I have the 97 Star Wars soundtrack. I like that it is complete and does not have any of the added music for the new scenes. Even where the Jabba scene goes it just fades like in the original version.

Does the 97 Empire soundtrack have any of the tracked music spliced in from the new scenes? The part where we see Vader land his shuttle in the RotJ outtake sounds really bad, it's an abrupt change in the music and repeats the score of where Vader says "No, I am your father."

Those added scenes to Empire don't get mentioned a lot but I think they are among the worst additions to the trilogy. They show that George has no idea of pacing or story structure or that a scene which on it's own might look cool can make a movie worse. It totally ruins the moment with Luke's escape from the bottom of Cloud City. The Jabba scene in ANH is stupid but it doesn't interrupt nearly as emotionally involving of scenes as the Vader shuttle ones do.

And are the versions of Lapti Nek and Yub Nub in the earlier cd's the same as they sound in the movie? The only isolated versions (Deleted Magic menu audio) I've heard are different.