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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: np96 on 04 May 2008, 08:16
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Which bands do you think have made the best soundtracks for movies, I don't mean a song for 1 movie but a band/artist who have made lots of good songs for different movies?
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Queen - Highlander/A Kind Of Magic.
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Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. That's all I can remember at the moment, though.
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Slint did the soundtrack to the Breakfast Club!
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EitS and Mogwai are both great choice and I think a lot of stuff by MONO would work well. A whole lot of "post-rock" would be pretty ideal.
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I really, really loved Eddie Vedder's soundtrack for Into the Wild. I highly suggest checking out the music/movie
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Devotchka together with Danna was a pretty win situation for Little Miss Sunshine.
Edit: Mogwai did the soundtrack for that Zidane movie didn't they? As far as I remember that was the only good part.
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Goblin did Dawn of the Dead, guys.
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Devotchka together with Danna was a pretty win situation for Little Miss Sunshine.
Yes! That soundtrack was fantastic. Sufjan Stevens was on it as well.
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Bernard Herrmann, I know he's a composer, but he made such great soundtracks.
Examples: Vertigo, Pyscho, Taxi Driver
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The song East Hastings in 28 Days Later.
Thread over.
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Edit: Mogwai did the soundtrack for that Zidane movie didn't they? As far as I remember that was the only good part.
Not only is that a truly fantastic soundtrack, it's some of the best stuff Mogwai's done in my opinion. I never saw the movie but I'd see it just to see how the music is integrated. Also, Objects_inside_clouds has indeed mentioned the best use of a pre-existing song in a movie ever.
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This isn't really relevant to the topic or anything but I've always wanted Radiohead to do a James Bond theme song or something
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The soundtrack that Plaid did for Tekkonkinkreet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831888/) is gorgeous.
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This isn't really relevant to the topic or anything but I've always wanted Radiohead to do a James Bond theme song or something
This isn't really relevant to your irrelevance (is that a word), but I love '100 Miles And Runnin' by NWA because it sounds like NWA got commissioned to do a James Bond theme.
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I really, really loved Eddie Vedder's soundtrack for Into the Wild. I highly suggest checking out the music/movie
You know, for completely hating Pearl Jam and everything that Eddie Vedder had ever touched in his life before this, I was really surprised by this soundtrack and how much I enjoyed it.
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Devotchka together with Danna was a pretty win situation for Little Miss Sunshine.
That's what I was going to say, and Sufjan Stevens was awesome too. I'm not aware of any other movies they've done soundtracks for; at least I haven't seen any.
Little Miss Sunshine is <3.
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This isn't really relevant to the topic or anything but I've always wanted Radiohead to do a James Bond theme song or something
nooooboy doesss it bettteeer
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Guys.
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
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(The Dust Brothers and the Fight Club OST)
This is pretty true.
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
I'm succeeding, and it's amazing.
Blowing in the Wind as Frodo and Sam are crossing the Anduin together at the end of Fellowship? Brilliant.
:-P
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Dead Can Dance did a pretty good job with Baraka.
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Kronos Quartet- Requiem for a Dream
Cat Stevens- Harold and Maude
Explosions in the Sky- Friday Night Lights
Jonny Greenwood- There Will Be Blood
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
This isn't a flaw with my logic, but with your mind. Where's your IMAGINATION, man?
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Guys.
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Ah yes, Tom Waits's Goin' Out West is great.
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Oh, that reminds me...
This!
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Excellent soundtrack.
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Does Pink Floyd getting hired to do the soundtrack to 2001: A space Odyessy but getting dropped at the last second count? Cause that would have been like, 10X more awesome than the movie already was.
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I just realised, no one here has mentioned Manowar.
Manowar should soundtrack every movie. I guess that's kind of obvious, though.
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Does Pink Floyd getting hired to do the soundtrack to 2001: A space Odyessy but getting dropped at the last second count? Cause that would have been like, 10X more awesome than the movie already was.
I kinda think it was better the way it was.
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I would think to be considered "Best Soundtrack Artist" you would have had to do more than a single successful soundtrack... if it was based on a single soundtrack, I would say Peter Gabriel for the movie "Birdy" or Air for the movie "The Virgin Suicides... But being that it is "Best Soundtrack Artist," I would have to say Graeme Revell. He has done the score to such movies as The Saint, The Craft, The Crow, all of the Sin City movies (the first, and the two that have yet to be released), Strange Days, and a ton of others. I still listen to the first Crow score at least monthly.
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
This isn't a flaw with my logic, but with your mind. Where's your IMAGINATION, man?
I can totally imagine this....but now I really...REALLY don't want to.
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
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HEEEY MISTER TAMBOURINE MAN PLAY A SONG FOR ME
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J. G. Thirlwell.
(http://www.popmatters.com/tv/reviews/v/images/venture-brothers.jpg)
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I firmly believe that Bob Dylan's songs can adequately soundtrack any film.
I'm trying to imagine Lord of The Rings with Bob Dylan soundtracking.
I'm failing. Sorry.
This isn't a flaw with my logic, but with your mind. Where's your IMAGINATION, man?
I can totally imagine this....but now I really...REALLY don't want to.
Sorry for the quote tunnel, but QFT. I can imagine Dylan doing LotR and it fails horribly. Also, I happen to love that soundtrack, so I don't want it replaced with Bob.
I also agree with the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack.
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I would just like to mention Damon Albarn's soundtrack for the movie Ravenous. Amazing movie and it is supplemented perfectly by his work.
And East Hastings in 28 Days Later pretty much takes it for best song in a movie without question, not even an opinion its fact.
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An amazing original score was done for the movie Dead Man by Neil Young. The entire thing stinks of western while crunching heavy, slow, drawling guitar riffs throughout. Awesome.
A more recent movie whose soundtrack I liked bunches was the Nick Cave original soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Long title, long movie, long soundtrack.
I guess an obvious one would be the performance of the Kronos Quartet on Requiem for a Dream. I liked that one, even though the main theme for the movie is borrowed often for 'intense' movie trailers.
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A more recent movie whose soundtrack I liked bunches was the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis original soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Credit where credit is due, plz! :-)
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A more recent movie whose soundtrack I liked bunches was the Nick Cave original soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Long title, long movie, long soundtrack.
I haven't even seen the movie, but I love love love the soundtrack. There's a beautiful desolation in what Cave/Ellis put together that really gets to me, even without the context of the film.
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He and Ellis also did the soundtrack to The Proposition, and it is pretty good. The movie too, I hear.
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Does Pink Floyd getting hired to do the soundtrack to 2001: A space Odyessy but getting dropped at the last second count? Cause that would have been like, 10X more awesome than the movie already was.
Well, you'd think, except that the Floyd - and I say this with them being my favourite band - were pretty much shit in 1969.
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I got my chronology messed up, so when you said that I thought "What the fuck is wrong with you and your hate on Syd Barrett," but it turns out you are totally right. At the very least, the live disc of Ummagumma is pretty good, specially "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." But there rest was utter shite.
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"Careful With That Axe, Eugene" is probably one of the best songs they've ever written.
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The song East Hastings in 28 Days Later.
Thread over.
im with you on that 110.1945%
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Flash! Ah-ahh! Savior of the universe!
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"With music by popular rock band queen"
Oh, and by the way, Piper at the Gates of Dawn kicked arse. Sure, they did better stuff, but a average pink floyd album is still better than most stuff out there
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chronology
No one said anything against Piper at the Gates of Dawn. We were referring solely to Pink Floyd's recorded output for the year 1969.
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Oh, and by the way, Piper at the Gates of Dawn kicked arse. Sure, they did better stuff, but a average pink floyd album is still better than most stuff out there
Read closely - I said they sucked IN 1969, not BEFORE 1969. Between 1968 and 1971, the Floyd were Barrettless and only sporadically awesome.
And I disagree about average Floyd being better than most. The Floyd, as an average band - see Lapse of Reason, Momentary - were plain average. As a shit band - see Mother, Atom Heart - they were about as shit as it could get.
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Iron and Wine has been in quite a few movies, he manages to sneak in there every once in awhile.
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J. G. Thirlwell.
(http://www.popmatters.com/tv/reviews/v/images/venture-brothers.jpg)
Isn't that the guy that does the music for Venture Brothers?
If so, then I CONCUR
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Second to the Highlander theme. I still find the opening on YouTube every so often just to listen to it.
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Shogu Tokumaru is a really interesting artist. Kind of like a Japanese Animal Collective.