What are your 4 favorite film soundtracks?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Morricone)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone)
The Mission (Morricone)
The Natural (Randy Newman)

 

Until The End Of The World
Dead Man Walking
Garden State
The Social Network

 

I've been waiting for this thread my whole life.

1. The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
2. Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
3. Blade Runner - Vangelis
4. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia - Jerry Fielding (obviously)

I have at least a dozen more if you're interested.

 

IF......The wonderfully anarchic Lyndsey Anderson's masterpiece with music from 'African Sanctus'

WITHNAIL and I ...........'Whiter shade of pale' played by King Curtis, thru Schubert then Jimi Hendrix then Al Bowlly and finishing with George and the Beatles .

THE THIRD MAN............Carol Reed's post war/pre cold war atmospheric film noir , Orson Welles would have stolen the movie but was upstaged by the zither of Anton Karas.

HIGH SOCIETY...............Louis Armstrong and his band , with backup artists Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby!.......'True Love'......'.Did You Evah'......'Who wants to be a millionaire' and
the incredible 'Now you has jazz' with his funkiness Bing Crosby on co vocals with the musician of the century Mr. Louis Armstrong along with Barret Deems on drums!
The goofy Celeste Holm and the astonishingly beautiful Grace Kelly complete a premier cast list for one of the great movies of all time.

JAZZ ON A SUMMERS DAY..............Was there ever a more beautifully photographed documentary , obviously an influence on "Woodstock' .
The music is a fabulous mixture of rock and roll , gospel ,trad jazz and be bop but the real stars are the hipster audience .
As cool as igloos in a desert .............only one artist dares to try and upstage them.......Anita O'Day in her bonnet singing two for tea !

Oh dear, is that five .......got carried away !

 

Yeh.....Lawrence and Blade Runner ....great choices.

 

Cal
Blade Runner
Motorcycle Diaries
Robocop

 

Who himself might have gotten the idea from Richard Wagner.

Just sayin'.

 

1-"ALAMO BAY"
2-"PARIS,TEXAS"
3-THEME FROM "CAL"
4-"LOCAL HERO"

 

The Wizard of Oz
+ 3 others.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Saturday Night Fever
The Song Remains the Same

 

The Big Chill
Pulp Fiction
A Hard Day's Night
A Charlie Brown Christmas

I've seen all those films in the last month or so which is probably why they popped into my mind first

 

Easy Rider
1984 (For the Love Of Big Brother)
Rushmore
The World At War

 

The Magnificent Seven
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
When Harry Met Sally
The Song Remains The Same

 

Ah, screw it... Here's a bunch more whether you're interested or not. (Restricting myself to titles that haven't been mentioned already.)

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - Popol Vuh
Alien 3 - Elliot Goldenthal
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes - Leonard Rosenman
Betty Blue - Gabriel Yared
Ed Wood - Howard Shore
Existenz - Howard Shore
Final Fantasy - Elliot Goldenthal
How To Train Your Dragon - John Powell
Images - John Williams
Koyaanisqatsi - Philip Glass
Less Than Zero - Thomas Newman
One From The Heart - Tom Waits
Point Blank - Johnny Mandel
Quintet - Tom Pierson
Solaris - Cliff Martinez
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner
The Big Sleep - Max Steiner
The Conversation - David Shire
The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel
The Mechanic - Jerry Fielding
The Moon In The Gutter - Gabriel Yared
The Year of Living Dangerously - Maurice Jarre

 

Blade Runner
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan

 

Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
The Graduate

 

Mine includes television soundtracks I enjoy:

 

Easy pickings for me...

Fight Club
Purple Rain
Popeye
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday Night Fever

 

Four of my favorite scores (chosen from many favorites), excluding musicals, and excluding soundtracks in the "collection of songs from different artists" sense . . . just listed in alphabetical order:

The Last Temptation of Christ (aka Passion) (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988) (although if you count that as a musical or a longform "music video," you could substitute Mishima (1985))
Ravenous (1999)
The Red Pony (1949)

 

American Graffitti
Big Lebowski
Casino
Color of Money
Something Wild

 

I tell you my favorite 5 rather than 4:

Pulp Fiction
1492 (by Vangelis)
Back To The Future
Titanic

and all James Bond theme songs (1962-2015) in one collection that doesn't exist at the moment.

 

Haha, great question. Lots to choose from.
Off the top of my head:

Jungle Book
The Harder They Come
The Graduate
Wizard of Oz
Saturday Night Fever

 

Rembetiko
Mystery Train
Superfly
Rumble Fish
Repo Man

 

FM
She's the One

 

Four more favorites of mine:

The Spy Who Loved Me: Marvin Hamlisch 1977
Manhattan: Motion Picture Soundtrack 1979
Rocky IV: Motion Picture Soundtrack 1985
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud: Miles Davis 1958