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 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 7:26 PM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)

Via Roger Feigelson - Facebook

Coming January 20th

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/95015405220/permalink/10170816864430221/

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 7:34 PM   
 By:   guchin369   (Member)

3 CDs?! Holy cow, how much music were we missing? Maybe tons of alternates? Was there a radically different cut prior to the theatrical cut?

Either way, holy cow, "The Patriot" at last!

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 7:36 PM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)

I'd guess we are getting the complete score (and whatever else comes with it) on discs 1 and 2 and a remaster of the album on disc 3.

-Erik-

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 8:17 PM   
 By:   Advise & Consent   (Member)

Not familiar with The Patriot but it's John Williams so im in.

I wonder if they chose the 20th on purpose. is that in the US constitution.

As it happens, I have enough points to to pay for it, so basically free of charge. Life is good.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 8:18 PM   
 By:   rdj252   (Member)

Yeah, I’m all in on this. Awesome score. John Williams gives us a Revolutionary War sound the same way he finds the sound for wars in space, caped superheroes and guys with hats and a whip. Give him a topic/genre/time period and he delivers. Great way to start the new year! Thanks Intrada!

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 8:52 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

WOW A Long awaited expansion. Brilliant Main theme. I'am eager to get this because Matessino will do a fantastic job on the sound mix as I was not so happy with the mushy sound on the ost album. I'm sure this will sound tremendously better than ever and the 3CD program suggests a lot unreleased, unused and tons of alternates.

Thanks Intrada. A bit bittersweet because I think this will also be one of the last Doug Fake projects as he was so fond of war related film scores.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 9:03 PM   
 By:   cody1949   (Member)

Intrada has started the year in great fashion . Awesome !

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 9:05 PM   
 By:   TacktheCobbler   (Member)

WOW A Long awaited expansion. Brilliant Main theme. I'am eager to get this because Matessino will do a fantastic job on the sound mix as I was not so happy with the mushy sound on the ost album. I'm sure this will sound tremendously better than ever and the 3CD program suggests a lot unreleased, unused and tons of alternates.

Thanks Intrada. A bit bittersweet because I think this will also be one of the last Doug Fake projects as he was so fond of war related film scores.


John Takis confirmed as much over on the JWFan forum (it was apparently the subject of his last conversation with Doug prior to his death). He also mentioned that this was one of Doug’s favorite Williams scores.

While I’m a big Williams fan, I must confess that I have zero familiarity with this one. However, I’m definitely considering getting it.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 9:27 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Yay, getting $10 tacked onto the price just so we can have another copy of an album we've all owned for the last 25 years...!

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 9:36 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

Yay, getting $10 tacked onto the price just so we can have another copy of an album we've all owned for the last 25 years...!

You could boycott it. but know this ... Its usually the part of terms of the studio authorising the release to preserve the OST album. Plus its remastered and better sounding. Also an OST is heavily edited album a thing of its own whereas the expansion is a different mix, different edit and more aligned with its original plan than the album version. That's the math. Thus any additional $10 is justified.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 9:52 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

Yay, getting $10 tacked onto the price just so we can have another copy of an album we've all owned for the last 25 years...!

Egads. You pay more than that for a crappy fast food combo meal.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 10:23 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

WOW A Long awaited expansion. Brilliant Main theme. I'am eager to get this because Matessino will do a fantastic job on the sound mix as I was not so happy with the mushy sound on the ost album. I'm sure this will sound tremendously better than ever and the 3CD program suggests a lot unreleased, unused and tons of alternates.

Thanks Intrada. A bit bittersweet because I think this will also be one of the last Doug Fake projects as he was so fond of war related film scores.


John Takis confirmed as much over on the JWFan forum (it was apparently the subject of his last conversation with Doug prior to his death). He also mentioned that this was one of Doug’s favorite Williams scores.

While I’m a big Williams fan, I must confess that I have zero familiarity with this one. However, I’m definitely considering getting it.


It's an absolutely essential Williams score, brimming with big, heraldic themes and riveting, brassy action passages... it's like having an entire score based on his Liberty Fanfare concert piece.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 11:11 PM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Its usually the part of terms of the studio authorising the release to preserve the OST album. Plus its remastered and better sounding.

It's perfectly okay and even desirable to have the OST cut included, so great it's there, but there is no reason to think it is going to sound "better" just because it has been remastered.
It's not as if they didn't know how to master these things 30 years ago.
Many remasters don't sound better at all, some clearly worse.
I don't remember anything wrong with the mastering of THE PATRIOT, so I don't expect it to sound better.
I'm just saying this because sometimes it seems people assume any time an album gets remastered, the sound quality is going to be improved, as if "remastering" = "better sound quality" by default. It's not.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 11:21 PM   
 By:   governor   (Member)

Apart from the Patriot overture, this is one of the rare John Williams scores I find unimpressive.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 12:30 AM   
 By:   Big X   (Member)

Wonderful news to start the New Year, thank you Intrada, will pick this up.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 12:36 AM   
 By:   Spymaster   (Member)

It's perfectly okay and even desirable to have the OST cut included, so great it's there, but there is no reason to think it is going to sound "better" just because it has been remastered.
It's not as if they didn't know how to master these things 30 years ago.
Many remasters don't sound better at all, some clearly worse.
I don't remember anything wrong with the mastering of THE PATRIOT, so I don't expect it to sound better.
I'm just saying this because sometimes it seems people assume any time an album gets remastered, the sound quality is going to be improved, as if "remastering" = "better sound quality" by default. It's not.


I sure hope the sound of the album program if included (and score itself) does sound better than the original CD, because I remember it sounding awful. So awful that I barely ever listen to it.

 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 12:46 AM   
 By:   Lokutus   (Member)

Does it include David Arnold demos?
If not, easy to pass.

 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 12:51 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)


I sure hope the sound of the album program if included (and score itself) does sound better than the original CD, because I remember it sounding awful. So awful that I barely ever listen to it.


It's been ages -- probably decades -- that I've listened to the score, but I don't remember it sounding "awful" at all, though "awful" isn't a very precise description. Did it have low dynamics or high hissing noise or distortion or something like that?

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 1:13 AM   
 By:   keky   (Member)

I never had any problem with the sound of the original CD. It's a very good Williams score, I have always enjoyed it. I wonder, though, what the additional/unreleased music will be like because I think the original release is a satisfying listening experience that doesn't necessarily need an expansion. But, in Williams' case there have been a couple of expansions I enjoy (Hook, A.I., Empire of the Sun and E.T.)

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 2:05 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

I sure hope the sound of the album program if included (and score itself) does sound better than the original CD, because I remember it sounding awful. So awful that I barely ever listen to it.

That's quite the hyperbolic statement. I listen to the score at least once a year and not once have I thought it sounded anywhere close to awful.

 
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