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Nov 10, 2011 - 7:47 AM
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Thor
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I've never heard this score apart from the Main Title on Williams' 'Filmworks' CD, nor seen the film.
Is it any better than 'Poseidon'? Boy was I disappointed with that score when released by LLL, after repeated listenings I still don't enjoy it.
Personally, I prefer Earthquake to Poseidon, but you may not like either one. EQ belongs more in a stable with Towering Inferno and Eiger Sanction than with Poseidon, and your feelings about those two are more likely to determine your opinion.
Earthquake is funkier in parts than any of the other scores mentioned - thanks to the Richard Rowntree theme - which will help or hinder according to taste.
The usual mention above of Jerry Goldsmith regardless of the thread subject 
Personally, I prefer POSEIDON a lot more over EARTHQUAKE, which I think is one of the worst disaster films in Allen's canon and even more generally the worst among the expensive disaster films at the time.
The score is cool, though, and IMO much more rewarding than the sneaking-around sturm-und-drang of POSEIDON.
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When we went to see EARTHQUAKE, a guy came out, in front of the packed audience, and made an announcement that we were about to see a sneak preview of a new major motion picture, from Universal. EARTHQUAKE would follow. If we did not want to see the sneak peak, then we needed to proceed to the box-office, where our money would be returned, and we would be given a pass to the theater for a future showing. I have no recollection of anyone leaving, but it was a Wednesday evening, in the middle of February, so I imagine some did. Well, that preview was JAWS, and seeing it, with that packed audience, so many months before it actually opened, was a real thrill. Needless to say, EARTHQUAKE paled, by comparison. In fact, twice, we were starting to fall asleep, when the Sensurround kicked in and, effectively, woke us up!
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IMHO Williams didn't find his "voice" until Jaws. Those disaster film scores are equivalent to the droning atmospheric underscore we have nowadays.
While I kinda agree with you on Towering Inferno (one of my least favorite FSM releases, actually), I wonder if you've ever heard Williams's Jane Eyre from 1970. It is my #1 favorite Williams score and is pre-Jaws. It has the best of every element of Williams style, and he's mined it for later scores -- for more recent examples I hear echoes of it in the Harry Potter scores at times as well as the love theme from Attack of the Clones.
Yavar
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One of the few Williams-scores I did not know yet. Got it through amazon.de for a meager 22.95 EUR (which seems to be a real bargain considering the huge prices on other sites).
Listening to it now and... LOVING it! The main theme is gorgeous.
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