Bryant Burnett’s blog about Stephen King tackles John Williams discography (from 2016)

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Sometimes you find weird things on the web. Like this blog about Stephen King that has an excellent article on John Williams.

 

It’s a four part blog entry called “A Guided Tour to the Works of John Williams.”

 

It was written by Bryant Burnett in 2016 and doesn’t tackle the most recent scores, it doesn’t look further than 2005. That hardly matters - it compensates by going back to JW’s early days instead, chronicling his career from 1956.

 

It’s also sensibly written, insightful and thorough as hell.

 

Is Bryant a member here? Must be. But I can’t recall hearing about this earlier, and this really is a must read for any serious JW fan.

 

Part 1: 1956-1967

Part 2: 1968-1974

Part 3: 1975-1986

Part 4: 1987-2005

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

@Bryant Burnette

[Thor 7,465]

Yes, I saw it before. Nothing that us hardcore JW fans don't already know, but well written and a good intro to the newcomers. A few uncertainties, omissions and errors, but nothing major.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

4 hours ago, rough cut said:

Is Bryant a member here?

 

Naw, I don't think so...which is good, 'cause he reads like a dickhead. I bet Thomas and the King is his favorite John Williams score, that asshole!

[Quintus 5,399]

Bryant is a longstanding member here.

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7 minutes ago, Thor said:

Nothing that us hardcore JW fans don't already know.

 

For “us JW hardcore fans” there isn’t much left to surprise us, is there? But I hardly think that is the point.

 

That said, the piece is way too “deep” to be aimed at newcomers.

 

I think it contains a lot of interesting info and backstory on both big, mainstream releases as well as small, obscure ones. If you exclude the 20 people who are regular posters here, I’d say there’s a lot of stuff here that JW fans might not know about - especially regarding the early years.

[Bespin 8,480]

Great Chronological resumé.

[Thor 7,465]

4 hours ago, rough cut said:

 

For “us JW hardcore fans” there isn’t much left to surprise us, is there? But I hardly think that is the point.

 

That said, the piece is way too “deep” to be aimed at newcomers.

 

I think it contains a lot of interesting info and backstory on both big, mainstream releases as well as small, obscure ones. If you exclude the 20 people who are regular posters here, I’d say there’s a lot of stuff here that JW fans might not know about - especially regarding the early years.

 

Yes, if he fixed up the errors etc it would be valuable also to ‘casual’ JW fans.

[Bryant Burnette 654]

I'm sure there are a gajillion errors.  Feel free to point them out, and I'll correct them!

13 hours ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Naw, I don't think so...which is good, 'cause he reads like a dickhead. I bet Thomas and the King is his favorite John Williams score, that asshole!

 

No way, Thomas and the King is shite.  Although it's grown on me a little since I wrote that thing.  ONLY a little, but still.

18 hours ago, rough cut said:

Sometimes you find weird things on the web. Like this blog about Stephen King that has an excellent article on John Williams.

 

It’s a four part blog entry called “A Guided Tour to the Works of John Williams.”

 

It was written by Bryant Burnett in 2016 and doesn’t tackle the most recent scores, it doesn’t look further than 2005. That hardly matters - it compensates by going back to JW’s early days instead, chronicling his career from 1956.

 

It’s also sensibly written, insightful and thorough as hell.

 

Is Bryant a member here? Must be. But I can’t recall hearing about this earlier, and this really is a must read for any serious JW fan.

 

Part 1: 1956-1967

Part 2: 1968-1974

Part 3: 1975-1986

Part 4: 1987-2005

 

There's actually a fifth part covering 2006-2015:

 

http://thetruthinsidethelie.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-guided-tour-to-works-of-john-williams_17.html

 

Thanks for the kind words!  I can't really remember what motivated me to put such a thing on my King blog, but it was fun to write.

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It ain’t hard to give credit to such a well researched, well written and honest chronology- it’s a rare find.

 

Cool man about part #5. You should put links to all parts in each piece so that it’s easy to find and jump between them - just round up the links nice and tidy at the end of each article.

 

Once again, well done!

[Thor 7,465]

12 hours ago, Bryant Burnette said:

I'm sure there are a gajillion errors.  Feel free to point them out, and I'll correct them!

 

Sure. I'll do some comments when I get the time.