Stunningly good Movie Sound Tracks

[jobotic]

john cameron's kes

Yes!

[nugget]

I've not listened to it outside of the film but I remember liking the Duke Of Burgundy soundtrack a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4VtR6YsDQs

[Danger Man]

Philip Glass Mishima is as good as it gets for me.

[Brundle-Fly]

Returning to early seventies Lalo Schifrin...one his forgotten beauties.

A demented documentary for the uninitiated too!

The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)



FULL ALBUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0UQjBnB2s

[Brundle-Fly]

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

Superb selections!

[Bazooka]

Superb selections!

Agreed, I hum the Goblin Dawn of The Dead soundtrack quite often. Although not that great despite Tom Cruise the M83 soundtrack for Oblivion is pretty good for a more modern entry.

[fucking ponderous]

The Brazil soundtrack is insanely good

Jonny Greenwood did a soundtrack to a film called Bodysong in 2003. I haven't seen the film but I've heard the soundtrack loads of times and I love it. Apparently it works very well with the film so I've been meaning to have a look at it.

[jobotic]

The opener to Cannibal Holocaust is surprisingly lovely. I've never seen it or heard the rest though.

https://youtu.be/kf1Vt6r-sj8

[a duncandisorderly]

another vote for (inevitably) vangelis' work on BR, both the music & the diegetic stuff.

I'm inordinately fond of the work M83 did for 'oblivion', whatever you might think of the flick itself (& I quite like it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIXUxmN1vQ

[Shaky]

Why, Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer soundtrack of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HOgqVrdNQ

Also: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway.

[New Jack]

The opener to Cannibal Holocaust is surprisingly lovely. I've never seen it or heard the rest though.

https://youtu.be/kf1Vt6r-sj8

Yes! Such a weird theme, at odds with the film itself, but it's been over a decade since I last saw it and I can still remember the theme

It's evocative as fuck, albeit not of cannibal holocausts

[a duncandisorderly]

Why, Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer soundtrack of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HOgqVrdNQ

it's a decent album, though the pieces are short by their standards, & not terribly well-recorded. I'm not sure it goes with the flick, though, except for the scene with the bridge.
the BR of 'sorcerer' was a revelation after the murk of the old DVD, like when they cleaned the ceiling of the sistine chapel (I saw it in early 1987 when they were a third of the way across), a real labour of love by friedkin after all the legal wrangles.

I've considered doing a 'cover' of the TD album, & extending some of the pieces. it doesn't seem likely now that the surviving members will deal with their archive, & the bits that have emerged (I can't go into details here, but there are some re-releases in the offing) are difficult to piece together. it's possible that franke is sitting on some material, but lacks the motivation to clean it up.

[Avril Lavigne]

Graham Gouldman's soundtrack to the 1980 animated movie 'Animalympics' is better than most of the stuff he was putting out with what remained of 10cc around that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pQ6me7ICY

[phantom_power]

Surprised there has been no mention of Popol Vuh and their Herzog soundtracks

[Shaky]

it's a decent album, though the pieces are short by their standards, & not terribly well-recorded. I'm not sure it goes with the flick, though, except for the scene with the bridge.
the BR of 'sorcerer' was a revelation after the murk of the old DVD, like when they cleaned the ceiling of the sistine chapel (I saw it in early 1987 when they were a third of the way across), a real labour of love by friedkin after all the legal wrangles.

I've considered doing a 'cover' of the TD album, & extending some of the pieces. it doesn't seem likely now that the surviving members will deal with their archive, & the bits that have emerged (I can't go into details here, but there are some re-releases in the offing) are difficult to piece together. it's possible that franke is sitting on some material, but lacks the motivation to clean it up.

Yeah, but apart from all that it's great. I actually prefer Legend but was a bit embarrassed to put that.

[studpuppet]

[studpuppet]

[Sebastian Cobb]

Vanishing Point

[BlodwynPig]

Sorcerer.

Popped in to say that. I'm also a big fan of the unreleased The Keep soundtrack.

[BlodwynPig]

Kenji Kawai's Dark Water soundtrack
Don't even need to be watching to get the shivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiU01l8tI4

and the final scene, Vangelis-a-like, piece is phenomenal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0K4m5brKc

His Chaos soundtrack is wonderful too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zWKGO4k-s

[chveik]

Joe Hisaichi - Sonatine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLlX4czsZA

Hajime Kaburagi - Tokyo Drifter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfmzI8zW7wo

Shigeru Umebayashi - Jia Ren Qu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bMpJ6nrrcA

Ennio Morricone - La Spiaggia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSceQhR5gI

Edward Artemiev - Meditation (Stalker) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4

Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJ0SSHlarc

Tangerine Dream - Near Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-tSoDgxRLk

Rahul Dev Burman - Mera Pyar Shalimar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGIwNwr06Q

[Bogbrainedmurphy]

Lost In Translation soundtrack is excellent, Death In Vegas' "Girls" and The Jesus & Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" became two of my favourite songs in life after watching this - and there's a whole host of other great stuff on there.

Right, definitely due another watch soon, that.


Also - bear with me - the Human Traffic and Kevin & Perry soundtracks are fucking superb, say what you want about the films themselves, but both soundtracks capture great moments in time. Take me back.

[Neomod]

Would definitely agree with most Morricone soundtracks being great but i'll echo The Once Upon a Time(s), West and America and add L'Orca.

Same with John Barry, from Beat Girl to Playing By Heart he never disappoints. Personal favourites are The Knack, OHMSS and the aforementioned Playing By Heart.

John Williams's Eiger Sanction is a favourite.

Colin Tully's Gregory's Girl soundtrack reflects the period perfectly and Knopfler's Comfort and Joy/Local Hero soundtracks are tone perfect for the films.

Concur with the love for Bladerunner, Taxi Driver and Paris Texas.

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

Same with John Barry, from Beat Girl to Playing By Heart he never disappoints. Personal favourites are The Knack, OHMSS and the aforementioned Playing By Heart.

Another vote for John Barry here. OHMSS is an amazing soundtrack. Diamonds Are Forever is probably my other favourite of the Bond ones, but Walkabout and The Lion in Winter are my two absolute favourites of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzy0DiYUU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjqrEMzlbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3g1XMakoEQ

[phantom_power]

The Visitor. It is only really one song played every 10 minutes but it is a fucking belter

[Pseudopath]

Eric Serra's work on Leon (or Léon: The Professional for our American cousins) is outstanding. I challenge anyone who loves that film* to listen to Two Ways Out and not get a little choked up.

^{* Yeah...I know the whole premise of the film was questionable enough without the recent revelations about Luc Besson, but it's still a bloody good movie.}

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Love the recurring theme in The Crimson Permanent Assurance at the beginning of The Meaning Of Life.

[greenman]

Eric Serra's work on Leon (or Léon: The Professional for our American cousins) is outstanding. I challenge anyone who loves that film* to listen to Two Ways Out and not get a little choked up.

^{* Yeah...I know the whole premise of the film was questionable enough without the recent revelations about Luc Besson, but it's still a bloody good movie.}

Gabriel Yared's Betty Blue soundtrack perhaps a more acceptable to choke up to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqB7jJyvu4

[phantom_power]

The soundtrack to Rocky 4 is full off banging 80s power rock. I had it on tape for some reason and played it all the time. I can no longer work out whether I like it through nostalgia or genuinely good songs.

"Burning Heart" - Survivor
"Heart's on Fire" - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
"Double or Nothing" - Kenny Loggins and Gladys Knight
"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
"War" - Vince DiCola
"Living in America" - James Brown
"No Easy Way Out" - Robert Tepper
"One Way Street" - Go West
"The Sweetest Victory" - Touch
"Training Montage" - Vince DiCola

[greenman]

The soundtrack to Rocky 4 is full off banging 80s power rock. I had it on tape for some reason and played it all the time. I can no longer work out whether I like it through nostalgia or genuinely good songs.

"Burning Heart" - Survivor
"Heart's on Fire" - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
"Double or Nothing" - Kenny Loggins and Gladys Knight
"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
"War" - Vince DiCola
"Living in America" - James Brown
"No Easy Way Out" - Robert Tepper
"One Way Street" - Go West
"The Sweetest Victory" - Touch
"Training Montage" - Vince DiCola

The peak of the montage movement.