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Fun fact: the OP for this topic, Jason LeBlanc, shares credit in the “Intrada Special Thanks” section of the liner notes.
Is there a story here, Jason?
I assisted Mike when he was assembling the score, lots of phone calls and emails back and forth about the best way to fit everything including all the alternates on two discs. If you watched/listened to the video above of Mike chatting with Tim and Maurizio about assembly and how at one point "Attacking The Car" was not in the main program that was an idea we both had at about the same time as an assembly option.
What's funny is I kind of think the score DOES work better without the Attacking the Car cue, as omitting creates a longer buildup after The Intersection Scene until everything finally goes to hell in The Ferry Scene. But there were other concerns like there being 5 different versions of the Boston reunion and not wanting to present too many back to back in any spot so it ended up back in the main program, and of course it's never hard to complain about a score being complete and chronological, and all on one disc.
Anwyays I also helped looked over official spreadsheets that have to be filed with these things, and many months later I proofread the booklet before it went off to the presses
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Added to my listening experience: There were some scratches on DISC 1 along the edge, affecting the playback of track 23- Boston Street Finale, but seemed to have no effect on track 24- Closing Montage, and track 25- Epilogue (Film Version). A bit disappointing, as there seems to be no way to fix it.
Got mine today and sadly I seem to have the same issue. Scratch on the outside part of Disc 1 which my CD player/burner won't play or read to rip into iTunes... sent an email to Intrada. From what I have been able to listen to (earlier tracks seem ok) it's fabulous. The sound quality is amazing. totally worth it!
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I played disc 1 yesterday and it was fine. checked both discs and see no scratches. will check out disc 2 tomorrow.
I guess I lucked out.
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Intrada's customer service is impeccable. No sooner did I send off an email with the details (I also included photos) did they respond and had already shipped a replacement. Gotta say, incredibly impressed.
The tracks that I have listened to are flipping fantastic. What a terrific job Intrada! I was on the fence about getting this before it was released but I'm very happy I did. Wonderful presentation.
Kudos!!!
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Added to my listening experience: There were some scratches on DISC 1 along the edge, affecting the playback of track 23- Boston Street Finale, but seemed to have no effect on track 24- Closing Montage, and track 25- Epilogue (Film Version). A bit disappointing, as there seems to be no way to fix it.
Got mine today and sadly I seem to have the same issue. Scratch on the outside part of Disc 1 which my CD player/burner won't play or read to rip into iTunes... sent an email to Intrada. From what I have been able to listen to (earlier tracks seem ok) it's fabulous. The sound quality is amazing. totally worth it!
I had the same issue unfortunately and have contacted Intrada for a replacement, definitely seems like a manufacturing issue. My copy had been sitting unopened since it arrived in Monday (I ordered 5 cds and was saving this one for last) so if anyone hasn't checked their copy yet I would recommend they open it and take a look. Many thanks for the heads up David.
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I never had to be won over by either the film or the score, I thought they were both masterpieces immediately in 2005, but I'll join in to praise this amazing release.
I agree, the score works much better with the narrative flow restored in film order.
Williams's ability to capture relentless menace and sickening dread, almost entirely without major melodies, yet without ever feeling monotonous, is breathtaking. The sounds he gets out of the orchestra in this score are like nothing I've heard.
Enormous thanks to Intrada for giving this fantastic but neglected score in Williams's filmography a second life!
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I played disc 1 yesterday and it was fine. checked both discs and see no scratches. will check out disc 2 tomorrow.
I guess I lucked out.
listened to disc 2 and no problemo
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What can I say. It's already here. Things to do as droids go by.
Edit:
The digital input from the original score release from 15 years ago was used again for this production. Does this mean that the original session tapes would not necessarily have sounded better if dusted off and used to compile new input for this latest Intrada release? The point is, could a pristine image from the original tapes have sounded better still, because the inevitable thought that springs eternal is that this looks like it might possibly be the very last chance for the original session tapes to shine for the update. Is it conceivable those tapes might be pulled off the shelf to create some version further down the line? If the digital transfers from around 2005 don't require an update, what does that say about the current technology as compared to the tech used back then? It's like, no it's not worth the cumulative effort to work the original tapes anymore because the limit of A to D has been reached and if you were to go through all that trouble, the result would be marginal at best?
I've mulled over this idea of there being a point beyond which the analog tapes are no longer of any use a few times before hereabouts. Has that point been reached for the source to the John Williams score for Steven Spielberg's production of War Of The Worlds? If so, what is the value of the first generation source tapes? It's kind of a relevant idea, especially when British Airways won't ever again be flying the iconic Boeing 747. The idea of the definitive end of the road for something that you thought would always be around is what I'm basically getting at here.
By the way, is anyone having to "resend" their login request lately because it appears I'm being vetted by some external process that has only recently tagged itself to my online roaming?
Mainly because we had unedited 5.1 mix downs of the separate elements to work with, and all in 96k 24bit wav format, there would not have been any quality improvement if analog tapes had been transferred, which did not have mix downs on them anyway. Not to mention that Intrada would have had to pay for those transfers, which was a cost totally eliminated by Paramount simply giving me data that they had migrated.
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