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My copy arrived today and it is everything I hoped it would be. Nothing to be negative about. Just sit back and enjoy.
Yes!
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May 24, 2020 - 1:58 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I'm hoping my copy will arrive this week from Intrada (Mystery Men delayed it slightly).
Similar to what Ed says above, I remember the flack this score took, back when it was released, for not sounding like Star Wars or Jaws or Superman or E.T.
Having also gotten into JWs music through those type of scores, I'd also been grabbing his older LPs (The Reivers, Missouri Breaks, The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty) and hearing scores from their films too (Conrack, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing), so this musical style for The River was a welcome return to those style of scores and a chance to hear it first hand.
I've always loved it and the anticipation of hearing this new edition is both welcome and exciting.
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The River has always been a favourite of mine throughout the years. Seems a shame to think the Varèse version should now be forgotten or maybe picked on by some. It’s an old friend and sits proudly next to the expanded version on my CD rack. But what really p#sses me off royally, is the fact that The River logo on the expanded version isn’t centered correctly..... you may say so what, but to a design/illustrator it’s a bugbare....no ‘seriously though’, it’s a powerhouse of a release with the Alternative Ancestral Home track stealing my heart. Love it!
Paging Custom Covers Thread III to thread...
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Another Intrada box arrived today and this was first out of the starting gate from it.
What a joyous release this is.
I remember my 19 year old self buying the MCA LP and loving it. Just glorious JW Americana.
Then I bought the Varese CD reissue years later and thoroughly enjoyed that too.
And now, thanks to the miracle of modern science, I can not only listen to the original 37 minute album programme in sparkling new detail (what is that ticking/knocking percussion sound, in the opening 2 minutes of track 1, that sounds like a metronome gone nuclear), but I can hear the actual score versions that were used in the film (check out that 80s drum machine in the alt score cue - Leaving Home - that recalls Spacecamp) plus cool alt takes of tracks like the magnificent Ancestral Home.
You can never have too much new, or old, John Williams music.
Great work by everyone, thanks Intrada.
If you build them, I will buy 
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Less than 100 left at Intrada
Just snagged one.
you will not be disappointed
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Dec 31, 2023 - 5:36 AM
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Graham Watt
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This came in the other day and I'm a-lovin' it! I only ever had the LP way back, and it's in the Auld Country, so it's as if it never existed - except that every nuance of every groove of that LP is imprinted indelibly on my one remaining brain cell. I really love everything about this, from the rich Americana, the more homely guitar sounds, that beautiful sultry love theme... Just thinking, that last bonus track, the one with the awful '80s drum machine (sounds like "a Goldsmith experiment"), that was actually in the film, wasn't it? I guess the producers of the CD took it out of the main film prog because it would have really jarred with the rest of the score? If so, wise move.
I'm so glad that there are still hundreds of scores from ages ago on my wants list. For one thing I can check what's still available (haven't picked up the rest of the FSM releases from 1997 yet) and still get excited when the postman comes, and for another, I'm never disappointed when a new release is perhaps not what I'd have hoped for.
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