Anyone have a good playlist order? One that flows the best? I've really grown to love the score, but having difficulty placing the bonus tracks.
Film score: 1-01 Main Titles - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2:54) 1-02 There Are Witches Among Us / The Bank / The Niffler (6:53) 1-03 Tina Takes Newt In / MACUSA Headquarters (1:56) 2-02 Soup and Leaflets (2:19) 2-03 Billywig (1:31) 2-04 The Demiguise and the Lollipop (0:58) 1-04 Pie or Strudel / Escaping Queenie and Tina’s Place (3:05) 1-05 Credence Hands Out Leaflets (2:03) 1-06 Inside the Case (9:08) 1-07 The Erumpent (3:28) 1-08 In the Cells (2:10) 1-09 Tina and Newt Trial / Let’s Get the Good Stuff Out / You’re One of Us Now / Swooping Evil (7:59) 2-06 Blind Pig (1:29) 1-10 Gnarlak Negotiations (2:57) 2-05 I’m Not Your Ma (2:04) 1-11 The Demiguise and the Occamy (4:06) 1-12 A Close Friend (1:51) 1-13 The Obscurus / Rooftop Chase (3:48) 2-07 Newt Talks to Credence (2:13) 1-14 He’s Listening to You Tina (2:05) 1-15 Relieve Him of His Wand / Newt Releases the Thunderbird / Jacob’s Farewell (12:33) 1-16 Newt Says Goodbye to Tina / Jacob’s Bakery (3:26) 1-17 End Titles (2:21) 2-08 End Titles, Pt. 2 (1:22)
Concert arrangements: 2-01 A Man and His Beasts (8:31) 2-09 Kowalski Rag (5:12)
Best Howard in ages - Having not seen the film yet, I'm unable to comment on how the music works with the movie. But I must say, on hearing the album I found myself wishing that Potter No. five and upwards had James Newton Howard's name on the credits.
Slowly, but surely, this has become one of my favourite and most played CD's in years (together with MOANA, which I bought around the same time). It's another one of those scores that reveals something new each time I play it, thus improving with every spin. I'm even getting over the Edward Scissorhands (via Polar Express) theme that elicited groans the first time I heard it I'd say it joins the Williams and Doyle efforts as the best in the Potter series of scores. Great stuff!
I recently picked this up when Amazon had the Deluxe Edition on sale for less than $8 (less than the single disc edition!).
I too have been amazed with this work... there are themes galore! I wish that there was more cohesion throughout the score, but overall, WOW, JNH really nailed this bludger out of the Quidditch pitch!
