Favourite Movie Soundtracks

[Quintus.JC]

So what's everyone's favourite Movie Soundtracks?

While there are far too many to choose from, Road to Perdition really stood out in my mind. My favourite composers are Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams.

[Fragony]

First Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ydxgekFls Also The Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbhg...eature=related

oh, In the mood for love. That is really my favorite come to think it. Incredible movie as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2j0Ee3kL84

cool song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYJYxbJv1Y

Ohhhhhhhhh Amelie Poulin, the first time I was moved by a goldfish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7KBgbZjtU

[shlin28]

The Untouchables got some pretty good tunes.

[Ramses II CP]

There have been some pretty mediocre movies with pretty good soundtracks IMHO. I don't tend to care for the weepy stuff, or anything that's trying too hard to be artsy. A few of my old favorites:

The Not Another Teen Movie soundtrack. Cheesy 80's music covered in an eclectic way by 90's-ish artists. Orgy does a superb techno Blue Monday, Marilyn Manson does a dark Tainted Love, and System of a Down works over The Metro. Pretty unique, interesting soundtrack IMHO.

The soundtrack from the first Mortal Kombat movie (Don't go watch the movie... well, okay, go watch Reptile's fight scene and skip the rest of it ). Energetic.

Reservoir Dogs soundtrack. Duh? Gold right through, especially the KBILLY song intros from that deadpan comic dude.

[Quintus.JC]

Reservoir Dogs soundtrack. Duh? Gold right through, especially the KBILLY song intros from that deadpan comic dude.

George Baker- Little Green Bag

The song being played at the start of the movie, an all time classic.

[Quietus]

Not a fan of sonic wallpapers unless they are actually tunes that's synonymous with the movie. Two songs I can think of:

"Am I Black Enough for You" - Schoolly D from King of New York (scene starts around 1:30 ).

and

"Kiss From a Rose" - Seal from Batman Forever

System of a Down works over The Metro.

Guh, not Metro(!), they destroyed the song....

[Hooahguy]

I like the Blackhawk Down soundtrack, personally.

[Monk]

Kill Bill, Vol 1 and 2 had amazing soundtracks. There's maybe two songs that are bad in the entire thing.

Edit: I looked for some youtube links to a few samples, but it looks like most of them got nuked. Here's one of the better ones that survived, check it.

[pevergreen]

A night at the Roxbury. "What is love?"

[Crazed Rabbit]

Conan the Barbarian
An amaaaaaaaazing soundtrack.

Ennio Morricone (sp?) has some good stuff, especially in westerns

Hans Zimmer has good stuff

The LOTR movies were good

CR

[Xiahou]

The Fifth Element soundtrack was one of the only ones I was ever tempted to buy, so I guess that makes it a favorite of mine.

[Hooahguy]

o ya, Wanted has a good one too... especially when he goes in and kills all the bad guys...

[Strike For The South]

Cold Mountain

O Brother Where Art Thou

[Monk]

O Brother Where Art Thou

How could I have forgotten about this movie?!

[Gregoshi]

I went nuts when I saw this thread. Soundtracks are one of my favourite genres of music. When pressed I'd have to put John William's original Star Wars trilogy and Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings trilogy as my epic masterpieces. Simply awesome works.

John Williams was "the MAN" in the 70's and 80's - Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, the Olympic Fanfare, etc. were incredible works. I've not enjoyed his works so much in the last 15-20 years though, but the Harry Potter stuff was okay.

Right behind SW and LotR is Randy Edelman's Gettysburg. This soundtrack gets some of the most play time with me.

Jerry Goldsmith did some amazing work too. Patton standing out as my favourite with Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Mulan notable too.

James Horner's Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan is brilliant, but his stuff begins to sound similar after awhile.

Vangelis' Chariots of Fire and Alexander are favourites too.

Alan Silvestri's Back to the Future soundtracks...

Han Zimmer's Pirates of the Carribean is great, but his other works haven't grabbed me like I wish it would.

My current Holy Grail is Bruce Broughton's Silverado. Epic work that captures the grandure of the wild West, but last I checked, it was no long available. Edit: it IS now available! Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaa! Off to Amazon.com...

And I'd best end it here.

[Banquo's Ghost]

I'm with Greg. The music of a movie makes or breaks it for me and I love collecting and listening to soundtracks.

Most evocative of all to me is "The Mission".
All Morricone's scores tick my boxes, but this is the most haunting of all.

Honourable mentions to:

"Once upon a Time in America".
"Schindler's List".
"Man in the Iron Mask".
"Gladiator".
"Last of the Mohicans".
"Stardust".

Best use of a compilation of several composers:

"Moulin Rouge" (especially the Roxanne tango).

Best use of a single composer's opera:

"Amadeus".

[Quietus]

Kill Bill, Vol 1 and 2 had amazing soundtracks. There's maybe two songs that are bad in the entire thing.

Edit: I looked for some youtube links to a few samples, but it looks like most of them got nuked. Here's one of the better ones that survived, check it.

Shivaree is tight.

[Fragony]

"Moulin Rouge" (especially the Roxanne tango).

One of the greatest scenes ever made, it's just diabolical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqfs...eature=related

[Moros]

Reservoir dogs:
Stuck in the middle with you - Stealers wheel
Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection

Pulp Fiction:
Girl, you'll be a woman soon - Urge overkill
Misirlou - Dick Dale and his Del tones

Well most of Quentin's movies really. Kill Bill has some nice little diddies too.

Also Oliver Stone's Natural Born killers has two very nice songs of Leonard Cohen. Epic film intro if you ask me. (yeah Quentin Tarentino also contributed to the film, and yeah I'm a fan.)

The Big Lebowski, any movie which features Captain Beefheart is a winner.

And of course the first Matrix movie. Rage against the machine, not only a very good name for this movie, but that guitar riff is the best one since smoke on the water. It makes you feel a real superhero. Obvious choice perhaps, but damn that song is just awesome.

And one we should never forget is Zorba the Greek. The Sirtaki doesn't have the coolness factor of Rage against the Machine, but that song is really great. Especially when on a party, when drunk as can get, trying to do the dance ending up with twenty people falling on the floor. Great song I tell you!

Forrest Gump has some great songs too. Especially the sounds of Jimi when in vietnam. That music captured the atmosphere exactly, and of course purple haze is a great song on it's own too.

Well there are many more examples, but these I feel are really some of the best.

[Fragony]

Matrix music is great for getting the blood pumping. Think this was from the second, with a slight variation in imagery.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/3689...cat_fight.html

[Moros]

Hoe schattig!

[Quietus]

The Mothman Prophecies have a very effectively scary score ( even if the story is for the most part, senseless ).

Even the songs are creepy:

"Half Light" - Low

Trailer

[Marshal Murat]

Patton - Main theme, epic in scope and full of meaning. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Black Hawk Down - The songs conveyed the meaning of the movie so, so, so well. Each one was just so well placed and good.

O Brother Where Art Though? - Who thought bluegrass was back in town?

[drone]

Platoon - Adagio for Strings at just the right moment.

[Meneldil]

As said earlier, the Untouchables score is mostly awesome, byt that's not surprising as it's Ennio Morricone's work.

The Opening Theme

Other pieces of art by Morricone:
For A Few Dollars More Theme
Once Upon A Time In The West - Man With A Harmonica - Pure badassness.

Angelo Badalamenti's score for the City of the Lost Children is really hypnotizing.
Here's the trailer, with the main soundtrack ("L'anniversaire d'Irvine").

Amélie Poulain soundtracks, by Yann Tiersen (I hated the movie, but the music is awesome):
La Valse d'Amélie
Comptine d'un autre été

Sweeney Todd Opening Theme (author unknown to me). It is just Dark, Epic, and Freaky.

John Murphy - Don Abandons Alice, 28 Weeks Later

The - rightfully so - well known Lux Aeterna, from Requiem for a Dream. Once again, I don't really like the movie, but that score is just made of awesomeness (the LotR version ain't that bad too), but I prefer the original one.

[Togakure]

Revenge is an older, underrated film starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, and Madeleine Stowe. Maurice Jarre Jack Nitzsche wrote the soundtrack. It's one of my favorites.

Here's an excerpt (abruptly interrupted in the middle by some Air Supply song, destroying the mood). There's enough to illustrate the simple beauty of the soundtrack though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyCr...eature=related

Edit: brain fart--not Maurice Jarre; Jack Nitzsche

[Beefy187]

Its probably over used but "Requiem for the dreams" is one of the master piece along with LotR and Starwars.

Pirates of Caribbean had good tracks as well

[caravel]

Blade Runner

[Major Robert Dump]

Last of The Mohicans

[Ronin]

Garden State