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It’s the Lost Season 5 Soundtrack CD! It won’t hit retail until this coming Tuesday, but a copy arrived here a few hours ago from somewhere among my nebuluous network of insiders and associates (or perhaps it was the strange time-shifting qualities of the Island that made it possible)…

I’m now on my second time of playing through it and once again Michael Giacchino has turned in a mesmerizing score (but those of us who watch Lost know that already 🙂 There are 23 tracks on this thing. The ones I’ve most been looking forward to having are “The Swinging Bendulum”: the theme that was first introduced when we saw the Lamp Post in the episode “The Lie”. That, and “The Tangled Web”, better known as Jacob’s theme. Unfortunately “The Tangled Web” does not trail off into the score that we heard when we got our first real view of ...

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A little more than a month from now on May 11th, you and me and all the other Lost fanatics will finally get to buy the soundtrack from Season 5. Click here to pre-order it from Amazon. It’ll street for $17.98 but you’re likely to find it for less depending on where you look.

Lost is the only television series that I’ve ever gone to the trouble of buying the soundtrack CDs, and I’m looking forward to putting more of Michael Giacchino’s beautiful work on my iPod. And Season 5 had some of the best music of the show’s run. What I’m eager for most: getting that theme that we first heard during the Lamppost scene in “The Lie”, and what most fans are calling “Jacob’s Theme” that was introduced in “The Incident, Part 1”.

(Incidentally Mr. Giacchino, if you ever read this: I would love to have a ...

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All of y’all who’ve been wondering when the soundtrack for Lost Season 4 would be coming out: be of good cheer! According to the Varèse Sarabande website, Lost: Season 4 Original Television Soundtrack is due for release on May 12th, just before the Season 5 finale.

Here’s the pertinent info that’s on the site…

It’s here! Michael Giacchino’s brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost‘s addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Losts thrilling Season 4 … just what you

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A number of people have been writing in to report that “Roar!”, the track that Michael Giacchino composed for the hit monster movie Cloverfield, has disappeared from iTunes just days after it finally became available for download. Here’s my post about when “Roar!” first appeared on iTunes.

I did a search on iTunes also, and “Roar!” isn’t showing up either in results or on Michael Giacchino’s page. However, if you go to the original URL that links directly to “Roar!”‘s page on iTunes, as of this writing it’s still showing up as being available. And for $0.99, the same as most other tracks on iTunes (it was originally selling for $1.99).

It’s probably just a glitch in the iTunes database. I can’t think of any other reason why a track that was in such wild demand would be yanked so quickly, or even at all. Anyhoo, ...

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Scott Kelly sends word that after three months of a lot of people wanting this, that “Roar!”, the instrumental piece by Michael Giacchino that plays over the end credits of Cloverfield (and the only original musical score composed for that movie) is now available for purchase via iTunes as of today. If you have iTunes already loaded on your computer then aim here to go straight to “Roar!”.

I just bought it and am listening to it now. “Roar!” is both monstrous and majestic. I thought that in addition to complementing Cloverfield, that it was a beautiful piece in its own right and a terrific homage to the classic Toho “giant monstah” movies that Cloverfield was inspired by.

Incidentally, the version of “Roar!” that you can download is five minutes longer than the one used in the movie. After listening to both – someone sent me a ...

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Not long after Cloverfield came out in January (read my review here) this blog received word from a reliable source (and still a reliable one in spite of things) that Michael Giacchino’s “Roar!”, the one bit of original music score for that movie, was going to be release “soon”. Obviously this did not happen and we are still waiting for it.

Well today Ain’t It Cool News is pointing everyone to a video at Film Score Monthly Online wherein Giacchino addresses the high demand for “Roar!” and the problems that have come with it. Nobody foresaw that a single piece of music like this would become so sought-after, Giacchino says. He also adds that the complete track is 13 minutes long and that when (not “if” but “when”) “Roar!” comes out it will be the full piece.

So sounds like it’s coming after all, just that they’ve ...

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Nothing official has come out yet, but as a follow-up to what was posted earlier today, I’m now hearing from a fairly reliable source (meaning they’ve been accurate before) that Michael Giacchino’s “Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)”, the awe-inspiring bit of music from the end credits of Cloverfield, will be released “very soon”, as in probably this week. As many have hoped, the primary delivery vehicle is expected to be iTunes, but this is not an absolute. The important thing is, it does look like we’ll be able to purchase it shortly.

Thank goodness that this seems to be coming out so fast! I was starting to worry that I’d have to do another petition 😛...

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