What is your favorite Star Wars end titles music?

[karelm 1574]

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/?

[John 2063]

TFA for me.

[publicist 3310]

ESB, no contest.

[Nick Parker 2494]

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.

 

 

[Þekþiþm 5783]

I like Star Wars the most.

[JoeinAR 1276]

Star Wars. I didnt see it listed.

 

Rogue one shouldn't be on that list. 

[leeallen01 1524]

Revenge of the Sith. It has pretty much everything in it. Throne room, Leia, Battle of the Heroes etc. 

[mstrox 3316]

TFA

[karelm 1574]

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.

[Þekþiþm 5783]

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 1276]

Yes I saw that Karelm Im just trying to remember when John wrote a score called that!

[Stefancos 10194]

John Williams never wrote music for a film called A New Hope.

[Datameister 688]

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.

[Naïve Old Fart 3694]

TESB film version.

[Fargo 185]

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

[Loert 1894]

Return of the Jedi. I like both Ewok theme and Luke and Leia, and they make a good contrast.

[Matt S. 196]

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.

[Marian Schedenig 2295]

If I have to pick one, the original. ESB and TFA are close seconds though.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 5142]

If Rogue One is on this list, why not the Ewok movies or the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie?

[Stefancos 10194]

Good question!

[Holko 3814]

Carrie Fisher singing stoned off the planet is obviously the greatest ending to anything ever.

[karelm 1574]

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. 

[Fargo 185]

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. 

[BloodBoal 7510]

[idril 86]

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.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 5142]

I like the version of the SW end credits Zubin Mehta conducted.

[Stefancos 10194]

Not as good as the Gerhard

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 5142]

I prefer it for the recording and the faster tempo.

[Stefancos 10194]

It's nice and zesty. Mentha had no respect for Williams though.

[Seth 51]

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.

[Trent B 298]

Easy one here... ESB.

[JoeinAR 1276]

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. 

[Þekþiþm 5783]

Return of the Jedi 2?

[JoeinAR 1276]

Return of the Jedi 1 Yub Nub, Return of the Jedi 2 Victory Celebration

[JoeinAR 1276]

for the record I actually listened to all 3 prequel finales. aotc gave me a nose bleed. 

[Alexcremers 1879]

1 hour ago, Denise Bryson said:

Return of the Jedi 2?

 

Yep! Here's a still from that movie!

 

[Þekþiþm 5783]

But that was set before RotJ.

[Alexcremers 1879]

Ssssstttt! Newbies don't know that!

[Quintus 4485]

Star Wars.

[karelm 1574]

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. 

[JoeinAR 1276]

Yes. John should do an end credit suite that incorporates all 6 Star Wars movies.

[karelm 1574]

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?

[Þekþiþm 5783]

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.

[JoeinAR 1276]

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. 

[Stefancos 10194]

They are part of Lucas' vision of Star Wars!

[JoeinAR 1276]

And he will burn in hell for it.

[Stefancos 10194]

We will all meet up there!

[Fancyarcher 326]

ESB & TFA.

[Trent B 298]

Runner up for me would be The Phantom Menace the full thing with DOTF and Anakin's Theme.