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  General Discussion: Jaws Fans - LP or Film Version? John Williams   Last Post 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 2:08 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I just picked up (out of the dollar bin) the CD with the film version of Jaws. It clocks in at around 51 minutes.

I have had for many years the Jaws LP, also snagged from the dollar bin, which I think runs about 35 minutes and has some content different from the film.

Do Williams fans or Jaws fans in particular tend to prefer either the album version or the film version? Or do you program a combination?

 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 2:16 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

I prefer the album version, but if I were to make a playlist (which I haven't), I would probably add "Father & Son" from the film version, which is absent from the album recording.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 2:25 PM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

The LP is a perfect soundtrack album, and shows Williams' top notch skill at creating a listening experience.

But with the release of Intrada's brilliant issue of the complete score, I tend to listen to a mix of the LP and the film score, timing at around 45 minutes.

But the original album program is hard to beat.

 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 2:48 PM   
 By:   Moviedrone   (Member)

Until the Intrada it was always the LP, although it's still a fantastic distillation.

 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 3:33 PM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

The idea of adding Father & Son is a good one, but the original album is still the definitive version for me, though I've recently enjoyed the Intrada film tracks and also the Varese re-recording. I have to have the original for Tourists on the Menu alone, perfect in its fuller version, and the first time I noticed a more complete musical presentation on a soundtrack. And the sequencing of the original album is for me ideal.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 3:37 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

There is only one soundtrack for me, and that is the original LP/CD release. None of the others exist in my mind (even if I owned them once upon a time).

 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 4:13 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I give the LP version an "A+". It flows brilliantly. I really can't get into the film version.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 4:44 PM   
 By:   TJ   (Member)

There is only one soundtrack for me, and that is the original LP/CD release. None of the others exist in my mind (even if I owned them once upon a time).

I would suggest the Intrada. CD2 is the original album which sounds better than ever.
 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 5:19 PM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

I've only listened to the LP version once and was really high at the time. I don't remember much besides loving the extended version of "Out to Sea" and that it was the longest LP program I've ever heard. Oh, and Spielberg's whistle was really enjoyable too. I can't remember the track (probably because I was high) but it was good.

I need to give it another spin.

 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 8:13 PM   
 By:   Josh "Swashbuckler" Gizelt   (Member)

Now that the film score actually sounds like something, I like both. When the Intrada 2CD came out, I alternated between the score and the LP program for over a month.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 9:45 PM   
 By:   simon377   (Member)

I'd never owned the album versions until the magnificent Intrada release. I prefer the Barrel Chase and Shark Cage Fugue/Preparing the Cage from the album version but much prefer the film version of Man Against Beast (unless someone can convince me otherwise) which is my favourite cue from either album. Both End Titles now sound superb.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 11:45 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

The film version --- but only on INTRADA. (Sadly, the DECCA version sounds like it was recorded underwater {pun kind of intended}.)

The LP version is excellent as well, but once INTRADA cleaned up the film tracks, I was hooked on those performances. But like the posters above pointed out, as a bonus, INTRADA's 2-CD version contains the album version too, so you get the best of both worlds!! smile

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 27, 2016 - 5:08 AM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

The film version --- but only on INTRADA. (Sadly, the DECCA version sounds like it was recorded underwater {pun kind of intended}.)


I have the Varese conducted by McNeely and both the audio and the performance are first rate.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 27, 2016 - 5:11 AM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

The film version --- but only on INTRADA. (Sadly, the DECCA version sounds like it was recorded underwater {pun kind of intended}.)


I have the Varese conducted by McNeely and both the audio and the performance are first rate.


Yes, that's a very good performance and recording!

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 27, 2016 - 12:53 PM   
 By:   clayhenry   (Member)

I love both, but I will always prefer the LP version. It was one of the first soundtrack albums I bought when I was a kid, and I've listened to it so many times over the last 41 years that I can hum almost all tracks in their entirety.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 27, 2016 - 12:56 PM   
 By:   clayhenry   (Member)

I love both, but I will always prefer the LP version. It was one of the first soundtrack albums I bought when I was a kid, and I've listened to it so many times over the last 41 years that I can hum almost all tracks in their entirety.

 
 Posted:   Jul 28, 2016 - 7:07 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

I’ve always had a problem with “Music From” recordings. Jaws is an exception. I dearly love the LP. I’m not even sure how to describe it, but it seems “tighter”. I agree with others that its main issue is some missing tracks. My other issue with it is the track arrangement, but there is a good flow to it as it is.
I think it attests to Mr. Williams’ skill at arranging for the most enjoyable listening experience for the general public. The Eiger Sanction is another good example. When arranged chronologically correct, nearly all the action cues occur too early, so the LP as released works quite well.
Of course, Intrada got it right.
Which do I prefer? The LP is my first love, but I tend to split between it and the Intrada; probably 60/40.
 
 Posted:   Jul 28, 2016 - 8:15 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

The soundtrack LP is a classic, and I actually DO own the LP (and the LP version released on CD by Intrada).

I prefer by far to listen to the film version though, altogether a more interesting listen containing some of my all time favorite Williams' cues (like "Into The Estuary", for example).

The original LP was a well done souvenir album, but even at the time when it was the only thing available, I felt it was too smoothened out, too "mainstream" in that it dropped a lot of the aggressive, Stravinsky-like writing, favoring the adventure type seafaring music.

So while it's nice to have both, no question that I far prefer the blood and guts film score over the nicened up soundtrack cut.

 
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