Inspirational movie scores

Skittlemon

I'm currently compiling a playlist of movie score with the general theme of inspirational/hairs on the back of your neck stand up. My recollection of names of tracks is terrible, so far I have two Lisa Gerrard tracks, one from Man on Fire and the other from Gladiator. I've also picked up a few tracks from Hans Zimmerman's Batman tunes. I'd welcome a few more suggestions if you peeps have any?

krudler

Can't post youtube links at the mo but for me:

Evey Reborn from V For Vendetta, slow building with a brilliant finale

Journey To The Line from The Thin Red Line, it's in the new X-Men trailer and the beginning was in the Man of Steel trailer last year.

Sunshine Adagio in D Minor, from Sunshine, overused at this point but a phenomenal piece of music.

Coming Back Around from How To Train Your Dragon.

Transfiguration and Adagio- Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, awful movie, phenomenal score.

Lento- Alien 3, woefully underrated music score, I can't remember the climactic track name but that's great as well.

Skittlemon

Krudler, you're all kinds of awesome. I'm going downloading 5 of your suggestions after listening to them. Also getting the Alien finale track, great call on Alien 3 soundtrack btw !
Still open for more suggestions all the same

Gmol

The Theme from the DeerHunter

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhoa7oWPPhk

Really feels like "first contact", captures what Star Trek should be all about. Hope.

Goolay

Great suggestions so far.

Here's some from me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQkl7qa6RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAfr9ypwyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQWlQLHgY4

(bear with it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mTmjP-TJ0

LuckyLloyd

Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan

Halfbaker

The Deer Hunter, The Mission. Two of my favourites where the music really enhances the film.

bodhi085

krudler wrote: »

Can't post youtube links at the mo but for me:

Evey Reborn from V For Vendetta, slow building with a brilliant finale

Journey To The Line from The Thin Red Line, it's in the new X-Men trailer and the beginning was in the Man of Steel trailer last year.

Sunshine Adagio in D Minor, from Sunshine, overused at this point but a phenomenal piece of music.

Coming Back Around from How To Train Your Dragon.

Transfiguration and Adagio- Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, awful movie, phenomenal score.

Lento- Alien 3, woefully underrated music score, I can't remember the climactic track name but that's great as well.

Def have to agree on "sunshine" a real hair standing up piece of music

Crumpets

Entire soundtrack from Lord of the Rings

A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics from A Beautiful Mind

Telecaster58

The suggestions are not for soundtracks really. More like individual excerpts of music from certain movies. The greatest soundtrack for any film was Amadeus!.

Adamantium

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

Wonderful electric guitar riffs, so calming and hopeful, key moment in the series.
No drums in sight in this one.

I know its not a movie soundtrack, but it could be.

BSG is the only series I'd think buying about the whole soundtrack too. Magnum Opus for series soundtracks. Still listen to it daily five years after the show ended.

Uplifting, propulsive, dark and inspirational in waves, often all at the same time. All of isn't incidental and tells a story, and is experimental and operatic, much like the way the show was made and broadcast too (irregular episode lengths and a lot of the tracks not even been used)
Really hope Bear McCreary gets working on some blockbusters soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW9FDByKsC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UgXIf9jhF4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hSkWmxHrA

And....I'm done! :P

DrumSteve

Most of thomas newmans back catalogue and the soundtrack from the fountain (clint mansell)

Crumpets

Forgot to mention Amelie by Yann Tiersen

shazzerman

Jerry Goldsmith's "Capricorn One" gets me every time.
John Barry's "Back to Nature" from "Walkabout".
The aforementioned "Journey to the Line" from "The Thin Red Line", but also "Light".
Ennio Morricone's score for "Once Upon a Time in America" and "Cinema Paradiso".
Philip Glass's "November 25: morning" from "Mishima".
John Williams' "Superman" (no brainer).
Pino Donaggio is underrated - he has some great scores under his belt: "Don't Look Now" and "Carrie" (the latter is so good I don't think the film would be half as good without it).
Underrated Gems: Brad Fiedel's "Terminator 2", and John Powell's "Face/Off" (love the opening cue).

_Kaiser_

Great movie.. great track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgZH41CVY

Also..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6qjez6rbDA

And ok, it's not a movie but it started as one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLDz0fBoGtM

Ruu

Love this soundtrack, this is the main theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXUMB19WkT8

pixelburp

Here's a random one I thought I'd share that I think fits the bill somewhat; a while back I watched (through Netflix) a real stinker from the 80s, Lifeforce, an otherwise terrible movie despite some great talent behind it. Some of that talent included the great Henry Mancini who penned the score, including this rousing track from the opening credits. The film itself was atrocious, but I loved just how exciting and full of adventure & possibility the music made things feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsV7TuNMr5M

Skittlemon

This is totally awesome, I've got tonnes from here! Big props on the Terminator theme, forgot how awesome it is! Lets keep the thread going, everyone has their specials, wouldn't mind a few more suggestions :cool:

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nip7k0m08PM

I've had the melody stick in my head ever since I was a child, and I couldn't remember where I got it. It was this wonderful, underrated movie with the gorgeous Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges.

Genuinely timeless,beautiful and unforgettable, and you have my word.

I know that's thrown around a lot, but here it actually deserves it.

shrewdness

Along with a few already mentioned, love these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA

Tefral

Here are my favourites:
Hans Zimmer -Time
Hans Zimmer - Up is down
Hans zimmer - The Chaveliers de Sangreal
Hans Zimmer-Fighting 17th
Hans Zimmer -Now we are free
Steve Joblinski - Arrival to Earth
Steve Joblinski - Scorpanok
Hans Zimmer - An ideal of hope

Turtwig

This one

Vego

Goodbye-Alan silvestri......the trumpet bit in predator

johnny_ultimate

I wonder from time to time whether pieces of music from film would be quite as evocative if we weren't aware of the context we first heard them in - but then I remember first hearing The Mission's On Earth As It Is In Heaven without having seen the film and think 'well, some of them can be!'

Anyway, for my money Mamoru Hosoda is a contemporary director offering many genuinely spine-tingling moments in his charming, emotionally generous films. He does through his winningly accessible storytelling, but he's certainly aided by his soundtrack collaborators.

150 Million Miracles scores the epic climax of Summer Wars, and for me anyway it's a true 'hairs on back of neck' moment when it reaches it's final crescendo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO5PG6akRh4

In his more recent film Wolf Children, there's a joyous scene where the three main characters rush out and play in the snow. It's a magnificent moment, and aided by a piece of music that is simply pure joy and innocence. It helps that the music actually dynamically reacts to what is happening on screen, giving that extra spine-tingle.

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

MfMan

John Barry - Out Of Africa, Born Free
Maurice Jarre - Lawrence.., Zhivago
Morricone - Once.. In The West

Liked the score for American History X

snaphook

Elegy for Dunkirk from Atonement.
Dawn from Pride and Prejudice. Lovely all round score.
Dario Marianelli.

Time from Inception.
The Battle from Gladiator.
Hans Zimmer.

D-FENS

Gotta be this for inspiration

But always loved this

Also this for some strange reason , creepy but unusually uplifting.
Big Albarn fan but didn’t actually notice he was involved when I first seen the film / heard this

shazzerman

This is what I'm talkin' 'bout...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAP6FGwHnSs

And one I forgot:

hardweir

Absolutely love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_M_LAMaf0w

and this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5M3bP0O3k

CatInABox

I quite like the "End Title" sound from Blade Runner - by Vangelis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk

macslash

Love this one

Also, this is excellent

Kiith

Probably my favourite piece of music from films in recent years. Absolutely love it.

Loads more, as i'm a huge fan of film scores. I could post a few hundred of these...but i wont :P

SoapMcTavish

Does it have to be soundtrack ?

Crumpets

SimonTemplar

This is one of the best six minutes of movie score ever. The warmth and nostalgia when Kirk sees the USS Enterprise for the first time at 1:29 gets me everytime.

SimonTemplar

Also, The Last Airbender was an awful movie but James Newton Howard wrote one of the best scores of his career, especially this masterpiece

K4t

Badlands - Carl Orff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwX9Ul-Fy24

American Beauty - Thomas Newman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRX2o3P4QQ

MisterAnarchy

Some of my favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VPvp4O8xE

From the 3 minute mark on its frenetic ,hairs on the back of the neck brilliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCHNGWE4vY

One of the best scores from recent years,how it didnt win best score at the Oscars this year is beyond belief

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

A combination of two songs ,Hanging and Escape ,from Plunkett and Macleane ,epic stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7712z7kaqM

Drink up My Hearties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbIHxKh9bk

Jazzed up version of the song from Platoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU9CEcWkzOs

Another recent soundtrack ,Clash of the Titans
Same guy did the score for Pacific Rim and Game of Thrones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QQc6qFo5ok

Brian Tyler ,talented guy ,also did the soundtrack for Rambo 4 and Transformers .

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

Natural City ,Korean sci fi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Ch5jV4vgs

Broken Arrow soundtrack ,one of Hans Zimmers best works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnAltm4EVvo

Clint Mansell from Smokin Aces
I could post loads more ,I use alot of these songs for workouts ,powerful stuff.

Ennio Morricone is playing in the O2 in December.

I saw him in Paris in February and London about 10 years ago. If you go to see any concert in your life go to see Ennio.

Mike Litoris

Most of what Lalo Schifrin did for Dirty Harry especially Scorpio's Theme.

losthorizon

Chariots of Fire is great

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

Cinema Paradiso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VclRS7x0e38

Rory Gallagher

Absolutely anything from Ennio Morricone, Really effective scores.

Also the opening Jazz tune from the film 'Hard Boiled' starring Chow-yun fat, Really nice melody to that one.

wytch

I love the music from the "Conan the barbarian" films staring Arnold Schwarzenegger. They make the film.
The haunting tune from "The Mission" wow!
My favourite is from "The Chorus" super film with music at the core of it.
Just went to get the link, 14 million views!!

This one definitely makes the hairs rise on the back of your neck. (might need to watch the film for the full effect)
Full film appears to be on You Tube "Les Choristes"

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8OU5WtfkQ

Scarface is inspirational, let's be honest :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY

Both are my favourite kind of trash, FUN movies.

Y2KBOS86

lOne of my favourites, very powerful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAhVbayGv4

Great film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O9q0NB2HL0

The Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nksp7zjrYE