Great movie music...

The Untouchables
Hawaii-0-5
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

 

James Bond
Nino Rota's Fellini stuff
Star Wars
Summer Place
Nightmare Before Christmas

Probably more later

 

The Sting
Rock Star
Porky's Revenge
The Sound Of Music
Heavy Metal

I could go on but gotta leave somethin' for everyone else.

 

My #1 favorite movie soundtrack of all time and my #1 favorite movie of all time is "Urban Cowboy" but I do love The Sound of Music, Around The World by Victor Young, The theme to the Good, The Bad & The Ugly, the theme to Hawaii 5-0, Oklahoma, Gene Autry music, Roy Rogers music, The Sting soundtrack and many others.

 

Being as 5-0 is a tv show I have to add one of those.
Peter Gunn

 

hey Steve... I have watched Hawaii ?-? a very long time ago! I have never heard the original soundtrack on CD or LP... I only have the melody in my head... and Erich Kunzel's cover for Telarc.

 

Here are some of my fav film scores:

Veritgo: Bernard Herrmann (one of the best composers/The 'Taxi Driver' gig literally killed him...)

The Third Man: Anton Karas (Who can not love this "zither" music...)

High Noon: Dimitri Tiomkin (one of the best)

2001: Various (a vacation to the senses)


Todd

 

All time favorites Film Scores

The Mission
Eyes Wide Shut
Where Eagles Dare
State of Seige
Z
The Omen

 

Original score

Jaws theme,
Superman Theme,
Starwars theme.
Raiders of the lost ark
Back to the future
James bond
Pink Panther
Once upon a time in the west
Good bad ugly
The Hit (Paco de lucia)
Miami vice theme
Twin Peaks

Good ways of using top 40 hits in films:

Pulp Fiction
Grease
There's something about mary
Resevoir dogs
Pretty Woman
Rocky III - Eye of the tiger
New Jack City
The lion King
Forrest Gump
Sleepless in Seattle

 

How could I have forgotten that. I just watched it.

 

Lalo Schifrin has done some of my favourites - Bullit & Cool Hand Luke are both perfect soundtracks for the films and are also great to listen to without the movie. In many instances Lalo recorded different versions of his 60's film scores for release on the soundtrack LP than the versions that appeared in the film. This is why some of those old soundtracks LPs sound so good - they were created with home listening in mind....

Maurice Jarre did a pretty good job with Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago and those John Williams scores for Star Wars, Superman and E.T. are pretty amazing in the cinema, although I'm not sure I'd want to listen to them at home much.....

 

I was always a big fan of the original Highlander movie and I loved the soundtrack by Queen. It was released as their "Kind of Magic" cd.

 

A Hard days Night
Help!
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Braveheart
Meet Joe Black
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Anything By Bernard Herrmann

 

C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T-S!!!! Great soundtrack, great movie ("Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud...) Steve, could I beg here for your touch on that soundtrack???

 

I have always liked the soundtrack for Leaving Las Vegas, mainly for Sting's versions of jazz standards that do not seem to be available on any other album; the rest of the music is fine, but nothing special.

More soundtracks:

Dumb and Dumber for good choice of songs. I liked the way they used Nick Cave's Red Right Hand

Neil Young's soundtrack from Dead Man.

 

A Clockwork Orange
Almost Famous
Rocky Horror Picture Show (I know, written for the stage, so sue me)
Phantom of the Paradise
Chariots of Fire
Rushmore

 

Here's one I can't believe no one else thought of, I can't even believe that I didn't think of it until now. My absolute all time fav. Easy Rider!

 

Just about anything by Ennio Morricone, but especially "Once upon a Time in America." Also just about anything from Bernard Herrmann.

How 'bout Max Steiner's score for the original "King Kong."

 

I can't believe no one mentioned the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack. The best mid-80's music comp of all time!

 

A few favorites:

The Million Dollar Hotel and Until the End of the World

 

The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel (phenomenal atmosphere)

Purple Rain - Prince (although probably considered a musical, I think the music is great)

 

The Elephant Man - the '80 David Lynch version. Adagio for Strings gets me every time.....

Chris

 

#1 and #2 on my all-time favorite movie list!

I love the soundtrack that was added to the Passion Of Joan Of Arc DVD.