Favorite movie soundtrack?

DaveSchmidt said:

Boy, I thought about Phantasm but was afraid my youthful enthusiasm may have over-elevated it.

 I used to play it as background music when I writing as a teenager. Most of the soundtracks I've mentioned i write to, BTW. Phantasm has one of those scores which alternates between disco/funk and ambient creepy, especially at night by a red-bulbed lamp, fueled on diet coke furiously pecking away at a pre-386 PC keyboard and suddenly near the end of side 2: "BOOOOOY!" and series of crashing things and a blood-curdling scream. Great stuff.


Whether you like their comedies or not, the Farrelly Brothers put some real good stuff on their soundtracks:

https://www.deezer.com/en/playlist/579710495


So, basically every movie.


Oh brother, where art thou?


ina said:

Oh brother, where art thou?

This^ 

Forgot about this one.  


Agree with Apocalypse Now

Pulp Fiction

8 Mile

Grosse Pointe Plank


Along with Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill soundtracks are pretty good.


Great Pretenders song from GI Jane.


borninbrooklyn said:

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. 

 I am in complete agreement.   This soundtrack is sublime. The music is at times hauntingly beautiful. I read that the director extended scenes in order to allow the music conclude.


I almost forgot:

-s.


soda said:

I almost forgot:

-s.

 I'm 4 minutes in. Very nice!

eta: 24 minutes - epic!

eta2: ok, I'm a fan of Rachel Portman. I love it when I find new music.


Score : Last of the Mohicans

Soundtrack:  

first: Saturday Night Fever, duh.

second: Boogie Nights (remember sister christian scene??)

third: Magnolia (I loved Aimee Mann back then)


yeah, we don't talk about Saturday Night Fever much, but that was a helluva pop soundtrack. Maybe the best ever?

Plus you named 2 of my all time favorite films. (Boogie and Magnolia - though SNF is a favorite too.)


Valley Girl, because it prominently features one of the greatest songs ever written: "I Melt With You"


West Side Story

Grease

Love Jones


Soundtrack - Peter Gabriel's Passion from Last Temptation of Christ

All tracks can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTAaKAVpOOM&list=PLAC5905D15E1BB425


jamie said:

Soundtrack - Peter Gabriel's Passion from Last Temptation of Christ

All tracks can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTAaKAVpOOM&list=PLAC5905D15E1BB425

 How'd I forget this one? One of my favorites too.


By movie soundtrack, do we mean background music written specifically for a film, a soundtrack that consists of pre-existing recordings that are compiled for a film, or a group of original songs that are written specifically for a film? It seems that people have offered examples from these three categories. Plus soundtracks that are actually Broadway musical adaptations.


When I started the thread I was thinking of a complete original score written for a movie - which is what most of the examples have been.


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Recently watched Once Upon a Time In America for the gazillionth time, and I was struck, yet again, by the Morricone soundtrack. Lordy lou  - it's such an essential part of the movie.  The several melancholy themes really drive the atmosphere of the movie. I can't think of a more perfect melding of music and film. I'm listening to it now and I practically want to cry.


I remember loving the soundtrack from Southern Comfort  - Ry Cooder.


drummerboy said:

When I started the thread I was thinking of a complete original score written for a movie - which is what most of the examples have been.

 Your first example was a movie adapted from a stage musical. The soundtrack composer is literally uncredited (Andre Previn). This is why I had to ask this question earlier in the thread. Score and soundtrack are totes different.


ridski said:

drummerboy said:

When I started the thread I was thinking of a complete original score written for a movie - which is what most of the examples have been.

 Your first example was a movie adapted from a stage musical. The soundtrack composer is literally uncredited (Andre Previn). This is why I had to ask this question earlier in the thread. Score and soundtrack are totes different.

 Well, I would submit that a score is a subset of a soundtrack.

And are you submitting that My Fair Lady doesn't count as original score because it was first written for a stage musical?

I sense we're getting a bit picky here.

Nothing matters but the music!


Well, let's say I really like the soundtrack for Tim Burton's Batman, and also the score, and I owned both albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(score)


ridski said:

Well, let's say I really like the soundtrack for Tim Burton's Batman, and also the score, and I owned both albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(score)


^^^ Not how two albums work.


DaveSchmidt said:

^^^ Not how two albums work.

 Sure it is. We're talking about classifications, not physical objects.


This is Spinal Tap
A Clockwork Orange
Pretty in Pink
Jesus Christ Superstar


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