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This just landed at my household.
WOW!!
What is that album on Disc One that sounds like THE EIGER SANCTION, feels like THE EIGER SANCTION, but is a whole new experience of listening to the music from THE EIGER SANCTION!?
I love the experience of growing up with a John Williams LP and absorbing that sound down the years, only to now be able to experience a whole new feeling when hearing that music again, but with a different orchestral palette, performance, tempo, orchestration AND with lots of NEW MUSIC you haven't heard as much, if at all!!
These are privileged and special times we live in.
Just hearing a brand new cue like Felicity or Art Masterpieces, or Up The Drainpipe, as written and recorded for the film, is fantastic.
AND the sound quality!! (contented sigh).
Scores like THE FURY, JAWS, EARTHQUAKE, MISSOURI BREAKS, THE RIVER...just a great (double) experience.
To the people who get this stuff out to us...I am forever in your debt.
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This is RIDICULOUSLY BRILLIANT!!
I love hearing all those little shout outs to other scores by him from the same period.
Tension and suspense from JAWS...the mystery motif from FAMILY PLOT.
And the Film Version of Fifty Miles Of Desert sounds like Tusken Raiders!!!
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I agree this music is so infectiously brilliant especially those Main Titles!
Also I hear distant tunes of JAWS 2 in there.
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This is RIDICULOUSLY BRILLIANT!!
I love hearing all those little shout outs to other scores by him from the same period.
Tension and suspense from JAWS...the mystery motif from FAMILY PLOT.
And the Film Version of Fifty Miles Of Desert sounds like Tusken Raiders!!!
he borrows but a lot of times from himself.
some blasphemy. if you listen to a Beethoven symphony you can tell when you listen to a piece of classical music you can hear that it is Beethoven.
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Oh, it's in no way a diss when I mention little snippets of other works, either from his past or (then) future works.
That's one of the things I love most about composers with signature voices.
Goldsmith did it. Morricone did it. Barry did it.
Even James Horner was known to do it once or twice 
I didn't mean any diss.
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I can't stop playing it.
I loved the old LP since I bought it back in the early 80s (while on my Williams Quest).
But hearing the score recording is just immense. Unalloyed Joy.
The music I know well, only different.
The newly available score tracks...Oh My!
From arguably Williams' finest period.
Things don't get better than this.
And on top of the ALWAYS expansion and the first ever GHOSTBUSTERS 2 release!!
Like I say...Privileged Times 
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Dec 25, 2021 - 4:52 AM
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Graham Watt
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Finally got this, and it's freakin' fantastic from beginning to end! I played CD 2 first because I was familiar with the LP presentation, but this was like listening to it anew. AND with bonus tracks re-recorded for the original album but left off! AND with three source cues by JW, written in his unmistakable light pop-jazz "disaster movie" style! Brilliant!
Then I listened to Disc 1. Now, you know I'm an old grump with the attention span of an amoeba, but this totally held my interest from beginning to end, all 75 minutes of it. And if you think you "know" the score through having heard the LP presentation, well you're as wrong as I was! What a treat. It was like going back to 1975 and picking up a few John Williams records, TOWERING INFERNO, EARTHQUAKE, JAWS... there's a bit of all these in this, especially THE TOWERING INFERNO, and one clear precursor to Ben Gardner's head.
Forgive my "review". I'm on my phone and I'm not following any logical line of thought. I just wanted you to know that I'm as happy as a pig in shit with this, and I hope you lot are too.
That is all.
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I always like that music that plays during Eastwood's training jogs with George. (The hottie, not Kennedy!)
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