Favorite SW track tournament! [Winner inside!]

Anakin And Group To Corouscant
vs.
The Immolation Scene

AAGTC is relaxing, but not very memorable. TIS is wonderful, along with most of the other Episode III cues.

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans
vs.
The Forest Battle

TFB started off quite well, but the annoying Ewok music destroyed it... QGDMATIW/TGRATQS/TDOQGATSOTG (I just had to type that) has heaps of TPM's best music.

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
vs.
Sebulba's Dirty Hand/Qui-Gon's Pep Talk

SDH/QGPT was quite short, and didn't leave mcuh of an impression on me, whereas TEA/TDOY/OWR was one of ROTJ's better musical points.

Across The Stars
vs.
Anakin's Home And The Introduction To Threepio

Wasn't really much of a choice... ATS is brilliant.

 

The Immolation Scene
The last minute of AaGtC is really great, but Immo is better imo (heh)

The Forest Battle
I love the Death of Qui-Gon, but it's just a small part. And I mentioned the good chances of TFB before

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
a) RotJ finally becomes good, b) it's a lot of important stuff that gets the music it deserves

Across The Stars
I wouldn't mind this winning the whole thing.

 

Anakin And Group To Crouscant
vs.
The Immolation Scene

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans
vs.
The Forest Battle

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
vs.
Sebulba's Dirty Hand/Qui-Gon's Pep Talk

Across The Stars
vs.
Anakin's Home And The Introduction To Threepio

 

Anakin And Group To Crouscant
vs.
The Immolation Scene

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans
vs.
The Forest Battle

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
vs.
Sebulba's Dirty Hand/Qui-Gon's Pep Talk

Across The Stars
vs.
Anakin's Home And The Introduction To Threepio



Easiest round yet.

 

Anakin And Group To Crouscant
vs.
The Immolation Scene

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans
vs.
The Forest Battle

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
vs.
Sebulba's Dirty Hand/Qui-Gon's Pep Talk

Across The Stars
vs.
Anakin's Home And The Introduction To Threepio

 

The Immolation Scene
? A fantastic track. It manages to be soothing, but it conveys so much.

The Forest Battle

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation
? The Emperor's Imperial March part is excellent, especially with that humming for lack of a better term. The Dagobah part is so sensitive and beautiful that this combines into a very nice piece of music.

Across The Stars
? What to say? It's a lovely love song. Possibly one of the best ever.

 

The Immolation Scene

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation

Across The Stars

 

Hoth Region

Round I

The Immolation Scene 8
Anakin And Group To Crouscant 0

Qui-Gon, Darth Maul And The Invisible Wall/The Gungans Retreat And The Queen Surrenders/The Death Of Qui-Gon And The Surrender Of The Gungans 4 *
The Forest Battle 4

The Emperor Arrives/The Death Of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation 8
Sebulba's Dirty Hand/Qui-Gon's Pep Talk

Across The Stars 8
Anakin's Home And The Introduction To Threepio 0

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[u]Round II[/u]
Padmé's Ruminations
vs.
The Moisture Farm

Palpatine's Teachings
vs.
Duel Of The Fates

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople
vs.
Darth Maul And The Sith Spacecraft

The Battle Of Hoth
vs.
The Flag Parade

 

Padmé's Ruminations
vs.
The Moisture Farm

Palpatine's Teachings
vs.
Duel Of The Fates

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople
vs.
Darth Maul And The Sith Spacecraft

The Battle Of Hoth
vs.
The Flag Parade

 

The Moisture Farm
PR is great, but 1000 times better in the movie than on its own. MF is almost the other way round.

Duel Of The Fates
The PT track.

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople
Don't like the whips (well, it sounds like whips) in AotS, but Sith Spacecraft is only good with that awesome loud flyby sound effect

The Battle Of Hoth
I would have liked Parade to go further, but not against BoH.

 

The Moisture Farm
? Coming into this, I thought Ruminations would easily take it. I remember the scene from ROTS clearly. But Senny got it right. It works much better in the movie. I still love the start of it, though. But, after a listen to the Moisture Farm, it has seriously popped up on my radar as a dark horse. I don't know, it was just wonderful. Delightful is probably the word to describe it.

Duel Of The Fates
? The track.

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople
? A tough one, really. But I like this track.

The Flag Parade
? There are defining moments in movies where you just sit back and think: "awesome". This moment, in TPM, is certainly one of them. And this music is definitely what sets it. This is just so awesome, that I can't help but vote for it. It's sad that it's up against Hoth, but I truly hope it can get some votes going and continue along. It's that moment. That moment when you relax and sit back. . . and you know. . . .

 

Padmé's Ruminations
vs.
The Moisture Farm

The Moisture Farm is fairly plain, and Padme's Ruminations is totally unique, so, it gets my vote.

Palpatine's Teachings
vs.
Duel Of The Fates

Easy. Duel of the Fates IS the PT.

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople
vs.
Darth Maul And The Sith Spacecraft

The Battle Of Hoth
vs.
The Flag Parade

Simply incredible action writing, plus some other stuff. For 14 minutes.

 

The Flag Parade

 

The Moisture Farm

Duel Of The Fates

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople

The Battle Of Hoth

 

Hoth Region

Round II

The Moisture Farm 3
Padmé's Ruminations 2

Duel Of The Fates 5
Palpatine's Teachings 0

Landspeeder Search/Attack Of The Sandpeople 5
Darth Maul And The Sith Spacecraft 0

The Battle Of Hoth 4
The Flag Parade 1

Endor Region

Round I

The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning
vs.
Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

The Arrival At Tatooine
vs.
Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Yoda's Theme
vs.
Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic

The Trash Compactor
vs.
The Rebel Fleet/End Title

 

The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning
vs.
Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

The Arrival At Tatooine
vs.
Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Yoda's Theme
vs.
Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic

The Trash Compactor
vs.
The Rebel Fleet/End Title

 

Round I

The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning
vs.
Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

The Senate etc. was quite miserably aimless... It just sort of... Daudled. Confrontation had a nice choral bit, with the Imperial March and Across The Stars.

The Arrival At Tatooine
vs.
Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Carbon Freeze etc. is nice, long, and moving.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to vote for the others, but I'll try...

 

Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale
I gave Senateetc. a chance, but it doesn't compare to that Dawn of the Empire thing and the AtS ending that's so much better than in the film credits.

Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett
There are a number of tracks that can win against CarbonFreezeetc., awesome as it is, but AaT isn't onw of them

Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic
Yoda's is far from being my favorite theme and its best two uses are completely Yoda unrelated Watto's Deal is awesome, especially since the Qui-Gon tone poem

The Rebel Fleet/End Title
I used to edit out the annoying parts of Trash Compactor. Fleet is a beautiful ending to a beautiful movie.

 

Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Yoda's Theme

The Rebel Fleet/End Title


? I don't really feel strongly about any of these to comment. I like The Rebel Fleet touch, however.

 

The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning
vs.
Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale


There were some really nice bits in the above track, but Confrentation has my favourite rendition of the IM, and a nice segue into ATS. It worked really well, and had absoloutly nothing to do with confronting Count Dooku. (Unless you count his meeting with Palps a "Confrontation")

The Arrival At Tatooine
vs.
Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

TLJ said it just right. Carbon freeze isn't the be all and end all, but it gets pretty close.

Yoda's Theme
vs.
Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic

A wonderful theme, that only got a good treatment a couple of times, but in its concert form it sounds great. Too bad about the 2 or 3 false endings though.

The Trash Compactor
vs.
The Rebel Fleet/End Title

This would be a good contender for Carbon Freeze... I hope they meet up soon.

 

The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning
vs.
Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

Easy. This is the best track from AotC, too.

The Arrival At Tatooine
vs.
Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Also... easy. Everything in this track is amazing, including the cut music at the end (it didn't fit the film, but musically I have no criticism for it).

Yoda's Theme
vs.
Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic

Yoda's Theme is classic. "Watto's Deal..." is a good track, but it can feel dull and long at points.

The Trash Compactor
vs.
The Rebel Fleet/End Title

Amazing, breakneck-paced suite of music.

 

Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale

Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett

Yoda's Theme

The Rebel Fleet/End Title

 

Endor Region

Round I

Confrontation With Count Dooku And Finale 7
The Senate/Anakin's Test/Qui-Gon's Mission/Obi-Wan's Warning 0

Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap/Departure of Boba Fett 7
The Arrival At Tatooine 0

Yoda's Theme 5
Watto's Deal/Shmi And Qui-Gon Talk/Anakin, Podracer Mechanic 1

The Rebel Fleet/End Title 6
The Trash Compactor 0

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[u]Round II[/u]

Star Wars Main Title And Ambush On Coruscant
vs.
The Battle Of Yavin

Tales Of A Jedi Knight/Learn About The Force
vs.
Star Wars Main Title/Boarding The Federation Battleship/Death Warrant For Qui-Gon And Obi-Wan

The Imperial March
vs.
Arrival On Dagobah

The Battle Of Endor I
vs.
Speeder Bike Chase/Land Of The Ewoks

 

Star Wars Main Title And Ambush On Coruscant
vs.
The Battle Of Yavin

Tales Of A Jedi Knight/Learn About The Force
vs.
Star Wars Main Title/Boarding The Federation Battleship/Death Warrant For Qui-Gon And Obi-Wan

The Imperial March
vs.
Arrival On Dagobah

The Battle Of Endor I
vs.
Speeder Bike Chase/Land Of The Ewoks

 

Missed another round? At least all of the ones I would have picked made it.


Star Wars Main Title And Ambush On Coruscant
vs.
The Battle Of Yavin

Tales Of A Jedi Knight/Learn About The Force
vs.
Star Wars Main Title/Boarding The Federation Battleship/Death Warrant For Qui-Gon And Obi-Wan

The Imperial March
vs.
Arrival On Dagobah

The Battle Of Endor I
vs.
Speeder Bike Chase/Land Of The Ewoks