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Post by stacks on Sept 20, 2021 14:25:01 GMT
Thinking about this in the Dune thread. Absolute classic.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 20, 2021 14:29:32 GMT
Blade Runner
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Post by gamingdave on Sept 20, 2021 14:32:39 GMT
That Midnight Run score is brilliant. Easily in my top 5 films, if not top, and the score really ties it together.
So many good ones to mention, but my goto answer for favourite probably has to be....
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 20, 2021 15:29:04 GMT
Whatever your opinions of the remake, Cliff Martinez's score was pretty sweet
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 20, 2021 15:34:46 GMT
Se7en has a beautiful soundtrack.
Lots of Vietnam movies of course, Platoon being a highlight
First Blood soundtrack is excellent
Who can forget The Lord Of The Rings?!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 15:50:58 GMT
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Post by MysteryLamb on Sept 20, 2021 16:17:17 GMT
The original Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes music is genius. Akira is also very good.
As for soundtracks that are a collection of pre-existing songs Easy Rider is an obvious choice but also The Big Lebowski.
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 20, 2021 16:28:14 GMT
I always pop on The Beach soundtrack when I'm at the Full Moon Party.
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Post by Techno Hippy on Sept 20, 2021 16:33:03 GMT
Another vote for Blade Runner.
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Post by suicida on Sept 20, 2021 16:44:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 16:56:25 GMT
It's obviously Blade Runner, but I also have a soft spot for a lot of 80's action stuff too. Predator, Running Man, RoboCop, all massively made the films what they are. I hate that action films now all just seem to go for GENERIC ACTION MUSIC TRACK 6 instead of actually attempting to make the music a character in the film.
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Post by anephric on Sept 20, 2021 17:11:02 GMT
Jerry Goldsmith's score for Star Trek: the Motion Picture. You can just watch that with the isolated score and it's absolutely beautiful.
Goldsmith did so many amazing scores (Patton, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Legend, The Wind and the Lion) it's hard to pick out one, but if I had to, it would be TMP.
I've always been a fan of Elliot Goldenthal and even if the films themselves were somewhat shite (Batman Forever, for example) Goldenthal's scores have always been amazing, incorporating all sorts of non-traditional and dissonant sounds. Alien 3 stands out.
John Williams is so ubiquitous and synonymous with massive themes that it's churlish to debate his talent, but some of his 'lesser' scores are my preferred ones, such as The Fury and Dracula (1979), the latter is one of my favourite scores of all time.
I can listen to Daft Punk's score for Tron Legacy all day and night, but Joseph Trapanese doesn't get the credit he should for his contribution to that. How that score didn't get nominated for an Oscar that year is beyond me.
My absolute favourite film composer has to be Basil Poledouris, though. Hunt for Red October, which is absolutely sublime, RoboCop, Starship Troopers but absolutely and unceasingly Conan the Barbarian. It makes me think of Crom sitting on his mountain and laughing. It's fucking amazing, start to finish.
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Post by anephric on Sept 20, 2021 17:27:36 GMT
Ooh, and I didn't even get onto all those miserablist and minimal scores from the seventies. David Shire's scores for The Parallax View and The Conversation, Michael Small for Marathon Man (absolutely fucking love it, it's so bleak) and All the President's Men, which is so subtle and minimally used in the film but incredible when it is.
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 20, 2021 18:02:50 GMT
Dirty dancing, top gun, Beverly Hills cop 2, The Lost Boys. 80s films had proper soundtracks.
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Post by stacks on Sept 20, 2021 21:34:04 GMT
Never actually seen the film (but heard it's greatish) but the soundtrack I can listen to all day. Ennio Morricone is fucking legendary.
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Post by stacks on Sept 20, 2021 21:37:50 GMT
Ooh, and I didn't even get onto all those miserablist and minimal scores from the seventies. David Shire's scores for The Parallax View and The Conversation, Michael Small for Marathon Man (absolutely fucking love it, it's so bleak) and All the President's Men, which is so subtle and minimally used in the film but incredible when it is. Anephric knows his scores! I'm gonna watch all the president's men again. It's a classic Redford. I can't think it off the top of my head but sure 3 days of the condor is a good soundtrack. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 21:42:16 GMT
Talking of Morricone:
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Post by anephric on Sept 20, 2021 21:52:30 GMT
The Mission's score is wonderful, probably better than the film deserves - on the one hand it's beautiful to look at and has some decent to great performances from De Niro and Irons.
On the other, it's from a less enlightened era where we're supposed to root for the Jesuit missionaries inculcating an Amazonian tribe with the beneficence of Christianity whilst - oho! - the Catholic church in Spain sells them and the native converts out for commercial reasons. Lummy, the irony!
There isn't a single native character in the film that's used as anything other than window dressing or tearjerky cannon fodder, like watching a puppy get shot.
That said, it's beautiful to look at and Morricone's score is sumptuous (and to this day overplayed to abstraction on Classic FM).
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Post by anephric on Sept 20, 2021 22:09:55 GMT
Love him or hate him (tHeY'rE JuSt pLaYiNg ScAlEs!!?), Phillip Glass's scores are also favourites of mine. I'm underplaying that somewhat as I think Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is probably the best score of all time (in that it totally reinforces and shapes the film like opera). If you've never heard it, you have - it's re-used in The Truman Show and a fair few adverts. If you've never seen Mishima, I recommend it even if you're not particularly interested in the subject matter, as the use of heightened theatricality rivals Kwaidan and Glass's score is absolutely (and was written) like one of his operas. youtu.be/jDYv2tBNVpUAlso, his score for Candyman takes it from being a great horror film to something a bit more than that. youtu.be/rnKGFxs1MMI |
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Post by stacks on Sept 21, 2021 9:41:55 GMT
The base guitar gives me shivers. Off the top of my head didn't Morricone label Carpenter a genius with his scores? That the base guitar was Carpenters idea and he absolutely loved it? But one of my all time favourite director/composer (not sure of many of them exist!!) |
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Post by stacks on Sept 21, 2021 9:42:54 GMT
Love him or hate him (tHeY'rE JuSt pLaYiNg ScAlEs!!?), Phillip Glass's scores are also favourites of mine. I'm underplaying that somewhat as I think Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is probably the best score of all time (in that it totally reinforces and shapes the film like opera). If you've never heard it, you have - it's re-used in The Truman Show and a fair few adverts. If you've never seen Mishima, I recommend it even if you're not particularly interested in the subject matter, as the use of heightened theatricality rivals Kwaidan and Glass's score is absolutely (and was written) like one of his operas. youtu.be/jDYv2tBNVpUAlso, his score for Candyman takes it from being a great horror film to something a bit more than that. youtu.be/rnKGFxs1MMIRight well many of these I've never heard of and I thought I was fairly well versed in all things film. Definitely be adding these movies to the list. Cheers! |
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Post by stacks on Sept 21, 2021 9:45:52 GMT
This is another beauty by carpenter.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 9:52:58 GMT
Love Assault on Precinct 13's score. Most of Carpenter's scores are absolutely brilliant (Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Escape from New York, Prince of Darkness, The Fog, Halloween (obvs) etc etc). Saw the big man himself playing in Manchester a few years back. He incorporates The Thing's score into his set as well. Bloody marvellous.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Sept 21, 2021 10:02:34 GMT
Guardians of the Galaxies where decent and The Big Lebowski is good.
All time probably has to go to The Blues Brothers though. Hands down.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 21, 2021 10:14:30 GMT
As much as I think Hans Zimmer has done some good work, his influence has resulted in a load of derivative scores that focus on rhythm and tone more than melody or memorable motifs.
Even his own scores are a bit unmemorable. Work well in the film but are utterly forgettable beyond a booming horn or cool drum track.
Basil Poledouris is my guy. RoboCop, Conan the Barbarian, Hunt for Red October.
The Conan score is a frequent listen for me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 10:18:55 GMT
I've never really been into listening to soundtracks. Like what situation are you in where you listen to the Conan soundtrack? When you're out pillaging or something?
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 21, 2021 10:28:44 GMT
It's just very catchy. I mean this is just amazing:
I'll listen to scores like I do any music. I do remember listening to a Hildur Guðnadóttir (who would go on to so the score for Joker and the Chernobyl series) album whilst doing the groceries once, it gave perusing the biscuit aisle a sense of existential dread.
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Post by gamingdave on Sept 21, 2021 10:28:52 GMT
Carpenter creates such a great atmosphere with his scores, I would love to see him play live one day.
Lynch is the only other director that springs to mind as also being a composer. I think he did a lot of the Inland Empire score himself, but whilst he releases standalone music projects, for films he nearly always partners with Angelo Badalamenti.
If we are allowed to head into TV, then his Twin Peaks score has to be nominated as a favourite of mine. Can't imagine the show being the same without Badalamenti's contribution.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 21, 2021 11:55:35 GMT
I've never really been into listening to soundtracks. Like what situation are you in where you listen to the Conan soundtrack? When you're out pillaging or something? It's the same with video game soundtracks. There's definitely video game music I love but I've never really listened to anything outside of the game beyond a quick nostalgia hit. I would probably end up getting sick of it |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:30:12 GMT
I generally agree, but there are some I've seen cheap or just had to get - Oh Brother Where Are Thou, Blade Runner, Big Lebowski, and Kellys Heroes spring to mind.
(actually the countdown to the final attack in the village is way better, but I cant find it neatly edited on Youtube)
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