BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 If you're anything like me, your musical tastes sort of ebb and flow throughout the year, meandering through different genres, or composers. Occasionally it can be weeks until I listen to John Williams. Others of you may have dull, mundane lives and you listen to the same 5 soundtracks every day, and you have been for the last decade. In which case you should probably not bother replying, because we'd all be quite bored reading it. For some reason the Imperial March (any performance to be honest) without fail rekindles my appetite for John Williams. It's one of those tracks that doesn't get old, no matter how comical and overused it's gotten. The Star Wars Main Titles don't do much for me anymore, unless I actively force my brain to find something meaningful in it. But the Imperial March? Over thirty years since I fell in love with it, and I still get the urge to stand in attention like a good little Stormtrooper. Maybe it's the mystical power of the minor key. Maybe it's the effortless, driving simplicity of the music. Or maybe it's the greatness that it exudes, reflective of the Maestro's own greatness? Who knows, but it works, without fail.What's yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Adventure on EarthYou know that bridge section of the Flying Theme around 6 minutes in during the bicycle chase when they split up and regroup at the bottom of the hill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,640 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 The concert piece from JFK, and, incidentally, the version of that piece on the new Schindler's List Camber collection is phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 All of them. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I have many, for sure. Pretty much anything from OT. Lately, it's been the latter part of this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Cadillac of the Skies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Ben's Death and Tie Fighter Attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Lately it's The Mecha WorldBefore that The Lost WorldI get addicted to pieces sometimes that I just want to play all the time that reinforce for me how Williams is better than all the rest KittBash 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I know it's probably surprising considering my taste, but these.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Adventure on Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Journey to the Island Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Journey to the Island Ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Attack of the Clones. That haunting choir from 1:15-1:49, the leadup to and then greatest statement of the Imperial March, the Across the Stars finale - in my opinion, it's the best-scored finale of any film (shame it's for such a crappy movie). I just wish they'd left the Emperor's Theme statement on the album. Joni Wiljami and Smeltington 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 There's one i feel always feel elated by - simple-yet-brilliantly constructed americana hymn: Joni Wiljami and Marian Schedenig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yeah that's a good one pub. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Abandoned and Pursued.But I haven't played a JW score for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 The Map Room: DawnFar and Away (version on the Greatest Hits album) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Another excellent one Sharky! Fantastic atmosphere in that piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig 1,120 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 For some reason the Imperial March (any performance to be honest) without fail rekindles my appetite for John Williams. It's one of those tracks that doesn't get old, no matter how comical and overused it's gotten.There's a great new book on music perception called On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2014) that might in part explain why this is true for so many people. The author refers to several scientific studies on how listeners reach a "satiation point" with music, or in other words become bored with it. Basically, these studies conclude that more complex pieces take a longer time to reach a satiation point upon repeated listenings. But more specifically, the author adds thatrepeated listenings engage listeners with the stimulus at different levels, connecting them with new aspects of the same sound. Very simple stimuli don't offer enough at either end of the hierarchy--timbral richness, or large-scale structure--to reward new perspectives. Understood in this light, it's not a piece of music's familiarity, per se, that is rewarding, but rather the kind of involvement that familiarity affords. (pp. 97-98)In relation to the Imperial March and Williams' music in general, my hunch is that it so much detail in the way of melody, harmony, rhythm, orchestration, musical meaning, and so forth, that repeated listenings allow us to re-hear it in all kinds of different ways and still be richly rewarded for it. Sharkissimo and Smeltington 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I work by phases. I'm currently in a John Williams phase (guess what, I was previously in a Charles Aznavour phase) What made me relapse, this time?The discovery of an interpretation of the Star Wars Main Theme by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (on the album called 'Vienna Philharmonic's Summer Night Concert 2010'). So I guess, this time, it was the Star Wars Main Theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,177 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Far and Away (version on the Greatest Hits album)What version is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,989 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 It's the Perlman one.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Probably the same one from the Cinema Serenade CD. Great stuff. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 The concert suite version of this always does it for me: Taikomochi and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAu1Fb28p6I Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Since I caught a theatrical screening of ROTLA this wednesday, for now, it'll be ANY track from ANY release of it... vinyl, CD, bootleg CD... you name it! Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 The movie has completely put me off and I stopped it very quickly, but It's a score on my list, to be discovered... one day or another :-) Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,177 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 It's the Perlman one.KarolAh. Brilliant track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlytoot 97 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 "The Seduction of Suki and the Ballroom Scene" from THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Also, "The Plane" from EMPIRE OF THE SUN. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 "Hell's Kitchen" from Sleepers. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I'd like to add this to the list: Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 The first 6 seconds of the Star Wars Main Title Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Brilliant track.A brilliant score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,989 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 This one is one of my favourite in recent years. And yeah, this particular arrangement: Karol Taikomochi and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Yes the whole Suite including that piece is simply fantastic reworking of the score's ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Brilliant track.A brilliant score.Indeed, John Neufeld's orchestrations are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_vader 533 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 The Imperial March Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Either Back to the Future or Zelda. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 His best themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy 55 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Stephen wanted something grand and Johnny brought this shit. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Don't you mean Maggie Shoots Pool or Commando Raid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 14, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2015 Nah, "Neptune's Bar" and "Preparations," and... Balahkay, Gruesome Son of a Bitch, Taikomochi and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 My god, what an horror. Gnome in Plaid and Sharkissimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Great theme! Stempel and Koray Savas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien F 1,742 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Stephen wanted something grand and Johnny brought this shit.What album is this from? The brass sounds like it could be City of Prague Philharmonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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