Favorite Film Score(s)

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A personal fave is Manfred Mann's Up The Junction because not only is it a great soundtrack, but also, arguably the bands greatest album. Beat Girl's a corker as well.

― Jez, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surprised that nobody's mentioned "Midnight Cowboy". I'm not a huge John Barry fan but this rules.

Ennio Morricone has done so much stuff I'm sure some is crap, there's a couple of greta comps of non-Spaghetti Western stuff called "Mondo Morricone" which are both great.

― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

claude bollings borsalino. 20s style saloon bar mechanical piano bizness

for morricone, i'd suggest che c'entriamo con noi la rivoluzione, or metti una sera a cena, haven't heard the rest of the soundtrack for those though

i'll second midnight cowboy, and then yes there are all those 'funky soundtracks' type things, the schifrins and quincy jones stuff, david shires the taking of pelham 1-2-3 is good, les baxters' hells bells (very different from baxters other stuff)

― gareth, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like phillip glass's soundtrack for "mishima".

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let us take a small moment to consider how wretched James Horner is.

― GCannon, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack is among my favorites (I guess that technically wasn't scored, it was improvised). 2001 is also great--I especially love the Gyorgi Ligeti compositions... they're very creepy.

Someone mentioned Bruce Lee soundtracks--has anyone played with this yet? It's really, really fun:

I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives

― Diego, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love rza's score for ghost dog...

― robin, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why are Kubrick's soundtracks so *money*? Did he really know what he was doing or did he know just enough to work with the right people? For another Malcolm McLaren pic circa "Clockwork Orange" check out "O Lucky Man" featuring a soundtrack (and movie appearances) by Alan Price.

― Mary, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why are Kubrick's soundtracks so *money*?

That's funnier than I first realized. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oops, and I meant Malcolm McDowell in "O Lucky Man", hence the connection to "Clockwork Orange", you all probably figured that out, but just to avoid any confusion. Damn that Malcolm McLaren sneaking into this thread...

― Mary, Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

twenty-one years pass...

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/the-ugly-truth-of-how-movie-scores-are-made

I knew Zimmer had a crew behind him but I thought that meant like five or six people:

A website devoted to Zimmer credits the many collaborators who make up the Remote Control “team.” There are 66 composers, 74 cocomposers, 28 arrangers, 72 additional arrangers, and 23 credited with “additional music.” Sixteen more people in various capacities round out the list, bringing the total to 279. If Zimmer can’t get a cue right, one composer told me, “he has 60 people behind him willing to give it a shot.”

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 April 2024 03:19 (one month ago) link

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