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I love this score, and think the 8-note motif Williams created for the terrorists is one of his best efforts, looks so simple yet it's so effective. I whistle it almost every week since I first heard it, just comes out of the blue.
I think Williams did few gritty thrillers like this, would love to see what he could come up for a movie like The French Connection.
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I get a kick out of Fritz Weaver's address to the security personnel, combined with one of Williams' "getting ready" fugues, like the great one he wrote for preparing the shark cage in "Jaws." Good goosebump-inducing stuff,
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jackfu
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I truly love this one and can’t for the life of me figure out why it took so long to get a major release! I agree with the kudos and add my own heartfelt thanks for Lukas and FSM and am very glad to have it. Thanks!
I really appreciate the transitional feel of Black Sunday. It’s one of my top 5 of Williams’ work.
Track #24, “The End” (Alternate Mix) is truly beautiful in its waltz-like feel. I could imagine it as a waltz for piano or a small orchestra.
I have to say I’m still torn as to my favorite ending for this score. As I listened for several years to "another version” which ended with Track #24, I still have a soft spot in my heart for it even though the film of course used Track #29.
An amusing personal story about this score. A couple of years ago on Labor Day morning, I was sitting on my front porch enjoying my coffee (common among us country folks) and had just finished listening to this score shortly before. Then I heard what I thought was a couple of ultra-light aircraft coming toward me (they’re fairly common in my area) when lo and behold, the nose of Goodyear Blimp (N3A) came into view from the west where I was facing, looking as if it would skim the treetops and amazingly like its approach to the Orange Bowl in the film!
The crew had been on hand to film the Clemson-Georgia football game that Saturday night and I guess the return trip brought them our way.
I thought I was hallucinating, but there it was in all its post-Black Sunday blue and gold glory! I literally had goose bumps! Then I startled my family as I scrambled into the house for my camera, shouting like a madman that the blimp was coming.
It passed to the north of my house directly over our field and forest, so close it seemed you could have hit it with a rock!
I do wonder what the crew thought, if they saw us below, smiling and waving at them. Of course after all this excitement (for me, anyway) I had to go back to my porch for another cup of coffee and another listen to the wonderful FSM Black Sunday score! 
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BLACK SUNDAY is among a group of a (by now just a handful) of film scores that remain shrink wrapped in my shelf. I have not seen the movie nor heard the score. I ordered it when FSM released it and that was that.
It's there unopened because I like the idea of still having a John Williams score from that time period left to explore. I'm looking forward to listen to it some day (soon).
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Prompted by this thread, I heard (no, I "listened to") BLACK SUNDAY again yesterday. Three times in a row! I'd either forgotten how great it is, or my new way of listening (y'know, not TRYING to create concrete images in my head) is reaping benefits. I was enthralled by every note of it. Tremendous score.
Maybe somebody said this before, or maybe it's really me, but it's almost like the closest to a Jerry Goldsmith score that John Williams got to write. Being Williams, it doesn't SOUND like Goldsmith, but there's a similarity in approach - perhaps it's the economy of means in generating tension and kinetic energy. Ostinatos, low-end piano notes etc. It's almost an intellectual action score. There's a real brain behind all that stuff.
I also like how it seems to bridge a gap in the composer's career. Some of it reminds me of earlier scores such as THE TOWERING INFERNO, but there's also a real STAR WARS template there at some points. I think I maybe got that bit from the liner notes.
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Graham, you've convinced me....it's now ordered !
Leo.
Well done Leo! If you hate it, you know who to blame!
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