Best ever film scores

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  • jc4lab
    jc4lab Posts: 554
    Highlander
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  • MrKawamura
    MrKawamura Posts: 192
    Agree with lots above, here are three more recent efforts.

    For your consideration:

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Yo-Yo Ma/Tan Dun
    Magnolia: Aimee Mann & the cast
    Dancer in the Dark: Bjork
  • MrKawamura
    MrKawamura Posts: 192
    100% wrote:
    Platoon, Full Metal Jacket - more rock'n'roll

    Platoon also uses the "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. Surely worth a mention. This has been used all over the place, but I heard it first in Platoon...
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Chariots of Fire, Vangelis
  • rjh299
    rjh299 Posts: 721
    Definitely Last Of Mochians, epic!
  • bill57
    bill57 Posts: 454
    Saturday Night Fever. Classic.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Apocalypse now soundtrack and the music won an oscar.
  • JLM74
    JLM74 Posts: 108
    The Lord of the Rings by Howard Shore. The Complete Recordings albums are superb.

    Any David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti collaboration.

    Out of Sight by David Holmes.

    Into the Wild by Eddie Vedder.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Rocky horror picture show.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    I spent ages thinking of these. The first few are the best then it got a bit haphazard.

    Lawrence of Arabia (a recurring favourite and deserved winner. The best by a mile)
    A Passge to India
    Gone with the Wind
    Out of Africa
    The English Patient
    Dr Zhivago
    The Godfather
    Schindler's List
    Sophie's Choice
    Life is Beautiful
    The Last Emporer
    Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon
    Pulp Fiction
    The Killing Fields
    The Deer Hunter
    Jaws
    Pyscho
    The Graduate
    Dirty Dancing
    An Officer and a Gentleman
    Tophat - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Cheek to Cheek - Music by Irving Berlin
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    Oliver Twist
    Fiddler on the Roof
    North by Northwest
    Dial M for Murder
    The Italian Job
    Mona Lisa
    Arthur
    ET
    A Clockwork Orange
    2001 A Space Odyssey
    Bridge Over the River Kwai
    The Great Escape (already mentioned?)
    Mama Mia (Sorry had to get this one in)
    The Doors
    Ben Hur
    Saturday Night Fever (Again.......)
    The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini
    Fabulous Baker Street Boys
    A Kind of Blue
    Love Story
    Grease
    Dirty Dancing
    Rocky
    King Kong
    Saving Private Ryan
    Philadelphia
    Good Morning Vietnam
    Dances with Wolves
    The Good the Bad and the Ugly plus all the spin offs
    Big Country
    The Magnificent Seven
    Midnight Cowboy
    French Connection
    Four Weddings and a Funeral
    Titanic
    American Beauty
    Le Mans

    There are so so many, basically ALL good memorable films as the music is integral to them.

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  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Birdy - Peter Gabriel
    Cycling weakly
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Death in Venice

    also:

    In the Mood for Love
    Herr Lehmann
    Baisers Volees
    Elvira Madigan
    Hear my Song
    Talk to Her
    The End of an Affair
    1492
    Footloose
    Un homme et une femme
    Buena Vista Social Club
    42nd Street
    Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
    South Pacific
    The Commitments

    and even if already mentioned:

    Once upon a Time in America
    Tiger and Dragon
    Saturday Night Fever
    Amelie
    Koyanisqaatsi
    Dr Zhivago
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    knedlicky wrote:
    Death in Venice
    The Commitments

    How did I miss these two??

    Mahler and Wilson Pickett

    :roll: .
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited August 2009
    Chinatown (classy retro sounding soundtrack from Jerry Goldsmith)
    Bullitt (Lalo Schifrin's best score!)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (micropolyphonic voices and orchestral pieces by Ligeti)
    American Graffiti (late 50s/early 60s compilation soundtrack)
    Point Blank (Chromatic cool score by Johnny Mandel)
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service (or any one of half a dozen of Barry's Bond scores)
    A Fistful Of Dynamite (Much under-rated genius Morricone soundtrack)
    North By Northwest (and great Saul Bass opening credits sequence)
    Taxi Driver (More of Herrmann's genius)
    Paris, Texas
    Ran (extract)
    Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (hardcore easy-listening score from Burt Bacharach)
    Breakfast At Tiffany's (magic Mancini loungecore!)
    Midnight Cowboy
    Mon oncle / Les vacances de monsiour Hulot
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    as far as i can see, no one has mentioned the most awesome of the film soundtracks...


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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I like loads of those mentioned but I'm a big fan of Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (introduced me to The Polyphonic Spree) and Pump up the jam (it's got an awesome version of Wave of mutilation by Pixies on).
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    ride_whenever wrote:
    as far as i can see, no one has mentioned the most awesome of the film soundtracks...


    BLUE BROTHERS...

    Maybe you might want to look again...........

    Another:

    Manon des Source/Jean de Florette - La forza del destino - Verdi
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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Hannibal- especially Vide Cor Meum, a beautifal peice also featured in Kingdom of Heaven. It uses the libretto from Dante's 'La Vita Nuova'.

    Also the obvious Star wars- especially this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnQCSGsG ... 0A7431C3E0

    Apart from that, I quite like Batman: The Dark Knights score.
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  • roryboy
    roryboy Posts: 44
    Dont know if its been used in a film but it is used for an advert (cant remember)
    Benedictus= Karl jenkins and what about Kraftwerks Tour De france i could listen to this on the Bealach na Ba it might make me get over it faster !!
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Bob Dylan


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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    roryboy wrote:
    Dont know if its been used in a film but it is used for an advert (cant remember)
    Benedictus= Karl jenkins and what about Kraftwerks Tour De france i could listen to this on the Bealach na Ba it might make me get over it faster !!

    Typically a film score is music written for a film. There are many above which have used existing compositions or songs. But to be great it really has to be up to the scores of such composers as Maurice Jarre, John Barry, John Williams, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, James Honer, Henry Mancini, Elmer or Leonard Bernstein, Miklos Rozsa, Irving Berlin or Ennio Morricone to name a few.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Could I be arsey and suggest Diamond Dogs by Bowie :wink:
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Unless you think the best score is The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio Morriconne you are wrong. Period.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    pottssteve wrote:
    Unless you think the best score is The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio Morriconne you are wrong. Period.

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    You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak!
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    shocked,
    Have you been on the cake? Maybe a bit too much clarky cat?

    You can say what you want, it's still The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio Morriconne. :)
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    pottssteve wrote:
    shocked,

    You can say what you want, it's still The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio Morriconne. :)

    Don't worry, I completely agree. I almost chin my mate whenever he tells me "Once Upon A Time In The West" has a better score, and is a better film. It doesn't even come close.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Your mate is clearly deaf and blind.

    I am happy that my lucid and well-constructed argument (ie. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is best) has won you over. :wink:
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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Nearly forgot one: "The Harder They Come", Jimmy Cliff reggae film. Jimmy, Toots and the Maytals et al. Yeah Mon...
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    pottssteve wrote:
    Your mate is clearly deaf and blind.

    Nah, he's just a c*nt :wink:
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  • bikersky
    bikersky Posts: 4
    Southern comfort Ry Cooder

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