Favorite movie soundtrack?

Some of my favs:

My Fair Lady (one of my earliest musical memories)

The Piano - Michael Nyman (huge Nyman fan here)

Inception - Hans Zimmer (and huge Zimmer fan. Saw his live show a year or two back. Blew me away.)

(his Man of Steel soundtrack is pretty awesome too)



Repo Man

Next Stop Wonderland

Once

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog (not exactly a movie)


is it terrible to say Gone With The Wind?

and Barry Lyndon

eta My Fair Lady, of course, and Once, too


Apocalypse Now - no contest!


A Hard Day's Night


The Legend of Bagger Vance, or most any Rachel Portman score... American Graffiti, Lawrence of Arabia... Don't get me started.

-s.


This isn’t in the class of many soundtracks mentioned so far, but...I’ve listened to Fast Times at Ridgemont High more times than I care to admit. 


Are we talking soundtracks or scores?


Smedley said:

This isn’t in the class of many soundtracks mentioned so far, but...I’ve listened to Fast Times at Ridgemont High more times than I care to admit. 


Jesus Christ Superstar


Superfly

Until the End of the World

The Harder They Come

Koyaanisqatsi

Anything by Morricone


ridski said:

Are we talking soundtracks or scores?

 OK

I probably was thinking of scores, but what the heck.


DaveSchmidt said:

Superfly

Until the End of the World

The Harder They Come

Koyaanisqatsi

Anything by Morricone

Koyaanisqatsi is a favorite too. Should have put it in the OP


Some great synth scores

M83 - Oblivion

Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy

Tangerine Dream - Sorceror, Near Dark

Atticus Ross - The Book of Eli

John Carpenter - All of Them. But particularly Escape From New York and Prince of Darkness

Vangelis - Blade Runner, The Bounty and 1492: Conquest of Paradise

Shane Carruth - Upstream Color (great score, have not seen the film)

Paul Leonard-Morgan - Dredd

Cliff Martinez - Contagion (another movie I have not seen)

Jon Hopkins - Monsters

The Chemical Brothers - Hanna

Mychael Danna - Transcendence

Clint Mansell - All of Them (especially Ghost in the Shell, which still hasn’t been released)

Johann Johannsen - Sicario

Disasterpeace - It Follows

Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner 2049

Not completely synthy 

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira

Not synthy at all

Bill Conti - Rocky and Rocky 2

James Horner - Aliens

For starters anyway. Can you tell I like sci fi?

 


Also Koyaanisqatsi, which transcends all of them.


ridski said:

Also Koyaanisqatsi, which transcends all of them.

 Yeah - I'm a Philip Glass groupie.  I've got pretty much his entire catalog.


More scores, then (if only one decade):

Elmer Bernstein -- The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven

Duke Ellington -- Anatomy of a Murder

Lalo Schifrin -- Cool Hand Luke

Quincy Jones -- In the Heat of the Night


One of Stephin Merritt’s finest lyrical accomplishments:

Reno Dakota, I’m no Nino Rota, I don’t know the score ...


The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. 


Ferris Buhller  ----- OOOOOHHHHHHH YYEEAAHHHHHHHH


Glengarry Glen Ross - James Newton Howard  (Wayne Shorter theme is pretty much perfect)

When The Levees Broke - Terence Blanchard

Interstellar - Hans Zimmer

Putney Swope (Soundtrack)- Charlie Cuva   (crazy af, just like the movie which I love)

In Cold Blood - Quincy Jones (murderous like the film)

Superfly (Soundtrack) - Curtis Mayfield  (because Curtis was a genius)




Vertigo, Amarcord, Lawrence of Arabia, The Irishman, Purple Rain (cause Prince was a genius) 


This fascinated me, re Hans Zimmer and his Dunkirk score.


annielou said:

Vertigo, Amarcord, Lawrence of Arabia, The Irishman, Purple Rain (cause Prince was a genius) 

 Vertigo for sure.  I'm not sure I would want to listen to a recording of it but, damn, it sure does make the film.


Here's some more I love

Danny Elfman's Batman score was great.

Shout out to Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave's Phantasm soundtrack.

Hans Zimmer's Black Rain and Gladiator scores

Ryuichi Sakamoto's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Last Emperor

Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon score


Boy, I thought about Phantasm but was afraid my youthful enthusiasm may have over-elevated it.


Did anyone list ‘Princess Bride,’ by Mark Knopfler? I note that ‘Local Hero,’ also by Knopfler, was already cited.  Both are great.


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