[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

26 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Is it THE HELICOPTER EXPLOSION?

 

Yes!!! 

 

Timmy got it right again! Now go get your cookies with milk...

[How would you rank these 15 Expanded John Williams releases from LLL?]

These 15. List is not complete, for example the new "Disaster Movies Collection"! 

 

Rank them in order of personal preference... 

 

1941

A.I. Artificial Intelligence 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 

The Empire of the Sun 

Harry Potter (3 movies) 

Hook

Home Alone 

Home Alone 2

Jurassic Park (2 movies) 

Minority Report 

Rosewood 

Saving Private Ryan 

Schindler's List 

Superman 

__________

My list:

 

1. Harry Potter (3 movies) 

2. Jurassic Park (2 movies) 

3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 

4. Home Alone 

5. Minority Report 

6. Saving Private Ryan 

7. Hook

8. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

9. Schindler's List

10. The Empire of the Sun 

11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

12. Home Alone 2 

13. Superman 

14. Rosewood

15. 1941

 

 

[John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records]

I don't quite like the fact that on the slipcase the poster of Poseidon is slightly covered up. Makes it seem as though that one is slightly less important than the other two... 

 

Otherwise, great set! I'll definitely get it next year! 

[John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records]

Minority Report and Superman was, incidentally, the only package from LLL so far, where I actually had to pay customs. Around 20 Euros. Oh well. 

[John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records]

19 minutes ago, jamesluckard said:

Big box with LOADS of bubble wrap.

 

Same here. 

 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

It doesn't match all the descriptions I gave, does it? 

 

Oh well. I'm starting to doubt now that anybody will get it. Maybe it's not so obvious, after all. It took myself about a week to figure it out, after all.

 

Anyway, I'll reveal the answer in about 1 hour! 12 hours after I started this thread.

________

 

Here's the answer. It was "Far from Home" from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial! Specifically at around 4:00 - 5:00.

 

From 4:00...

 

This is what I wrote about it:

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At first this snippet starts out very dark, sinister, somewhat mysterious and frightening--with low strings and woodwinds, as well as a flurry of somewhat disconcerting and fluttering flutes. There's definitely something very wrong in this scene. And then, suddenly, bam!--this quiet music erupts in sudden chaos and sheer panic. The low strings go up and down, frantically, the brass section chimes in with abrupt force, it gets very loud and it is madness! Whatever bad thing was going to happen, it just did, and with a vengeance! 

 

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Another hint. There is one motif, or small theme, playing over and over throughout this piece. Obviously, when I heard the small 5-second snippet in my head, I didn't realise it (otherwise I would have known from which score it is right away)... What had stuck in my mind was the music suddenly escalating and a the low urgent strings, accentuated by brass, going up and down frantically... In sheer, breathtaking, agonised panic and terror, as it were. 

 

Indeed masterful writing from JW, relatively early in his career! 

 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

Bingo! Bravo! 

 

 

Of course not. You kidding? At this point, you're not even trying anymore, are you? 😂 

[John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records]

11 minutes ago, Incanus said:

Ditto!

 

With some luck it could get here for Christmas (but I am not holding my breath).

 

I seriously doubt that! You'll have it some time in January 2020!

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

16 minutes ago, Bowie said:

Is it the B-section in the Imperial March?

 

Sheer panic and chaos? 

13 minutes ago, Drew said:

 

That went by me too but I didn't think it exactly matched the descriptions.

 

You almost got it, I think. Just go through all the obvious choices... 

 

Like I said, it's not some obscure cue. It's a very obvious and simple one... Pretty much every JW fan has heard it and knows it! 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

9 minutes ago, Drew said:

That's almost two decades. 

 

You can only consider one post at a time, can you? Why don't you take all the hints I posted, and put them together?

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

6 minutes ago, Drew said:

Give us a decade...aka, the earlier scores aren't my best expertise.

 

Okay, last hint.

 

This is post-Jaws, but pre-Schindler's List! 

[John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records]

4 hours ago, Amer said:

Did the La-La Land shipping come in a box or a jiffy padded envelope for this set? 

 

I got Minority Report in a box! 

 

But then I always message them to please package my CD very carefully, so it won't break in transit.

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

Another hint. There is one motif, or small theme, playing over and over throughout this piece. Obviously, when I heard the small 5-second snippet in my head, I didn't realise it (otherwise I would have known from which score it is right away)... What had stuck in my mind was the music suddenly escalating and a the low urgent strings, accentuated by brass, going up and down frantically... In sheer, breathtaking, agonised panic and terror, as it were. 

 

Indeed masterful writing from JW, relatively early in his career! 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

Remember what I said about that brief snippet... I marked the important parts. 

 

At first this it starts out very dark, sinister, somewhat frightening--with low strings and woodwinds, as well as a flurry of somewhat disconcerting and fluttering flutes. And then, suddenly, bam!--this quiet music erupts in sudden chaos and sheer panic. The low strings go up and down, frantically, the brass section chimes in with abrupt force, it gets very loud and it is madness! 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

______

 

By the way, the answer is so obvious and deceptively simple, you'll all very likely slap your own foreheads when you learn it. 

 

Like I did, almost! 😅 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

3 minutes ago, Drew said:

This came to mind. Probably not it though. It's quite longer than 5 seconds...

 

 

 

I forgot all about this cue. This  section sounds kinda like WotW... 

 

But that's not it. 

2 minutes ago, Alex said:

Around 1.30?

 

Nope. 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

12 minutes ago, Sandor said:

The part that starts at 3:25? Probably not, but this is such a great cue anyway. 😉

 

I agree on both counts. It's not what I kept hearing in my head, but it's an awesome cue! 

 

16 minutes ago, Loert said:

 

 

Great one! I hear great similarities between this cue and the one I had in mind.... The sheer panic, chaos, and madness are palpable here as well! 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

5 minutes ago, Sandor said:

Maybe it’s a portion from The Miracle Of The Ark?

 

Which one? 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

Nope. Where exactly do you hear sheer panic? 

 

When I said it's getting very close, I meant sound-wise. The one I had in mind sounds very similar to that one Close Encounters cue. 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

It's getting very close... No pun intended.

 

But that's not it. Not exactly. 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

32 minutes ago, Fal J. M. Skywalker said:

Whatever it is, I bet only an intelligent person will get it right.

 

So not you?

 

4 minutes ago, gkgyver said:

Sounds like something from Close Encounters. 

 

Yes, that's what I kept thinking too! Which specific moment, though? 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

@BrotherSound

 

Yes, it's very close (the strings here do go up and down, with abruptly brass punctuations, and it does get very loud), but this isn't it, either. 

 

Gotta relisten to ESB again sometime... 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

@Sandor

 

Good guess, but no, this wasn't it. Besides, this isn't really so much about sheer panic but more about comic madness. 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

1 minute ago, Bellosh said:

Somewhere In My Memory

 

😂

 

Yes, the name of this track was lost somewhere in my memory and I couldn't find it... 

[I kept hearing this JW snippet in my head, but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Can you?]

So for about a week I kept hearing this very short snippet in my head... but I couldn't place it for the life of me. It was very short--maybe 5 seconds--and the only thing I knew with any certainty was that it was from a JW score! Maybe from one of the 8 Star Wars scores we know so far, the two Jurassic Park scores, or maybe even Minority Report, A.I. - Artificial Intelligence, or War of the Worlds! (Or something entirely different.) 

 

At first this snippet starts out very dark, sinister, somewhat mysterious and frightening--with low strings and woodwinds, as well as a flurry of somewhat disconcerting and fluttering flutes. There's definitely something very wrong in this scene. And then, suddenly, bam!--this quiet music erupts in sudden chaos and sheer panic. The low strings go up and down, frantically, the brass section chimes in with abrupt force, it gets very loud and it is madness! Whatever bad thing was going to happen, it just did, and with a vengeance! 

 

What is it? Can anybody guess? I have figured it out now, and what a relief it is! The first person to guess it correctly gets a "Thank You!" like from me.