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 Posted:   Jul 16, 2017 - 9:06 PM   
 By:   BTTFFan   (Member)

Let's see your best 80 minute John Williams CD. Whether you focus on personal favorites, track order/listening experience, or popularity, what would be the definitive John Williams disc?

Mine would probably be something like this:

1. Rey's Theme
2. Nocturnal Activities
3. The Hunt
4. Catch Me If You Can (Main Title)
5. You Are The Pan
6. The Basket Game
7. Anakin's Theme
8. The Magic Of Halloween
9. Scherzo For Motorcycle And Orchestra
10. The Never-Feast
11. Journey To The Island
12. The Hologram/Binary Sunset
13. The Ultimate War: To War
14. The Penitent Man Will Pass
15. Becoming A Geisha
16. The Map Room: Dawn
17. The Throne Room/End Title

Total Time: 1:19:30

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 12:52 AM   
 By:   tvogt1   (Member)

I would avoid all the obvious choices that make it on every JW compilation album: SW main theme, Imperial March, Raiders March, Superman theme, ET theme, etc. Yet those movies deserve to be on the list. So I have alternate choices mixed in that represent those scores.

In no particular order:

1. Munich, 1972 (Munich)
2. Irana's Theme (Crystal Skull)
3. Anakin's Theme (Phantom Menace)
4. Buckbeat's Flight (Azkaban)
5. Sabrina's Theme (Sabrina)
6. Hymn to the Fallen (Saving Private Ryan)
7. End Credits (Far and Away)
8. Basement Scene (Presumed Innocent)
9. Monsignor Theme (Monsignor)
10. Main Titles (Dracula)
11. End Credits (The Fury)
12. Main Titles (The Poseidon Adventure)
13. Abandoned and Pursued (ET)
14. Nuclear Man Theme (Superman 4)

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 3:28 AM   
 By:   Ny   (Member)

Ben Gardner's Boat
Father and Son

The Map Room: Dawn

Indy Negotiates
The Scroll / To Pankot Palace

The Lost World

Cryogenics
Hide and Seek

The Intersection Scene

Trip Through the Crowd

Princess Leia's Theme
Land of the Sand People
The Princess Appears

Emperor's Throne Room
Parade of the Ewoks (Skywalker Symphony ver.)

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 9:32 AM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

The Globetrotters (5:12)
MT - The Towering Inferno (5:01)
MT - The Accidental Tourist (2:33)
The Seduction of Alex (2:41)
The Map Room: Dawn (3:52)
Crimebuster (3:25)
The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale (5:51)
ET - Dracula (3:58)
Gillian's Power (1:41)
Theme from Superman (4:23)
MT - Amazing Stories (1:02)
Catch Me if You Can (2:41)
The Mystery Woman (3:27)
Here We Go (4:22)
Dry Your Tears, Afrika (4:18)
Rey's Theme (3:11)
The Imperial March (3:03)
The Tale of Viktor Navorski (4:12)
Abandoned in the Woods (3:07)
Duel of the Fates (4:14)
Theme from Sabrina (4:30)
UET - Black Sunday (2:20)

Just a hair over 80 minutes, but I like it.

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 10:28 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I really couldn't do one 80 minute CD. I would have to do one for various genres.

Sci Fi/Fantasy
Drama/Romance/Historical
Super Hero/Action Adventure

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 10:43 AM   
 By:   petek66   (Member)


hastily assembled...

Man Against Beast (6:36)
The Last Battle (12:09)
The Heroics of Luke and Han (5:58)
The Asteroid Field (4:15)
Desert Chase (7:32)
Abandoned and Pursued (3:02)
Slave Children's Crusade (3:32)
The Ride Home (3:24)
Star of Bethlehem (2:54)
The Land Race (4:57)
Across the Stars (5:34)
Buckbeak's Flight (2:07)
A Window to the Past (3:52)
I Can Fly Anything- film version (4:09)
Jedi Steps and Finale (8:51)

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 11:31 AM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Assembling custom, CD-length compilations is still a fun hobby for me and has wound up being my preferred method of enjoying my collection, mainly due to how much music I've amassed in 35+ years and listening time available per day. I often make compilations either by composer or series and if I have enough by a composer I will do it by year or decade. Below are two of my favorite Williams compilations, one for the 70's and one for the 90's. I left out Star Wars and Indy tracks because I already have those represented elsewhere and I hate duplicating tracks on compilations.

Williams: His Music in the 1970's -

1.The Cowboys (1972): Main Title
2.The Cowboys (1972): Wild Horses
3.Jane Eyre (TV) (1971): Jane Eyre Theme
4.The Poseidon Adventure (1972): Main Title
5.The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973): Cat Dancing
6.The Towering Inferno (1974): Main Title
7.Earthquake (1974): Main Title (Joel McNeeley: Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
8.The Eiger Sanction (1975): Main Title
9.Jaws (1975): Man Against Beast
10.The Missouri Breaks (1976): Love Theme From The Missouri Breaks
11.Family Plot (1976): End Cast
12.Midway (1976): Midway March
13.Midway (1976): The Men of the Yorktown March
14.Black Sunday (1977): Preparations/The Blimp & The Bomb/The End (custom-made suite)
15.Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977): Suite (Boston Pops album version)
16.Jaws 2 (1978): The Catamaran Race (Album Version)
17.The Fury (1978): Main Title (Album Version)
18.Dracula (1979): Main Title and Storm Sequence
19.1941 (1979): March

Total time - 74 min

Williams: His Music in the 1990's -

1.Stanley & Iris (1990): End Credits
2.Hook (1991): End Credits
3.JFK (1991): Prologue
4.Far And Away (1992): End Credits
5.Schindler's List (1993): Theme From Schindler's List (Violin Solos by Itzhak Perlman)
6.Nixon (1995): The 1960's: The Turbulent Years
7.Sabrina (1995): Theme From Sabrina [Reprise]
8.Sleepers (1996): Sleepers At Wilkinson
9.Sleepers (1996): The Football Game
10.Rosewood (1997)
11.Jurassic Park: The Lost Word (1997): The Hunt
12.Seven Years In Tibet (1997): Seven Years In Tibet (Cello Solos by Yo-Yo Ma)
13.Amistad (1997): Dry Your Tears, Afrika from "Amistad"
14.Saving Private Ryan (1998): Hymn To The Fallen from "Saving Private Ryan"
15.Angela's Ashes (1999): Theme From Angela's Ashes

Total time - 74 min

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 8:34 PM   
 By:   BBoulle   (Member)

Not repeating many that were already mentioned:

Lost in Space (3rd Season)
SpaceCamp
The Mission (NBC News)
Olympic Fanfare and Theme

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2017 - 3:48 AM   
 By:   danbeck   (Member)

The Spielberg / Williams Collaboration (vol. 1)

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 10:44 AM   
 By:   Paul MacLean   (Member)

Some scores, like Superman or Raiders, I prefer to listen to in complete form, so I wouldn't include cues from them in a compilation.

So I have a Williams playlist which consists of those one or two cues from albums which otherwise don't have much standalone appeal. For me, scores like Seven Years in Tibet, Stanley & Iris, Nixon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich or Jurassic Park don't, on balance, stand alone very well, so I made a playlist of their main or end titles, and/or the one or two cues which make for good listening ("Journey to the Island", "Growing Up in Wittier, "Becoming a Geisha", etc.).

I love pretty-much all of The Phantom Menace, but only enjoy bits of Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens, so I have a playlist which includes most of Episode I, with selected tracks from the other films added in ("Across the Stars", "Rey's Theme", etc.)

I love about half of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (but the rest is too strident for me), so I have a playlist which blends the good bits of that score with the cues Williams wrote for Chamber of Secrets (I left-out the Ross adaptations, and noisy cues like "Apparition on the Train and the Werewolf cue).

In the case of Jaws, I prefer the original re-recorded album to the actual OST. However my Jaws playlist includes a few cues from the OST which were not included on the re-recording.

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 11:26 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

The Spielberg / Williams Collaboration (vol. 1)

Me too! Love all three volumes, but this is the most-listened to compilation in my embarrassingly vast collection.

(I don't make compilations any more, and never did for Williams. Goldsmith, yes, but that's about it.)

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 12:23 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Some scores, like Superman or Raiders, I prefer to listen to in complete form, so I wouldn't include cues from them in a compilation.

So I have a Williams playlist which consists of those one or two cues from albums which otherwise don't have much standalone appeal. For me, scores like Seven Years in Tibet, Stanley & Iris, Nixon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich or Jurassic Park don't, on balance, stand alone very well, so I made a playlist of their main or end titles, and/or the one or cues which make for good listening ("Journey to the Island", "Growing Up in Wittier, "Becoming a Geisha", etc.).

I love pretty-much all of The Phantom Menace, but only enjoy bits of Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens, so I have a playlist which includes most of Episode I, with selected tracks from the other films added in ("Across the Stars", "Rey's Theme", etc.)

I love about half of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (but the rest is too strident for me), so I have a playlist which blends the good bits of that score with the cues Williams wrote for Chamber of Secrets (I left-out the Ross adaptations, and noisy cues like "Apparition on the Train and the Werewolf cue).

In the case of Jaws, I prefer the original re-recorded album to the actual OST. However my Jaws playlist includes a few cues from the OST which were not included on the re-recording.


I tend to be of the same mind, focusing on the highlights from those non-blockbuster score albums, although I do love everything on the albums for all the Star Wars movies.

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 12:36 PM   
 By:   sajrocks   (Member)

232 tracks and I've only just begun to compile!

https://open.spotify.com/user/124591654/playlist/6dWyCEuOlRCS0S0kPUbzMf

Oh. 80 minutes. Let me get back to you. wink

 
 Posted:   Jul 21, 2017 - 11:59 AM   
 By:   Bespin   (Member)

A CD, funny.

Here's two of my best Spotify Playlists.

John Williams 85th: All the Best
https://open.spotify.com/user/12175214313/playlist/4Eynpd1mHfNU4KsLgThkvD

John Williams - A Fan's Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/12175214313/playlist/6N1NuuoR7GB0WiJpxDTZdo

On, CD, one of my favorite compilation is actually "The Music Of America: John Williams" (2010, Sony Classical, 770636, Compilation)

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 9:38 AM   
 By:   leagolfer   (Member)

I don't own any compilations of Williams, if I did it would be his 60s 70s work.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 11:10 AM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

Jaws 2 - Finding the Orca
Superman - Destruction of Krypton
Star Wars - Imperial Attack
Empire - Battle in the Snow
The Fury - Vision on the Stairs
Close Encounters - Barry’s Abduction
Jaws 2 - Sean’s Rescue
Dracula - To Scarborough
Raiders - The Map Room: Dawn
Jaws - Night Search
Close Encounters - I Can’t Believe It’s Real
The Fury - Gillian’s Escape
Superman - Chasing Rockets
Empire - Rescue from Cloud City / Hyperspace
Dracula - For Mina
The Fury - Gillian’s Power (taken from the LSO recording)
Black Sunday - End Title
Jaws 2 - Attack on the Water Skiier
The Fury - Epilogue

This is just one facet of Johnny, the dark 70s side but it’s my favorite. I don’t know if it fits on a CD but this is how I would represent the music I fell in love with to a newcomer. Where possible, I’d pick the tracks from his re-recordings for LP presentation.

 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 12:07 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Jaws 2 - Finding the Orca
Superman - Destruction of Krypton
Star Wars - Imperial Attack
Empire - Battle in the Snow
The Fury - Vision on the Stairs
Close Encounters - Barry’s Abduction
Jaws 2 - Rescuing Sean
Dracula - To Scarborough
Raiders - The Map Room: Dawn
Jaws - Night Search
Close Encounters - I Can’t Believe It’s Real
The Fury - Gillian’s Escape
Superman - Chasing Rockets
Empire - Rescue from Cloud City / Hyperspace
Dracula - For Mina
The Fury - Gillian’s Power (taken from the LSO recording)
Black Sunday - End Title
Jaws 2 - Attack on the Water Skiier
The Fury - Epilogue

This is just one facet of Johnny, the dark 70s side but it’s my favorite. I don’t know if it fits on a CD but this is how I would represent the music I fell in love with to a newcomer. Where possible, I’d pick the tracks from his re-recordings for LP presentation.


Nice compilation based around a certain style and era of Williams' music. I often do find that Williams' re-recordings are stellar, never an afterthought for him, but so well crafted and conducted.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 5:36 PM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

Jaws 2 - Finding the Orca
Superman - Destruction of Krypton
Star Wars - Imperial Attack
Empire - Battle in the Snow
The Fury - Vision on the Stairs
Close Encounters - Barry’s Abduction
Jaws 2 - Rescuing Sean
Dracula - To Scarborough
Raiders - The Map Room: Dawn
Jaws - Night Search
Close Encounters - I Can’t Believe It’s Real
The Fury - Gillian’s Escape
Superman - Chasing Rockets
Empire - Rescue from Cloud City / Hyperspace
Dracula - For Mina
The Fury - Gillian’s Power (taken from the LSO recording)
Black Sunday - End Title
Jaws 2 - Attack on the Water Skiier
The Fury - Epilogue

This is just one facet of Johnny, the dark 70s side but it’s my favorite. I don’t know if it fits on a CD but this is how I would represent the music I fell in love with to a newcomer. Where possible, I’d pick the tracks from his re-recordings for LP presentation.


Nice compilation based around a certain style and era of Williams' music. I often do find that Williams' re-recordings are stellar, never an afterthought for him, but so well crafted and conducted.


Thanks for hearing what I was trying to say! I fell in love with him in 1978 in his deepest and darkest.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 28, 2017 - 11:25 PM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

My Jerry version of this (from the the Intrada and/or FSM unless noted)

Alien - Main Title (the one he actually wrote, no Ridley Scott bollocks)
Coma - The Institute / No Interview
Capricorn One - Docking (LP)
Alien - Hyper Sleep
Coma - Hot Wire
Poltergeist - Twisted Abduction
Coma - Toys in the Attic
Alien - Norhing to Say
Coma - Study in Anatomy
Poltergeist - Let’s Get Her / Rebirth
Alien - It’s a Droid
Capricorn One - The Long Climb
Coma - A Lack of Efficiency / A Free Ride
Alien - Sleepy Alien
Alien - To Sleep
Come - A Difficult Position / The Long View
Capricorn One - Break Out
Alien - Out the Door
Coma - A Lucky Patient / A Nice Case
Alien - End Title

Once again this is dark and deep and based on only a few soundtracks Jerry wrote in 1978-9 but a point of view emerges.

 
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