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Community => Other Toy Lines => Well of the Souls => Topic started by: Matt on April 8, 2008, 03:34 PM
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Indy gets a release date at last: (http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=1078)
It is one of the most anticipated film scores of the year and next month all will finally be revealed as John Williams’ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is released on CD on May 20th, just a couple of days before the film hits screens worldwide. The score of course marks the legendary composer’s fourth adventure with Spielberg, Lucas and Henry Jones Jr. and fans can hardly wait to hear what Williams has come up with. The score will be made available by Concord Records, a jazz, blues and classical label which previously released Gustavo Santaolalla’s Babel. No tracklisting or artwork has been revealed as yet, but the release date is tantalisingly close. Early reports suggest Williams has stuck closely to the style of the original scores, which Concord are apparently due to re-release separately at a later date. The score is also the first to feature the brand new hi-tech keyboard instrument, the ‘Continuum Fingerboard’, a keyboard that pre-empts where the performers fingers will go using complex sensors. Although the device provided ambient sound for the likes of Superman Returns and Williams’ War of the Worlds, Crystal Skull marks the first time it has been used as an instrument.
All will of course become clear on May 20th as the score hits stores; the usual online retailers are already providing pre-order services, but there’s sure to be plenty to go around!
This link (http://www.jwfan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=952&Itemid=1) says that the other soundtracks will be re-released at a later date, which, if they're expanded versions, would be really swell.
More on the Continuum Fingerboard:
'Indiana Jones' movie to use professor's musical invention (http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2008/03/05/News/indiana.Jones.Movie.To.Use.Professors.Musical.Invention-3251800.shtml)
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Figures. . . the day after I make this post, Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Kingdom-Crystal-Skull/dp/B00171MNM4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207755059&sr=1-3) updates with the artwork and track-listing.
Artwork above, track-list below.
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1. Raiders March
2. Call of the Crystal
3. The Adventures of Mutt
4. Irina's Theme
5. The Snake Pit
6. The Spell of the Skull
7. A Whirl Through Academe
8. The Journey to Akator
9. "Return"
10. The Jungle Chase
11. Orellana's Cradle
12. Grave Robbers
13. Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold
14. Secret Doors and Scorpions
15. Oxley's Dilemma
16. Ants!
17. Temple Ruins and the Secret Revealed
18. The Departure
19. Finale
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I don't know, those are pretty vague. Nothing like "Qui-Gon's Death!" or whatber it was called!
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I don't know, those are pretty vague. Nothing like "Qui-Gon's Death!" or whatber it was called!
I remember that when i bought the soundtrack and was so annoyed by it. :-\ I believe it was "Qui-Gon's Noble End"
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Yeah, I know. Nothing that bad. Just wanted to cover my ass from the hyper-sensitive spoiler babies.
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Just wanted to cover my ass
Homophobe.
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Your label of me as a "homophobe" is inaccurate. The term is completely wrong. Phobia is a fear, but people who believe homosexuality is a sin are not "afraid" of gay people or even of homosexuality itself. We disapprove of the act but we're not afraid of it.
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:D
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I don't know, those are pretty vague. Nothing like "Qui-Gon's Death!" or whatber it was called!
I remember that when i bought the soundtrack and was so annoyed by it. :-\ I believe it was "Qui-Gon's Noble End"
15. Qui-Gon's Noble End
16. The High-Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral
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15.5 Qui-Gon gets a double edged light saber run through his chest.
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16. Anakin's Bad Acting Will Ruin This Movie.
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16. Anakin's Bad Acting Will Ruin This Movie.
I thought that was a track from the Attack of the Clones soundtrack.
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A common mistake. It was written and recorded by Johnny Williams for TPM, but Ben Burtt decided to cut it out so that it didn't overlap with his cool Fambaa fart sounds, then dropped it into AOTC at a complelely inappropriate moment.
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19 tracks? Damn, this'll be one long CD if it's anything like the SW soundtracks.
I like the title "Ants!" for some reason.
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Soundtrack samples are up at amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Kingdom-Crystal-Skull/dp/B00193EGNY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1210174484&sr=8-3)
Bewarned, many of the track titles can be described as SPOILERS!
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Has anyone picked up the KOTCS soundtrack yet? How does it compare to the other three Indy movie soundtracks? Is this one of Williams's better soundtracks? Anything memerable?
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After listening to the soundtrack it's very much in keeping with the style of Raiders of the Lost Ark. There are alot of pieces taken directly from that soundtrack. It's a very quiet feeling soundtrack with occasional Indy, Marian and well of the souls pieces spliced here and there. There is even some mariachi type music in there. The alien pieces remind me of the scene in ROTS where Palpy is confessing his sith envolvment to Anakin or when the Ark is burning a hole in its crate. All in all the music does fit in with the other Indy soundtracks.
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Oddly, the music really let me down. Do I remember Mutt's Theme? Nope. The Russians? Nope. Like the prequel soundtracks, Williams is too subtle these days. The music doesn't seem harcater driven, but action driven.