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It shipped last week and also came with the "deluxe" download to keep us placated during the long wait.
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A couple people on my Facebook feed (and members of this board) just got their shipping notification this week. I'm waiting to see what they say before ordering it myself
I honestly don't think the music was worth the $45 price (ordered it and it finally arrived yesterday). It doesn't really sound like anything unique musically, just longer versions of music already on the deluxe edition. The docking cue is tacked onto the end, and is unmastered like the download version, so it's still barely audible compared to the rest. Having that piano cue that was on the FYC website would have been ideal, because at least that sounded different.
Note to self: never do this again.
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I liked the score, so having longer versions of things is cool. But leaving off more unique tracks (like that piano cue) for so many same-sounding tracks was a bad move. Plus, the theme that is explored in the "Murph" track isn't the one I thought it would be (thought it would be the simple piano motif), so that was a bummer.
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did I understand that right that the complete score was on the FYC webside?
So was it possible to download mp3s from there?
Or was that just a list of the cue sheets.
http://www.paramountguilds.com/interstellar/score/
The real big deal cue there is the last one, which somehow was left off all forty versions of this score. Come to think of it, someone should make one of those Hitler Reacts videos about this. I love how most of them shouldn't be funny if you don't belong to a particular message board or website, but they're all somehow great because of the specificity of the details.
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Why oh why is Quantifiable Connection not in here?! It makes me sad. I hope promo CDs pop up someday so we can hear it without the glitches. On the plus side, "Tick-tock" is pretty awesome, it's basically an extended version of "Mountains."
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I have to say, despite the suites not really having what I was hoping for, I really like them.
Thankfully, “Quantifiable Connection” has been painstakingly restored by fans:
http://youtu.be/AnPUw02MRZk
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The “Murph,” “Tick-Tock” and “Organ Variation” cues are all interesting renditions of the thematic material of the score, and the “Day One (Demo)” track is a nice insight into how the score came to be.
I understand why “Quantifiable Connection” wasn't included on the original album; when vetting cues, it would have been repetitive to have the same theme playing in three adjacent tracks, and the theme is well-represented throughout the original and deluxe versions. It's just a damn shame because it's just so beautiful, perhaps the most emotionally satisfying presentation of that particular theme
I'm glad that the damaged FYC track been restored by devoted fans, so at least now it's listenable.
Zimmer did make sure that the “No Time for Caution” track everybody wanted was included — yes, yes, I know it's a different mix and edit than what appears in the film, which was the result of editorial tinkering, but we're film music fans, we know about that stuff, and besides, an excellent recreation of the film edit can also be found online: http://youtu.be/_9vx_oj0SWA — I would have liked for “Quantifiable Connection,” as well as “Entering Endurance” and a few others, to have been included in a lossless format, but given that at this point, the entire score is accessible in one form or another so soon after the film's release, I feel it's really silly to complain overmuch about what's available or not.
That said, the “Illuminated Star Projection” thing is a really silly gimmick, especially as the battery in it is what is preventing people from ordering this set. It is a nice box, though.
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Count me among the people who like the "Illuminated" box. I know it may be a bit silly. But, the kid in me likes it (and it's pretty nice packaging).
However, when it's so rare for any film to have this much attention paid to its soundtrack release, with virtually the entire score available to fans within a couple months of the film's release, I think it's worth commending. Or, at least being grateful for the release.
We as film music fans have seen so many of our favorite scores butchered in their commercial releases, that I think it's a bit disingenuous to be so critical of this release, particularly when no one is forcing anyone to buy something they don't want (I will ignore any protests along the lines of "I AM being forced to buy it to the tracks I want!"), there are a couple of releases to choose from and one can get at least the mp3s off both YouTube and the FYC sites.
But in the case of the YouTube versions, they are fan edits, not the official cues. How many releases is it going to take to just give people the music correctly?
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