jgibbs4053 wrote:My 5 year old has been learning about John Williams this month at school and now is obsessed with his music. I only own like 2-3 of his scores. Any suggestions on any of his albums that are fairly easy/ cheap to find? She’s begging me to buy ET so that’s on the top of the list for now.
That's adorable J! E.T. happens to be my own favourite JW score. Good taste.
I mean, you gotta go
Close Encounters right, if you don't already have? Very easy/cheap to find. (And maybe she's old enough for the movie, though it is pretty intense/scary in parts...)
Outside of the obvious, a few really nice outliers for me that aren't difficult to find on LP are
Witches of Eastwick,
Accidental Tourist and
Always. And I've always had huge soft spot for
1941 (though of course it's very militaristic/bombastic, but very fun with it). There's obvs more of his stuff available from 70s/80s that's gettable at good prices, where you're talking the more recent pressings are going to hit your wallet harder.
Hard to say what she might respond to though - very interested to hear how you guys get on! :)