In honor of Jeron, I will wait until he posts his choices.

Before I get started, how do I get bold? italic? I have been here forever and never have figured it out.

Here's my list(I will probably forget a couple, and feel really stupid after you guys bring them up):

This is hard, so many!

10. Twilight Zone: The Movie
9. Logan's Run(I really like this score!)
8. First Knight
7. Planet of the Apes(I do find this listenable!)
6. The Swarm
5. Gremlins
4. Baby: Secret of a Lost Legend
3. The Omen
2. The Wind and the Lion
1. Star Trek: Motion Picture

Honorable Mentions: The rest of his 300 and some odd scores. Actually; Mulan, First Blood, 13th Warrior, Patton, Total Recall, Alien.

Okay, I promised myself I would not get carried away. This shall suffice for now.

Aaron

01) Star Trek: TMP
02) Rudy
... geesh this is hard ...
03) Ghost and the Darkness
04) The Wind and the Lion
05) The Great Train Robbery
06) Under Fire
07) Medicine Man
... i hope you know i could have listed others above ...
08) Islands in the Stream
09) Baby: Secret of a Lost Legend
10) Explorers

I appreciate the "honor," Scott. Goldsmith is definitely my favorite composer - and as you can imagine, it's hard for me to narrow such a long list of wonderful music down to 10. I could name 10 other scores that could easily take the place of the ones listed above. Goldsmith's more recent works are just as brilliant, though they haven't been in existence as long as some of the ones above. My point: those I've listed have stood the test of time... and that's what makes them incredible.

I like the idea of an honorable mention, so here goes:

The Russia House, Basic Instinct, The Boys From Brazil, The Blue Max, The Shadow, MacArthur, Patton, First Blood (series), First Knight, The Omen, Masada, Rio Conchos, Alien, The River Wild, The Secret of N.I.M.H., Gremlins I/II, Forever Young, Dennis the Menace, Bad Girls, Air Force One, First Contact, Night Crossing, Poltergeist, Lionheart, Legend, Hoosiers, Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run, The Illustrated Man, Twilight Zone: The Movie, In Like Flint, Small Soldiers, Supergirl, King Solomon's Mines... the list goes on.

Jeron

1. The 13th Warrior
2. Patton
3. The Mummy
4. The Ghost and the Darkness
5. Rudy
6. The Omen
7. Rambo: First Blood Part III
8. Air Force One
9. First Knight
10. Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek:The Motion Picture
Total Recall
The Wind and the lion
Logan's Run
Twilight Zone:The Movie
Rudy
Legend
Medicine Man
Capricorn One
Alien

There are dozens of others that I love just as much.But those were the ones that came to me right off the top of my head.

Jerry Goldsmith is the man!!It's too damn hard to only choose ten!

You know, these lists are very difficult for me as well...

1.Rudy
2.Hoosiers
3.The Omen
4.Papillon
5.Patton
6.Poltergeist
7.Alien
8.MacArthur
9.Masada
10.Medicine Man

1.) A Patch of Blue
2.) The Wind and the Lion
3.) The Russia House
4.) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
5.) First Knight
6.) The Edge
7.) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
8.) Rudy
9.) The Wild Rovers
10.) Basic Instinct

Okay, maybe my choices aren't exactly the most popular, but those are my favorites.

You are such a gentleman!

James,

I don't see how I passed up Patch of Blue. It is also one of my favs. Its just that I get so caught up in it, that I forget some great scores.

Aaron

NP: Bowfinger

It would be hard to rank my top 20 on him but here are ten that are up there:

In no particular order:

PAPILLON
STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE
FIRST BLOOD
EXTREME PREJUDICE
PLANET OF THE APES
PATTON
THE BLUE MAX
BASIC INSTINCT
UNDER FIRE
MAGIC

... but it's impossible. There's dozens of others I might as easily put up there. Those are just the ones that came most readily to mind. I won't even get started with the other titles ...

(awright, I'll mention one most people don't know or think about: THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER! But I mention that one just to be difficult, it's really not one of his VERY best, just one people tend to overlook.)

1) Wind and the Lion

Rest as follows:
2) Under Fire
3) Star Trek-The Motion Picture
4) Patton
5) Capricorn One
6) Blue Max
7) Boys from Brazil
8) Sand Pebbles
9) Rambo -- First Blood Part Two
10)Rudy

Star Trek: TMP
Total Recall
Poltergeist
Rudy
First Knight
The Wind and the Lion
The Great Train Robbery
Under Fire
The Edge
First Blood
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Explorers
The Mummy
King Solomon's Mines
Supergirl
The Boys from Brazil
Logan's Run
Take a Hard Ride
Papillon
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Thank you for leaving us with such a wonderful legacy, Maestro!

I still want an Explorer's remastered!

It will always begin with Star Trek: The Motion Picture for me. These days, I have almost every Jerry Goldsmith score I've ever wanted, except for two:

Gremlins and Inner Space. I thought one of Intrada's "clues" on their forum that was used to build up anticipation for Alien flat out suggested Inner Space was one of their next. Got Alien instead, which was by no means a disappointment.

Just the same, I'd love to see those two re-released legitimately. After that, the rest is discovering scores from him I'd never heard before. The nice thing about prolific composers is that there's so much discover if you're ready to hear it.

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Originally posted by Widescreen:
These days, I have almost every Jerry Goldsmith score I've ever wanted.

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Yeah, ditto. I'm so glad that Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend finally got a release. At the time of this post, and when I replied back in 2000, it of course had not been released and I had no idea it ever would be. Kinda fun, looking back, and having it now.

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Originally posted by Scott:
First Jerry Goldsmith score I have ever heard was "Poltergeist." Been hooked ever since.

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My top ten still very similiar. Nothing from 1990 til his death is on the top ten, but some of his work from the 90s to the end are as follows:

1. Chain Reaction
2. Mulan
3. Executive Decision
4. Timeline
5. Small Soldiers
6. Mummy
7. Thirteenth Warrior
8. Congo
9. Ghost and Darkness
10. First Knight
and several others.

I really like the action cues in Small Soldiers and the theme. Very nice but short score.

However, none of these are in my all time top ten on him.