What’s Your Favorite Original Score Movie Sountracks?
I am not talking about movie scores like Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, Officer and a Gentleman or Footloose – these are conglomerations of other songs by various artists. I am looking for original movie scores. Some of my favorites to listen to in no order:
The Avengers Avatar Conan the Barbarian Jurassic Park The Mummy Returns True Lies Thor Titanic
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August 11, 2020, 12:33 PM
rebut10
"Jaws"
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Live free or die... Don't tread on me... Molon Labe... Take your pick.
August 11, 2020, 12:42 PM
RogueJSK
My vote goes to Howard Shore's score for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Band of Brothers The Pacific Mr. Holland's Opus - An American Symphony Gladiator Braveheart GWTW
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 11, 2020, 01:09 PM
Mike S
Last of the Mohicans
August 11, 2020, 01:21 PM
fpuhan
Blade Runner 1492 - Conquest of Paradise
Both, incidentally, by Vangelis (who won an Oscar for Chariots of Fire)
Honorable mention to Koyaanisqatsi. Soundtrack by Philip Glass
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August 11, 2020, 01:31 PM
fpuhan
I kind of liked Woodstock, too. But the score WAS the movie. Or vice-versa.
You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.
I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log.
August 11, 2020, 01:58 PM
Maestro
Crimson Tide Hunt for Red October Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: Phantom Menace Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan E.T. The Rock Pacific Rim The Lord of the Rings The Incredibles Midnight Special (but I’m biased because a friend of mine wrote for that score)
I could go on and on...I love film scores...and I’m fortunate to have conducted many of these in concert.
August 11, 2020, 02:06 PM
oddball
The Godfather
The Magnificent Seven
Dirty Harry
The Odd Couple
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
August 11, 2020, 02:54 PM
YooperSigs
Main theme from the James Bond movies. Sons of Katie Elder. Saving Private Ryan. The Longest Day.
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
August 11, 2020, 05:20 PM
bobtheelf
Last of the Mohicans Gettysburg
August 11, 2020, 05:26 PM
kramden
The Magnificent 7. The Godfather. But my all time favorite is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Ennio Morricone was one talented composer.
August 11, 2020, 05:35 PM
Prefontaine
Tron Legacy and my favorite is probably Meet Joe Black
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
August 11, 2020, 06:56 PM
Orguss
Highly underrated, but the Aliens soundtrack deserves a mention.
"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"
August 11, 2020, 07:16 PM
jljones
I know it’s not what you are really looking for but......
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Is one of my favorites. Lots of great back ground music.
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them"
August 11, 2020, 07:37 PM
Mars_Attacks
From the series Cosmos
Vangelis - Alpha
"Star stuff, the ash of stellar alchemy, had emerged...into consciousness." - Carl Sagan
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August 11, 2020, 07:49 PM
heydrich
Thief
“I'm fat because everytime I do your girlfriend, she gives me a cookie”.
August 11, 2020, 07:56 PM
jrhillma
quote:
Originally posted by fpuhan: [i]Blade Runner
+1
Edit to add: I also am partial to Isao Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing" primarily because of Arabesque No. 1 being the soundtrack to "Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler/Star Gazer". I have a soft spot for the era of PBS when it wasn't quite so rabidly liberal; i.e., my formative years.