MichaelShaffer Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Just wondering what are some of your favorite movie soundtracks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Just a few off the top of my head: Gladiator X-Files Donnie Darko Dead Man Walking The Green Mile Lost Highway Batman From Dusk Till Dawn Pirates Of The Caribbean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 LOTR: FOTR is my favorite, with the following coming in no particular order: American Beauty Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Phantom Menace Wag the Dog Raising Arizona Road to Perdition Oh Brother, Where Art Thou Jaws The Graduate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Well I only have two which makes it hard to have a favorite. Jurassic Park 1 The Matrix Reloaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundthought Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Maximium Overdrive. Forrest Gump. Almost Famous. Sargent Peppers LHCB. And anything from Quentin Tarantino. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygmn Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 HEAVY METAL Great movie frm the early 80's 2001: space odyesey Anything Speilberg with John Williams composing Godfather Platoon Natural I could go on on on on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yura Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Titan AE Matrix The professional Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hardy Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Not a big soundtrack fan per se, but I am surprised no one mentioned O Brother Where Art Thou? which (seemingly) singlehandedly rekindled interest in bluegrass music, and inexplicably made a star out of the elderly Ralph Stanley. The Stanley Brothers' recording of "Rank Strangers" to me absolutely defines bluegrass to me, BTW. I'd agree with 2001, except the sound quality of the MGM soundtrack was quite lousy (the original LP as well as a CD reissue I have). Find an RCA Red Seal of Reiner's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" instead. :-) Having watched part of " Clockwork Orange" last night, I might also nominate that great Kubrick movie's soundtrack as well. I recall (assume?) that Walter (later, Wendy) Carlos did the "switched-on" versions of the classics in it. Kubrick's ability to mesh music with his movies was unparalleled IMO. I remember that someone (Bernard Hermann?) composed an entire score for 2001 which Kubrick used as a working score until late in production, than axed for the inspired choice of music that appeared in the final film. The "original score" was released on record some years ago and was supposedly quite good. I couldn't find it in a quick perusal at allmusic.com, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hardy Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Sorry about the underlines... amateurs shouldn't play with Rich Text :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 I'll add Philadelphia to the list. I have the "Oh brother where art thou" on vinyl - which was a surprising find. Other than that if you count muscial movies: Tommy the rock opera and the Wall deserve mentions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hardy Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 OK... three more things, and I'll stop. 1) The original 2001 score was composed by Alex North. See: http://www.mfiles.co.uk/Reviews/alex-norths-2001-a-space-odyssey.htm 2) Actually I have the "O Brother" soundtrack on vinyl as well. Saw it at Newbury Comics right after I finished building a Bottlehead Seduction phono preamp and thought it'd be nice to have a brand new record to test it with :-) 3) I am tempted to agree about the Tommy soundtrack. While the movie was ridiculosly self-indulgent (on Ken Russel's part, I assume), parts of the soundtrack I actually like quite a bit. Also, I am just curious if anyone here has any opinions about the somewhat earlier version of Tommy with the London Symphony and various soloists. I like parts of that, too... ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Lord of the Rings is awesome. John Williams is awesome (Star Wars, The Abyss) Bram Stoker's Dracula: Wojeck Kilar did an awesome job with the score. Johnny Mneumonic: some good industrial tracks (KMFDM,et all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyhorns Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Pink Floyd- The Wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 ---------------- On 10/10/2003 8:17:58 AM Mark Hardy wrote: Not a big soundtrack fan per se, but I am surprised no one mentioned O Brother Where Art Thou? ---------------- If you'll check my post about 4 people in front of you, you'll see that someone did mention OBWAT... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Call me a wuss, but I like Schindler's List and Gattaca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthfreek Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Vampyros Lesbos-The Vampires' Sound Incorporation Baraka-Michael Stearns & various Last Temptation Of Christ-Peter Gabriel Twin Peaks-Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive-Angelo Badalamenti The Straight Story-Angelo Badalamenti Requiem For A Dream-Kronos Quartet Paris, Texas-Ry Cooder Chronos-Michael Stearns Stalker(music inspired by the movie)-Lustmord/Robert Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundthought Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 The Wall...... How could I have forgotten about it. That is my favorite. Wow....i'm losing my mind. I've seen that movie at least 200 times and still crank it as soon as the dove takes flight. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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