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Please provide a source before Jay comes in and asks for it!

No jokes today, just an unfortunate apparent reality.

Williams_Fan_Theme.mp3
Someone made this mock up years ago. I apologise if I wasn't allowed to post it or something. It's actually a pretty cool theme.
That's great! You might live long enough to hear the Expanded Star Wars Prequel scores.

It's the other way around. I pretty much only review scores I enjoy. Who wants to read about something that's crap?

I agree. Except that Pick 'em Up is just no main program material.

JWFan Forum: Take this collection to Reddit for people who say songs, it will show them our progress.  Without the missing cues, I'm afraid it's no better than a souvenir.
 

On episode 63 of The Best Song Podcast, I discuss the stories behind the creation of the five songs nominated for the 1995 Original Song Oscar. That includes "Moonlight" from the remake of Sabrina, a song written by John Williams and Alan & Marilyn Bergman. For all three of them, this would be their final Oscar nominations in the original song category. I covered this film in episode 77 of The Baton, but it would be great for you to hear the song stacked up with its Oscar competition, and celebrate John Williams' final original song nomination.
 
Competition was tough for this Oscar, though Disney went all-in for Alan Menken's chance to win a fourth Oscar for original song with "Colors of the Wind," and Bryan Adams had a #1 hit song with "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman." While the five nominees are great, you'll hear some songs that failed to get nominated, including a very popular song by Whitney Houston.

 

That reminds me of this:
 
 
(which I think works better than Hook, personally)

Welcome to the board, Kris Bowers!

It also worked out better for the skater...

 

Oh, one more. This cue is unavailable on any releases of the score, but it’s used twice in a row and is so good. Hopefully the next LLL expansion is this score. 910275DD-7BC9-4E07-8F47-887E2AECB70B.mov  
 

To be fair, even Raiders (film and score) would have lost again, were it the contender.

1:57 and on is soooooo beautiful. Though the most calm variations on the three themes, they’re easily the best in the entire score. I’d love to hear this live.

I would rank JW's SW scores at "I love this" and JP's HTTYD scores at "I love this too!"

I love the aesthetic unity of all three looking like they were made in MS paint. What a choice!

HTTYD 3 is mine. The choral writing, and overall more symphonic style really makes it feel like a fully matured series through the score alone. 

I'd say each score has their "hits".
 
1.
This Is Berk
Forbidden Friendship
See You Tomorrow
Test Drive
Romantic Flight
Where's Hiccup
Coming Back Around
 
2.
Dragon Racing
Flying With Mother
Battle Of The Bewliderbeasts
Hiccup Confronts Drago
Stoick's Ship
Toothless Found
Two New Alphas
 
3.
Legend Has It
Exodus!
Third Date
Furies In Love
The Hidden World
Armada Battle
Once There Were Dragons
 
But honestly. What I feel is so cool and strong about these score is that Powell makes sure that something interesting is happening all the time.
Be it big brass statements, sweeping strings, dancing woodwinds, percussion going nuts, choir singing for if their lives depended on it or even the quieter pizzicato or percussion or the solo harp or pianos.
 
I could listen to all 3 scores in a row (OST or deluxe) and not be distracted by anything else. Powell grabs your fullest attention and doesn't let you go until he means to.

John Williams, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, soloist
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/3103/2025-04-03/yo-yo-ma-williams-dudamel
 

Yes.
 
Also, the first one is the least refined, and this last one is the most.

I can understand ItM.
 
I love BewilderBeast/Hiccup Confronts Drago, it's what made me want to become a composer.

Do we need an IFMCA disenchentment thread?

I love the aesthetic unity of all three looking like they were made in MS paint. What a choice!

I love the aesthetic unity of all three looking like they were made in MS paint. What a choice!