Stunningly good Movie Sound Tracks

[wasp_f15ting]

I was browsing youtube.. as we all do.

I came by someone raving on about how wonderful the Birdman OST is for people who like percussion. I thought i'd get the CD from amazon and try it out. Bloody hell its amazing. I didn't hear or understand why it was in the film.. maybe I need to see it again as I disliked the film.

This sound track is so well made, the drum composition is lovely and well balanced. It has made me order Whiplash.. hoping for similar dynamic drumming.

Do any of you have any stand out film sound tracks that are worth investigation.

[alan nagsworth]

The soundtrack to Akira by Geinoh Yamashirogumi is a fucking magnificent piece of work not just in the context of the film but also as a standalone album.

[Shit Good Nose]

Blade Runner of course, although a couple of key pieces of music from the film aren't on there.

The Taking of Pelham 123 - great dischordant jazz-funk.

I've not seen the film yet but have heard quite a lot of the soundtrack and think it's brilliant - Hereditary.  I'm assuming there'll be an album.

Really pretty much any Morricone soundtrack is worth a spin, but I think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is particularly worthy.

Sorcerer.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Paris, Texas
Shaft in Africa

[jobotic]

Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand

It really is lovely and goes so well with the film.

[wasp_f15ting]

Blade Runner of course, although a couple of key pieces of music from the film aren't on there.

The Taking of Pelham 123 - great dischordant jazz-funk.

I've not seen the film yet but have heard quite a lot of the soundtrack and think it's brilliant - Hereditary.  I'm assuming there'll be an album.

Really pretty much any Morricone soundtrack is worth a spin, but I think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is particularly worthy.

Sorcerer.

Hereditary did have an amazing sound track actually! good shout. Also Morricone.. I love how Kill Bill restarted my love for him:-

https://youtu.be/1Gy64U80xgo

I never thought about Akira either. I love the anime and manga so much!
I have the BR OST, also the 2049 version

[Sebastian Cobb]

Truck Turner
Super Fly
The Harder They Come
Rockers
The Mack
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (krs one did that, fact fans!)

[thraxx]

Strange. I was thinking of starting a thread like this. I've been listening to Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack for Alien. It's fucking astonishgly good. So many beautiful passages and memorable melodies in it. I listened to it with my 6 year old daughter and asked her what it images and feelings it conjured up.  She said that it sounded like being stuck in space and trapped with giant insects and Aliens and Dragons in a cave. Which is not that far away from the film really.

[buzby]

A couple of Lalo Schifrin jazz-funk greats - Bullitt and Dirty Harry. both ooze late-sixties San Francisco.
Tangerine Dream's sountrack for Michael Mann's The Keep (officially unreleased due to rights issues).
Staying on the MM theme, the Manhunter OST has some quality 80s synth pop alongside specially-composed tracks by The Reds and Michel Rubini (again, the full soundtrack has never been officially released due to rights issues)
Giorgio Moroder's soundtracks for Midnight Express and the 1972 nunsploitation film Klosterschülerinnen (Sex Life in a Convent)

[jobotic]

Midnight Cowboy - not all great but the great bits are great. Florida Fantasy man.

Lubos Fischer - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Broadcast/Ghost Box people will all know this.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Assault on Precinct 13 wouldn't be half the film it was without the soundtrack. Although the disco version (John Carpenter - The End) is even better.

Carpenter knew his way around a Synth, like.

[Brundle-Fly]

A couple of Lalo Schifrin jazz-funk greats - Bullitt and Dirty Harry. both ooze late-sixties San Francisco.

Excellent choices. May I add this essential Quincy Jones twofer?



In The Heat Of The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLVhRou380

They Call Me Mr Tibbs Title track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtxsaZt3l-I&frags=pl%2Cwn

And Hugo Montenegro's Lady In Cement   Late 60s bah-ba-ba-bah-bah-ba-tastic!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywuJh19U5w

[Sebastian Cobb]

BTTF2 had a better soundtrack than the first, but that's because the first used stuff like Huey Lewis and The News.

Come to think of it, when I was buying Herbie Hancock - Manchild the guy in the record shop pulled out the Death Wish soundtrack and said if you ever get this at a good price pick it up in a way that implied the one he was holding was not for sale. It is a grand soundtrack in fairness.

[Brundle-Fly]

This goes without saying.



FULL ALBUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vXkI1zYyDo

[gmoney]

Dirty Harry soundtrack is a funky beast.

[wasp_f15ting]

Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry Score was the first time I remember thinking music is a big deal for movies. So excellent choice..

Does anyone know of any good CDs of this?

[magval]

The soundtrack to Akira by Geinoh Yamashirogumi is a fucking magnificent piece of work not just in the context of the film but also as a standalone album.

Aye, finally got a vinyl release last year too. It is astounding how good the extended versions of the songs work outside of the film, like you say. Amazing performers u set amazing direction.

[magval]

BTTF2 had a better soundtrack than the first, but that's because the first used stuff like Huey Lewis and The News.

Come to think of it, when I was buying Herbie Hancock - Manchild the guy in the record shop pulled out the Death Wish soundtrack and said if you ever get this at a good price pick it up in a way that implied the one he was holding was not for sale. It is a grand soundtrack in fairness.

How much did you get Manchild for? I've been looking for that this past while

[checkoutgirl]

Blade Runner as already mentioned is absolutely stunning. Other worldly, beautiful, sad and haunting, just amazing.

Bullitt as already mentioned too, just cool sixties funk, jazz excellence.

Taxi Driver I'd throw in too, it just smells, feels and tastes of New York. Those horns and strings. Excellent.

The Social Network has some good stuff from NIN.

I also like the Predator soundtrack from Alan Silvestri. Not really one to listen to outside the actual film itself but I have done so. It really makes the jungle come alive in the film.

[Porter Dimi]

Jonny Greenwood's bloody beautiful music for Phantom Thread:

House of Woodcock

[checkoutgirl]

Really pretty much any Morricone soundtrack is worth a spin, but I think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is particularly worthy.

I prefer Once Upon a Time, dat harmonica.

[chveik]

Bruno Nicolai is a great composer of gialli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhPcEU3nUAI
I also really like the Only Lovers Left Alive OST, made by Jozef van Wissem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9RVyEy6SKQ
Millenium Mambo by Lim Giong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOF7yJAJsck
Mihaly Vig, the composer of Bela Tarr's films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRl3VQQ0GUA
The Rosemary's Baby OST by Krzysztof Komeda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRNX94fU94
Fabio Frizzi, the composer of Lucio Fulci's films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC2q23WFDEQ
And of course Goblin, my personal favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pins1y0XAa0

[Sebastian Cobb]

How much did you get Manchild for? I've been looking for that this past while

About 15 or 20 quid I think.

[Custard]

Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman's Ravenous soundtrack is a belter

[Mantle Retractor]

Howard Shore - The Fly, Dead Ringers

Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in The West

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive

[Ron Superior]

A couple of recent ones I listen to a lot are Prince Avalanche by David Wingo and Explosions In The Sky (https://youtu.be/lwD0KHJlMss) and Couple In A Hole by beak (https://youtu.be/iqPSMWn7t2Q)

[Avril Lavigne]

Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman's Ravenous soundtrack is a belter

Totes, I love the main theme in both its iterations.

[buzby]

Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry Score was the first time I remember thinking music is a big deal for movies. So excellent choice..

Does anyone know of any good CDs of this?

This is the one you want - it's the original music cues recorded for the film. plus some bonus alternate takes:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dirty-Harry-Original-Score-Schifrin/dp/B000255L52

[itsfredtitmus]

john cameron's kes

[greenman]

The soundtrack to Akira by Geinoh Yamashirogumi is a fucking magnificent piece of work not just in the context of the film but also as a standalone album.

In terms of its importance in elevating a film to greatness I think its very hard to beat, I'd say you could argue that Akira itself is slightly disjointed trying to cram so much in but the soundtrack really holds things together and sells so much of the drama/scale/general strangeness.

On somewhat similar lines I felt the soundtrack to the Memories anime anthology was a lot of the films success, great astral jazz/classical mix for Magnetic Rose, goofy uptemp fusion for Stinkbomb and tongue in cheek pomposity from Canon Fodder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo-GVtMVlVM&list=PL654D301EA107739D&index=2