I would like to know this too. Buysoundtrax are already shipping their copies.

Thanks,
Chris

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:

I'm not familiar with the details, but I'm sure Jones will see SOME money from it. As for the musicians, well, the London Symphony Orchestra doesn't exactly get re-use fees... soo..... none?

Dan

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To everyone who pre-ordered from MovieMusic (with successful credit cards): your discs are in the mail. Enjoy.

If you haven't received your email notification of shipment just yet, it's on its way.

Obviously this didn't happen, and I'm starting to feel a little mislead. Anyone else feel that way?

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Originally posted by skellington:
So for short,
You take the already released bootleg, clean up the sound a little on a computer, take the isolated score from the dvd and you have the "new" double cd, right?

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Right, I think the sound quality on the Album version sounds exactly the same as the LP bootleg which isn't too stellar. Sure its old but I've heard even older recordings that sound better. I don't detect a noticable difference between this release and the bootleg.
I've also read that the "Complete" disc is not really complete, its missing a few cues.

I wonder, What did Numenorean do, that Trevor Jones couldn't do in the past 14 years, to get this score released on CD?

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Originally posted by Lancelot:

Who was it that said Soundtrack fans are never pleased? Give them a banquet, they'll complain about the silverware.

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Part of what makes us different, is that we are slightly more intellectual than the adverage N*Sync head-boping teenaged soundtrack album buyers when it comes to music.

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Possibly. Some of us like to believe that. Others like to swing it like a sword. And should, heaven forbid, there be a disagreement between someone who feels they approach the music "more intellectually" than a guy whose enthusiasm for Trevor Rabin is without bounds, I'm sure that is with which the Trevor Rabin-enthusiast will be equated.

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We listen to our music in the most intricate detail, as we memorize and try to interpret the composer's every thought, and feeling in every note.

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And that's where we start to fall apart--as followers, as "fans"...(But that's where religions and politicians fall apart, too--trying to "interpret" the thought of someone else's creation.)

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Our obsession is so extensive, that an incomplete soundtrack is likened to being forced to buy a Bible with missing pages.

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Ok, the religious metaphor here is beginning to worry me. A Bible with missing pages is still a Bible, for anyone who understands the message, and knows what they're getting is an incomplete text. (I would tend to liken it more to being given a free pass to see a Shakespeare play performed from the re-worded quartos and folios, and then understanding some performances were, perhaps, lacking.)

And, after all, no one is being forced to do anything.

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We love to be in the company of other soundtrack fans. To be able to listen with, compare, express feelings, critique, and share opinions with a group of people who actual understand the music you're talking about is fasicnating! Even if we disagree with the soundtrack we're talking about.

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Yes. And no. Some of the discussions here have sparked bloodlust I'm certain.

Here's my problem: I've resisted the word "fan". I'm sure I say it sometimes because it becomes a way of automatically, instantaneously identifying a person with something in a way that no other word does, and people understand what you mean...However:

NON SCIENCE-FICTION READER: "He's a Star Trek fan."
NON SCIENCE-FICTION READER #2: "Ohhh."

See the negative context being cultivated? "Fan" whether we realize it or not, is short for "Fanatic", and "Fanatic" as the definition implies, is a person "marked by excessive enthusiasm and intense uncriticial devotion".

I think we, as "fans", or "listeners" (a term that implies less), are very critical. Critical even to the point where we draw lines between ourselves as film-music "fans". Yeah, we're all "fans", but some of us prefer Jerry Goldsmith and some of us are moved by Hans Zimmer's latest. And being on one or another's side seems to limit the understanding that both seem essentially committed to the same ends.

Rather than "fans" the term I prefer to employ without trying to sound 5th Avenue about it, "afficiandos", which tends to suggest more that we have "affection" for scores, but not blind devotion.

So we haven't been given "the complete" score. Maybe it's the last version of the score on CD that will ever be. Are you (the collective, impersonal "you") going to say that you'd rather have nothing than something? And if you do prefer nothing, that's fine--it's your money. But for those who have had nothing for such a long time--or, even better, nothing "official" for a longer time--and have been anticipating a release, it is quite an event. And to quibble about minor things when you are given so much (an isolated score on DVD, a offical 2-Disc promotional release) to begin with seems petty.

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Originally posted by Lancelot:
a offical 2-Disc promotional release

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Huh?

It's not a promotional release. It's legit, official, and retailed.