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Jan 16, 2014 - 3:24 PM
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Tom Servo
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Finally got the box set, my girlfriend gave it to me for our year and a half anniversary.
Listened to the first two scores. Absolutely love the first score. I expected Lethal Weapon 2 to be my favorite, but must admit I find it a bit disappointing. While the action tracks are great, the theme for the bad guys dominates the score a bit too much which makes a feel a bit too repetitive.
Looking forward to the third one, it was the first soundtrack I ever owned.
I tend to go back and forth between whether the first or second score is my favorite, but both actually have tracks I skip. On Lethal Weapon, it's those ambient sound design-type cues such as "The Hunsacker Story" and "Hummingbird Treatment", and on LW 2 it's tracks 7, 8 and 9, which do get a little repetitive. By skipping these tracks both score make for tighter, more cohesive and still very powerful listens. With or without these tracks, I think the first two scores are the best for the series.
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Mar 21, 2014 - 9:14 AM
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Tom Servo
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I bit the ammo & ordered this yesterday, hopefully to arrive soon.
I can't wait to be able to read this thread & play along, its been bloody torturous
waiting to be able to get this!
Anyone have any new thoughts on the Riggs/Murtaugh saga, lately?
It's still a set with many rewards to return for, in each of the scores. After these months of listening, I find that LW1 might just eke out ahead of LW2 as my favorite of the four, but then LW2 features just one stellar moment after another. In LW2, however, the music underscoring the "Stilt House" sequence all the way through to the last scene with Riggs & Murtaugh is probably the most compelling and strongest dramatic musical sequence in the series.
LW3 for me ranks last in terms of the scores, but not that it's bad, they're only four to rank! There are great highlights in the LW3 score for sure, but I don't find it as engaging a listen for its length as the others. I pared down the third and fourth scores to 70 minute listens each, but with LW3 I went back and pared it down further, cutting another 10 minutes. LW4 works well as a 70+ listen due to all that great thematic material Kamen is juggling from cue to cue. Whether it's the new Chinese bad guy theme, the new action theme or one of the returning themes, he's always got something interesting happening musically in that score.
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Mar 21, 2014 - 10:23 AM
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LeHah
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I got this box a little late and only skimmed this thread, but I found something interesting in the set that I didn't see mentioned here?
In the opening cue for LW2, there is a brief respite in the music where you can hear a lot of background noise. It sounds like people talking in the recording booth (its super distant and I only noticed it because I had headphones on) which I thought was a little odd but interesting, certainly doesn't detract from the material any.
That said I've only given the first two scores a listen (am purposely holding off listening to 3 and 4 for rainy days) and these alone make the box worth a listen.
I'm a bit of an odd duck when it comes to Kamen, in that I either truly adore it beyond what most people could consider sane or reasoned (his saxophone concerto, Three Musketeers, Die Hard 2, License To Kill) while others leave me totally uninterested (Die Hard, Robin Hood, Die Hard 3) and the first two LW scores seem to land firmly between those two, which is a new thing to me. Some of the tracks here are KILLER though, and I'm especially fond of that "Riggs" cut from the original LW2 album.
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