1. Phantom Menace - No comment.

2. Durango - Damn this one got in my head! I couldn't stop listening to it for the first couple weeks I had it. Mark McKenzie is a damn orchestral chameleon. Sometimes it sounds like Horner, other times like Poledouris or Trevor Jones and sometimes like Randy Edelman. Sometimes even like Barry. This guy deserves more credit.

3. American Beauty - I want the score release badly. Worked perfect in the film, as Newmans scores always do. I don't know what it is about all of Newmans music, but it always seems to have some sort of emotional electricity flowing through it which many composers can't seem to generate.

Runners Up: 13th Warrior, The Matrix

(Of course, in the next couple of months, there are a bunch of scores I'm looking forward to. I'm hoping they live up to my expectations, because this year has been somewhat dry and bland score-wise, aside from the few on my list.)

So what are yours??

Surprised?
Shouldn't be

Hopefully one of these will be replaced by Sleepy Hollow...

Chris

The Mummy
Phantom Menace
Entrapment

Aaron

The Matrix
13th Warrior
The Phantom Menace

"The Sixth Sense"-even though the Varese release is not a good presentation and too short!

So as for the 3:
1. The Phantom Menace
2. Tarzan
3. The 13th Warrior (even though I don't have it yet, 'cos those idiotic purchasers haven't got it here in Malaysia!)

I must take issue with your statement "...Phantom Menace wasnt that good, you all just love it because it has teh name Star Wars on it..."

I am one of the people who weren't overly impressed with the music when i first heard it. It took me a while, and a lot of listening, to learn to appreciate what it was and where it was taking me.

Actually, it's shouldn't be "just because it has the name Star Wars on it" it should be "just because it's from John Williams."

#2 would have to be Phantom Menace. Duel of the Fates is a track that I could listen to over and over and over. And the Droid Battle music is just soooo cool...great car driving music. Aside from the weird blending of tracks and it not being a 2 CD set I was very happy with it.

#3 is The Snow Files. Other then the X-Files I wasn't sure what his other projects sounded like. Very nice stuff. Alot of it was very different sounding from the X-Files stuff which was refreshing. Alot more melodic and less atmospheric.

Heres hoping that Sleepy Hollow and The World Is Not Enough won't disapoint us

dave

1. The Mummy
2. The Phantom Menace
3. Mystery Alaska*

Since we are WAY off the topic with Star Wars we might as well keep it going. Since you are so displeased with TPM instead of just saying it was inferior to the original trilogy and "far from a good movie" I would really like to hear some well thought out examples and resons for your opinion. Examples for both the soundtrack and the movie would be nice. I am just curious as to why some people have responded so negativly to both.

dave

It also isnt my favorite score of the year because of the Star Wars name. Hell, I dont even own in any form the "A New Hope" or "Return of the Jedi" scores.

To tell you the truth, I didn't even LIKE the "TPM" score after the first three or four listens, and believe me, I never thought at that time that it would be my favorite score of the year now. But, after more listens, it grew on me. It grew and grew and grew until I loved it. I loved all but a couple cues, which I can live with, since that is the case with almost all scores apart from their movies. I love all the new themes and I'm so happy that Williams didn't overuse the old themes. Anakin's theme is brilliant and moving. The action peices are complex, driving and always exciting, in typical Williams fashion. And what can I say about Duel of the Fates? Its a masterpeice of modern composing and stands head and shoulders above most anything else being composed today. Who else writes music with this kind of passion and intensity today?

Of course, this is all my opinion, and I'm entitled to one. People who don't like the score are just going to have to accept that there are those of us who like the score for what it is: entertaining music, even if it doesnt always have the "Star Wars" seal stamped on it.

Most people who don't like Phatom also don't like a lot of Williams' latest score which he has composed in a different, more impresionat and modern style in fact sometimes a little surresalistic. In other words they don't like the score because they don't understand it or want to understand it.

Fair enough. I am in martial arts as well and understand how taxing the disaplin can be.

Did you do that one move in the Matrix where he jumps about 15 feet in the air and kicks about 30 different times

dave.

PS.......... Scott....that love, scott thing made me roll

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehe no you don't get me, I love bombast Korngold type of stuff, I just don't like Williams style of it.

I would love Phantom Menace if it sounded like Cutthroat Island, or Independence Day (without the political takes).