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Top five film soundtracks

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  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Blow
    The Lost Boys
    Kevin & Perry Go Large
    Snatch
    Forrest Gump
  • [cite]Posted By: Carter[/cite]Kevin & Perry Go Large

    eyeball paul plays rinsin tunes
  • Star Wars
    Live and let die
    Blade Runner
    Jaws
    Batman


    Best 5 individual tracks (in context)

    Signal to noise (Gangs of New York)
    Wonderful World (Good morning Vietnam)
    Psycho theme
    Singing in the rain (Clockwork Orange)
    Always look on the bright side of life. (Life of Brian)
  • I love John Barry, David Arnold, Hans Zimmer. My favourite film soundtrack is from the Fifth Element. Music by Eric Serra.
  • 1. Cinema Paradiso and any other Enio Morricone
    2. Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer
    3. Casino Royale (agree above 1966, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert et al
    4. Dancing with Wolves and other John Barry
    5. Rain Man
  • Lock Stock
    Rock'n'rolla
    Human Traffic
    Trainspotting
    8 mile
  • In no particular order: -

    The Good the bad & the ugly
    A Clockwork Orange
    Jaws
    American Graffiti
    Oliver
  • An American in Paris...classy ritzy stuff, Gershwin
  • Dead Mans Shoes - Anything with Bonnie "Prince" Billy is a winner for me.
    Pulp Fiction - Love the Overkill track
    24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Pistols, New Order, 808 State etc etc
    DIG - Music documentary film so bit of a cheat really
    Trainspotting
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  • Anyone seen the The Cooler? the opening and closing track especially is amazing, Mark Isham i think.

    The Insider has good tracks throughout aswel.

    Roger Daltry included some classics for McVicar.

    Surprised no one has mentioned Crazy Heart, loved every single song in that film.
  • That's at least four separate Morricone films listed. Does anyone else come close?
  • Thankyou Leroy Ambrose: Lady in the Water is my favourite soundtrack and a very good film too!
    The build up to the climax has the hairs standing up on the back of my neck every time.
    James Newton Howard one of the best!
    Followed by:
    Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (which I'm going to see played live in the Opera House next year)
    A Beautiful Mind
    Transformers (particularly the main theme)

    There was an episode of Cold Case that had only Bruce Springsteen songs in it, that was pretty good too.
  • [cite]Posted By: Lost Red[/cite]Anyone seen the The Cooler? the opening and closing track especially is amazing, Mark Isham i think.
    I have - you're right, it is a great soundtrack. I prefer Romeo Is Bleeding though - now that is a work of beauty - a brilliant film, brilliantly acted and the soundtrack is perfect
  • The Exorcist. Tubular Bells has withstood the test of time. 37 years ago it made me have goose bumps and still does today.
  • A Hard Day's Night

    Bird

    Lady sings the Blues

    Great Balls of Fire

    Get Carter (particularly the opening 'train' theme)
  • 28 Days Later
    Sunshine
    Dead Man's Shoes
    The Graduate
    Pulp Fiction

    John Murphy and Danny Boyle seem to work well together
  • The Long Good Friday.
  • The Italian Job.

    It seems hard to believe that, Getta Bloomin' Move On! (Self Preservation Society), was written by Quincey Jones. Coincidentally, Quincy was born on the same day as Michael Caine.
  • The Matrix hasn't been mentioned yet, lots of great songs from the turn of the millennium alternative scene.

    Transformers (8bit electronica) , Forest Gump (60s) & 24 hour party people (Madchester) are also fantastic.
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  • Restless natives, Big Country.
  • One that hasn't been mentioned yet...

    Moon - the recent film by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones.

    Beautiful soundtrack.
  • Shaft
    Across 110th Street
    Jackie Brown
    Beat Street
    Thomas Crown Affair
  • thought i'd resurrect this thread.

    1. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - probably the finest achievement in filmmaking let alone the soundtrack
    2. 2001: A space oddessy - unconventional but the fact there's ALWAYS some noise going on, whether that's Dave's breathing or the booping of his space pod to the epic jump cut.
    3. Pulp Fiction - Tarantino can pick a soundtrack


    I'll also nominate 2 non film soundtracks:

    Red dead redemption - nothing will beat the goosebumps i got wandering into the mexican desert whilst jose gonzales' guitar danced hauntingly through the speakers of my tv

    The Sopranos - some incredible choices, i believe its season 6 episode 3 at the very end with mr finnity looking out of that hotel window towards that lighthouse this moby song plays. Incredibly emotional.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ke2Hmkpdc
  • Local Hero

    Pirates of the Caribbean

    LOTR

    Koyaniquatsi (or however you spell it)

    Cal

  • Mo' Better Blues - Branford Marsalis quartet and Terence Blanchard
  • Anything written by Thomas Newman eg American Beauty, Erin Brockovich, Shawshank, Road to Perdition, Skyfall - has haunting qualities!
  • Lock Stock
    Tommy (The Who)
    Pulp Fiction
    Forest Gump
    Flash Gordon

  • Some great soundtracks mentioned here. My fav 5 are:

    The Long Good Friday
    Unforgiven
    El Cid
    Total recall
    Get Carter
  • Mulholland Drive
    Apocalypse Now
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
    Vertigo
    Goodfellas

    ... An honourable mention to Rocky IV, also.
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