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Which are your Top 100 John Williams tracks?


Josh500

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Off the top of your head, quick! I want the Top 100, but if this is too much work for you, just give me the Top 20 or 30 or 50 or however many you are willing. Go!

 

1. Abandoned in the Woods

2. Aunt Marge's Waltz 

3. Duel of the Fates

4. Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith 

5. Journey to the Island 

6. The Lost World 

7. The Jungle Chase 

8. Everybody Runs!

9. Fawkes the Phoenix 

10. Harry's Wondrous World

11. The Patriot 

12. Hymn to the Fallen 

13. Omaha Beach 

14. Catch me if You Can

15. Star Wars and the Attack of Jakku Village 

16. Across the Stars

17. Sarah's Rescue 

18. Theme from Jurassic Park 

19. The Tale of Viktor Navorski 

20. Remembering Emilie, and Finale

21. The Adventures of Tintin 

22. The Witches of Eastwick 

23. Home Alone Main Title 

24. Setting the Trap 

25. The Patriot 

26. Seven Years in Tibet

28. The Conspirators 

29. Summon the Heroes 

30. Theme from JFK 

31. On the Conveyor Belt 

32. Welcome to Jurassic Park 

33. Raiders of the Lost Ark 

34. High-Wire Stunts

35. Theme from Sabrina

36. Anderton's Great Escape 

37. Jango's Escape 

38. Dobby the House Elf

39. The Chamber of Secrets 

40. Snowy's Theme

41. Presumed Innocent

42. End Credits (Far and Away)

43. Hedwig's Theme

44. The 1960's - The Turbulent Years

45. The Spiders 

46. Mischief Managed!

47. Rey's Theme 

48. Monica's Theme 

49. Over the Moon 

50. Adventures on Earth

 

Soon updated.

 

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I don't usually make playlists of 'favourite tracks' in general, but rather lists of particular sub genres or sounds etc. Like I have one for Williams' "religious sound", one for Goldsmith's "action setpieces" and so on.

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So far I've narrowed down my top 1658 tracks going to take a while to whittle it to 1000 than 500 then 250 then 125 then 124 then 123 then 122 then 121 etc etc.

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12 hours ago, Josh500 said:

but if this is too much work for you, just give me the Top 20 or 30 or 50 or however many you are willing

 

Please guys, I just want some quantifiable data! A hundred, fifty, ten, c'mon! Don't be shy now!...Just don't leave me hanging, please!...I must know the numbers, I must know the Top of everything! Help a poor man out, I'll take anything! Please!

 

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Please?

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17 hours ago, Josh500 said:

20 years or so ago I used to have the iPod shuffle with 4 GB. Then I used to have 100 John Williams songs on it. My dilemma was always to choose the 100 best ones....

 

Well, they aren't "songs", of course, but incidentally, I DO have a playlist of only actual Williams songs (or -- to be more precise -- his popular music tracks, also including instrumental tracks). 35 tracks in total.

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1. The Magic of Halloween

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Maybe the exercise will be more informative if we were to list our top JW tracks by play count. (I don’t have mine at the ready, as it happens)

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48 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

What are your Top 100 Josh500 threads? Go!

It's too many threads to chose from. I don't wanna exclude anything.

 

2 hours ago, John said:

1. The Magic of Halloween

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100. The Magic of Halloween

Please tell me that you copy-pasted.

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1 hour ago, Brundlefly said:

It's too many threads to chose from. I don't wanna exclude anything.

 

Please tell me that you copy-pasted.

 

If he's a true JW fan and really loves JW and is not a hare-brained Zimmer fantool pretending to love JW just to win approval here, then he will have typed it all out - letter by letter. If he copy pasted then he should have his JW fan credentials revoked.

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9 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:

If he's a true JW fan and really loves JW and is not a hare-brained Zimmer fantool pretending to love JW just to win approval here, then he will have typed it all out - letter by letter. If he copy pasted then he should have his JW fan credentials revoked.

 

K

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@Josh500

#22 THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK is not a title. Do you mean DANCE OF THE WITCHES?

#33 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is not a title. Do you mean THE RAIDERS MARCH?

 

 

@John

THE MAGIC OF HALLOWEEN is not a title. Do you mean THE MAGIC OF HALLOWE'EN?

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16 minutes ago, Richard said:

@Josh500

#22 THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK is not a title. Do you mean DANCE OF THE WITCHES?

#33 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is not a title. Do you mean THE RAIDERS MARCH?

 

 

Yes on both counts! :D

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Believe it or not, I did my research and every one of those is a verbatim track title on a John Williams CD up to the very early 1980s.  I got too bored to make it to 100.

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13 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

There is one track you chose multiple times. It doesn't count.

 

You may disagree with my taste, but do not tell me my choices are wrong. 

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35 minutes ago, John said:

You may disagree with my taste, but do not tell me my choices are wrong. 

I don't disagree with your taste, you're just playing against the rules.

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1. Journey to the Island

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You get the idea. I really was going to try and type this a hundred times, but my fingers went numb.

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6 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

I don't disagree with your taste, you're just playing against the rules.

 

What rules?

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