Who likes soundtracks?

[planet IX]

Doesn't everyone like movie soundtracks…
I love it, when I hear the music from a movie that I like and all in a sudden I'm caught in the atmosphere of this movie.
I also have a penchant for dark, atmospheric music, which can be found in many soundtracks.

Some soundtracks I like a lot (yes I’m a fantasy and sci fi nerd):
Interstellar (Hans Zimmer)
Aliens (James Horner)
Dune (Toto; David Lynch-Version)
Nausicaä of the valley of wind (as an example for plenty Studio Ghibli Movie-Scores by Joe Hisaishi)
Avalon (Kenji Kawai)
Blade Runner (Vangelis)
Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon (Yo Yo Ma)
The last unicorn (America)
The Fountain (Clint Mansell)
Pans Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
Prometheus (Marc Streitenfeld)

Not to mention all the great composers: Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, etc. etc.

This is just a fraction of my list of favourite soundtracks… what are yours?

 

[stv]

I like ennio morricone soundtracks a lot!
Although i don't find his sountracks particularly special, JunkieXL released several most interesting youtube-videos about production of his soundtracks.

 

[planet IX]

Yes, me too!
This is one of my favourite soundtracks vom Ennio Morricone:
Ennio Morricone - My Name is Nobody - Il Mio Nome è Nessuno
It combines many other themes of the composer, sometimes in a very funny way.

 

[MagicBus]

Ennio Morricone composed music that stands in time even if the films didn't make it so well... Especially the spaghetti western.

Other soundtracks randomly come in my mind:

 

[soulsheiksan]

I do love sound tracks and have been collecting for a long time probably because my parents also did
But my first one was from the movie Bilitis and I did not comprehend the movie but I loved the soundtrack by Frances lai
Then there was vangelis with the theme from the unknown man this still blows my mind ,then opera sauvage etc,blade runner was just magnificent
Other that I still listen to
Theme from deer hunter ,John Williams
Birdy and rabbit proof fence by Peter Gabriel,
Morricone of course
Blue,red by Zbigniew Preisner
Last man standing by Ryan cooder
Siesta miles Davis
The hot spot ,miles Davis,Tajik mahal,Marcus miller (amazing)
Tom waits and crystal Gail one from the heart
Will look at my collection in a bit gotta go to the dump

 

[StevenCrook]

Birdy: Peter Gabriel
Prince of darkness: John Carpenter
Carmen Jones: Bizet/Hammerstein
Black Sails: Bear McCreary

But generally not big on soundtracks, though sometimes I get something new from incidental music. Like: Lonely is the night: Billy Squier from The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfoot.

 

[Baffless]

The great beauty soundrack is a masterpiese as the movie. Unfortunately no english translation i believe.

 

[planet IX]

Not to forget all the James Bond Themes...

Although for me Roger Moore is and was the only real James Bond,
I like "You only live twice" from Nancy Sinatra best...

 

[planet IX]

Chris (Pat Metheny Group) from The Falcon and the Snowman

Such a great song... the melody is better known from David Bowies This is not America

 

[rif]

I really like Hans Zimmers soundtrack to the latest Dune.

 

[chip_mk]

My recent favorite rendering of Morricone's scores

 

[von Ah]

 

[analog_sa]

I obviously like soundtracks by Philip Glass . And by Prokofiev, who's been a bit less prolific 😎

 

[diyiggy]

+1 with Philip Glass.

I liked the sounding ambiance of the Mandalorian, helped by the quality too (THX?)

Edit : did not remember fast enough, Pierre Henry for Maurice Béjart :

Also Allan Parson Project... David Bowie signed very good soundtracks too

 

[MagicBus]

Peter Gabriel was mentioned and I remembered the first soundtrack in my collection.

And a few more:

 

[diyiggy]

Memoirs of a Geisha is a very good one too !

 

[bloqhed]

You might want to check out Two Steps from Hell if you like soundtracks.

 

[MagicBus]

Speaking about soundtracks that survived the film's failure

 

[diyiggy]

Henri Mancini.... for illustration : The Party OST - with the great Peter Sellers ; what a movie... quite a manifest! 🙂 -
Miles Davis : Ascenseurs pour l'Echafaud OST
Control OST(Joy Division story)

 

[Richard Ellis]

Blade Runner, 1982...by Vangelis...so serene, especially "Memories of Green".


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