> I need to find a more complete version of this. Does it exist somewhere?
> Does it flesh out a more satisfying score? Horner doing inspirational
> sports drama should be gold.

According to Riley, there's apparently an expanded bootleg floating around. My review is just based off of the original commercial album, though I wouldn't mind hearing an expanded/complete version.

> HARD disagree!!! Dude, I love this score. The main theme is a total ear
> worm. There are passages that hit the soul strings. But yeah there is
> recycling blah blah. Maybe its because I first heard this when it came out
> and so its nostalgic for me. Funny how certain 2nd-tier Horner scores like
> this can wildly run the spectrum for people between indifference and
> completely infatuation. His career is unique that way.

As I mentioned, I can totally see someone(s) being infatuated with the overall pleasant mood and lovely themes it's just... for me... Horner did it all better in the scores he's recycling from here and I'd rather just hear those earlier (IMO better) versions. That said Horner's recycling habit doesn't bother me that much (heck, he's tied as my #1 favorite film composer ever) so that alone isn't why Bobby Jones doesn't rank very highly for me. All this said, I'm glad you and Riley are able to find a lot of joy from this one.

> Now this one we agree on. Horner scores in the category of low budget
> synthy keyboard pads and piano improvisation mode are .... pretty
> forgettable. Oooof!

Ha! JonB, we have another one!!

> N8