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Posted by ramblingjack (My Page) on Sat, Mar 6, 04 at 18:17
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| Hard to pick one. I love the soundtracks for "West Side Story" and "A Funny Thing happened on the way to the Forum" but they were Broadway Plays first. Love many theme songs but not necessarily the whole soundtrack. Guess my choices would be: The Gray Fox--music by the Chieftans
Valley Girl Soundtrack |
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empire records
or high fidelity |
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| Help,pulp fiction,and a hard days night come to mind,but there were so many great ones.The soundtrack for killbill is good,as far as recent ones go ,perhaps better than the movie.The forrest gump soundtrack was great too. |
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| Have any of you ever heard of or seen Winged Migration? The music is just wonderful. Most of the movie is without words and is nothing but birds and this haunting music. |
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| The Spaghetti western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone, especially "Fistful of Dollars", and Ry Cooder's "Paris Texas" are the big favorites...but there are lots of soundtracks I really love. |
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| Lummo, I love him. I taped a few of his scores from a radio broadcast years ago and just played them over and over. I had to laugh though, because my thought was: Did everyone steal from him, or did he steal from everybody else. |
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| Reservoir Dogs and Easy Rider. |
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| I think Morricone stole his ideas from Classical Music and Opera...and then everyone else stole from him. |
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Dazed and Confused
This is Spinal Tap
A Mighty Wind |
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| I'm not the one who know anything about the movies and have rejected it almost all my live but I do like the sound tract from Les Miserables and Grease, just about sat through most of that.....Not sure I was all there when the Time Warp was played everytime. |
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I second The Big Chill.
Out of Africa
Dead Poets Society
Forrest Gump
The English Patient
The Mission
Schindler's List
Chocolat
Tous les matins du monde
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain |
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| Singles Good grunge of the early 90's, lotsa memories |
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| Love Carmine Coppola's Godfather soundtracks. |
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| I recently listened to the "Almost Famous" soundtrack and enjoyed most of it. |
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| I second Singles and High Fidelity. Big Chill and Animal House are perennial favorites. Gabriel's soundtrack for Birdy is pretty awesome, too. Oddly enough, there are two "children's" movies with great soundtracks -- Holes and Titan AE. After hearing the songs from Cold Mountain on the oscars, I'd like to check that out...anyone have it? And something I watched just recently, but I can't think of what it was. |
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Sticking with a Coppola, One From The Heart has an excellent soundtrack - unusual combination of Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle.
Wild in the Streets.
Help! (Is that cheating?) |
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I love the music of Bernard Herman (all of those Alfred
Hitchock Movies: Psyco, North by Northwest, not to mention
Citizen Cane, and Mysterious Island) Franz Waxman (Gone with the Wind) John Williams (so many, my favorite is A.I., but most would pick the obvious, Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Arc....) and I absolutely love Danny Elfman: Black Beauty, Nightmare before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands. Film Scores are indebted to opera for the
musical rhetoric used to help the film maker tell the story, and is it's progeny, the art form of the 20th century
and beyond (for all we know)
boomchuckchuck. |
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Boomchuckchuck,
I think we have similar taste, at least in some music. Whenever I see Danny Elfman's name in the titles I know I'm in for a treat. Ditto - Phillip Glass. |
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| Add another ditto for Elfman. Ry Cooder, mentioned above, has penned several soundtracks as has Mark Knopfler. Good uns. Compilation type sound tracks that are my faves would include What Women Want, etc. Platoon's soundtrack is haunting, I guess mostly because of Addagio for Strings and the scene wherein it was used. Randy Newman always writes good soundtracks. Note - He opened for James Taylor back in the '80's in Oklahoma City at the Zoo amphitheater and must have been really in a funk. All of his music that night was angry and not funny at all like "Short People", or heart-warming like "I love to see you smile" from Parenthood. JIMBO |
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Diane-PA: Don't we have good taste? HEeheeheE!(Cackled
boomchuckchuck from her ivory tower!) You seem to like Glass....I though Kundoon was effective, as was the film about Death (help me with the name), but lately, his music has the same exact chord progression in a minor key, and I wish he would snap out of it and evolve! I love Einstein on the Beach, but almost everything else sounds the same. His opera "The making of the representatives for planet 8" was very wearysome. I like the other minimalist composers-Reich and Riley a bit more.
boomchuckchuck |
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boomchuckchuck,
Have you ever listened to Mishima by Glass? The music played during the opening credits is just unbelievable (IMO). Here's the best way to listen to it: put on your head phones(loud), close you eyes, and wait for a wonderful experience.! |
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Dear Diane PA:
I'll have to check it out...it seems you have very good taste and I want to learn more! boomchuckchuck |
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Dances with Wolves
BeetleJuice
Moulin Rouge |
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| Funny how no-one has mentioned 'Saturday Night Fever',which must be one of the most successful/popular soundtracks of all time. |
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Out of Africa
Evita
Don Juan DeMarco Jodi- |
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| My favourites are mainly from the 70's: Curtis Mayfield's score for 'Superfly' is a must. Also Isaac Haye's 'Shaft', Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street' and Roy Ayers 'Coffy'. Oh yes, and Lalo Schifrin's music for 'Enter the Dragon'. Other favourites include Goblin's scores for "Susperia" and 'Dawn of the Dead". Ennio Morricone is always reliable, but everybody already know that. |
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| How about Jerry Goldsmith? He won an Oscar for The Omen. |
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The Exorcist-or, Mike Oldfield's fun and long winded "Tubular Bells" album
Harold and Maude- Loads and loads of Cat Stevens
Pee Wee's Big Adventure- There's that Danny Elfman again!
Halloween-and
Psycho-Dunno who wrote these scores, but they are very effective for the building of suspense. |
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| "Halloween-and Psycho-Dunno who wrote these scores, but they are very effective for the building of suspense." Halloween was composed by the director John Carpenter . The Psycho score was by Bernard Herrmann. As you say, both are very effective! |
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| soundtrack from Almost Famous is great |
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The Shipping News
Excalibur
Run, Lola Run
Dr. Zhivago
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet
The Little Thief
Cold Mountain
A Clockwork Orange |
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| Thanks HiFi Al. Now that I think of it, I believe I saw a documentary on Halloween, saying Carpenter wrote that score. Coooool. Aru |
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| Hair,the godfather,and jesus christ superstar were good also. |
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| Well...it's not actually a MOVIE soundtrack, per se....but I like JOURNEY INTO AMAZING CAVES by the Moody Blues (it was a PBS thing) I guess my all-time favorite MOVIE soundtrack would be "Somewhere in Time" (so long, Christopher...you're gonna be missed) |
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The soundtrack to 'Say Anything' has some fine tunes.
Ric |
RE: Movie Soundtracks
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Some of the Soundtracks you are mentioning are just
beloved repretoire from the classics: Somewhere in Time: Variations on a theme by Paginini by
s. Rachmaninov Platoon: Samual Barber: Elegy for Strings
The Omen: Carmina Burana by Orff boomchuckchuck |
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| Own the Almost Famous movie, but not the soundtrack, but I'm sure it's good since I've watch the movie a zillion times. I do own and love two soundtracks, one is "She's having a baby", and "Queens Logic". Both are excellent imo. |
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