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Dec 14, 2013 - 12:32 PM
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Tom Servo
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favorite tracks from Lethal Weapon:
11. "Drive to the dealer's House"; love this instrumental with 'jake and the fatman'esque sax 
21. "The Desert"; I like lengthy tracks and this one delivers plenty, could have easily been part of the Die Hard scores, very tense.
22. The "Riggs Escapes" second half of track 22, groovy and love the drum playing.
25. "SOB knows where I live" another funky track with some great sax
My general impression with the first Lethal Weapon is that Kamen, Clapton and Sanborn work marvelously well together, the sound could have sounded dated but the playing is great and feels improvised at times. I do like Roger more than I do Riggs music-wise.
The Kamen-only stuff is very close to Die Hard and definitely a taste of what was to come.
The "SOB knows where I live" track is great both in its film version and orchestra-only, it's really tough to choose between them. I kind of liked how on the Bacchus release of the score, with those added tracks, the film version with guitar and sax begins the "Mr Joshua" track but then the orchestra-only version is included near the end, after "The General's Car".
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Dec 15, 2013 - 8:22 PM
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DeputyRiley
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Having enjoyed the first three scores so much, I was surprised how much I disliked #4.
Maybe I was too tired to appreciate it after such a lot of listening.
Perhaps the composer and artists were a bit tired of it by then too?
It's possible you were suffering a LW fatigue, but no doubt there had to be some sort of fatigue also felt by Kamen and his crew on the 4th film. He does provide a great new balletic, action theme heard in both "Freighter" and "Freeway Chase", plus I happen to really like his Chinese theme, heard in "Money Montage". Additionally, the percussion elements are great, I love both the film and alternate versions of "Chinatown Chase" and there are some nice renditions of Riggs' theme featured in "Marriage Talk" and "Cemetery".
I agree with all of this re: Lethal Weapon 4. "Marriage Talk" and "Freighter" in particular are totally wonderful -- although I haven't made it to "Freeway Chase" yet -- can't wait! I am halfway through the fourth score and like it as much as any of the others, it's just as fresh and vibrant to me in a lot of parts. In addition to all the points made by Tom Servo above, I have to say that the buddy-comedy music in part 4 is the best of the series -- tracks like "Cell Phone" and "Don't Turn / Cute Shorts". And the buddy-comedy music is usually my least favorite part of these scores! Well, aside from the sax-heavy material. I could do without Butters' harmonica stuff, didn't care for that, but I love the bouncy, catchy material in those two tracks I just mentioned.
The action material on this set is amazing of course -- "We're Leaving" ... "Mulholland Chase" ... "Helicopters Approach / Helicopter Attack" ... "Gun Fight" ... but can I just say WOW the cue "Fire / Fire Battle" from the climax of Lethal Weapon 3 is vicious, barnstorming action material! Didn't realize its power in the film but hearing it on its own is a revelation. My favorite surprise action cue from the set, I think.
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Has anyone in the UK had this come without customs charges?
I received my set in a week, with no customs charges. Strangely, I'm still waiting for Defiance and Superman Returns, which was ordered separately and shipped first. So, I might get slapped with charges on that one.
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Has anyone in the UK had this come without customs charges?
I received my set in a week, with no customs charges. Strangely, I'm still waiting for Defiance and Superman Returns, which was ordered separately and shipped first. So, I might get slapped with charges on that one.
Same here. Recieved LW on Saturday but am still waiting for SR, Def and PA which was sent nearly a week earlier. I'm thinking it might be because LW was in a box and sailed straight through whereas SR et al are stuck with all the other Christmas parcels because it's in a jiffy. Fingers crossed.
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