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While we're rambling on about Star Wars music: Was the love theme from AOTC and attempt to tie into the theme that plays during the final duel between Luke and Vader? After six films this GORGEOUS music comes out of nowhere, thematically at the climax to the whole saga. What do you all think?
The minor-key men's chorus theme that plays during the final duel between Luke and Vader (the Emperor's theme?) returns in The Phantom Menace, rescored as a major-key tune for children's chorus (singing "ya, ya, ya") in the big parade scene at the end.
I've actually always thought of the love theme from AOTC as a minor-key variation of the Luke Skywalker theme.
Sorry, not the Emperor's theme (which is totally the parade music, yeah) I mean the music that goes from when Vader says "You have a twin sister!" and Luke shouts "No!" to when Luke cuts off Vader's hand. 1:13 in Final Duel on the Anthology. THEN the Emperor's theme plays at 1:50. A similar (if not the same) motif plays when Yoda vanishes. 5:10 in The Death of Yoda on the Anthology.
Wow, that whole thing is only 37 seconds long?!? I'd say that piece is 75% of what I wanted the FOUR DISC Anthology for. We're crazy people!
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I remember being extremely disappointed when I saw that RotJ had just a single album release. I didn't buy it straight away as I did with the first two thinking those shops had only got the single edition and I was waiting for the proper, double album set, only caving in when I realised there would be no two record set.
It's a shame they didn't realise that those people keen enough to buy soundtrack albums would be the same crowd (ie soundtrack enthusiasts like us) that made the other two sell, even if in other music genres double albums may well have gone down in sales.
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So it seems we are no closer to obtaining the proposed tracklist for this enigma of film music?
I thought of this when last year's Close Encounters came out with something approximating a 2LP that was planned for 1977.
Although I don't know if Jedi even got to the planning stage before it was determined to be a single LP.
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Although there are plenty of quibbles with the sound / mastering of the '97 release, I'm immensely pleased that there's so much music from the film (and its two predecessors) available now (score and source music alike).
I agree. I think people are *way* too hard on the 1997 2-disc Special Edition releases. I guess my ears aren't finely attuned enough to hear the sound/mastering problems people have been complaining about all these years.
Admittedly, I don't like some of the connected cues and segues/"suites" presentations, but at least the music is there, and in film order.
I remember loading those double albums up for a long car trip, when I got them. I was aware of Chris Malone's criticism. By the time I got to ROTJ, despite hours of listening fatigue and road noise, the limitations of 'Retrun...' albums was still plain as day. The msstering is some kind of terrible, terrible mistake.
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I've been told definitively (can't name sources) that there is no evidence Return of the Jedi was ever going to be anything but a 1 LP release.
Lukas
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I've been told definitively (can't name sources) that there is no evidence Return of the Jedi was ever going to be anything but a 1 LP release.
Lukas
Phony made-up “sources.” Sad!
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I've been told definitively (can't name sources) that there is no evidence Return of the Jedi was ever going to be anything but a 1 LP release.
Lukas
Phony made-up “sources.” Sad!
Best joke on these boards in a long time!
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I suppose if any William's score from that early 80's period was to be 2LP's it would have been Raiders. But when you think about it if you dont count the scratching of the Jabba concert version which I think was recorded for inclusion on the album but wasn't included for whatever reason the whole Jedi Album would have been primarily concert versions and Lapti Nek!
That's no different from how Williams organized any film score for its album; E.T. is a prominent example.
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It's ironic that Fox (or Lucasfilm) was willing to release the score for the original Star Wars on an expensive 2-record set -- when that film that was expected to tank.
Yet Return of the Jedi -- a guaranteed hit -- was only given one disc (at the very least they could have issued a "volume 2" album later on, as was done with Ben-Hur).
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