I now knight myself....

[Morlock 11]

....An official John Williams fan!

I've only been seriously exposed to JW in the past year, and until a couple of weeks ago, only owned 3 soundtracks and 2 collections of JW's stuff.

That has all changed.

I have puchased what I deem to be a respectible John Williams CD base collection. There are a few notable Cds missing, but it's (IMO) a very good start.

As of June 30th, I owned the following JW Cds:

Harry Potter

Attack of the clones

Hook

JW greatest hits 1969-1999 (This is what turned me on to JW)

Star Wars and more (A collection of Sci Fi themes- Star wars, JP, Superman, Star Trek, Back to the future, largly dominated by Williams)

As of July 20th, My collection grew by 2:

Jaws (original recording)

Indians Jones and the last crusade

As of July 23rd, by another 7 (on Amazon.com):

The Empire Strikes back

E.T.

The Patriot

The Phantom Menace Ultimate Edition

Close Encounters of the third kind (Special or collector's edition)

Jurrasic Park

Schindler's list

As of July 24th, by an additional 2:

Home Alone

Amistad

As of July 26th, by the (so far) last 3:

Empire of the Sun

Far and Away

Minority Report

I've listen to parts of all of them, but now I'm really going through them one by one, track by track. I'm now in the middle of what is In my opinion the best soundtrack of all times, The Empire strikes back. Only in CD 1, so I've got a lot of pleasurable listening ahead.

The ones I'm longing for currently:

Superman Rhino edition

Raiders of the lost Ark

Temple of Doom

JFK

A New Hope

Return of the Jedi

[Lurker 5]

You've got a lot of good stuff, but you should also add The Fury to your list, especially since Varese has a new limited edition available. 3,000 copies of that score probably won't last long.

Neil

[Ren 75]

i have nowhere's near that. can i still be "dame ren"?