Best Soundtracks Ever

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KBK said:


I have them all..on LP! There are three..Music for films, I, II, and III.

How about anything by Tangerine Dream..the soundtrack for "Thief", perhaps? 😀

I have 23 Tangerine Dream albums. All on Vinyl, of course.
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😱 Now that´s a record collection!


I don´t like Thief very much, but the sleeve design makes for a good avatar 😀 .

I´m a Tangs fan since I saw them playing Kiev Mission live in a TV show called Rock & Classik. Not counting Invisible Limits which was used for the opening titles of a portuguese TV show about independent cinema by the time Stratosfear came out, although I didn´t know it was from them.

A much better soundtrack must be Sorcerer. What do you think? Never saw the movie (by William Friedkin) but for me, this is the classic Tangerine dream sound. It´s Moogs and Mellotrons from beginning to end. No fillers, all the songs are good in this LP, Abyss in particular. Must be the best musical impression of what a nightmare is.


(Rest in peace, Bob)

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#63
KBK said:


As for the Peter Gabriel Passion Soundtrack, I have a DMM, 180 gram, Promo version I found..unplayed! at a record shop. For $5. yes! score!!!
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You lucky, lucky... 😉

Passion is utterly mesmerising, and a very important piece of musical heritage too. Every time I hear it, I get sucked in. Look after that album!

For those of us not fortunate enough to score a pristene, unplayed Promo vinyl version, take heart: Classic Records is bringing the lot out on virgin 200g vinyl, and, even better, the remastered CDs of Peter's entire back-catalogue really are exceptional -they actually match the SACD versions also available, and in some ways, like the bass (always a CD speciality) are superior to my ears. If you're a PG fan, and you haven't haven't heard them yet, do yourself a favour and treat yourself to one. Or more. Or, better, all. Start with Passion though. You won't regret it. Probably the best sounding CDs ever released? Oh yes. Only the HDCD encoded King Crimson remasters can match them as far as I've heard. It shows just how good the much-maligned ye olde 16bit redbook format can actually sound when people who know what they are doing mix and master brilliant music properly onto a format. To be brutally honest, they're as good as anything I've ever heard off vinyl, which is heavy praise indeed. And a special effort seems to have been made for Passion too -in terms of sound quality, it's the best of the lot.

Cheers
Scott
 
#65
demo cd's

Soundtrack from "Dances with Wolves" by John Williams is a great album to demo dynamic bass.

Any of the Sheffield Labs discs, any Amanda McBroom, and Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" will show any speaker weaknesses.

Female vocals are usually extremely telling as to a speaker's (or an entire system's) accuracy.
 
#66
Some of my favorite soundtrack albums:

Harry Nilsson - 'The Point'
Vangelis - 'Blade Runner', 'Chariots of Fire'
'Lord of the Rings' I/II/III
'O Brother Where Art Thou'
Tom Wait - 'One From The Heart'
'Phantom of the Paradise' (Brian de Palma Horror/Rock Opera)
Leonard Bernstein - 'West Side Story'
Danny Elfman - pretty much any
John Williams - 'Star Wars'
Pretty much any of the Big Musicals ('Singin' in the Rain', 'Seven Brides', 'Music Man', etc.)

Tom Kimpton.
 
#71
ping floyd's more + la vallee (obscured by clouds) - both much better than films itself 😉
then blade runner (perhaps my No1 film, but soundtrack also kicks ***), million dollar hotel (finally something mature from U2, he?), the wall (is it real soundtrack, actually?), the crow, matrix (some more thrash, hehe), les riviers pourpres (i am not shure of spelling, anyway, beautiful ambient from bruno coulais - check the film too, really nice story+camera)
 
#80
My favourites from 20 years of collecting Soundtracks

All works by Simon Fisher Turner for Derek Jarman Films:
The Last of England, The Garden, Edward II

Philip Glass: Mishima

Peter Gabriel: Birdy / Passion

James Horner: Sneakers

Jerry Goldsmith: Star Trek - The Movie (one of the first digital recordings in 1979)

Bernard Hermann: Taxi Driver, North by Northwest

Cliff Martinez: Kavka / Traffic

John Williams: The Empire Strikes Back

Vangelis: Blade Runner

Mark Isham: Crash (who sang the theme when the car burned and in which language?)

Vince Guaraldi: A boy named Charlie Brown
 
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