Best ever film scores

portuguese mike

Ok here's my top 5:

Star Wars - John Williams

007 (james bond) - John Barry

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Ennio Morriconne

The Piano - Michael Nyman

Superman - John Wiiliams

What does every one reckon, what absolute classics am i missing out?

heavymental

Hmm...the Deer Hunter tune? Does that count as a score? Does it have to be written specially for the film?

noggincp

Southern comfort Ry Cooder

Porgy

O Brother Where Art Thou
Superfly
Shaft
Dawn Of The Dead (original)

TheBoyBilly

Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong trousers
The Great Escape - Leonard Bernstein

dennisn

The Blues Brothers - Various
Brother Where Art Thou

Dennis Noward

pneumatic

The Birds (Hitchcock)

Apollo 13

Jean de Florette

jc4lab

Terminator 2....The music when Arnie sank into the furnace at the end was sadder than Bambi

Clever Pun

Judgement Night


rubbish film great set of collaborative tunes

secretsqirrel

Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
Alexander Nevsky - Prokofiev
Twelve Monkeys - Astor Piazzolla
A Sunday in Hell - the Singing Monks (?)
Kill Bill (vs 1 & 2) - various artists

fluff.

Bladerunner - Vangelis

portuguese mike

How could i have forgotten Blade Runner and Lawrence of Arabia :shock:

ricadus

(Regarding complete soundtrack albums rather than just the main title themes)

Bullitt -- Lalo Schifrin
Chinatown -- Jerry Goldsmith
Taxi Driver -- Bernard Herrmann (who died the evening after recordings were completed)
Koyanisqaatsi -- Philip Glass
Paris Texas -- Ry Cooder

Would maybe have picked one or two others, like one of Morricone's or John Barry's, but they're already listed previously and probably by others later.

Rob Sallnow

The only soundtrack I've bought is that of Amelie.

redddraggon

All of the Blondie (goodbadugly, fewdollarsmore, fistfulofdollars)trilogy
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Ennio Morriconne is the best though. (one of my (and my Dad's) favourite films)

Gladiator soundtrack is also pretty good.

As is the Harry Potter soundtrack actually.

topcat1

Animal House
2010
Hawaii Five o

sing_for_absolution

Amelie
Road to Perdition
Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot

urr there are others, but I can't think of them at the moment.

nwallace

redddraggon wrote:

All of the Blondie (goodbadugly, fewdollarsmore, fistfulofdollars)trilogy
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Ennio Morriconne is the best though. (one of my (and my Dad's) favourite films)

As good as Morriconne did with Leone's first films, I rate the underated follow up Once Upon a time trillogy (Once upon a time in the west, once upon a time in the revolution (a Fist Full or Dollars or Duck You Sucker to use the release names) and Once upon a time in America) both on Score and as films. I didn't quite understand why only one track from REvolution was on the Morriconne CDs until I got one and discovered the whole films Score can be squeezed into 4 1/2 minutes!

Ignoring Morriconne, its only Barry and Williams I am particularly aware of for consistently producing decent soundtracks.

iainf72

Fight Club by the Dust Brothers
Requiem for a Dream by Clint Mansell (so brilliant it's been used in trailers for other films)
Lost Highway
Natural Born Killers

Coil's unreleased Hellraiser soundtrack is terrifying :shock:

ddraver

Star wars,*
Last of the mohicans*
Wallace & Gromit
Gladiator

*anything else by John Wiliams really

sing_for_absolution

Forgot to add the soundtrack from the Bourne Identity etc. That title track from Moby is superb.

tonyw43

Jurassic Park (the first one) was good for me, another Williams masterpiece.
The Exorcist (can't watch the film but love the music).

Salsiccia

The Big Country - Jerome Moross
Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann

and

Rocky 4 :oops:

millar time

Belleville Rendezvous, quirky and charming and considering there is very little in the way of dialogue it is the score that makes the movie..

And. Top Gun..

Porgy

TonyW43 wrote:

The Exorcist (can't watch the film but love the music).

Why? Too scary or too crap?

I have it on DVD and so far have completely failed to make it all the way through - it usually scares the crap out of me at some point and I have to stop

bagpusscp

Another vote for The Good the Bad and the...... Whistles loudly....followed by, wwwwwaaaaaaa :roll: or is aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
Also the Northen Soul Classic sound track on Vanishing point.....not seen it :?:
Well its one of the best road movies ever. 8) Closely followed by Easy Rider......
Get your motor runnin....head out on the highway.... 8)

bornagainbiker

Baz Luhrmanns Moulin Rouge! :P

ColinJ

bagpusscp wrote:

Another vote for The Good the Bad and the...... Whistles loudly....followed by, wwwwwaaaaaaa :roll: or is aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

It begins with aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh but after the whistling starts it becomes wwwwwaaaaaaa! Check it out here.

I had the sudden urge to dig out my TGTB&TU DVD to watch tonight but I've just remembered that I lent it to a mate about a year ago and he hasn't returned it :evil: !

feel

not surprisingly i'll give another vote for Bladerunner, but also the compilation that accompanies "a lot like love" has tracks by groove armada, aqualung, Travis, jet, anna nalick, etc, etc - deffo a good listen 8)

bagpusscp

Ok another vote for "ten hausur gate"....attack ships on fire.....

sonicred007

Porgy wrote:

O Brother Where Art Thou
Superfly
Shaft
Dawn Of The Dead (original)

You got the original DOTD soundtrack? - difficult stuff I thought, not sure it's my fave... interesting nonetheless