What are your current Top 5 KotCS tracks?

[Josh500 1,615]

Some people will complain that this board is getting cluttered with Indy 4 threads, but what the hell. This is the first JW score in 2 and a half years . . . ! So? What's on your list (in order of preference, please):

My list at the moment:

1. The Jungle Chase

2. The Adventures of Mutt

3. Call of the Crystal

4. Finale

5. Hidden Treasure and The City of Gold

[Vaderbait1 1]

Some people will complain that this board is getting cluttered with Indy 4 threads, but what the hell. This is the first JW score in 2 and a half years . . . ! So? What's on your list (in order of preference, please):

My list at the moment:

1. The Jungle Chase

2. The Adventures of Mutt

3. Call of the Crystal

4. Finale

5. Hidden Treasure and The City of Gold

That's about it for me, too. I can't wait to someday hear the unedited or complete version of Jungle Chase.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

1. Irina's Theme

2. The Journey to Akador

3. Temple Ruins and the Secret Revealed

4. Finale

5. The Adventures of Mutt

[King Mark 3,631]

Call of the Crystal

Adventures of Mutt

Jungle Chase

Hidden Treasure and the City of gold

Departure

[franzridesagain 0]

1. The Departure

2. Call of the Crystal

3. Grave Robbers

4. Ants

5. Temple Ruins and The Secret Revealed

[Henry B 50]

1. Call of the Crystal

2. Irina's Theme

3. The Adventures of Mutt

4. Jungle Chase

5. Finale

[SF1_freeze 131]

1. The Departure

2. Journey to Akator

3. Finale

4. The Adventures of Mutt

5. Temple ruins and the secret revealed

In the Depature from 1:15 till the end you get Williams at his absolutely best. This is the best part of the soundtrack for me. I can hear it over and over again, it's absolut terrific!!!

[MissPadmé 17]

1. The Adventures of Mutt

2. The City of Gold

3. The Spell of the Skull

4. A Whirl Through Academe

5. Irina's Theme (with the Finale-Russian Dance extension)

Iriana's Theme in the Finale .. man the bassline at 4:07! I love it

[Josh500 1,615]

1. The Adventures of Mutt

2. The City of Gold

3. The Spell of the Skull

4. A Whirl Through Academe

5. Irina's Theme (with the Finale-Russian Dance extension)

Iriana's Theme in the Finale .. man the bassline at 4:07! I love it

Do you already have this CD, Miss Padme? A friend of mine got it in Austria today!

[MissPadmé 17]

1. The Adventures of Mutt

2. The City of Gold

3. The Spell of the Skull

4. A Whirl Through Academe

5. Irina's Theme (with the Finale-Russian Dance extension)

Iriana's Theme in the Finale .. man the bassline at 4:07! I love it

Do you already have this CD, Miss Padme? A friend of mine got it in Austria today!

Well no I ordered it from an Austrian online store where I get 10 € off , so I have to pay 6 €for it..

[Neimoidian 14]

1. Adventures of Mutt (100% of fun)

2. Spell of The Skull (terrific, serious underscore)

3. The Departure (indeed, the ending is terrific)

4. Irina's Theme (that Finale dance extension is in one scene in the movie, as far as I remember)

5. Journey to Akator (I like the folk flavour)

[indy4 155]

1. "The Jungle Chase"

2. "A Whirl Through Academe"

3. "The Adventures of Mutt"

4. "The Journey to Akator" (just for the Raiders March variation)

5. "Ants!"

[Delorean90 42]

It would be too easy for me to use the concert suites, as they are just outstanding. It's neat how the first four tracks are almost like a grand KOTCS suite--an alternative to the "Finale and End Credits" for the concert hall. If you exclude them and the "Finale" track (people are saying it even though it was excluded in the title...?), then in no particular order, my favorites right now are:

1. The Journey to Akator (solid Indy music, and fun mariachi)

2. The Departure (absolutely glorious--that last major statement of the Crystal Skull theme is destined for classic status, IMO)

3. The Jungle Chase (growing on me the more I hear it--love the menacing statements of Irina's Theme, and that marching motif in the last half is cool, and somewhat similar to the motif from the last half of "Desert Chase," but different enough to be its own)

4. Ants! (also growing on me--nice creepy music, and the action material is actually quite good; I really like the usage of Devchenko's [sp?] theme/Russian theme here)

5. Agh! TIE: Hidden Treasure and The City of Gold (some really cool material here, pretty much speaks for itself) and Temple Ruins and The Secret Revealed (the music for the door opening [adapted into the concert suite] blew me away in the theater, and the climactic music is very good too--good buildup of suspense and horror, with the classic Williams high wind licks at 3:56-4:02, amongst other goodies)

[Adam S. 0]

Irina's Theme - starts out evil and sexy but becomes surprisingly pretty as the full orchestra comes in (I also love the Russian extension part on the Finale that people have mentioned though I noticed part of it gets cut off in the end credits)

Jungle Chase - somewhat uneven but it has a lot of JW flourishes that I like in his action music, particularly as Irina's Theme keeps popping up.

Journey to Akator - I love getting very different kinds of music like the Latin American source music. A nice reminder of how versatile he is.

The Departure - somewhat anti-climatic but still an interesting piece - almost as much sound-design as anything in the way he used the orchestra

Adventures of Mutt as no. 5 perhaps - the Hook similarity is distracting somewhat but Hook also had swashbuckling swordfights so I guess it makes sense

- Adam

[Josh500 1,615]

I think this album has MANY outstanding and enjoyable tracks.

The ones I don't like SO MUCH are Oxley's Dilemma, "Return." Orellana's Cradle I like because of the map seuqence music at the end, and Secret Doors and Scorpions I like because of the suddenly menacing music of the scorpions (somehow reminds me of Monster Books from PoA).

[MSM 126]

Is there no-one who likes Snake pit as I do?

1) Snake Pit

2) A Whirl Through Academe

3) The adventures of Mutt

4) Irina's Theme

5) The City of Gold

Oh and I absolutely love the South American style music in Journey to Akator!

[Josh500 1,615]

Is there no-one who likes Snake pit as I do?

1) Snake Pit

2) A Whirl Through Academe

3) The adventures of Mutt

4) Irina's Theme

5) The City of Gold

I like it. But I like other tracks more!

[MSM 126]

I am really happy to see so many people like the album and that it is not being burnt down

[Josh500 1,615]

I am really happy to see so many people like the album and that it is not being burnt down

Same here.

The score is treated very well around here, generally, unlike the movie, which gets a mixed reaction...

[John Crichton 4]

Is there no-one who likes Snake pit as I do?

I do, it's probably my second favorite action cue after The Jungle Chase in the score. It's a great "light touch" action piece in the vein of the first part of Flight From Peru and The Basket Chase.

[Adam S. 0]

Interestingly the scene doesn't really have any action unless you count them slowly sinking. But the music works great, scoring the comedy of the dialog as much as anything.

- Adam

[FattyMcButterpants 1]

1. Finale

2. The Snake Pit

3. Oxley's Dilemma

4. Jungle Chase

5. Call Of The Crystal

[Goldsmithfan 6]

- The Journey to Akator (simply because of the lovely statement of the B theme)

- Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold (Quite good)

- The Departure

- The Adventures of Mutt

Sadly, I'm having a hard time coming up with five... Um, I'm hoping I just need to listen to it again. It just didn't have that Indy feel to it. The action cues were far too devoid of distinct melodic material. I like dissonance and driving rhythms as much as the next guy, but I was hoping for at least one action cue which was thematically driven.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

why limit it to 5?

why not instead have your favorite top 19 tracks to KOTCS?

[Ollie 1,059]

I'm having a hard time coming up with 5.

[Josh500 1,615]

why limit it to 5?

why not instead have your favorite top 19 tracks to KOTCS?

Go ahead, be my guest.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

why limit it to 5?

why not instead have your favorite top 19 tracks to KOTCS?

Go ahead, be my guest.

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[Josh500 1,615]

Wow, I think I've unleashed the beast.

[Delorean90 42]

- The Journey to Akator (simply because of the lovely statement of the B theme)

- Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold (Quite good)

- The Departure

- The Adventures of Mutt

Sadly, I'm having a hard time coming up with five... Um, I'm hoping I just need to listen to it again. It just didn't have that Indy feel to it. The action cues were far too devoid of distinct melodic material. I like dissonance and driving rhythms as much as the next guy, but I was hoping for at least one action cue which was thematically driven.

Everything's growing on me, but I personally would recommend giving "The Jungle Chase" a little more play time. There's actually some good stuff going on when you listen to it.

[Josh500 1,615]

I said this at the beginning of the thread:

1. The Jungle Chase

2. The Adventures of Mutt

3. Call of the Crystal

4. Finale

5. Hidden Treasure and The City of Gold

Now, I will revise it:

1. The Jungle Chase

2. A Whirl Through Academe

3. Departure

4. Journey to Akator

5. Ants!

[Goldsmithfan 6]

I gave it another listen yesterday and absolutely loved it (which is much more than I can say for my initial listen).

I'll have to go with...

- The Spell of the Skull

- Jungle Chase

- Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold

- Temple Ruins and the Secret Revealed

- The Departure

I don't think five is a large enough number. It leaves out cues like Orellana's Cradle, "Return" and Finale.

- The Journey to Akator (simply because of the lovely statement of the B theme)

- Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold (Quite good)

- The Departure

- The Adventures of Mutt

Sadly, I'm having a hard time coming up with five... Um, I'm hoping I just need to listen to it again. It just didn't have that Indy feel to it. The action cues were far too devoid of distinct melodic material. I like dissonance and driving rhythms as much as the next guy, but I was hoping for at least one action cue which was thematically driven.

Everything's growing on me, but I personally would recommend giving "The Jungle Chase" a little more play time. There's actually some good stuff going on when you listen to it.

You were absolutely right. I gave it a second listen and all of the thematic usage really came out in the score. I should have known better. My first run-through of a score is either fantastic or crap. If it's a good score, I have a feeling about it though, even if I didn't think it was good the first time around. That's what happened this time. I knew there was something good lurking on the disc. Jungle Chase is wonderful. The musical battle between the various Mutt action motives and Irina's material is great, as is the pounding rhythm in the second half. It really felt like Williams was trying to get back to the strongly melodic action writing of Desert Chase or Belly of the Steel Beast. Quite good.