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Damn....just saw this other release from Varese. Outstanding. Their two releases plus Intrada's War of the Worlds plus catching up on a few other purchases, like Robin Hood...my aching wallet.
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I actually like all three scores from the movie trilogy. Will Varese later release expanded issues for the other two as well at a later time?
Varese only released the soundtrack for the first film. Different labels released the other two albums. If Varese doesn't release expanded albums of the other two films, hopefully another specialty label will. Between this and the expanded Solo album, it is very good time to be a John Powell fan!
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I actually like all three scores from the movie trilogy. Will Varese later release expanded issues for the other two as well at a later time?
Varese only released the soundtrack for the first film. Different labels released the other two albums. If Varese doesn't release expanded albums of the other two films, hopefully another specialty label will. Between this and the expanded Solo album, it is very good time to be a John Powell fan!
Indeed.
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The UK one certainly has - I've had mine since last week.
If you're happy with the original is the new worth buying?
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The UK one certainly has - I've had mine since last week.
If you're happy with the original is the new worth buying?
I shall shameless copy (most of) what I wrote at JWFan... (albeit responding to a marginally different query):
I’m not sure the sound is materially different to the FYC, but the expanded release sounds pretty spectacular, the horns have a gorgeous roundness to them, the moment when they play out the main theme in Test Drive at 40 seconds hasn’t sounded better (to pick up a topic from another thread, that’s one of my all time favourite moments of any score, very much a hairs on the back of the neck moment notwithstanding that I’ve listened to that track well over 100 times (indeed it’s one of my all time favourite cues alongside See You Tomorrow)). I think the mix has more air to the soundstage compared to the original album so the sonic upgrade in that regard is worth the investment.
The additional cues round out the original selection nicely. Given how much I love this score I really feel I should know it better (possibly a side effect of not having seen the film in a long while) but there are several tracks that always take me by surprise. And some which will doubtless take some by surprise who are only familiar with the original album. Parts of relax/stroke/hell sound like they’ve escaped from an historical epic.
I’m still in two minds about the song. And that’s said as a more than casual (but not fanatical) fan of Jonsi/Sigur Ros. However, I'm glad it's included especially after other labels had to drop songs from expanded editions such as Robin Hood: POT and Titanic even though the soundtrack's composer co-wrote them. Then again, I think the songs from the sequels are better; the second for the terrific way it’s mixed with extracts from Powell’s score and the third as it's just a lovely song.
But yeah. This is a great release. So great to have the full score in amazing sound. It’s not just the many memorable themes, but that so many of the cues function more or less as “proper” music with a beginning, middle and end and a dramatic arc within them as well as across the entire narrative of the score. Superb stuff.
Does that help?!
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Does this release make the OST and FYC redundant ?
For my money, definitely! Same contents plus song and sounds better.
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Does that help?!
To some degree. 
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Does this release make the OST and FYC redundant ?
For my money, definitely! Same contents plus song and sounds better.
Excellent. I like it when I don't have to keep existing albums in my library.
Now I just have to wait for it to arrive, along with War of the Worlds and Robin Hood
I'm still slightly torn as to whether I should keep the original album in my iTunes library, if only for nostalgic reasons... guess there's no reason not to but the expanded will definitely be my go to option. Also, the original album has two separate tracks for This Is Berk and Dragon Battle, the latter of which opens the HTTYD suite that's been played at a few concerts and I've assembled using the original album tracks. Agh! It did make me think how much a Powell compilation, along the lines of the recent Airlines album by Alexandre Desplat, would be just super.
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I do love this score. Although I would love a deluxe edition of Paycheck. But the album is perfect. What are the extra music highlights? My favourite is the River Dance inspired See You Tomorrow. Is there anything to beat that?
Paycheck is a great action score, for sure... think it was one of the first solo Powell efforts that really made me sit up and take notice of him as a composer in his own right. Also totally agreed on See You Tomorrow; that and Test Drive are a perfect pair of thrilling cues. It goes back to my comments about HTTYD having cues which are "proper" pieces of music in their own right which only need a relatively small amount of tinkering to become concert versions (like so many great John Williams, for example, tracks).
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The Deluxe Edition I've received does not have the red banner on the left side of the cover, as shown below. Rather, it is an exact replica of the old cover, with nothing at all to distinguish one cover from the other. Is this a production error?
No, it's not a production error. The Deluxe Edition of Village of the Damned doesn't have the banner on the booklet either.
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