I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

This was a great year for scores, including my all time favorite. Here's my top 10 for 1993:

1. Jurassic Park
2. Rudy
3. Free Willy
4. Schindler's List
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
7. Cliffhanger
8. Tombstone
9. Hocus Pocus
10. The Three Musketeers

What are your favorite scores for 1993?

1. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
2. The Temp
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Hot Shots! Part Deux
5. Sommersby
6. Another Stakeout
7. Tombstone
8. Demolition Man
9. Dennis the Menace
10. Rising Sun

Honorable mention: Addams Family Values, Amos and Andrew, Benny and Joon, Carlito's Way, Coneheads, Cop and a Half, The Dark Half, Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story, Fatal Instinct, The Good Son, Guilty as Sin, Hocus Pocus, Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey, Jurassic Park, Leprechaun, Matinee, The Meteor Man, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Needful Things, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, RoboCop 3, Rookie of the Year, Rudy, The Sandlot, Schindler's List, Splitting Heirs, Super Mario Bros., Undercover Blues, The Vanishing and Warlock: the Armageddon

(Message edited on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, at 12:52 p.m.)

> 1. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
> 2. The Temp
> 3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 4. Hot Shots! Part Deux
> 5. Sommersby
> 6. Another Stakeout
> 7. Tombstone
> 8. Demolition Man
> 9. Dennis the Menace
> 10. Rising Sun

> Honorable mention: Addams Family Values, Amos and Andrew, Benny and Joon,
> Carlito's Way, Coneheads, Cop and a Half, The Dark Half, Dragon: the Bruce
> Lee Story, Fatal Instinct, The Good Son, Guilty as Sin, Hocus Pocus,
> Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey, Jurassic Park, Leprechaun,
> Matinee, The Meteor Man, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Needful
> Things, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, RoboCop 3, Rookie of the Year, Rudy,
> The Sandlot, Splitting Heirs, Super Mario Bros., Undercover Blues, The
> Vanishing and Warlock: the Armageddon

I would like to point out that you listed thirty-nine scores without mentioning Schindler's List, so either you haven't heard it or you really hate it. So now I'm curious which it is haha

Welp...we've got some overlap. Haven't heard Hocus Pocus though.

*****
1. Schindler's List
2. Jurassic Park
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

****1/2
5. Heaven & Earth
6. Cliffhanger
7. Rudy
8. Tombstone
9. Much Ado About Nothing
10. The Age of Innocence

Runner-up is the **** Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Other ****: Free Willy, Sommersby, Rich in Love, The House of the Spirits, Dave, Shadowlands

1. Jurassic Park
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Rudy
4. The Age of Innocence
5. Schindler's List
6. Free Willy
7. Searching for Bobby Fisher
8. M. Butterfly
9. Denis the Menace
10. Trois Couleurs: Blue

What a great year!

> 1. Jurassic Park
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Free Willy
> 4. Schindler's List
> 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
> 7. Cliffhanger
> 8. Tombstone
> 9. Hocus Pocus
> 10. The Three Musketeers

Well, I've heard half of these. The ones I haven't I at least know of their respective films.

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

10. A Far Off Place (Horner)
9. House of Cards (Horner)
8. Demolition Man (Goldenthal)
7. Homeward Bound (Broughton)
6. Needful Things (Doyle)
5. The Dark Half (Young)
4. Rudy (Goldsmith)
3. The Age of Innocence (Bernstein)
2. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Walker)
1. Jurassic Park (Williams)

MOST HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Nightmare Before Christmas (Elfman)
We're Back! A Dinosaurs Story (Horner)
Schindler's List (Williams)
Sommersby (Elfman)
Matinee (Goldsmith)

Ninja Scroll (Kaoru Wada)
The Irresponsible Captain Tyler (Kenji Kawai)

----

So... a rather stacked year. And poor Horner was REALLY working overtime.

(Message edited on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, at 9:27 p.m.)

> I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

> This was a great year for scores, including my all time favorite. Here's
> my top 10 for 1993:

> 1. Jurassic Park
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Free Willy
> 4. Schindler's List
> 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
> 7. Cliffhanger
> 8. Tombstone
> 9. Hocus Pocus
> 10. The Three Musketeers

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

1. Schindler’s List
2. Age of Innocence
3. Jurassic Park
4. Nightmare Before Christmas

Right around here is where I stop doling out 5* ratings

5. Cliffhanger
6. Much Ado About Nothing
7. Rudy
8. Tombstone
9. Three Musketeers
10. Mask of the Phantasm

> Right around here is where I stop doling out 5* ratings

> 7. Rudy

Then I think you made a typo, slugger. 5 stars and Rudy are as well connected as peanut butter and jam.

to mitigate the disappointment of leaving out many wonderful scores, i'm, as with my previous stabs at these lists, going to confine myself mostly to non-american composers, baring a few exceptions

(unordered)
Tôru Takemitsu - Rising Sun
Zbigniew Preisner - Three Colours: Blue
Peter Scholes - Desperate Remedies
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Little Buddha
Jean-Louis Roques - Germinal
Alessio Vlad & Claudio Capponi - Storia Di Una Capinera
Bingen Mendizábal - La madre muerta
Richard Robbins - Remains of the day
Isao Tomita - Storm From The East
Kem Kraft - Seasons of the Heart
Ennio Morricone - Jona che visse nella balena
Randall Meyers - The Telegraphist
Charles Bernstein - The Sea Wolf
Ry Cooder - Geronimo: An American Legend

regards.

> I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

> This was a great year for scores, including my all time favorite. Here's
> my top 10 for 1993:

> 1. Jurassic Park
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Free Willy
> 4. Schindler's List
> 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
> 7. Cliffhanger
> 8. Tombstone
> 9. Hocus Pocus
> 10. The Three Musketeers

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

I offer the following:

Jurassic Park (John Williams)
Once Upon a Forest (James Horner)
Schindler's List (John Williams)
Sommersby (Danny Elfman)
Call of the Wild (Lee Holdridge)
The Adventures of Huck Finn (Bill Conti)
Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Three Muskateers (Michael Kamen)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (James Horner)
Tombstone (Bruce Broughton)

Runners Up: The Man Without a Face, Much Ado About Nothing, Needful Things, Searching for Bobby Fischer

I definitely need to explore more scores from the 90s as I have 219 in my collections

> I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

Astonishing year. One of the best ever. Making a Top 10 is nearly impossible, but after much thought I went with:

1. SCHINDLER'S LIST, Williams
2. JURASSIC PARK, Williams
3. RUDY, Goldsmith
4. TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Elfman
5. SOMMERSBY, Elfman
6. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Doyle
7. TOMBSTONE, Broughton
8. THE PIANO, Nyman
9. HEAVEN & EARTH, Kitaro
10. M. BUTTERFLY, Shore

Plus Horner's astonishing output: BOPHA!, A FAR OFF PLACE, HOUSE OF CARDS, JACK THE BEAR, THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE, ONCE UPON A FOREST, THE PELICAN BRIEF, SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, SWING KIDS, and WE'RE BACK! - A DINOSAUR'S STORY.

Honorable mentions: MY LIFE (Barry), RICH IN LOVE (Delerue), NEEDFUL THINGS (Doyle), DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY (Edelman), GETTYSBURG (Edelman), DEMOLITION MAN (Goldenthal), DAVE (Howard), THE FUGITIVE (Howard), CLIFFHANGER (Jones), THREE MUSKETEERS (Kamen), KÖNIG DER LETZTEN TAGE (KIlar), ETHAN FROME (Portman), THE JOY LUCK CLUB (Portman), LITTLE BUDDHA (Sakamoto), BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Walker), THE DARK HALF (Young), FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (Zhao), RED FIRECRACKER GREEN FIRECRACKER (Zhao), COOL RUNNINGS (Zimmer), THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (Zimmer).

> 8. THE PIANO, Nyman

I'm incredibly happy to see this.

> Astonishing year. One of the best ever. Making a Top 10 is nearly
> impossible, but after much thought I went with:

> 1. SCHINDLER'S LIST, Williams
> 2. JURASSIC PARK, Williams
> 3. RUDY, Goldsmith
> 4. TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Elfman
> 5. SOMMERSBY, Elfman
> 6. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Doyle
> 7. TOMBSTONE, Broughton
> 8. THE PIANO, Nyman
> 9. HEAVEN & EARTH, Kitaro
> 10. M. BUTTERFLY, Shore

> Plus Horner's astonishing output: BOPHA!, A FAR OFF PLACE, HOUSE OF CARDS,
> JACK THE BEAR, THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE, ONCE UPON A FOREST, THE PELICAN
> BRIEF, SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, SWING KIDS, and WE'RE BACK! - A
> DINOSAUR'S STORY.

> Honorable mentions: MY LIFE (Barry), RICH IN LOVE (Delerue), NEEDFUL
> THINGS (Doyle), DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY (Edelman), GETTYSBURG
> (Edelman), DEMOLITION MAN (Goldenthal), DAVE (Howard), THE FUGITIVE
> (Howard), CLIFFHANGER (Jones), THREE MUSKETEERS (Kamen), KÖNIG DER LETZTEN
> TAGE (KIlar), ETHAN FROME (Portman), THE JOY LUCK CLUB (Portman), LITTLE
> BUDDHA (Sakamoto), BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Walker), THE DARK HALF
> (Young), FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (Zhao), RED FIRECRACKER GREEN FIRECRACKER
> (Zhao), COOL RUNNINGS (Zimmer), THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (Zimmer).

Okay, have to ask: No Age of Innocence because you hate it, or just so many good scores that you forgot to list it?

> Okay, have to ask: No Age of Innocence because you hate it, or just so
> many good scores that you forgot to list it?

Neither. I tried to limit my choices to the Top 30 of the year. The Age of Innocence would come in somewhere around 40th. Bear in mind that I have 246 scores from 1993, so that's still pretty good!

> Astonishing year. One of the best ever. Making a Top 10 is nearly
> impossible, but after much thought I went with:

True. You're going to have your work cut out for you if you're still doing the Throwback 30 in 2 years.

> I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

> This was a great year for scores, including my all time favorite. Here's
> my top 10 for 1993:

> 1. Jurassic Park
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Free Willy
> 4. Schindler's List
> 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
> 7. Cliffhanger
> 8. Tombstone
> 9. Hocus Pocus
> 10. The Three Musketeers

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

Thanks champ! Been just a crazy couple of days and wasn't able to hop on it, glad you did (although I have a sneaky suspicion it wasn't hard for you to rank Jurassic Park as #1 for any list haha). Also look, your favourite score of all time came out the same year as mine! Huzzah!

Anyhoo, my list would probs be...

1. The Piano
2. Rudy
3. Schindler's List
4. Jurassic Park
5. Free Willy
6. Indecent Proposal
7. Sommersby
8. Age of Innocence
9. Searching for Bobby Fischer
10. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

And the excellent runner ups in no particular order:

Gettysburg
Homeward Bound
Cliffhanger
Cool Runnings
Dennis the Menace
The Fugitive
Hocus Pocus
The Man Without a Face
My Neighbour Totoro
Needful Things
Once Upon a Forest
Pelican Brief
The Secret Garden
Three Colours: Blue
Tombstone
True Romance

Looking at that list, I wanna go back to the happens-five-times-a-year argument about how scores aren't as good as they used to be. And I remember how often everyone says "shut up Riley, there's SO many great scores every single year!"

But I look at that list, where 5 scores are all time top 70 or 80 albums ever made, and the other five are all better than anything I've heard in at least the past couple years, and the runner up category consists of some absolutely wonderful stuff I could happily pop in at any moment, I gotta once again say....

....things just might not be as good as they used to be. Like, for real.

Boom. Sour Riley, out!

> Thanks champ! Been just a crazy couple of days and wasn't able to hop on
> it, glad you did (although I have a sneaky suspicion it wasn't hard for
> you to rank Jurassic Park as #1 for any list haha). Also look, your
> favourite score of all time came out the same year as mine! Huzzah!

> Anyhoo, my list would probs be...

> 1. The Piano
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Schindler's List
> 4. Jurassic Park
> 5. Free Willy
> 6. Indecent Proposal
> 7. Sommersby
> 8. Age of Innocence
> 9. Searching for Bobby Fischer
> 10. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

I see a typo of your own. Not to get all up in arms about Age of Innocence, I don't want to act like it's the greatest score ever, but 8th is a little low, despite how good Sommersby is.

> And the excellent runner ups in no particular order:

> Looking at that list, I wanna go back to the happens-five-times-a-year
> argument about how scores aren't as good as they used to be. And I
> remember how often everyone says 'shut up Riley, there's SO many great
> scores every single year!'

> But I look at that list, where 5 scores are all time top 70 or 80 albums
> ever made, and the other five are all better than anything I've heard in
> at least the past couple years, and the runner up category consists of
> some absolutely wonderful stuff I could happily pop in at any moment, I
> gotta once again say....

It's funny how the greatest scores of all time were written either when you were a teenager or for the films you watched when you were a teenager.

> ....things just might not be as good as they used to be. Like, for real.

> Boom. Sour Riley, out!

Okay, now you've done it. Going to go waste my time on a new project and come back here to either destroy your point or accidentally validate it!

...after I finish my top 10.

> I see a typo of your own. Not to get all up in arms about Age of
> Innocence, I don't want to act like it's the greatest score ever, but 8th
> is a little low, despite how good Sommersby is.

Any other year it would be higher. But '93 was just a MONSTER.

> It's funny how the greatest scores of all time were written either when
> you were a teenager or for the films you watched when you were a teenager.

I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with it.

.....

Ok, granted. BUT LOOK AT THAT LIST!!! Even crabby bastards born in the '50s couldn't have possibly complained back then!

> Okay, now you've done it. Going to go waste my time on a new project and
> come back here to either destroy your point or accidentally validate it!

> ...after I finish my top 10.

I anxiously await at least SOMEONE to try and destroy my agrument. When I posted it I actually started going back to delete it right away, cause 2020 really did ruin my ability to be critical and snarky, but then I also thought....nah, it's been a long time since we had a little tussle around here.

> Any other year it would be higher. But '93 was just a MONSTER.

> I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with it.

> .....

> Ok, granted. BUT LOOK AT THAT LIST!!! Even crabby bastards born in the
> '50s couldn't have possibly complained back then!

Man, we did a whole thread a while back where one guy hyped up Stargate by saying "It's a return to the glory days of Star Wars!" Everyone finds a way to be crabby. Or at least backhanded in their compliments.

> I anxiously await at least SOMEONE to try and destroy my agrument. When I
> posted it I actually started going back to delete it right away, cause
> 2020 really did ruin my ability to be critical and snarky, but then I also
> thought....nah, it's been a long time since we had a little tussle around
> here.

It's a pretty benign thing to start an argument about, it's fine. We'll probably look back on 2020 as just a weird year music-wise.

> It's a pretty benign thing to start an argument about, it's fine.

The best Star Wars score is 2008's The Clone Wars.

Terraforming from Man of Steel is the best track of any superhero film.

John Powell's best score is Rio 2.

Danny Elfman's carpet matches the drapes.

There. "Benign" THAT shit! ARGUMENTS AWAAAAAYYYYYY

> The best Star Wars score is 2008's The Clone Wars.

Haven't heard it, can't comment.

> Terraforming from Man of Steel is the best track of any superhero film.

If you're into that sort of thing, sure.

> John Powell's best score is Rio 2.

Haven't heard it.

> Danny Elfman's carpet matches the drapes.

Haven't seen it, but have no reason to dispute that claim.

> There. 'Benign' THAT shit! ARGUMENTS AWAAAAAYYYYYY

yawn

> John Powell's best score is Rio 2.

There is actually one dude on the Facebook group who rates it above HTTYD and Solo.

> Thanks champ! Been just a crazy couple of days and wasn't able to hop on
> it, glad you did (although I have a sneaky suspicion it wasn't hard for
> you to rank Jurassic Park as #1 for any list haha). Also look, your
> favourite score of all time came out the same year as mine! Huzzah!

No problem. The past few weeks at work had been really busy for me too and yesterday I had a nice break, so couldn't resist.

> Anyhoo, my list would probs be...

> 1. The Piano
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Schindler's List
> 4. Jurassic Park
> 5. Free Willy
> 6. Indecent Proposal
> 7. Sommersby
> 8. Age of Innocence
> 9. Searching for Bobby Fischer
> 10. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

I always keep meaning to get The Piano, and yet always pass it by for something else. I don't know why, because I really like it in the film when I watched it.

> And the excellent runner ups in no particular order:

> Gettysburg
> Homeward Bound
> Cliffhanger
> Cool Runnings
> Dennis the Menace
> The Fugitive
> Hocus Pocus
> The Man Without a Face
> My Neighbour Totoro
> Needful Things
> Once Upon a Forest
> Pelican Brief
> The Secret Garden
> Three Colours: Blue
> Tombstone
> True Romance

> Looking at that list, I wanna go back to the happens-five-times-a-year
> argument about how scores aren't as good as they used to be. And I
> remember how often everyone says 'shut up Riley, there's SO many great
> scores every single year!'

> But I look at that list, where 5 scores are all time top 70 or 80 albums
> ever made, and the other five are all better than anything I've heard in
> at least the past couple years, and the runner up category consists of
> some absolutely wonderful stuff I could happily pop in at any moment, I
> gotta once again say....

Not just that, but also the argument is that "there are plenty of great scores outside of Hollywood movies", which is true, but how can Hollywood make more movies, yet the collective output still not measure up.

> I always keep meaning to get The Piano, and yet always pass it by for
> something else. I don't know why, because I really like it in the film
> when I watched it.

You definitely need to get it then, because the irony of it being my favourite film score is that it's not actually used very well in the film itself, where it's chopped up and the same bits keep repeating and it's actually quite annoying. As a film music album, though, it's superb, even with the oddball ordering of tracks 4-6.

> Not just that, but also the argument is that 'there are plenty of great
> scores outside of Hollywood movies', which is true, but how can Hollywood
> make more movies, yet the collective output still not measure up.

Yeah, especially since I started going through a bunch of now-forgotten indie movies of the 90's for my book, I can definitely declare that indie music has hugely improved in quality since then (SO many cheap synth's and corny saxophones....). But the major Hollywood output has fallen extensively and depressingly.

Doesn't help that back in '93, giants like Williams, Horner, and Goldsmith all had multiple scores to chew on. Totally get that. But I mean....where's our NEW Williams, Horner, and Goldsmith...?

> Gettysburg
> Homeward Bound
> Cliffhanger
> Cool Runnings
> Dennis the Menace
> The Fugitive
> Hocus Pocus
> The Man Without a Face
> My Neighbour Totoro
> Needful Things
> Once Upon a Forest
> Pelican Brief
> The Secret Garden
> Three Colours: Blue
> Tombstone
> True Romance

So great a year that you even stole a Hisaishi score from 1988 to bulk it out...

As usual with these nineties list challenges, I've heard enough to be happy with a top five, but not really a top ten. All I'm gonna say is that I'm surprised more people don't love 'Heaven and Earth' - honestly, one of the best of the decade for me, and an easy third best of the year (I've actually listened to it far more than Jurassic Park, as an album, so I'm tempted to even say second-best of the year).

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

Ok, I will play!:)

1 Schindler’s List Williams, John
2 Jurrasic Park Williams, John
3 Tombstone Broughton, Bruce
4 Rudy Goldsmith, Jerry
5 Searching For Bobby Fischer Horner, James
6 Heaven And Earth Kitaro
7 The Joy Luck Club Portman, Rachael
8 Sommersby Elfman, Danny
9 The Age of Innocence Bernstein, Elmer
10 Gettysburg Edelman, Randy

A fine year!

All the best

Holy moly, what a year! Picking 10 here is just brutal, easily a good 20 or 30 here that range from great to stone-cold classics. Let's give this a try...

1. Jurassic Park
2. Schindler's List
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Much Ado About Nothing
5. Tombstone
6. Homeward Bound
7. Rudy
8. Cliffhanger
9. Trois Couleurs: Bleu
10. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

followed by:
Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Age of Innocence, Sommersby, The Piano, The Three Musketeers

> I didn't see Riley post this, so I'm taking over this week.

> This was a great year for scores, including my all time favorite. Here's
> my top 10 for 1993:

> 1. Jurassic Park
> 2. Rudy
> 3. Free Willy
> 4. Schindler's List
> 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
> 6. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
> 7. Cliffhanger
> 8. Tombstone
> 9. Hocus Pocus
> 10. The Three Musketeers

> What are your favorite scores for 1993?

my top10 :
1. schindler's list(la-la land) - Williams
2. once upon a forest - Horner
3. jurassic park - Williams
4. the piano(2004 virgin/emi) - Nyman
5. the nightmare before christmas - Elfman
6. little buddha - Sakamoto
7. rudy - Goldsmith
8. marie - Brosse
9. the remains of the day - Robbins
10. carlito's way - Doyle

the rest :
11. the age of innocence - Bernstein
12. the three musketeers - Kamen