderful listen.

 

I think that Indy score just goes to so many different places thematically, that you really need the subtle progression of having every cue available.

[Joni Wiljami 1,206]

TOD

[Datameister 2,037]

This is where his big franchise-y scores tend to shine the best. TOD and the Potter scores are way high up there for me. The TPM UE gets a lot of flack, and rightfully so, but it does present a wealth of incredible writing not present on the OST. When we eventually get expanded releases for all the Star Wars prequels and sequels, there's going to be a lot of great stuff to discover.

 

Frankly, I can't think of a Williams expansion I've regretted purchasing. Some of them benefit more from expansion than the others, but as someone who's more into film scores than soundtrack albums per se, I really appreciate getting to hear the full scope of the composer's work on a project - or at least, closer to it than you get with a typical OST.

[rough cut 1,714]

Let's not forget Stanley & Iris: The Deluxe Edition, for the unreleased score to Pete 'N' Tillie!

 

Essental.

[Romão 2,274]

Not only for the previously missing music itself, but rather how that missing music really tied the whole score together, I would say Dracula and The Lost World are among the very best