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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: Star Wars Expanded Soundtracks     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 18, 2022 - 4:18 PM     By:   kenkraly2004   (Member) I know most of the Star Wars Films have gotten expanded soundtracks of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace plus The Original Trilogy of Star Wars , The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi plus the Star Wars Story films digitally like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story . However no Expanded Soundtrack releases for Episode 2: Attack of The Clones , Episode 3: Revenge of The Sith plus The Sequel Trilogy films like The Force Awakens , The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Now I know their are unofficial fan made Expanded Soundtracks out their but why no official releases from Sony Classical and Walt Disney Records for these Expanded Soundtracks? Thoughts?    Posted:   Mar 18, 2022 - 4:34 PM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) I know most of the Star Wars Films have gotten expanded soundtracks of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace plus The Original Trilogy of Star Wars , The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi plus the Star Wars Story films digitally like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story . However no Expanded Soundtrack releases for Episode 2: Attack of The Clones , Episode 3: Revenge of The Sith plus The Sequel Trilogy films like The Force Awakens , The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Now I know their are unofficial fan made Expanded Soundtracks out their but why no official releases from Sony Classical and Walt Disney Records for these Expanded Soundtracks? Thoughts? The reasons are varied and corporate and no one here on the board would really know at all, except possible those from the labels and/or Mike Matessino, but it's been discussed here many times over the years.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2022 - 4:41 PM     By:   steffromuk   (Member) And the same goes for Indiana Jones.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2022 - 4:42 PM     By:   townerbarry   (Member) Disney owns Star Wars. It would be a momentum task. That is a Ton of Johnny T’s Music.    Posted:   Mar 18, 2022 - 8:39 PM     By:   John Mullin   (Member) I haven’t been following this closely, but it seems that this hasn’t happened because Williams doesn’t want it to. I get the sense that in a lot of cases, he wants his album assembly to be “the version.” I thought it was interesting that when Disney put the soundtracks from episodes 1-6 out in 2018, they were largely recreations of the soundtrack albums that Williams had put together originally when each film first came out. Despite the fact that the original movies have had much more complete presentations over the decades (the best, in my opinion, being the 4 disc Arista set from the early 90s).    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 12:49 AM     By:   LordDalek   (Member) The reason I've always assumed there aren't any expanded releases for the Prequels (beyond the awful Episode I one) is that JW never wrote/recorded full scores for them. Way too much library abuse there.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 6:58 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Because we can't have nice things. While we're wishing for good things I wish for unaltered HD remasters of the original trilogy as they were shown in the theater on first release.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 7:06 AM     By:   LeHah   (Member) The reason I've always assumed there aren't any expanded releases for the Prequels (beyond the awful Episode I one) is that JW never wrote/recorded full scores for them. Way too much library abuse there. I don’t know if I’d call it library abuse - but I’m sure part of the reason it hasn’t happened is that the music was recorded in smaller pieces - a minute here, two minutes there - in a lot of scenes and stitching them together in an editing suite wouldnt be much better than the Phantom Menace Ultimate Edition (which is awful but did give me “The Tide Turns” as Anakin blows up the Trade Federation ship.) It’s a much more disjointed affair compared to the original films in terms of flow.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 7:18 AM     By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member) A truly definitive edition of the original trilogy scores, fully remastered and restored from the first generation master recordings, is one of my final true dreams in soundtrack ownership. Cheers    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 7:52 AM     By:   emusician   (Member) A truly definitive edition of the original trilogy scores, fully remastered and restored from the first generation master recordings, is one of my final true dreams in soundtrack ownership. Cheers Agreed 100%! However, I wouldn’t mind complete or expanded versions of ROTS and TROS. There was a lot of cool music missing on the album presentations that I would love to have. But, if it doesn’t happen then so be it, it definitely isn’t as big of a deal as having the original trilogy in better sound (especially ROTJ). And cheers to you!    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 8:20 AM     By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member) A truly definitive edition of the original trilogy scores, fully remastered and restored from the first generation master recordings, is one of my final true dreams in soundtrack ownership. 99 times out of 100, I agree with you. On this issue, I think you overlook the main thing of the sound being optimized on so many of those recent album-edit cues.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2022 - 9:19 AM     By:   JeffM   (Member) A truly definitive edition of the original trilogy scores, fully remastered and restored from the first generation master recordings, is one of my final true dreams in soundtrack ownership. 99 times out of 100, I agree with you. On this issue, I think you overlook the main thing of the sound being optimized on so many of those recent album-edit cues. Yeah, but “album edits” being the caveat.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 7:00 AM     By:   David Charles   (Member) The thing that bugs me is that @#£%&##@ versions are 'available, from some sources, of full scores from AOTC and ROTS although I've no idea about the quality as I wouldn't buy them but authorised versions would be welcome.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 7:13 AM     By:   kenkraly2004   (Member) My hope is now that we got Expanded Soundtracks for the Star Wars Story films Rogue One and Solo it at the very least opens the door for more Star Wars Expanded Soundtracks will be officially released on cd and digital also on vinyl in the future. But as others have said in this thread the music rights situation for Star Wars is complicated. Both Sony Classical still holds the rights for the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy soundtracks though I think that changed with the recent re releases of the original soundtrack albums being put back out a few years ago by Walt Disney Records and Walt Disney Records holds the rights for The Sequel Trilogy Soundtracks.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 7:40 AM     By:   Thgil   (Member) My hope is now that we got Expanded Soundtracks for the Star Wars Story films Rogue One and Solo it at the very least opens the door for more Star Wars Expanded Soundtracks will be officially released on digital and also on vinyl in the future. You left out CD. Don't be like so many labels. Don't leave out CDs, especially for Williams' Star Wars scores.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 7:45 AM     By:   kenkraly2004   (Member) My hope is now that we got Expanded Soundtracks for the Star Wars Story films Rogue One and Solo it at the very least opens the door for more Star Wars Expanded Soundtracks will be officially released on digital and also on vinyl in the future. You left out CD. Don't be like so many labels. Don't leave out CDs, especially for Williams' Star Wars scores. Edited it to include CD. Whoops    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 9:57 AM     By:   EdG   (Member) Sony Classical still holds the rights for the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy soundtracks though I think that changed with the recent re releases Sony no longer holds the rights to any of the Star Wars soundtracks.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 10:09 AM     By:   General Kael   (Member) A truly definitive edition of the original trilogy scores, fully remastered and restored from the first generation master recordings, is one of my final true dreams in soundtrack ownership. Cheers Hear hear!    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 10:25 AM     By:   kenkraly2004   (Member) Sony Classical still holds the rights for the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy soundtracks though I think that changed with the recent re releases Sony no longer holds the rights to any of the Star Wars soundtracks. I thought so but did not know for sure if they still did. Must of lost the rights when the sale to Disney happened.    Posted:   Mar 20, 2022 - 10:32 AM     By:   Thgil   (Member) The reason I've always assumed there aren't any expanded releases for the Prequels (beyond the awful Episode I one) is that JW never wrote/recorded full scores for them. Way too much library abuse there. I don’t know if I’d call it library abuse - but I’m sure part of the reason it hasn’t happened is that the music was recorded in smaller pieces - a minute here, two minutes there - in a lot of scenes and stitching them together in an editing suite wouldnt be much better than the Phantom Menace Ultimate Edition (which is awful but did give me “The Tide Turns” as Anakin blows up the Trade Federation ship.) It’s a much more disjointed affair compared to the original films in terms of flow. I don't see how that would be an issue. The problem people seem to have with the UE wasn't that the music was nonstop, but that it retained all of the tracking and jarring edits from the movie. Give us every second of music as intended by Williams and that will work beautifully. That being said, the albums released for the Prequels demonstrate quite well that, even if that is the case, there are clean openings and endings for cues so they can be indexed separately as well as functioning independent of one another as standalone tracks. Now that Sony is out of the picture, I hope we can see proper C&C releases for all three trilogies.     General Discussion: Star Wars Expanded Soundtracks    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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