The James Horner Discography Restoration Project

Hi everyone…

With the passing of one of the greatest film composers ever now one week ago, I had an idea of creating a full remastered catalogue of all the released scores ever done by James Horner. I have many scores of the late Horner on CD and lossless. But I am certainly missing quite a few.

So before I begin, I am doing a call out to other fellow members who wish to help provide me with lossless versions of Horner scores that I am missing. In the next few days, I will post the scores that I am missing and hope other members will be kind enough to share some of their favourite Horner scores so that I can "remaster" them and share for others to enjoy. All credit for the original source will be credited to the rightful member.

Please voice your opinion in this thread. If many of you think this is a total waste of time, I will discontinue this endeavour and ask the moderators to close this thread. However, if I sense that most people would be open to create their own "remastered" Horner catalogue, then I will consider continuing this project.

It will be lots of work but worth it so that we can all enjoy even more his great music.

Thanks…

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MOVIE SCORE CATALOGUE NUMBERS (W/ HIGHEST QUALITY FORMAT AVAILABLE)
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JH-DRP-001 1980 – Humanoids From The Deep (Thread 191242)
JH-DRP-002 1980 – Battle Beyond The Stars (Thread 191245)
JH-DRP-003 1981 – Deadly Blessing (Thread 191764)
JH-DRP-004 1981 – Wolfen (Thread 191277)
JH-DRP-005 1981 – The Pursuit Of D. B. Cooper (Thread 191768)
JH-DRP-006 1982 – Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan (Thread 191795)
JH-DRP-007 1982 – 48 Hrs. (Thread 191802)
JH-DRP-008 1983 – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Thread 193277)

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Missing Albums

1983 The Dresser
1984 The Stone Boy
1985 Heaven Help Us
1985 Volunteers
1986 Off Beat
1987 P.K. and the Kid
1991 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
2012 Cristiada (Greater Glory)
2015 One Day in Auschwitz
2015 Living in the Age of Airplanes
2015 The 33

Lossy Albums

1991 Once Around
2003 Radio
2004 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2015 Southpaw

Albums I Will NOT "Remaster" (Poor Source Quality!)

1981 The Hand
1990 I Love You to Death

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*** Ideally, I want to work off the most complete material (with ZERO SFX), in the best quality possible (Lossless). If there are any custom work done by other members and I want to work off that, I will request their permission first before doing anything and credit them as best as possible! ***

I hope you can help make this the most amazing Horner catalogue ever put together! Thanks…

Awesome idea! Hope I can help in any way. 🙂

Sounds great. Several of his scores could benefit from such treatment.

I’d be interested in hearing the bootleg complete score to Something Wicked This Way Comes in a remastered
form. The source as is is unlistenable to me.

I’d be interested in hearing the bootleg complete score to Something Wicked This Way Comes in a remastered
form. The source as is is unlistenable to me.

Is there material missing from the Intrada release?

Excellent Idea, I’ve been looking for a thread like this since he died…. v.v Still sad for me

dconline, I appreciate your dedication for this huge project very much. I have a small collection of Horner scores myself (the ones I like the most, maybe 40 or 50), but that collection is far from being complete, obviously, so I’m looking forward to what you are about to offer here, especially since you are going to restore them. And, I’m far from being familiar with all of his scores, so I’m sure I find some more gems to keep. If I can be of any help for you, I’ll let you know (providing FLAC’s, or ripping any of my original CD’s). And, I’m sure there’re dozens of people here who could do the same (JHFan especially).

Yes! I have a few, and if one of those are beyond your reach, I’ll be more than willing to help! James was a fantastic composer and deserves this kind of attention 🙂

Thanks to all up to now that are willing to help. For this project what is really important is: QUALITY vs. QUANTITY. In other words, I would rather "remaster" an official released soundtrack with less tracks than a DVD rip with lots of SFX included within the tracks. I know a lot of members here are completists, but I am not. Again, I tend to gravitate to a superb recording from an official album rather than a DVD rip.

As we go and people have great Recording Sessions or Expanded editions with great sound quality (and truly lossless), then I would try to see what I can do to use those sources to create the new "remaster" for the catalogue.

My list is almost finished and I hope to hear back from people to see if I forgotten any movie scores by Horner.

Hello DC-Online, I do have a certain amount of the scores you are looking for in Lossless. I will be out of town for a week, but after I return, I will check what you still have missing and will share with you what I have.

Hello DC-Online, I do have a certain amount of the scores you are looking for in Lossless. I will be out of town for a week, but after I return, I will check what you still have missing and will share with you what I have.

Thanks very much. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Of course, who ever shares will certainly get credit on the post when the "remaster" is done. Thanks again…

Hi ya. I’ll PM you. – You will find I possess 95% of the stuff you’re looking for in FLAC. I’ll let you have anything you like. Regards, Alison.

Is there material missing from the Intrada release?

Yes. Horner didn’t like complete releases apparently.

Are you OK with Apple Lossless files?

Are you OK with Apple Lossless files?

Oh yes. I’m on a Mac and for the sake of everyone else on this shrine, I deliver my lossless files in FLAC, but always make M4As for myself.

OK … I’ll send you a link to m4a files for Once Upon A Forest and Le Dernier Loup.

What about Horner scores not on your list? Or what if there are original Horner tracks found in anthologies, like this one:

Amazing Stories – Anthology 1 (Intrada Special Collection Vol. 32 – 2006)
Disc 1
1-08 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, The Battle , Jobe Runs
1-09 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, Travis Dies
1-10 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, First Chase
1-11 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, Antique Shop

I could upload these four tracks in FLAC, if interested.

What about Horner scores not on your list? Or what if there are original Horner tracks found in anthologies, like this one:

Amazing Stories – Anthology 1 (Intrada Special Collection Vol. 32 – 2006)
Disc 1
1-08 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, The Battle , Jobe Runs
1-09 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, Travis Dies
1-10 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, First Chase
1-11 – James Horner – Alamo Jobe, Antique Shop

I could upload these four tracks in FLAC, if interested.

I appreciate that. However I decide for now to concentrate only on his movies scores. Once done, I might request anyone who has other great stuff outside of movie scores (I really want to remaster his violin and cello concerto). Thanks again…

Here’s my list, let me know what you need:
Battle Beyond the Stars
Humanoids From the Deep
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Uncommon Valor
Commando
Aliens
Red Heat
Glory
The Rocketeer
Legends of the Fall
Apollo 13
Ransom
Spitfire Grill
The Mask of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro
Bicentennial Man
A Beautiful Mind
The Missing
The New World
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Star Trek II & III
Titanic
The Amazing Spider-Man
Avatar
Braveheart
The Perfect Storm
Wolf Totem
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Mighty Joe Young
Clear and Present Danger
In Country
Batteries not Included
The Life Before her Eyes
Greater Glory
Brainstorm
Black Gold
Krull (Limited Edition)
The Devil’s Own
48 Hrs
Beyond Borders
Swing Kids
Gorky Park
Class Action
The Journey of Natty Gann
The Pagemaster
Windtalkers
Enemy at the Gates
Thunderheart
Spiderwick Chronicles
Patriot Games
All are ALAC/M4A since I import everything into iTunes.

Hi dconline this is certainly a big project you’ve started, you’ll have your work cut out for yourself for quite a while. I received the links for Battle Beyond the Stars and legend of the Fall. And I thought I’d try Battle Beyond the Stars first being the older score, I played it on a fairly good Hi Fi system. I think you have done a splendid job, you haven’t just increased the volume so it sounds louder and brighter, because I did that on the original CD and yours sounded better, the percussion is more upfront and you can hear the different instruments more clearly. Moving on to Legend of the Fall, with this being more modern in recording I thought yeah what can he do…..but I think you’ve trounced the original CD, on track 2 "The Ludlows" the piano sounds so much more clearer more enjoyable and the voices coming through on the final track at the beginning sound like they are in your room and not round the corner, and as soon as the base comes in it appears to be quite with not much distortion. I turned up the original CD to almost the same clarity and the base reverberated so overall you’ve version seem more defined. I said I’d only try two but now I’d like to hear what else you plan, it seemed you’ve joined the select few on this site (soundtrekker etc) (and others)who have the patience to take the time to remaster some lovely scores. But I do say this, please try and keep them in lossless ( flac’s great) not much point going down mp3 route. Anyway I’m sure some people will probably be more technical in there description than myself, but I said I’d report back and good luck for the rest of the challenge.

Hi dconline this is certainly a big project you’ve started, you’ll have your work cut out for yourself for quite a while. I received the links for Battle Beyond the Stars and legend of the Fall. And I thought I’d try Battle Beyond the Stars first being the older score, I played it on a fairly good Hi Fi system. I think you have done a splendid job, you haven’t just increased the volume so it sounds louder and brighter, because I did that on the original CD and yours sounded better, the percussion is more upfront and you can hear the different instruments more clearly. Moving on to Legend of the Fall, with this being more modern in recording I thought yeah what can he do…..but I think you’ve trounced the original CD, on track 2 "The Ludlows" the piano sounds so much more clearer more enjoyable and the voices coming through on the final track at the beginning sound like they are in your room and not round the corner, and as soon as the base comes in it appears to be quite with not much distortion. I turned up the original CD to almost the same clarity and the base reverberated so overall you’ve version seem more defined. I said I’d only try two but now I’d like to hear what else you plan, it seemed you’ve joined the select few on this site (soundtrekker etc) (and others)who have the patience to take the time to remaster some lovely scores. But I do say this, please try and keep them in lossless ( flac’s great) not much point going down mp3 route. Anyway I’m sure some people will probably be more technical in there description than myself, but I said I’d report back and good luck for the rest of the challenge.

Hi there. Thanks so much for your comparison. It was a treat reading your observations. Keep it up! I truly love reading these so I have a sense how people are interpreting the difference between the original score and my restoration. There will be more scores to come since I have 120 to do in all! Thanks again and hope to read more of your critique in the future!

Well Done On These Dconline They Sound Truly Wonderful!
Mr Horner Himself Would Be Proud To Hear These Re-masters.

I Eagerly Await the Other 100+ :awsm:

Keep Up Your Efforts And Thankyou Again

I can’t wait to hear Krull that sound good to start with, it can’t get much better can it? you cannot add whats not there, but we will wait and see.

I can’t wait to hear Krull that sound good to start with, it can’t get much better can it? you cannot add whats not there, but we will wait and see.

The early scores are not easy since I dislike Horner’s choice of mixing and sound for French Horns for example. Since I can’t alter the mix, I try to do what I can with what I got and try to make as good as I can get for my ears without going overboard hopefully. Things get better when we get to the late 80’s scores and onwards (still got a ways until I get there…).

What a brilliant project to occupy yourself with, and to thrill us. Eagerly awaiting for your next gem.

Cheers.

I’ve been doing this sort of thing myself for years, but I’m only using my own ears to do it, nothing special.

It’s a good idea, though I’d easily argue not every album needs it.

"Pas de Deux" doesn’t need a remaster, and I’m not even sure why you said it did. What it DOES need is a remixing because the album mix favored the two soloists well over the remaining orchestra. That’s nothing anyone can change without the multitrack masters. The live recordings people did with their phones had a better balance of elements at times, which is an odd thing to say but I guess that’s due to wherever the person recording was actually sitting.

I’ve been doing this sort of thing myself for years, but I’m only using my own ears to do it, nothing special.

It’s a good idea, though I’d easily argue not every album needs it.

"Pas de Deux" doesn’t need a remaster, and I’m not even sure why you said it did. What it DOES need is a remixing because the album mix favored the two soloists well over the remaining orchestra. That’s nothing anyone can change without the multitrack masters. The live recordings people did with their phones had a better balance of elements at times, which is an odd thing to say but I guess that’s due to wherever the person recording was actually sitting.

Hi JHFan. I certainly wouldn’t argue with what you are saying. There are certainly many later score releases by Horner that need little tweaking if not to help give a little dynamic push on the quiet parts to help the listening experience in environments that are challenging for this kind of music (inside my car comes to mind and is the instigator to this whole process).

Pas De Deux is an excellent recording and I would simply try to help the quiet parts out with some minor EQing. Nobody has to like what I do. Not at all. It is all subjective. I enjoy listen to this kind of music this way and hope others do to. If not, the original recording is always there. I am only offering an alternative to a masterpiece.

In the end, I hope you will enjoy what I have done and what I will do so that we can enjoy even more the music of the great James Horner.

I don’t have a car to listen in, but I do all of my listening in only two places:

-in my living room on a set of large home theater speakers, using just 2-channel for stereo music

-on my iPod with headphones while I am enjoying walks outside, though sometimes it ends up that I’m on a bus which is far worse.

I have iTunes but I never listen to music on my computer unless I am editing. It’s just to transfer from computer to iPod, and occasionally I’ll burn a CD.

The primary reason I do what I do is for a very similar purpose as you, only instead of it being in a car in traffic, it’s walking outside next to traffic or birds chirping, etc.

That sounds amazing! This is really really exciting stuff!

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Hi JHFan. I certainly wouldn’t argue with what you are saying. There are certainly many later score releases by Horner that need little tweaking if not to help give a little dynamic push on the quiet parts to help the listening experience in environments that are challenging for this kind of music (inside my car comes to mind and is the instigator to this whole process).

Pas De Deux is an excellent recording and I would simply try to help the quiet parts out with some minor EQing. Nobody has to like what I do. Not at all. It is all subjective. I enjoy listen to this kind of music this way and hope others do to. If not, the original recording is always there. I am only offering an alternative to a masterpiece.

I love JHFan’s work on James Horner works, but I agree with dconline. The more versions to choose from the merrier. I, too, commute to work on a daily basis driving myself in my car and I am often frustrated by so many scores that do not maintain a steady volume, seeming to disappear completely for lengths of time.
I appreciate both of you greatly for the work you do, and I think you both have valid points.

dconline – I’m really excited to hear what you do with remastering and/or equalizing the sound out a bit. It has made listening to the scores you have restored so much more enjoyable.
In the end, I hope you will enjoy what I have done and what I will do so that we can enjoy even more the music of the great James Horner.

Hi everyone. I’m asking the forum for advice. I have read the rules for the forum concerning what labels and music not to post, but as I continue this project, I am realizing very quickly a few issues:

– Though sending links via PM is a controlled way of doing things, it simply isn’t efficient for large volumes of demands. Is there anything else I can do other than a direct link?

– As the project gets bigger, I am going to run out of online space very quickly. Any other suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks.

Hi everyone. I’m asking the forum for advice. I have read the rules for the forum concerning what labels and music not to post, but as I continue this project, I am realizing very quickly a few issues:

– Though sending links via PM is a controlled way of doing things, it simply isn’t efficient for large volumes of demands. Is there anything else I can do other than a direct link?

– As the project gets bigger, I am going to run out of online space very quickly. Any other suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks.

I don’t know about the former (I don’t have the patience to send / ask for many PMs for links, but I’ve got no problem with PMs as a conversation means) but I’d just suggest using maybe a second email account to set up a secondary account with a file host for the latter.

Hi everyone. I’m asking the forum for advice. I have read the rules for the forum concerning what labels and music not to post, but as I continue this project, I am realizing very quickly a few issues:

– Though sending links via PM is a controlled way of doing things, it simply isn’t efficient for large volumes of demands. Is there anything else I can do other than a direct link?

– As the project gets bigger, I am going to run out of online space very quickly. Any other suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks.

I don’t know about the former (I don’t have the patience to send / ask for many PMs for links, but I’ve got no problem with PMs as a conversation means) but I’d just suggest using maybe a second email account to set up a secondary account with a file host for the latter.

I agree with JHFan. Best idea would be to set up a second e-mail account so you can create a separate MEGA account.
You can still receive the PMs on your regular account. Another super thread I saw here recently had dozens of albums to share as well.
Whenever someone asked for a specific album, he just sent the entire collection of links. Both a time saver and very efficient 🙂

Hmmm… I will certainly look into that. The collection of links idea is good too. I’ll see what I can do. Thanks very much for your 2 cents on this.

Hmmm… I will certainly look into that. The collection of links idea is good too. I’ll see what I can do. Thanks very much for your 2 cents on this.
To answer your second question, I have a suggestion (I’ll pm you on the double).

I want this D:

Anybody have "The Hand" in true lossless? It would be sequentially my next score to remaster but I guess I will have to skip this one for now.

Anybody have "The Hand" in true lossless? It would be sequentially my next score to remaster but I guess I will have to skip this one for now.

As far as I know, it only exists as a really crappy, low-quality bootleg.

concerning what labels and music not to post

– Though sending links via PM is a controlled way of doing things, it simply isn’t efficient for large volumes of demands. Is there anything else I can do other than a direct link?

– As the project gets bigger, I am going to run out of online space very quickly. Any other suggestions/recommendations?

You could still manage through PM’s for the non-linkables.
Some people here just copy/paste from a saved .txt file with the links and titles/formats etc.
Just PM the big list and let users pick what they want from the PM.

You can also designate some volunteers who are willing to accept PM’s to help metigate the magnitude of PM’s to come in the future.
Just ask users to pick one person to PM and not spam all available volunteers.
List them in initial post.

As far as I know, it only exists as a really crappy, low-quality bootleg.

Figures. Same as I Love You To Death. Horrible bootleg. I’d rather rip the DVD audio than take that bootleg. I’ll look for the bootleg and see how bad it is. Thanks for answering my question though.

As I add new "remastered" scores to this project, I am now updating the score list with links to the original score threads so that this "James Horner Restoration Project" thread can be like a go-to page to find all the scores in one spot. Hope this helps everyone in the future.

Wow what a great Idea! Looking forward to this.

I was trying to remaster "The Hand" and whatever I do to the bootleg quality of this source, I can’t get it to sound right at all. Some of the early Horner recordings are of horrible quality and I truly hope La-La Land, Intrada or Varese will step up and release some of these hard-to-find or inexistent scores in higher quality (one can wish no?). Therefore I have decided to revise the list of scores at the top of this post so that I filter out the scores that are bootlegs and have crappy sound and the ones I truly do not have. I will be doing this soon.

I have decided not to go exactly chronologically with my catalogue now since I am still missing some Horner scores and don’t know if I will ever get a copy of them. I will make a request post on the forum to see if anyone who hasn’t seen this project post can still help get this catalogue together.

thank you so much with these restorations. I’m rediscovering all these incredible soundtracks. Amazing sound. Please go on…

Thanks, as well. Looking forward to more releases in this series!

Me too! Looking forward to more. Just letting you know there are those of us who really appreciate the work you’re putting in on this project!

Thank you thank you. RIP Mr. Horner. You brought so much enlightenment to me and this world through your music. May your music shine and make waves in the universe.

Damn. That was fast. Thanks DC, keep it going.

good work. thank you.

great idea

I received a link for the Something Wicked this Way Comes. Thank you pal!

Horner is my favorite composer of all time and my heart still hurts about what happened about 2 months ago. Its even hard to say it to this day, and I can’t assume it, and probably never will.

Thanks for this project so, so much!

EDIT: Oh and I hope we get a release for THE 33 soon. A couple of friends saw it already here in Chile and said the score was absolutely brilliant (some of them are not even into film scores and said it)

I love your DC restorations thus far and looking forward to hearing more of them. Thanks for all of your hard work!

go here
http://download-soundtracks.com/movie_soundtracks/something-wicked-this-way-comes-soundtrack-by-james-horner/

Ok…. and…. what now…

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go here
http://download-soundtracks.com/movie_soundtracks/something-wicked-this-way-comes-soundtrack-by-james-horner/

Ok…. and…. what now…

Link received. Thanks so much for that and all your work. Cant wait to listen to it. 🙂

Hi everyone. Just a quick message to say that I haven’t forgotten this project. I’ve been truly busy with my real job of TV editing that I had to put this project on hiatus for a while. Now, like SonicAdventure, I’m involved in a home renovation that has taken away even more free time. I am hoping to get back to it real soon. Hope the interest is still there within the forum. Thanks for your patience…

Hi everyone. Just a quick message to say that I haven’t forgotten this project. I’ve been truly busy with my real job of TV editing that I had to put this project on hiatus for a while. Now, like SonicAdventure, I’m involved in a home renovation that has taken away even more free time. I am hoping to get back to it real soon. Hope the interest is still there within the forum. Thanks for your patience…

Definitely still interested! Live your life; that comes first. 🙂

Three scores into your restorations and I have to say I’m a big fan. I’ve always loved Mr. Horner’s work. I was hooked with The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock and have followed his work ever since.

Thank you for Deadly blessing; Just amazing !

I cannot wait for a remastered version of the amazing spider-man complete score from you.

As I am sure we are all anxiously awaiting the release of Horner’s final score for "The Magnificent Seven", I wonder if anyone here has any insight in regard to the brief score he wrote for the 2012 short, "First in Flight". This may very well turn out to be the last, unreleased work by him. We can only hope that some day, we will see this music become available to us! Thoughts anyone?? Jay Hoff / St. Petersburg, Florida

Thanks for flashed reply – Thank you;-)

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great project, thank you! 🙂

Links received. Thank you!!

Links received, thank you very much! 😉

Since You are taking up quite a Huge task on Your shoulders, I must ask? Will any of James Horner’s Music work for Animation Cartoons/Films & Logo’s Be part of Your Collection? I’d Love to get a hold of the Music that He did For Universal Studios. You Know, The Theme song for the Logo that first appeared at the Beginning of "Back to the Future Part 3"?

I still feel that the Film’s Soundtrack Album is Empty without it. Just like How the "20th Century Fox" Fanfare belongs with the Rest of the Music on a "Star Wars" Soundtrack Album.