Movie Scores (soundtracks) that blow your mind

[jrowa001]

hi everybody! i dont know if there has been a thread like this before but i have grown very fond of movie scores the past couple years. i much prefer soundtracks that are composed (not just a mix of popular radio songs). i normally wont buy a score unless i watch the movie first. in this thread we can discuss some of our fav scores (soundtracks) or recommend each other ones we like. heres a list of the scores that I own (and have downloaded) and it might not be the best list but i am hoping you guys can help me expand....

The Fountain (Clint Mansell feat Mogwai & the Kronos Quartet)
Pans Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
Requiem For A Dream (Clint Mansell feat the Kronos Quartet)
There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Nobuo Uematsu)
Sweeny Todd (Stephen Sondheim)
I Am Legend (James Newton Howard)
3:10 To Yuma (Marco Beltrami)
The Assassination of Jesse James (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
Children of Men (John Tavener)
The Departed (Howard Shore)

...so discuss and if you guys can, please say who composed the soundtrack

[jrowa001]

Children of Men and The Departed also have excellent song choices such as King Crimson and Pink Floyd respectively

[planewreck]

like ten times

[Spiney_Norman]

Sunshine's got a really good soundtrack, no idea who it's by though.

[aria]

alfred hitchcock - vertigo
duno composer

[ZapatoDiablo]

Oldboy (Jo Yeong-Wook)

The Last Waltz especially is really good.

[aria]

by the way pretty much all of the ones you listed are pretty terrible

[team_racket]

Blade Runner
E.T

[jrowa001]

like ten times

well i didnt see any that were still active soi thought id give it a try. you could be helpful though and recommend me some scores

[Meatplow]

alfred hitchcock - vertigo
duno composer

bernard herrmann, just about anything he has done is gold. the taxi driver theme is probably my favourite

some OST's I listen to constantly -

Pink Flamingos - lots of great 60's stuff on here, I wrote a review if anyone is bored enough to read it http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=22713

El Topo - theres two OST's, the original which was actually a jam band rendition by Shades of Joy. The second was released in a Jodorawsky boxset, and I ****ing love it. A kind of a psychadelic/classical/jazz mashup, some of my favourite film music.

Fritz The Cat - Possibly my favourite OST ever, lots of superb jazz and lounge music on here. Very trippy and fun to listen to.

Logans Run - Jerry Goldsmith, lots of synthesiser action fused with classical. I think theres some ondes martenot/theramin in there as well, it has that old school sci-fi sound to it but its really good.

Beetlejuice - lots of good Danny Elfman action, and some Harry Belanfonte chucked in for good measure.

Other films I haven't listened to the OST's for (or have but which are really crappy for one reason or another) and appreciate nonetheless -

Koyaanisqatsi - Philip Glass, probably my first arthouse film. Minimalistic classical.

Midnight Cowboy - Love, love this one. So many good songs on the soundtrack, one of my favourite films.

2001: A Space Odyssey - Some of my favourite classical pieces.

Many more I am sure :)

[Seafroggys]

I haven't heard a good score of any movie made in the past 10 years. I remember Gladiator had some cool parts, but that's really all I can think of.

Some of the early 90s stuff, like Last of the Mohicans, Gettysburg, and the Lion King had great scores.

[team_racket]

How could I forget Koyaanisqatsi. Its simple whilst being huge at the same time.

[3FingeredHoek]

Saving Private Ryan (John Williams)
Children of Men (John Tavener)

I'm just gonna be cliche and say anyting that John Williams has done.

[Bread and Faxes]

Soul Plane

[jrowa001]

Soul Plane

good choice

[jrowa001]

bernard herrmann, just about anything he has done is gold. the taxi driver theme is probably my favourite

some OST's I listen to constantly -

2001: A Space Odyssey - Some of my favourite classical pieces.

Many more I am sure :)

i really need to get that one, i love that film

[Der Übermensch]

Any thing by Moriconne is top notch for scores. Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the West being his best.

For soundtrack (non-original)... Barry Lyndon and the Pianist both have superb classical selections. The former just cause it so perfectly fits the mood, and the latter cause I love Chopin.
Big Lewbowski and Trainspotting are good soundtracks as well.

[beans]

pans labyrinth was really good

[Otherside]

Children of Men had radiohead as well, which was excellent.

[Aficionado]

I dare any of you to say Juno

I dare you

[Mister_Che]

I liked the song that played during the opening credits. :(

That's pretty much the only one I liked though.

[Neoteric]

Crash has a really awesome soundtrack, I enjoy listening to it.

[Kage]

Are you talking about Cronenberg's?

[ThePinkPanther]

there will be blood has a pretty ba soundtrack

[A Dead Modernist]

Old Joy (Yo La Tango)

[Kage]

Old Joy* (Yo La Tango)

*Boy

[A Dead Modernist]

Different movie. But yeah, I enjoy Old Boy more.

[static]

Love Actually:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Or4ffMQkeI 1:00 minute in

Oldboy:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mdydM98OIAg All of it.

Lost In Translation:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=B0nPSy1-UXE Yay.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GdNh9f2Wwm0 :)

[Jawaharal]

Sunshine's got a really good soundtrack, no idea who it's by though.

agreed

I'm gonna have to say Shrek and LOTR

[Dimmu Burger]

David Lynch's Lost Highway.

[Mr. Pickle]

The Pick of Destiny.

[Neoteric]

Are you talking about Cronenberg's?Yah.

[Eliminator]

joe hisaishi's

[jrowa001]

thanks for all the posts, i have made a list of all the movies that i havent seen yet because i am really interested in the scores

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Jon Brion's scores are always really good: Eternal Sunshine, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, I Heart Huckabees. American Beauty, Lost in Translation, There Will Be Blood, and 2001 all have great scores/soundtracks as well.

[Danger Bird]

http://filmmusic.ru/images/City_Of_Lost_Children.JPG
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/r/rzaothers~~_ghostdogt_101b.jpg
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/l/images/love-liza-poster-0.jpg
http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CN%5CNeil%20Young%20-%20Dead%20Man%20(OST)%5CNeil%20Young%20-%20Dead%20Man%20(OST).jpg

Also any Jim Jarmusch movie as they tend to be just a big mix of John Lurie and Tom Waits.

[charlesfishowitz]

Ravenous - Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman.

[Meatplow]

Also any Jim Jarmusch movie as they tend to be just a big mix of John Lurie and Tom Waits.

Yep, Down by Law for instance. :)

[tablespoonful]

john williams - empire of the sun

[guitarded_chuck]

This Is Spinal Tap

[FlyingPaul_83]

Michael Nyman - GATTACA

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Howard Shore - Eastern Promises

Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Batman Begins

James Newton Howard - Unbreakable

Phillip Glass - The Illusionist

[DBlitz]

I liked 28 Weeks Laters' music.

[EightMilesHigh]

Any Sergio Leone/Ennio Morricone collaborations.

Watch The Proposition with Guy Pearce. Nick Cave did the score for it (and wrote the script), and he also did the score for Assassination Of Jesse James By The Cowerd Robert Ford.

[jrowa001]

i love AoJJBtCRF. i will get The Proposition soon, i have been meaning to look into it for a while. thanks for the reminder

[JumpTheF**kUp]

I liked 28 Weeks Laters' music.

I was just about to say this.

The music in 28 Days/Weeks Later is so good. The climaxing of the music is heartwrenching.

[RockStar]

Not a movie but the tv series Weeds songs are always 200% relevant to what's going on.

Star Wars...

[FlyingPaul_83]

i love AoJJBtCRF. i will get The Proposition soon, i have been meaning to look into it for a while. thanks for the reminder

hahaha

Last Ride Back To KC is magical.

[jrowa001]

im very lazy

[Squirrel]

Strangely enough i absolutely loved the music in Broken Arrow.

[DBlitz]

I was just about to say this.

The music in 28 Days/Weeks Later is so good. The climaxing of the music is heartwrenching.
Yea a friend gave me the song a while ago, its called In A Heartbeat. It takes like 2 minutes for it to really start but its good

[Apocalyptic Raids]

Fistful of Dollars
The Godfather
Lost In Translation
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

[Prince of Darkness]

The Fountain
Amelie
There Will Be Blood
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

[spitfirejunky]

Three pages and no one said Ocean's 11?

You people disappoint me.

[Otherside]

I disagree with 28 weeks later it seemed to be the same song over and over not matter what was happening HOWEVER I loved the 28 days later soundtrack i

[Prince of Darkness]

oh, and if we're doing musicals, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[jrowa001]

i cant stand the Rocky Horror Picture Show, thought it was boring and waay too over the top for me.

i forgot to mention all of the scores that Tangerine Dream did, for example: The Sorcerer, Firestarter, Thief, Wavelength. Legend, Flashpoint, etc. i always have liked their soundtracks.