Best Movie Musical Score

What, no original Heavy Metal soundtrack mention yet??? :eek:

The soundtrack made the movie!

Jerry Riggs' Radar Rider was perfect for the opening scenes in Soft Landing with the flaming 1960 Corvette from orbit and it set the tone for the rest of the music and stories that followed. Riggs' Heartbeat; Stevie Nicks Blue Light; Cheap Trick's Reach Out and I must Be Dreamin'; and Don Felder's Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) and All of You were written for the movie and can only be found on the Heavy Metal ST. The CD is solid through and through. I just wish they had included Black Sabbath's E5150 (which was in the movie) on the ST.


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Several come to mind, including John William's score to "The Patriot", Carter Burwell's "The Jackal", and Klaus Badelt's "Pirates of the Caribbean."

I'm also partial to Alan Silvestri's works, particularly "Predator" and "Back to the Future."


I take it there are some fellow collectors on the forum?
 
I would have to think about it... there is a movie, I don't remember what it was or even when, that I remember walking out of and saying, "Geez, the music for that movie was awesome and it really made the movie..." Damn.

Off the top of my head, though, I still really like the theme and score from Last of the Mohicans
 
I considered mentioning Bladerunner, but it is pretty depressing. The perfect music if you live in Seattle and are a depressed Goth considering suicide.
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Really? I think it's rather upbeat, compared to the Leonard Cohen songs used in McCabe and Mrs Miller. :p

Actually, that's what makes the Bladerunner soundtrack so great. It's not just a collection of songs, but a unique and perfectly-matched set of music that is an integrated component of the film's place and time.

One more great theme song comes to mind, Godzilla's March. You know that when that particular musical piece starts, somebody (or somebody's city) is about to get a whoopin'. :D
 
No Country for Old Men. :thumbup:;)

I liked how the soundtrack in Goodfellas fit the mood and the time frame of the scene.
 
My favorites are the spaghetti western soundtracks conducted by Ennio Morricone, who did the scores for such westerns (for example):
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Big Gundown
Death Rides a Horse
A Hired Gun
Once Upon a Time in the West

Other soundtracks I like include:
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Saturday Night Fever
Carrie (original 1976 version)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Goodfellas
The Midnight Express
Gojira (the original 1954 Godzilla)
Jim
 
One of the absolute best ever at picking music for film was Stanely Kubrick. Be it full orchestral or Walter/Wendy Carlos interpretations of Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Ligeti, etc. or the 60's pop/rock soundtrack of Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick was an absolute genius at using music to set the mood.
 
java said:
What, no original Heavy Metal soundtrack mention yet??? :eek:

The soundtrack made the movie!

Jerry Riggs' Radar Rider was perfect for the opening scenes in Soft Landing with the flaming 1960 Corvette from orbit and it set the tone for the rest of the music and stories that followed. Riggs' Heartbeat; Stevie Nicks Blue Light; Cheap Trick's Reach Out and I must Be Dreamin'; and Don Felder's Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) and All of You were written for the movie and can only be found on the Heavy Metal ST. The CD is solid through and through. I just wish they had included Black Sabbath's E5150 (which was in the movie) on the ST.


:D
j
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How could you leave out Devo? :eek:
 
Bob W said:
Really? I think it's rather upbeat, compared to the Leonard Cohen songs used in McCabe and Mrs Miller. :p

Actually, that's what makes the Bladerunner soundtrack so great. It's not just a collection of songs, but a unique and perfectly-matched set of music that is an integrated component of the film's place and time.

One more great theme song comes to mind, Godzilla's March. You know that when that particular musical piece starts, somebody (or somebody's city) is about to get a whoopin'. :D
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I'll have to relisten to it; maybe I'm just transposing the visuals of the movie to the soundtrack. :o
 
MORIMOTOM said:
EVERYTHING about that movie is perfect.
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Bit of personal trivia. During the filming of the river scenes, which were not on the Blackfoot (:rolleyes:), I was just a few miles aways with several thousand other firefighters fighting a huge forest fire that was threatening homes, etc. I think the Forest Service was spending at least half a million a day on Helicopters alone. It was quite an adventure.
 
The movie
The Long Riders
Music by Ry Cooder

Real brothers playing the historical brothers.
The Keach brothers played the Youngers.
The Carradine brothers played the James'.
I forgot the brothers that played the Fords.

Music, photography & story all good.
My favorite line, Frank talking to Jesse when Jesse announces he's getting married...
"I don't know...first getting shot, now getting married...bad habits...bad habits"

:D :D :D
 
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, music written and played by Bob Dylan, Mr. Zimmerman hiself acted in the movie as Alias a knife wieldin' bad guy.:thumbup:
 
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