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PeterK FishChip	10 soundtracks hit the streets today.... Age of Empires III (game) Derailed Four Dead Batteries The High and the Mighty - A Century of Flight Just Friends Memoirs of a Geisha The Muppet Christmas Carol (Special Edition) The Producers Stargate: Atlantis (TV) Zathura Any preferences? Me, I think Muppets!!!
posted 11-22-2005 04:19 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	I hate you, Peter. I detest every particle of your rancid lifeforce. And to be perfectly blunt, I wish you agony & death. But to keep things brief & on-topic, let me just say this: To call The Muppet Christmas Carol superior to The Muppet Movie amounts to nothing less than blasphemy to true Muppet fans and all other sensible people.
posted 11-22-2005 07:00 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	Just what is on this High & the Mighty Century of Flight CD?
posted 11-22-2005 07:40 PM PT (US)

franz_conrad Standard Userer	Umm... yeah. I favor Geisha(s) myself.
posted 11-22-2005 08:08 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	Stargate Atlantis for me.
posted 11-22-2005 08:11 PM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Standard Userer	For me the best release today is the 2 disc DVD of King Kong (1933).
posted 11-22-2005 08:44 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	Atlantis for sure. None of the others really interest me besides Zathura and the Flight compilation. I'll pick those up eventualyl but Atlantis has been pre-ordered for a while.
posted 11-22-2005 08:58 PM PT (US)

Alexborn007 Standard Userer	Memoirs is the only thing I picked up today...almost got Potter, but that will have to wait as I mull over the newest Conti release Memoirs is fantastic though! Very lovely main theme, and just some amazingly well written music (and performances by Perlman and Ma). There are also some great Williams trademarks throughout (especially in the dramatic material) and all of the Japanese instrumentation fits very well. It's also very restrained for the most part. One track in particular is just a solo Shakuhachi performance. Have to hand it to Williams for turning out three great scores this year! Looking forward to Munich. [Message edited by Alexborn007 on 11-22-2005]
posted 11-22-2005 09:56 PM PT (US)

Lancelot Standard Userer	"Muppets" is great, to be sure, and one of my favorite holiday albums, but there's no difference between it and the original release...special edition or no. I am enjoying "Geisha", though.
posted 11-22-2005 10:13 PM PT (US)

nuts_score Standard Userer	I picked up Zathura, Memoirs of a Geisha and Stargate Atlantis today. Lil' Goldsmith's score is the first listen for this evening, but so far it's really good.
posted 11-22-2005 10:47 PM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	Lush, lay off the juice for a while. Never said anything about The Muppet Movie. Was commenting that I liked the Muppet Christmas Carol reissue.... now all the customers writing in about how hard it is to find will vanish. This is good for me. At least for a while... this is a Disney CD after all. It will be hard to find again in two years. Lou, small discussion on the new Varese re-recording comp here: http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/014249.html Go Geisha!
posted 11-22-2005 11:34 PM PT (US)

mlw Standard Userer	Geisha is kicking all kinds of ass. It prob. annoys Williams haters. Damn if it isn't strange and great.
posted 11-23-2005 03:49 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	Just Friends is just another contemptible pop-song collection. Although it's commendable for its inclusion of a Fountains of Wayne tune called Hackensack. I'm incredibly unimpressed by the bombastic banality of Joel Goldsmith's Stargate Atlantis theme. Although I can slobberingly recommend a delicious little sexpot-actress from the show named Rachel Luttrell. Michael Ware once referred to John Williams's "original sensibility". But I'm leery whenever a Williams score reeks of highbrow respectability. And such is the case with Geisha's use of Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma. Hopefully, I'm wrong. [Message edited by Luscious Lazlo on 11-23-2005]
posted 11-23-2005 03:56 PM PT (US)

firefox Standard Userer	I vote for Victor Young's THE LEFT HAND OF GOD. Nobody -- not John Williams, not anyone else mentioned on this thread -- could write a melody like Young!
posted 11-23-2005 05:38 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Standard Userer	Arthur Jackson on Victor Young:"But he really made his mark with the Isham Jones band when, on 16 May 1930, he rearranged a Hoagy Carmichael up-tempo instrumental piece as a ballad with his own romantic violin solo. So it was really Victor Young who gave us Stardust in the form it has been ever since."
posted 11-23-2005 07:29 PM PT (US)

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