Soundtracks and Musicals
 

What are some excellent soundtracks to movies, or some great musicals that you just love?

I was inspired to make this thread because on friday and saturday I went to see Rocky Horror in theaters. I've been doing that around halloween for a few years now, and I've always liked that movie a lot. But not until this week did I realize how great the songs actually are. The catchy factor is amazing. I could listen to most of them without the movie.

Another movie that I love, that I'm not sure if it's considered a musical or what, is the commitments. Irish Soul. Excellent movie that I grew up watching and listening to the music from.

I am very much into movie music. Here are some of favorites:

Taxi Driver
Donnie Darko
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A Clockwork Orange
The Last Temptation of Christ
Vertigo
Blade Runner

Other then the ones Zappa mentioned I like:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pulp Fiction
Natrual Born Killers
Fantasia

I love the work of both Ennio Moricone and Joe Hisaishi.

Favorite Moricone:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Cinema Paradiso
The Legend of 1900
Malena
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More

Favorite Hisaishi:
Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Kikujiro
Sonatine
Hana-Bi
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle

I love the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Different stuff than what I usually listen to, but I enjoy it a lot. High Fidelity and Blues Brothers have excellent soundtracks as well and haven't been mentioned. Actually I listened to the Blues Brothers soundtrack this morning. Rawhide :cool:

i find Guy Ritchie movies tend to have good soundtracks

Snatch
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells

As bad as the movie was, I think I quite enjoyed the music in [i]Doom[/i]. Dunno if it's on the soundtrack though, seeing as it's a mindless action movie and they tend to have lots of hXc metal on it that have nothing to do with the movie.

Favorite movie themes:

The Godfather, Part II
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Cape Fear
8½

[QUOTE=i2 enegade]i find Guy Ritchie movies tend to have good soundtracks

Snatch
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells[/QUOTE]

Yessssss.

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]
The Nightmare Before Christmas
[/QUOTE]

One of my very favourite albums.

I like film scores and such, but my knowledge of specifics is somewhat limited due to my preference for buying rather than downloading.

The Rocky Horror Picture show is quite amazing, I'll agree. I also really enjoy the Grease soundtrack, definatly one of my all time favorites.

The soundtrack for Amelie is amazing.

[QUOTE=OrbDragon]The soundtrack for Amelie is amazing.[/QUOTE]

yes, yes it is.

also:

Taxi Driver
Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski

ehh..I've run dry.

Reservoir Dogs
Buena Vista Social Club
Catch me if you Can
Do the Right Thing
The Harder They Come
Signs

Everything dealing with The Godfather music is good.

[QUOTE=asdf]What are some excellent soundtracks to movies, or some great musicals that you just love?

I was inspired to make this thread because on friday and saturday I went to see Rocky Horror in theaters. I've been doing that around halloween for a few years now, and I've always liked that movie a lot. But not until this week did I realize how great the songs actually are. The catchy factor is amazing. I could listen to most of them without the movie.

Another movie that I love, that I'm not sure if it's considered a musical or what, is the commitments. Irish Soul. Excellent movie that I grew up watching and listening to the music from.[/QUOTE]


Chess
West side Story
Jesus Christ Superstar, and virtually anything every written by Lloyd Webber :)
Sunset Boulevard by Marvin Hamlisch (though I haven't heard much of it)

Google is a great tool. Try to get the names of the big producers, like for instance Hamlisch and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and check out their productions. They contain some of the finest vocal music ever written, in my opinion.

Lloyd Webber is indeed very good. The best JCSS is the one with Ian Gillian.

[QUOTE]Jesus Christ Superstar[/QUOTE]

Yeah :thumb:

Wicked is a great musical. Also, I like Rent.

I never got into Soundtracks until my girlfriend showed me a few and I thought to myself "Why the hell haven't I bought any movie soundtracks before?"

My favorite are SO FAR

Donnie Darko- I have really only seen the movie once all the way through. I loved the music that played though. I hope to buy the soundtrack whenever I find it. MANY great songs on that album.

American Beauty- Another great movie, the music is brilliant though and really peaceful. At least from the songs I remember. I need to buy that soundtrack also.

Lock Stock
Snatch
Pulp Fiction

Bump.

I have a song on my laptop that is supposedly the 'Freedom Ballad' from the film Braveheart. Anyone know who the artist is that created it?

Rockers, The Harder They Come, Pulp Fiction, SLC Punks, Spinal Tap

i really like the movie spiderman 2 and the notebook and others. the music form the OC is the BEST

rocky horrow show (im just a sweet transvestite!) & the resident evil soundtrack/s

anyone like Hermann's original scores?

Yeah, I named a couple Herrmann works up in my list. He's the greatest.

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Pulp Fiction[/QUOTE]

Dick Dale :)

i personally love a whole bunch of soundtracks, from games and movies... here are a few

The Secret Garden
The Piano
GLadiator
LOTR
Pirates of the Carribean
Titanic
Anastasia
Beauty and the Beast
Troy
Halo :D
Monkey Island
Age of Empires series
Spiderman
A Beautiful Mind
Spirit (lol)
!!Phantom of the Opera!!

and so much more that i wont name :P

[QUOTE=Dreww]Lloyd Webber is indeed very good. The best JCSS is the one with Ian Gillian.[/QUOTE] I agree with the second sentence and strongly disagree with the first. Lloyd Webber is trite, heavy-handed, schlocky, and derivative. [i]Jesus Christ, Superstar[/i]: The Cm, Bb, Ab, G Spanish cliche vamp in "Why Should I Die" is inadvertantly hilarious. "We want you to sleep well tonight" is "Take Five" except that "Take Five" is not so crude as to make its ostinato rhythm its melody rhythm as well. The idea of a messianic rock opera (and rock opera, not Broadway musical, is what [i]Jesus Christ, Superstar[/i] originally was) was taken directly from the Who's [i]Tommy[/i]. The main riff from [i]Phantom of the Opera[/i] (which in general owes a great debt to [i]Sweeney Todd[/i]) was taken directly from Pink Floyd's "Echoes".

No, the only post-sixties Broadway composer and lyricist of any account is Stephen Sondheim, and Sondheim is so damn good he also dwarfs all the pre-sixties Broadway composers and lyricists, which is really saying something.