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.

There are many film scores I like. One in particular that happens to come to mind is Philip Glass's for the nineties adaptation of Joseph Conrad's [i]Secret Agent[/i]. (A much earlier Hitchcock adaptation of the same brilliant novel is ghastly--very inept, that is.)

I thought Excalibur and Gladiator were outstanding soundtracks.

Anything by John Williams (composer) too.

[QUOTE=G_Mac07]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?[/QUOTE]
James Horner did the score to Braveheart. It's a great score.

[QUOTE=Relmar]I thought Excalibur and Gladiator were outstanding soundtracks.

Anything by John Williams (composer) too.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Zimmer was amazing with Gladiator.

Good to see a Williams fan again. A lot of people enjoy bashing the hell out of him nowadays. I love his work, my self.

As for my stuff, I like orchestral scores. Film music is fascinating, because it allows you to be so manipulative of the audience. Studying the hows and whys of film music has handed me a lot of knowledge about music in general, and continues to do so. Some of my favourites include:

Shore's LOTR series.

Zimmer's "Tears of the Sun" and "The last Samurai".

Elfman's work on "Beetlejuice", "Batman"/"Batman Returns", "Spiderman",
and "Edward Scissorhands".

Alan Silvestri's score for "Van Helsing". Terrible movie, great score.

James Horner's "Braveheart", "Enemey at the Gates", and "Alien".

John Williams' "Harry Potter"(all of them), all of the "Star Wars", especially ep.4&5, "Jaws", all of the "Indiana Jones" series, and "Saving Private Ryan".

And one that I've been listening to non-stop lately is Harry Gregson-Williams' work on "Kingdom of Heaven". The score is beautiful, works perfectly with the movie. The movie was excellent as well.

I don't know who does it, but I watched Psycho yesterday and there was this really cool string section in the opening credits. Anyone know who does that?

[QUOTE=Scruples]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.[/QUOTE]

Agreed, listening to the soundtrack (score) right now... Interesting stuff, first movie score I have ever listened to...

Also, on a side note, the theme for Terminator 2 rocks hard :thumb:

A Clockwork Orange - Probably the best movie soundtrack I've ever heard
Small Soldiers - It's interesting to hear older songs given a new twist with added rap and R&B vocals
Swing Kids - Wonderful score mixed with really good swing tracks
Star Wars (all of them) - What is there to be said?

[QUOTE=sgreen6]James Horner did the score to Braveheart. It's a great score.


Yeah, Zimmer was amazing with Gladiator.

Good to see a Williams fan again. A lot of people enjoy bashing the hell out of him nowadays. I love his work, my self.

As for my stuff, I like orchestral scores. Film music is fascinating, because it allows you to be so manipulative of the audience. Studying the hows and whys of film music has handed me a lot of knowledge about music in general, and continues to do so. Some of my favourites include:

Shore's LOTR series.

Zimmer's "Tears of the Sun" and "The last Samurai".

Elfman's work on "Beetlejuice", "Batman"/"Batman Returns", "Spiderman",
and "Edward Scissorhands".

Alan Silvestri's score for "Van Helsing". Terrible movie, great score.

James Horner's "Braveheart", "Enemey at the Gates", and "Alien".

John Williams' "Harry Potter"(all of them), all of the "Star Wars", especially ep.4&5, "Jaws", all of the "Indiana Jones" series, and "Saving Private Ryan".

And one that I've been listening to non-stop lately is Harry Gregson-Williams' work on "Kingdom of Heaven". The score is beautiful, works perfectly with the movie. The movie was excellent as well.[/QUOTE]

um my thoughts exactly!!

definitely
John Williams stuff is great, I've always enjoyed listening to one of his soundtracks
I like Danny Elfman too, it's very distinctive
Other favourites of mine include:
Lord of the Rings (all 3, but if I had to choose I'd say Fellowship)
Harry Potter
Schindler's List
JCS
Joseph
Phantom
the Wiz (although I'm biased because I've done the show)
Chicago
Mamma Mia (I know, I know)
Gladiator
Troy
Sound of Music
Moulin Rouge (both soundtracks)
Finding Neverland
Pirates of the Caribbean
lots of Disney, including Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback, Little Mermaid, Mulan, Cinderella, many more

I haven't heard Kingdom of Heaven yet, but I'd really like honest opinions on it- any good?

Donnie Darko
Interview With The Vampire
The Pianist

I am currently very much enjoying the soundtrack to Rent, the movie...haven't seen it yet, but the music is awesome