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Yeah. But how does the great Barry's score for this compare with Zimmer's score for the last Lone Ranger?
Sorry folks, but I got hold of Barry's soundtrack in a sale as an LP years ago which cost me literally pennies. It didn't do much for me at the time, so I must dust it off and give it another go, whereas the latest film (and please don't even try and tell me the Milton Spilsbury film is the better one) and it's score is simply stupendous.
And, before anyone jumps on me for saying this, I am a Barry fan.
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When I first heard John Barry's score, I was a bit perturbed by the 'country and western' flavor in the main title song.
So, at the outset, I wasn't a fan. But as scores often do, it grew on me.
Even to this day, I would not say it's one of John Barry's greatest or better scores. In a ladder of John Barry scores, it'd be in the bottom half not the top half.
Nevertheless, John Barry is one of those composers who pretty much always scored films with style and class. Nothing was rubbish, he was a natural for coming up with strong themes, and his orchestrations were always engaging. It's just that some scores proved more striking and remarkable than others.
One of the things I really love about John Barry is how he was consistently able to work strong melodies and harmonies into just about any score in any genre and sound dramatically apt all the time. And that's how I remember this score now: as one rooted in a melody strong enough that, in another life (and with a different lyric), it could have been a Broadway show tune.
When John Barry created a strong theme to work from — and he almost always did — well, it was like having a strong trunk and roots for the rest of the tree to grow and flower from.
On releases, well I'd certainly buy a 25 minute CD of LOLR, but maybe this is one of those that needs to be offered in a twofer to get the fans buying.
Cheers
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The picture looks fine but I can't tell you whether it's better or worse than the German.
The discs are unfortunately region locked.
Steve H is right though: the 27 minute album does not do this 50+ minute score justice.
Sadly, we must assume the original master recordings are gone the way of the do-do—otherwise Network would have used them instead of the stems to create the suite.
Incidentally, here's a full run down of the cues I extracted for my iTunes library:
1. Presentation Card (00:31) (555kbps)
2. John Taken In By Indians (with vocal) (01:47) (533kbps)
3. Dad Comes Back (01:15) (565kbps)
4. Main Title (with vocal) (01:30) (531kbps)
5. John and Amy Meet (with vocal) (01:47) (493kbps)
6. The Valley Chase (00:33) (578kbps)
7. The Chase Ends (00:46) (513kbps)
8. John and Amy Arrive at Del Rio (with vocal) (01:02) (526kbps)
9. Brothers (02:06) (492kbps)
10. Inside the Cabin (02:18) (543kbps)
11. Butch Cavendish (with vocal) (01:53) (498kbps)
12. The Cavendish Gang Strikes (02:06) (550kbps)
13. Rangers Search for the Gang (01:15) (539kbps)
14. More Searching (00:42) (553kbps)
15. If Something Happens To Me (00:43) (507kbps)
16. More Searching (01:20) (526kbps)
17. Lining Up For Ambush (00:18) (523kbps)
18. Where Is He Now? (00:11) (468kbps)
19. Let's Get Out Of Here! (00:16) (521kbps)
20. Aftermath (with vocal) (01:57) (494kbps)
21. Tonto Finds The Ambush Site (00:40) (568kbps)
22. Tonto Recognises John (01:05) (526kbps)
23. John Awakens (with vocal) (00:48) (465kbps)
24. John Meets Silver (with vocal) (01:36) (494kbps)
25. Silver Bullets (00:43) (522kbps)
26. Look At Him (00:56) (539kbps)
27. John Tries To Ride Silver (03:08) (604kbps)
28. The Lone Ranger Is Born (01:55) (621kbps)
29. The Masked Man (with vocal) (00:33) (496kbps)
30. Guitar Source (01:31) (523kbps)
31. The Cavendish Train Plot (02:06) (552kbps)
32. Tonto To The Hangman (with vocal) (00:38) (511kbps)
33. Those Cavendish Boys (with vocal) (00:29) (526kbps)
34. You Should Have Gone To San Francisco (01:04) (553kbps)
35. To The Train (00:28) (563kbps)
36. Switched Lines (00:51) (611kbps)
37. On Cavendish's Trail (with vocal) (00:27) (546kbps)
38. Dynamite (02:02) (521kbps)
39. Cavalry Charge (01:46) (627kbps)
40. To Kill or Not (00:25) (478kbps)
41. Please Allow Me To Remain Anonymous (00:46) (509kbps)
42. Who Is That Masked Man? (with vocal) (01:03) (520kbps)
43. John Taken In By Indians (without vocal) (01:47) (576kbps)
44. Main Title (without vocal) (01:32) (576kbps)
45. John and Amy Meet (without vocal) (01:48) (565kbps)
46. John and Amy Arrive at Del Rio (without vocal) (01:03) (577kbps)
47. Butch Cavendish (without vocal) (02:49) (573kbps)
48. Aftermath (without vocal) (01:59) (567kbps)
49. John Awakens (without vocal) (00:50) (548kbps)
50. John Meets Silver (without vocal) (01:37) (557kbps)
51. The Masked Man (without vocal) (00:33) (534kbps)
52. Tonto to the Hangman (without vocal) (00:39) (565kbps)
53. Those Cavendish Boys (without vocal) (00:29) (577kbps)
54. On Cavendish's Trail (without vocal) (00:27) (589kbps)
55. Who Is That Masked Man? (without vocal) (01:02) (564kbps)
Cheers
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And whilst we're at it, these are the tracks I extracted from the RAISE THE TITANIC suite:
1. Overture (01:57) (557kbps)
2. Main Title (01:36) (494kbps)
3. Looking for Byzanium (01:31) (469kbps)
4. Sicilian Project (00:55) (408kbps)
5. Svardlov (00:33) (499kbps)
6. Rescue (01:00) (495kbps)
7. Sicilian Defence (00:22) (417kbps)
8. Southby (00:46) (434kbps)
9. Are You Talking About Raising The Titanic? (01:54) (416kbps)
10. To Cornwall (00:25) (504kbps)
11. Memories of The Titanic (01:40) (454kbps)
12. In Search Of The Titanic (01:31) (462kbps)
13. More Searching (01:51) (469kbps)
14. Disaster on The Starfish (02:02) (470kbps)
15. Finding the Horn (01:26) (461kbps)
16. Interference (01:01) (451kbps)
17. I Think We're Smelling Something (00:45) (452kbps)
18. The Smoke Stack (01:48) (456kbps)
19. The Ocean Floor Just Disappeared (04:38) (478kbps)
20. Floodlight Waltz (01:04) (493kbps)
21. Code from Denver (00:36) (434kbps)
22. Fixing The Ballast Tanks (03:05) (464kbps)
23. Fixing Explosives (04:13) (469kbps)
24. Titanic on the Surface (00:49) (525kbps)
25. Raising the Penant (00:31) (488kbps)
26. Distress Call (00:24) (434kbps)
27. End Titles (03:12) (568kbps)
And from THE TAMARIND SEED, which contains both what's on the Blu-Ray plus tracks from a cassette that John Barry gave to a fan, which contained part of the score, way back in the 1970s. So there is duplication. The cassette source sounds better but is incomplete.
1. Main Title (02:25) (569kbps)
2. Judith Remembers (03:19) (483kbps)
3. Dinner Party Source (03:00) (542kbps)
4. Beach Source (01:21) (538kbps)
5. A Drive On The Island (00:53) (522kbps)
6. Holiday Source (02:16) (550kbps)
7. Holiday Source (03:11) (548kbps)
8. Holiday Source (01:14) (576kbps)
9. Play It Again (Film Version) (03:37) (549kbps)
10. Restaurant Source (02:07) (527kbps)
11. Radio Source (00:50) (559kbps)
12. Radio Source (01:16) (553kbps)
13. Dinner Party Source (02:33) (549kbps)
14. File 23 (02:58) (477kbps)
15. Defection (01:04) (445kbps)
16. Airport (04:33) (520kbps)
17. Plane Swap (01:29) (539kbps)
18. Interception Attempt (00:32) (507kbps)
19. Drinking Source (01:06) (557kbps)
20. Evening Source (00:48) (537kbps)
21. The KGB Prepares (00:31) (477kbps)
22. Napalm Boat (02:32) (515kbps)
23. Play It Again (Reprise) (00:35) (509kbps)
24. Burning Bungalow and News (00:32) (567kbps)
25. He's Alive (00:38) (456kbps)
26. She'll Recover (00:59) (479kbps)
27. End Title (02:12) (506kbps)
28. Play It Again (Commercial Version 1) (03:54) (723kbps)
29. The End (Demo Version 1) (03:19) (621kbps)
30. Love Theme from The Tamarind Seed (Cassette Source) (01:51) (617kbps)
31. Main Title (Alternate) (Cassette Source) (03:04) (754kbps)
32. Judith Remembers (Cassette Source) (03:25) (703kbps)
33. A Drive On The Island (Cassette Source) (00:58) (563kbps)
34. File 23 (Cassette Source) (03:07) (631kbps)
35. Defection (Cassette Source) (01:05) (583kbps)
36. Airport (Cassette Source) (04:05) (707kbps)
37. Plane Swap (Cassette Source) (01:37) (781kbps)
38. Interception Attempt (Cassette Source) (00:37) (736kbps)
39. The KGB Prepares (Cassette Source) (00:35) (679kbps)
40. Napalm Boat (Cassette Source) (02:30) (649kbps)
41. Burning Bungalow and News (Cassette Source) (00:38) (548kbps)
42. Play It Again (Commercial Version 2) (03:52) (680kbps)
43. The End (Demo Version 2) (02:42) (690kbps)
Cheers
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Although I find it amusing that Barry is mentioned on the cover while Klinton Spilsbury isn't. 
