Bands who make excellent soundtrack material?

The example I'm thinking of is Massive Attack, especially Mezzanine. It seems like I've heard so many songs from this album in films, or if not, the songs are very evocative.

Any others you guys can think of?

Mastodon, as evidenced by them doing the soundtrack for the upcoming Jonah Hex film.

  On 5/10/2010 at 9:02 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Mastodon, as evidenced by them doing the soundtrack for the upcoming Jonah Hex film.

This pleases me greatly.

Tangerine Dream is my favorite, or were you looking for more rock instrumentation?

edit: you see the trailers for Jonah Hex yet? it was physically painful to watch

Mogwai makes the kind of cheesy compositions people generally look for in soundtracks.

sigur ros, seemingly every bloody film or tv programme in the mid 00s had hopipolla or something going on.

Popol Vuh.

One soundtrack does not meet the criteria. :)

Awepittance, don't care about instrumentation, and Tangerine Dream is a good choice.

Keep them coming folks....

mogwai fo sho

  On 5/10/2010 at 9:02 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Mastodon, as evidenced by them doing the soundtrack for the upcoming Jonah Hex film.

have you heard any of this? i thought there was some snag recently where they had to rework a ton of material and brent was super pissed (go figure)

menomena did a great soundtrack side album

amon tobin did a killer job with chaos theory

eddie vedder did a killer killer job with into the wild

Bands that should make scores for films: Kiln, Tortoise, and Broadcast

Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai are the only modern bands I can think of that do score work...

and Kronos Quartet....

Moby did some of the music for Southland Tales. and were the best Moby tracks ever....not a fan

Plaid did Tekkon Kinkreet...

Kettel should do film score work....

I can think of a lot of people whom should work with film but can't think of that many that do in 2010....

godspeed

I don't mean scores either, I mean soundtrack songs.

Like how the track Angel has been used in a bunch of films (snatch comes to mind). And the track Inertia Creeps seems like it should be used somewhere in a movie.

I know I'm not explaining this very well, but like how a song can evoke strong cinematic images. I don't just mean strong mental images, I mean you can see the track being used in a film.

most ambient records.

  On 5/10/2010 at 10:42 PM, chenGOD said:

I don't mean scores either, I mean soundtrack songs.

Like how the track Angel has been used in a bunch of films (snatch comes to mind). And the track Inertia Creeps seems like it should be used somewhere in a movie.

 

I know I'm not explaining this very well, but like how a song can evoke strong cinematic images. I don't just mean strong mental images, I mean you can see the track being used in a film.

ah. well thats different. i like this one for that

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

like I said, Kiln: everything from Holo to now, should be in films

  On 5/10/2010 at 10:49 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

most (good) ambient records.

fixed.

if you don't mean scores hmm this is going to be hard for me to think of good ones. but if you're open to a mix of songs and score check out Goblin's italian horror movie cd compilations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2bfnujqUU

Goblin, fuck...

I haven't seen many so the films they did soundtracks for so I just always think of them as a band purely....

have seen Suspiria and Dawn of the Dead only....

Ulver

Peter Gabriel has done some outstanding soundtrack work and even a lot of his album cuts would be beautiful in films.

Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance has done some brilliant stuff for film too. For my money she's the greatest musical export this shitty country has even had. She's an absolute Goddess, and never had any vocal training either

im listening to wooden veil atm and i think they'd go great in film.

Oldie.. a little cabaret voltaire

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

Yo La Tengo generally do nice film score work.

Alva Noto would work in the right sci-fi movie.

lustmord could do some great things for movies