karelm 3,013 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Star Wars has had many fantastic finale/end credit music. What's your favorite? The one that epitomizes what a "Star Wars" end credit music should be/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 TFA for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,647 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 ESB, no contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,044 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Empire Strikes Back is my least favorite score of the original three, but 5:27 on, especially with the brass runs, is what Star Wars is to me. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,558 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I like Star Wars the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Star Wars. I didnt see it listed. Rogue one shouldn't be on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,169 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Revenge of the Sith. It has pretty much everything in it. Throne room, Leia, Battle of the Heroes etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,848 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 TFA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,013 Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 47 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: Star Wars. I didnt see it listed. Rogue one shouldn't be on that list. I listed Star Wars with it's episode title. "A New Hope". 8 hours ago, Nick Parker said: Empire Strikes Back is my least favorite score of the original three, but 5:27 on, especially with the brass runs, is what Star Wars is to me. To me, ESB embodies the DNA of what is a Star Wars score. It is the one that all others are judged to and this includes the end title which has the least "edited" feel. The themes ebb and flow very sweepingly and builds to one of the greatest ending fanfares in all of Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,558 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, karelm said: I listed Star Wars with it's episode title. "A New Hope". Star Wars never had an episode title when it was first released. It didn't even have an episode number. Plus "A New Hope" is such a dumb title. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Yes I saw that Karelm Im just trying to remember when John wrote a score called that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 John Williams never wrote music for a film called A New Hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,241 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I can't vote on this one because I have three favorites, all for different reasons. The credits for Star Wars are perfect for the heroic, idealistic tone of that first film - not to mention they've got my favorite pre-credits cue transition. The credits for Empire are chillingly good, especially in the way it transitions between the score's three major new themes. And then TFA is actually quite fantastic as well, doing an equally great job at representing all the film's major thematic material in a way that feels organic. What the hell, I'll vote for Empire. It's still a tie for me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,297 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 TESB film version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 1. ESB big gap 2. SW 3. RotJ 4. TFA 5. TPM 6. RotS 7. TLJ 8. AotC Rogue One didn't have an End Credits in the OST, so I don't even think about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,628 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Return of the Jedi. I like both Ewok theme and Luke and Leia, and they make a good contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt S. 552 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I'll say A New Hope, specifically the original '77 arrangement, as opposed to the reworked concert version. The Throne Room music is among my very favorite of the entire saga; I also prefer the way the original piece ends with the unison fortissimo triplets, and the celli and basses hanging on until fading off to nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,891 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 If I have to pick one, the original. ESB and TFA are close seconds though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dutton 7,251 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 If Rogue One is on this list, why not the Ewok movies or the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Good question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 10,077 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Carrie Fisher singing stoned off the planet is obviously the greatest ending to anything ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,013 Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 Simple. Basically, the films that follow the Star Wars end credit template which Rogue One does. I am including star wars theatrical movies that include a build up to that energetic fanfare transition at the end title cards followed by a suite of themes arranged into a single musical number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 How is someone supposed to listen to the Rogue One end credits? And don't say watch the movie because that movie is hot garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,541 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Yeah a lot of the best music is in the Rogue One end credits. It's essentially just the suites, as @BloodBoal said. I love it personally but I am a big Giacchino/Rogue One score fan (don't kill me!). I voted A New Hope because..I don't know it just feels the purest to me...but it is pretty much impossible to choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dutton 7,251 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I like the version of the SW end credits Zubin Mehta conducted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Not as good as the Gerhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dutton 7,251 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I prefer it for the recording and the faster tempo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 It's nice and zesty. Mentha had no respect for Williams though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 67 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 ESB, and it's not exactly a contest. I love the ending of AOTC, though, where he weaves together the love theme, Anakin's theme, and the Imperial March. It's a shame that the middle portion is just the concert arrangement dropped in. I do have a soft spot for the original, especially in the film recording, and I think there's something to be said for the ending that he eventually replaced with the Throne Room music. I also like the sound of the strings playing those initial bars of the end credits rather than trumpets, as it became from ESB forward. It's a nice contrast to the brass renditions of the rebel fanfare and main title theme. But I think ESB has the advantage of more diverse thematic material, and some really well-crafted transitions. The way the brass bring it to a close is one of my favorite musical things about the Star Wars scores. The transitions are the only thing the ROTS end titles have going for them, if you ask me. It's a lackluster performance and recording of the OT material that eats up valuable space on a too-short album. ROTJ has nothing to really distinguish it, nor does TPM. So I guess TFA is tied for second, and it's actually pretty close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 340 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Easy one here... ESB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Star Wars has the greatest endtitles and it's not exactly a contest. I love the ending of TFA, though, where he weaves together Rey's Theme, Kylo Rens Theme and the March of the Resistance and the Force theme. But if I had to put an order to it that order would be Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Force Awakens, Return of the Jedi 1, Return of the Jedi 2, If I threw in the prequels 3, 1, 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,558 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Return of the Jedi 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Return of the Jedi 1 Yub Nub, Return of the Jedi 2 Victory Celebration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 for the record I actually listened to all 3 prequel finales. aotc gave me a nose bleed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,536 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Denise Bryson said: Return of the Jedi 2? Yep! Here's a still from that movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,558 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 But that was set before RotJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,536 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Ssssstttt! Newbies don't know that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,421 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,013 Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Should JW make an end credit suite after Star Wars IX? So like an hour long suite arranged from the best moments from all the Star Wars end credits? It would be the end title suite to end all end title suites...sort of like a Mahler symphony complete with a whopping climax full of glorious fanfares on overdrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Yes. John should do an end credit suite that incorporates all 6 Star Wars movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,013 Posted December 25, 2017 Author Share Posted December 25, 2017 3 hours ago, JoeinAR said: Yes. John should do an end credit suite that incorporates all 6 Star Wars movies. You mean 9 or are you considering VII to IX non-canon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,558 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 TFA might make for a nice appendix adventure. The end of Han Solo, so to speak. And then it just ends. It's then up to the audience's imagination as to what happened after Rey met Luke at the edge of that cliff. Maybe he became so depressed at the sight of that lightsabre, he jumped to his death, leaving Rey in a state of shock and so traumatised, she murdered Chewie and R2, then flew the Falcon in search of Ken, her future lover and co-regent in the new Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 1 hour ago, karelm said: You mean 9 or are you considering VII to IX non-canon? Its well known I pretend the prequels don't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 They are part of Lucas' vision of Star Wars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 And he will burn in hell for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,376 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 We will all meet up there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 351 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 ESB & TFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 340 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Runner up for me would be The Phantom Menace the full thing with DOTF and Anakin's Theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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