Great Film Soundtracks

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