What's up with the prequel scores?

I was always wondering, why they keep mislabelling the tracks of the scores. They did it with TPM, they did it again with AOTC. For example, track 13 is blatantly mislabelled, not to mention Ambush at Coruscant in track 1. Is it some sort of game by Lucas?

 

Actually, all of the original soundtracks have tracks that are "mislabelled" as you put it. Tracks often contain cues from different scenes in the movie, and sometimes parts that are edited from the movie version. The SE soundtracks are arranged in a more chronological order, and hence are more "accurately" titled.

The highlights of AOTC Track 13, Confrontation With Count Dooku and Finale, mostly follow the actual "confrontation" in the film. I guess "Finale" is meant to include the final scenes (Dawn Of The Empire, wedding) as well as the End Title.

Hope this helps. If you listen to them enough, you'll probably feel less of a need to have such specifically descriptive titles.

 

The king of all mislabeled Star Wars tracks is the infamous "Inner City." This horrid edit was from the original soundtrack in 1977 and can be found on the 1994 boxed set as well. It contains music from three completely different places in the film and includes a title that does not fit any of them. Where in A New Hope do we see an Inner City?

So as Ken stated, this has been an issue with John Williams ever since day one. It's not a prequel thing.

 

Yeah, that's a good example, stri, The one that always bugged me was Rebel Briefing on the ROTJ OS. The last half is really from the funeral pyre scene (Light Of The Force). After an award-winning soundtrack for ANH and a top-ten double alubum release for ESB in 1980, this was a very disappointing effort from RSO in 1983.

 

Ken Wannberg titles the tracks for the CD after he's edited them and JW's approved his edits. As someone already said, most of the tracks are compiled of cues from multiple scenes in the movie, so Wannberg just tries to pick a title that he feels is appropriate.

 

Ken needs to think before he edits, IMO. I nwant to get the music for the Obi-Wan/Anakin/Dooku duel now...and that track fades off just as we get there!

I HATE THEM!

 

"Leia breaks the news" was originally titled "Rebel Briefing" to avoid spoilers.

 

>"Leia breaks the news" was originally titled "Rebel Briefing" to avoid spoilers.<

but there no spoilers in the title...

 

Exactly. Not really any spoilers in that. "Ben's Death / TIE Fighter Attack" on the other hand...

 

Dont forget about "Qui-Gons Funeral",no spoilers at all

 

I was making a point that track name spoilers are not new to Episodes I and II.

 

I know I was just adding a prequel example.

 

I find it silly to have a soundtrack released before a film.

Release them concurrently. There's enough other ways to generate interest in a new film, especially Star Wars.

But anyhow, don't buy a soundtrack until you have seen the film. Problem solved. (I rushed down to the music store on my lunch the day after seeing the midnight AOTC. ).

 

Geez guys, let's not be so nitpicky here.

The ESB cue named "The Asteroid Field" goes with the scene - amazingly enough - the asteroid field chase in the film!

It's not like they took the music from the scene where Anakin starts his podracer in TPM and called it "The Dark Side Beckons."

 

Where in A New Hope do we see an Inner City?

Mos Eisley?

 

And the other two cues that make up Inner City that have nothing to do with Mos Eisley?

 

We could chalk that up to the "horrible editing of JW music" that everyone keeps complaining about in AOTC. It was probably for the scenes of Mos Eisley that they could never get to look good, so they cut (consequently, if you want to see that footage, check out the christmas special. They have shots of Mos Eisley streets that match the sets in ANH and the quality looks like non-tv film...probably the footage that was cut).

Anywho, they probably cut that part out of the movie, but then used the cues as filler for other sections. And we, having always heard them with the other sections, never would have know that they were originally intended for the Inner City.

 

As something of a tangent, when I first got the ANH soundtrack, I didn't know the term "inner city" (I was ten) so I thought that track title was referring to the inside of the Death Star.

 

Actually no don't blame this on George Lucas. This is something John Williams has done his whole career. He has resequenced music from the film into a nice listening experience with no regard for where in the film it occurs. This happens on John Williams scores for non-George Lucas films as well...