Film Scores

Symphonic Suite Akira

Possibly one of the best albums ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNqeLNhTs0

L'homme Orchestra - Francois de Roubaix (also pretty much everything else he's ever done)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0luDCHB2TeY

La Double Vie de Veronique - Zbigniew Preisner (every song from this film is just fantastic, as is the film)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfvr3Wxff4s

Dawn of the Dead - Goblin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOR1yboyzMo

Day of the Dead - John Harrison (rockin huh)

RoboCop

Starship Troopers

Candyman

The Neverending Story

Atomic Cafe

The Fifth Element

  On 5/10/2010 at 10:40 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

I forgot about this one

 

That is bloody fantastic, that one. And yes, Eraserhead is the shit as well.

1984

The Shining (you know, the lost score originally composed for the film but scrapped and released later)

Koyaanisqatsi

Powaqqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

fight club

AKIRA soundtrack deserves more credit, it's amazing, still gives me goosebumps after all these years!

Rumble Fish (Stewart Copeland)

Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld), amazing film as well, not seen it years now but I've never forgotten it. Wish to fuck it could be released on DVD.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Exorcist

The last two are soundtracks rather than scores, but they do the same job I suppose.

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Englabörn

There Will Be Blood

Man With A Movie Camera

KTL - The Phantom Carriage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K31ttgBTqe8

  On 5/11/2010 at 10:39 PM, Caretstik said:

 

Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld), amazing film as well, not seen it years now but I've never forgotten it. Wish to fuck it could be released on DVD.

 

holy shit i forgot about this movie. saw it once a long time ago. downloading....

also nick cave and warren ellis' score to 'the proposition' and 'the assasination of jesse james...' are musts...

I'll have to look into this Akira business.

this one, of course

  On 5/11/2010 at 4:21 AM, disparaissant said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOR1yboyzMo

Day of the Dead - John Harrison (rockin huh)

i need to track down a copy of this, i always forget that Day had great music too.

aye i will miss Jerry Goldsmith. I just saw Rambo: first blood (for the first time) and his score for it is fucking excellent. He even writes a cheesy titular pop song about Rambo at the end. Not very many film composers (if any) use a synthesizer ensemble gracefully to compliment an orchestra anymore. His score for poltergeist in particular is a beautiful combination of glistening synth tones and high pitched string sections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlDiwvv1QY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie8yMA7nY20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsUZ1aIp4OE

Alan Silvestri's music for Predator & back to the future (which sound remarkably similar give or take some tribal rythms) are definitely in my top 5 scores

this song gets me every time, so fucking well done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4ll94hN_E&feature=related

and of course who can forget John Williams excellent scores especially his best work, the Indiana Jone trilogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZuFAwhRP_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQIjCI6Eji0&feature=PlayList&p=3BE17F650A7485C4&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=29

and because i'm feeling sentimental here are some that still bring tears to my eyes if i'm in the right mood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZLaA5RoNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15x-B8PgeE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73Cmvgt12w&feature=PlayList&p=44A0BE996A57199D&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGqxiuYfZ8

The Tangerine Dream score for Legend has a few gems on there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60vSxC051k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xcrWq0cJ_o

  On 5/12/2010 at 11:38 AM, Awepittance said:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie8yMA7nY20

 

lol i never really thought about it but the burbs does have a good soundtrack

haha right?

and i can't believe i forgot this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-Qix4h1k

Legend soundtrack is great, reid got me hooked on it, it reignited my interest for tangerine dream completely.

candyman soundtrack is fucking beautiful. i love 'It was always you, helen'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoWzNPe9_DY

also, on a philip glass note, his soundtrack to mishima is amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVAUnKK1DdQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0gDJgxrcec&feature=related

Manfred Hubler & Siegfried Schwab's music for Jess Franco's films is some of the most awesome shit i've ever heard.

Probably the most well known of the tunes, it was also used in Jackie Brown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh8m4v5WkwQ

Mark Isham's beautiful score for the original Hitcher, eerie ambient moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q2whcsgF4I

Tangerine Dream awesomeness from Risky Business:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KuNH3C36QE

John Carpenter's scores are usually great, my personal faves are probably Christine and Halloween III (!)

The Devil in Miss Jones has a really harrowing score considering it's a porn film. Huge favourite of mine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoQHE7PJ_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Z4XG6kZss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdUNKOv2n8

^Forgot about Donnie Darko. Unfortunately the rest of the score is overshadowed by that emo cover song.

Fabio Frizzi scores for Lucio Fulci films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX8Ol2QYlUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZof32L3G2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFFz13D65w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEnhzUtBGOw

Bernard Herrmann

Danny Elfman

Elliot Goldenthal

Elmer Bernstein

Howard Shore

James Newton Howard

Jerry Goldsmith

John Barry

John Williams

Miklos Rozsa

etc...

does saturday night fever count?