My Review of the Utah Symphony star wars trilogy cd versus the LP

Listening to the LP i am blown away by the increased dynamics.  The CD is a very nice release but the LP is audiophile quality.  The best part is the re-recorded return of the jedi stuff. Makes the CD special edition of the official set muddy in comparison.  This LP is a digital recording so its even better than the RSO LP.

Although i do prefer Williams over all.  The other orchestras timings are different sometimes.  Notes are accentuated differently for a concert hall performance rather than something scored for film.

I can only hope that someday Lucas sees fit to release a restored and uncut Return of the Jedi release from the original source tapes. 

I mean i have a CD conducted by Williams in the 1980's by the Boston Pops for the star wars trilogy and the dynamics on that CD are stunning in comparison to the official Lucas releases.  I might even track down the LP for reference purposes.

Then again i was listening to the anthology set CD box the other day and the music sounded much more alive than the special edition releases.  That and the LP's i have tell me that the Special editions are a frickin joke and only star wars was done right.  Empire reversed sound channels and missing cues.  Jedi so badly ruined by being a 3rd generation copy put through too much noise reduction.

I have the LP and CD of the Utah Symphony recording, too. But, I've had it with the LP version- at one time I had 2 LPs of this and BOTH LPs developed a loud "pop" right in the middle of "luke and leia". I figured I wasn't meant to listen to this recording on LP, so, I sold one of them to a record store and bought the CD. :-P

The one thing I don't like about the USO version of "luke and leia" is that it runs a bit too slow. I love Jabba The Hutt though, (especially since it's the only recorded version available) and I like "Darth Vader's Death" better than the LSO version.

I'm glad that the utah symphony release of the trilogy and the national philarmonic release for return of the jedi were made before the awful Jedi Rocks.

Yub Nub might not be the best piece ever composed but the lyrics were written by Joseph Williams with the help of Ben Burtt.   John Williams son.  Jedi rocks written by some hack and neither Joseph or John Williams.

The New ending theme was written by Williams but like the 4th Indiana Jones score was completely phoned in.  It is almost identical to the temp track.

Just so Lucas could add bad cgi to the end of Return of the Jedi. 

Coruscant did not exist until the EU created it.  Does not belong in the Movie. 

The film is about the heroes we have been following for three films not random people on different planets we don't care about.

The 2004 is the worst offender ever it has both Hayden and Jar Jar inserted into the movie. 

I cannot watch that version because it makes me want to take the DVD and throw it at the wall and watch it explode.

Nah, that doesn't work, sky. I threw mine at the wall, and it just bounced off. Didn't explode. Left a little mark on the wall for me to patch up though...

So, you're saying it didn't go in?  It just impacted on the surface?

Come on I used to bullseye womprats in my T-16 back home their not much bigger than a horrible dvd.

LOL @ Xhonzi. Yeah, that is exactly what I was saying. Hmm, speaking of bullseyeing womprats, while my wall didn't do much damage to the disc, my pellet gun might... Been while since I have been skeet shooting.