Pieter Boelen 740 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Every few days I will post a thread on a random score from my collection that we can discuss and rate. I made a playlist on my computer with one track of each score I've got, so by using the random play option, I'll be able to post a truly random score each time. Hopefully this will allow us to discuss some scores that would otherwise never be discussed. Also we can record the rating so that we can create a full list of the ratings given to scores by JWFan.com.This is a continuation of a series of polls I started before I left. One of the last scores I posted was ToD, but now that we actually have an expanded version, I post it again, just to get things going again and see if anybody's opinion on the score has changed. Stand by for new entries in the score rating polls shortly.Today's score is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by John Williams. Are you familiar with it? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it? How do do you think it works in the film? What are your favourite tracks?So far JWFan has rated:See Soundtrack Ratings by JWFan.com.This web page contains the ratings from all my previous polls as well as those of Blumenkohl's.Final ratings are converted to a 1-10 rating for both rating systems so that they can be compared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Boy that was an easy vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I am undecided between 4 and 4,5, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Whaaaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,317 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Easily his best action adventure score, if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 4 stars.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desplat13 1 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 5 stars. Yes, that was very easy.Incredible, and maybe the best Indy score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 4 stars. Even after the Box, it still doesn't excite me all that much. It may change with further listens (I've never found the time to pay much attention to it while playing it a few times so far), but for now, it's still my least favourite of the original trilogy. Raiders and Crusade would likely get 5 stars. (Unless I start thinking about it and decide to rate one only 4.5, in which case I'd have to think about putting TOD at 3.5, but that seems a bit low again... or not? Anyway I already voted 4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob 0 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 A 5 Star score if there ever was one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Five! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Highest marks for the Parade of the Slave Children alone. Along with some of the setpieces, this was clearly from Johnny's homerun years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Huh, so this is what it is like. Anyways, I voted a 4.5. I really like this score, but "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" is better, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxie 1 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 5!!!! I love virtually every cue! It's not often I like every cue from a score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I casted a 4.5 vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 What Trent said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 this one is a 5 easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 A five, just like the other two scores in the trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Love to know who's going to vote for the last option....5 from me. Absolute classic Williams at his overwhelming best. I wake up some days with the final moments of Nightclub Brawl and Out of Fuel running through my head. The orchestration is just addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 A five, just like the other two scores in the trilogy.Yes indeed. We won't mention the other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I like the rabbit's style.As good as the highlights in KotCS are, the rest never comes anywhere near same level as the previous three scores for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulf 4 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 An emphatic 5 from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 4.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissPadmé 17 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Everyone who gives this score less then 5 stars, should be banned from this site forever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 1.Goldsmith did much better the following year with King Solomon's Mines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissPadmé 17 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Boy that was an easy vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,317 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I cannot name a SINGLE other score in history where *every single cue* is mesmerizingly listenable and complex. Truly a masterwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I cannot name a SINGLE other score in history where *every single cue* is mesmerizingly listenable and complex. Truly a masterwork.E.T., Empire Strickes Back, Schindler's List to name few. Temple is way behind them. It's also third IJ score and hardly stands up to Raiders and Crusade. It's a good score on it's own, though, but I can find lots of other JW's scores that are better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxie 1 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 E.T., Empire Strickes Back, Schindler's List to name few. Temple is way behind them. It's also third IJ score and hardly stands up to Raiders and Crusade. It's a good score on it's own, though, but I can find lots of other JW's scores that are better.Temple of Doom is way better than The Last Crusade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 E.T., Empire Strickes Back, Schindler's List to name few. Temple is way behind them. It's also third IJ score and hardly stands up to Raiders and Crusade. It's a good score on it's own, though, but I can find lots of other JW's scores that are better.Temple of Doom is way better than The Last Crusade.It's more original, that's for sure. It's still one of the most unique JW's scores, but I never enjoyed it as much as TLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Temple Of Doom is the spiritual cousin of 1941. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamsfan301 11 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Parade of the Slave Children is greatly underrated. 5 stars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Parade of the Slave Children is greatly underrated.Um, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 TOD score has always been underrated because of the nature of the film itself...I'll give it 6 stars (1 to Williams' forehead)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 TOD score has always been underrated because of the nature of the film itself...I think it has more to do with two-thirds of the score remaining unreleased for almost 25 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 TOD score has always been underrated because of the nature of the film itself...I think it has more to do with two-thirds of the score remaining unreleased for almost 25 years.Still, from the vinyl era, it's the only one I know that wasn't a victim of severe micro-edits and combinatios of several cues into one... let's say it was a "complete 40mins LP release" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 How about the ROTJ OST? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 How about the ROTJ OST?ROTJ got a great re-release only 10 years later, and an even greater one less then 4 years after the first re-release...Besides, fans were spoiled with 2LP releases of the two previous films... none of the Indy films got that treatment back then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 That does not change the fact at all that the ROTJ OST was crap!BTW, Raiders was expanded only 2 years after the SW scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 That does not change the fact at all that the ROTJ OST was crap!BTW, Raiders was expanded only 2 years after the SW scores.Wouldn't say crap... inferior to the previous two, maybe...Raiders was never considered an underrated score (not by me, at least). When we got the DCC release back in 1995, we didn't have the notion that maybe our favorite soundtracks could be released with much more music, no micro-edits, chronological order... we were "babies" in what refers to "expanded releases"Let me go even further: I think what started this wave of royal treatment for soundtracks releases and re-releases was Star Wars Anthology and Raiders of the Lost Ark DCC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 It was crap.45 minutes only with too much of the running time wasted on concert version or that Lapti Nek song. Not to mention a very poor track order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 You know, that sort of makes me appreciate how spoiled we are these days. By the time I got into soundtracks, the 2-disc RotJ had already been around for four years. I can hardly imagine having to make do with the OST. Blegh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Yeah, you youngin's don't have a clue how it was in the ole' days!It helped though if you had the Gerhardt version of ROTJ and the Utah Symphony Orchestra recording of the SW trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Hey, I remember putting bits of Jurassic Park on a cassette tape, just to hear the music away from the movie, because I couldn't find the OST anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 AHAHAHAHAH... gee, I used to do that a lot too... my VHS of E.T. even was damaged because of that...Good old days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I got that beat....I got that beat.I had to record bits from the star wars films, Jaws, Raiders etc...etc... on tape by placing a cassete recorder in front of my TV's single speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thankfully, my VCR was connected to a tape deck via audio line-in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I got that beat....I got that beat.I had to record bits from the star wars films, Jaws, Raiders etc...etc... on tape by placing a cassete recorder in front of my TV's single speaker.I did that too. I remember my father shouting at me because I had the TV up really loud to get a proper recording.The Gerhardt JEDI was the first CD I bought. It was beautiful to hear something more than the OST, and I still love it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thankfully, my VCR was connected to a tape deck via audio line-in.Elitist pig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phbart 609 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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