Soundtracks

V/A - Rockers OST
V/A - The Harder They Come OST
V/A - Oh Brother... OST

American Beauty

Anselm

all art is contemporary; it is the way we look at it that changes...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - marvellous and very underrated (IMHO) Dylan soundtrack.
The Harder they come - Awesome Roots Reggae
Quadrophenia - Best start to an album ever?!
Donnie Darko - The eighties never sounded so good
Repo Man - Fabulous, witty 80's LA Punk

[This message was edited by the other nickc on TUESDAY 05 August 2003 at 22:42.]

Ditto Mulholland Drive and Rockers.

Also,

Twin Peaks
Lost Highway
Trainspotting


See the flicks first, naturally.

Ah, several of you beat me to my favorites but you can't go wrong with:

Grosse Pointe Blank
Dead Man Walking - The Score
Crouching Tiger ...

I've been on the hunt for a vinyl copy of Bernard Herrmann's 'Vertigo' for a few years now.

cheers

Dan

p.s. I have 'Ghostworld' too, which is an interesting selection

Superfly- Curtis Mayfield
The Harder They Come- Jimmy Cliff
Shaft (original)- Isaac Hayes
Cidade de Deus (City of God)- V/A (Brazilian)

RE: Cidade de Deus, if you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it to everyone.

for just pure good fun, watching the film or listening to the soundtrack I love the blues brothers.

Black hawk down, I've only seen this once in the cinema, but from memory it had a pretty good sound track.

The two towers soundtrack I also think is excellent, and all original work as well.

And finally thinking of original soundtracks was gladiator, but i'm not too sure how this music will fare on it's own without the film. (I own the 2 towers and blues brothers soundtrack).

the other soundtracks I own are star wars episode 1, 2 cd ultimate edition. there is some very good stuff on here and some not so good stuff. I think may be the normal edition would have sufficed.

the last soundtrack I own (from memory) is Superman. Some of it is excellent and other bits poor (on it's own that is).

FWIW, my recommendations:

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
(Tarantino has a fantastic pop culture sesibility - his soundtracks are aong the best compilations you'll ever hear

Betty Blue

Diva

Dr No/Thunderball/From Russia With Love/Goldfinger (all reissued on remastered CD with extra tracks and sounding marvellous)

Saturday Night Fever (awesome!)

Schindler's List (better than the usual Williams bombast)

Shaft (Isaac Hayes)
Marvin's War
Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)
(or indeed any blaxploitation soundtrack)

West Side Story

The Harder They Come

Sea of Love

The Last Emperor

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Dead Presidents

Backbeat (fantastic reconstruction of the Beatles' Hamburg days by groups like Afghan Whigs)

Kevin

3 post electronica faves

Solaris
Monsters ball
Virgin Suicides

And the overlooked

Hilary & Jackie (Complete with the J Du Pre Cello concerto)

Regards

Stephen

I really need to get The harder they come - Jimmie Cliff at Glastonbury this year was amazing...

Hmm - so, let's see (some of these mentioned already):
Shine
Schindler's List
All Tarentinos (yep, awesome compilations)
Human Traffic/Kevin and Perry Go Large (if you like club stuff)
Risky Business (mainly for Tangerine Dream, but there's some other OK stuff on there)
Streets of fire (don't own, but the film always brings a smile to my face as the music's so cheesy)
Blues Brothers
Saturday night fever
Grease (for tacky gaudy value!)
Rocky horror picture show
Titanic/Back to Titanic (if you skip that damn Celine Dion pap)
The Rutles
Sid and Nancy
...
Does The Wall count, since it made a film release!?!?!

When the music's over turn out the lights

I see my soundtrack collection is about to grow.

We subscribe to a service in the states called Netlix that allows us to rend DVDs like crazy. We can have three out at any given time. So I can try these out first

- GregB

Insert Witty Signature Line Here

GregB,

Netflix is way cool - we subscribed a month ago, and have a constant flow of great DVDs arriving. I barely watch broadcast tv at all now.

Dan

p.s. I'm assuming you meant Netflix, unless Netlix is a subscription service for certain other types of movies say no more...

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Backbeat (fantastic reconstruction of the Beatles' Hamburg days by groups like Afghan Whigs)
Kevin

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Too obvious?
Help and especially
Hard Day's Night

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Paris Texas on vinyl is fantastic.

Naah, Paris Texas on vinyl is better than that

One of my all time top 5 albums; particularly Cantata Mixteca ( sp? ) which is stunning

Regards

Mike

On the Yellow Brick Road and happy

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Anything by Korngold but the Sea Hawk is a good place to start. (Korngold taught John Williams)

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Pulp Fiction
The Wedding Singer

Anything by Karl Davis. He writes for modern showings of "silent" movies. Actually forget hi-fi and go and see a "silent" with full orchestra playing the sound track. mind blowing.

Trainspotting

Tom

Actively enjoying it all

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Totally agree ref. Carl Davis. Have seen two of his showings of silent movies, Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp and The General with Buster Keaton. Wonderful.

Mentioned many times already............'Pulp Fiction' (possibly one of the best soundtracks ever).

Also highly recomended...'Trainspotting'.

Nowhere near as naff as the film......'Notting Hill'. Worth the price alone for Elvis Costello's rendition of 'She' (as in Charles Aznevour).

If classical with a twist is your bag..........'Gladiator' is absolutely stunning.
Track 3, 'The Battle' : a tester for those who wonder if their system does bass.

Regards
Adam

quadraphenia the felloship of the ring , the two towers , the sea hawk

There are for the eletronic music fans The Sorcerer by Tangerine Dream, off-centre classical Clockwork Orange Soundtrack and the phenomenal Antartica by Vangelis which is stunning on LP and almost as good on CD.

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Talking of Vangelis, the soundtrack to Bladerunner is phenomenal.

Kevin

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Talking of Vangelis, the soundtrack to _ Bladerunner _ is phenomenal.

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That is one I have to get, have the movie on DVD and it is an alltime favorite.

My recommendation, without hesitation:

OST "Battle of Britain" on United Artists vinyl (UAS 29019 - if you're going to seek it out). A great soundtrack of music mostly composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin. If that was all it would be a solid but fairly unremarkable disc. The beauty lies in the wonderful piece "Battle in the Air", a part of an entire score (scrapped eventually - I believe this entire score can now be had on CD) composed by Walton and here played under the baton of Malcolm Arnold. This piece alone is worth the entire recommendation. Find it.

Richard

...and then there's the soundtrack to 'Diva'. Picked it up on vinyl for about a $1. 'La Wally' and 'Sentimental walk' are terrific.

Uh oh, I just googled 'La Wally' to see who sang it and got a bunch of Sarah Brightman hits - nooo!

Another is the amazing Farinelli soundtrack where they digitally mixed the male and female voices to recreate the full range necessary of a Castrate from the period of Haydn. It is simply marvelous and the movie itself is a bit of a "cult" movie. The soundtrack is available on CD (Auvidis label). The sound on the Laser Disc is pretty phenomenal too.

A small contribution :
Dead Man Walking - Steve Earle , Bruce Springsteen , Tom Waits ... who could ask for more ?
The Big Lebowski - er....eclectic
Am currently listening o "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" on vinyl - excellent sound ..great tunes ... highly recommended.
Glenda