Sir Hilary Bray

Flight to Neverland for the most part today interchangeable with "We Don't Wanna Grow Up".

A View To A Kill -John Barry For Your Eyes Only- Bill Conti The Cowboys- John Williams amongst a few others Rewatched Cowboys the other week and the score is a favourite -Summer's Over and Stealing Back the Herd are highpoints for me though overall it's all good. When boys became men.

Right now I'd say either Han Solo and the Princess or Princess Leia's Theme.

Jerry Goldsmith's The Swarm Joel McNeely's Shadows of the Empire -Imperial City and Destruction of Xizor's Palace are favourites, the latter for the frantic Imperial theme towards the end and the former for conjuring an image of Coruscant. Otherwise been a while and largely after knackering my Revenge of the Sith tracks.

Jaws for both though score wise, Jaws 2 runs the first close. The first film has a lot more going for it, the second could've been more -maybe if they had gone down the Indianapolis route or just not bothered. Like other films, the first feels a little tainted by having three sequels follow.

Well, delved into my Intrada haul with Jaws (2CD), no less brilliant long or short. The other's to follow: Jaws 2, Jaws 4 and the John Williams Jurassic Park Collection.

Small world, all that I've read about the film I had no idea Williams was involved. As for the score itself, the 'legend' is a favourite, impossible not to think of James Robertson Justice's narration ending with the theme kicking into gear.

Guns of Navarone- Tiomkin Around the World in 80 Days, Victor Young -enchanting score The Wind and the Lion (2CD Intrada release). Listened to both the expanded and original release, something about this score that blows the doors off. I like the film but the score seems worlds above.

Wrath of Khan: Director's Edition on Blu-Ray one of the recent crop of films I brought for blu ray (my first foray into it) and TWOK was a must. One perk was a new feature with Nick Meyer et al talking about the film but a feature with Horner talking about the score. "I was not a Star Trek watcher", well nobody's perfect. Solid film regardless.

I'm intrigued by one of the links at the bottom of the ticket page for a 'Jaws in Concert'. But will eagerly await the chance to book tickets for the Prom. Always aimed to go to the Proms but never gotten the chance or had the time/money etc.

I suppose Giacchino so he can say he's done the full set. Before, I'd say Newman but as Spectre recycled Skyfall partly, I'll vote for Desplat.

Personally, a reprise however brief, of "Luke and Leia" from ROTJ. Otherwise, something as grand and unique as Episode VII.

A fair bit since I was last about but to highlight last couple or so. The War Wagon- Dimitri Tiomkin Boys from Brazil- Goldsmith 633 Squadron- Ron Goodwin I brought 633 from FSM last week and got it yesterday, two discs with the other being "Submarine X-1". Only 633 so far but the end title track works still, the love them seguing gradually into the theme as Harry Andrews is driven away having just intoned: "You can't kill a squadron."

Jerry Goldsmith -The Detective/Von Ryan's Express Alan Silvestri -Volcano Barry DeVorzon- The Warriors John Cacavas- Airport '75 John Barry- Hanover Street, The Black Hole, The Deep, Raise The Titanic Victor Young- Around the World in 80 Days long, long week.

Night on the Yorktown, Enterprise's arrival and transit to her dock.

War of the Worlds (1953), Magnum Force and Rogue One again. On this recent bout of listens, Your Father Would Be Proud of You has leapt ahead to a favoured track. Wish there were some of the end credits on the disc. Feels disjointed going from Hope to the suites.

Beyond Deluxe arrived today, quite surprised really. Actually turned up from the States before stuff I ordered from here in the UK.

At the weekend, Lara's Theme from Zhivago but today theme from Time Machine, endless on repeat. Still, better than other tunes.

For me it's a few seconds in Clash of Lightsabers that ever since I first heard it clicks in the mind. Don't know what or why but: 2.36 to about 2.44 not long before the love theme. (Accompanies Artoo saving the day: "Wonderful! I never doubted it for a second!") but as I say on some level it's always done something for us, then again the whole track does. From just after the duel, with our heroes fleeing knowing Han's lost (or possibly), stormtroopers chasing, the Yoda theme and finally getting off Cloud City by the skin of the proverbials.

Well gents'all, in no particular order here's my two cents booze powered top 10 1. Empire Strikes Back 2. Close Encounters 3. Jaws 4. Towering Inferno 5. Paper Chase 6. 1941 7. Lincoln 8. Jurassic Park 9. Temple of Doom 10. Star Wars (Episode IV) Weirdly harder to do than if I did a Goldsmith top 10. Reckon Force Awakens is one just below the top 10, ditto Jaws 2 and Raiders. I even considered The Cowboys.

Don't think he'd take kindly to having his licence removed.

Finally ordered Star Trek Beyond Deluxe now I got paid (or rather did Friday). Be all right if I lived in the States, cheaper for sure. Plus- Alex North's 2001 score.

Capricon One- Goldsmith. Dirty Harry -Schifrin Battlestar Galactica Vols1-4, Phillips and today, Across the Sea of Time by John Barry. Flight Over New York is moving in its way. Certainly, should I ever make it Stateside, this will be in my mind.

8. I came across the score by accident someplace and got swept away by the love themes. "Be Irrational" in particular seemed affecting. Could and can never put a finger on what exactly but perhaps my favourite pre-Jaws/Star Wars Williams. And a re-issue would be most welcome in this corner of the UK.

Airport, 1970 yes ripe for parody even then and a film that left Burt Lancaster exasperated anyone would watch it never mind be nominated for Oscars but it's a guilty pleasure viewing. From Newman's main theme (and score generally, the emergency landing is a favourite of mine), to Lancaster, Martin, Bisset, Hayes et al down to the priest doing a quick cross of the chest before slapping the hysterical idiot as the plane comes in to crash-land. But, honourable mention goes to last to the late George Kennedy. Joe Patroni should've had his own TV series. Pre-empting MacGuyver.