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Nice!

Cool! Can you elaborate

It's like 20 minutes long...wouldn't be fair putting it up against all these other scores

woooooooo!

So is that pic from the set? Have they started filming?

yup

Yeah, when you write to his agents you get an impersonalized q&a and a signed photo. Takes them awhile to respond though

What sections are you talking about?

SW prequels

I only included film scores (including TV film scores), because that's what Stefan included in his polls. I think that's a perfectly reasonable place to draw the line, and you have to draw it somewhere. Lost in Space would have been weird to include in this poll. If you bunch all the JW scored episodes into one category, then you have fairly varied scores being lumped into one poll option. If you try to separate them out by episode, then you have four entries with 10 - 20 minutes of score each, competing against a bunch of entries with ~60 minutes. Checkmate (which is one of my favorite JW albums, btw) is more of a concept album than a score... a good deal of the music was not written for any specific part of the show, or as source music.

Oooh, thanks for posting!

For me, It Can't Be (my favourite ROTS cue) trumps both. Yeah the whole build-up of that cue is fantastic. That and Lament are the top pieces from RotS for me. And to think JW's initial instinct at the spotting sessions was to go with march-type bellicose music for the Order 66 scene. I am glad they opted for the much more fitting point of view of accenting the tragedy rather than the action. Wait, really? When did he say this?

That's a frightening thought

Btw Steef--feel free to log this one whenever.

The people who prefer poa to SS because it's more mature are more likely to vote for an even MORE mature score, like geisha, Munich, AI, etc. if you get rid of those options and just had a SS vs poa poll, I think it would be much closer.

Love this piece. Reminds me of Leonard bernsteins similarly titled "prelude, fugue and riffs"

I dunno, I think the inclusion of all the other Scotes could have split yr votr. PPl who preferred te more "mature" stuff voted for geisha, etc. if it were a head to head, poa vs SS I think it would've been closer

I think so, yes. But it's quite curious how 20 or so years later he writes such an awesome passage to include in his suite for the score. Can it be considered part of it? I'd say that since the purpose of the poll is to decide what project in the '60s JW did the best score for, you should NOT include stuff that wasn't written after 1969. Of course, it's possible the horse race music was a rejected cue that was indeed written for the film originally...

I should say, I'm very pleased with this poll/list renaissance.

I'm tempted to vote for the prequels, as I return to them more often and enjoy listening to them more. But LotR gets some major points for it's unity. So it's a tie!

Good call. Added Heidi!

I would say: 1) Reivers 2) Not With My Wife You Don't 3) How to Steal A Million

I only included film scores that have had official releases, since most of us have not heard the others. Should be interesting to see which score wins.

He wrote some great stuff in the 60s. And the winner wouldn't be as predictable as the 70s - 2010s, even if it wouldn't stand a chance in the run-off poll.

Bump! Some cool photos and info being released on this page - like it if you haven't already!