Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I don't remember doing such a list here, and you can blame Mr Fake for it, because I've just perused one of his columns doing just that...listing his favorite scores of any decade. So, without further ado, here are mine (limited to five per decade):

1930s

#1 Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
#2 King Kong (Steiner)
#3 Lost Horizon (Tiomkin)
#4 The Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman)
#5 The Wizard of Oz (Stothart et al.)

1940s

#1 Citizen Kane (Herrmann)
#2 Kings Row (Korngold)
#3 Ivan the Terrible (Prokofiev)
#4 Spellbound (Rózsa)
#5 Scott of the Antarctic (Vaughan Williams)

1950s

#1 The Ten Commandments (Bernstein)
#2 The Quiet Man (Young)
#3 Vertigo (Herrmann)
#4 Ben-Hur (Rózsa)
#5 On the Beach (Gold)

1960s

#1 Lawrence of Arabia (Jarre)
#2 To Kill a Mockingbird (Bernstein)
#3 How the West Was Won (Newman)
#4 Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone)
#5 Mutiny on the Bounty (Kaper)

1970s

#1 Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Goldsmith)
#2 Star Wars (Williams)
#3 The Last Valley (Barry)
#4 The Godfather (Rota)
#5 The Wind and the Lion (Goldsmith)

1980s

#1 Star Wars - Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back (Williams)
#2 Under Fire (Goldsmith)
#3 The Final Countdown (Scott)
#4 Empire of the Sun (Williams)
#5 Glory (Horner)

1990s

#1 Schindler's List (Williams)
#2 Edward Scissorhands (Elfman)
#3 Mulan (Goldsmith)
#4 Cutthroat Island (Debney)
#5 Les Misérables (Poledouris)
Special mention: Babylon 5 - Sleeping in Light (Franke)

2000s

#1 The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Shore)
#2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Doyle)
#3 The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Shore)
#4 Chicken Run (Gregson-Williams/Powell)
#5 A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Williams)
Special mention: Troy (Rejected) (Yared)

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972

Yeah I also own the complete ballet on CD, but I always tends to say Bruns composed it to promote him, because everybody knows Tchaikovsky composed Sleeping Beauty but few people knows about Bruns doing this fabulous arrangement.

Brun's greatest moment of brilliance is taking that little piece for the cat or whatever it was, and making it the musical representation of the evil fairy, arranging that three note motif for solo voice. He completley transforms the Tchaikovsky but it's fantastic and one of the creepiest moments in movie music that I know. Great, beautiful film too. The first widescreen Disney animated film, and the only one for 2 decades afterwards.

Yavar

Another list, again best of, this time in a given year from 1033 to today. No strict parameters, just a mixture of actual best score, personal favorite, composer most deserving that year, gut feeling, the oujia board indicated I pick that one, least likely to get me killed etc.

Sometimes (and at least once every decade), a year was so stellar that a tie was inevitable:

1933) King Kong (M. Steiner)
1934) The Lost Patrol (M. Steiner)
1935) The Bride of Frankenstein (F. Waxman)
1936) Anthony Adverse (E. W. Korngold)
1937) Lost Horizon (D. Tiomkin)
1938) Alexander Nevsky (S. Prokofiev)
1939) Gone with the Wind (M. Steiner) + The Wizard of Oz (H. Stothart et al.)
1940) Rebecca (F. Waxman)
1941) Citizen Kane (B. Herrmann)
1942) Kings Row (E. W. Korngold)
1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (V. Young) + The Song of Bernadette (A. Newman)
1944) Ivan the Terrible (S. Prokofiev)
1945) Spellbound (M. Rózsa)
1946) The Best Years of Our Lives (H. Friedhofer)
1947) Forever Amber (D. Raksin)
1948) Hamlet (W. Walton)
1949) The Heiress (A. Copland)
1950) Sunset Boulevard (F. Waxman)
1951) The Day the Earth Stood Still (B. Herrmann)
1952) The Quiet Man (V. Young)
1953) The Robe (A. Newman) + Shane (V. Young)
1954) On the Waterfront (L. Bernstein)
1955) East of Eden (L. Rosenman)
1956) The Ten Commandments (E. Bernstein)
1957) An Affair to Remember (H. Friedhofer)
1958) Vertigo (B. Herrmann)
1959) Ben-Hur (M. Rózsa) + On the Beach (E. Gold)
1960) The Magnificent Seven (E. Bernstein)
1961) El Cid (M. Rózsa)
1962) Lawrence of Arabia (M. Jarre) + To Kill a Mockingbird (E. Bernstein)
1963) Cleopatra (A. North)
1964) The Fall of the Roman Empire (D. Tiomkin)
1965) Doctor Zhivago (M. Jarre)
1966) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A. North)
1967) Cool Hand Luke (L. Schifrin)
1968) The Lion in Winter (J. Barry)
1969) Once Upon a Time in the West (E. Morricone)
1970) The Last Valley (J. Barry)
1971) Straw Dogs (J. Fielding)
1972) The Godfather (N. Rota)
1973) The Day of the Dolphin (G. Delerue)
1974) Chinatown (J. Goldsmith)
1975) The Wind and the Lion (J. Goldsmith) + Jaws (J. Williams)
1976) The Omen (J. Goldsmith) + Taxi Driver (B. Herrmann)
1977) Star Wars - Ep. IV: A New Hope (J. Williams)
1978) Superman (J. Williams)
1979) Star Trek - The Motion Picture (J. Goldsmith)
1980) Star Wars - Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back (J. Williams)
1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark (J. Williams) + The Final Conflict (J. Goldsmith)
1982) E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (J. Williams) + Conan the Barbarian (B. Poledouris)
1983) Under Fire (J. Goldsmith)
1984) The Natural (R. Newman)
1985) Revolution (J. Corigliano)
1986) The Mission (E. Morricone)
1987) Empire of the Sun (J. Williams)
1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (A. Silvestri)
1989) Glory (J. Horner)
1990) Edward Scissorhands (D. Elfman) + Dances with Wolves (J. Barry)
1991) Beauty and the Beast (A. Menken)
1992) 1492 - Conquest of Paradise (Vangelis)
1993) Schindler's List (J. Williams)
1994) The Lion King (H. Zimmer)
1995) Cutthroat Island (J. Debney)
1996) Independence Day (D. Arnold)
1997) Princess Mononoke (J. Hisaishi) + Titanic (J. Horner)
1998) Mulan (J. Goldsmith) + Les Misérables (B. Poledouris)
1999) Anna and the King (G. Fenton)
2000) Chicken Run (H. Gregson-Williams / J. Powell)
2001) The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (H. Shore) + Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (E. Goldenthal)
2002) The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (H. Shore)
2003) The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (H. Shore)
2004) Troy - Rejected Score (G. Yared)
2005) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (P. Doyle) + Star Wars - Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith (J. Williams)
2006) Lady in the Water (J. N. Howard)

Changes likely to come soon and without warning...

I have no life!

CK

Chris1770... I just have to know, out of all the Goldsmith scores of the 1990's, why in the world you would pick "Fierce Creatures"? I mean, it's a pleasant album, but... ????

Back at ya later

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972

Yet you include Judge Dredd, which is (fun) overblown orchestra stuff, no?

Yavar

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972