Topic: good movie soundtracks (Read 16887 times)

soap · « **on:** 04 Apr 2006, 16:23 »

not those dodgy compilations that seem to be manditory these days but the actual scores from the movie...

i've got a selection of the danny elfman ones from tim burton films (yeah i know, but i like 'em) and i've got goblins suspiria (intend to get more when i can find and afford it)

but what else is listening to ?

Kai · « **Reply #1 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 16:25 »

We had a thread about this a while ago. Too lazy to look for it though.

visceralviscous · « **Reply #2 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 16:43 »

the red violin soundtrack is amazingness

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 16:51 »

Goblins work on Suspiria is pretty fine. My favourite soundtrack ever is Paul Giovanni and Magnet's work on 'The Wicker Man', which is totally ass-kicking.

Mikendher · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 17:39 »

Good Will Hunting is my favorite

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 17:53 »

Paris, Texas is probably my favourite.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 20:53 »

Lost In Translation has a really good soundtrack. I also loved Snatch and the Life Aquatic.

Edit: And I almost forgot my favourite of all: PARTY MONSTER!

Gryff · « **Reply #7 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 20:54 »

Skibas is 100% correct about Lost in Translation. I listened to nothing but that soundtrack for about three months in 2004.

Life Aquatic is quite good too.

valley_parade · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 20:56 »

*thirds The Life Aquatic*

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 20:57 »

I think this is supposed to be about film scores and not a collection of pre existent songs used as background. But if not I fully agree with Lost in Translation, Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine in one package, Kevin Shields's new songs were more than alright too.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 21:05 »

Ok, ok, if we're gonna knit pick, haha!

I haven't heard the soundtrack, but a couple weeks ago I had an evening of listening to the opening score of Requiem for a Dream playing on repeat. That's the most amazing opening song I've ever heard.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 21:12 »

If we are going to nit pick I'll say that "knit pick" is incorrect. (I'm mongoloidic with smilies so pretned there is a winking smiley here)

Good call on Requiem for a Dream. Pi also had a good soundtrack.

Oh, and as for Life Aquatic, I fourth (i think) it. My computer boots up´to the Zissou team.

thermodynamics · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 Apr 2006, 21:57 »

Vanilla Sky has a good soundtrack. i second Life Aquatic. it is excellent. my favorite tracks are the ones of Seu Jorge playing the Bowie covers in portuguese

Luke C · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 07:23 »

Lord of the Rings has a superb musical score. As does The Matrix.

I have both and reccomend them both.

GMM · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 07:30 »

*hums the Imperial March*

John Williams > Every other soundtrack composer ever

*hums the Indiana Jones Theme*

Kirbo · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 07:56 »

Almost Famous
Any Tarantino film
Any Wes Anderson film
The Squid and the Whale

Thrillho · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 07:58 »

Jurassic Park.

Shaft · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 09:19 »

Anything by Thomas Newman:

American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Green Mile, Road To Perdition...

magneticfieldz · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 09:41 »

Obviously anything by Danny Elfman rocks...
In particular I'm partial to Pee Wee's Big Adventure....I mean c'mon...who doesn't have a great day getting dressed for work while listening to the Breakfast Machine??

Mad Dog!!! Rrrrrr ruff! ruff!!!

Omnicide · « **Reply #19 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 10:40 »

Nick Cave's soundtrack to the new film 'The Proposition' kicks alot of arse (as does the film itself!0 in a widdly, atmospherics and violins way.

spgphil · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 11:16 »

I quite enjoyed Jon Brion's songs for "Eternal Sunshine." Beck's cover is excellent as well.

Kirbo · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 11:44 »

Because of the thread, I went and bought the soundtracks to Snatch and The Royal Tennenbaums.

Oli · « **Reply #22 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 12:43 »

The phantom of the opera.

But trainspotting has some pretty gnarly stuff on it as backing music. As does donnie darko.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #23 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 20:24 »

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.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 Apr 2006, 22:29 »

Amelie

Freelance_Physicist · « **Reply #25 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 02:06 »

Ghost World - for obscure blues and ragtime (and awesome hip hop!)
Singles - for rocking out like you did in high school when you still wore flannel

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #26 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 09:48 »

Quote from: Nolaw_Nocrime

The phantom of the opera.

Yeah, it's a pretty good song.

SickBoy · « **Reply #27 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 19:06 »

i cant believe that no-one has mentioned garden state. that was awesome
and transformers: the movie, what a soundtrack.

yes, vanilla sky has an excellent one too.
the crow has a good score as well as a soundtrack and is one of my favourite from my youth.
romeo and juliet anyone? another with a good score and soundtrack.
top gun
unleashed was done by massive attack and is great

theres loads.

Narr · « **Reply #28 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 20:48 »

Why was Jesus Christ Superstar not mentioned?

I'd also like to nominate anything by Tarantino, but that's not original compositions, which the thread seemed to imply.

Bunnyman · « **Reply #29 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 21:01 »

Quote from: Shaft

Anything by Thomas Newman:
American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Green Mile, Road To Perdition...

Oh indeedy.

SCORES:

No one mentioned 28 Days Later, I don't think. John Murphy can assemble a fine, fine soundtrack.
Vangelis - Blade Runner. A fantastic movie improved by a perfect soundtrack. Ambrosia.
Apocalypse Now - Nothing like creepy synth music to make going down the river chilling.
Ghost Dog had a perfect soundtrack as well. Minimalist hip-hop is awesome stuff.
Dawn of the Dead. Original, I mean. The Goblins. What can I say? Synths are creepy.

Certain games have really amazing soundtracks. Hitman, Freedom Fighters (incidentally, both by iO interactive). Half-Life 1 and 2 used great incidental kicks, as did Shock2 (though that relied more on sound design in general instead of mere score). Tomb Raider: Legend has an *amazing* soundtrack (The game sucks, though). And who can forget the pounding tribal war drums of Mechwarrior 2?

SOUNDTRACKS:

I second the nominations for Trainspotting and Snatch.

Wipeout XL stands as one of the best licensed game soundtracks ever. And the first, incidentally.

soap · « **Reply #30 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 21:08 »

Quote from: Bunnyman

Dawn of the Dead. Original, I mean. The Goblins. What can I say? Synths are creepy.

i was finally able to 'aquire' a file containing nearly their entire discography not too long ago. theres some excellent stuff in there, as i think i said above Suspiria is probably best, dawn of the dead (aka zombi) was great too and tenebre has its moments.
i was a bit let down to hear how inconsistent the quality of some of the music is, perhaps it's better along side the movie it was composed for, but on its own quite a lot of their work doesn't really seem to stand up.

Bunnyman · « **Reply #31 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 21:20 »

Lots of film scores are like that, really. Often, they complement the action perfectly with incidentals, then sound hollow and unmoving on CD.

Kai · « **Reply #32 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 22:08 »

I know we're not talking about soundtracks in terms of slimps of songs, but I think the Pulp Fiction one deserves mention because it fit damned well.

That guy · « **Reply #33 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 22:18 »

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I know we're not talking about soundtracks in terms of slimps of songs, but I think the Pulp Fiction one deserves mention because it fit damned well.

In the spirit of that, I vote for 'Man on Fire'. This Mark has Been Made warrants it's own special place in my heart. Any song that is even near it on the soundtrack becomes much better.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #34 on:** 06 Apr 2006, 22:51 »

Quote from: Bunnyman

Apocalypse Now - Nothing like creepy synth music to make going down the river chilling.

The opening of that film also pretty much single-handedly justifies the existence of The Doors. Not that they need justifying, it's just that opening is incredible.

Fortnight · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 Apr 2006, 00:00 »

Young Adam hands down, David Byrne's score for that movie defines excellent.

nescience · « **Reply #36 on:** 07 Apr 2006, 02:07 »

Quote from: Kai

I know we're not talking about soundtracks in terms of slimps of songs, but I think the Pulp Fiction one deserves mention because it fit damned well.

I want to see Quentin Tarantino's record collection sometime. For some reason, I have this crazy suspicion that he inherited Andy Warhol's pop record collection or something.

butmyrobotloves · « **Reply #37 on:** 10 Apr 2006, 07:38 »

I'll second Amelie.

My absolute all-time favorite movie soundtrack, however, is that of Velvet Goldmine. If you like glam rock at all, you'll probably enjoy the VG soundtrack immensely.

Dwade · « **Reply #38 on:** 10 Apr 2006, 18:50 »

Gladiator
Jurassic Park
V for Vendetta
Lord of the Rings
We Were Soldiers
and
Pirates of the Carribean, although its mostly a rip off/ watered-down version of Gladiator. I highly recommend V for Vendetta, though not all the music from the movie is on there

Xerionox · « **Reply #39 on:** 11 Apr 2006, 14:29 »

I rather like Starship Troopers

as well as mentioned before

Star Wars
Gladiator
Matrix
Lord of the Rings

Peet · « **Reply #40 on:** 11 Apr 2006, 15:25 »

Ha! Yes! Finally I am cool enough to post in the big boy's forum!

THe Kill Bill 1 OST is awsome.

books_out_loud · « **Reply #41 on:** 11 Apr 2006, 16:42 »

most tarantino films have pretty reliable soundtracks, the same goes for wes anderson films. i thought V for Vendetta had a cool soundtrack, it's mostly orchistrated stuff though. the wedding singer was pretty good, and the garden state soundtrack was nice too.

Kai · « **Reply #42 on:** 11 Apr 2006, 18:09 »

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.

books_out_loud · « **Reply #43 on:** 12 Apr 2006, 15:15 »

actually, for one reason or another, the 1812 overture wasn't included in the prodouced soundtrack, neither was yakety sax, or beethovens' 5th.

Kai · « **Reply #44 on:** 12 Apr 2006, 15:32 »

Those bastards!

I don't really remember the soundtrack much past the classical peices in it.

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #45 on:** 12 Apr 2006, 17:22 »

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.

Blech, tell me about it. I am really sick of hearing about that damn movie.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #46 on:** 13 Apr 2006, 00:10 »

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 · « **Reply #47 on:** 13 Apr 2006, 15:33 »

Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum

Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride

Oh Most Defenately...

"Making Christmas, Making Christmas, Fa La La"

strawberrybumfluff · « **Reply #48 on:** 17 Apr 2006, 16:04 »

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 · « **Reply #49 on:** 17 Apr 2006, 16:53 »

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.

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.

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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soap

Mikendher

thermodynamics

magneticfieldz

Omnicide

spgphil

SickBoy

Narr

Bunnyman

soap

Bunnyman

That guy

Fortnight

nescience

Dwade

Xerionox

books_out_loud

books_out_loud

Ravenbomb

Praeserpium Machinarum

Xerionox

strawberrybumfluff