Favorite SW track tournament! [Winner inside!]

Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth
vs.
Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave

Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker
vs.
The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny

Alliance Assembly
vs.
A New Hope And End Credits

The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed
vs.
Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace

 

Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth
vs.
Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave

Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker
vs.
The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny

Alliance Assembly
vs.
A New Hope And End Credits

The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed
vs.
Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace

This was a pretty weak region.

 

Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth
vs.
Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave

Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker
vs.
The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny

Alliance Assembly
vs.
A New Hope And End Credits

The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed
vs.
Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace

 

Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth
vs.
Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave

Once again, another Main Title. As wonderful as it is, I love the music from the Mynock Cave when Han shoots the ground and everything starts quaking. "This is no cave."

Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker
vs.
The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny

Excellent track. The music from The Birth Of The Twins is haunting, as well as from Padme's death. Excellent usage of the choir here.

Alliance Assembly
vs.
A New Hope And End Credits

I really do love Alliance Assembly, but A New Hope And End Credits is so much more enjoyable.

The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed
vs.
Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace

The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed is a great track, very memorable with great action. The track from ROTJ, however, is much more iconic, I'd have to say. The music from Luke's revelations to Leia, Luke's conversation with Vader, and the fantastic descending trumpet fanfare that introduces The Fleet Enters Hyperspace. This track has so much more going for it.

 

Naboo Region

Round I

Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth
vs.
Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave

Thoughts: Tough choice. I love the Mynock cave stuff but that Ice Planet Hoth is so mysterious...


Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker
vs.
The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny

Thoughts: Since Padme's Destiny is basically just a rehash of the funeral of qui-gon, I'll save my vote for that.


Alliance Assembly
vs.
A New Hope And End Credits

Thoughts: Well this is basically a rehash of stuff, but its so well done, if only it had been the full version in the film.


The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed
vs.
Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace

Thoughts: Emotional goodness.

 

Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave - love the gentle revealed cue, and "this is no cave" just works so well

Birth of the Twinds/Padmé's Destiny

A New Hope/End Credits

Brother & Sister...

 

Naboo Region

Round I

Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave 3
Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth 3

* I hate when this happens, but to move along, I use my vote as the tiebreaker.

The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny 4
Hail To The Winner, Anakin Skywalker 2

A New Hope And End Credits 6
Alliance Assembly 0

Brother And Sister/Father And Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace 6
The Giant Squid And The Attack On Theed 0

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[u]Round II[/u]

Deal With The Dark Lord
vs.
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune

Enter Lord Vader
vs.
Han Solo And The Princess

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
vs.
Lapti Nek

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
vs.
The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle

 

Deal With The Dark Lord
vs.
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune

Enter Lord Vader
vs.
Han Solo And The Princess

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
vs.
Lapti Nek

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
vs.
The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle

 

Deal With The Dark Lord
vs.
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune

B-E-A-utiful.

Enter Lord Vader
vs.
Han Solo And The Princess

Enter Lord Vader is awesome, but Han Solo and the Princess contains the best theme ever written!

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
vs.
Lapti Nek

Sorry Lapti Nek, but you were a poor excuse for a saga finale.

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
vs.
The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle

As much as I worship ESB, the TPM battle music is great, and all these cues together definitely get my vote.

 

Noo, stupid real life, I would have voted for Ice Planet!

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[b]The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune[/b]
I had to listen to both again, twice. I never noticed how relatively unexciting DDL is. The UE title is poorly chosen, but the music is great, ominous, sort of foreshadowing and the scene is great.

[b]Enter Lord Vader[/b]
I'm sorry, but ELV is all kinds of awesome all the way through.

[b]Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor[/b]
I never cared much for Lapti Nek, SE or no.

[b]The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle[/b]
Clumsy title, a few noticable edits but if this is not great TPM music, nothing is. I don't care about any of Luke's nocturnal activities, be they alone or with a visitor :p

 

You have failed me for the last time.


Round II

Deal With The Dark Lord
vs.
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune

Thoughts: Meh. Both will be gone soon anyways.


Enter Lord Vader
vs.
Han Solo And The Princess

Thought: Not fair. I love Han Solo and the Princess because of the love theme portion. Very low key. Plus the hologram Emperor music is actually kinda spooky. But Enter Lord Vader was too powerful...


Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
vs.
Lapti Nek

Thoughts: I like Tydirium. Especially the evil throne room music. But Lapti Nek is awesome.


Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
vs.
The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle

Thoughts: I basically chose this for the DotF portion that plays with the overview of the setting.

 

Deal With The Dark Lord
vs.
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune

Hmmm... close.

Enter Lord Vader
vs.
Han Solo And The Princess

Yeah, the first half of "Enter Lord Vader" is boring. But the second half is great... and "Han Solo and the Princess," though amazing, is a bit derivative of Leia's theme. Hmm, I don't know.

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
vs.
Lapti Nek

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
vs.
The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle

This is probably the most hideously edited UE track of all. The music as composed was great, but... no.

 

Deal With The Dark Lord

Enter Lord Vader

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor - one of my favorites

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor - such a great introduction to Yoda. I love the DotF cues in the Theed battle, though the editing makes a mess of things.

 

Naboo Region

Round II

Deal With The Dark Lord 4
The Queen Confronts Nute And Rune 2

Enter Lord Vader 4
Han Solo And The Princess 2

Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor 5
Lapti Nek 1

The Duel Begins/Anakin Takes Off In Spaceship/The Duel Continues/The Battle Rages On/Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan And Darth Maul Continue Battle 4
Luke's Nocturnal Visitor 2

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[color=red][b][u]Mustafar Region[/u][/b][/color]

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

 

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

City in the Clouds is so incredible, it wouldn't lose to much.

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

Not my favourite ESB track, but it has some great moments.

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

The first is some of the best music of all the prequels, but The Death Star has one of my favourite Star Wars moments of all time: The extended Rebel Fanfare.

Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

 

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

 

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

 

Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds
I said a lot of good things about the March the first time around, but ISD is some great Empire music and CitC is as beautiful as the scene's visuals (well, the arrival part)

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
FTDD is cool and has that neat little Force Theme statement, but Snowspeeders Take Flight alone wins this match

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
Can't we keep both and get rid of both from the next pair? Voted against DS/S just because I don't want to be responsible for TTT losing. Also, the little Wookiee violence has freaky psycho music

Enter Darth Maul
Pursuit is annoying and this is underwhelming, but I guess it sounds nicer... or something.

 

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

Thoughts: Love this track. Especially the approach to cloud city. Beautiful. Also its the first use of vocals in a Star Wars score.


The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

Thoughts: Both are good action cues. Kinda shocking that the snowspeeders take flight was cut out of the film and replaced with music from later in score.


The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

Thoughts: Doh! Both are so good! It's sad when lesser tracks like Deal With the Dark Lord advance, but one of these two has to exit so early. But I chose the track that gets stuck in my head the most.


Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

Thoughts: More action cue goodness.

 

Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March
vs.
Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight
vs.
Fighting The Destroyer Droids

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul
vs.
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers

Enter Darth Maul
vs.
The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit

 

Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds

Fighting The Destroyer Droids - needs some love

The Death Star/The Stormtroopers - more lovin'

The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit - great Force Theme

 

Down to 100 tracks!

Mustafar Region

Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City In The Clouds 6
Darth Sidious Receives News Of The Gungan Army/The Gungans March 1

The Wampa's Lair/Vision Of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight 6
Fighting The Destroyer Droids 1

The Tide Turns/The Death Of Darth Maul 4
The Death Star/The Stormtroopers 3

The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit 6
Enter Darth Maul 1

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[u]Round II[/u]

Victory Celebration/End Title
vs.
Departing Coruscant

Anakin And Padmé
vs.
Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan
vs.
Bounty Hunter's Pursuit

Anakin's Betrayal
vs.
Ewok Celebration/Finale

 

Victory Celebration/End Title
vs.
Departing Coruscant

Anakin And Padmé
vs.
Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan
vs.
Bounty Hunter's Pursuit

Anakin's Betrayal
vs.
Ewok Celebration/Finale

 

Round II

Victory Celebration/End Title (It's better than the other selection)

Anakin And Padmé (this one has this gorgeous vibe to it + it is filled with Across the Stars)

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan (OMG so nostagalgiacly obvious, not to mention BotH)

Anakin's Betrayal (by far, one of the best scores of the saga)

 

Round II

Victory Celebration/End Title
vs.
Departing Coruscant

Anakin And Padmé
vs.
Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan
vs.
Bounty Hunter's Pursuit

Anakin's Betrayal
vs.
Ewok Celebration/Finale

This is the first time I've voted here, for those of you who know __Vader__, he's my brother. He showed me this thread and told me to vote, and I am doing so. I didn't know these tracks off by heart so I had to listen to them on my iPod... I hope I haven't offended anyone with my choice of votes!