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whats the best film score/soundtrack youve ever heard?

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by SHANDYHOLMES

SHANDYHOLMES | 20 May '08, 10:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Fight Club

it's just amazing


it is good isnt it :)

have you heard 21 grams?
or the assassination of jesse james...?i love them both


I havn't seen either of those actually

I'll have to check them out.


Blade Runner

On Her Majestys Secret Service
Taxi Driver
Planet of the Apes
...to name but a few.


Blade Runner & Taxi Driver

are classics I love both of those soundtracks.

Electroma is ace for newer film.


Yays Bladerunner.

Didn't wanna say it in fear of being too geeky.


Sunshine


The Godfather

No contest.


toy story

.


Randy Newman!

I think Family Guy got it right about him...


Gattaca

is nice.


^ good call


Lady Vengeance

Beautiful.


Fight Club

The Crow
Singles


Three Colours Blue

for the classical style win.

For more modern stuff I think Clint Mansell (ex PWEI) is 'the man'. Pi in particular is amazing, tracks by Massive Attack, aphex twin as well as Mansell himself.

His stuff with Mogwai on 'the fountain' OST is pretty damn good as well.


Kids

Got me into decent music.

Hip hop, Slint, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion...


The Fountain

Without a doubt


a terribly good shout

i liked his work on requiem too, although i thought the main theme may have been overused slightly.


Overused within Requiem, or since?

Because it got re-worked after and used everywhere but that's not Mansell's fault.


The End of Violence

Average film, amazing soundtrack.

There Will Be Blood is pretty great, too.

Honourable mention to Dead Man for self-indulgence.


A Zed and Two Noughts

is pretty great

Oh and Inland Empire.

going off track a bit, I was thinking how great Portishead would be at doing a soundtrack when I saw them last month. The live show was like the soundtrack to an endlessly bleak post-apocalyptic film


there will be blood

.


This Is England and

Little Miss Sunshine are two recent films that have soundtracks that fit the film perfectly, especially This Is England.


Mojo

Did a compilation of songs from soundtracks (called "The Score") a few years back which I listen to every now and again. It has an amazing song from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song which isn't on the OST, also a great version of Let it Be by Nick Cave (forgotten which film from) and God Moving over the Face of Water by Moby (as used in Heat and a number of other films). Plus a number of great tracks (Frankie Machine being one from Man with the Golden Arm). The tracklisting is available here: http://tinyurl.com/6jaom7


The Royal Tenenbaums

which got me into the Velvet Underground and Nick Drake. It really is a lovely soundtrack.


.

the fountain


rushmore

and forrest gump are great sunny albums... most wes anderson/wilson soundtracks are pretty good though...


Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai

All done by The RZA. Its fantastic.


Juno

and anything by Hans Zimmer.


Me Without You

Empire Records!


:D see my above post

amazing soundtrack


hedwig and the angry inch.

so over the top i want to cover myself in glitter and roll around with drag queens.


urgh

I hate that film and soundtrack. My vote = Harold and Maude


The Matrix


Top 5 Best scores

Once upon a time in America - Sergio Leone
Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisashi
Akira - Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Taxi Driver - Bernard Hermann
Dead Man - Neil Young

Top 5 Best soundtracks

Sea of love
Tank girl
Pi
The Crow
Singles


Neil young snuck in there

Sneaky old bastard


Easy Rider

by a mile.


velvet goldmine

I'll fight anyone who says otherwise


Otherwise


Purple Rain...

Fookin' class


brokeback

mountain


...

all about lily chou-chou


Requiem for a dream

Amazing soundtrack - remember walking home one night in the early hours with it on my headphones - possibly the most epic walk home I've ever had.

Also Ghost Dog, as mentioned above though lots of good stuff on the film didn;t make it to the soundtrack CD


still can't

listen to that track without getting the shivers... i like to turn the film off twenty mins before the end and pretend everyone had a happy ending...


It's gotta be Garden State

That soundtrack is indie-tastic!


Clerks

is also quite good


Trainspotting

and, yes, This is England has a fantastic sound track actually.


Performance

Midnight Cowboy
Lost In Translation
Morvern Caller
Once Upon A Time In The West
Mean Streets
Superfly
Kill Bill
Paris Texas

.....to name 9 of many.


Scores:

The cook, the thief, the wife...-Michael Nyman
Solaris-Cliff Martinez
Paris, Texas-Ry Cooder
Good, the bad and the ugly-Ennio Morricone
Friday Night Lights-EITS
The Graduate-Art and Garfunkel

Soundtracks:

Donnie Darko
Lost in Translation
Romeo and Juliet
Royal Tenenbaums
Zabriskie Point


...

Score - The Assassination of Jesse James

Soundtrack - The Crow


My personal faves

Virgin Suicides - Air
Bladerunner
You Me & Everyone We Know - Micheal Andrews
Tekkonkinkreet - Plaid
Requiem For A Dream
Pump Up The Volume (my teenage favourite)


I assume you mean

Me and You and Everyone We Know?

;)


^ That's the one

I always get that wrong


Blade Runner

The Fountain
Requiem for a Dream
Memento
Lost Highway
2001: A Space Odyssey
Garden State
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou


The Running Man

- Harold Faltermayer.... Captain Freedom's Workout is the best shit ever


Crash maybe

or The Fountain. I got the 30 Days Of Night soundtrack after seeing the film a while back and it still gets regular listens and regularly gives me the willies so an honourable mention for that too.


the fountain

kronos quartet and mogwai. brilliant.


Le Mepris

.


dazed & confused

foghat and kiss? i think so.


Donnie Darko

Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind
Blade Runner
Virgin Suicides
Lost In Translation


Mysterious Skin..

..hauntingly beautiful


Lord of the Rings

face it, it deserved those oscars! (i do agree with many things other people have said)

also, the music in Mirrormask makes me love that film all the more <3


8 1/2

is my all time favorite
la dolce vida is pretty good, both scores done by nino rota.

soundtrack definitely has to be rushmore


Blaxploitation films

tend to have great soundtracks, even though the movies are generally terrible.

Personal faves:
Willie Hutch - The Mack
James Brown - Black Caesar
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

Jackie Brown has a great OST too.


Pulp Fiction

.


Mysterious Skin

by Robin Budd and Harold Guthrie.

It's sublime in every way, one of the most beautiful pieces of music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=klkRmuY_wvQ


Paris, Texas - Ry Cooder

Chilling and oddly heartwarming at the same time.


TRUE ROMANCE

...have you all forgotten about this?!


Pi?

Pi


Josie And The Pussycats

is a great soundtracks.


Um, no.

Are you referring to the main theme or just the soundtrack in general?

Because I can't remember any artists on it, and the main theme is ripped off from Erik Satie, and Badlands.


probably had all these before but...

Friday Night Lights - Explosions in the Sky
Zidane - Mogwai
Royal Tenenbaums
Donnie Darko
Life Aquatic - especially staraflur at the end
Lost in Translation
Thumbsucker - Elliott Smith/Polyphonic Spree
The Cat Returns - there is this awesome song called Kaze Ni Naru by Ayano Tsuji during the ending credits


bugsy


or

on her majestys secret service


Lost in Translation

Friday Night Lights
Anything by Wes Anderson


Sunshine by John Murphy

I love Underworld, but I'd gladly bury them in engine oil for putting the legal mockers on this OST. One of the most soaring, goose-pimply compositions you'll ever hear in Surround Sound. Good job Mr M was kind enough to burn off some CDs via the IMDb message boards. Worth buying a strongbox for ;)


Akira

is really frickin' odd and over-long in places, and well 80s, but still quite amazing in others.


Jon Brion

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


Like I said

It's Easy Rider.

But O Brother Where Art Thou is an acceptable answer.


edward scissorhands

or anything by danny elfman.


No love for Yann Tiersen?

I love his work for Goodbye Lenin, I think it's underrated considering how much people go on about the Amelie OST.


The title track from Lenin is amazing

Goes brilliantly with that helicopter sequence.

Watched Pu-239 the other night. Best original OST I've heard this year.


Saturday Night Fever

Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me


ED WOOD: Shore Scrores a direct hit

I think it is the only time Tim Burton DIDN'T use Danny Elfman and it rules.

Howard Shore