For me the 3 best scores of Goldsmith are:

1-The Omen:This was his only Oscar,and the music really set the standarts for terror scores to come,AVE SATANI was a moment of trully inspiration by Goldsmith.

2-Total Recall:Again Goldsmith shows the way to action fiction movies with this fast paced score,and that marvellous track A NEW LIFE.....

3-Rambo III:A beautiful Afheganistan theme,a spectacular action score (The Game is one of his best action cues)and for me who lived in those parts that theme really catches the suffering of the Mujahedin at the hands of the Russians.....

- THE FINAL CONFLICT
- STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
- THE BLUE MAX

Masada(1981)
One of the best TV scores ever.

The final conflict(1981)
Awe-inspiring and immense.

Under fire(1983)
Cheesy, but extraordinary.

I'm undecided on the third one.

Angie!

Link!

On that last one, I'm a sucker for lovely minimalism, and Goldsmith's 5-note motif for the Romulans (although I think it's for the general motif of individuals and their clones/brothers) meets the criteria beautifully.

1. A PATCH OF BLUE - Despite all of Jerry's epic adventures, rollicking action and sweeping strings, my favorite Goldsmith is (and probably always will be) this quiet, small-scale, intimate drama. Its passive beauty and simple emotional purity make this life-changing music for anyone who connects with it.

2. LEGEND - This is as good as fantasy gets. One of Jerry's most varied and eclectic scores. At times dark and terrifying, whimsical, beautiful, and for every second magical, this is another no-brainer.

3. Here's where it got tricky for me. The first two were extremely simple, but I just can't come up with a thrid choice. The aforementioned Star Trek: the Motion Picture and The Omen are definitely top contenders, but I'd also have to wrestle with Planet of the Apes and The Wind and the Lion.

In any event, it's obviously quite hard to nail three choices out of such an enormous body of work, but at least I'm firmly decided on my first two.

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NP - Tyvek Wood (Bruce Broughton)

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Star Trek - The Motion Picture
Total Recall

I'm undecided on the third one.

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The Final Conflict

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I was thinking of Damien - Omen II but I'm just not sure. Maybe Supergirl. I can't decide.

Neil

Thanks,
Chris

THE FINAL CONFLICT : Although Jerry won for 'The Omen', it's nowhere near as good as this one.

STAR TREK TMP : You can hear how much hard work went into this, even minimalistic music for the cloud is wonderful stuff.

ALIEN : A horror movie in space, and still Jerry manages to write great music.
Just listen to the music when they get out of hypersleep at the beginning of the movie.

Funny how these are all between 1979 and 1981, and imagine he also wrote 'The Great Train Robbery', 'Raggedy Man' and 'Masada' during the same period.

Wind and the Lion
Masada
100 Rifles

and QB VII and Rambo II and ...

Planet of the Apes
Chinatown
ST: TMP

Tomorrow:

The Blue Max
Alien
Under Fire

Next Week:

Cheesy?

My votes:

1. A Patch of Blue
2. Seconds
3. Alien
...then Magic and Morituri (if I could squeeze)

The following list are three I believe are probably his greatest...a very rough list that's bound to change many times in the future, though I believe I'll always consider my favorite by him, "A Patch of Blue," also his greatest:

1. A Patch of Blue
2. Legend
3. Poltergeist

Dylan

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Wind and The Lion
Patton

If by "best" you mean scores that made the strongest contribution to the films they were composed for - scores that were great creatively, musically as well as essential to their respective films - on other words, three scores that SHOULD have won Goldsmith Oscars;

(1) Planet of the Apes - groundbreaking, brilliantly effective music
(2) Alien - can you imagine the film with any other music? (well, besides "Freud")
(3) Patton - in one amazing musical stroke, Goldsmith captured the grand, complex character of George Patton. The movie took hours, Goldsmith did it in the Main Title. A perfect example of where - and where NOT - to use music in a movie.

If you mean scores I personally like the best, I'd have to say, for no reason other than personal preference;
(1) Legend
(2) Hour of the Gun
(3) The Illustrated Man

Mark T.

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE

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Under fire(1983)
Cheesy, but extraordinary.

Cheesy?

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Yes, cheesy. The electronic element makes it cheesy. In the 80s the electronic element weren't as integrated with the rest of the music, as it is possible to do so today, and are quite obvious to spot. I think when many see the word cheesy, they think amateurish and bad, but I do not consider it a bad thing, and I consider this score one of the greatest masterpieces in film music history.

Peter

THE BLUE MAX

PAPILLON

POLTERGEIST

You can draw my top three from this pool...
Alien
The Blue Max
Chinatown
The Final Conflict
Freud
Legend
Planet of the Apes
The Secret of N.I.M.H.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Total Recall
The Wind and the Lion