It's Christmas time and I've been listening to the excruciatingly deprived Polar Express soundtrack, programming my CD player to play only the cues by Silvestri. Needless to say, the experience is always over with all too quickly. Fans have been screaming long and hard now for a complete release of this exquisite score. Why they didn't do it in the first place is puzzling and infuriating!

Amen! I hear you!

Warner have been fools to truncate the polar express score to make room for these dreadful bing crosby sonds that have been released 1000000 times before instead of putting score in these spots. To me, this is the biggest shame right after the truncated score portion of the BTTF album because Polar express is an excellent score that is right up there with the alltime great christmas scores. Leaving this classic unreleased is simply an unacceptable situation.

Absurd situation yes.

So Many great Silvestri scores don't see the light of day. He's one of the most requested composers in Hollywood and yet one of the less published...

So I take it the score will never be available?
This is truly a must have score! Damn I want it!!!

I guess we can never say "never", but there doesn't seem to be any talk of releasing the entire score at the moment. I just wish I knew how record executives think. When a motion picture score is released with the composer's name displayed prominently on the album cover, those buying it are doing so because they're fans of the composer. They want to hear the music score...not a bunch of other unrelated songs. For example, how much more of Jerry Goldsmith's great music could have been included on the CD of Star Trek- First Contact instead of "Spirit In The Sky" and "Oobie Doobie"?! Please!

Often the problem is costs.

Polar Express was among the last big scores recorded under the old re-use fees rule but even with these old rules a 30 minute score album or a 30 minute score portion on the soundtrack instead of the songs would have been perfectly possible and would have done the score and fans the deserved justice. But no, it had to be songs.

And I can imagine that warner was not sure about licensing the score to another company like varese when they can have the profit directly from their in-house label, which, on the other hand, would mean to produce another costly CD that might rather confuse the ordinary joe in the record stores.

Of course if polar express would have made 300 million at the domestic us box office we would not have this speculation because in that case they would have released the score separatedly only to cash in on the movies success a bit more. See Transformers (as much as i hate to say that).