I'll refrain myself from anything John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, as I could deep-dive their musical careers all day. It's just too easy.
So let's go a round with Alan Silvestri...
It's a minor shame that certain generations/demographics have only since discovered late-career Silvestri following his work in the MCU. Sure, Infinity War and Engame have some rousing swells (though I was never all that big on the main theme) and his end credits Captain America March for The First Avenger constitutes the absolute best scoring he contributed to that franchise, but Silvestri's been dishing his signature nitro-boisterous orchestral sound for damn decades prior! The fun thing about his work is the clear evolution that can be charted from its humble beginnings at least within my lifetime, having grown up with such mainstreams. Silvestri mostly came from late '70s/early '80s television with Starsky & Hutch, T.J. Hooker, goofy shit like Manimal and an established run on CHIPs.
The contemporary easy-listening jazz-pop harmonies, synth-work and small orchestra-piece romance that defined so much of that era's prime time weekly narrative scoring, as a musical DNA genome, could've possibly blotched Silvestri's continuation into feature film, coming off inadequate and, well, tacky. Quite the contrary, in fact. Whenever I hear it -- sense it -- among even some of his most epic scores I personally love how such has gone on to define, or a least accent, Silvestri's filmmography in a way unique among both his peers and the giants who preceded him. There's no sound quite like the Silvestri sound, point being. Predator and Back to the Future are gimmies, so I'll instead pull elsewhere some of the composer's most enjoyable and eclectic scores.
Around the 3:40 mark goes from Caribbean drinks into sweeping symphony, before closing on an even jazzier rendition of the opening title.
Dogs catching frisbees.
Robot cars and orange Floridian sunsets.
Total gear shit with a traditional Irish sonnet until the 2:25 minute mark.
Unused track very much in the spirit of John Carpenter (give the whole 3-miutes a listen)
Playing again with different genres.
Seismic.
MCU? Whatever ...some adventure scoring of the old-world kind.
One of my all-time favorites from Silvestri. The whole score is borderline Wagnerian, but wait for that fantastic main theme to kick in.
