TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings Many years ago when I started gaining an interest in movie music and, in particular, the scores of John Williams, much of my focus was on the big action scores of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes…
Category: Album Reviews
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002) – Album Reviews
TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings When Steven Spielberg and John Williams decided to include classic songs from the 1960s on the Catch Me If You Can soundtrack, many score fans groaned. Would Spielberg make the same mistake that Oliver Stone made…
HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK – Album Review (Complete Score)
TRACK LISTING Review by ‘Kevin McCallister’ Ever since I first heard it, I’ve always considered the soundtrack to Home Alone 2 to be one of John Williams’ most underrated scores. The original Home Alonewas a massive success and, along with its soundtrack, beacame…
JANE EYRE (1971) – Album Review
HOME ALONE (1990) – Original Album Review
TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings There isn’t much Christmas music I feel would be appropriate to listen to in, say, June, but John Williams’ score for Home Alone may be the one exception (and to a…
HEARTBEEPS (1981) – Album Review
Review by Amer Zahid One of the great scores to come from composer John Williams from his golden writing marathon is from the late 1970’s to mid 1980s’ during which he rendered such classics as The Star Wars films, Close Encounters, Superman, Raiders and E.T. In between he…
JFK (1991) – Album Reviews
TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings Anyone who has seen Oliver Stone’s requiem to President Kennedy knows that this film is not one that would require a normal composer to just write a simple theme for strings and develop it…
E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) – Album Reviews (2002 Expanded Edition)
TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings It is surprising how little time and effort John Williams seems to waste in composing a film score. If you think about his most popular scores, you imagine him slaving away…
AMISTAD (1997) – Album Review
TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings I would love to be a fly on the wall when John Williams and Steven Spielberg get together and discuss scoring options for their films. I have wondered how they came up with the…
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) – Album Review (1997 Expanded Edition)
TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings I think 20th Century Fox was glad George Lucas decided to rerelease the Star Wars trilogy because it gave them a reason to finally release the entire score for every film. Music fans…