"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
March 07, 2018, 09:57 PM
parabellum
Elmer Bernstein's swingin' score for Sweet Smell of Success. Love it!
Miles Davis' smoky jazz score in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows. Recorded in a Paris recording studio in one session, in the middle of the night. Man oh man. So damn cool.
This last one- it would not be entirely correct to call this a musical score. In 1994, Richard Einhorn viewed Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc and was inspired to compose a libretto as a musical score. Einhorn's composition and Dreyer's film create a synthesis to the degree that I cannot imagine viewing the film without this score. Just listen to the opening. Beautiful.
March 07, 2018, 10:11 PM
rusbro
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Originally posted by Orguss: The Lord of the Rings scores.
The Two Towers is my favorite of the three, but I also like ROTK a lot.
March 07, 2018, 10:15 PM
Jim Shugart
I just found this awesome performance of Ecstasy of Gold. Turn up the sound and enjoy...
Drag Me To Hell - Christopher Young Bubba Ho-Tep - Brian Tyler The Skeleton Key - Edward Shearmur (more soundtrack than score) Psycho - Bernard Hermann Suspiria - Goblin The Fog - John Carpenter Phantasm - Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave Conan the Librarian Barbarian - Basil Poledouris
"Every time you think you weaken the nation" Moe Howard
I like most all of these and have a lot of them in my Great Film Scores station on Pandora. I built it from scratch so it's mostly the instrumental music only (no lyrics), but there are a few James Bond songs mixed in and some classical. It often plays in the background in my office at work.
Here's a link if anyone's interested in giving it a try:
