Favourite film music

Buck Owens

I'm listen to the Amazing Return of the king soundtrack as I Type this and I was wondering what your Favourite Film sountracks are? This has probaly been talked about lotsa times here but still. My would be:


The LOTR trilogy
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
A clockwork orange
Black hawk down
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Spinal tap

byte

Trainspotting OST (both). Tis great though I haven't listened to them in a while.

MrJoeSoap

The music to Hannibal is pretty haunting, especially in the dark.

My favourites are
The Lord of the Rings
Ravenous
Wonderland
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
thats all I can think of.

UnrealQueen

LOTR
Swordfish
The Matrix
American Pie
Trainspotting

Franky Boy

donnie darko and good will hunting

Quatre Mains

American Beauty had great music - Kevin Spacey singing along to The Seeker always makes me laugh

Karl Hungus

Conan The Barbarian.
Honestly one of the best scores ever written for film.

And obviously, LOTR.

Chad ghostal

heat, dancer upstairs, akira, jurrasic park..
and full metal jacket just off the top of my head..

Karl Hungus

Bram Stoker's Dracula also had a fantastic score.

And a very bizarre film score that I quite loved, was from the film Ravenous, which was scored by Damon Albarn of all people!

claudius

for me, films with original scores are best. 'the mission', 'the untouchables' (both ennio morricone) and 'mishima' (philip glass) spring to mind. the music used for the lightsaber battle in 'the phantom menace' (john williams) stirs the auld blood.

that brian eno track used in '28 days later' and 'heat'. in fact, all the music used in heat.

also, soundtrack wise - 'repo man', the hilarious juicy banana track 'i'm a bad man' just gets me every time. it's got a killer groove as well.

jebsus, how could i forget? john carpenter's music for 'assault on precinct 13', 'the thing' and 'halloween'. love that synth stuff.

PWEI

Trainspotting was great but another Danny Boyle film with a top soundtrack was
The Beach.Although I was very disappointed to find out the main theme/score
from the flim,ANGELO BADALAMENTI's score was not on it.Then I did some investigating to find out where I could get the score from the film and it turns out there was a separate "Original Soundtrack Score" released which didn't have of any of the music from the other soundtrack.It's very rare though and I haven't been able to get my hands on it,amazon don't even have it.

Kali

Pi.. massive attack, roni size, aphex twin, autechre, clint mansell, gus gus, orbital and david holmes.. it doesn't get much better.

That and Dancer In The Dark.

mang87

Donnie Darko
Last of the mohicans
The Matrix
LOTR

Shred

Fellowship Of The Ring
Braveheart
Gladiator
True Romance
The Mission
Hannibal

All fantastic

MisterAnarchy

What about 'Labyrinth' ?
A classic
Vanilla Sky
Predator

Len_007

The Lord of the Rings
Episode 2
Any of John williams stuff I just love

angelofdeath

the good. the bad and the ugly

susperia

Jim

25th Hour.

Terence Blanchard, I'd advise everyone to give it a listen, especially "Doyle's Walk".

I forgot about Requim for a Dream which I absolutly love.

jade78

i listen to ghost world alot and crouching tiger hidden dragon.( was v p**sed off last night when i saw that tv3 showed the dubbed version, talk about under-estimating your audience)
im thinking of getting the cold mountain soundtrack.

mike65

Originally posted by jade78
...and crouching tiger hidden dragon.( was v p**sed off last night when i saw that tv3 showed the dubbed version, talk about under-estimating your audience)
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Its TV3! They showed it 4:3 ratio too!


My favourites include Battleship Potemkin, Diva, Thief,
Assualt on Precinct 13.

Mike.

PWEI

I forgot to name some of my other favourite's which have already been mentioned,
Pi and the excellent Requiem for a Dream.The main score from Pi and all of Requiem for a Dream were composed by the multi talented Clint Mansell ex front man from Pop Will Eat Itself.His haunting theme from Requiem for a Dream was used for the trailer in LOTR Two Towers.He also composed the main theme from The Hole and has worked on other various films.

Andrew Duffy

Out of Sight has a very laid back soundtrack by David Holmes - actually a lot of Stephen Soderbergh's (sp?) movies have decent soundtracks. I prefer when a film has a great score rather than just a good selection of songs by different artistes (cough Danny Boyle cough).

azezil

Moulin Rouge
Run Lola Run


pfffft Donnie Darko there's only 1 song remixed 18 times (good song though )

dod

God. Film music eh? Well 'tis hard to say as there is so much incidental music from some of the great composers used in all sorts of films (e.g. Ride of the Valkyries in 'Apocalypse Now', the excerpt from 'Marriage of Figaro' in 'Shawshank Redemption', 'O mio bambino caro' from 'Gianni Schicchi' in 'Philadelphia'... although I suppose the complete score in 'Amadeus' could hardly be described as incidental to the storyline). Also, the fact that I know nothing about films probably doesn't help.

Off the top of my head, these occur to me as a few brilliant uses of music that I would associate more with the film than the original composer:

John Williams- the violin solo theme in Schindlers List
The Tango in Scent of a Woman
The Cavatina in The Deer Hunter
The Wedding March from The Sound of Music
The Flying Theme from E.T.

Hmm. I know I will think of a few more as soon as I submit this. But enough's enough.

Who could forget the Doors soundtrack.

User45701

Kill Bill volume 1 = Great music
Broken arrow and Faceoff = Ok, music
MI2 had 1 good piece of music

Cant think of any more off hand

D!ve^Bomb!

the perfect storm
se7en
kill bill
predator
blues brothers
the breakfast club
28 days later
terminator
platoon
jeepers creepers 2

thats all i can think of for now

D!ve^Bomb!

oh yeah, indianna jones and dirty dancin,,, yes thats right i said dirty dancin!!

Kunst

snatch - stealing stones and breaking bones (absloute classic)
oh and resevoir dogs
lotr (howard shore is a genius)

projectmayhem

howard shores score for LOTR
Don Davis' score for The Matrices
Michael Andrews' score for Donnie Darko
Hans Zimmers score for The Last Samurai

super_furry

The Wickerman soundtrack is the only film soundtrack that I regularly listen to. It's my favourite film too.

Speedway

Donnie Darko's soundtrack is quite good
While it's not a movie the soundtrack to Band of Brothers is absoultely fantastic.Very moving.
Black Hawk Down's soundtrack is excellent.
One movie i would watch just for the song at the closing credits is Proof of Life (Russel Crowe, Meg Ryan). The song is the closing credits is called "I'll be your lover too" by Van Morrisson. I just LOVE this song,has some excellent guitar.The movie wasnt great but i love that song

jill_valentine

Hmmm....Donni Darko (of course...)
The Matrix.
Secretary's score always reminds me of MGS2. Is that just me?
Memento....


Nuthin else off the top of my head...

funktastic

The music by Bernard Herrmann in Hitchcock films is great for adding to the atmospher esp. Vertigo. He also did the music to Taxi Driver
Bonnie and Clyde- well it's mostly 'Foggy mountain breakdown' by flatt and scruggs, but ye can't beat that eh?
Apocalypse now
Pulp fiction
Lost in translation- good recent one, most of it by Kevin Shields i think

Ebony

empire records
the crow
magnolia
fight club
cruel intentions
romeo+juilet both the score and the bands cds

Wook

Bladerunner...

Vader

the evil music during the fight scene in the phantom menace, thats great but i cant find it anywhere

nadir

Conan the Barbarian

also.
Blade Runner, Platoon, The good the Band and the Ugly,
so many tbh.

Digsy

I'm a big fan of 80's movies and the soundtracks that went with them , like the lost boys , stand by me , beverly hills cop and fletch

Kalina

Brilliant scores for:
The American President,
A Beautiful Mind,
Braveheart,
Shrek,
Apollo 13,
First knight,
The green Mile,
Monsters Inc,
Legends of the Fall... too any to mention.

Go to moviemusic.com for the best selection of soundtracks and scores.

neXus9

The bladerunner soundtrack seems pretty good (way ahead of it's time).

simu

The music in The Mission and in The Good The Bad And The Ugly, both by Ennio Morricone. Absolute qualitá.

Senor_Fudge

apocalypse now , conan the barbarian like angelwhore said

Bacchus

Most(if not all) of these have already being posted.
Donnie Darko
Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
28 Days Later
LOTR: Return Of The King
Kill Bill
The Graduate
2001: A Space Odessey(sp?)

Kiith

Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
Gladiator
American Beauty
Last of the Mohicans
Piano Solo from Groundhog Day