Favorite SW track tournament! [Winner inside!]

Victory Celebration/End Title
Easy. VicCeleb moves me to tears, DC did not.

Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet
Easy. Great use of an underused theme. Makes you want to pick up a lightsaber.

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan
Misses a bit from the movie and I'm not the biggest fan of the Bespin duel reprise but BotH begins better than in BotH itself

Anakin's Betrayal
You can celebrate the love all you want, I'll be over here greatly enjoying the most pivotal track of RotS, thankyouverymuch.

 

Ack. I should have favourited this forum.

I've got my cds sorted now.



Victory Celebration/End Title
? Senny said it well, actually. Although not quite tears for me, this was moving at the very least.

Anakin And Padmé
? I like the feel of the track. Very... sweet.

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan

Anakin's Betrayal
? This was a tough vote for me. The SE was what I first saw, and I loved/love that final music and celebration. Heh. But around the time of ROTS I had this score playing all the time. And I always played this song.

 

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

Attack of the Clones has the best underscoe of the entire saga. The themes only hinted at in this cue are so magestically woven.

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

Qui-Gon's theme at its height. One of my favorite cues of the saga. Although I love Anakin and Padme too.

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

The film version of the Battle of the Heroes is the better one.

Anakin's Betrayal
vs.
Ewok Celebration/Finale

No question whatsoever!

 

Victory Celebration/End Title
vs.
Departing Coruscant

Thoughts: More fitting ending to ROTJ and the star wars saga. Though the old music isn't bad.


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

Thoughts: I don't agree with splitting up that entire piece on the ultimate soundtrack. I think this should have been with Anakin is Free but oh well. It's still great. The track is good too, but I'll save the vote for the Meadow Picnic.


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

Thoughts: The only real part of Bounty Hunters pursuit is the end with the TF theme returning.


Anakin's Betrayal
vs.
Ewok Celebration/Finale

Thoughts: Son of a... Well the old finale music didn't get very far now did it? Poor Yub Yub song.

 

Welcome, Forever_Padawan! I hope you can vote in each round.


Victory Celebration/End Title - a much better ending

Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet - I love Qui-Gon's theme... what Senny said

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan - I like the "Clone Army Revealed" cue (even if the thematic use is puzzling to some), but A v. O is better

Anakin's Betrayal - Celebrate the hate?

 

Mustafar Region

Round II

Victory Celebration/End Title 8
Departing Coruscant 1

Qui-Gon And Darth Maul Meet 6
Anakin And Padmé 3

Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan 9
Bounty Hunter's Pursuit 0

Anakin's Betrayal 9
Ewok Celebration/Finale 0

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[color=green][b][u]Dagobah Region[/u][/b][/color]

Destruction Of Alderaan
vs.
Battle Of The Heroes

The Droid Invasion
vs.
Padmé Meets Anakin

Anakin's Theme
vs.
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant

Luke And Leia
vs.
The Clash Of Lightsabers

 

Destruction Of Alderaan
vs.
Battle Of The Heroes

Thoughts: No contest.


The Droid Invasion
vs.
Padmé Meets Anakin

Thoughts: Both are nice, but one is easier to hum.


Anakin's Theme
vs.
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant

Thoughts: Ouch. This hurt a bit, but I love Anakin's theme. Even if it was underused.


Luke And Leia
vs.
The Clash Of Lightsabers

Thoughts: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This choice was not fair! Well at least we get a bit of Luke and Leia in the end credit music.

 

Dagobah Region

Destruction Of Alderaan
vs.
Battle Of The Heroes

Destruction of Alderaan rules, but Battle Of The Heroes is so epic that it blasts DoA away.

The Droid Invasion
vs.
Padmé Meets Anakin

The Droid invasion is probably my favourite track of all the soundtracks.

Anakin's Theme
vs.
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant

Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant really branches out; I love the use of percussion.

Luke And Leia
vs.
The Clash Of Lightsabers

They both rule... But The Clash Of Lightsabers has much more variation, and sounds more powerful.

 

Destruction Of Alderaan
vs.
Battle Of The Heroes

'Tis with a heavy heart that I vote BotH over this great ANH track.

The Droid Invasion
vs.
Padmé Meets Anakin

The Droid Invasion rocks, but there is an even better version of the Droid theme later on.

Anakin's Theme
vs.
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant

A great theme that has a really cool ending.

Luke And Leia
vs.
The Clash Of Lightsabers

Luke and Leia is terrific, but The Clash of Lightsabers is one of the best tracks in the entire saga. It would have to be in my top 3.

 

Destruction Of Alderaan
Just for the heck of it.

The Droid Invasion
One of the best parts of TPM. TF March FTW.

Anakin's Theme
Zametc. was the favorite of a friend's - and I never got why. Ani's Theme is beautiful, soothing, innocent... and has a clever IM hint.

The Clash Of Lightsabers
If it wouldn't include the escape music, I might have voted for L&L, as it's not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be, but this way there is just too much good music in CoL

 

Battle Of The Heroes
? No brainer, really. One of the songs that has been drilled into my head. I use it as my alaam occasionally. Love it.

The Droid Invasion
? How is this music not awesome? It's one of the defining points in TPM for me.

Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant
? I've never been a large fan of Anakin's theme, except for the ending. Very sinister, especially when you're watching the last of the credits roll by. But this chase music is very sweet.

The Clash Of Lightsabers
? I love the other track. This is annoying.

 

Battle Of The Heroes

The Droid Invasion

Anakin's Theme

The Clash Of Lightsabers

 

Destruction Of Alderaan
vs.
Battle Of The Heroes

Both are very good cues.

The Droid Invasion
vs.
Padmé Meets Anakin

Anakin's Theme
vs.
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant\

A hard decision. Anakin's Theme is superb, but Zam the Assassin is one of the best action cues of the saga.

Luke And Leia
vs.
The Clash Of Lightsabers

Although Luke and Leia is great, the golden age composition is amazing, it has to go the perfect Clash of Lightsabers. The entire movie is summed up musically into these short four minutes. Amazing!

 

BotH - DoA is a great cue, but I'm going with The Duel

Droid Invasion - pumps you up

Anakin's Theme - Zam works well in the film, but it's not a favorite for listening

Clash of Lightsabers - it's got synchronicity!

 

Dagobah Region

Round I

Battle Of The Heroes 7
Destruction Of Alderaan 1

The Droid Invasion 8
Padmé Meets Anakin 0

Anakin's Theme 5
Zam The Assassin And The Chase Through Coruscant 3

The Clash Of Lightsabers 8
Luke And Leia 0

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[u]Round II[/u]

Yoda And The Force
vs.
Activate The Droids/The Gungans Fight Back

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
vs.
Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

Jango's Escape
vs.
The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence
vs.
Returnn To Tatooine

 

Round II

Yoda And The Force

Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Return To Tatooine

 

Yoda And The Force
vs.
Activate The Droids/The Gungans Fight Back

Thoughts: Powerful moment when he lifts that X-Wing up. Powerful moment.


The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
vs.
Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

Thoughts: I like the build up to the fanfare. Really sets the mood.


Jango's Escape
vs.
The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Thoughts: Well now that Padme's Destiny has made it to the next round, I don't feel the need to vote for the same piece of music basically. Jango's Escape is pretty good on the action beats. Plus you get a bit of Boba Fetts theme in there.


Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence
vs.
Return To Tatooine

Thoughts: Though I like the mystery theme and the conflict theme in the return to tatooine, it's all basically rehash.

 

Yoda And The Force
Didn't we hear most of the Gungan battle music before, anyway? But even if not, YatF wins (though I don't listen to it often enough)

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
About the only RotJ-Tatooine music I like. The underwater stuff has the wonderful Swim to OG, but the later parts ... let's say they work better in the movie than by themselves.

Jango's Escape
the Funeral is a great piece of music, but Jango's Escape is ... hell, probably my favorite action cue in AotC (esp. since almost all of The Arena has been cut from the movie)

Return To Tatooine
The whole AotC Tatooine sequence is just awesome and so is the music.
The whole RotJ Tatooine sequence is just annoying and so is the music. But especially Den of the Rancor. Ugh.

 

Round II

Yoda And The Force
vs.
Activate The Droids/The Gungans Fight Back

YATF is quite memorable, and I like how it ends with the Imperial March, but activate the droids is so powerful... When used with the Droid invasion, it's like the prequel trilogy's answer to the Imperial March.

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
vs.
Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

I like the reprise of Tie Fighter Attack in TPOC/SBA, but most of the rest of it is quite repeditive. STOG/ITBC/AOTGF

Jango's Escape
vs.
The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Jango's Escape is a terrific cue, (One of my favourites infact) I love the tymponies, and the ending is nice too, but TFOQ-G was the perfect ending for TPM, and I'm glad it had a reprise in ROTS.

Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence
vs.
Return To Tatooine

LCJ/DOTR/SS was quite monotonous... There wasn't anything very memorable in it for me. RTT has Duel Of The fates, which never gets old, and lots of what I think are xylophones, which gives it a nice feel.

 

Yoda And The Force
vs.
Activate The Droids/The Gungans Fight Back

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
vs.
Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

Jango's Escape
vs.
The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence
vs.
Returnn To Tatooine

I love the beginning of Luke Confronts Jabba with the synthesizers. Very Creepy, but this goes to a great track from AOTC.

 

Yoda And The Force

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault

The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Return To Tatooine

 

Yoda and the Force
vs.
Activate The Droids/The Gungans Fight Back

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault
vs.
Swimming To Otoh Gunga/Inside The Bubble City/Attack Of The Giant Fish

Jango's Escape
vs.
The Funeral Of Qui-Gon

Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence
vs.
Return To Tatooine

 

Yoda And The Force - one of my favorite all time tracks

The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault - still like the rebel fanfare better

The Funeral Of Qui-Gon - lovely yet somber

Return To Tatooine - awesome track; one of the best QOTC scenes

 

No wait, you're too early, my votes are coming!


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Ah well, I guess I wouldn't have changed the results. If only my internet hadn't dropped out last night.