What's the last movie soundtrack that just blew you away?
One of my favorites is the soundtrack from the original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), composed by David Shire. This is an excellent movie by Joseph Sargeant, from the golden age of cinema thrillers. Check out the movie if you get a chance.
Here's the hard-hitting title music:
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was.
all-time fave is probably superfly. out of movies the last ten years, enjoyed the soundtracks from garden state & lost in translation. the wes anderson movie soundtracks
(life aquatic, rushmore, tennenbaums...) generally have a lost gem or two as do the tarantino soundtracks. have been wanting to pick up the jonny greenwood
(from radiohead) effort for there will be blood but keep forgetting to do so...
I own very few movie soundtracks but the one I listened to over and over was the soundtrack from Reality Bites. That and Empire Records. I'm a 90s baby, as you can see.
Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander, The Red Violin, and Pulp Fiction. There are many more I enjoy, but these are my favorites.
Southern Comfort. The movie was forgettable but the soundtrack by Ry Cooder is superbe.
Others that I particularly like are Help, Hard Days Night (okay I'm a Beatles fan), and The Big Chill.
and got to give a nod to The Wall.
Marty
Sono più lento di quel che sembra.
Odio la gente, tutti.
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The movie Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, is a compelling remake of the French noir thriller The Wages of Fear. This film provided the opportunity for Tangerine Dream to score its first film. Someone once described a Tangerine dream score as "direct neural stimulation" as much as music, and that seems a good description.
The Sorcerer title track:
http://musicfromnowhere.blogspot.com...-sorcerer.html
I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was.
Any music that Tarantino picks seems to be perfect. Kevin Smith has good taste, too.
As far as orchestral-type stuff goes, Red Cliff has a really neat score. Catch Me If You Can was also nice and showed that John Williams is still progressing as a composer.
The Crow, the first one.
The 2nd Amendment was actually written to prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse.
... most people are just bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
along with the southern comfort ry cooder mention, i gotta add another of his
film score credits-paris, texas. haunting, desolate, searching stuff.
Streets of Fire. 80's cheese mixed in with some Ry Cooder and a few songs produced by Jim Steinman, the guy who produced anything Meat Loaf did that was worth listening to.
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Just saw this thread....thought I'd be the 1st for that one! I prefer the "songs from" format, rather than soundtrack. Stuff like Princess Mononoke gets too dramatic. Songs from Donnie Darko would be good.
I love the soundtrack from Made.
"harder" is not a very good safeword.
I might go so far as to say that many of Wes Anderson's musical choices approach brilliance. This includes two short cuts by The Zombies and Scott Walker from "The Life Aquatic", and a cut in "The Darjeeling Limited" by Ravi Shankar from Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy". Too many more to mention.
Southern Comfort, Thief, Heat (1995), Gladiator, Black Hawk Down.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
i think his choices are actually the choices of former devo member mark mothersbaugh. mothersbaugh is a big fan of british invasion stuff and obviously
enjoys pulling a glistening jewel from the treasure chest from time to time...
I generally shy away from soundtrack albums (discs...downloads...what do you young whippersnappers call them these days?) because I find they invariably contain a bunch of songs I don't remember hearing in the movie, and often don't contain some of the ones I was expecting. Plus, a few bars of a song may be a great fit for a particular movie scene, but the whole number doesn't necessarily work for my lifestyle. Butch Coolidge can get away with singing along to "Flowers on the Wall" after filling Vincent Vega full of lead. I can't pull it off on the way to the grocery store.
That said, I second the aforementioned plugs for Mr. Tarantino's choices. And Southern Comfort. The Commitments was pretty good too, if for no other reason than it steered me towards the same tracks by the original artists.
"I heard the music and I wrote to it. Some people beat drums, some people strum guitars. It's all in the music you hear" ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Grease is an OLD movie?
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. That's great...if you want to attract vermin.
My first date with a real live gurl was to go and see Grease. (Her choice of movie, not mine). So uh yeah, it's old.
"I heard the music and I wrote to it. Some people beat drums, some people strum guitars. It's all in the music you hear" ~ Hunter S. Thompson
when i think of old movies, i think of movies from before I was born, not some 80s musical....
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. That's great...if you want to attract vermin.
well i have 2.....and i cannot believe that neither has been mentioned
Pink Floyd "the Wall"
Singles
there are a few honorable mentions "judgement night" "clerks" Pulp Fiction" i know there are a few others,
but really how can no one have mentioned "the wall" yet?....
sorry. for me, the wall and quadrophenia are among my favorite albums but were fully formed and out there before the movies came out. feels like cheating to me to name 'em but maybe an honorable mention? now i have to go listen to both...
forgot about the hot spot with miles and john lee hooker in the eighties. forgettable movie but an unforgettable soundtrack.
Grease came out in 1978. 32 years old is getting up there.
I love Quadrophenia. That's not the soundtrack album (which has one side of non-The Who cuts and 3 sides of cuts by The Who) pictured above but Quadrophenia's my favorite Who album and one of my favorite movies.
This is another one of my favorite soundtrack records : Sorcerer by Tangerine Dream:
1980ish Free Spirit Sunbird fixed * 1996 Mongoose IBOC Zero-G * 1997 KHS Comp * 1999 Diamondback Interval * Olde Western Auto Cruiser.
http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a...=distanceTotal
Oh, and this one. Quadrophenia, Sorcerer and O Lucky Man are likely my top 3!
1980ish Free Spirit Sunbird fixed * 1996 Mongoose IBOC Zero-G * 1997 KHS Comp * 1999 Diamondback Interval * Olde Western Auto Cruiser.
http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a...=distanceTotal
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