Indiana Jones: The Complete Soundtracks Collection

Erik, do you have a license or something to play anything you want or do you need to get permission from all the record companies?

Hate to be described as a stereotype, but sadly you've pretty much described me, right there. Last Crusade has always been a seminal film of my youth and my favourite of the trilogy, whereas I've always found Temple of Doom a little too land-locked and the threat to humanity in it was never made quite as clear as an ominous swasticka dancing across the screen like in the other two.

Thanks for the kind comments. I'm glad we saw eye to eye on most of the aspects of this release and the films themselves.

-Erik-

I tend to agree with a lot of what's been said about most of the concerns listed being a problem for less than 10% and probably more like 5% of the target audience. I have not purchased this yet, mostly because the only thing I know that I want (and have long wanted) is the missing piece of music in Crusade from the Belly of the Steel Beast track.

It's hard to say whether that will be worth it or not to me. As wonderful as it was to have the expanded Raiders music, most of the new material added little to my experience. When I bought it many years ago, it primarily served as a way to get the soundtrack at a reasonable price on CD. (The exceptions being the expansion of Desert Chase which I new prefer and the addition of The Warehouse. And that last is so short my life could have gone merrily along without it.) I would sort of like to have the new track Washington Men, mostly for the hints of the ark music in that material.

Knowing that there is more Temple music is intriguing because it is a favorite soundtrack of mine. I willingly spent $20 or $30 to get an import copy of the original CD when I purchased it. But I wonder if it will just be additional brief cues and music I wouldn't miss all that much if I hadn't known it was there in the first place? (I'm afraid my scant few re-viewings of Temple didn't reveal any sorely missed music, although looking over the tracks suggest it would be nice to get the herioic (as I recall it) British Relief and the punchy Nightclub Brawl cues.)

That being said, I can't see waiting for individual CD releases of Temple and Crusade because past experience suggests that there's a very good possibility that they won't individually release Disc 5. Even if they do, the discs will most likely come out at US $15+ a piece and that's pretty much the price for which you can get the boxed set in the US. I dislike purchasing Crystal Skull again (or really at all after hearing it - nothing really jumps out at me from that CD and it is basically taking up space on my iPod.) However, I'd practically be getting it and the small slices of Raiders I'd want for free.

So if curiosity (and desire for my missing moments of Belly of the Steel Beast) trumps cash flow, I'll probably wait a bit for the used prices to come down and get it - then I'll add the new stuff that interests me into my Indy Playlists and not listen to the old material on the new CDs at all. I am sorry it isn't be the ultimate experience for those of you who had hoped for the perfect release.

Get the set , its worth it. My copy cost a little over 40 bucks, for me it was money well spent.

I'm waiting for the trek music from Doom and the full Indy's Very First Adventure and On The Tank from Crusade. 9 days!

I was hesitating about buying this collection but when I listened to some sound clips from the new tracks I immediately got back into Indy-mood and realised once again how great these scores are so now it's among my first buys next year.

Mine is under way from SAE. Can't wait to hear them all in succession. On the other hand, maybe I'll start with Skull, as that's definitely my least favorite. And Crusade to end with a bang!

Since buying Kingdom (Skull) I have only listened to it once, I can't say the score rocks my boat, inside nor outside of the film. But having the quadrilogy will make me listen to it more, like I do with Star Wars 1-6, and I consider it to belong to the same family (music-wise, not the films themselves).

Why?

Where were you getting it from?

Damn that sucks. Hope you'll find a copy soon Pawel!

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but it was shipped.

I don't know if any of you have addressed this yet, and I know that I could probably just watch the movies again... BUT... if I wanted to make an ULTIMATE Indy-cd/playlist of the the three first scores, where would the tracks from the bonus disc go, chronologically? It's been too long since I've watched the films, so I can't remember what happens when... Your help would be much appreciated

Thank you, Erik. Just what I was looking for!