GerateWohl

This one's a no-brainer:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightgalleryart/the-jerry-goldsmith-companion
 

I would love to see the real Director's Cut of that film, the one where it was actually Serena who met with Marcus, the T-800 succeeded in killing John and Marcus wears his skin. It'd be a trainwreck I couldn't help but be curious about.

The only good sequel to T2 is "Salvation". The rest is garbage in my view. I would have loved to see more in that direction. Apart from that, there is more continuity and consistence in the "Friday the 13th" series.
 
But one thing I cannot forgive "Dark Fate". It broke the only common rule of the franchise: John Connor must be played by a completely different actor in every movie.

Yes, it's a strange one - it's not like they're using a generic fantasy adventure type library music, but a piece that was clearly composed to be a soundalike for SW.
 
But I don't think that points to anyone hating SW/Williams - quite the opposite in fact, because the music is so remininiscent. Could just be the producer of these videos looking at their budget and deciding there are things that need it more than having Williams' actual music in them.

That was very "in" at the time. Unfortunately for us, it's not anymore.
 
I'm not familiar with Marianelli. That track is is fun.

I was intentional when I said his style is hard to emulate well. The results may roughly resemble his work, but they tend to sound like cheesy mimicry. And they're usually not quite as sophisticated as JW's writing; he makes a lot of genuinely complex harmonic and orchestrational choices. Consider R1. Michael Giacchino made a concerted effort to give it a JW Star Wars sound, complete with sweeping melodies and chromatically planing brass triad triplets. Yet for me, at least, the strongest parts of the score tend to be the ones where MG just does his own thing (e.g. "Your Father Would Be Proud"). Solo provides an interesting comparison, because while Powell was given a new JW theme, he still scored things in his own style, and for my money, the results are more effective.
 
That being said, yes, a strong composer who's extensively studied JW may be able to convincingly ape his style for short stretches.

This all might be true. Still John Williams not only gave Star Wars a very special but also very popular musical identity. Why not keep that?
And why not maintain that?
And even If his style is hard to emmulate even for experienced studied composers (why???), why are the new scores so clumsy and weaker than almost any random modern adventure score?

I would prefer Jurassic Park III over Harry Potter IV.

This all might be true. Still John Williams not only gave Star Wars a very special but also very popular musical identity. Why not keep that?
And why not maintain that?
And even If his style is hard to emmulate even for experienced studied composers (why???), why are the new scores so clumsy and weaker than almost any random modern adventure score?

By the way, I forgot to add Babylon Berlin to my list.

I would prefer Jurassic Park III over Harry Potter IV.

I would say the Waxman, the Rozsa and Captain Blood. The one I would be least excited about would likely be the Tiomkin (sorry Tiomkin fans).

I've been waiting to post this for a while, I worked on this as my final project for a film music class I took this semester, I figured I might as well share it here now that it's graded.
 
I'm sure none of this information is new for anyone here - and I don't think my music analysis skills are the absolute greatest - but I tried to document everything known about the score as best as I could.
 
Hopefully it's a valuable resource for somebody.
 
Please let me know if I made any mistakes or anything so I can fix them.
film music class final paper - redacted jwfan version.pdf

Idk I think Andor's score was about as equal in caliber to Kenobi or maybe even a little worse and yet a lot of mainstream Star Wars fans praise that score to no end

In any case, I think, you can skip the Tiomkin album. It is my least favourites of them.
For the Waxman album, for almost all the scores teasered there good complete re-recordings exist, which I prefer. That is why I also don't listen too often to that one.

Black Books

The IT Crowd (only the British Version please) Extras Six Feet Under  
But most shows listed here are shows that almost everyone might have seen anyway. The "but probably haven't indivates rarities". 

Fawlty Towers

The Herrmann album never clicked with me.

Sunset Boulevard
Casablanca or Captain Blood or Star Wars / CE3K
The Bad and the Beautiful 
 

 
...but eventually get all of them.
 
 
You're such a completist.

Definitely the Herrmann one. I like the Rozsa album too. And a bit of Errol Flynn swashbuckling won't hurt either.
 
Karol

I would prefer Jurassic Park III over Harry Potter IV.

I would prefer Jurassic Park III over Harry Potter IV.

Then HP4, please. 

It could be anything.