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Likewise, Yoda didn’t show up until Empire, either, so we had to wait to get his beautiful theme, too.

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I mean, what’s the most iconic Bad Guy theme song you can think of? The very first one to come to mind? What’s bewildering is that “The Imperial March” didn’t appear in its full form until The Empire Strikes Back, a full three years after Star Wars had entered the public consciousness. Really, I can’t stop using the word “iconic” in this post, because it all is. Speaking of a completely different style, what about this song that doesn’t wind its theme into any other scenes, but instead instantly conjures up one particular dive bar in a most wretched hive of scum and villainy? The “Cantina Band” song is iconic on its own: instantly catchy, instantly recognizable, instantly… iconic. It feels like the emotional main theme of the series, as opposed to the more bombastically triumphant main title theme… except when it sneaks into the last scene of A New Hope in a completely different style (we’ll get to that).

This track from the original soundtrack, “Binary Sunset,” I always think of as “The Tatooine Theme,” at least the part that comes in around two-and-a-half minutes into this track, because it winds its way through all the tales of lowly moisture-farmers dreaming of something bigger (note the pic this YouTuber chose as a background is from Revenge of the Sith, not A New Hope, but the theme still belongs). It’s not just one iconic theme song, it’s multiple iconic themes. Heck, even the “20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm” fanfare that opens this clip adds to the iconic experience: If it isn’t your first time, you smile, too, because all your happy memories of watching these movies before is tied up in the iconic fanfare. “This is going to be BIG,” your heart tells the rest of you, speeding up accordingly. When you sit down to watch a Star Wars movie, and that blast of brass bursts through the black screen, your body reacts immediately.

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They do exactly what movie music is supposed to do: draw you into the world on the screen.

Of course Williams’ soundtracks appeal to the masses. I’ve known two types of music geeks in my life: those who look down on John Williams for writing overblown plebian tripe that all sounds the same, and those who actually get it. Picture I took of the “Symphony In the Stars” fireworks show in Disney Hollywood Studios last year-a show with an epic soundtrack.

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