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Wait, what vocals?

I love that too but I have to be in the mood for it.

Yes, there's something about it that hits me on a 'spiritual' level.

'Manhattan Skyline' is a great piece of music.

Thanks. In fact I ended up having steak and merlot and it was truly delicious.

Straying off topic...

Die Hard 2 - Michael Kamen

I'm not entirely sure why I bought the extended version - I'll never listen to it (even if you chop all the pointless bonus material off, it's still 98 minutes long) - but it's certainly very well-written and probably a better listen than the first score, really. But I should have stuck with the original 40-minute album, which is infinitely better.

I've had a certain amount of luck removing a bunch of the middle tracks in the standard edition (ditch Troll-hoard, Hill of Sorcery, The Hidden Valley through The White Council) but even then, there's too many long tracks where all the interesting stuff is in the middle and there's a bunch of boring nothingness around it. It desperately needed an editor.

But why stick them all at the end? What possible thought process went into making that decision?

This is true. One of my favorite tracks.

It's a corking track! I'd say the album is worth it for that alone but there's actually quite a few highlights.

I don't know why they didn't edit a 50-70 minute CD as the initial release that included the main themes and highlights of the score as a whole. People could have digested this, become familiar with it with the score building up a following. Then, once people were keen on hearing more from the score hit them with various version of an expanded release.

This model seemed to work well for the 3 Lord of The Rings scores. I wonder why they didn't do it with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?

It seems to me that, doing it this way round, they are making their jobs more difficult. Unless they have presumed that all the enthusiasm for the original scores has been carried over to this one. (I hope that there's not the same sort of assumption in the film-makers with the film itself - though I feel that they may have to some extend: everyone loved the original films therefore they will love this one so lets play with the film formats - 3D, 48fps, etc).

A highlight is Walter Murphy's Disco Beethoven track.

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No!

The Rolling Stone stream is the "regular/normal release" - 2 CDs, 26 tracks, running time 1 hr 47 minutes.

There is a "special edition" - the WaterTower promo - 2 CDs, 32 tracks, running time 2 hrs 07 minutes.

The special edition includes 7 tracks from the regular release that have been extended plus 6 tracks that are only available on the "special edition".

It depends but that's often me too.