What is your favorite Disney animated feature score? Mine according to rank:
1. The Lion King (Zimmer)
2. Mulan (Goldsmith)
3. Pocahontas (Menken)
4. Tarzan (Mancina)

This list does not include in Toy Story and A Bug's Life.

1. Beauty and the Beast (Menken)
2. Mulan (Goldsmith)
3. Aladdin (Menken)

Saw SNOW WHITE in its revival in '93 or so, and was knocked out by the seamless transition from one song to another -- never had the feeling, as I do with most of the recent pictures, that I was watching an endless series of Broadway musical showpieces. "With A Smile And A Song," for example, comes seemingly out of nowhere, but the scene works perfectly, and the tune is just gorgeous.

THE LION KING has mostly good songs, as well as a decent score, even though the whole thing is a mishmash of THE POWER OF ONE and BACKDRAFT.

I like Goldsmith's MULAN score, but I hate the songs, every one of them. Goldsmith made the most of his occasional interpolation of the song's tunes, as well -- he makes the "Reflection" theme really lovely.

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is the only Alan Menken score I care to own, so far, although some of the lyrics could be better.

Haven't seen PETER PAN in a million years, but I remember it as having an especially vivid score. Every time I've been on the Peter Pan rides at Disneyland and Disney World, I remembered how cool it was. (For a while at the California park, the attraction music that they boomed over the hidden loudspeakers was an especially fierce motif, presumably from the film, that I didn't remember -- something choral, I think.)

(Did you know that they've torn down the crazed, psychedelic Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disney World? To make room for something more "current." I can't tell you how much that maddens me. It was the only ride they had where it would be completely different depending on which of the two lines you got on. I hope they still have it at the California park. You know, the California and Florida parks are similar in conception, ye both are UTTERLY different experiences ... )

I'm sure I'm overlooking some other Disney score ... (my mother insists on collecting all the classic Disney releases, so it wouldn't be hard to cross-reference). I must leave the FANTASIAs out of this particular discussion (although by the same criterion I perhaps shouldn't have mentioned SLEEPING BEAUTY.)

Bambi
Jungle Book
Little Mermaid
Lady & the Tramp

101 DALMATIANS (the original)
THE SWORD IN THE STONE
MULAN
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE
DUCKTALES THE MOVIE
THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER
THE LION KING
TOY STORY 2
A BUG'S LIFE
JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH

Alan Menken's works are good, but they pale in comparison with the aforementioned titles.

Oh, and of course...

1. The Lion King
2. Tarzan
3. Dinosaur (if the traielr music is indeed form the movie)

Lion king by Hans Zimmer
Aladdin by Alan Menken
Aladdin and the King of Thieves by Mark Watters
Mulan by Jerry Goldsmith

1. the Great Mouse Detective
2. the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
3. Sleeping Beauty
4. the Lion King
5. Aladdin

I do really like A Bug's Life, but I'm not sure where on my list it sits..?...hmmm...

Why there isn't a score release for Winnie the Pooh or Robin Hood is beyond me...but it really annoys me because I've been going crazy looking for the scores of these >_<