The 2018 remastered CD adds the taiko drums back onto track 1, "Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith" and track 10, "Anakin's Dark Deeds." They're heard in the film but were left off the 2005 album.
I was just listening to those tracks again online and the drums help ENORMOUSLY. I need to pick up this CD.
I seem to remember there might have been a couple of other tracks on the 2018 remastered album that also had drums added back in, does anyone remember which tracks those were?
The original album had a very sudden edit into the the action music, before the main theme even played out. Has that been fixed? Or did they just add drums?
The original album had a very sudden edit into the the action music, before the main theme even played out. Has that been fixed? Or did they just add drums?
I believe they just restored the drums, I believe the track timings are identical.
I double dipped and bought this release. I like the addition of the drums, but is that enough to make it worth double dipping? I dunno. It does sound pretty good, but I don't recall it necessarily sounding much better than the original album. If you already own the original soundtrack, and just want the tracks with the drums added, have you thought about buying digital copies of the two tracks, and assembling a playlist?
I wish they'd gone one further and included the first minute of the cue - with drums only - rather than leaping in mid-action. That always felt like a dubious decision considering how powerful and unusual that opening sequence is!
I wish they'd gone one further and included the first minute of the cue - with drums only - rather than leaping in mid-action. That always felt like a dubious decision considering how powerful and unusual that opening sequence is!
I agree, I always loved that opening, but I suspect if they had changed the duration of the track, there would have been all sorts of legal issues, because it wouldn't be the album as Williams signed off on it. Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if the drums were added back in either by accident or surreptitiously by someone without permission.
If I recall correctly... I believe the whole idea behind these albums was to present the tracks as we are familiar with them from the previous releases, but each track has been reconstructed using the film takes. I'm not sure how many tracks in total that affects, but they're a nice (If not strange, or just plain wrong sounding in a few instances) addition to the collection if they can be found cheap enough.
No they only did that for episode one. There were some bonus tracks from Target I think and one or two separate downloads, but no 2-disc version.
Thank you, Mutant. I had seen B--tlegs of 'entended' versions of these scores, but they did not interest me. Oh well. I guess we will have to just wait and see.
No they only did that for episode one. There were some bonus tracks from Target I think and one or two separate downloads, but no 2-disc version.
That was Attack of the Clones with the unnamed bonus track* (on the back inlay, booklet, or CD itself), so good luck tracking that down from anyone trustworthy on eBay. I don't think there's a UPC distinguishing the difference between Target and regular versions.
* Some unofficially call it "On the Conveyor Belt", but I prefer "The Droid Factory".
I prefer the film mix for "1m3 Boys Into Battle" which is the first cue after the Main Titles. The album version is just one I've never liked.
The Old Republic game featured pretty much the entire cue of "1m3 Boys Into Battle".
I for one just like the expanded intended version of all three Prequels. I also have always preferred the film mixes for the scores instead of the album versions.
James if you are interested drop me an email bigt1981 at gmail and let me know who you are on this board.
No they only did that for episode one. There were some bonus tracks from Target I think and one or two separate downloads, but no 2-disc version.
That was Attack of the Clones with the unnamed bonus track* (on the back inlay, booklet, or CD itself), so good luck tracking that down from anyone trustworthy on eBay. I don't think there's a UPC distinguishing the difference between Target and regular versions.
* Some unofficially call it "On the Conveyor Belt", but I prefer "The Droid Factory".
The correct cue name for "On The Conveyor Belt" is "5m5 Finding The Conveyor" and 5m6 "The Conveyor Belt".
Here are the original cue names along with slate numbers for all three Prequel scores.
There are gaps in between the cues for AOTC and ROTS that's because that is for the tracked music that they did.
THE PHANTOM MENACE 1m2 Star Wars Main Title 1m3 The Arrival 1m4 Gas Leak 1m4a Droid Fight 1m5 Queen Amidala 1m6 The Droid Invasion 1m7 Introducing Jar Jar 1m8 Bubble World 1m9 Gone Fishin' 2m1 Darth Sidious 2m1a Monster's Back! 2m2 Theed Palace Arrival 2m3 You're Under Arrest 2m3a Take-Off 2m4 Intro Darth Maul 2m5 Arrival At Tatooine 2m7 I'm A Pilot You Know 2m10 Stealing Food 2m11 Through The Slave Quarters 3m1 Running Out Of Time 3m2 Are You A Jedi? 3m4 Kids At Play 3m5 It's Working! 3m6 The Sith Spacecraft 3m8 Watto's Big Deal 3m9 The Flag Parade 3m10 Start Your Engines 3m11 THe Race Begins 4m2 Anakin Defeats Sebulba 4m3 Anakin's Great Victory 4m5 Anakin Is Free 4m6 Darth and Qui-Gon 4m7-4m8 Coruscant Arrival 4m9 The Queen and Palpatine 5m1 High Council Meeting 5m2 The Senate Speech 5m3 Anakin's Test 5m4-5m5 The Chosen One 5m6 More Nute and Rune 5m7 Back To Naboo 5m8 The Gungans 5m9 Promoting Jar Jar 6m1 The Armies Face Off 6m2 The Battle Begins / Laser Fight 6m3 Take To Your Ships 6m4 The Big Army 6m4a The Fight Begins 6m5 The Droid Battle 6m6 Up The Wire 6m7 The Great Duel (Part 1) 6m7a The Great Duel (Part 2) / Crash Landing 6m8-6m9 Qui-Gon's Noble End 6m10 Battlehsip Blows Up 6m11 The Death Of Darth Maul 7m1 After The Victory 7m1a Qui-Gon's Funeral 7m2 Augie's Great Municipal Band (also called The Parade) 7m3 End Credits
ATTACK OF THE CLONES 1m1 Star Wars Main Title 1m2 Arrival At Coruscant 1m3 Thwarted Attempt 1m4 The Meeting Of Anakin and Padmé 1m5 She Hardly Recognized Me 1m6 Zam's Dirty Trick 1m7a Zam Chase (Part 1) 1m7b Zam Chase (Part 2) 2m1 Zam Is Eliminated 2m2 Palpatine's Plotting 2m3 Departure 2m5 The Library Scene 2m6 Lunch and The Younglings 2m7 Approaching Naboo Palace 3m1 Finding Kamino 3m2 Visiting The Prime Minister 3m3 The First Kiss 3m4 Interior Tipoca City 3m5 The Meadow Scene 3m6 The Meeting With Fett 3m7 The Dinner Scene 3m8 Rainy Ramp and Anakin's Nightmare 4m1 The Jango Fett Fight 4m2 Watto Describes Mother's Fate 4m3 The Spare Canister Caper 4m4 The Arrival At Tatooine 4m5 Obi-Wan Eavesdropping 4m6 Rescuing Mother 4m7 Exacting Revenge 5m1a Carrying Home Mother 5m1b Anakin CHanges 5m2 Shmi's Funeral 5m3 The Commerce Guild Prepares For War 5m5 Finding The Conveyor 5m6 The Conveyor Belt 5m7 The Senate Scene 6m1 Love Pledge 6m2 Entrance Of The Monsters 6m5 Padmé Falls 7m1 Dooku Vs Obi-Wan 7m2 Yoda Strikes Back 7m3 Finale 7m4 End Credits
REVENGE OF THE SITH 1m2 Star Wars Main Title 1m3 Boys Into Battle 1m4 They're Coming Around 1m4a Get 'Em, R2! 1m5 The Elevator Scene 1m6 Count Dooku's Entrance 1m7 The Death Of Dooku 2m1 Grievous and The Droids 2m3 Another Happy Landing 2m4 Revisiting Padmé 2m5 Grievous Travels To Palpatine 2m6 Scenes and Dreams 2m7 Be Careful Of Your Friend 3m1 Council Meeting 3m2 Hold Me 3m3 Palpatine's TV Set 3m4 Palpatine's Big Pitch 3m5 Goodbye, Old Friend 3m6 Going To Utapau 3m8 Obi-Wan Faces Droids 4m1a Drawing Swords 4m1b Good Guys Arrive 4m3 Palpatine's Seduction 4m4 Rolling With Grievous 4m4a Fighting With Grievous 4m5 Dialogue With mace 4m5a Padmé's Ruminations 4m6 I Am The Senate 5m1 Palpatine Instructs Anakin 5m3 Lament 5m3a Bail's Escape 5m4 Swimming, Droids, Yoda Farewell 5m5 News Of The Attack 5m6 Moving Things Along 5m7 Anakin's Dark Deeds 6m1 It Can't Be 6m2 A Moody Trip 6m3 Padmé's Visit 6m4 Heroes Collide 6m5 Duel Of Yoda and Sidious (Choir Only) 6m6 Yoda Falls 6m7 The Boys Continue 6m8 Yoda To Exile 6m9 Revenge Of The Sith 6m9 Revenge Of The Sith (DVD Version) <---"Battle Of The Heroes" Concert Suite 7m1 The Immolation Scene 7m2 Anakin Crawling 7m3 Birth Of The Twins 7m4 The Death Of Padmé 7m5 Plans For The Twins 7m6 Padmé's Funeral 7m7 A Home For The Twins 7m7 A Home For The Twins (Insert) 7m8 End Credits
