Which style of score from Williams you prefer to listen?

[Caldeira 0]

You know the drill...

I've been thinking alot about this lately (I should get a life, I know ) and I found out that I learned to enjoy the restrained kind of scores like Schindler's List and Angela's Ashes over any other style, including the action/adventure scores (I think I know what you're thinking: "he should be executed" ). Remember that I'm not asking you what is the best style from Williams' scores, I'm only asking which one you enjoy the most as listening experience.

[Trumpeteer 304]

I love them all. It's like trying to pick your favorite child: the jock, the brain, the shy one, the mama's boy or the rebel. They all have good traits in them.

This is my 100th post!! I'm a regular now!!!! (Norm!)

[Caldeira 0]

I know, I meant to write that it was an hard choice for me too but, in the end, that's the way I feel right now.

[Braveheart 0]

You know the drill...

I've been thinking alot about this lately (I should get a life, I know   ) and I found out that I learned to enjoy the restrained kind of scores like Schindler's List and Angela's Ashes over any other style, including the action/adventure scores (I think I know what you're thinking: "he should be executed"   ). Remember that I'm not asking you what is the best style from Williams' scores, I'm only asking which one you enjoy the most as listening experience.

I too have begun enjoying Williams' quiet, emotional works more than the loud, rousing, bombastic music. All of them are good, everything Williams writes is good, but then I think the quiet scores show his skill to a greater extent than the louder ones. It is easier for a composer to write loud, rousing music passages than restrained passages that can get inside the human soul and remain very memorable after listening. This is why Angela's Ashes is my favorite film score.

[Chris ChrusherComix 67]

The Star Wars/Superman/Indy/JP/Jaws ones all the way.

Not that I don't like others... but I am SO stoked to get those type scores!!!

Anything even close to that 1974-1984 era... Williams' dud free period.

(Dud free meaning I loved every score in that 10 year period, not that Johnny does duds...).

[Figo 2]

These categories are kind of blurry, but I'm impressed at least so much thought went into them. Do you really see BOT4OJ as a patriotic score? I know Oliver Stone does, but I doubt very much George Bush would. It certainly is quite different from The Patriot.

In any event, within the guidelines you've provided, I would have to go with action/adventure, but only if that would include scores like Jaws, E.T., and The Reivers. Generally speaking, I love everything pre-1982. After that, I become a little more selective, even within individual soundtracks.

Incidentally, it is not just the "rousing" stuff that attracts me to this music. I love cues like "Marion's Theme" and "The Map Room" every bit as much as "The Desert Chase," if you get my meaning.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,390]

Were does the Lost World fit in, IMO it is Low and Restrained, Experimental and Action/Adventure.

Stefancos-

[Ricard 2,675]

These categories are kind of blurry, but I'm impressed at least so much thought went into them.  Do you really see BOT4OJ as a patriotic score?  I know Oliver Stone does, but I doubt very much George Bush would.  It certainly is quite different from The Patriot.

I agree (with you, not with Stone or Bush).

[Figo 2]

I'm relieved to hear it (about Stone and Bush, I mean ).