The Top Twenty John Williams End Credits

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I have compiled on my website thbeardedtrio.com my personal top twenty end credits or finales by the genius John Williams. I apologise in advance if you think I have left one out but these are my favourites. But if there is an obvious missing masterpiece I would love to know

Top Twenty End Credits By John Williams

[gkgyver 1,646]

The edited end credits of TPM doesn't belong anywhere near the top 20.

Neither does ROTJ IMO.

And if you list Star Wars, then Episode III is kind of needless.

[Ollie 1,064]

Oohh another list, I'm game, my top 20 Williams end credits:

1. Star Wars

2. CE3K

3. Love Theme From Superman

4. E.T.

5. The Empire Strikes Back

6. Jaws

7. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

8. Indiana Jones & Temple Of Doom

9. The Towering Inferno

10. The Poseidon Adventure

11. 1941

12. Jaws 2

13. Harry Potter & SS

14. The Fury

15. A.I.

16. Jurassic Park

17. Spacecamp

18. Empire Of The Sun

19. Saving Private Ryan

20. Dracula

[Quintus 5,399]

I can't be bothered thinking of twenty but I'll say five off the top of my head:

1. Raiders

2. Star Wars

3. Superman

4. Jurassic Park

5. Hook

I know one or two are edited but I couldn't care less.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Yeah 20 is a lot.

1. Munich

2. Saving Private Ryan

3. Schindler's List

4. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

6. Empire Of The Sun

7. Far And Away

8. Heartbeeps

9. The Terminal

10. Superman: The Movie

[Faleel 5,401]

1: IJ:TOD

2: Raiders

3: IJ:TLC

3: ROTJ

4: ESB

5: ANH

[Jonesy 55]

It's an interesting list, but I would include:

1. The Temple Of Doom

2. The Empire Strikes Back

3. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

4. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

5. Jurassic Park

[Charlie Brigden 7]

1. ESB

2. SUPERMAN

3. E.T.

4. STAR WARS

5. JAWS 2

[Jeff 10]

The edited end credits of TPM doesn't belong anywhere near the top 20.

Neither does ROTJ IMO.

And if you list Star Wars, then Episode III is kind of needless.

I'm fine with the OST version of TPM being on the list. ROTJ is one of my favorites as well. And the ROTS End Credits from the OST is Williams' gift that keeps on giving. Not quite the same as Star Wars and deserves its own place on the list IMO.

The only ones I might disagree with are the ones I haven't heard before, so I have no right to call them out.

[Wojo 2,453]

I don't listen to end credits. These soundtracks are too long, I lose focus by the end and have to change to something else.

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The edited end credits of TPM doesn't belong anywhere near the top 20.

Neither does ROTJ IMO.

And if you list Star Wars, then Episode III is kind of needless.

I'm fine with the OST version of TPM being on the list. ROTJ is one of my favorites as well. And the ROTS End Credits from the OST is Williams' gift that keeps on giving. Not quite the same as Star Wars and deserves its own place on the list IMO.

The only ones I might disagree with are the ones I haven't heard before, so I have no right to call them out.

Love all the Star Wars soundtracks. I agree they are different in many ways.

[Wojo 2,453]

Definitely. You might even say three of them are actually pretty good.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,489]

How can you not have CE3K in a top 5?

Star Wars

Jaws

CE3K

E.T.

The Empire Strikes Back

Those are certainly the definitive ones. Perhaps Superman could edge out Empire because of the Love Theme. But maybe it technically doesn't count since it was just the concert arrangement tacked on the end because of the overlong running time. So no, Empire rounds out top 5.

[welshslider 2]

How can you not have CE3K in a top 5?

Star Wars

Jaws

CE3K

E.T.

The Empire Strikes Back

Those are certainly the definitive ones. Perhaps Superman could edge out Empire.

Well it is at number 6...very close

[Marian Schedenig 8,239]

Any list that doesn't include Jaws 2 is just wrong.

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Any list that doesn't include Jaws 2 is just wrong.

Number 19 in my charts. BTW love your avatar...LOOK! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!

[Datameister 2,073]

ESB for me, all the way. ANH would have it beat if Williams hadn't extended the Yoda's theme segment with a separately recorded insert, but seeing as how that's not the case, ESB wins.

[gkgyver 1,646]

Sometimes it is very hard to shove aside the annoying overexposure of Williams' classics like Star Wars, Jaws or Superman, and force yourself to remain objective.

I for one can't listen to Throne Room/End Title anymore, yet I think it belongs to the Top 3.

But not in front of CE3K.

[Demondm810 399]

Empire and CE3K are the best. It really should be "Top 20 after Empire and Close Encounters"

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,489]

Amazing Stories also belongs in there.

[Marian Schedenig 8,239]

Number 19 in my charts.

Yes, I looked at your list, checked if it was there, and was content.

BTW love your avatar...LOOK! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!

That's the second biggest three headed monkey I've seen.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

I have compiled on my website thbeardedtrio.com my personal top twenty end credits or finales by the genius John Williams. I apologise in advance if you think I have left one out but these are my favourites. But if there is an obvious missing masterpiece I would love to know

Top Twenty End Credits By John Williams

TOD is the best end credits of the 4 Indiana Jones films,

[indy4 155]

Empire and CE3K are the best. It really should be "Top 20 after Empire and Close Encounters"

[Romão 2,274]

If you consider the concert suites (normally the opening and closing tracks of many JW's 90's scores) as end credits, that you can't possibly exclude Amistad, Seven Years in Tibet and Angela's Ashes, and at least consider The Patriot and Saving Private Ryan

[John Crichton 4]

BTW love your avatar...LOOK! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!

That's the second biggest three headed monkey I've seen.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

A solid top 5ish starting spot for me would be: Star Wars, ESB, Raiders, ToD, ET, CE3K, and Jaws 2. RotJ also just for the Throne Room quote at the end.

I also love The Patriot concert/end credits suite, and have always said that Indy 4 actually has a really nice end credits piece.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,642]

Oohh another list, I'm game, my top 20 Williams end credits:

1. Star Wars

2. CE3K

3. Love Theme From Superman

4. E.T.

5. The Empire Strikes Back

6. Jaws

7. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

8. Indiana Jones & Temple Of Doom

9. The Towering Inferno

10. The Poseidon Adventure

11. 1941

12. Jaws 2

13. Harry Potter & SS

14. The Fury

15. A.I.

16. Jurassic Park

17. Spacecamp

18. Empire Of The Sun

19. Saving Private Ryan

20. Dracula

THAT'S more like it! "An Architect's Dream" deserves to be in there, as does "End Title, End Cast", and "Dracula".

[Ollie 1,064]

If you consider the concert suites (normally the opening and closing tracks of many JW's 90's scores) as end credits, that you can't possibly exclude Amistad, Seven Years in Tibet and Angela's Ashes, and at least consider The Patriot and Saving Private Ryan

Correct, I tried to choose ones where Williams actually composed an end credit piece.

Superman is the exception, but the Love theme performance is just so lovely and powerful and not chopped to pieces. I had to include it.

THAT'S more like it! "An Architect's Dream" deserves to be in there, as does "End Title, End Cast", and "Dracula".

Thank you. I figured most of the lists would be too predictable so I went for the full 20.

[Taikomochi 1,136]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Dance of the Witches". C'mon, that's one of my all time favorite Williams pieces.

[Red 75]

I think Born on the Fourth of July deserves to be up there.