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Since I was caught up in various anniversary celebrations yesterday (family birthday AND Doctor Who) I didn't get time to post this.
20 years ago the Star Wars Anthology 4 CD set came out. (I think I found out about it and purchased it in early December.) I'd have bought it for the final duel from Jedi alone.
I know we're swimming in astonishingly complete and wonderfully produced soundtrack releases every day now. There have even been more complete CDs of Star Wars since then.
But these were special. For one thing I don't recall anything similar ever being done before this. For another it's Star Wars (at a time when "all Star Wars all the time was at a definite ebb). And finally there is nothing about this set that didn't just cry out how much love went into it. It is still gorgeous.
Thanks to all that worked on this a kind of long time ago probably not very far away.
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At first I was a bit confused at the juxtaposition of a story about music from the "Star Wars" films and the graphic from "Star TREK," until I realized that that was the avatar of the person posting it! And then I chuckled!
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Twenty years already?
Wow, I'm depressed now. 
I remember drooling over this set for a long time before I was finally able to get it. Good memories!
-Rick O.
You're depressed?
I remember working day and night a THEt MUSIC SOURCE in Seattle putting it together in time for the the release date and sending the dats off to NICK REDMAN for review..
Oh god, I feel old.
:-)
Ford A. Thaxton
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Yeah I was in my senior year of college in RI perusing a new record store when I came upon it . It felt like striking gold when you weren't looking. Back before the internet... What a time it was for a collector. Back when collecting really was work pounding the pavement... Today just a few click of the keys.
Oddly enough - though I wasn't in college - I actually bought the Anthology while on a family vacation in Newport, RI circa 1997, so this little anecdote struck a nostalgic chord. One of my first major soundtrack purchases, I think - along with "Songs in the Key of Springfield" which I also bought that day. A tremendous box of treasures. I still enjoy it, and find the attendant notes and essays as enjoyable and readable as they were the first time I went through them.
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Nov 24, 2013 - 1:54 PM
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Thor
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Nice to see that we all have stories about this.
I first discovered the box on a school trip to Paris in 1995. It was on a shelf in the huge FNAC store. I was totally taken by it (my film music passion was relatively new), but it was too expensive at the time. A few months later, maybe a year, I had saved up enough to order it from a Norwegian mail order company. A friend of mine had just gotten a licence and a car, so we drove down to the post office during a mid break and picked it up. I still remember unwrapping it with total excitement in the locker area of the school.
Unfortunately, the glue of the booklet started to wear off after just a week or two, but no biggie. It was -- and still is -- one of the greatest film music sets of all time, IMO, and a rare case where I actually prefer the expanded versions over the previous album versions (which I never really got in the first place).
I can't remember if I had started my FSM subscription prior to or just after I got this box, but it was one of the first times I encountered the name Lukas Kendall (who wrote the liner notes). There's a man to be reckoned with, I thought. 
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Nov 24, 2013 - 2:22 PM
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Michael24
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I was with my parents shopping at Costco one day (back when Costco actually had a good, sizable selection of music) when I stumbled across the Anthology. Up to that point, all I had were cassette copies of my dad's LPs for the first two films, and nothing for the third. I grabbed a copy and ran back to my parents, begging and pleading with them to buy it, which they did. I remember getting home and immediately listening to it as I poured over the liner notes. Obviously, I was into film scores before then, but it was sort of a more casual interest and I didn't have a lot on CD. But it was with the Anthology that my interest really began to start climbing. It was an amazing set that I got a lot of mileage out of.
In 2002, I supplanted it with the 1997 two-disc releases, which are now my go-to source for the scores. I haven't listened to the Anthology in a long time, but I still have it proudly on display with my collection.
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Nov 24, 2013 - 2:30 PM
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Thor
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I was with my parents shopping at Costco one day (back when Costco actually had a good, sizable selection of music) when I stumbled across the Anthology. Up to that point, all I had were cassette copies of my dad's LPs for the first two films, and nothing for the third. I grabbed a copy and ran back to my parents, begging and pleading with them to buy it, which they did. I remember getting home and immediately listening to it as I poured over the liner notes. Obviously, I was into film scores before then, but it was sort of a more casual interest and I didn't have a lot on CD. But it was with the Anthology that my interest really began to start climbing. It was an amazing set that I got a lot of mileage out of.
In 2002, I supplanted it with the 1997 two-disc releases, which are now my go-to source for the scores. I haven't listened to the Anthology in a long time, but I still have it proudly on display with my collection.
For me, it's the opposite. I also got the three 2CD sets (the 'book' cover versions), but they were just too C&C for me. I found myself listening to the Anthology CD's 99% of the time. So I sold the 2CD sets. Of course, the box is still on display, and so are the CD's, since I've transferred them to my iTunes.
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I wish Nick and Ford could get to work on a proper six-movie-anthology update.
Ford, what kind of circumstances would have to occur? What "planets would have to align," if you know what I mean, to make another great box like the Arista happen, one more time, for the complete (so far) JW/SW saga?
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