Orginal film Scores

ghouldaddy07

hey all recently been listening to alot of orginal film score that comes on various films,games and TV shows that i watch and was wondering if anyone had some recomendations for any of the above that you think had a great orginal soundtrack to it?

cheers

rebeldiamond

Stigmata- that movie has a great original soundtrack- and it was partly wrote by Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins). Totally awesome, you should really check it out. Its very emotional and very original.

mike65

What are you into?

S/Ts in my collection include Blade Runner (Vangelis - etherial ambeint/electronic), $ (Quincy Jones - cool jazz), Thief and Sorcerer (Tangerine Dream - dark moody electronic), Taking of Pelham 123 (David Shire - harder cool jazz), Fantastic Planet (Alain Goraguer - jazz-funk-rock).

Mike.

stovelid

Stewart Copeland - Rumblefish.

ghouldaddy07

cheers for the suggestions lads I genrally like soundtracks that have an electronic or orcestral sound to them ,
examples being the requiem for a dream soundtrack also the metal gear solid or final fantasy games etc.

spurious

I like 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford' by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

padi89

My own favourite film scores,
Batman,Edward Scissorhands,Amelie,American Beauty,Crash,Band of Brothers,Gladiator,Lord of the Rings Trilogy,Pans Labyrinth,Road to Perdition,Sleepy Hollow,The Virgin Suicides,Gladiator cant go wrong with any of them.:)

whiskeyman

The Shawshank Redemption for me.
Love the film, and every time I listen to it, I can see the moments in the film in relates to. It's amazingly soothing in places and I used to love listening to before going to bed or totally chilling out.
You'd be amazed at the amound of times TV documentaries etc... pull tracks off it.

Another one is 'The Insider' score - another that has been used in lots of documentaries.

John

spurious wrote: »

I like 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford' by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Seconded (but their soundtrack to The Proposition is better).

I really shouldn't be the first to mention Ennio Morricone, come on people!

All his soundtracks (even the ones for pissy Italian TV shows that I've never seen) are gold.

Tindersticks' soundtracks for Claire Denis's movies are worth investigating too.

kaimera

Most of Hans Zimmers stuff; love the Pirates scores/BHD

Transformers is excellent.

Bourne movies

stovelid

Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi.

'Ol Jack Chance

+1 for the requim for a dream soundtrack kronos quartet are amazing

the score for 25th hour is good, also check out the score/soundtrack to heat - armenia by einsturzende neubauten...scary!

JerryHandbag

John wrote: »

I really shouldn't be the first to mention Ennio Morricone, come on people!

Yes indeed his soundtrack to The Mission is amazing, such powerful pieces of music.......
I also like Vangelis "1492 conquest of paradise!" and The Beach soundtrack. Virgin Suicides by Air is good too, also Magnolia soundtrack by Aimee Mann

Frisbee

I suprisingly quite enjoyed the scores from Broken Arrow and 30 Days of Night...

mike65

Oh yeah I have a few Morricones - Fistful and Few Dollars More - its amazing how often bits and pieces from those crop up on tv programmes (usually in jokey context).

Mike.

Nightwish

Most of Hans Zimmer's are fantastic (Pirates of the Carribean and King Arthur are favourites). Danny Elfman is great too, he scores a lot of Tim Burton's films. I recently bought The Passion of the Christ OST which is amazing. If you like soundtrack orientated music, check out Globus. Its a music project by Immediate Music, the people who create movie trailer music.

Sinfonia

Out of Sight (score by David Holmes, ST includes Isley Brothers, Dean Martin etc. as well)
Virgin Suicides (Air)
Bodysong (Jonny Greenwood)
Amelie (Yann Tiersen)

niallon

Don't know if it's available to buy but the soundtrack to Dead Man by Neil Young captivated me from start to finish.

Also: Nightmare Before Christmas, Sin City, Unbreakable, and of course, Star Wars!

Twee.

The Hours soundtrack by Philip Glass is spectacular. I've never even seen the film and it's one of my favourite albums. It's dramatic and poignant. I play it very loudly when I'm in the house on my own!

Sinfonia

Michael Giacchino's scores for Lost are great too.
So far there's an album for each of the first 3 seasons.
Haven't heard any of his movie/game scores though...

John

niallon wrote: »

Don't know if it's available to buy but the soundtrack to Dead Man by Neil Young captivated me from start to finish.

It is indeed and it's well worth the money. Fantastic soundtrack and a brilliant album by Neil Young, doubly awesome.