Favorite movie soundtrack

[Javert]

More recently, I've fallen in love with the Lord of the Rings music. It's so transcedental to the film that you could listen to the music without the moving pictures and still feel the emotions. Tip of the hat to Howard Shore.

However, my all-time favorite is definitely Star Wars. Rarely in the 70's did a film decide not to use just small instrumentals with piano and go with the 100-piece London Symphony Orchestra instead, it was musical power at its best. Both operatic and moving, I think John Williams raised the bar set by Max Steiner's Gone with the Wind. Oh, and who can forget the Imperial March, come on. I simply loved it.

Honorary mentions go to James Horner's Titanic, simply splendid and so moving, his best work ever.

Who are your favorites and which film soundtracks touched you the most?

 

[LoneDeranger]

From the top of my head ...

A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Requiem for a Dream
Pi
Run Lola Run
and at the risk of being flamed .. Matrix 1

All of those are also great movies, BTW.

 

[The Mullinator]

Lord of the Rings
2001: A Space Odyssey
Matrix 1 and 2
And some others that I just can't think of right now.

 

[Dux]

Lord of The Rings and Resident Evil

Ooh and Matrix obviously.

 

[Prince of China]

Bad Boys II-Shake ya tail feather
Lord o' The Rings
Star Wars:dork:
2001:Space Odyssey
PHL's Delay movies(j/k)
And that's pretty much it

 

[A2597]

no one listens to the Children of Dune soundtrack? best one EVER.
I really like music that has a story attached to it...sooo..in order:

Children of Dune
Gladiator
LOTR (first movie)
some parts of a Beutiful mind

buy Children of Dune soundtrack...NOW!
watch it first...otherwise the music is just nice to listen to...no story..

 

[SpuD]

School of Rock

When it comes out

 

[Javert]

Originally posted by A2597
no one listens to the Children of Dune soundtrack? best one EVER.
I really like music that has a story attached to it...sooo..in order:

Children of Dune
Gladiator
LOTR (first movie)
some parts of a Beutiful mind

buy Children of Dune soundtrack...NOW!
watch it first...otherwise the music is just nice to listen to...no story..

Yes I've heard the Children of Dune theme. They used it in the "Master and Commander" Trailer as well as the Star Wars: Galaxies fan trailer. Excellent stuff indeed.

 

[Blair]

Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Last of the Mohicans
O' Brother Where Art Thou?

 

[Prince of China]

Oh yeah, I forgot, I loved that O' Brother Where Art Thou song
What was it called again?
And also, I loved the music from the mini-series: Band of Brothers

 

[Blair]

"Man of Constant Sorrow"


Muhaha, loved that song.

 

[dfc05]

let's see......

gladiator (i like the last three tracks)
the sixth sense (i had a nice obsession with that movie; i know all the music :/)
and..... unbreakable

 

[Agent4054]

Last of The Mohicans (I love that movie)
Spy Games
LOTR: Two Towers
Chariots Of Fire
Rocky
Ocean's Eleven (new version)
Sixth Sense

gotta love the Rocky theme

 

[Pol]

Clockwork Orange, lotr and gladiator were all good if i remember

 

[un0x]

LotR
Band of brothers (no movie, i know )
Fightclub

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

The Godfather 1,2,3
Breakfast Club
LOTR 1
Trainspotting
Mutiny on the Bounty

 

[MrMethane]

O Brother, Where Art Thou.

 

[eish]

I'd have to say the "The Matrix" soundtracks.

 

[silent]

Matrix Reloaded

 

[wowyouareacow]

O brother, were art thou

And i must say a serie. The Sopranos. lots of good music and the serie just rocks

 

[Sulkdodds]

In no particular order....

Yes, Gladiator
The Mission
Apocalypse Now
The Piano
Oh, all right then. The Matrix.
And....probably loads of stuf taht Ive frogotten. (no thats not forgotten...)

 

[Cheetarah654]

Contact
Aliens
Transformer Movie

 

[Mr.Magnetichead]

Fight Club.

 

[Frank]

Star Wars
Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Adaptation

 

[Javert]

Originally posted by un0x
LotR
Band of brothers (no movie, i know )
Fightclub

I also like the Band of Brothers music. It was by Michael Kamen, who also did "October Sky".

 

[symptom]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

 

[Quixoticism]

Lord of the Rings
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Matrix

 

[Javert]

Michael Kamen, film composer, passed away yesterday at the age of 55.

He composed the music for the HBO mini-series, "Band of Brothers", and for the films, "X-men", "Mr. Holland's Opus" (for which he won a Grammy), and the "Die Hard" series.
He and his beautiful music will sorely be missed.

 

[Loshadka]

Terminator 2

 

[LoneDeranger]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[Pauly]

i like medal of honor music...and call of duty music soundtack too!!

 

[Baal]

Someone PLEASE send me the LOTR - Two Towers Theme....

Found in the trailer here:

http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/trilogy/thetwotowers.html

 

[dfc05]

The Gladiator soundtrack (by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard) has some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard on a movie. Track 3 (the battle scene) is really good, and the last three tracks (with the vocals) are absolutely amazing. The music fits so closely with the movie that I can place almost every track with the scene it goes with... of course it's also good by itself even if you haven't seen the movie.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

this one's easy, in no particular order:

schindler's list (although i am loath to include john williams, being that he's a rip-off artist)
remains of the day - richard robbins
beauty and the beast - alan menken (i think..)
chinatown - jerry goldsmith
conan the barbarian - basil poledouris
batman - danny elfman
edward scissorhands - danny elfman
the good, the bad and the ugly - enio morricone
wrath of khan - james horner
and of course, koyaanisqatsi - philip glass

 

[Maskirovka]

basil poledouris is pretty good...i also like the hunt for red october soundtrack which is by him...mostly for the choir singing

it's a bit 80's synthesizer sounding, but it has tons of tension and good stuff like that.

 

[dis]

Last of the Mohicans, Black Hawk Down, and others that I can't remember right now.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

yeah strangely, i'm not a huge fan of basil poledouris' other stuff.. i kinda like red october, and robocop, but i think he peaked with the barbarian.

 

[Javert]

Originally posted by Pauly
Someone PLEASE send me the LOTR - Two Towers Theme....

Found in the trailer here:

http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/...etwotowers.html

The music in the trailer is "Lux Aertna" from "Requiem of a Dream".

 

[Maskirovka]

Originally posted by Javert
The music in the trailer is "Lux Aertna" from "Requiem of a Dream".

i'm not sure if that's the title of the song, but i know it was from requiem of a dream.

i'm pretty sure they made their own version of the song for the trailer though...i thought i heard both versions and they were different...

 

[Lil' Timmy]

are you guys talking about the aronofsky film "requiem for a dream", or something else?