History AwesomeMusic / JerryGoldsmith

* [[https://youtu.be/PLyv7vDBc_w "September 11, 2001: The Theme]] to ''Film/TheLastCastle''" (The cue is named after the day it was recorded). Not to mention [[https://youtu.be/trNRr1yAnxM "Taking Command"]] and [[https://youtu.be/qS9e6WQ4DL8 "The Flag"]].

* [[https://youtu.be/PLyv7vDBc_w "September 11, 2001: The Theme]] to ''Film/TheLastCastle''". Not to mention [[https://youtu.be/trNRr1yAnxM "Taking Command"]] and [[https://youtu.be/qS9e6WQ4DL8 "The Flag"]].

* "[[https://youtu.be/xUeM6rY_Psg Soarin']]". The soundtrack Goldsmith wrote plays throughout the entire attraction; Goldsmith is said to have come down from his first ride in tears. He loved the ride so much he said he would've done the score for free.

* The [[https://youtu.be/qHM9zVa8vs4 score]] for ''Film/TheChallenge'' starring Creator/ToshiroMifune as a modern samurai is both beautiful and exciting.

* [[https://youtu.be/446Xey65PNk End Title]] from ''Film/TheSwarm''. The film is one of the more derided 1970s disaster films, but Goldsmith's music is quite simply a knockout score and the kind of music that remains as potent today as it ever was.

* [[https://youtu.be/7mfcA9E0vcA End Credits]] and [[https://youtu.be/7T-6QKkMDPY Valhalla / Viking Victory]] from ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior''. Has some of the heaviest Goldsmith orchestration you could ever wish for.

* [[https://youtu.be/7mfcA9E0vcA End Credits]] and [[https://youtu.be/7T-6QKkMDPY Valhalla / Viking Victory]] from ''Film/The13thWarrior''. Has some of the heaviest Goldsmith orchestration you could ever wish for.

* [[https://youtu.be/Pw3uXRvQhHA Suite]] from ''Film/TheBoysFromBrazil''; the highlight of this score is the grand, Straussian waltz suggested by Franklin Schaffner to Goldsmith, instantly memorable and beautiful, but with a tinge of darkness too. The director requested that Johann Strauss' Viennese waltz constructs be employed throughout the Jewish presence, while the Nazi presence was inspired by the anti-Semitic Music/RichardWagner, whose music was often associated with Hitler's Germany. The obvious differences in weight and melodrama inherent in the styles of Strauss and Wagner is precisely the balancing act that Schaffner requested of Goldsmith, and the composer enthusiastically emulated those sounds in battle, once declaring that the score owes more to the classic composers than his own sensibilities.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5tFhx_4t4I The opening theme]] for ''Film/PsychoII''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiNHJ5TANs Main Title]] from ''Film/CapricornOne''. Pure, high octane, bad ass.

** The aforementioned percussive opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjts5DrcdiU "The Dream"]], will kick your ass. And you will like it.
** The best, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp11aC__eXA "End of A Dream"]], is saved for last. Simply sensational, the single finest piece of action music Goldsmith's ever written - and that's saying something. For comparison, listen to ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/BabySecretOfTheLostLegend''.
** With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UydcAgYhRc4 "The Mutant",]] to represent the futuristic setting of the film and the questions of individual identity suffered by Arnold's character, Goldsmith unleashes his electronics with unequivocal force, supplementing the orchestra and commandeering the entire cues with their majesty, and this track is an excellent example of that.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgYNF1N2zKk "The Implant".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5YPK3SphQA "For Old Time's Sake".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvLynWqmsA "Clever Girl".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyplmQATko "The Big Jump".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-J3ZlLcchg "The Massacre".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_kFuydgQ5g "The Treatment".]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i139Ew6mMFM "A Lot Better"]] from ''Film/{{Leviathan 1989}}''. Goldsmith captured the mystery and excitement of the deep underwater magnificently.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446Xey65PNk End Title]] from ''Film/TheSwarm''. The film is one of the more derided 1970s disaster films, but Goldsmith's music is quite simply a knockout score and the kind of music that remains as potent today as it ever was.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xreXeugQjdw Main Title]]" from ''Film/BasicInstinct''; the steamiest, sexiest, most erotic score ever made for film. Alluring, sensual but with a sense of foreboding and danger, Goldsmith captured the atmosphere effectively.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWgepGEZU8 Main Title]]" as well as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xk2Q1SuKA End Title]]" from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. If the terror of the unknown has a theme music, this should be it. Unfortunately Goldsmith's music fell victim to ExecutiveMeddling (the latter, among other cues, isn't heard in the film and tracks from his score to ''Freud'' and works by Howard Hanson were put in instead), and sadly it wouldn't be the last time that happened when he worked with Creator/RidleyScott (''Film/{{Legend 1985}}'').
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOHzeTsBUM Suite]]" from ''Film/TheOmen1976''. OminousLatinChanting as ominous as it gets. Sadly, the only UsefulNotes/AcademyAward win the maestro received.
* ''Film/DamienOmenII'' -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZmixJmXSyc Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5vHPb9yafg End Title.]] Terrifying musical follow up to ''Film/TheOmen1976''.
* And if you like your chanting a little more operatic, try the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDgBGtIBVVg Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CLDHWPFjl0 End Title]] of ''Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict''.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GQyn7Cb2E End Credits]] from ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'', one of Goldsmith's finest scores from the 90s.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAR0uAyLOa4 Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JSInt1xHo Carol Anne's Theme]] from ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'', one of the only two films where Goldsmith has worked with director Creator/StevenSpielberg.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqLCJ5bJkgg Twisted Abduction]]" is a masterpiece of film scoring, with the music reaching apocalyptic proportions with the orchestra and choir at one point before calming down somewhat, pitching Carol Anne's Theme against some more dissonant, disturbing - but subtle - music as the piece moves on.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245yHKPSnyU It Knows What Scares You]]" showcases everything so good about Goldsmith's music, moving along from creepy, unsettling territory into more brazen horror before some wonderful writing for orchestra and choir that is otherworldly and truly beautiful.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-HvZPx-68 Rebirth]]" is a particular highlight, showcasing the most vigorous music of the score and also the most beautiful transformation of the religious theme into a tumultuous rhythmic motif for low strings and brass accompanied by whimsical female choir.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsxzkeOq7M The Power]]" hints of a gentle waltz being presented in an otherwise-ominous opening, with a forceful brass motif.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJp4OT4317g The Visitor]]", Goldsmith builds the character's evil persona to such a degree that the music resorts to outright male yelling straight from the underworld after four minutes of the suspicious trombone effects.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj0DciT6tk The Worm]]", Goldsmith's manipulation of the electronics are brilliantly employed, most notably in the synthetic imitation of blowing wind (and thus passing spirits).
** With "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc2069s8nRU They're Back]]", Goldsmith lets it all loose, and between this cue and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Lz_7CBc2k Wild Braces]]", the chanting provides a truly enticing atmosphere for the horror.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TCQgxYbh8 Overture]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbL_9ftiCyg "Kick the Can"]] from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. The other Spielberg movie where Goldsmith was chosen to be the composer (and the only time Goldsmith scored footage Spielberg actually ''directed'').
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9G22Ipj-U Gremlin Rag]]" from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Goldsmith's memorable theme that's jaunty and entertaining. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQ1IwB3jNU Gremlins orchestral suite]] is even more grand.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvdMrSMp3I Gremlins Credits]]" from ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is simply wonderful, combining the new theme, the classic Gremlins Rag and Gizmo's Theme in a piece as funky as Goldsmith's ever written.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWn0GwWyKSc The Carousel]]" from ''Film/TheHaunting1999''. As one reviewer put it, "Because no horror movie would be complete without CreepyCircusMusic."
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3NvtydBWAE Morning on the Beach]]" from ''Film/SleepingWithTheEnemy''; opens with what is essentially "Literature/{{Laura}}'s Theme" for lush gentle strings, flute and piano, as consistently charming as any the composer had ever written.
* While Goldsmith's entire ''Film/DeepRising'' score is excellent, the real standout is his kick-ass [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahRbJv6TfTM Main Theme]].

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F36SgQunezU The Construction]]".
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgr_ik1cXAw Have A Nice Trip]]".

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLXWps1Nlg Bail-out]]" features a rodeo styled motif in the middle of the track that is really fun and joyful, one of those unbelievably taut, frantic action pieces that Goldsmith did so well.
** The heroic "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JOxOY5nUA Meet Monroe Kelly]]" is very enjoyable.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LXud96ED4 Help Me]]" is a particularly intense piece, almost pummeling the listener into submission (in a good way!).
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRtlZkiVUYk Amy's Nightmare / Kahega]]" is the spectacular action finale, again quite incredibly exciting.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goEevmcDn0 Amy's Farewell/Spirit of Africa/End Credits]]". A typically-satisfying Goldsmith finale cue.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw3uXRvQhHA Suite]] from ''Film/TheBoysFromBrazil''; the highlight of this score is the grand, Straussian waltz suggested by Franklin Schaffner to Goldsmith, instantly memorable and beautiful, but with a tinge of darkness too. The director requested that Johann Strauss' Viennese waltz constructs be employed throughout the Jewish presence, while the Nazi presence was inspired by the anti-Semitic Music/RichardWagner, whose music was often associated with Hitler's Germany. The obvious differences in weight and melodrama inherent in the styles of Strauss and Wagner is precisely the balancing act that Schaffner requested of Goldsmith, and the composer enthusiastically emulated those sounds in battle, once declaring that the score owes more to the classic composers than his own sensibilities.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsNhI6emvNM The Search Continues]]", Goldsmith creates a chilling post apocalyptic vision through echoed plucked strings, bass slide whistle and a multitude of percussive effects, including the inspired use of those mixing bowls, as the Astronauts tumble down a hillside.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaY_s9sbKpo The Clothes Snatchers]]" introduces some rhythm and tension with more plucked strings, snares, piano and low end brass.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-VevOGzog The Hunt]]", the most famous of the score's action cues, and one which must surely be considered as one of the most outstanding pieces of film music, with the composer at his most inventive and exciting. An extraordinary piece, Goldsmith combines piano, brass and percussion for a piece of ferocious excitement.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWZJpubVW0 "Lockons"]] is a great piece to drive down the freeway to.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-SHlLxsfI "The Resolution"]] is a surprisingly pleasant little ditty, full of bright, buoyant keys that feel a whole universe away from the techno-dystopia they're meant to accompany. And then the epic synth riff kicks in.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZfdqCFeHg "Alley Fight"]] is one of those pieces that makes you want to kick ass, with its dynamic synths perfectly capturing the drama of an alleyway fight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtyUAuv15Bs "Psychic Reading"]] is tension building at its finest.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN96jf-guSI "The Colony"]] from ''Film/{{Outland}}'', with its combination of electronics and dissonant, [[Music/IgorStravinsky Stravinsky]]-style orchestration, perfectly captures the intimidating vastness of outer space.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOtNoxWPg3c Wild Rovers]]''. One of Goldsmith's brilliant Western scores.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AT6o62iy20 Take A Hard Ride]]''. Arguably the most attractive Western theme of Goldsmith's career; a symphonic representation of Americana as close to Music/ElmerBernstein's styles as he would get and mixed with Music/EnnioMorricone's experimental new sounds.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9NUwy7rQDs 100 Rifles]]'' is one of Goldsmith's complex, highly-layered scores with creative array of traditional Latin instruments mixed directly with his bombastic, brassy style making this a more intelligent multi-cultural listening experience than some of his other Westerns.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjpRk9tJGBI Bad Girls]]'', a brilliant hybrid of Goldsmith's 60's Western sound mix with his top notch 90's action music.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrbBI4eyUU Bandolero]]'' is Goldsmith toying with instruments and themes; sprightly with comical tones like something out of ''Film/TheBurbs''.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPuwz3VuJmE Stagecoach]]''. The melodic main theme is vintage Americana, conjuring images of the wide open plains, broad-smiled guys and gals having a whale of a time.
** Jerry Goldsmith's score for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Y1QJIycsk Rio Lobo]]'' is surprisingly diverse. While featuring some of the main staples of music composed for Westerns of the 1960's, Goldsmith seems to refuse to allow ''Rio Lobo'' to be lumped into the same group as a Jerome Moross, Music/AlfredNewman, or Music/ElmerBernstein Western score. For a Creator/JohnWayne movie!
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umshPNOv8N4 Hour of the Gun]]'' is a particularly gritty score, and Goldsmith's technique of constructing thrilling action music and beautiful pastoral pieces from the same thematic material is as evident as it so often has been.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpbLIFvBDYg Rio Conchos]]''. Through his explorations of folk rhythms and Latin flavor, and a mixing of these sounds into the soundscape of a fully orchestral ensemble (pioneering a distinct identity in Westerns that Music/BasilPoledouris and many other later composers would adapt as well), Goldsmith successfully seized the opportunity and produced a strong, memorable score for the film and previewed many of his own trademark action music still to come.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULiIWQfJZpc Breakheart Pass]]'' is vintage Goldsmith, rousing and propulsive, with the brassy orchestra accompanied by guitar; it's another great western theme to add to the composer's roster.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jzNlyku93g Lonely are the Brave]]''. Recommended for the assignment by Alfred Newman (the veteran never even met Goldsmith in person), Jerry turned in a score that ranks with the best of the best in the western genre. Music/BernardHerrmann, who attended one of the recording sessions of ''Lonely Are the Brave'', described the Goldsmith music as being too good for the film.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qL30R9RPk Lost in the Wild]]" begins with a stunningly lush main theme notably played by horns and strings for the film's opening sequence of a small plane flying across the bleak but beautiful Canadian wilderness. It's this theme that later on identifies Hopkins' character and his relationships with both his cheating wife and Baldwin's 'other man'.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0eYrzdSOEg Bitter Coffee]]", an ominous, prickly rhythm for plucked elements, anchored by the repetition of a three-note phrase, is frequently employed as a generic backdrop for the scenes of movement through the forest.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJCKZ4urvcA Rescued]]", the emotional finale piece, sees Goldsmith celebrate the survival of a character with a dramatic rendition of his said character's theme, coupled with a sad oboe statement for the death of another character.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3SAhLTWX4 The Edge]]". End credits with a jazzy number.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMBlc7oyeQ Theme]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46_4tgc3G0 Everywhere]] from ''Film/{{Powder}}''; soft and sensitive, lovely in its harmonic appeal.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ClOI9uu_4M Love theme]] from ''Film/TheRussiaHouse''. Goldsmith crafted a seductively stylish affair that hearkens back to his masterpiece ''Chinatown'', wonderfully evocative of smoky rooms in a bygone era. Goldsmith’s relish at working with such an intimate ensemble is palpable and The Russia House is one of his great, overlooked masterpieces.
** You gotta love the jazz and orchestra marriage in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChQntwZz_9k End Credits]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js69DkyaDVQ Theme]] from ''{{Film/Papillon}}''; a lush, memorable theme made up of strings, piano and woodwinds dominate this heartfelt score from one of the composer's most personal works.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmOhNyitewI Love Theme]] from ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''; Goldsmith was only given ten days to write and record the score after the original composer was kicked out. Considering the very short time frame he was given, it's amazing how Goldsmith could still come up with such an amazing and haunting score.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7nV_c8-h3Q Main Title]] from ''Film/APatchOfBlue''. One of Jerry Goldsmith's simple yet beautiful scores.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1zIIYsY92M Islands in the Stream]]''. Acknowledged by the maestro as his own personal favorite.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vliz5sl9GtA Prologue - The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint]]" from ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy''. Goldsmith's friend and mentor Alex North composed the whole score of this film but North invited Goldsmith to wrote the prologue music for the short documentary that aired before the movie on its roadshow presentations. It is arguably his finest work to that point, and remains one of the highlights of the late composer's magnificent career.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pc_Eur4h3k&list=OLAK5uy_nZHFrE64hWPthJ7YH7LqfD2jSObY8jEJ4 Love Field]]'', this is among the maestro's more enjoyable, lesser-known scores of the 1990s.
* And another stirring, sentimental love theme from the film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0dpgwQFMxs Forever Young]]''.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSqCX15ojSI Bloody Christmas]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEefzfFqvHc The Victor]]" from ''Film/LAConfidential'', considered to be the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=povaTQaO_Qk I.Q.]]'' A little homage to "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKRnmbRxJ_w End Credits]] from ''Film/TheBurbs''; Goldsmith at his wackiest, most ridiculous. He even makes fun of himself and homages/parodies Music/EnnioMorricone's spaghetti westerns in this score:
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-DiBX9n5Y Let's Go]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36JoumCm0VA Neighborhood Watch]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NARkfk1xCM Something Is Moving]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mG0xIaGdAU Devil Worship]]".
* Goldsmith's score for ''Film/DennisTheMenace'' is a workout marathon of comedic proportions. Among the highlights of ''Dennis the Menace'' are the great [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1peS-f808c main theme]], the most boisterous to come from the composer since ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' a decade earlier; the victorious fanfare for brass at the outset of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Qv32mIijM Hung Up]]"; the lovely cue "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_EkO4wGYQ He's Back]]" and the finale cue, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWYUESlSd0 Toasted Marshmallow]]".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIMpZ60qEY The pastoral score of]] ''Film/{{Rudy}}'' -- Beautiful, inspirational, deeply moving and remains one of the more remarkable sports-related scores ever written.
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww_yki_-Rik Main Title]]".
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2GiRmuE_0 Tryouts, To Notre Dame, Take Us Out]].
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUEvtYg0uc The Final Game]]".

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ZQvFj7n4g Best Shot]]".
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8gaFoV2yhs "The Finals"]], Goldsmith created a suite from the cues scoring the last act of the film which brings all the themes together in the ultimate film music feel-good package – it’s heartfelt, stirring stuff.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgX7MBHGhUs Concert Suite]] is pretty impressive even without all the electronic music.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-F-bAKB_EM Rae's Arrival]]". Opens with a wonderfully catchy, Southern Caribbean-flavored calypso piece for guitar, string orchestra and synths that's like an upbeat distant cousin of Under Fire.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doCfoBjxwoQ The Trees]]". Is truly outstanding, one of the most beautiful that Goldsmith's ever written, capturing (in a purely symphonic idiom) the wonder and overwhelming beauty of the rainforest from great heights.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOIGV5rMGQ A Meal and a Bath]]" Everything then comes together in this eight-minute finale, summarising all of the main themes.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6zizsaoPg Suite]] from ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', his last film score. Despite his advancing age and the ravages of his sickness, he still showed that he is still capable of composing rapid fast slapstick cartoonish music which will make Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn very proud. You could also hear snippets of his previous scores sprinkled in.

* When Music/RandyNewman's score for ''Film/AirForceOne'' was deemed too parodic and not serious enough, Goldsmith was called in and gave us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnssWLEipw this epic, rousing, chest-thumpingly patriotic theme.]]

** The powerful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSa2dv0-dhQ Main Title]] is Goldsmith's homage to cinema's [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood Golden Age]] of grand, sweeping epic music in the style of ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij1AQEpBb3c The Horsemen Arrive]]". An intense, floor-shaking action masterpiece.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmOs0_VUqmk Raisuli Attacks / Guests of Raisuli]]". A brutal but extremely complicated piece (especially for the trumpets), brilliantly combining the score's main themes together for a piece of such furious excitement it might cause palpitations in the uninitiated, this is truly one of the high-water marks of Jerry Goldsmith's action music.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s44tUTlMHno I Remember (Love Theme)]]". One of the composer's best love themes.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN1I4j_EMgg#t=6m24s Lord of the Riff]]". A perfect example of how Goldsmith can take most of the score's major themes and lesser motifs and feature them either in progression or on top of each other in very satisfying fashion.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfcA9E0vcA End Credits]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-6QKkMDPY Valhalla / Viking Victory]] from ''Film/The13thWarrior''. Has some of the heaviest Goldsmith orchestration you could ever wish for.

%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPfGTi9lp4 Clear the Stadium]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwJTgJitIk The Mission]]".

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzsrx3wk6zk The Tunnel]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfSzWzjzN-Q It's A Long Road]] from ''First Blood''. Goldsmith perfectly captured the tragedy of Franchise/{{Rambo}}'s loneliness with the precision of his stalking and evasion techniques.
** From ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' comes "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dB4IakYL-8 Escape from Torture]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvyUNeuXEbU Village Attack / Helicopter Flight]]. Goldsmithian action music at its best.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-ueFIdKhk Preparations]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpDqPYZs3g Night Fight]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EUvlDsPPI4 Afghanistan]] from ''Rambo III''. Goldsmith's last big screen adventure with John Rambo. What a sendoff!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MdD2ItOjFk Main Title]] from ''Film/Supergirl1984'' -- easily the best aspect of that film, along with casting Creator/HelenSlater.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fKTXB6-L4 King Richard]]" of ''Lionheart''; grand, noble and totally awesome music, easily the best 8 minutes of the maestro and the last score Goldsmith made for his dear friend Franklin Schaffner before the director passed away.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWly0yvaY5M Goldsmith's score]] for ''Film/TheMummy1999'' has everything you could wish for: massive orchestral score with epic action music and sweeping love themes.
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDbYNbq2fc Imhotep]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcFDc7rS-8 Camel Race]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccTtwoxEEw The Sand Volcano]]".

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ONKiBU-7co Love Theme (And We Were Lovers)]]"; one of the most beautiful love themes ever.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKwg1uVOCk Overture]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNSg3fu5RQQ Main Title]].

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUn7U684m0E The Blue Max Suite]]".
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQA1-S4gGk The Attack]]". Pure OrchestralBombing at its finest. (Bonus points for this scene being an aerial one!)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-qxo9NP2M MacArthur and Patton]]''. Totally awesome and memorable marches composed by the maestro for the two most highly decorated generals in history.

%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGLYa6E-lc Main Title]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTEKPlGRL3c The Hospital]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycmWUV47nCA Attack]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsU6difHB9Q The Battleground]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBSsBahTcvA Payoff]]".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzGk-5VQw8 Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o2vIpCV6os The Final Message]] from ''Film/ToraToraTora''. Goldsmith's ethnic scoring abilities are second to none; it's a complex score filled with some of the most avant-garde writing you are likely to ever here from the composer.

%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0osYcipTKo Never Surrender]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRi374hzSYU Arthur's Fanfare]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeXfulJnIQk Raid On Leonesse]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Zcqm8XIEc Camelot]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xG4voeo-fo Promise Me]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21nbQ2I2MZU Camelot Lives]]".
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHM9zVa8vs4 score]] for ''Film/TheChallenge'' starring Creator/ToshiroMifune as a modern samurai is both beautiful and exciting.
* ''Literature/TheGreatTrainRobbery.'' Both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feBupvXSp-Y Rotten Row]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrxnhdaheE End]] titles are fantastic.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuOS9MCn58 King Solomon's Mines]]''. Not intentionally a tongue-in-cheek parody of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFf9hYpiIIA Suite]] from ''Film/TheShadow'' hits Elfman-like proportions but is without a doubt quintessential Goldsmith.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0rvliPSitU Bajo Fuego]]", one of the more ambitious action cues composed by Goldsmith, is really quite brilliant, a gorgeous piece for guitar and orchestra full of passion and excitement.
** The brilliant "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0rvliPSitU#t=16m39s 19 de Julio]]", a slightly off-kilter melody that is played by keyboards before a sudden and delightful trumpet flourish which seems simply achingly beautiful.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0rvliPSitU#t=22m47s A New Love]]" is an extended version of the score's love theme for keyboards, guitar and strings with in a very memorable and deliberate high string rendition. It's another piece of unbridled passion, showing how much beauty can be suggested by a piece of instrumental music without the need for the full clichéd swell of an orchestra.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0rvliPSitU#t=40m36s Nicaragua]]", the stunning finale piece, unquestionably one of the highlights of Goldsmith's career, a magnificent concert arrangement of the main march theme. (Creator/QuentinTarantino loved this score so much he used it for a key scene in ''Film/DjangoUnchained''.)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd4eB5aBuIQ Assembly Line]] from ''Film/SmallSoldiers''; another brilliant score in the Goldsmith- Creator/JoeDante collaboration.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWc98PqHEU Main Title/"The Goblins".]] Synths and woodwinds open the track giving a very airy, fantasy feel.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfUxntQ3mg Fairy Dance]]". Another expressive piece, a lovely piece of music (which was written before filming so that the scene could be choreographed to the music - of course, the scene then went on to be cut) that reaches an absolute frenzy of excitement by its conclusion.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xl4R97Lw0 The Unicorns]]". Shows just how ambitious and detailed Goldsmith wrote this, an extended (eight-minute) piece of majestic beauty, expressive and colourful to the max, a gleeful fantasy.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaaF75HhvvI Darkness Falls]]". The big action cue of the score. What more needs to be said? Goldsmith lets loose with rumbling percussion and assaults from the brass with epic choir added for good measure.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQImDGbWUX4 The Ring]]". Sees the reversal of this process in another expressive and detailed portrait of beauty featuring some stunning writing for choir.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHU9koWVE9M Reunited]]". Goes through a few of the main themes, including the stunning love theme, wrapping up the score in remarkable fashion
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtjyvslochU Rescue]] from ''Film/BabySecretOfTheLostLegend'', which joins the ranks of some of Goldsmith's best ass-kicking brass and percussion action score.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyv7vDBc_w "September 11, 2001: The Theme]] to ''Film/TheLastCastle''". Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trNRr1yAnxM "Taking Command"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9e6WQ4DL8 "The Flag"]].

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19k9gigvc0 Suite]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'':
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgqsFCvhA8 The Huns Attack]]".
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilR3Z1sASY Short Hair]]".
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMR82a9c5M Blossoms]]".
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kWRRS--YM Avalanche]]".
%%** ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k8o8yNb6aM Main]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV0OGoMhB8 End]] titles.
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCoQt3h1vY Moving Day]]".
%%*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44AfKRmVCks Escape from N.I.M.H.]]"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlrEkmFq44 Universal Logo Fanfare.]] (Best movie fanfare after Alfred Newman's Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare.) For their centennial anniversary, they had Music/BrianTyler re-arrange Goldsmith's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJW113tbKk iconic fanfare]].

%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6U3S9AwbTI Main Titles.]]
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJwqE6tclg The Road To Masada]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZcFjHyj9uI The Slaves/End Title]]".
* So is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTflGhK2bo QB VII]]''' Epic music for a miniseries.
* Another rousing {{fanfare}}, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bho_zzm1ALE Fanfare For Oscar]]". (Specially commissioned for the Academy Awards ceremony.)
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUeM6rY_Psg Soarin']]". The soundtrack Goldsmith wrote plays throughout the entire attraction; Goldsmith is said to have come down from his first ride in tears. He loved the ride so much he said he would've done the score for free.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJEjP-osWkg Fireworks (A Celebration of Los Angeles)]]''. A concert piece he wrote for his beloved city.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ-T0u52i5Y Theme music]] from ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhU4TBHCwjM Theme music]] from ''Dr. Kildare''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaUluahdwM Theme music]] from ''Series/{{Room222}}''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am9Eka0DlVU Theme music]] from ''Series/TheWaltons''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mG6zrG_1U Theme music]] from ''Series/BarnabyJones''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eliQEStzhu4 Theme]] for ''Rambo: The Force Of Freedom''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDtvZXYHgE Theme]] for ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.
* Goldsmith orchestrated the 1975 Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxXR8_njz6U fanfare]], adapted from the 1930 song "Paramount on Parade". It was used on the home video division's "Feature Presentation" bumper from 1989-2006, but only once on the 1975 theatrical logo, and a few times on the 1986 theatrical logo. It was also used only once on the 2002 theatrical logo. Goldsmith also orchestrated the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIlWAAay4I television version of this fanfare]] that was used from 1987-2006. It was orchestrated in a way that made it sound like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' theme, ironic given Paramount once owned ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* Goldsmith orchestrated the 1975 Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures fanfare, adapted from the 1930 song "Paramount on Parade". It was used on the home video division's "Feature Presentation" bumper from 1989-2006, but only once on the 1975 theatrical logo, and a few times on the 1986 theatrical logo. It was also used only once on the 2002 theatrical logo. Goldsmith also orchestrated the television version of this fanfare that was used from 1987-2006. It was orchestrated in a way that made it sound like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' theme, ironic given Paramount once owned ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* Goldsmith orchestrated the 1975 Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures fanfare, adapted from the 1930 song "Paramount on Parade". It was used on the home video division's "Feature Presentation" bumper from 1989-2006, but only once on the 1975 theatrical logo, and a few times on the 1986 theatrical logo. It was also used only once on the 2002 theatrical logo.
** Goldsmith also orchestrated the television version of this fanfare that was used from 1987-2006. It was orchestrated in a way that made it sound like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' theme, ironic given Paramount once owned ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* Goldsmith orchestrated the 1975 Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures fanfare, adapted from the 1930 song "Paramount on Parade". It was used on the home video division's "Feature Presentation" bumper from 1989-2006, but only once on the 1975 theatrical logo, and a few times on the 1986 theatrical logo.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umshPNOv8N4 Hour of the Gun]]'' is a particularly gritty score, and Goldsmith’s technique of constructing thrilling action music and beautiful pastoral pieces from the same thematic material is as evident as it so often has been.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MdD2ItOjFk Main Title]] from ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'' -- easily the best aspect of that film, along with casting Creator/HelenSlater.

* ''Film/TheBlueMax'' in which reportedly, the producers wanted a Germanic composition out of Goldsmith. They even introduced Goldsmith to the project with scenes incorporating a "temp track" from Richard Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra''. The result was one of the greatest war scores ever composed in movie history and considered to be the first of Goldsmith's epic achievements.

* ''TheBlueMax'' in which reportedly, the producers wanted a Germanic composition out of Goldsmith. They even introduced Goldsmith to the project with scenes incorporating a "temp track" from Richard Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra''. The result was one of the greatest war scores ever composed in movie history and considered to be the first of Goldsmith's epic achievements.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6zizsaoPg Suite]] from ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', his last film score. Despite his advancing age and the ravages of his sickness, he still showed that he is still capable of composing rapid fast slapstick cartoonish music which will make CarlStalling and MiltFranklyn very proud. You could also hear snippets of his previous scores sprinkled in.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAR0uAyLOa4 Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JSInt1xHo Carol Anne's Theme]] from ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'', one of the only two films where Goldsmith has worked with director Creator/StevenSpielberg.

[[folder:''Star Trek'']]
* The five incredibly awesome end credits which also served as concert suites:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YgRCF1e5A0 Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''. When it comes to popularity, the inventiveness of the instrumentation, the epic grandeur of the scoring and the benefits of modern recording, this is quite simply Goldsmith's greatest score.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-LAAks_OlQ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]''. Another hugely enjoyable Goldsmith score in which the main theme sandwiches the Klingon theme. Goldsmith even utilizes a wailing electronic ram's horn to emulate the distinctive scream of a large bird for the villains' bird-of-prey.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI8jdDMg4ZI Star Trek: Insurrection]]''. This pretty and unassuming theme sandwiched in the middle is a sweet little thing, reminiscent of the kind of lofty strings and woodwind in ''{{Film/Rudy}}'' and several other tender Goldsmith character scores, perfectly evoking the bucolic idyll of the film's locale. (Watch out, he's got an oboe and he's not afraid to use it!)
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgnYU0o7aQ4 Star Trek: Nemesis]]''. The maestro's last venture to the Star Trek franchise, where "Blue Skies" is heard on a piano, and it slowly builds up into a full blown ''Star Trek'' March.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOajzx-W1rI Star Trek: First Contact]]''. Just the noble and uplifting horn theme bristling with awe inspiring thoughtful woodwinds and strings must surely rank as the most moving musical moment in any of the ''Star Trek'' films. Acknowledged by the maestro himself as his best ''Star Trek'' score.
** Also the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IpjBCVYo8 Emmy Award-winning theme]] from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* From ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' comes the stirring cue for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8j_HYI-JXU "The Enterprise"]], the lovely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhvhb95MBM "Ilia's theme"]], and the only true [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture#Film overture]] in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovjK3RPEC4 "Main Title/The Klingon Battle"]]. It's pretty much the reason anybody watches the first ''Trek'' movie.
** His score saves many of the {{padding}} scenes near the beginning of the film. Of particular mention are the Space Station and approaching the Enterprise, as can be seen and heard in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6peJ2yXizWY clip.]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0JS4t5DH_E Leaving Drydock]]" from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' - especially when several characters had expressed uncertainty about whether the damn thing would ''move''.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1BwG--g8_4 The Meld]]". AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence never sounded so good.
** ''V'Ger'' music. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOs_0rj5Ik4 ALL]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=540j9KG2Trs OF]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8qlOsdNEUI IT]]. Fifteen minutes of creepy, surreal win. Sadly, FridgeLogic kicks in and you realize that it's the soundtrack to fifteen minutes of ''padding.''
* From ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' comes Goldsmith's best: -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsRwg0Mul7A The Mountain]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpkMp5gMb8 A Tall Ship]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ORO79FHeCM Plot Course]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RdaWm-w_9U Raid On Paradise]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIo8BZTjrYo Without Help]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8tsKVjJHW8 The Barrier]]".
* From ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' -- the beautiful "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_TkRRwlGw Main Title/Locutus]]", the majestic "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jjwZLkKx4 First Contact]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM1X2TcGMb4 Red Alert]]", which is just one ThemeMusicPowerUp after another, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Dy5F6hLfM The Dish]]", which reworks the Borg theme over and over to new heights of awesome.
* From ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02iX82Dm8Ok Ba'ku Village]]"; "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5wrbx07rOE New Sight]]"; "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA9qnk4K1g The Healing Process]]"; and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QigWNr2bS0k theme]] for the ''[[BigBad Son'a]]'' are just ''grand''.
* The best score from ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbFnGsywbiU Remus]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3ObhIDwBA Final Flight]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwN1Lul4HNE Lateral Run]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFTEkZ8u-aI The Scorpion]]" all deserve mention here.
[[/folder]]

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AiSbxZYViE Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''. When it comes to popularity, the inventiveness of the instrumentation, the epic grandeur of the scoring and the benefits of modern recording, this is quite simply Goldsmith's greatest score.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qGLqxzR0L0 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]''. Another hugely enjoyable Goldsmith score in which the main theme sandwiches the Klingon theme. Goldsmith even utilizes a wailing electronic ram's horn to emulate the distinctive scream of a large bird for the villains' bird-of-prey.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PuhTo6fUas Star Trek: Nemesis]]''. The maestro's last venture to the Star Trek franchise, where "Blue Skies" is heard on a piano, and it slowly builds up into a full blown ''Star Trek'' March.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6718QEkKPrQ 100 Rifles]]'' is one of Goldsmith's complex, highly-layered scores with creative array of traditional Latin instruments mixed directly with his bombastic, brassy style making this a more intelligent multi-cultural listening experience than some of his other Westerns.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtxiHtb2g0 Bad Girls]]'', a brilliant hybrid of Goldsmith's 60's Western sound mix with his top notch 90's action music.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLaI8xokP4 Stagecoach]]''. The melodic main theme is vintage Americana, conjuring images of the wide open plains, broad-smiled guys and gals having a whale of a time.
** Jerry Goldsmith's score for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRindJ2p4OA Rio Lobo]]'' is surprisingly diverse. While featuring some of the main staples of music composed for Westerns of the 1960's, Goldsmith seems to refuse to allow ''Rio Lobo'' to be lumped into the same group as a Jerome Moross, Music/AlfredNewman, or Music/ElmerBernstein Western score. For a Creator/JohnWayne movie!
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_MqIYvWk8 Hour of the Gun]]'' is a particularly gritty score, and Goldsmith’s technique of constructing thrilling action music and beautiful pastoral pieces from the same thematic material is as evident as it so often has been.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJA0oSv22s Rio Conchos]]''. Through his explorations of folk rhythms and Latin flavor, and a mixing of these sounds into the soundscape of a fully orchestral ensemble (pioneering a distinct identity in Westerns that Music/BasilPoledouris and many other later composers would adapt as well), Goldsmith successfully seized the opportunity and produced a strong, memorable score for the film and previewed many of his own trademark action music still to come.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2ZYWHHgzY Lonely are the Brave]]''. Recommended for the assignment by Alfred Newman (the veteran never even met Goldsmith in person), Jerry turned in a score that ranks with the best of the best in the western genre. Music/BernardHerrmann, who attended one of the recording sessions of ''Lonely Are the Brave'', described the Goldsmith music as being too good for the film.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMBlc7oyeQ Theme]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbPxlERXFcc Everywhere]] from ''Film/{{Powder}}''; soft and sensitive, lovely in its harmonic appeal.

** You gotta love the jazz and orchestra marriage in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78eNBCsI5I End Credits]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi2wzcJOun0 Theme]] from ''{{Film/Papillon}}''; a lush, memorable theme made up of strings, piano and woodwinds dominate this heartfelt score from one of the composer's most personal works.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMwzAGFWqJY Main Title]] from ''Film/APatchOfBlue''. One of Jerry Goldsmith's simple yet beautiful scores.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAfDav5RYo&t=5m21s Love Field]]'', this is among the maestro's more enjoyable, lesser-known scores of the 1990s.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNU760ZQCqs Bloody Christmas]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZwAsIO39M The Victor]]" from ''Film/LAConfidential'', considered to be the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''.

* Goldsmith's score for ''Film/DennisTheMenace'' is a workout marathon of comedic proportions. Among the highlights of ''Dennis the Menace'' are the great [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzsGYzKCXok main theme]], the most boisterous to come from the composer since ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' a decade earlier; the victorious fanfare for brass at the outset of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjjhTCCqX8I Hung Up]]"; the lovely cue "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hF8Scsw-A He's Back]]" and the finale cue, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCc9BZDrmY Toasted Marshmallow]]".
* ''Film/{{Rudy}}'' -- Beautiful, inspirational, deeply moving and remains one of the more remarkable sports-related scores ever written.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_vghXqO7AQ Best Shot]]".
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUiNBlHbCtU "The Finals"]], Goldsmith created a suite from the cues scoring the last act of the film which brings all the themes together in the ultimate film music feel-good package – it’s heartfelt, stirring stuff.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTt0_yUCATs Suite]] from ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', his last film score. Despite his advancing age and the ravages of his sickness, he still showed that he is still capable of composing rapid fast slapstick cartoonish music which will make CarlStalling and MiltFranklyn very proud. You could also hear snippets of his previous scores sprinkled in.

** The powerful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31iNXfgWwWk Main Title]] is Goldsmith's homage to cinema's [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood Golden Age]] of grand, sweeping epic music in the style of ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAvCPbdN-1U The Horsemen Arrive]]". An intense, floor-shaking action masterpiece.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFORF8iSnsY Raisuli Attacks / Guests of Raisuli]]". A brutal but extremely complicated piece (especially for the trumpets), brilliantly combining the score's main themes together for a piece of such furious excitement it might cause palpitations in the uninitiated, this is truly one of the high-water marks of Jerry Goldsmith's action music.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOz6zA-5O_s I Remember (Love Theme)]]". One of the composer's best love themes.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKW8vJlDvp4 Lord of the Riff]]". A perfect example of how Goldsmith can take most of the score's major themes and lesser motifs and feature them either in progression or on top of each other in very satisfying fashion.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5X7kSbgPQ The Tunnel]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFiSvI6WRi8 It's A Long Road]] from ''First Blood''. Goldsmith perfectly captured the tragedy of Franchise/{{Rambo}}'s loneliness with the precision of his stalking and evasion techniques.
** From ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' comes "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2Mtz-ByHY Escape from Torture]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-S0txxy0t0 Village Raid / Helicopter Flight]]. Goldsmithian action music at its best.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czCTngevsqo Preparations]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_FzVbRXiY Night Fight]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsakuXDKIE Afghanistan]] from ''Rambo III''. Goldsmith's last big screen adventure with John Rambo. What a sendoff!

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XikdFShYvoM King Richard]]" of ''Lionheart''; grand, noble and totally awesome music, easily the best 8 minutes of the maestro and the last score Goldsmith made for his dear friend Franklin Schaffner before the director passed away.
* Goldsmith's score for ''Film/TheMummy1999'' has everything you could wish for: massive orchestral score with epic action music and sweeping love themes.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAzaSTcoHck Love Theme (And We Were Lovers)]]"; one of the most beautiful love themes ever.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzGk-5VQw8 Main Title]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8W0K8Z0s8 The Final Message]] from ''Film/ToraToraTora''. Goldsmith's ethnic scoring abilities are second to none; it's a complex score filled with some of the most avant-garde writing you are likely to ever here from the composer.

* ''Literature/TheGreatTrainRobbery.'' Both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7FWPbw8yRQ Rotten Row]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLfz4Xznto End]] titles are fantastic.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-fI5wcd-io King Solomon's Mines]]''. Not intentionally a tongue-in-cheek parody of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk.''

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZCQ_WxVTe0 Bajo Fuego]]", one of the more ambitious action cues composed by Goldsmith, is really quite brilliant, a gorgeous piece for guitar and orchestra full of passion and excitement.
** The brilliant "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawDeTiJ4-w 19 de Julio]]", a slightly off-kilter melody that is played by keyboards before a sudden and delightful trumpet flourish which seems simply achingly beautiful.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZOKfLk4_M A New Love]]" is an extended version of the score's love theme for keyboards, guitar and strings with in a very memorable and deliberate high string rendition. It's another piece of unbridled passion, showing how much beauty can be suggested by a piece of instrumental music without the need for the full clichéd swell of an orchestra.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BloCctQKpQI Nicaragua]]", the stunning finale piece, unquestionably one of the highlights of Goldsmith's career, a magnificent concert arrangement of the main march theme. (Creator/QuentinTarantino loved this score so much he used it for a key scene in ''Film/DjangoUnchained''.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyv7vDBc_w "September 11, 2001: The Theme]] to ''Film/TheLastCastle''". Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trNRr1yAnxM "Taking Command"]] and "The Flag".

* So is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wSdOEGeNo QB VII]]''' More epic music for a miniseries.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFgeavprhk Soarin']]". The soundtrack Goldsmith wrote plays throughout the entire attraction; Goldsmith is said to have come down from his first ride in tears. He loved the ride so much he said he would've done the score for free.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-SHlLxsfI "The Resolution"]] is a surprisingly pleasant little ditty, full of bright, buoyant keys that feel a whole universe away from the techno-dystopia they're meant to accompany. And then the epic synth riffs kicks in.

* For ''Film/{{Congo}}'', Goldsmith collaborated with Lebo M, who is best known for arranging the {{African Chant}}s in ''Disney/TheLionKing''. But the highlight – as so often the case with 1990s Goldsmith scores – comes in the action music.

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19k9gigvc0 Suite]] from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'':

%%* ''Film/{{Runaway}}'' was Goldsmith's first attempt to create an all-electronic score, and in that regard it certainly doesn't disappoint.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWZJpubVW0 "Lockons"]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-SHlLxsfI "The Resolution"]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZfdqCFeHg "Alley Fight"]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtyUAuv15Bs "Psychic Reading"]].

%%* ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'':

** The best, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp11aC__eXA "End of A Dream"]], is saved for last. Simply sensational, the single finest piece of action music Goldsmith's ever written - and that's saying something. For comparison, listen to ''Film/FirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/BabySecretOfTheLostLegend''.