SNSUN Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 ... Or simply song written for a film? I've just been listening to the Kevin and Perry Go Large soundtrack. Thumping. Always makes me wish I'd gone to Ibiza in my younger years. As for song, I repeatedly listen to Mark Knoppfler's Going Home: Theme of the local hero. It's the song Newcastlke play pre-match. I just like it for some reason... You? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 The Tarantino ones are pretty good. Also Clerks and Ghost Dog. Judgement Night is the best though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 Judgement night had a great soundtrack for such a nothing film. I still listen to teenage fan club vs de la soul on a regular basis. other great soundtracks: trainspotting royal tennenbaums high fidelity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 Guys, its Judgment Night. No "e". Not an OST (love far too many to think about), but my current favourite score is The Road by Cave and Ellis. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 Just want to be uncool and say Aerosmith, Armageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 (edited) My advice is just listen to the work of Elmer Bernstein and/or Bernard Herrman and you won't go far wrong. There is so much film music that I love out there that narrowing the choice down to a manageable top ten list of my personal favourites is a well nigh impossible task - but I'll give it a go anyway: 1 - Bernard Herrman's score for Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. An object lesson from the master in how to score a film. 2 - Herrman again for his brilliant work on 'Psycho'. I can't even imagine the film without that score - and I'm not just referring here to the shower scene. 3 - Lalo Schifrin's main title music from 'Bullit'. A sound almost as glacially cool as Steve McQueen was. 4 - The Luftwaffe March from 'The Battle of Britain'. Bombers and bombast in perfect harmony. 5 - Ron Goodwin's theme from 'Where Eagles Dare'. A fine example of war film music. 6 - The utterly superb soundtrack from the Coen Brothers 'O Brother Where Art Thou'. A musical education that changed my life. 7 - Anything the great Ennio Morricone scored - once heard never forgotten. 8 - Vangelis and the revolutionary soundtrack he composed for 'Blade Runner' 9 - Anton Karas and his famous Zither theme from Orson Welles's 'The Third Man'. 10 - Last but certainly not least, Elmer Bernstein and this piece that captures the spirit of the film it accompanies perfectly: Edited 16 May, 2014 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 Two of my favourites, both by Randy Edelman, a very under-rated composer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWRbbqH7arM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 My advice is just listen to the work of Elmer Bernstein and/or Bernard Herrman and you won't go far wrong. There is so much film music that I love out there that narrowing the choice down to a manageable top ten list of my personal favourites is a well nigh impossible task - but I'll give it a go anyway: 1 - Bernard Herrman's score for Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. An object lesson from the master in how to score a film. 2 - Herrman again for his brilliant work on 'Psycho'. I can't even imagine the film without that score - and I'm not just referring here to the shower scene. 3 - Lalo Schifrin's main title music from 'Bullit'. A sound almost as glacially cool as Steve McQueen was. 4 - The Luftwaffe March from 'The Battle of Britain'. Bombers and bombast in perfect harmony. 5 - Ron Goodwin's theme from 'Where Eagles Dare'. A fine example of war film music. 6 - The utterly superb soundtrack from the Coen Brothers 'O Brother Where Art Thou'. A musical education that changed my life. 7 - Anything the great Ennio Morricone scored - once heard never forgotten. 8 - Vangelis and the revolutionary soundtrack he composed for 'Blade Runner' 9 - Anton Karas and his famous Zither theme from Orson Welles's 'The Third Man'. 10 - Last but certainly not least, Elmer Bernstein and this piece that captures the spirit of the film it accompanies perfectly: Gets a big thumbs up from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 My advice is just listen to the work of Elmer Bernstein and/or Bernard Herrman and you won't go far wrong. There is so much film music that I love out there that narrowing the choice down to a manageable top ten list of my personal favourites is a well nigh impossible task - but I'll give it a go anyway: 1 - Bernard Herrman's score for Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. An object lesson from the master in how to score a film. 2 - Herrman again for his brilliant work on 'Psycho'. I can't even imagine the film without that score - and I'm not just referring here to the shower scene. 3 - Lalo Schifrin's main title music from 'Bullit'. A sound almost as glacially cool as Steve McQueen was. 4 - The Luftwaffe March from 'The Battle of Britain'. Bombers and bombast in perfect harmony. 5 - Ron Goodwin's theme from 'Where Eagles Dare'. A fine example of war film music. 6 - The utterly superb soundtrack from the Coen Brothers 'O Brother Where Art Thou'. A musical education that changed my life. 7 - Anything the great Ennio Morricone scored - once heard never forgotten. 8 - Vangelis and the revolutionary soundtrack he composed for 'Blade Runner' 9 - Anton Karas and his famous Zither theme from Orson Welles's 'The Third Man'. 10 - Last but certainly not least, Elmer Bernstein and this piece that captures the spirit of the film it accompanies perfectly: 6, 7, and 8 I like. The Amelie soundtrack was another one that was enjoyably different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 16 May, 2014 Share Posted 16 May, 2014 Entirely forgettable film, but the music score for 'Equilibrium' just works wonderfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 (edited) Sometimes the power of music can instantly grant the viewer a profound insight into the heart of a character and what makes him 'tick' in a way that might take even a gifted scriptwriter many pages to convey. For example; in Jonathan Demme's memorable 1990 thriller 'The Silence of the Lambs' it seems to me the juxtaposition between the sublime sophistication of his musical taste (from JS Bach's 'Goldberg Variations') and Lector's utterly psychotic behaviour is employed here to striking effect: The artfully chosen music, when used in combination with a (very) graphic illustration of his capability for violence, tells us all we need to know about this man's nature. Lector may be a extreme example but like many people he is a unfathomable anachronism - urbane and educated yet capable of brute savagery too. Now imagine if you can this same scene without Bach and to my way of thinking it loses a key element of its power to shock. Indeed, following the commercial and critical success of 'Silence of the Lambs' Hollywood later went on to make another film that attempted to get inside Lector's 'head' as it were, but I doubt that effort was half as effective in achieving the aim as these few minutes of 'Bach and Butchery' were. PS - earlier I forgot to include the great John Williams in my list of noted film music composers - doh! Just Google his film credits and you will see just how massive a error that was. Edited 17 May, 2014 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericofarabia Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Not sure if many of these weree the Theme tune to films or just featured but here are a few that when I hear the song I instantly think of the film!! Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf ... Easy Rider. You never can tell - Chuck Berry ... JT and Uma crazy dance in Pulp Fiction Rock and Roll Queen - The Subways ..... Guy Ritchies Rock n Rolla You've lost that loving feeling - Righteous Brothers ..... Top Gun. (Own up ... who else has done it in a pub!!) Lust for life - Iggy Pop ..... uused in the trailer for the film Trainspotting. The song Trainspotting by Primal Scream is also awesome. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield .. the excerpt used in The Exorcist. Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones - Full Metal Jacket (?) ..... more to follow when I get my thinking head on!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percy windham Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Any film that Dario Argento's band Goblin provided the music for ranks pretty high on my list, but Suspiria is my favourite out of them. Sinoia Caves soundtrack for Beyond the Black Rainbow is pretty snazzy as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericofarabia Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 ... Or simply song written for a film? I've just been listening to the Kevin and Perry Go Large soundtrack. Thumping. Always makes me wish I'd gone to Ibiza in my younger years. As for song, I repeatedly listen to Mark Knoppfler's Going Home: Theme of the local hero. It's the song Newcastlke play pre-match. I just like it for some reason... You? Kevin & Perry one of my favourite films ever! Good call on Local Hero as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 I'd probably have different choices for best score and best soundtrack. For me, and I suspect many others my age, John Williams is the king of movie music composition. I take on board Chapel End Charlie's Enrico Morricone's advice and would wholeheartedly agree with it, but John William's music added so much to films I really love. I could list Jaws, ET and Star Wars and be done right there, but I especially like the way his music is used in Raiders of the Lost Ark. There are few composers who manage to feel as in tone with the movies as Williams does; perhaps that's because he's had a great deal on input in setting the tone. All of the classics I've just listed would be vastly diminished without his contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 I'm surprised no one has mentioned Saturday Night Fever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 17 May, 2014 Author Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Kevin & Perry one of my favourite films ever! Good call on Local Hero as well. Great tastes! The Beach has a decent soundtrack too, and how could I forget Eye Of The Tiger from Rocky 3! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Crab Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Judgement Night for me too. Great soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Strange that Chariots of Fire has not had a mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Not sure if many of these weree the Theme tune to films or just featured but here are a few that when I hear the song I instantly think of the film!! Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf ... Easy Rider. You never can tell - Chuck Berry ... JT and Uma crazy dance in Pulp Fiction Rock and Roll Queen - The Subways ..... Guy Ritchies Rock n Rolla You've lost that loving feeling - Righteous Brothers ..... Top Gun. (Own up ... who else has done it in a pub!!) Lust for life - Iggy Pop ..... uused in the trailer for the film Trainspotting. The song Trainspotting by Primal Scream is also awesome. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield .. the excerpt used in The Exorcist. Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones - Full Metal Jacket (?) ..... more to follow when I get my thinking head on!! Got you down to sing that nxt time you're at Karaoke Oh random TSW legend fact, I once sang Born to be Wild in a bar with Nick St Nicholas on Guitar. (normal random Dubai night out of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 17 May, 2014 Share Posted 17 May, 2014 Judgment Night and Ghost Dog are great shouts. Superfly by Curtis Mayfield is up there too. Some Angelo Badalamenti would be in my list, I'd pick Twin Peaks but it's not a film so will plump for The Straight Story instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwsaint Posted 18 May, 2014 Share Posted 18 May, 2014 No one saying the blues brothers?!? thought it was epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 18 May, 2014 Share Posted 18 May, 2014 Platoon has some great music. Like the Samuel Barber piece so much I walked down the aisle to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 18 May, 2014 Share Posted 18 May, 2014 No one saying the blues brothers?!? thought it was epic Cab Calloway........... Great shout btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 One of the very best film soundtracks was for the Jamaican film The Harder They Come (1972). The film stars Jimmy Cliff, and he is heavily featured in the soundtrack. Also included are Scotty, The Melodians, The Maytals, The Slickers, and Desmond Dekker. Fantastic collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 The Big Chill (1983) - a fairly conventional comedy-drama - had a fantastic soundtrack, chockful of Motown, soul, R&B and rock classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 Thought the music from Drive was brilliant. Can happily just sit and listen to that as a playlist on spotify. The Zidane film thing too, though mostly just because it is Mogwai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony13579 Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 Restless natives: big country Moulin Rouge Jungle book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 Some other stand-outs: A Hard Day's Night (1964), The Graduate (1967), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ). As far as composers who wrote pretty much the entire score for films go, one of the very best was Mauric Jarre, who worked often with David Lean. He has done a huge number of films, including Dr. Zhivago (1965) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 20 May, 2014 Share Posted 20 May, 2014 Not sure why this took so long to register, but one of the best things about The Big Lebowski is the soundtrack. 'specially the Creedence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 The World's End : Primal Scream, Blur, Stone Roses, Soup Dragons, Beautiful South, Happy Mondays, Suede, James, The Doors, St Etienne, The Sisters of Mercy, etc, etc What's not to like ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 The World's End : Primal Scream, Blur, Stone Roses, Soup Dragons, Beautiful South, Happy Mondays, Suede, James, The Doors, St Etienne, The Sisters of Mercy, etc, etc What's not to like ? Nope, never heard of any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 Nope, never heard of any of them. Aren't The Doors your era ? Or are you more Bill Haley ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 For us oldies, "Good Morning, Vietnam" had some good stuff from the late 60's - early 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 Aren't The Doors your era ? Or are you more Bill Haley ? Bill Haley was my big sister, along with Elvis, Gene Vincent and all that lot. My music years were early 60s to early 70s. Think Beatles, Who, Kinks, Hendrix, Herman's Hermits, all the classics We went to the Beatles show 'Let It Be' at the Mayflower last week. A great evening and a wonderful sing-along and not just for the recently incontinent either, there were plenty of youngsters strutting their stuff in the aisles too. The week before we went to '20th Century Boy' at the same place. A reconstruction of the life and music of Marc Bolan and T-Rex. Again, great musicians and dancing in the aisles. Catch them if you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 For us oldies, "Good Morning, Vietnam" had some good stuff from the late 60's - early 70's. 'Woodstock' has some great stuff too, but perhaps a bit of a cheat since it's just a rendering of one of the great open-air rock concerts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 Bill Haley was my big sister, along with Elvis, Gene Vincent and all that lot. My music years were early 60s to early 70s. Think Beatles, Who, Kinks, Hendrix, Herman's Hermits, all the classics We went to the Beatles show 'Let It Be' at the Mayflower last week. A great evening and a wonderful sing-along and not just for the recently incontinent either, there were plenty of youngsters strutting their stuff in the aisles too. The week before we went to '20th Century Boy' at the same place. A reconstruction of the life and music of Marc Bolan and T-Rex. Again, great musicians and dancing in the aisles. Catch them if you can. I had a cash-in-hand job at Southampton Guildhall in the early 70's taking tickets and generally keeping an eye on things. Got to see the Who, Bowie, Elton John, Slade and Rory Gallagher amongst others. The Who were incredibly loud, Bowie was a bit of a ripoff as he only did about 40 minutes and Slade sounded exactly like they did on vinyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 The first one that sprang to mind has already been mentioned: O Brother Where Art Thou? A superb soundtrack that made an already perfect film even more endearing. Other notable ones off the top of my head, and trying to avoid the obvious.... South West 9 - Little-known, low budget British film from the early 2000s that followed a day in the life of 5 different characters in Brixton, focusing on a pair of scammers organising a free rave in an old church. Made by the same production company as Human Traffic but less mainstream, the soundtrack featured some absolute gems from house to trance to dub. The film is worth watching alone for the performance of the guy who inadvertently ingests an extremely high dose of LSD and loses the plot completely. Where the Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze's 2009 movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, which I absolutely adored when I was a kid. The soundtrack was written and performed by the lead singer from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and just fits so perfectly with the atmosphere of the film. Deathproof - A poor film by Quentin Tarantino's standards, only really worth watching for the lap-dance scene, but as usual he got the soundtrack absolutely spot on to match the feel of the movie. He has a unique ability to take old, obscure songs and, by including them with certain movie scenes, making them seriously cool. Who else could get away with including a track by Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tish in a film about a psychotic stunt driver FFS!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 21 May, 2014 Share Posted 21 May, 2014 Just remembered Clint Mansell's stuff is awesome. Eg, Pii, Moon, The Fountain and other Aranofsky films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 3 June, 2014 Share Posted 3 June, 2014 I'm with Chapel End Charlie and Pap on this one. Anything that Ennio Morricone has done is pure genius. That said, my wife gives me grief because not only do I like the music to, but I also like this film: An acquired taste maybe - but I loved it...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 3 June, 2014 Share Posted 3 June, 2014 Get Carter. Not my favourite, I don't have an outright favourite, but up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 4 June, 2014 Share Posted 4 June, 2014 Hard to look past Trainspotting. 24 Hour Party People ? Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 4 June, 2014 Share Posted 4 June, 2014 Have to say Alps (absolutely no offence whatsoever intended), you surprise me with those first two choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 23 July, 2014 Share Posted 23 July, 2014 Ok, so it's not a film soundtrack but i've been rewatching the anime Attack on Titan and the soundtrack is mindblowing. For a TV series it's excellent stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 23 July, 2014 Share Posted 23 July, 2014 Vangelis - Bladerunner For me it helps set the scene to a (for me) fantastic film and without it the film would probably not be my fave film. Atmospheric beyond belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 23 July, 2014 Share Posted 23 July, 2014 not normally my sort of thing but I watched assassination of David James by coward Luke Shaw the other day and was struck by how beautiful the music is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIivI1K6f0#t=0m42s 42s in brah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 24 July, 2014 Share Posted 24 July, 2014 The assassination of Jesse James is a v.good OST Waltz with Bashir is also excellent. Awaydays/This is England both have decent soundtracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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