Good job Naxos on the quick $5 refund fix - no one will say it, since it's more fun to complain, but they seem to have ironed out the bugs. Shipping has been quicker, customer service issues better. So, good job.
About those "hidden secrets"...Jeff Bond (who penned the liner notes for this release, hurrah!) posted the following highlighting some of them on Facebook:
"Here's a score I shamefully dismissed on its original release as just a bunch of arrangements of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." The expanded release is a revelation and It's amazing how much original thematic material Goldsmith builds into this score (including multi-level themes for both the good and bad guy action figures, a love theme, a corporate CEO theme, and some wonderfully uplifting, mystical music for the dawning of awareness for the "Gorgonites" and their search for a homeland) along with fun movie references including to Franz Waxman's Bride of Frankenstein score and more. Wildly enjoyable, and again thanks to Bob Townson for letting me write the booklet for this release."
(I just LOVE all the fun film music in-jokes Jerry would regularly pack into his Dante scores.)
I love that with this and The Burbs, I tend to associate the Patton theme more with Joe Dante than I do with the actual movie the theme's originally from.
Well it was motion capture so not exactly "animation" ...but Williams did score Tintin which was certainly not a live action film, and did a great job of it, to boot.
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Kinda .....I guess. The film really sucked! Lol!
but Elfman, Goldsmith, Horner. Powell, Isham, Zimmer, Silvestri, Broughton, Bernstein, R and T Newman all have scored animated films. Wish JW had done likewise. You know he was asked. Many many times
