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1997 REGULAR RELEASES

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	Title	Year	Composer(s)	FR	VR	VT	CT	RD	TR	Dates	Notes
•	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	1997	Mark Snow	*****	3.82	650	7	\|\|	446	10/97 - 02/08
•	Addicted to Love	1997	Rachel Portman	****	3.93	2,086	3	\|\|	217	07/97 - 03/08
•	Air Force One	1997	Jerry Goldsmith, Joel McNeely, Randy Newman	***	3.71	4,082	20	\|\|\|	63	07/97 - 05/07	all albums
•	Alien Resurrection	1997	John Frizzell	***	3.17	196	9	\|\|\|	1,559	11/10	all albums
•	Amistad	1997	John Williams	****	3.77	2,557	9	\|\|	232	12/97 - 02/08
•	Anastasia	1997	David Newman	***	3.89	8,903	26	\|\|\|	40	10/97 - 02/08
•	The Beautician and the Beast	1997	Cliff Eidelman	***	3.14	232	1	\|\|	1,267	06/01 - 09/08
•	Con Air	1997	Mark Mancina, Trevor Rabin	*	2.14	1,166	5	\|\|	339	07/97 - 06/06
•	Conspiracy Theory	1997	Carter Burwell	****	3.04	107	0	\|\|	1,745	07/10
•	Contact	1997	Alan Silvestri	***	3.33	1,115	5	\|	393	08/97 - 12/06
•	Dante's Peak	1997	John Frizzell, James Newton Howard	***	3.08	164	1	\|\|	1,730	07/10
•	Devil's Advocate	1997	James Newton Howard	****	3.42	1,176	1	\|\|	306	11/97 - 06/07
•	The Devil's Own	1997	James Horner	***	3.86	430	4	\|\|	438	04/97 - 11/11
•	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca	1997	Mark McKenzie	****	3.09	211	0	\|	1,101	01/00 - 09/08
•	The Edge	1997	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.41	1,856	2	\|\|\|	276	10/97 - 06/10	all albums
•	Event Horizon	1997	Michael Kamen, Orbital	*	2.50	273	2	\|\|	1,157	09/03 - 04/09
•	Eve's Bayou	1997	Terence Blanchard	****	3.03	122	3	\|	960	02/98 - 03/06
•	Face/Off	1997	John Powell, Gavin Greenaway	**	3.48	432	6	\|	417	07/97 - 04/06
•	Fierce Creatures	1997	Jerry Goldsmith	***	2.75	261	1	\|	974	12/96 - 08/08
•	The Fifth Element	1997	Eric Serra	***	3.07	9,143	53	\|\|	22	05/97 - 03/08
•	Flubber	1997	Danny Elfman	**	2.76	938	2	\|	289	11/97 - 02/08
•	Free Willy 3: The Rescue	1997	Cliff Eidelman	****	3.22	410	0	\|\|	790	08/99 - 02/08
•	The Game	1997	Howard Shore	**	2.71	320	2	\|	1,005	07/99 - 07/07
•	Gattaca	1997	Michael Nyman	***	3.15	1,021	5	\|\|	371	10/97 - 03/08
•	Hercules	1997	Alan Menken	*	2.33	6,259	7	\|\|\|	108	05/97 - 12/06
•	Hoodlum	1997	Elmer Bernstein	****	3.93	651	0	\|	894	09/97 - 12/06
•	In & Out	1997	Marc Shaiman	***	2.78	71	0	\|\|	1,929	01/12
•	Into Thin Air: Death on Everest	1997	Lee Holdridge	****	3.35	356	0	\|	662	12/97 - 12/06
•	Kundun	1997	Philip Glass	***	2.58	1,321	3	\|\|	292	12/97 - 03/08
•	L.A. Confidential	1997	Jerry Goldsmith	***	3.07	2,224	0	\|	280	12/97 - 06/07
•	Last Stand at Sabre River	1997	David Shire	***	3.29	111	0	\|	1,373	12/97 - 06/06
•	Liar Liar	1997	John Debney, James Newton Howard	***	3.14	750	2	\|	880	06/99 - 02/08
•	The Long Way Home	1997	Lee Holdridge	***	2.88	102	0	\|	1,443	12/97 - 03/06
•	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	1997	John Williams	***	3.81	4,323	6	\|\|\|\|	66	05/97 - 03/18	all albums
•	Mars Attacks!	1996	Danny Elfman	**	3.24	874	5	\|\|\|	385	03/97 - 06/11	all albums
•	Marvin's Room	1996	Rachel Portman	***	3.02	165	2	\|	1,321	05/03 - 03/09
•	Men in Black	1997	Danny Elfman	***	3.13	2,083	3	\|\|	157	01/98 - 09/06
•	Mimic	1997	Marco Beltrami	****	3.15	131	0	\|\|	1,754	12/11	all albums
•	Mouse Hunt	1997	Alan Silvestri	****	3.41	119	1	\|\|	1,778	01/12
•	Narrow Escape	1997	David Michael Frank	***	2.96	68	0	\|	1,399	12/97 - 06/06
•	The Peacemaker	1997	Hans Zimmer	****	3.23	2,783	3	\|\|\|	97	09/97 - 08/14	all albums
•	The Postman	1997	James Newton Howard	****	3.67	236	0	\|\|	1,698	07/10
•	The Rainmaker	1997	Elmer Bernstein	***	2.89	213	0	\|	1,066	12/97 - 12/06
•	Red Corner	1997	Thomas Newman	***	2.85	65	1	\|\|	1,857	02/12
•	Rosewood	1997	John Williams	***	3.36	340	2	\|\|\|	603	03/97 - 07/13	all albums
•	Rough Riders	1997	Peter Bernstein, Elmer Bernstein	***	3.33	322	2	\|	968	12/97 - 08/08
•	The Saint	1997	Graeme Revell	****	3.83	1,632	2	\|\|	200	05/97 - 10/06	all albums
•	Seven Years in Tibet	1997	John Williams	****	3.67	2,121	3	\|\|	86	09/97 - 03/08
•	Smilla's Sense of Snow	1997	Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer	**	2.81	233	2	\|\|	781	03/97 - 09/11
•	Stargate SG-1	1997	Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band, Various	***	3.14	705	3	\|\|\|	258	12/97 - 08/20	all albums
•	Starship Troopers	1997	Basil Poledouris	****	3.24	2,735	55	\|\|\|	212	11/97 - 07/16	multiple albums
•	Swept from the Sea	1997	John Barry	***	3.17	458	0	\|\|	743	11/97 - 12/06
•	Titanic	1997	James Horner	*****	4.11	27,274	163	\|\|\|\|\|	4	11/97 - 06/18	multiple albums
•	Tomorrow Never Dies	1997	David Arnold	****	4.19	9,650	30	\|\|\|	47	11/97 - 03/08	all albums
•	True Women	1997	Bruce Broughton	****	3.35	437	1	\|	1,038	06/97 - 12/06
•	Volcano	1997	Alan Silvestri	***	3.07	1,056	2	\|\|	209	05/97 - 07/16	all albums
•	The Whole Wide World	1996	Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer	***	2.95	157	1	\|\|	985	07/04 - 09/11
•	Wilde	1997	Debbie Wiseman	****	3.52	130	1	\|\|	1,764	01/12	multiple albums

1997 SPECIAL RELEASES:

	Title	Year	Composer(s)	FR	VR	VT	CT	RD	TR	Dates	Notes
•	1941	1979	John Williams	**	3.13	205	2	\|\|\|	1,296	08/09 - 10/11	re-issue
•	Airplane!	1980	Elmer Bernstein	*	3.63	253	4	\|\|	566	10/97 - 07/09	bootleg
•	Bound	1996	Don Davis	***	3.00	119	0	\|	860	12/97 - 03/06	promotional
•	Braveheart	1995	James Horner	**	4.17	27,729	188	\|\|\|	2	09/96 - 03/16	all albums
•	Breakheart Pass	1975	Jerry Goldsmith	***	3.12	113	0	\|\|	1,583	07/09 - 06/16	bootleg
•	Chicago Hope (TV)	1994	Jeff Rona, Mark Isham	****	3.39	591	0	\|\|	192	02/98 - 02/08
•	Cleopatra	1963	Alex North	***	3.95	1,041	9	\|\|\|	164	03/01 - 09/08	limited
•	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	John Williams	*	3.73	2,260	10	\|\|\|	76	05/98 - 05/18	bootleg
•	Cocoon	1985	James Horner	****	3.76	833	3	\|\|\|	402	10/97 - 12/13	re-issue
•	Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)	1996	David Michael Frank	****	3.36	104	1	\|	1,097	12/97 - 08/08	promotional
•	Dune	1984	Toto	*	4.04	13,556	38	\|\|\|\|	46	12/97 - 09/08	expanded
•	The Fan	1996	Hans Zimmer, Jeff Rona	*	2.27	317	14	\|\|\|	947	10/03 - 04/09	bootlegs
•	Flatliners/Falling Down	1990	James Newton Howard	Varied	3.29	281	0	\|\|	487	06/97 - 02/15	bootleg
•	Flight of the Intruder	1991	Basil Poledouris	**	2.81	140	3	\|\|	1,118	07/03 - 02/13	bootlegs
•	Fly Away Home	1996	Mark Isham	*****	3.86	630	17	\|\|	416	07/03 - 03/09	promotional and bootlegs
•	I Know What You Did Last Summer	1997	John Debney	***	3.02	275	1	\|\|	670	01/99 - 08/08	promotional
•	Ice Station Zebra	1968	Michel Legrand	**	3.22	294	2	\|\|	578	04/97 - 11/08	all albums
•	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	John Williams	****	3.96	4,646	18	\|\|\|	84	08/97 - 12/08	re-issue
•	Islands in the Stream	1977	Jerry Goldsmith	***	3.15	199	1	\|\|	1,524	08/09 - 03/10	re-issue
•	King Kong Lives	1986	John Scott	*****	3.31	260	1	\|\|\|	604	08/97 - 10/12	bootleg
•	King Solomon's Mines	1985	Jerry Goldsmith	**	3.23	239	5	\|\|	1,391	08/09 - 02/15	re-issue
•	The Life and Music of Basil Poledouris	1997	Basil Poledouris	****	3.11	81	1	\|\|	1,088	01/98 - 11/06	video biography
•	Link	1986	Jerry Goldsmith	*	2.55	266	4	\|\|	1,432	07/09 - 06/16	bootleg
•	The Little Mermaid	1989	Alan Menken, Howard Ashman	***	4.04	16,002	23	\|\|\|\|	15	08/97 - 06/15	re-issue
•	Lois & Clark (TV)	1993	Jay Gruska	***	3.23	130	3	\|\|	843	03/98 - 04/06
•	My Best Friend's Wedding	1997	James Newton Howard	***	3.18	411	0	\|	216	02/98 - 03/06	promotional
•	Octopussy	1983	John Barry	****	3.42	440	1	\|\|	485	11/97 - 03/08	expanded
•	Out of Africa	1985	John Barry	****	4.09	376	2	\|\|\|	1,085	01/10	re-recording
•	A Patch of Blue	1965	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.47	386	2	\|\|	617	06/97 - 12/06	all albums
•	Poltergeist	1982	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.93	2,706	4	\|\|\|	183	03/97 - 12/10	all albums
•	Predator	1987	Alan Silvestri	***	3.80	1,379	34	\|\|\|	170	09/03 - 03/12	bootleg
•	Project X	1987	James Horner	*	2.83	228	3	\|\|	623	10/97 - 09/08	bootleg
•	The Relic	1997	John Debney	**	2.72	247	7	\|\|	607	11/99 - 03/13	promotional
•	Species	1995	Christopher Young	***	3.01	301	5	\|\|	431	03/98 - 07/09	promotional
•	Star Wars: A New Hope	1977	John Williams	*****	4.25	17,343	66	\|\|\|\|	3	01/97 - 08/11	special edition
•	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	1983	John Williams	*****	4.18	10,693	33	\|\|\|\|	25	03/97 - 09/11	special edition
•	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	1980	John Williams	*****	4.32	9,455	63	\|\|\|\|	34	01/97 - 09/11	special edition
•	Steel	1997	Mervyn Warren	**	2.30	67	3	\|\|	1,431	04/98 - 06/06	promotional
•	Toys	1992	Hans Zimmer, Trevor Horn, Bruce Woolley	***	2.67	357	2	\|\|\|	609	07/04 - 09/11	bootleg
•	The Vanishing	1993	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.41	287	0	\|\|\|	614	06/98 - 09/08	bootleg
•	William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet	1996	Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, Marius DeVries	***	2.94	126	1	\|\|\|	1,642	11/09	Volume 2
•	Wolfen	1981	James Horner	***	2.89	157	3	\|\|\|	1,372	08/09 - 08/12	bootleg

1997 COMPILATIONS:

	Title	Year	Composer(s)	FR	VR	VT	CT	RD	TR	Dates	Notes
•	Babylon 5: Messages from Earth	1997	Christopher Franke	****	3.44	270	3	\|\|	1,051	07/99 - 09/08
•	The Batman Trilogy	1997	The Royal Scottish National Orchestra	**	3.12	162	1	\|\|	1,299	07/03 - 04/09
•	The Big Picture	1997	The Cincinnati Pops, The Singers Companye	****	3.21	118	0	\|\|	1,260	06/97 - 07/06
•	Cinema Choral Classics	1997	The City of Prague Philharmonic and the Crouch End Festival Chorus	****	4.00	1,069	1	\|\|	658	06/97 - 06/07
•	Frontiers	1997	The Royal Scottish National Orchestra	****	3.52	414	0	\|\|	1,073	12/97 - 03/08
•	The Hollywood Sound	1997	The London Symphony Orchestra	***	3.62	436	2	\|	747	03/97 - 12/06
•	The Mark of Zorro/The Crimson Pirate	1997	The City of Prague Philharmonic and The Crouch End Festival Chorus	Varied	3.08	156	0	\|	1,032	10/97 - 06/07	multiple albums
•	Patton and Tora! Tora! Tora!	1997	Jerry Goldsmith	*****	3.39	176	1	\|	543	08/97 - 07/06	re-recording
•	Space and Beyond	1997	The City of Prague Philharmonic	*****	3.74	350	0	\|\|	999	03/97 - 12/06
•	Warriors of the Silver Screen	1997	The City of Prague Philharmonic	*****	3.71	330	0	\|	1,009	07/97 - 06/07

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Year:	Year of Debut (a golden year indicates that the music won or was nominated for a major award)

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Comments:	Comment Total (the number of messages posted in the review's comment area)

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