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Yeah, threads like these are always a bit of a bummer. So many of my own favourites mentioned already, that somehow others don't like. The name of the game, I suppose.

I was going to say the same thing about A.I. in the first post. It shines in the OST, it's a chore on the expansion. A.I. has risen steadily to be a top 5 Williams for me - the beautiful ebb and flow between warm and cold there is unique in Williams' ouevre. As for the topic at hand, well several come to mind. Any given John Barry Bond score, for example. Or Herrmann's VERTIGO. Despite my many and best efforts, I've not been able to get into them.

You know you have an all-star line-up when even dead people come back to record!

Top 10, maybe even top 5 Silvestri for me. Nobody could do glorious Synclavier stuff like he did! Film is also a huge nostalgic favourite, one of my earliest cinema memories (partly shot in Norway, no less!).

Another great album (my cover is different), but again -- it's from 2010. He hasn't released anything since RATTLE THAT LOCK in 2015, except that Ukraine song and another song with his daughter.

Did you just get a big pay check or something?

Hooray for the late master of lounge! My top 10: 1. THE ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE 2. Sunflower 3. Me, Natalie 4. Breakfast at Tiffany's 5. Peter Gunn 6. Switch 7. The White Dawn 8. Hatari 9. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 10. The Pink Panther Strikes Again Also loads of great non-film albums, of course, like The Blues and the Beat, The Mancini Touch, Combo! etc., often featuring a young John Williams on piano.

Indeed!

Wouldn't the list be more or less your 10 favourite scores, and then your one favourite theme from each?

Frisina is very uneven, IMO. I like some of his biblical output, but other things are too on-the-nose with little dynamic range. But he does know how to churn out a good theme or two.

A fine album! But kinda bummed that it's been almost 10 years since it came out. Wish Gilmour (and many of my other rock and pop heroes from the 70s) released music more often these days.

True. Still a pretty nice tune. Zimmer does these projects now and then, for cars or watches or apps or what-have-you. For variety, I suppose, not because he needs the money (he has a net worth of $200 million, last time I checked....more than many countries).

That IS the takeaway here. The film score suite is okay, but nothing on that level.

I'm so terrible at themes, just as I am bits and pieces and nuts and bolts of cues (which I know many here are interested in). I'm an album guy. Tend to put on an album, press play and let it roll until it ends. Obviously, I still notice a great highlight or theme now and then, but wouldn't know where to start or stop for a project like this. I think I would at the very least need some parameters, like period, style, genre etc.

It's a bit trickier for me, because I'm so ancient. I was 20 in 1997 already. So still plenty of late 90s and early 2000s nostalgia to wallow in that would "disqualify" the picks, even if I was past my formative/teenage years then. I might have to start at roughly 2005, like you, and try to think of things I've discovered after that that have made my favourites list. A challenge taken later, in the weekend, over a glass of red wine, I think.