Great soundtracks from movies/musicals

Siejiang

Hi, not sure if it's the right place to post this, maybe should put it in the music part...... anyway, just wonder anyone like soundtracks?
There're quite a number of great composers like, Hans Zimmer, John Williams.....
but still looking for others who are not so famous but maybe have one/two shockingly good works.... :cool:
hoping to hear some recommendations, any name for composers/movies/musicals/songs/tunes are appreciated!
Thanks very much in advance!

mikemac

Zach Hemsey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJqicM6x84

Einaudi
Was used on the trailer for the Reader, love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxFAT581T4

Some more reading for you
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055892385

There was another recent thread but I can't find it, maybe have a search

krudler

Recently been listening to John Murphy's score for Sunshine a lot, Surface of the Sun is an amazing track, was used brilliantly in Kick Ass too

trustno1

One of my favourites would be Ennio Morricones score for The Mission. I would also be a fan of Gabriel Yared's soundtrack for Betty Blue. More recently I was totally blown away by Hans Zimmer's score for Inception.

Peter Gabriel has also done some nice work for the likes of Birdy, Rabbit Proof Fence and 'Passion' for The Last Temptation of Christ. He also featured with the stunning 'In your eyes' for the 80's film Say Anything.

But is goes without saying that John Williams is the soundtrack King!!..

Gijoe

Love this subject. Some amazing Film Scores out there.

I'm a big fan of Clint Mansell and Hans Zimmer. I think the soundtracks for The Fountain, Gattaca and Gladiator are great.

Audiomachine do some really cool dramatic, choir stuff which are used a lot in trailers.

krudler

The Fountain is an amazing score alright, Death Is The Road To Awe is stunning.

big James Newton Howard fan too, his work on Shyamalans movies are way beyond the quality of the films themselves, especially Unbreakable and The Village.

Siejiang

feelingstressed wrote: »

Zach Hemsey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJqicM6x84

Einaudi
Was used on the trailer for the Reader, love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxFAT581T4

LOVE the music as much as the movies! thanks for the links, sounds good;)

krudler

youtube (cant access it at work) a track from Snow Falling on Cedars called Sawara, its absolutely brilliant, was the big choral piece used in the trailer for Matrix Revolutions.

Siejiang

krudler wrote: »

The Fountain is an amazing score alright, Death Is The Road To Awe is stunning.

big James Newton Howard fan too, his work on Shyamalans movies are way beyond the quality of the films themselves, especially Unbreakable and The Village.

ha, I was just thinking about blood diamond, 'thought I'd never call', nice piece!

Siejiang

I'm kinda going 'Frenchy' recently, like Yann Tiersen, Jean-Claude Petit, and Christian Gaubert..... can't speak French, but their works are brilliant!
btw, Yann Tiersen is genius!!!!!:pac:

willonzo

Jerry Goldsmith is right up there with John Williams... I'm thinking Alien and The Omen. Another classic soundtrack guy is Bernard Hermann, his work on Hitchcock's films is pretty cool. More recently, Johnny Greenwood's scroe for There Will Be Blood is genius. He was robbed of that oscar...

MayoForSam

+1 for Clint Mansell, he has some done stunning soundtracks mainly for Darren Aronovsky, but 'Moon' is excellent too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys

abouttobebanned

krudler wrote: »

youtube (cant access it at work) a track from Snow Falling on Cedars called Sawara, its absolutely brilliant, was the big choral piece used in the trailer for Matrix Revolutions.

"Tawara"

Newton Howard is great alright. The main theme for Sixth Sense is excellent but the rest of the soundtrack isn't. Unbreakable from start to finish is quite good though.

I'm obsessed with soundtracks.

Lately I've been listening to and loving the recently released full score to Rocky 4.

La Haine

Jamin Winans 'Ink' soundtrack would be one of my current fav's. ;O)

krudler

abouttobebanned wrote: »

"Tawara"

Newton Howard is great alright. The main theme for Sixth Sense is excellent but the rest of the soundtrack isn't. Unbreakable from start to finish is quite good though.

I'm obsessed with soundtracks.

Lately I've been listening to and loving the recently released full score to Rocky 4.

Ah, you're right, its a great track.

Rocky 4 is great, its just a big ball of 80s cheese, the fight music is great, pumps you right up :pac:

Roar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQS_8maM3E

Bernard Hermann's score for Taxi Driver is just beautiful..

SVG

krudler wrote: »

Recently been listening to John Murphy's score for Sunshine a lot, Surface of the Sun is an amazing track, was used brilliantly in Kick Ass too

Me too- it's making my everyday life seem so much more epic.

I think Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score for The Assassination of Jesse James is great. This is my favourite track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0FSG9h-GI

They also did the score for The Proposition and it's definitely worth checking out too.

davocesque

dunno if this is what your talking about as the soundtrack was not composed for the film, but songs were selected to go with it, BUT, Pulp Fiction, what a soundtrack:D

krudler

Roar wrote: »

Bernard Hermann's score for Taxi Driver is just beautiful..

Parts of it are, parts of it sound like a 70s porn soundtrack, which is probably what they were going for, who knows :pac: I do love the initial opening music, where the cab appears from the steam.

krudler

One of my most favourite underrated scores is for Alien 3, its fcuking great, especially "Lento"

krudler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB1Wx7nXLYQ

This is just epic, I'm amazed it hasnt been in more trailers, really gets going about 1.00 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGZxh-NG7FA

Love 1.30 on, very atmospheric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx1wTxftSI

If I ever get into a car chase in real life I want this playing on my car stereo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHG2kg0fvy8

Stunning track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7eQb9KbBCg

I remember hearing this for the first time in the cinema and the hairs on my neck stood up, epiiiic.

Gijoe

Some great songs posted here. I also reckon the Casshern soundtrack is excellent

Bacchus

I've the following soundtracks on repeat at work.

Inception - Excellent soundtrack ending with the amazing track 'time'

Sunshine - Another epic soundtrack

Moon - Full of moving tracks take me right back to the movie scenes

Not a movie but all of Bear McCreary's work on Battlestar Galactica is amazing.

I do quite enjoy the soundtracks Tarantino puts together on his movies as well.

The Matrix soundtrack is cool too.

VonLuck

Was going to say Song for Bob from Assassination of Jesse James but this is great too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3ZBuZnud_Y

The Matrix Reloaded has some great music also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2gfDO_8ggQ

titan18

Gets really overplayed but it's still great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ma4BvMUwU

The soundtrack for Beowulf is brilliant imo.The one below is the main theme but there's some great music in that film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOadnpnDu8

I'd say Gladiator probably has the best overall, the main theme,Now We Are Free and Elysium are brilliant.

Inception and Kick-Ass this year were great.Love the song Bad Reputation from Freaks and Geeks, and just hearing it in 1 fight scene in Kick-Ass was fantastic.Last of The Mohicans has some great pieces aswell imo.

The Disney films tend to be great too.The Lion King,Aladdin,Beauty and the Beast etc all have great soundtracks.I love The Lion King's one so much.Don't know what it is, but those opening credits are just great and make me feel so happy.

mikemac

MayoForSam wrote: »

+1 for Clint Mansell,

Clint Mansell is da man!

The Wrestler, check the 20 seconds or so.
I linked to the film, you can always check youtube for the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGRJccENfxk

And better still, the end tune to Smoking Aces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbh4w9SlgZ0

Siejiang

Bacchus wrote: »

I've the following soundtracks on repeat at work.

Inception - Excellent soundtrack ending with the amazing track 'time'


I'm listening to Inception since it's mentioned more than twice here, indeed, BRILLIANT!!!!

krudler

"Time" is indeed an amazing track, love listening to it in my car if I'm driving late at night

Gijoe

Edward Scissorhands - great score. Danny Elfman

Siejiang

Gijoe wrote: »

Edward Scissorhands - great score. Danny Elfman

LOVE this one! love the movie too!

Otis Driftwood

Some personal favourites from movies include

Alan Silvestri's Predator score

Christopher Youngs work on Hellraiser

Damon Albarn and Michael Nymans colabaration on Ravenous

For an OST with alot of original songs The Blues Brothers kicks ass.

Kiith

Millers Crossing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YPsfwSPGg

October Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru-ho1ZZj-4

EdgarAllenPoo

One of my favourite pieces of music;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac

krudler

EdgarAllenPoo wrote: »

One of my favourite pieces of music;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac

If you like that listen to this, same guy,another great score:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXbhpF0izU

Larianne

Gijoe wrote: »

Edward Scissorhands - great score. Danny Elfman

I've the soundtrack, love this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9-kTrCAuE

Heat also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3IXg8t8Ybs

candy-gal1

Moulin rouge.
Phantom of the opera.
Bride of chucky.
The Craft.
Mamma mia, Grease, Dirty dancing.

Feu

Only one mention for Ennio Morricone? His soundtracks for Once upon a time in the west, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso just for starters are stunning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBLbH6vRwk8

Into the Wild was great original music imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkeJWXY4ZA

and for something a little different maybe...some of the blaxploitation soundtracks from the 70s are great -like Across 110th Street, written by Bobby Womack, Shaft in Africa (!) written by Isaac Hayes, Trouble Man written by Marvin Gaye and
The Superfly soundtrack written by Curtis Mayfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g

Sanjuro

Thomas Newman is one of my own favorite composers. His scores match the tone of each of the films he works on perfectly.

The Shawshank Redemption- It's pretty hard not to get shivers when this piece crescendos. Brilliant-

American Beauty-

And even though it's from a TV series, the opening titles to Six Feet Under set the tone unbelievably well-

Siejiang

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Moulin rouge.
Phantom of the opera.
Bride of chucky.
The Craft.
Mamma mia, Grease, Dirty dancing.

you seem a fan of musicals! Moulin rouge is my first love of all the musicals!!!

Siejiang

Krudler you're a pro!

Siejiang

Tim Borton's movies always have stylish music, listening to Corpse bride the other day, 'the piano duet' and 'Victor's solo' are great pieces:rolleyes:

losthorizon

I just love "The Third Man". When I went to Austria on my Holidays i visited some of the locations in the film and went on the ferris wheel used in the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XcMqeA20k&NR=1

marwelie

Being the huge Beatle fan that I am, my favourite film soundtracks are Help and A Hard Days Night ;o)

WakeUp

Nice thread:)

"Billy Discovered" - Alan Silvestri - Young Guns 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cljxOw2L8Yo

"Conscience" - Antonio Pinto - Lord of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjul_S3rWsM

"The Gael" - Dougie Maclean - Last of the Mohicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCv7k_Hzvg

MisterAnarchy

Some of my favourites are

Broken Arrow by Hans Zimmer especially "Broken Arrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibnExiO7tuo

Plunkett and MacLeane by Craig Armstrong ,Notably "Escape"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emhaBY3jwcc

The Lazarus Project by Brian Tyler
Rambo 4 by Brian Tyler

Battlestar Galactica by Bear Mc Creary,best TV soundtrack of all time .

The Bourne Supremacy by John Powell especially "To the Roof"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t53cOiXkyRA

Miami Vice OST
Forrest Gump by Alan Silvestri
Transformers by Steve Jablonsky
Shawshank Redemption by Thomas Newman
Da Vinci Code ,notably "Chevaliers de Sangreal" by Hans Zimmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1OJyaWBJ4

Clash of the Titans by Ramin Djawadi notably "There Is A God In You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9zJRQTVfk

Beekay

Commando :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJgjUEqHHk

Siejiang

teardrop -- by massive attack

House MD opening song, and also used in Prisonbreak.
Good song:cool:

JnarF

krudler wrote: »

Recently been listening to John Murphy's score for Sunshine a lot, Surface of the Sun is an amazing track, was used brilliantly in Kick Ass too

Definitely second that, really makes the movie I felt.

maquiladora

So many....

Bernard Herrmann - North By Northwest :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8olUMYeOgAA

Howard Shore - The Fellowship Of The Ring :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Blmfr-Ir18

John Williams - Empire Of The Sun :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8B6mGnecY

Ennio Morricone - The Legend of 1900 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5QcLLjeLEk

Michael Kamen - Robin Hood :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGgrb29hj4

RolandIRL

Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim

From "The Mist" - just put the hairs on the back of my neck on end. really suited the ending of the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJOH5PImrw

EdgarAllenPoo

Just discovered this song as it's sampled in the eminem track Space Bound. Absolutely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0FSG9h-GI