The Jabba concert suite may be missing, but the version that was done by the Utah Symphony Orchestra on the Star Wars Trilogy CD (Varese Sarabande label) is excellent.

I always thought it was odd that on the original Jedi LP, they used an alternate cue rather than the actual cue that was used in the film for "Rebel Briefing" (the scene where Leia tells Han about Luke, which dissolves into the funeral pyre scene). When I was a kid, I remember listening to that piece of music and thinking to myself "what part of the movie was THAT in?!" Fortunately, both versions have since been released on CD (plus 1 or 2 other alternate versions of that scene).

I understand why they put the more "commercial" sounding versions of Lapti Nek and the Ewok Celebration on the LP, though.

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005

The RCA and sony are indistinguisable in listening terms but sonys claims to be further remastered in something called DSD or direct stream digital whatever that technobabble means i have no clue.

I also own the first RCA 2-CD releases, and I once asked if I should bother with the Sony re-releases. Someone here told me not to bother because they were sonically identical to the RCA versions.

I don't think DSD means much unless you're talking about SACD:

INFO ABOUT DSD LINK

Why these soundtracks haven't been released on SACD is beyond me. You'd think it would be a no-brainer considering how popular they are. Maybe the source material isn't good enough? Seems like a waste just to do yet another CD release.