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Top five film soundtracks
Leroy Ambrose
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The thread earlier today about Dead Man's Shoes (awesome soundtrack BTW) got me thinking about my favourite film soundtracks. Anyone got a list of their top five? I mean scores here BTW - not songs chucked into a film
Mine:
5 - Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann). Genius - the best of Herrmann's collaborations with Hitchcock. Fell in love the moment I heard it when I first saw the film donkey's years ago
4 - Lady In The Water (James Newton-Howard). Ridiculously underrated film - and a beautiful, understated score with some truly haunting moments
3 - Picnic At Hanging Rock (Bruce Smeaton). Not for the panpipes (though they're great) but for Bruce Smeaton's achingly beautiful incidental music. There's a piano and choral piece that's played during a scene when Michael climbs the rock to rescue one of the girls that is out of this world
2 - The Machinist (Roque Baños). Strange choice this one, but I must have seen this film 20 times and the music grows on me more with each viewing. It's absolutely perfect - probably the best example of a soundtrack perfectly suiting a film with the exception of...
1 - Once Upon A Time In The West (Ennio Morricone). Perfect - in every way. The piece played when Harmonica confronts Frank is the best piece of music ever written.
Mine:
5 - Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann). Genius - the best of Herrmann's collaborations with Hitchcock. Fell in love the moment I heard it when I first saw the film donkey's years ago
4 - Lady In The Water (James Newton-Howard). Ridiculously underrated film - and a beautiful, understated score with some truly haunting moments
3 - Picnic At Hanging Rock (Bruce Smeaton). Not for the panpipes (though they're great) but for Bruce Smeaton's achingly beautiful incidental music. There's a piano and choral piece that's played during a scene when Michael climbs the rock to rescue one of the girls that is out of this world
2 - The Machinist (Roque Baños). Strange choice this one, but I must have seen this film 20 times and the music grows on me more with each viewing. It's absolutely perfect - probably the best example of a soundtrack perfectly suiting a film with the exception of...
1 - Once Upon A Time In The West (Ennio Morricone). Perfect - in every way. The piece played when Harmonica confronts Frank is the best piece of music ever written.
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Angel Heart - Courtney Pine
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Ennio Morricone
Deliverance - Duelling Banjos
Shrek
Angelas Ashes - esp The Dipsy Doodle0 -
Gladiator
Enemy At The Gates
The Thin Red Line
Kill Bill (Volume 1)
The Dark Knight0 -
Once Were Warriors
Reservoir Dogs
Judgement Night
Slumdog Millionaire
Psycho0 -
Oops didn't read the thread properly just ignore me. Celebratory beers again.
Sorry these are very girly and can never do a top 5
Stand By Me
Dirty Dancing
Footloose - Cheesy but played constantly when a nipper
City of Angels - Goo Goo Dolls, Iris one of my favourite songs of all time
My Girl
Armageddon - Aerosmith
Dare Devil - Evanescence, My Immortal another on the top of my list
The Full Monty
Edited for musical scores erm
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Pirates of the Caribbean
War of the Worlds?
I should know more my fella keeps forcing me to listen to certain ones.0 -
Chris Evans plays the opening bars from Jurassic Park every morning about 8.15am
For some reason it gives me goose bumps and put a smile on my face.
Apart from that it's Henry's favourite - The Song Remains The Same ;-)
I come from the land of Ice and Snow................0 -
Trainspotting
Stand by me
Pulp fiction
Reservoir dogs
Shrek (any of them)0 -
casino
forrest gump
the wanderers0 -
The Proposition
Beau travail
Dancer in the dark
Black cat white cat
Nostalgia0 -
Not in any particular order:
Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (original film not the remake) - David Shire
Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
The Third Man - Anton Karras
The Ipcress File - John Barry0 -
anything by Hans Zimmer or Craig Armstrong1
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Two of my favourites are:
The Godfather
Oh Brother Where Art Thou0 -
The Harder they Come
Almost Famous
Forest Gump - no, really
Oh Brother where art thou?
American Grafitti0 -
The Lord of Rings
Amazing Grace
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brick
Away We Go
All brilliant films, all brilliant soundtracks0 -
Bedazzled soundtrack 1967 Dudley Moore Trio (for the proper Bedazzled movie)
Dudley Moore's soundtrack perfectly captures the mood of this glorious late 60's movie, at the times the music is so beautiful it renders the listener incapable of speech. It has jazz, pop, ambiance and style. The little man was a genius. It's also a bugger to find too!
Have to agree with Tom Hovi regarding The Taking of Pelham 123, pure class. I would also add Isaac Hayes Shaft soundtrack too.0 -
1. Magnificent seven
2. Blues Brothers
3. Rocky
4. Once Upon A TIme In America
5.Reservoir Dogs0 -
The Blues Brothers
Superfly
Quadrophenia
Once Upon A Time In America0 -
Blade Runner / Vangelis
The Mission / Ennnio Morricone
James Bond / Various
Star Wars / John Williams
Buffalo 66 / Vincent Gallo/Various0 -
OST
1 - Donnie Darko
2 - American Beauty
3 - Jaws
4 - The Piano
5 - The Battle of Britain
Compilations
That'll be the day
American Grafitti
This is Spinal Tap (although this could also be in OST)
The Blues Brothers 1
A Hard Days Night / Help0 -
Yeah - that would have been at number six. Awesome, eerie soundtrack. One of the best pieces of music in the film isn't actually on the soundtrack as it's not written by Michael Andrews - the choral piece when Donnie and his girlfriend go to the cinema and he leaves her there while he burns the kiddie fiddler's gaff. Managed to track it down on a 'complete' soundtrack released a couple of years ago.[cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]OST
1 - Donnie Darko0 -
Jackie Brown
Bullet
Shawshank Redemption
Summer Of Sam
Goodfellas0 -
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Can't believe no-one has mention the 80's "brat pack" movies:
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club
St Elmo's Fire
Add to these:
War of the Worlds
9 1/2 weeks.0 -
My fav at the moment is "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels!"0
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also........
Get Carter - Roy Budd0 -
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Lock stock is a good shout!
Also Gladiator, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, The Dark Knight, Trainspotting0 -
If you like the more instrumental / orchestral soundtrack stuff, you might be interested in this concert0
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Trainspotting (only one other vote??)
Slumdog Millionaire
Das Boot
West Side Story
War of the Worlds0 -
Casino Royale (the 1966 version - superb Burt Bacharach score)
Psycho
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Graduate
Taxi Driver (probably not one of Bernard Herrmann's best but in the days before home video buying the soundtrack Lp was as close as I could get to owning the movie)0 -
I'll have to check my ost cd when I get home[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]
Yeah - that would have been at number six. Awesome, eerie soundtrack. One of the best pieces of music in the film isn't actually on the soundtrack as it's not written by Michael Andrews - the choral piece when Donnie and his girlfriend go to the cinema and he leaves her there while he burns the kiddie fiddler's gaff. Managed to track it down on a 'complete' soundtrack released a couple of years ago.[cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]OST
1 - Donnie Darko0
