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I also started rewatching the entire series from the beginning and i absolutely agree on you! WE NEED more music released from this amazing first season...
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I also started rewatching the entire series from the beginning and i absolutely agree on you! WE NEED more music released from this amazing first season...
100% thumbs up on MORE Lost music. I would happily fork over for a multi-disc box set if it had more of the music from all seasons AND the famed symphony.
I listen to the cds already out a LOT and never get tired of the creativity Giacchino put into that body of work.
More please!
Mick
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100% Agree.
Would gladly buy additional music releases of Lost music including Deluxe Editions, "Additional Music from Season ___," The Lost Symphony, Lost Solo Piano Music, the performances with full orchestra and choir, etc.
There are some great gentle Oceanic 6 variations from season 5 that never made the score release.
It's telling that the final season, even with 4 CDs covering it, still has some absolutely wonderful unreleased music.
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I don't recall all of the neat unreleased bits I noticed the last time I watched the series, but I would absolutely be there for any new releases Varese may be kind enough to give us. I wonder, though, since they would've had sales figures for all of the previous releases to guide them in deciding where to place the limit on The Last Episodes and that set has been hanging around for some time (particularly this long after the end of the series, with the attendant waning of widespread interest), if that last set hasn't been a bit of a soft seller.
Regardless, any additional music would be tops in my book. And CD-quality versions of the performances with full orchestra and choir would be--not to hit it too much on the nose--divine.
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Apr 15, 2012 - 7:48 PM
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DeputyRiley
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On the Non-Film Score Discussion side of the board, a cool dude asked me for my opinion of favorite album, or the one that I most recommend. This is what I came up with:
Lost Season 1
Lost Season 2
Lost Season 4
For sure, all the other albums for the other seasons are stellar, but I would pick these three if I had to be...um, stuck on an island or something.
The first one has such wonderful first iterations of the show's powerful recurring character's themes...including my favorite versions of Locke's theme ("Crocodile Locke") and Kate's theme ("Kate's Motel"). "Credit Where Credit Is Due," "Win One For the Reaper," and "Parting Words" all set the standard and blueprint for the emotional sound of the show, and set the bar of quality as high as possible right out of the gate. The first season disc also has some of my favorite electronic passages and moments, best evidenced in "The Eyeland," "Me and My Big Mouth," and "Hollywood and Vines." A terrific album.
The Season 2 CD has some awesome moments, too, and this one is great at capturing the primal energy and action music of the show. "The Tribes Merge" is one of my favorite all-time cues from the series (the way this cue played against the imagery was just brilliant -- no dialog, no sound, just music accompanying the brutal montage of the main cast and Tailies collision) and is just awesomely savage. "The Final Countdown" and "Peace Through Superior Firepower" are a twin assault of amazing Giacchino action and suspense music. Makes my hair stand on end every time. "Mess It All Up," featuring one of Hurley's themes, is in my opinion one of the most delicate and lovely score moments from all CDs and indeed the show itself. A beautiful string melody. "A New Trade" is a terrific statement of Sayid's theme, one I really like. Tracks 20-25 make up a collection of outstanding cues from one of the best-scored season finales in the show's run, and not one of those six tracks is weak. Finally, "The Gathering" is exceptionally lovely...
My third choice is the Season 4 CD. This one has the best action music in the series -- "Keamy Away From Him" and "Bobbing For Freighters" are the two best full-blooded orchestral thrill rides of the series. "Landing Party" is the show doing what it does best -- soaring emotional music that start the waterworks. "Giving Up the Ghost" is the perfect way to start a Lost CD. "Hoffs-Drawlar" is so unusual, so eerie, so esoteric that it turns brilliant in my opinion. It just kind of meanders along to its own mysterious direction, and for some reason I find it fascinating. This season 4 CD contains the cue "The Constant" from Desmond's famous time-traveling romantic adventure, and is worth getting just for this cue alone. Finally, "Hostile Negotiations" features the underscore to the heartbreaking scene where Keamy kills Ben's daughter Alex. As soon as I saw that scene when it aired, featuring a tragic representation of Ben's theme, I crossed my fingers tight that it would make it to the CD.
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Apr 15, 2012 - 8:22 PM
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DeputyRiley
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I'm making it official: DeputyRiley knows Lost. All bow before him!
There is certainly fierce knowledgeable competition around here, but I will admit that if anyone wants to talk Lost, Friday the 13th, Seinfeld or Marco Beltrami, I'm your man. Or Timothy Olyphant, or J.J. Abrams, or Joss Whedon, or the Saw films, or ER, or Felicity, or Emiliana Torrini, or the Scream movies, or Frasier, or Friends, or the hotness that is Amy Acker, Eliza Dushku, Kate Beckinsale...but mostly the first four things. Oh, and I am a huge nerd. But enough about me.
Following a recent discussion with an even cooler dude myself ( ), I just ordered the Season One and Last Episodes albums from Varese. I figured I'd start at the bookends and work my way in.
That's actually an interesting approach. Start with the bread, then move on to the PB&J. I'm very curious to hear about this Lost musical journey you're about to embark on. Keep us posted! And if you don't keep us posted, than at least keep me posted! And if you don't keep me posted, well...buzz off, creep.
And how effing cool would a box set of ALL Lost music be?
Umm, very effing cool? Would be the greatest news since La La's Friday box.
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Apr 15, 2012 - 8:30 PM
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losher22
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There is certainly fierce knowledgeable competition around here, but I will admit that if anyone wants to talk Lost, Friday the 13th, Seinfeld or Marco Beltrami, I'm your man. Or Timothy Olyphant, or J.J. Abrams, or Joss Whedon, or the Saw films, or ER, or Felicity, or Emiliana Torrini, or the Scream movies, or Frasier, or Friends, or the hotness that is Amy Acker, Eliza Dushku, Kate Beckinsale...but mostly the first four things. Oh, and I am a huge nerd. But enough about me.
I might have you beat on Seinfeld, Friends, and being a nerd - time will tell. But I'll let you wear the Star Wars medal for now.
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So this is how I've been watching the show while simultaneously listening to the music lately...for anyone wishing to gain an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of Giacchino's music for the show and its innumerable themes, I recommend this method. Thanks to this board for first tipping me off to the main webpage I will mention -- I can't remember who it was, I wanna say Giacchino-fan or Brad Dorfman, forgive me for forgetting but it was discussed in some previous thread -- the page helps immensely! 
First of all, before I started the series with the Pilot episode in season 1, I took a look at this link:
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Musical_themes
(expand/show the contents link at the top of the page for a full listing of themes by category)
There are a number of links at this site with musical clips of themes on the show, from character themes, island themes, mystery themes, action themes, etc. It can be pretty overwhelming, so just to begin with, I did a run-through of each main character and listened to the clip featuring their respective theme(s). Often a main character will have more than one theme. This gave me a overview of what each character's theme sounded like so that it would sound familiar when it came up in any given episode.
Then I began watching the series episode-by-episode, my second time through the entire show since it first aired. Before I watch each episode, I consult the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Original_Television_Soundtracks
Since I own each season's Varese release, the above link lets me know which cues are featured in each episode. So before I begin a new episode, I check the above link to give me a heads-up on a cue that will be featured in the following episode that I can examine on CD. Then, while I watch the episode, of course I note all music, but I particularly pay attention to the CD cues featured.
As I work through the series, I hear various pieces of music that aren't on the CDs, and manage to find them on the first link I provided above using educated guesses and the different theme categories. From time to time I also hear recurring musical pieces in the show that seem to be recurring themes...for example, a mystery theme for the Others used in Season 3...if I want to, I can check the first link provided above and look up mystery theme (by season)...there are many ways to do it, and it depends on each person how they want to research the music, but that link pretty much has all the information you could want. Plus, for each theme listed, whether it be a character theme, mystery theme, island theme etc, at the bottom of the individual theme's page there is usually a section called Variations that indicates all CD cues that contain this particular theme and its variations.
It may sound complicated, but once you look through the first link provided above in some detail and once you start watching the show, you figure out how to use the two resources combined to understand the show's remarkably complex material in a handy way. Additionally, if you do have any of the Varese CDs, you can hear these cues in question isolated and in glorious sound.
Finally, I have been going about my days listening to a massive Lost playlist, just to hear the music even more and all of the themes sink in. It's great fun to listen to the CD cues because you can hear all of the different themes interweaving and countering each other sometimes, as they do on the show of course.
So far it's a lot of fun! Very educational and truly a fascinating series of music to listen to.
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