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So, everyone from time to time gets a piece of music (good or bad) stuck in their head playing over and over and over and over....

Are there any particular Williams cues that get stuck in your head and you can't get it out? For me it's mostly action cues, these are the worst ones:

Belly of the Steel Beast

The Chase Through Coruscant

The Spider Chase from HP: CoS

parts of The Ultimate War

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Funnily, the Williams cues that got stuck most (so they pop up unasked very frequently) are the Fitzwilly theme and the Midway March, though I've never seen the movies, and those pieces are the only things I know from those scores.

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I currently have two non-Williams stuff stuck in my head- Rolfe Kent's Sideways and David Arnold's amazing Stepford Wives theme.

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A non-JW theme that if I listen to I can never get out would be The Magnificent Seven. I have actually not been able to sleep because that theme plays over and over in my head. Therefore, I very rarely listen to that score.

As for JW, Hedwig's theme and Luke and Leia are both very hard to get out.

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Main Title - The Fury

Main Title - Fitzwilly

The Forest Battle - ROTJ

Wedding Celebration/The Bottle Dance - Fiddler on the Roof

Cadillac of the Skies - Empire of the Sun

Kiss of Life - Die Another Day

George to the Rescue - George of the Jungle

Finale - Shadows of the Empire

Q's Trick - Diamonds Are Forever

And this one seems to be the stickiest:

Airport Source - Diamonds Are Forever

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few if any of John's cues get stuck in my head.

to me that is a bad thing when that happens.

so when a song gets stuck in my head I think of the Superman theme, play it in my mind, and it kicks the other song out of my head.

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Recently I have been hearing the Terminal main theme in my head alot. It pops upp frequently for no reason. POA cues come to mind very often mainly the Whomping willow (in fact on my way to university this morning it played constantly in my head). It's true that many of the cues are action cues from different movies but I found myself whistling Nixon main theme the other day.

Others include:

- Angela's Ashes main theme

- Dalai Lama/Tibet theme from Seven Years in Tibet

- Meeting with Mao from Nixon

- Emperor's theme from ROTJ

- Gungan's March to war (especially the drums which have a great rhythm.) from TPM

- Chase through Coruscant (the drums, the drums)

- A Window to the Past from POA

Non-Williams scores:

Angels in America main titles

The Bridge of Khazad Dum from FOTR (again the drums)

The Sky Captain (many cues)

The Godfather Waltz

Foundations of Stone from TTT

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I can't believe no-one mentioned this one yet:

Journey to the Island from Jurassic Park

pam-pam--pam-paaaaam-para-pam-pa-pa-pa-paaaaam-!

I hope you get the idea... :thumbup:

No, I'm not drunk actually :spiny:

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It's way off.

 Morlock- who would never use pam to illustrate a JW theme. For me, it's dum or nothing.

I think to dum as a dark think or something... :thumbup:

By the way:

dum-dum-dum-duuuum-du-du-dum-du-du-dum-duuuuuum! :spiny:

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The main Monsignor theme, or the Italy theme?

Morlock- who never concidered the main theme catchy, but thinks the Italy theme is wonderful

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I constantly wake up to have some miscellaneous theme just pop into my head, but these are the most common.

Williams themes:

Virtually any theme/track in POA, I love that score

1941 March

Monica's theme from A.I.

Any theme from Jurassic Park

Viktor's theme & love theme from Terminal

Force theme

The Cowboys main title theme

Other themes:

All 3 themes from Alexander

Main & End Titles from Angels in America

Dante's Peak main theme

Finding Nemo (nemo egg theme)

Shadowfax's theme from TTT

Signs theme (from HoF pt 2)

The Day After Tomorrow

The Last Castle

The Postman

The Shipping News

The Village (theme that opens 'The Vote')

The most persistent is the Wheatfield & F5 themes from Mancina's Twister.

I've got a lot of favourites, but once I get a good theme in my head, it isn't going anywhere...

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It was just a gentle ribbing.

As was said on The Simpsons- "I hope she didn't take my attempts to destroy her too seriously"

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"I'm very suspicious of people who quote themeselves."- Neil S. Bulk, JWFan Moderator and Apple Spokesman

I think I'm paraphrasing, but I remember him saying something like this.

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I constantly wake up to have some miscellaneous theme just pop into my head, but these are the most common.

Other themes:

All 3 themes from Alexander

Thank you for admitting to that.

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I wake up most every day with some cue in my head. With Williams, I usually get the Emporer's theme, The Raider's March, or 1941 in my head. I also often wake up with "D-Day Landing" for Yared's Troy and "Concerning Hobbits" from FOTR.

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I constantly wake up to have some miscellaneous theme just pop into my head, but these are the most common.

Other themes:

All 3 themes from Alexander

Thank you for admitting to that.

...to what? That I wake up with themes in my head, or that it's often Alexander?

I command anyone to listen to Titans, Across the Mountains or Eternal Alexander a few times and not have those 3 themes permanently etched into your head :D

(And I didn't mean I wake up to all of them, they're just generally the themes that pop into my head at any time :))

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Raiders of the lost ark, In the idol's temple, 20 secs segment (when indy messes getting the idols and the temple starts cracking)

:/

This one is for you Neil :D

It'll go away in about 6 months.

Neil

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The thing with Alexander's themes is that they are so simplistic they are pretty easy to remember. It's like those bad pop tunes that just seem to never go away.

Romão, who likes other portions of the score much more.

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I have the Jaws Main Theme as the Startup Windows sound (when you turn on the PC) and the Grail theme as Shutdown Windows.

Of course just 10-15 seconds of them!

I choose these because:

-Jaws gives a "happy" welcome!

-The Grail theme because it's a great "sad" theme, as my PC is sad to see me go everytime!

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I used to have startup/shutdown sounds from ESB. The quote of the Imperial March from "Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave" (it would have underscored the TIE bombers blasting the surface of the asteroid, I think, but it was cut) is my startup sound, and the evil fanfare that ends Vader's conversation with Veers and is also tracked into Han's arrival at Echo Base is the shutdown sound.

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