Welcome to a brand new io9 music smackdown! We're putting together the ultimate science fiction (and fantasy) playlist — all the music that every self-respecting fan should have on his or her iPod.
Today, help us decide which original music scores absolutely must be in the mix. Which would you rather have in your ultimate science fiction playlist: a little bit of Moon, or some Tron: Legacy?
Here are the rules for this particular playlist. You can vote for four total. The winners will be added to io9's ultimate playlist. The poll is at the bottom of the posts, and we've included every single song on the list so you can decide first-hand. This is a tough section, does one amazing theme song blot out an entire score from another film? Debate amongst yourselves...
Also if we forgot anything, please let us know in the comments. If enough folks agree, we'll add it on! And finally, we lumped large saga films such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter together for spacial reasons. When you vote for Indiana Jones, that's a vote for the whole collection.
Remember: you can vote for up to four items.
Poltergeist - Jerry Goldsmith
Metropolis - Gottfried Huppertz
Pan's Labyrinth - Javier Navarrete
The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Star Wars - John Williams
Coraline - Bruno Coulais
Superman - John Williams
Dune - Toto & Others
The Thing - Ennio Morricone
Jurassic Park - John Williams
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann
Let the Right One In - Johan Söderqvist
Harry Potter (1,2 & 3) - John Williams
Moon - Clint Mansell
Sunshine - Underworld & John Murphy
Attack The Block - Basement Jaxx
Hanna - The Chemical Brothers
The Matrix - Don Davis
A.I. - John Williams
Tron: Legacy - Daft Punk
E.T. - John Williams
Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
Hook -John Williams
The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith
Halloween - John Carpenter
Dragonheart -Randy Edelman
Nightmare on Elm Street - Charles Bernstein
Friday the 13th - Harry Manfredini
Indiana Jones - John Williams
King Kong - Max Steiner
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith
Star Trek II and III - James Horner
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - John Williams
Dawn Of the Dead - Goblin
The Bride of Frankenstein - Franz Waxman
Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman
Krull - Jamer Horner
Gremlins - Jerry Goldsmith
Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Klaus Badelt
Stargate - David Arnold
Young Frankenstein - John Morris
Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Brad Fiedel
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Wojciech Kilar
Forbidden Planet - Bebe & Louis Barron
Gattaca - Michael Nyman
Back to the Future - Alan Silvestri
Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisaishi
Alien - Jerry Goldsmith
Inception - Hans Zimmer
Men In Black - Danny Elfman
The Incredibles - Michael Giacchino
The Witches of Eastwick - John Williams
Conan The Barbarian - Basil Poledouris
Batman - Danny Elfman
How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell
Up – Michael Giacchino
The Amityville Horror – Lalo Schifrin
[assocaite]Interview with the Vampire – Elliot Goldenthal
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Jon Brion
Not technically an original work (or, not an original work at all) but we felt they deserved a mention in this category, and should compete in this heat:
A Clockwork Orange - Wendy Carlos & Classic Musicians
The Exorcist - Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells"
2001: A Space Odyssey - Various classical works
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