Great Movie Soundtracks

Agree too many. Three from me:-

Lawrence of Arabia

Sling Blade - Daniel Lanois

Grizzly Man - Richard Thompson

It isn't on the list so far, so - Star Wars 

Then

The Commitments 

The Five Pennies

And best of all Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Two words: John and Williams. If that's too cryptic, here's a list (not including Star Wars since it's mentioned above):

Jaws (1975), Superman (1978), Empire Strikes Back (1980, and regularly cited as one of the best romantic (in the musical sense) movie scores ever), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), ET (1982), Return of the Jedi (1983), Witches of Eastwick (1988), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Harry Potter (2001 plus sequels) and more.

At least, that's his best-known work. Among his less well-known works, I have soft spots for Hook (1991) and Far and Away (1992). The Hook soundtrack has a 1m 30s Prologue track which makes a cracking system work-out. His score for the Tintin film a few years ago is also lovely. I could go on.

As well as that great man's work, I would recommend Apollo 13 (1996) by the late James Horner, though it's a pig to get hold of the proper score after the main release was a mishmash of pop songs, dialogue and score. If your taste extends to the more avant-garde, Planet of the Apes (1968) by Jerry Goldsmith is fabulous.

That's off the top of my head. I may well add more!

Mark

Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves among others by John Barry.  Of course the list for Richard Rogers is almost endless.

Bud

My favourite soundtrack composers are Ennio Morricone, Stelvio Cipriani and John Barry.   Lots to explore from these three alone.

Sexy Beast

Paris Texas

Donnie Darko

Hi Bert, 

two more or less unusual and very different ones from me:

Dead Man - Neil Young 

This one's from the Heart - Tom Waits

Risky Business

2001, a Space Odyssey.

Zabriskie Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msh5QxOnms8

Just a few:

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Ennio Morricone, The Big Gundown

Roy Budd, Get Carter

Goblin, Suspiria

and that's not to mention Kenji Kawai, Bruno Nicolai, Yoko Kano and all the classic Hollywood composers (e.g. Rosza, Tiomkin, Horner etc).

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly.

Have not seen the film. But this album is a scorching stonker. Also includes a great turn by a young Sinead o' Connor.

Here's my list (in no particular order):

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

The Commitments

Paris,Texas

Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction

Bladerunner

The Graduate

Trainspotting

Purple Rain

Going back some years.. I have an original vinyl up in the loft..

TOBYJUG posted:

Going back some years.. I have an original vinyl up in the loft..

That reminds me, I forgot to put Monty Python and the Holy Grail on my list!!

I could post a few from my predominantly rock listening, but here are two great ones from outside that genre I sought out the past few years on s/h vinyl;

And another I still need to find;

Elmer Bernstein wrote wonderful soundtracks to several of the most memorable movies from my youth.

My all time favorite is:

Pirate Radio

Big shout for Morricone's Westerns (particularly The Good, The Bad & The Ugly).

Mind you Morricone's lesser known stuff is a treat too. Try Il Sorriso Del Grande Tentatore. It's creepy.

One of my all-time favourites is Basil Poledouris' music for Conan The Barbarian - it's packed good tunes (owes a debt to Carl Orff), he had the budget for a huge orchestra and it's a tympanists and Brass players wet dream.

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/alb...douris/3299039936825

John Carpenter - The Fog (and many others)

And  for Blade Runner (a magnificent film & soundtrack) fans...

There's a Blade Runner-inspired short, called Tears In The Rain...

...that has two shortish soundtrack albums associated with it. Both channel the spirit of the Vangelis masterpiece without plagiarising it. Both are terrific, both are cheap:

Siddhartha Barnhoorn Bandcamp

Neon Vandal Bancamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boK9sWwIr-E

Always a sucker for Morricone , this is perhaps his finest . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpoNjrM5DlY

pete T15 posted:

Always a sucker for Morricone , this is perhaps his finest . 

 

Indeed!