Great Film Soundtracks

Errrmmm...

I said it before, last time this thread came up. Think I got shot down.

But the Scott Joplin soundtrack to 'The Sting' is fantastic.

Burt Reynolds wrote: Errrmmm...

I said it before, last time this thread came up. Think I got shot down.

But the Scott Joplin soundtrack to 'The Sting' is fantastic.

Well, I won't argue with the above...

In addition to the above, try some Ryuichi Sakamoto soundtracks (e.g. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence).

And, also, the Bladerunner soundtrack (Vangelis) is always a good one to listen to.

ooh, good thread!

looking through my DVD collection here:

carmine coppola's soundtrack to 'the godfather' is near perfect.

trainspotting--just a great collection of songs

harold and maude--what got me into cat stevens as a kid

stand by me--the best of the '50s fit perfectly into the film

american psycho--great '80s yuppie tunes (especially when christian bale hacks jared leto to death while listening to phil collins)

midnight cowboy--i love everybody's talkin', and john barry's theme with the harmonica is one of the best ever

lost in translation--sofia coppola picked great indie songs for the soundtrack

the indiana jones films--one of the most iconic soundtracks. same with...

star wars

and the best:

2001: a space odyssey. 'nuff said.

film soundtrack or film score? there is a distinction.

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: film soundtrack or film score? there is a distinction.

'best use of music in a film.' i guess....

Trainspotting Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin cover versions by Kevin Spacey!)

2001

the use of existing classical pieces is genius.

The Blue Danube sequence is still THE ZENITH of cinema (the nadir being Tom Cruises rape of H G Wells), though thr first shots of the Discovery heading out, and the crew inside, with the Ligetti balet suite, spinechilling. As for the other Ligetti piece used "lux athena", I'll never understand that piece if I live to be a thousand.

Needsless to say, the Zarathrustra theme has become synonymous with space, bloody hell they even played when man finally caught up with Arthur Clarke (may your current existence be sweet oh great one), and made it all the way to the next grain of dust in the universe.

I listen to a lot of TV soundtracks, as I've mentioned before I'm a huge fan of Barry Gray, so it's not unusual to hear Ceremony, coming out me window, only to be followed by Stingray or Joe90 (the closing theme is pure bliss).

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: film soundtrack or film score? there is a distinction.

Score goes on the sound track on the film strip does it not?

pulp fiction.

honourable mention to kill bill.

Quite like the soundtrack for the remake of Solaris. More of an atmospheric background thing than proper songs, but conjure up a mood.

Pulp Fiction Resevior Dogs Trainspotting Repo Man (classic punk line up there) Singles (start of grunge in public eyes) The Crow Joe Dirt Lost Highway Curious George Thicker Than Water Threesome (shite movie though)

For Score: Gladiator Conan the Barbarian (laugh, but this really is amazing, probably the best ever)

Musical: My Fair Lady

grosse pointe blank garden state dirty dancing one AND two ;)

edit:

Chris Nash wrote:

John Hughes' choices for many 'Bratpack' films - including New Order, Psychadelic Furs, The Smiths, Depeche Mode...

john hughes is a god.

Doctor? wrote:

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: film soundtrack or film score? there is a distinction.

Score goes on the sound track on the film strip does it not?

that's not the point he's making & you know it

not seen it yet but er "control"?

Harold and Maude The Wicker Man

Lost Boys Dirty Dancing Pulp Fiction 24 Hour Party People The Beach

EDIT: How could I forget...

Breakdance Flashdance

written for the film: bladerunner (vangelis) pat garrett & billy the kid (dylan) paris texas (cooder) about a boy (badly drawn) [which freakily just started playing on random on my 36,000 itune collection as I finished typing!!] once upon a time in the west (morricone) lord of the rings (shore) lots of john williams but especially schindler's list chitty chitty bang bang west side story! (although, was this a stage musical first?)

compiled for the film: juno out of sight jackie brown moulin rouge

and anything that has a surprise inclusion that turns ones head: eg durutti column in jerry maguire the new order covers in not another teen movie

Facsimile wrote: written for the film...

compiled for the film...

Bloody hell

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH HAVING A FANNY MAKING YOU LIKE SHITE?????

Hicksy, Nora, fuckin shame on you!

And Hibster, 'course I knew, but if someone's gonna get pedantic, they better make sure I'm not about

Doctor? wrote:

Hicksy, Nora, fuckin shame on you!

i've got a soft spot for a couple off the 'pretty woman' soundtrack too...

what's wrong with 'some kind of wonderful' or a bit of solomon burke?!

come on doc, you know you love them really. you don't need to be afraid to admit it.

Regarding "2001"-The classical pieces were originally intended as guide tracks. An entire OTHER soundtrack of electronic music had been composed. The classical worked so well that it was left in the final cut. The electronic score was released a few years ago, I think.

"Singles" had been filmed in 1990 and had been in the can for two years until it was released. Grunge was huge-the latest thing-and so the money making potential was good.

Cameron Crowe had done it as a valentine to Seattle. The Pearl Jam songs on there are supposedly the first they wrote together.

My soundtracks.

"The Harder They Come" classic early reggae "O Brother Where Art Thou" "Garden State" "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten" "Purple Rain" Prince at his peak-brilliance "Reality Bites"

Trainspotting (The best soundtrack ever) The Crow Pulp Fiction The Saint 24 Hour Party People

Dodjem wrote: Dirty Dancing

I thought i was the only one

Goodfellas soundtrack is pretty spot on, I like the the Soundtrack/score to Sunshine and Requiem for a dream.

BonoShed wrote: Regarding "2001"-The classical pieces were originally intended as guide tracks. An entire OTHER soundtrack of electronic music had been composed. The classical worked so well that it was left in the final cut. The electronic score was released a few years ago, I think.

All i think of when i here this music is Ric Flair stylin' and profilin'

soundtracks featuring prev. recorded selection of music:

Morvern Callar -- excellent choice of songs (CAN, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Broadcast etc.) & extremely well matched to film Boogie Nights -- 70s disco and rock, cheesy but fun Party Monster -- also quite fond of this one, has mostly 90s club & dance music, though there's some annoying songs on it too

scores composed specifically for films:

A Clockwork Orange -- by Wendy/Walter Carlos, electronic/ambient pioneer Me and You and Everyone We Know -- by Michael Andrews Kafka -- by Cliff Martinez (if anyone remembers this film) The Player -- by Thomas Newman

The Assassination Of Jesse James - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Dodjem wrote: Lost Boys

I bought this cd (very hard to find) years back just for the Echo & BM version of People are Strange.... other than that (and that song is better than the original), the soundtrack itself I thought was junk, not worth the $18 I paid for it

Andrès wrote:

Dodjem wrote: Dirty Dancing

I thought i was the only one

x3 ;)

AgentWood wrote:

Andrès wrote:

Dodjem wrote: Dirty Dancing

I thought i was the only one

x3 ;)

I think I'm finally starting to realize the sense of art this photograph is!

:p

How can you deny it Jhon??... you like it too

Obviously Trainspotting, but Lock Stock and two smoking barrels is good too.

Hail Caesar

bloodynora wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

Hicksy, Nora, fuckin shame on you!

i've got a soft spot for a couple off the 'pretty woman' soundtrack too...

what's wrong with 'some kind of wonderful' or a bit of solomon burke?!

come on doc, you know you love them really. you don't need to be afraid to admit it.

SHUT IT, nora. Be honest, and tell them you like a bit of Lionel Bart, and sing along to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack.

i forgot gallipoli. it has an incredible score--especially albinoni's adagio, which i can't listen to without crying because it reminds me so much of this devastatingly sad film. also, jean-michel jarre's piece during the running sequences is perfect.

also one day in september, the documentary about the 1972 munich olympics terrorist attack. great use of led zeppelin songs.

El Jarvo wrote:

Also like 'The Mission'

Old Lead Foot wrote:

El Jarvo wrote:

Also like 'The Mission'

'Look at you all out there, dressed in black, picking yer fooking noses'

BonoShed wrote: Regarding "2001"-The classical pieces were originally intended as guide tracks. An entire OTHER soundtrack of electronic music had been composed. The classical worked so well that it was left in the final cut. The electronic score was released a few years ago, I think.

"Singles" had been filmed in 1990 and had been in the can for two years until it was released. Grunge was huge-the latest thing-and so the money making potential was good.

Cameron Crowe had done it as a valentine to Seattle. The Pearl Jam songs on there are supposedly the first they wrote together.

My soundtracks.

"The Harder They Come" classic early reggae "O Brother Where Art Thou" "Garden State" "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten" "Purple Rain" Prince at his peak-brilliance "Reality Bites"

Didn't know that, despite reading "the lost worlds of 2001", a fascinating account of the writing process, which is full of ideas that never made the film, many much more literal and sensible that what DID make it in. Sort of like DVD extras for the literate really

Must look fot the track.

Mentioned on another thread, finding a recording of Ron Grainer's original arrangement of Dr Who. Weirdly, Dr Who (along with the original star trek) is often erroneously hailed as a classic use of a theremin. Well, oddly enough, the original version IS a theremin (or an "Ondes Martineaux" sort of a theremin with keys and resonator strings).

Did you know that the James Bond theme was written for the Sitar as part of a comedy musical about an Indian chap living in the UK.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

Hicksy, Nora, fuckin shame on you!

i've got a soft spot for a couple off the 'pretty woman' soundtrack too...

what's wrong with 'some kind of wonderful' or a bit of solomon burke?!

come on doc, you know you love them really. you don't need to be afraid to admit it.

SHUT IT, nora. Be honest, and tell them you like a bit of Lionel Bart, and sing along to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack.

you shut it. i'd have listed the lot but chris specified no musicals in his initial post. DOOOO keep up, dahhhling.

i don't sing along to chitty chitty bang bang anyway. it frightens me. and you know it.

LALLY PAHPS!

El Jarvo wrote:

nnn wrote: Morvern Callar -- excellent choice of songs (CAN, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Broadcast etc.) & extremely well matched to film

That's interesting. One film I really wanted to see when it came out. Er, then didn't! And have since completely forgotten about. I will be searching for a torrent the second I get home.

Excellent book. The narrator is obsessed by music and keeps making lists of stuff. There's a peculiar obsession with Can (Holger Czukay in particular) - summat you don't see in every day literature!!

oh that's right--i actually haven't read the novel, but remember reading that the soundtrack was based on it (there are 2 solo Czukay tracks as well)... well, i definitely recommend the film--though it might work better on the big screen--very trippy and hypnotic.

To Live & Die in L.A. (1985)

Awesome flick, can't beat the Wang Chung score, perfect for the film....seriously, it's decent!

ennio morriconne's music for Cinema Paradiso a clockwork orange and i know its not a film but i love the soundtrack for this documentary wilson did called "the search for the amber room"

Pulp Fiction Donnie Darko City of Industry 24HPP

Me?

I am a bit of a Mark Isham fan so: Crash Romeo is Bleeding The Hitcher

I enjoyed the Tarantino soundtracks: Reservoir Dogs (classic) Pulp Fiction Jackie Brown

Morricone is the master: Once Upon a Time in America (mega moving) Once Upon A time in the West (Harmonica Man- fantastic! Who said the Nephilim were shite?!) The Mission (once saw that with a Roman Catholic Brother in my youth in Leicester Square.... awesome film) (and no, he didn't try anything on you dirty bastards)

Vangelis' Bladerunner finally came out after years of having to listen an awful orchestal cover from Canada - pure shite

Alan Parker: Mississipi Burning very emotional Birdy (Gabriel is the man) Angel Heart (scared the shit out of me)

The Omen still puts the wind up.

2001 hmm very strange and not very reachable for me

Also a spot of Alien in the dark used to freak me out

I know many people hated the film but I loved the soundtrack to Hannibal. Very romantic

Heat - Great compilation and some brilliant original soundtrack touches.

Usual Suspects - a great soundtrack

Lately, a bit of Bourne Ultimatum gets me through the day

Wish List: Batman Begins (heard it is very moody)

Enough aready!

who can forget: footloose!!!

footloose, let's hear it for the boy, i'm free, holding out for a hero, hurts so good...great songs!

Indeed!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

AgentWood wrote: who can forget: footloose!!!

footloose, let's hear it for the boy, i'm free, holding out for a hero, hurts so good...great songs!

Soup Dragons were on there???

Wasn't that a cover of a Rolling Stones B-side anyway?

No idea what was on that soundtrack (shudder), but that title mostly makes me think of John Inman. Was he in the movie?

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

AgentWood wrote: who can forget: footloose!!!

footloose, let's hear it for the boy, i'm free, holding out for a hero, hurts so good...great songs!

Soup Dragons were on there???

the uber-talented kenny loggins, of course.

i was just listening to the song on my ipod.

Amelie The Piano Last of the Mohicans

How could I ever forget The Piano?

Glory and Carlito's Way, also

I don't think this soundtrack has been mentioned.

So my vote goes to Pretty in Pink. NO, OMD, Echo & the Bunnymen... clearly my fave from the 80s.

Poor Duckie.... :( Wish his heart hadn't been broken.