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


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Which Is Your Least Favourite?  

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  1. 1.

    • The Cowboys
      0
    • The Poseidon Adventure
      1
    • Images
      1
    • The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
      1
    • The Paper Chase
      3
    • The Long Goodbye
      1
    • Cinderella Liberty
      1
    • Conrack
      4
    • The Sugarland Express
      0
    • Earthquake
      2
    • The Towering Inferno
      0
    • Jaws
      0
    • The Eiger Sanction
      0
    • Family Plot
      0
    • The Missouri Breaks
      1
    • Midway
      0
    • Black Sunday
      0
    • Star Wars
      0
    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      0
    • The Fury
      0
    • Jaws 2
      0
    • Superman - The Movie
      0
    • Dracula
      0
    • 1941
      0
    • I Can't Vote Yet
      13


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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. :wave:

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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.)

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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!!

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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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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