Film Soundtracks…

Didn't we just do this?

I have always said that no movie soundtrack more completely meshed so beautifully with the filmed storyline as Ragtime. I loved it.

"Party Monster" - a perfect mix of vintage and electroclash tunes.

Taxi Driver

Royal Scottish National Orchestra recorded the complete score..

Joker from 2019 was fucking amazing.

R2, R4 I have the soundtracks to both those films and still play them on occasion.

The soundtrack I still have on in the background on a regular basis is The Hours.

Almost 40 years later, I still listen to the Mission soundtrack several times a year.

This feels like cheating but "The Good bad and the ugly" must ve named plus it gives me an excuse to post the Danish National orchestra's take on it that was so excellent it went viral

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Portrait of a Lady

Don’t Look Now

Out of Africa

The Color Purple (1985)

OH MY GOD! R10! You took mine, I am typing and your choice is right there. (Very surprised that someone agrees)

Portrait of a Lady- that closing track I have on my Iphone- its beautiful.

We did just do this, but playing along...

ANYTHING by Ennio Morricone

One of the greatest ever, Cat People !!

Psycho

Vertigo.

In 1975, little gayling me recorded The Wizard of Oz onto 4 sides of a cassette disc using a simple recorder and handheld mic - and imagined the movie in my mind through this recording year-round. I can replay the entire, beautiful soundtrack in my mind still. It's an incredibly complex and beautiful score, all the more amazing as it's 86 years old. When the CDs came out 25+ years ago I use those now, but not as frequently..

Call me a sap, but the soundtrack " Steel Magnolias" gets me every time, because it perfectly allows the listener to visualize summer in small town America.

Sap!

Bad maple syrup!

Dave Grusin's piano soundtrack for "The Firm" was the standout of that film.

One From the Heart

R16- One soundtrack that I think is LONG out of print that I would love is also Georges DeLerue- The soundtrack for Crimes Of The Heart- I really find that soundtrack very evocative and beautiful, and not that disimilar from Steel Magnolias (a movie that I despise)

I like Crimes of the Heart much better

I like Places in the Heart much better.

I like the opening from Heart To Heart much better than ALL OF THIS SHIT!

R22 has a Hasty Heart.

Murder...

Drive (2011)

Apologies to all, as I missed the thread where this was recently in play.

R12, I also love anything from Ennio Morricone!

They shoot horses...

Resonato Bigganosa Ellis Islandiniz.

The Naked Maja

Everything in "Nashville."

The movie, of course.

I do love the melodrama and beauty of Pino Dinaggio who did all of Brian Depalma's films- Carrie, Blow Out, and that beautiful opening to Body Double--Linked here-

And of course the epic Dressed To Kill~

'Avalon', by Randy Newman. It's out. of print and only select pieces are available on Spotify. It is occasionally available on eBay.

It's a lovely, lovely score. (It's also a very underrated movie.)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

I mentioned Ennio Morricone, but I should have selected "The Mission", which is arguably the best soundtrack ever written, and a personal favorite other than 'The Mission', is 'Cinema Paradiso'.

There's also Nino Rota's soundtracks to The Godfather movies.

Ben Hur by Miklos Rozsa

Bugsy Malone

Valley Girls

Oklahoma

Carousel

Lost Horizon

No...really.

Really?!

What can I say, r39? It's fun background music. You can't beat Bacharach.

Interstellar

Moulin Rouge

The Mission

and The Phantom of the Opera

R34–Morricone. I alternate between Days of Heaven, The Mission and 1900.

Holy cow the Crimes of The Heart soundtrack is on Youtube-

KOYAANISQATSI

Lawrence of Arabia

Midnight Cowboy

Summer of 42

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Singing Nun

It has pretty songs.

Rushmore

The Insider

Sister Act

Unfortunately, with many of my favorite film musicals, I prefer the b’way cast album over the movie soundtrack. Like My Fair Lady, South Pacific, even Funny Girl though the star remained the same in both.

R42

Damn! How did I forget 'Days of Heaven'? It's #2 between 'The Mission" and 'Cafe Paradiso.'

Badlands

A Room With A View The English Patient Phantom Thread

Oh Em Gee ... this seems like the consummate Datalounge soundtrack to me!

The Godfather. Many decades later and I'm still not tired of it.

I think the score for To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the greatest ever written. But the score I go back to over and over again is Jerry Goldsmith's The Trouble With Angels.

One of the all-time toughest Oscar votes must have been 1962’s original score—between Maurice Jarre’s Lawrence of Arabia and Elmer Bernstein’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

For r56, and fans of…GYPSY!

I thought R58's clip would be the scene with Gypsy Rose Lee in The Trouble With Angels.

I have too many heady memories from that time to listen to it now, but the soundtrack to the Wim Wenders movie "Until the End of the World" from the early 90s really haunted me.

The real GYPSY! visits St. Francis, per your request.

OK: so many mentions of The Mission - I know why DL feel like home to me!

A few other soundtracks I adore: Out of Africa Somewhere in Time Dances with Wolves Amadeus Brokeback Mountain Moulin Rouge Paper Moon Transamerica

Reality Bites

Joy Luck Club

The Pillow Book

The Secret Garden

Atonement has a really good score

I have the soundtrack to the TV series "Brideshead Revisited" and listed to it all the time. It runs through my head a lot. Also, the soundtrack for "Maurice".

Schoundchracksh!

I love listening to film scores. They're great to listen to while I work on projects at my desk. Some of my favorites:

The Cider House Rules

Inception

The Assassination of Jesse James....

The Rocketeer

Field of Dreams

How to Train Your Dragon

Grand Canyon

The Pacific (mini-series, not a film, but still great music)

Two for the Road

Charade

Chocolat

The English Patient

The Tourist

Out of Africa

Oh Industry!

I have the whole soundtrack from Lolita 1962.

Wonderful John Barry collection

Help!

Sophie’s Choice

Peggy Sue Got Married

The score is simple, corny and manipulative as is the movie but damned if it doesn’t get the job done in evoking memory and nostalgia.

Donnie Darko

Diva (1981)

The Talented Mr. Ripley has an excellent score

Not a "score" soundtrack per se, but as far as collection of songs, nothing beats Flashdance, hate the movie, always did but the girl power punk/pop/rock of the very early 80s is EVERYTHING. Such an underrated soundtrack.

Lulls you in like a soft pink Donna Karan cashmere sweater that slowly slides of a creamy shoulder.

The Prince Of Tides by James Newton Howard

R11, it’s one of my favorite soundtracks of all times. It’s beautiful.

yes r37! Valley Girl perfectly evokes its time. Love it still.

Valley Girl really did capture the new wave punk wannabes of the time.

I was one of those wannabes—in the South Bay. (The Fleetwood was the local band scene.)

The Shipping News Silverado Wyatt Earp The Player Shakespeare in Love Under the Tuscan Sun Lawrence of Arabia The Pink Panther Grand Canyon Cocoon Medicine Man

An Unmarried Woman

CHINATOWN

Any love for the soundtrack from Silent Running, by the late-great Peter (P.D.Q. Back) Schickele?

Un poco

Mothra's Song

Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky (Live at NYC)

Once Upon A Time in America

I've posted before about Paper Moon. I was 13 when it came out and I asked for the soundtrack for my birthday. How could my parents have NOT known I was a little faggot? And Ryan O'Neal made me tingle down there. And Madeline Kahn was priceless. And P.J. Johnson as Imogene was FAB. And all the amazing period songs on the soundtrack are just, well, FANTASTIC. I'll stop now.

The Comfort Of Strangers: The Other Side Of The Mirror (From "The Comfort Of Strangers")

Not technically a film.

Twin Peaks // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)

Experiment in Terror

The soundtrack to Lord of the Flies (1990) by Philippe Sarde is one of my all time favorites.

Haunting and beautiful, jaunty and melancholy, peaceful and terrifying, this soundtrack is a ride. I saw this movie when I was 8 and was a bit obsessed with it, and the music was a big reason why.

The whole thing is on YouTube.

C'mon, when was the last time you listened to ...Mary Poppins?

R60, keep an open mind, & check this out…

Same song, but with superior audio, R60.

Sound track to Body Heat by John Barry.

The Bad and the Beautiful -- David Raksin

I love Michael Nyman's entire score for "Gattaca" (1997), but the track within that really gets me is called "The Departure."

R81 r82 just the opening song “Girls Like Me” kind of ushered in the beginning of a new era…alas, I was already too old

R100, EVERYTHING David Raksin.

The soundtrack from Ric Burns' 1999 "New York" documentary.

Let's try this again . . .

Very true, R104/105. The entire multi part doc is a masterpiece, and the musical soundtrack - both original and older music - is brilliant. My favorite chapters are the last two and the World Trade Center addendum. The documentary deserves its own thread.

New York:

"Chariots Of Fire"

"Close Encounters with the 3rd Grade"

"ET-The Extraterrestrial"- The music made people cry in ET, like when ET was dying.

1492: Conquest of Paradise • Main Theme • Vangelis

Gattaca

The Truman Show

Velvet Goldmine

Ric Burns' New York

I revisited the John Williams soundtrack for the 1978 Superman: The Movie ... movie ...after watching the James Gunn Superman film with its extremely bland, generic "meh" score. I had forgotten at how beautiful, sweeping and rousing it is. It deserves its reputation.

As a transracial transgender Chinese lesbian, this soundtrack ibas had a profound influence on me and my journey.

^^^that's a lot of trans there^^^

I enjoyed the soundtrack to Get Shorty long after seeing the film. And obviously not a film, but A Charlie Brown Christmas is a lifelong favorite.

Chinatown Lost Horizon

I love Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Russia House. It's perfect for getting intimate.

Hedwig and the angry Inch, Rocky Horror Picture Show, lost Highway, Velvet Goldmine and Mulholland Drive

Two which I still listen to all these years later are Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and The Fifth Element.

Phantom Thread

Just sink into this, an ode to an era that’s about to end although they don’t know it

The Illusionist (2006) by Philip Glass

I just let this music wash over me , that’s the only way I can describe it.

Martin Scorcese IMO does a great job with soundtracks, even though it's songs we're familiar with, he knows exactly how to enhance his storytelling with the right sounds. I particularly loved Good fellas and The Irishman..

^^^The 1st South Park Christmas Special with Mr Hankey and Philip Glass as the Christmas music director^^^

R121 mentioned Philip Glass.

"Coming Home" - 1978

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - 1958

"Looking for Mr. Goodbar" - 1977

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is a pastiche of music from various sources because there was a musician's strike going on at the time. But it's still an interesting score.

[quote]"Close Encounters with the 3rd Grade"

Sounds hot!

My Top Ten Favorite Film Scores, in no particular order:

1. Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa

2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Bernard Herrmann

3. Lost Horizon (1937) - Dimitri Tiomkon

4. Hawaii - Elmer Bernstein

5. The Egyptian - Alfred Newman/Bernard Herrmann

6. The Robe - Alfred Newman

7. Cleopatra - Alex North

8. The Big Country - Jerome Moross

9. The Thief of Bagdad - Miklos Rozsa

10. Fahrenheit 451 - Bernard Herrman

And 5 more:

11. Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann

12. Star Wars A New Hope - John Williams

13. To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein

14. The Old Mill - Leigh Harline

15. The Fall of the Roman Empire - Dimitri Tiomkin

Couple of somewhat obscure ones: I like the score of Niagara (1953) a lot--by Sol Kaplan, and Broken Arrow (1950), by Hugo Friedhofer--but I like almost anything by Friedhofer. Also, All Fall Down (1962) by Alex North.

[quote]Martin Scorsese IMO does a great job with soundtracks...

He absolutely does - I recently watched 'Wolf Of Wall Street' again after a long break - MS yet again proved how expert he is at making an already exciting scene burst with yet more power by adding some dirty blues or The Stones, say. Not sure anyone does it better.

R127, You made me remember the theme from Samson and Delilah, with Hedy Lamar and Victor Mature. Loved it. Also love Ragtime.

The Soundtrack from Patton. OMG I love it.

Scorcese's choices for the soundtrack to his films is second to none. The Irishman, Good fellas, etc. the music pulls you inside the story. Transporting. Brilliant.

Evite, with Madonna. I wasn't very familiar with previous incarnations and I find them too prissy and operatic. I love this version.

Alfred Newman's score for Leave Her to Heaven.

[quote]Evite, with Madonna.

I didn't get one.

Thomas Newman's American Beauty soundtrack. Very unique and groundbreaking.

Everything Jerry Goldsmith. Everything Morricone.

R130 Victor Young composed Samson and Delilah, and he would have done The Commandments, had he lived. It's impossible to think of many films without the scores they have, like The Ten Commandments if it didn't have the score by Elmer Bernstein.

Sometimes a score is better than the movie, like Miklos Rozsa's score for Plymouth Adventure (1952).

I still listen to the Wind River soundtrack - beautiful and haunting

I remember reading Joseph Mankiewicz saying he went with Alex North over Rozsa for the score of Cleopatra because he didn't want the film to have a "pseudo-Kodály" sound (which was true of a lot of Rozsa's music. I think he studied with Kodály.)

I love the score to Summertime (1955). I don't know who did it. An Italian composer.

As a kid who grew up watching old Warner Bros movies on TV I still love so many of the scores of Max Steiner.

I like Alex North's score for Spartacus but I think his Cleopatra score is just another bad decision made for the movie. A more lushly romantic score like Rozsa would have provided might have elevated the emotional themes, which the movie needs badly, whereas North's score is just too cold.

R140 I totally agree. Maybe Alfred Newman would have been another good choice for this type of movie.

I agree North's score works for Spartacus. Another one he shouldn't have scored, though, in my opinion, is Cheyenne Autumn. I guess Ford loved the score, but I didn't (apparently Ford thought Max Steiner's score for The Searchers made the Indians seem like they were Cossacks.)

I've been curious for a while why so many composers shared the same basic notes/chords/tonalities for music underscoring scenes with American Indians. Victor Young, Max Steiner, Hugo Friedhofer, Alfred Newman...it didn't come from native music. Yet we know as soon as we hear that music, we're about to see Native Americans. Wonder where it originated?

It was what audiences in their time instinctively understood as "indians".

Speaking of Alex North, his soundtrack to A streetcar named desire was the 1st jazz (or jazzy-esque if you're a purist) soundtrack. And very VERY sexy. So sexy in fact that one bit of music, the one used when Stella goes down the stairs to meet Stanley, was actually censored and had to be changed to something less "carnal" (the of music is in the 1993 restoration)

R145 That's a great score. I did see the movie before 1993 (as well as after), so I'm curious what I saw before it was restored.

I think (I'm not sure) he did the score for the play, as well? I know he scored the play, Death of a Salesman. Even today when the play is done in some places, that recording comes with the script.

I've actually never been that much of an Alex North fan, but that's starting to change. I love his music for The Long, Hot Summer (1958), as well. It suits the movie so well.

Cold Mountain.

Rozsa’s score for Cleopatra would have been more florid, whereas the score North wrote has its grand moments, but is otherwise mostly psychological, more in keeping with Mankiewicz’s presentation of clashing political personalities.

Midnight Run (1988)—an underappreciated gem of a film. Danny Elfman’s score was phenomenal. I listened to it so many times I wore out my cassette. Years later I bid on and won the CD for about $75 on eBay. It was worth every penny.

Francis Ford Coppola took most of his father's orchestral score out of The Outsiders when he re-released the film with restored scenes as The Outsiders--The Complete Novel. He substituted things like Elvis Presley songs. He substituted a cheesy orchestral score for his dad's much better one for the sunrise/"Stay Gold" poem sequence. The Carmine Coppola score was not that pervasive in the film, anyway, but I think it worked. It's a good score.

I think the orchestral score was because Coppola was interested in recreating the visual and musical style of GWTW, at times (since the boys read and admire GWTW), including the sweeping main title (which was also removed).

(I think it was good that Coppola put the missing scenes back, but he should have left the rest of the film alone.)

Neil Hefti's soundtrack to Harlowe. The Carroll Baker one.

I was very fond of the Nancy Goes to Rio section of this double record set.

R74 I love that movie.....still makes me tear up

R1912 Coppola loves to fuck with his films to keep reselling them.

New York, New York. Big band music, old standards, some jazz, and classic Kander and Ebb showstoppers. Liza has never been in better voice.

Yeah but the movie sucks. De Niro's character has to be one of the most repulsive ever played.

So? This is about film soundtracks. It's a good soundtrack album.

I used to have it, a two-record album.