Great Movie Soundtracks

conrad5157 · Feb 27, 2009

I believe most of favorites have already been listed but I'll go ahead and mention a recent film; King Kong. I can't say I remember note for note, but it was the background music when they were on the ice in Central Park.

Marc Chevalier · Feb 27, 2009

The soundtrack for John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. :eusa_clap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aieMfmeTT8

(Arguably the greatest adventure movie of all time, IMHO.)
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Bassman · Feb 27, 2009

I love the John Barry scores for the 007 movies. He also did the scores for Zulu & Dancing With Wolves.
Henry Mancini's score for Wait Untill Dark has some great micro-tonal sections. Very spooky/creepy.
The movie Casino has a great "various artists" soundtrack.
Gato Barbieri's score for Last Tango In Paris.
Ry Cooder has scored some good ones.
I was always a fan of Lalo Schifrin's theme song for the tv show Mannix.

HadleyH · Feb 27, 2009

Quincy Jones!

Carlisle Blues, yes, that was the movie I was thinking about, thank you!
Nathan Dodge, I will listen to the Lalo Schifrin sound samples that you suggested.

Another composer, arranger, musician, producer, in one word genius, that I greatly admire is Quincy Jones , I like almost everything he wrote for movies and TV, including the music for the film "The Color Purple" as mentioned above!

Son_of_Atropos · Feb 28, 2009

Carlisle Blues · Feb 28, 2009

I get hopelessly lost in Dr. Zhivago's romanticism, mysticism and duality when hear or play "Somewhere My Love"(Lara's Theme) by Maurice Jarre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXAa0XaS6bs&feature=related

Ethereal, dreamy and sensual.

Bassman · Feb 28, 2009

Son_of_Atropos said:
Excalibur using Wagner's O Fortuna great Scene: Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylGJO6I30M

I'm no expert or big fan of classical music but I always thought "O Fortuna" was by Carl Orf from his Carmina Burana (which I love).
Did Orf "borrow" that from Wagner?

byronic · Feb 28, 2009

The Four Feathers- Miklos Rosza

Son_of_Atropos · Feb 28, 2009

Bassman said:
I'm no expert or big fan of classical music but I always thought "O Fortuna" was by Carl Orf from his Carmina Burana (which I love).
Did Orf "borrow" that from Wagner?

You are right and I am wrong. Sorry. Thanks for pointing this out.

John in Covina · Mar 2, 2009

The film score from "Total Recall" is outstanding.

The background music in the early Bond films are stunning especialy those underwater thems for Thunderball!

Some of the songs from the film "The Jackel" are great especially 'Red Tape' just steams. Same with the first tomb Raider has some great cuts.

There is a CD called Crime Jazz that has a lot of flim noirish and fifties crime drama themes.

The Beau Hunks doing the Little Rascals music on two cds is exceptional, simply mesmerizing.

The Miami Vice soundtrack cd's have some of the themes from the show that are great to reminise to.

Nathan Dodge · Mar 3, 2009

HOUR OF THE GUN- Jerry Goldsmith. One of my favorite scores ever and I've been listening to it a lot lately after a couple of years away from it. Still as fresh as the first time I heard it, and it works so well with the film--which is the purpose, first and foremost, right?

No one married images and music better than Jerry Goldsmith. He was also wise enough NOT to score a scene when silence was more effective. Best example: the original PLANET OF THE APES. BTW, Goldsmith conducted that score wearing an ape mask! Ahh, the sixties...lol

UWS Cowboy · Mar 3, 2009

Risky Business by Tangerine Dream
Blade Runner by Vangelis
Taxi Driver - Bernard Hermann
The Warriors - Barry De Vorzon
And the score to Le Samourai - Just saw it and wow, great French new wave flick.
Many more.

WH1 · Mar 5, 2009

Hatari!
music by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer

Papa Noir · Mar 5, 2009

I love the work Howard Shore did with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm excited to see what he has in store for us with The Hobbit, that is, if he scores it. He did remark that during the filming of LOTR, that he was quietly working on music for the Hobbit, and had some pieces he was really proud of.

Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner are two favorites that have been mentioned before.

Dixon's Dame · Mar 5, 2009

I'm a big fan of Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Rozsa, and those have all been mentioned already. One composer I haven't seen yet is Frank De Vol. He scored quite a lot of films, and his music for The Flight of the Phoenix and The Dirty Dozen and Cat Ballou rank very high on my list of favorite scores.

Nathan Dodge · Mar 7, 2009

Don't think anyone's mentioned the "other" Jerry, Jerry Fielding. Best known for his scores for The Wild Bunch and The Outlaw Josey Wales, he's also the only composer besides Lalo Schifrin to have scored a Dirty Harry movie (The Enforcer). He specialized in edgy, avante-garde sounds but could bring out the funk out at the drop of a hat. He's not even very popular among most film score buffs as he's an acquired taste; when I'm in that mood, he's the composer for me.

For our retro/WWII purposes, you may know that Fielding composed the theme to Hogan's Heroes. More amusingly, he created the "Tribble" motif for Star Trek!

Bassman · Mar 7, 2009

Dixon's Dame said:
One composer I haven't seen yet is Frank De Vol. He scored quite a lot of films, and his music for The Flight of the Phoenix and The Dirty Dozen and Cat Ballou rank very high on my list of favorite scores.

Another thing I love about Frank DeVol is that he portrayed "Happy Kine" of Happy Kine and The Mirthmakers...the house band on the late night tv talk show parody "Fernwood Tonight" in the '70s.
I also Have an Ella Fitzgerald lp on which he provides the music and arrangements.

Lady Day · Mar 7, 2009

Son_of_Atropos said:
Clint Mansell -- Movie:The Fountain -- Song title:"Last Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhRYynBvzuE

C

Clint Mansell is one of my favorite film composers going now. I love his work with Mogwai for that score.
I also love his score Requiem for a Dream!

French composer Eric Sera is another fave of mine. 5th Element, The Professional I listen to often.

Im surprised no one has mentioned Thomas Newman's work, Shawshank Redemption, that score is perfect!

Im really into Terence Blanchard's Inside Man. There are some wonderful passages in that score.

Graeme Revell is another fave. He does a lot of stuff but some of my faves are The Insider, The Negotiator and The Crow.

LD

Nathan Dodge · Mar 9, 2009

Lady Day said:
Im surprised no one has mentioned Thomas Newman's work, Shawshank Redemption, that score is perfect!

LD

Thomas Newman is one of the few composers working today who has their very own style, his score for ROAD TO PERDITION is a masterwork. I love the silence between the notes (as Miles Davis might have said) of his piano work.

Diamondback · Mar 9, 2009

Not vintage, but I thought Carlo Silioto did a heckuva job on The Punisher. Just the right blend of dark, moody and "things in motion" vibe to musically "describe" Frank Castle and what he was going through.

*cringing at anticipated reactions if I bring up David Arnold's scoring on Independence Day*

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