SF1_freeze 131 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Which Top 10 - 30 tracks would you put on a CD / playlist consisting of John Williams best Upbeat / Positive / Feel Good Music?I will start myself. My top 20 in random order would be:01) "Journey to the Island" (From Jurassic Park)02) "Space Camp" (From Space Camp)03) "Lando's Palace" (From The Empire Strikes Back)04) "Throne Room and Finale" (From Star Wars)05) "Raider's March" (From Raiders of the Lost Ark)06) "Rouge City" (From Artificial Intelligence)07) "The Visitors / "Bye" / End Titles" (From Close Ecounters of the Third Kind)08) "The Flying Sequence" (From Hook)09) "Short Round's Theme" (From Temple of Doom)10) "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" (Comissioned for the Los Angeles ’84 Olympic Games)11) "Summon the Heroes" (Commissioned for the Atlanta ’96 Olympic Games)12) "Follow Me" (From Always)13) "Fawkes the Phoenix" (From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)14) "Main Title" (From Star Wars)15) "Plaza Hotel" (From Home Alone 2)16) "Arrival in New York" (From Home Alone 2)17) "Theme from Superman" (From Superman)18) "The Open Sea" (From Jaws 2)19) "Banning Back Home (Film Version)" (From Hook)20) "Dry Your Tears, Africa" (From Amistad)I will certainly make future threads on "Best Of" playlists of John Williams "Downbeat/Sad Music", "Emotional Music", "Exotic/Folksy Music", "Source Cues", "Magical/Fantasy/Outwordly Music", "Comedic and Jazz Music", "Mystical/Ethereal Music", "Choral/Chorus Highlights", "Erotic/Sexy/Love Music" and "Dissonant and Dark Music".Feel free to correct me in my definitions and i welcome suggestions for alternate musical definitions or types of music i simply forgot.I hope i then can encourage some of you to post your favorites here and in the older threads... I really need your participation to create a list of highlight tracks for each type of music John Williams has composed!Links to the older CD series threads:JW CD Series - Part 1 - Dramatic MusicJW CD Series - Part 2 - Action Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF1_freeze 131 Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 I need your participation. Where are all the JWfans? Threads on other composers or the hobbit create tons of replies, which many JW threads lack nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Well no list is complete without Exsultati Justi from Empire of the Sun. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,403 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Totally missing Promenade from Jaws and Keeping Up with the Joneses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 907 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Arts & Sports from American Journey comes to mind *^ And in a similiar vein Jim's New Life from Empire of the Sun.And Born on the 4th's Homecoming is another. Love that bright clear trumpet solo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 End titles from Jaws 2,Swing, Swing, Swing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 907 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 And Jedi's Victory Celebration and dare I say it? Ewok Celebration.. There's a great orchestral version of it on Gerhardt's CD. Speaking of Star Wars celebrations..Augie's Great Municipal Band .. Too corny?And there's a wonderful instrumental piece in the Reivers suite after the narrator says "the first carbon town"And Festivity at Thornfield from Jane Eyre always brings a smile.Car in town. Not carbon. Oops. Can't edit on my iphoneAnd Hook? The Banquet and the flying music?Catch Me If You Can: The FloatThere are too many!Isabelle's Horse and Buggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurkensalat 340 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 March from 1941! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 The Meeting in Sicily from MonsignorThe Tale of Viktor Navorski from TerminalEnd Credits from HeartbeepsEnd Cast from Family PlotThe Township of Eastwick from The Witches of Eastwick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieC 13 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Blood Moon from Images ?Ok, perhaps not quite.Here are some suggestions (but there are many more inevitably):The Float from Catch Me If You Can (I really enjoy the presentation of that theme on the American Spectrum album)Exsultate Justi from Empire of the SunEnd Credits from Stanley & IrisEnd Credits from Amazing StoriesMalice Towards None (piano) from LincolnSpace Camp main themeThe Reivers (concert arrangement) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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