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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: John Williams' TOWERING INFERNO & EARTHQUAKE    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Sep 2, 2014 - 5:32 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Inferno, by a country mile. Love the score. I remember seeing the film as a youngster and being blown away by the opening titles - great music and wonderful shots of the jet ranger flying over San Francisco. To this day it is one of my all time favourite movie openings.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2014 - 8:07 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Yes, definitely TOWERING INFERNO. That being said, EARTHQUAKE has that gloriously funky cue "Miles on Wheels" which nothing in INFERNO can match. I dig that, and in fact any time Williams tapped into similar territory (CINDERELLA LIBERTY etc.). THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE I've never cared for at all, although I have a soft spot for the film for several reasons.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2014 - 8:36 AM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) What's your personal fave? Of course loving Williams and most anything he does, I enjoy them both, but think THE TOWERING INFERNO is a much more engaging and enjoyable score. I remember buying them both on LP back in year they were released and playing the grooves off of INFERNO and playing EARTHQUAKE a few times. Although I love certain Tracks on EARTHQUAKE like "The City Sleeps" and those quirky bits like "Something for Rosa"! Your thoughts please. Better score in your opinion Ha, interestingly, similar story here. I got both LPs on the same day. I listened to EARTHQUAKE first, then watched the movie (which was -- by pure coincidence -- on TV the very day these LPs arrived in the mail). Next day I listened to TOWERING INFERNO. Back in its day, I liked TOWERING INFERNO clearly more than EARTHQUAKE. I still think that, overall, THE TOWERING INFERNO is the stronger score as a whole, and "Planting The Charges" is one of the most exciting cues John Williams has written. EARTHQUAKE is nice, and as film music it worked very well. (Good idea to leave the actual earthquake scenes unscored.) But unlike INFERNO, EARTHQUAKE is more or less lacking a musical arc that binds the score together.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2014 - 9:44 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Inferno, by a country mile. Love the score. I remember seeing the film as a youngster and being blown away by the opening titles - great music and wonderful shots of the jet ranger flying over San Francisco. To this day it is one of my all time favourite movie openings. OH YEAH! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTrsAKg-rU    Posted:   Sep 3, 2014 - 7:44 PM     By:   Scotty Boy   (Member) OH YEAH! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTrsAKg-rU Thank you for that. I never tire of those opening shots and, of course, the music is perfect. John Williams has had perhaps the most magnificent career of any film composer, but this will always be my favorite of his scores. Like I said before, I hope beyond hope that someone will release this soundtrack again, even if there is nothing new to add to the FSM release. (Although a 2-disc set with source music, alternate cues, etc., would be very welcome too.)    Posted:   Sep 3, 2014 - 8:23 PM     By:   Krakatoa   (Member) While not the scintillating "Towering Inferno" Main Title, the "Earthquake" Main Title (original soundtrack still not released and a little different from the re-recorded album version) sets up the Sensory anticipation and musical impression of a busy city about to face catastrophe beautifully with that magnificent Williams gift for fanfare and orchestral drama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_Tmb0fmO4    Posted:   Sep 4, 2014 - 5:55 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Don't make me choose... I see them as being very different but both superb in their own way. I like both the more tuneful Earthquake main title AND the driving, bustling Towering Inferno main title. The bodies of the scores are like a good magazine (in the case of EQ) and a good novel (TI), so choosing isn't a necessity. It might be arbitrary, but I mentally lump The Eiger Sanction score in with these two, although it's a different type of film. It was a fantastic purple patch when I saw the three films at the cinema one after the other bang bang bang (or so it seems in my memory) and made me a huge JW fan even before Jaws made him a household name. TG    Posted:   Sep 4, 2014 - 2:56 PM     By:   Krakatoa   (Member) It is possible to enjoy them both as part of an equal and differing and satisfying Williams trilogy of the time with a "Poseidon Adventure" start, a center "Earthquake" and a slam-bang finish with "The Towering Inferno".     General Discussion: John Williams' TOWERING INFERNO & EARTHQUAKE    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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