Stuart Little – For Your Consideration Promo (Alan Silvestri, 1999) [MP3]

As requested:

Stuart Little – For Your Consideration
Best Original Score (1999)

Composed and directed by Alan Silvestri. Orchestrated by
Bruce Babcock, Mark McKenzie and Conrad Pope.
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MP3 192 kbps CBR

Big-hearted music for little mouse

Alan Silvestri seems to specialise in movies about mice, having scored Mouse Hunt and both Stuart Littles in recent years. Surprisingly, there was never a score album released for either of the latter – a great pity, because the music is as charming and delightful as the films. Fortunately, Columbia Pictures did put together an album to send to Oscar voters in an attempt to get a nomination for the score, and that album has found its way around the collectors’ circuit.

Silvestri focuses very much on the sweet, good-natured side of it all without directly accentuating any of the comedy, which results in a score which could certainly never be accused of failing to be sentimental, but the composer manages to keep just the right side of things becoming too saccharine. "Tearful Goodbyes", which opens the album, is the perfect example, as it introduces the main theme for strings and woodwinds, a delightful concoction that is really most touching. The second theme is much jazzier, representing the bustle of city life; it’s another good piece, which Silvestri sends through some nice variations along the way. Despite the quality of the two themes, the best cue is a piece of first-rate adventure music that comes out of nowhere, "Boat Race", a piece of great energy and vigour which actually evokes John Williams at his best.

This score is certainly not half as inventive or downright entertaining as Mouse Hunt, but for all that it is still a superior example of a score for a movie of this type. With a pair of great themes, one first-rate piece of family action music and enough charm to blow your socks off, the only real drawback is that it’s so hard to get hold of the music. It’ll probably be too sentimental for some – but then, they probably wouldn’t be trying to get their hands on the music for a film about a talking mouse if they were without sentiment themselves. A delight.

(Review by James Southall, movie-wave.net (http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/stuart_little.html))

Audio: MPEG layer III, v1, 192 kbps (CBR), 44.1 kHz, JointStereo (not my rip)
ID3 tag version 2.4.0
Spectrograms and a few scans/photos included.

Tracklist and durations:

6,6M 01 – Tearful Goodbyes.mp3 [4:45]
2,4M 02 – Meet Stuart.mp3 [1:41]
4,0M 03 – I’m Stuart Little.mp3 [2:52]
4,5M 04 – Mouse With Pet Cat.mp3 [3:14]
2,5M 05 – Mob Cat.mp3 [1:48]
2,8M 06 – Stuart’s New Home.mp3 [1:59]
7,8M 07 – Boat Race.mp3 [5:37]
6,0M 08 – Snowball Lies.mp3 [4:20]
9,4M 09 – Final Showdown.mp3 [6:49]
4,5M 10 – Fairy Tale Ending.mp3 [3:15]

Total playtime: 36:21
Files compressed into an encrypted 7-zip archive. Use Snowbell when requested to type.
Download link: SLFYC.7z | Uloz.to (http://ulozto.net/xDbWm2Ks/slfyc-7z) (53.0 MiB)

Enjoy.

And one more to add the FYC collection. Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks, kooke!

Beautiful upload!
Thank you, my friend!

thank you much! very hard finding fycs older 🙂

YES! Thank you!

Thanks! 🙂

Thanks for this! BTW, can anyone give me rundown on the sound quality, volumes of the iso score version?

Never had it. Thanks!

thanks

You are welcome, friends.

@Bioscope: I’m not familiar with isolated scores. Is that the same as the 28-tracks set? I’ve seen also fan-made artwork for a 24-tracks set which includes songs.

Kooke, I think so. The 28 Tracker may have been sourced from the Sony dvd isolated track. I was just curious whether there are any volume fluctuations. On the other hand, perhaps someone got hold of a proper sessions set? I know SL2 Complete was legit. No Iso to source from…

Yes, there are a few volume differences between tracks, and you find also difference inside the same track, with some quiet parts a little too quiet -for my taste- compared to the strong passages, wich surely was perfect for the desired effect in the movie. However those differences are not wild even if you are not a big fan of broad dynamics, and the release is very enjoyable.

It’s more comfortable to set the "radio" (single track) mode of ReplayGain volume control (if that information is present in the files’ tags and is supported by the player, like Clementine, Foobar2000, or VLC). Here is a list of the computed ReplayGain corrections for each file in track-mode:

01 – Adoption Day.flac +0.84 dB
02 – The Orphans.flac -1.05 dB
03 – Stuart Appears.flac +10.60 dB
04 – George’s New Brother.flac +8.35 dB
05 – Midnight Rambler , Washing Day.flac +0.96 dB
06 – New Wardrobe.flac +6.74 dB
07 – A Lot Of Littles , The Gifts.flac +4.51 dB
08 – Baseball , Time To Go.flac +13.59 dB
09 – Something’s Missing.flac +15.13 dB
10 – Monty The Mouth , Odd Snowbell.flac +2.70 dB
11 – Mouse Hunt.flac -4.60 dB
12 – Wild West Mouse.flac -3.56 dB
13 – Roadster , The Wasp.flac +1.65 dB
14 – Mob Cat , Final Check.flac +4.54 dB
15 – Broken Remote.flac +2.89 dB
16 – The Boat Race.flac -7.72 dB
17 – Mr. & Mrs. Stout.flac +12.53 dB
18 – Negotiating , Stuart’s Departure.flac -4.98 dB
19 – The New Home.flac +6.70 dB
20 – Police Examinations.flac +0.04 dB
21 – The Truth , Cat Chat.flac -4.65 dB
22 – Central Park Chase.flac -3.42 dB
23 – Stuart Makes It.flac -3.04 dB
24 – Snowbell’s Lies , Stuart Leaves.flac +13.34 dB
25 – Final Confrontation.flac +2.80 dB
26 – Wet Cats.flac -6.29 dB
27 – Happy End.flac -3.49 dB
28 – Mouse Hunt -2.16 dB

Complete ReplayGain metadata in http://pastebin.ca/2464446

But check it by yourself; the share is still alive in this thread of SuPeR_STE (Thread 101582) thanks to the big bishtyboshty.

After looking at the spectrograms (http://imgur.com/a/OX81b#0) you can find three types of them:

I – Those without -or scarce- data in frequencies above 18 kHz, which would be consistent with origin on a lossy audio encoding from DVD (the "iso", I presume).
II – Those with data in the full range of frequencies, sometimes with much energy, possibly raw sound coming from sessions: 3, 10, 16, 18, 19, 24-27 and 28 (this one, a little different).
III – Files with mixed parts of Type-I and II: 6, 14, 21

Then the 28-tracks Complete Edition is not the dvd isolated score nor the sessions but an mix of those two kinds of audio. You can see some cut&paste edits in files of the Type-I, for example, #13 and #14, or of the Type-II, as in #28, where the interference line disappears for a while. And it seems that the "sessions-like" audio came from the lossless version of the promo of this thread. This is the correspondence between this Promo and the 28-tracks Complete release

Promo 28-tracks
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01 18
02 03
03 first part of 21
04 10
05 first part of 14
06 19
07 16
08 24
09 25 & 26
10 27

and here, another album showing those matches: Photo Album – Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/5qubc#)

So, Bioscope: there’s nothing of the sessions in the 28-tracks release; you have isolated + promo. And DingDongSenior, who requested the promo hoping that it would have additional music: unfortunately it doesn’t.

thanks for this

Link still available!

Thanks for the share!!

Thank you!

Love this score- thanks for sharing!