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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire soundtrack

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I found the complete soundtrack available on Youtube and gave it a listen. Amazing score by Joel McNeely IMO, though I read McNeely himself wasn’t happy with the end product and that it’s one of his least favourite works. Myself I disagree, I think it’s a pretty strong score and it’s a real shame the music is now part of the Legends continuity, and I would love McNeely to do more SW music.

Any other fans here?

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fmalover said:

I found the complete soundtrack available on Youtube and gave it a listen. Amazing score by Joel McNeely IMO, though I read McNeely himself wasn’t happy with the end product and that it’s one of his least favourite works. Myself I disagree, I think it’s a pretty strong score and it’s a real shame the music is now part of the Legends continuity, and I would love McNeely to do more SW music.

Any other fans here?

I own this score on CD ! I think it’s great and they should have had Mcneely score Rogue one . To me he sounds the most like John Williams since …John Williams !

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fmalover said:

it’s a real shame the music is now part of the Legends continuity

Now that’s a ludicrous notion. Music transcends such petty concepts as “continuity”.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

fmalover said:

it’s a real shame the music is now part of the Legends continuity

Now that’s a ludicrous notion. Music transcends such petty concepts as “continuity”.

Silly battery man, don’t you know all the music in Star Wars is in-universe and all the characters hear it at all times? It’s the sounds of the Force or something.

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Never heard this before … just picked up a used copy on eBay.

In for a treat?

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The Shadows of the Empire soundtrack introduced “Dha Werda Verda”, which would later be tied to the Mandalorian species seen in Tales of the Jedi.

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The music cue heard in TFA when Finn, Rey and BB-8 are running from the stormtroopers on Jakku (and heard again when they’re running back to the Falcon with Han and Chewie) always reminded a lot of the SotE score.