The 13th Warrior theme is just brilliant.
Lost in Translation also has an incredibly opening music.
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The 13th Warrior theme is just brilliant.
Lost in Translation also has an incredibly opening music.
The movie Hero has far and away the best music in a movie.
You can find the whole movie on youtube subbed. It's very well done.
How could I have forgotten the Trainspotting soundtrack? Lou Reed's Perfect Day is an exquisite exploration of what it means to be an addict.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Done by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Fantastic.
Even better is The Proposition. It's also done by ick Cave and Warren Ellis. I love these two soundtracks enough to buy them.
And of course Kingdom of Heaven and LOTR.
Oh lord. There's so many movie soundtracks I really enjoy (and own), that to pick out even a few -- much less only one -- is well-nigh impossible.
The following films' soundtracks are all ones that elicit a stronger-than-normal emotional reaction from me:
The Shawshank Redemption (also my favorite movie of all time)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Braveheart
V for Vandetta
Transformers (yes really!)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek (VIII): First Contact
The Lion King
Master and Commander
Moulin Rouge
Hero
Saving Private Ryan
Pirates of the Caribbean (first one)
Zodiac:
- Three Dog Night - "Easy To Be Hard"
- Eric Burdon and The Animals - "Sky Pilot"
- Santana - "Soul Sacrifice"
- Four Tops - "Bernadette"
- Lynn Anderson - "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden"
- Sly and the Family Stone - "I Want to Take You Higher"
- Isaac Hayes - "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"
- Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
- Stories - "Brother Louie"
- Donovan - "The Hurdy Gurdy Man"
- Johnny Mathis - "It's Not For Me To Say"
- John Coltrane - "Mary's Blues"
- Miles Davis - "Solar"
- Johnny Mann Singers - "The Sound Of The City"
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Haha, I just watched the "Requiem for a Tower" video on Youtube, and one of the comments made me laugh so hard I spilled coffee on my desk:
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This song can make cooking eggs look epic
I’ll second Blade runner. Easily….
Other worthy mentions I saw here was:
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Conan the Barbarian – Polydouris score really works magic for that movie. As a cinematic score it is just sheer excellence, it’s freakin great music as well on its own.
Patton – Goldsmiths limited work on this movie, a score of only some 30-40 min music for a film that is well over 2h, it just excellent and it really carries an already brilliant film to even greater hights. Truly a great movie and the music sure do it's part in all that.
l’ll throw in a few other suggestions for fun and for all you guys to consider and/or check out (all outstanding cinematic scores)…
Aliens, James Horner 1986 (orchestral) Goldsmith’s score for Alien (1979) is excellent but I personally feel that Horners score is even better.
The Beast of War, Mark Isham 1988 (experimental/ecclectic mix)
Once upon the time in the west, Ennio Morricone 1969? (orchestral mostly)
Paris Texas, Ry Cooder 1985? (slide guitar/ambient mostly)
The thin red line, Hans Zimmer 1999 (orchestral).
- Cheers
I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Easy Rider; after all, it was the movie that defined non-orchestral soundtracks. It also introduced me to Steppenwolf, who are still one of my favorite bands ever.
Repo Man is another good one; I would have never heard of the Circle Jerks or Black Flag were it not for Repo Man.
As for true orchestral soundtracks, I don't think I've heard one more moving than Once Upon a Time in the West. It managed to combine the grandeur and beauty of the romantic Old West with the ugly reality of what it was. It's also entirely insuperable from the film itself; just listening to it now, I have no doubt that this will always stand as the greatest western (and western soundtrack) ever made.
Gotta post a few links for this particular masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s0-wbXC3pQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgXFA_yP3jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-95awK6oz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL-X53ze5O0 (the full version of Man with a Harmonica; apparently Ennio Morricone composed it as a complete piece, which was edited for the movie.)
Lest we foreget a few good scores from the Swordsman, and of course Curse Of The Black Pearl, nor even The Far Side's Boccherini redux, or The Chronicals. Right, almost bloody well forgot Club, right.
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Hi there Reverend "rock" Joe, (I like Steppenwolf too, they rock! BTW, I seem to be unable to find that rock-thread of yours so what up with that?)
I got to hand it to you, your call on crowning "the king of all westerns” strikes me as impeccable. Score-wise and film-wise. As for “Easy Rider“ perhaps you’re right about the non-orchestral thingie. But let’s face it; the music for that film was not made for that film it was applied to it.
It’s not that it can’t function well when this happens but it was never made or tailored for such purposes. This is why I personally is a tad skeptical to that kind of concept in general as for categorizing it as pure or clean cut original cinematic scores. The score for "Jaws" is a real original score for a movie but in cases like “Pulp fiction” for instance I begin to question if that really is the case. If you understand what I am driving at here?
It is not question whether it can successfully work with a movie. It is a question of being made for a movie. Which for me constitutes the foundation of an original cinematic score as a concept.
Am I just silly here or do I make any sense?!? Well guys what do you think?
- Cheers
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Also, on a different and smaller, yet topical note… In retrospect I feel I was a bit harsh on some of the earlier
suggestions I saw here, so I would like to introduce a potential sub-category in this little discussion here - if
nothing else to make it easier for myself at least. As in the category of "greats" or “world class” (in lack of
better terms) as in truly excellent scores but still not all the way up to your absolute favorite scores. In that
manner I would like to offer my support for:
The untouchables
V for Vendetta
Gladiator
Hero
All very good and excellent scores but not all the way to the top for me.
I'm in your corner Axalon. Soundtracks with songs culled from the various genres of the music industry just seem to be money making devices more often than not. They can work in a movie, and quite well, but when I think "soundtrack", I'm thinking "original score".Quote:
Originally Posted by Axalon