Favourite Movie Soundtracks

[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".

[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