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good movie soundtracks
Ravenbomb:
--- Quote from: Houdinimachine ---I LOVE the score to Road to Perdition.
I also really liked the music in "What the Bleep Do We Know?" even if it is a religious cult waiting to happen.
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Blech, tell me about it. I am really sick of hearing about that damn movie.
Praeserpium Machinarum:
Lagaan! They're some pretty catchy songs right there!
Aye to Road to Perdition, amazing theme :)
other scores:
Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride
Donnie Darko was pretty good despite the ridiculous cultists.
Cold Mountain
Baldurs Gate!
the Tintin theme
and others I can't bloody well remember...
Xerionox:
--- Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum ---Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride
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Oh Most Defenately...
"Making Christmas, Making Christmas, Fa La La"
strawberrybumfluff:
If we're going with scores, then POTC is rather fabulous, not forgetting Back To The Future. Anything Danny Elfman is a given. Ones that people may or may not have heard of, Dead Man and The Libertine, both amazing movies and amazing scores. Neil Young and Michael Nyman, where could you go wrong?
Since people seem to be mentioning OSTs too, I have to say that Blow is one of the best soundtracks ever. Honourable mention for Cold Mountain. Haven't seen the film, but after hearing Allison Krauss at the Oscars a few years back, I bought the OST straight away.
Bastardous Bassist:
I highly recommend Appalachian Journey. It features probably the best cellist and bassist alive today and she sings on a track.
For my money, as far as music that truly fits the movies and makes them better, as well as being good: Kubrick films. They've got some really good 20th century concert music, seriously. 2001 Space Odessey features Ligeti's "Atmospheres," and there is a good bit of Bartok in his movies.
--- Quote from: Bunnyman ---Lots of film scores are like that, really. Often, they complement the action perfectly with incidentals, then sound hollow and unmoving on CD.
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That's my problem with most ballet music, too. I mean, it's only half the performance, why would I ever enjoy it? I have much respect for John Williams in that his stuff perfectly fits the movies and enhances them, but I will never, ever go see a John Williams piece in concert.
--- Quote from: Kai ---Man, any soundtrack that uses the 1812 overture wins in my book. I mean, that thing sends shivers up my spine and I don't know why.
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Because it's bombastic and repetetive. I've played in that piece in the Kennedy Center, and it was boring even then. Tchaik wrote two things that I will consider worthwhile in a concert setting: Paino Concerto No. 1 (though I don't recall No. 2 being horrible) and March Slav, which has everything that people love about 1812, but it's so much better-done, and shorter. Tchaik pieces would be so much better if they were half as long, becasue that's how much thematic material he has.
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