Best '70s Williams Score: Round One (VERSION #2)

[robthehand 3]

OK, this is the revised first round, based on your choices of scores.

1. Each round, you vote for what you think is the weakest score. After 24 hours, the weakest score will be knocked out, and so on, until there is only one score left - the winner.

2. Each poll is set for 24 hours, any votes AFTER that time won't register.

3. If there is a tie between 2 or more scores, in order to keep things moving along, ALL of them will be knocked out, UNLESS it is the last round where there are only 2 scores left anyway (otherwise both would be knocked out and there would be no winner).

Please report any errors *politely* by PM.

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Your choices are:

The Cowboys

The Poseidon Adventure

Images

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

The Paper Chase

The Long Goodbye

Cinderella Liberty

Conrack

The Sugarland Express

Earthquake

The Towering Inferno

Jaws

The Eiger Sanction

Family Plot

The Missouri Breaks

Midway

Black Sunday

Star Wars

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Fury

Jaws 2

Superman - The Movie

Dracula

1941

or: I can't vote yet

(I'm not including score adaptations.)

[Sandor 459]

Voted Poseidon. One of the least enjoyable scores of Williams career for me.

[futuremartymcfly 0]

i won't be able to vote for a Long time, my seventies collection is very weak.

[batmanand 0]

Let the "grassroots" spoiler tactics begin...

[Greg1138 2]

This is tough.....I have gone for Conrack at the moment......I have seen the movie and have the Conrack/Poseidon/Paperchase album.....and out of all the above it is, in my humblest opinion, the weakest of the lot.....

Let the Games Begin!!

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

Biding my time.

[Richard Penna 2,083]

i won't be able to vote for a Long time, my seventies collection is very weak.

Me too. I've only heard the full albums from about 5 this decade.

[Morlock 9]

Earthquake. The only thing I like from it is the main theme, and I think it is nothing special.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

You haven't experienced Earthquake unless you've seen it in it's original Sensuround format.

[Morlock 9]

And I'm a happier man for it!

[futuremartymcfly 0]

i have a feeling this is going to be own looong poll...

[Ollie 859]

Conrack.

[robthehand 3]

i have a feeling this is going to be own looong poll...

At the current rate we could have ten off at once. LOL

[John Crichton 4]

i won't be able to vote for a Long time, my seventies collection is very weak.

What he said.

[futuremartymcfly 0]

i have a feeling this is going to be own looong poll...

At the current rate we could have ten off at once. LOL

LOL, your right it will be probably be a quick yet boring poll, LOL

[King Mark 2,924]

Voted Poseidon. One of the least enjoyable scores of Williams career for me.

the Main/End Titles are better than a lot of the other scores.Well only the original recordings.Nobody did a good job re-recording them

K.M.

[Incanus 5,519]

Earthquake. It is one of the worst Williams scores I have heard.

[King Mark 2,924]

I like one track from Earthquake:The City Sleeps.Really different from the rest,beautiful and majestic.It sounds like an early draft of the opening of The Planet Krypton.

K.M.

[Incanus 5,519]

I like one track from Earthquake:The City Sleeps.Really different from the rest,beautiful and majestic.It sounds like an early draft of the opening of The Planet Krypton.

K.M.

I agree. That is the single good track on that score.

[nightscape94 965]

Earthquake. It is one of the worst Williams scores I have heard.

It basically sounds like a very ordinary and unoriginal score. Anyone could have written it because it's completely interchangeable with every other 70s ever written.

Now and then I'll pop it in and once I hear the main title, I think "why am I listening to this when I could throw a rock and hit a better score then this one?" There's not much to gain from it, other then being a Williams-completist.

Tim

[King Mark 2,924]

You have to look for the "hidden gems" in those scores,good to put on compilations so they don't get "lost"The City Sleeps is one of them.Same thing happens when you listen to old scores like Heidi,which has The Miracle and Meditations.Paper Chase has "The Passing of Wisdom"

So no Williams scores are really worthless...

K.M.

[nightscape94 965]

I'm not saying its worthless, but considering he wrote The Towering Inferno and Jaws within a year and a half of it, I think he could have done more. Then again, he didn't have much to work with.

And I happen to like Heidi quite a lot.

Tim

[Ollie 859]

The Varese soundtrack of Earthquake doesn't represent alot of the dramatic underscore in the film. There's more to it than those 70's style tunes on the CD.

That's one score that does deserve and expanded and remastered release.

[nightscape94 965]

That's one score that does deserve and expanded and remastered release.

I've never seen the movie, so all I have to go on is the 13 track CD I own. :?

Tim

[Ollie 859]

Sadly the movie is awful, IMHO.