Best Soundtrack / Music in a film ?

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So what's your favourite film (sorry I don't use the word movie) soundtrack ?

Just watching The Graduate now and the whole Simon & Garfunkel vibe suits it really well........

I've a few favourites but just thought I'd ask.....
 
mstphoto said:
I have a few favourites

1. Last of the Mohicans
2. Evita
3. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Dylan)
4. The Doors (obviously Doors music)

There are probably more but I can't think at the moment.
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Last of the Mohicans is fantastic - similar to legends of the fall - braveheart etc

The Doors - top notch :thumbs:
 
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Gladiator without a doubt.
 
Schindler's list.
 
Iron Man 2. Can't argue with AC DC as a soundtrack. :)
 
For me it is Kill Bill and Man on Fire

But THE best one is Lion King :D
 
No real single favourite but, in no particular order........

Pulp Fiction
Black Snake Moan
Doors
American Graffiti
The Mission
 
Definitely Rocky 4 soundtrack. Its my fave film of all time anyway, not that a young Dolph Lundgren has anything to do with it, but I listen to the soundtrack down the gym too. :D
 
Presumably the Floydies like Crystal Voyager
Saw it years ago and the very impressive camera work fits in well with the music

Surprised Spinal Tap hasn't been mentioned, some very impressive tracks in that fine flick
 
For songs:
Pulp Fiction
Tommy / Quadrophenia
Little Shop of Horrors
Resevoir Dogs
Romeo & Juliet
The Commitments
Dirty Dancing

Intrumental:
Last of the Mohicans
Jurrasic Park
Interview with a Vampire
Titanic
Shawshank Redemption - which is also my favourite film.
 
For me it only has to be the Star Trek The Motion Picture opening signiture tune which then leads to that bit where a huge energy mass starts attacking Klingon ships.
This 1979 soundtrack, produced by Jerry Goldsmith is not to be confused with the original TV series version by Alexander Courage. :nono: :D
 
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Not technically a film, but one of my favourites is from the theme from HBO's 'Band of Brothers' which is kind of a really long film lol.

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Also agrees the themes to Gladiator, Shawshank and Jurrasic Park are great.

If you include documentary film soundtracks too then, I would also include Brian Eno's "An Ending" from NASA's "For All Mankind" and Sigur Ros's Hoppipolla from 'Planet Earth'. :D
 
The Alamo (Green Leaves of summer)
 
For soundtrack/song written specifically for a film mine is:
Saving Private Ryan
Jurrassic Park


John Williams ability to transpose emotion in to music is superb.
 
Oh good thread! Mines would be:

Paris, Texas - Listening to Ry Cooder while watching breathtaking desert scenes, heaven!

The Thin Red Line - Beautiful Movie and equally beautiful soundtrack.

Magnolia - Because I love Aimee Mann, this has helped me get through some heavy editing nights.:D
 
Transformers 2 is a good one for me as im a huge Linkin Park fan and they did a great deal of music/sound for this film.

Another classic song is "John Murphey - In a heartbeat"...its been used in so many films, but i love the slow build up of the song. Think it was in one of the "28 days" films.
 
Vic said:
Oh good thread! Mines would be:

Paris, Texas - Listening to Ry Cooder while watching breathtaking desert scenes, heaven!

The Thin Red Line - Beautiful Movie and equally beautiful soundtrack.

Magnolia - Because I love Aimee Mann, this has helped me get through some heavy editing nights.:D
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Ry Cooder - slide guitar :thumbs:
 
Galokin said:
Another classic song is "John Murphey - In a heartbeat"...its been used in so many films, but i love the slow build up of the song. Think it was in one of the "28 days" films.
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Great thread and some really interesting replies

Main theme:
The Mission
Jurassic Park
Gladiator
Last of the Mohicans
Star Wars
The Piano by Michael Nyman (great theme didn&#8217;t think much to the film)

- soundtrack
American Graffiti &#8211; pure nostalgia
 
Tricky...
I like bits of films for different reasons:
The opening credits sequence from 'Where Eagles Dare' with the JU-52 flying through the Alps (though it's a crap movie), is brilliant...

The dogfight sequence from 'The Battle of Britain' with Benjamin Brittain's surviving bit of score and the opening credits from the same movie with the 'Aces High/Luftwaffe March' theme playing as another JU-52 carrying GeneralOberst-***-Luftwaffe Milch arrives for an inspection tour...

The airborne assault on a Vietnamese village to 'Ride of The Valkyries' in Apocalypse Now!

Any of Tarantino's movies - even the bad ones - all have a decent soundtrack... Jackie Brown stands out
 
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Also really enjoyed the soundtrack to the Matrix. Anyone seen Crazy Heart? Great country songs there.
 
Arkady said:
The dogfight sequence from 'The Battle of Britain' with Benjamin Brittain's surviving bit of score
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Sir William Walton (not known for the theme from The Waltons) gets the credit.

The Dambusters March always provokes a tear, as do the pipes playing Gary Owen when Tobruk is relieved at the end of The Desert Rats.
 
Two instrumental soundtracks that spring to mind are 'Castaway' and 'The Day after Tomorrow' :cool:
 
Favourite scores:
A short film about love / Krótki film o milosci (Zbigniew Preisner). It was made Poland before the fall of the Berlin wall so no-one will have heard of it :p
Thief, The Keep and Risky Business (all Tangerine Dream)
Amelie (Yann Tiersen)
Paris, Texas (Ry Cooder)
Assault on precinct 13 (John Carpenter)

Soundtracks are harder, but some of John Hughes' films in the 1980s had great soundtracks, e.g. Some kind of wonderful and Pretty in pink
 
Lost boys and Goonies too also the soundtrack to footloose and flash dance are good ooohhhhh and The Breakfast club. Immortal Beloved tarring Gary Oldman (1994) (a film about Beethoven) is an awesome and powerful
 
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