Popular Post bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 295: SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET 262: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 241: JAWS 186: WAR HORSE 170: SUPERMAN 155: WAR OF THE WORLDS 115: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (INCLUDES RAIDERS MARCH, INDIANA JONES) 88: E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 38: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (INCLUDES HYMN TO THE FALLEN) 33: JURASSIC PARK 28: STAR WARS (INCLUDES THE FORCE AWAKENS, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, PHANTOM MENACE, RETURN OF THE JEDI, IMPERIAL MARCH) 26: HARRY POTTER (PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, HEDWIG'S THEME, CHAMBER OF SECRETS, PRISONER OF AZKABAN) 14: SCHINDLER'S LIST Again, how did WOTW get in that list? rough cut, Once and Pieter Boelen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977 1,743 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Because it's awesome! Thor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 37,327 Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 The real question is how did it place higher than CE3K _deleted_, Ricard, crumbs and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977 1,743 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 *shrugs* bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,510 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 So what's top 12? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fabulin 3,510 Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 . Loert, Joni Wiljami, tmarps and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 As I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 EDIT: Poor, worthless, cheap joke removed. The point was I love Seven Years in Tibet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,510 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Ahead of the 2021 results, a little update on the previous year: composers ranked by representation on the list (only those with at least 3 entries shown). JW is actually in the top 5! Sandor and Once 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,481 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Am I to take it, then, that this John Williams fellow is a famous composer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GerateWohl 4,345 Posted March 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2021 Don't trust a ranking that ranks Einaudi above Verdi, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Wagner. And why is there no Prokofiev? Naïve Old Fart, KK and bollemanneke 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Why is WOTW ahead of CE3K? Probably because FM radio is more likely to play film music in modern times. In the Seventies , you never heard film music on fm Einudi? Binge? Who? Diversity picks? 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 3 hours ago, GerateWohl said: Don't trust a ranking that ranks Einaudi above Verdi, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Wagner. And why is there no Prokofiev? The annual Classic FM poll is based on the radio station's listeners nominating their three favourite pieces of classical (in the broadest sense of the term) music. Classic FM tends to play the more accessible pieces from the classical repertoire without too much variety - you are unlikely to hear any Stockhausen or Boulez, for example - therefore to some degree the poll will always reflect the pieces they play most. Prokofiev is played on Classic FM, but it tends to be either Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet or the troika from Lieutenant Kije and not much else. @Fabulin's list shows the composers with most entries in the top 300 and the positions of those entries. 1 hour ago, bruce marshall said: Einudi? Binge? Who? Diversity picks? If Classic FM was a BBC station you might have a point about diversity, but Ronald Binge's music is about as white and English as you can get. His light music is especially well loved by British listeners of a certain age, especially Sailing By, Elizabethan Serenade and The Watermill. Listeners will not vote for something they don't like, so it is a fairly democratic poll at least. As for Einaudi, while the attraction of his music is largely lost on me, the fact is that Classic FM plays it an awful lot so he is bound to feature prominently in any poll of listeners to the station. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 1 hour ago, bruce marshall said: Why is WOTW ahead of CE3K? Probably because FM radio is more likely to play film music in modern times. In the Seventies , you never heard film music on fm Einudi? Binge? Who? Diversity picks? 😎 Why is WOTW in that list in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Just now, bollemanneke said: Why is WOTW in that list in the first place? Payola? 😝 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,327 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Bruce was responded to my post from a year ago: On 4/13/2020 at 12:51 PM, Jay said: The real question is how did it place higher than CE3K Which was my response to your original post On 4/13/2020 at 12:40 PM, bollemanneke said: how did WOTW get in that list? bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 Oh, right, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,714 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I really should listen to the expanded WOTW that’s lying around here somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,327 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,481 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 WOTW obviously has no business being ahead of classics like CE3K or JAWS, but I don't care. It's just a random list. It's still a spectacularly good score. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,400 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Replace WOTW with A.I. and it's a perfect list (excluding ranking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,509 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 1:48 PM, Thor said: Am I to take it, then, that this John Williams fellow is a famous composer? John Williams? He's a comer. On 3/29/2021 at 4:20 PM, GerateWohl said: Don't trust a ranking that ranks Einaudi above Verdi, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Wagner. Agreed. It's just repetitive, moronic gobshite. A second year music student could do better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,184 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 10:12 PM, rough cut said: I really should listen to the expanded WOTW that’s lying around here somewhere. Intrada are just posting a replacement for mine because the first one they sent has last been seen at Heathrow, over 6 weeks ago. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,714 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Sounds like something from the gossip column. ”Last seen on a plane, heading to Ibiza with a hot blonde on his side.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remco 685 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Nice to see Williams on there, but it’s a silly list anyway. There used to be a campaign encouraging people to vote for their favorite videogame music so that it would be ‘recognized’ as classical music. Now I love videogame music, but I don’t see the point of putting the soundtrack of Banjo Kazooie next to Mozart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,510 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 29 minutes ago, Remco said: Nice to see Williams on there, but it’s a silly list anyway. There used to be a campaign encouraging people to vote for their favorite videogame music so that it would be ‘recognized’ as classical music. Now I love videogame music, but I don’t see the point of putting the soundtrack of Banjo Kazooie next to Mozart. That's missing the point. Obviously every such list gets sillier and sillier the lower one goes. But that is true for any list, whether made by critics, audiences, or whomever. Williams is a composer of the caliber of Tchaikovsky and Haendel and his position makes the list more, not less valid. It has been an elephant in the room for quite some time that this is where he belongs.The takeaway is that we have yet another indicator of his ongoing canonification. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remco 685 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 The list says he’s popular among ClassicFM listeners. What does it really say about canonification and, does it really matter? Williams is a caliber on his own really. What’s the point of comparing him to Händel or Tchaikovsky or any other composer that made totally different music in the past? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,184 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 10 hours ago, rough cut said: Sounds like something from the gossip column. ”Last seen on a plane, heading to Ibiza with a hot blonde on his side.” That's pretty much what I picture my lost CDs doing right now. rough cut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 15 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: Intrada are just posting a replacement for mine because the first one they sent has last been seen at Heathrow, over 6 weeks ago. Your copy escaped before it even arrived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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