Best Movie Soundtrack?

[Bayard]

What's your favorite movie soundtrack? I would say "City of Angels", is mine.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Lawrence of Arabia

Composer, Maurice Jarre.

[hlthe2b]

35. Superb...

[Mme. Defarge]

50. Followed by Doctor Zhivago

and preceded by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

[MFM008]

2. Conan the Barbarian

the soundtrack not the lead actor.........
Also Ben Hur (1959)

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Miklos Rosza

was the composer of the soundtrack for Ben Hur - another brilliant score.

[MFM008]

19. and King of Kings

I love those old soundtracks.

[KT2000]

3. To Kill a Mockingbird

Elmer Bernstein

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Wonderful!

[Binkie The Clown]

11. Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Great! n/t

[pnwest]

6. "Boogie Nights" was a great one for throwback funk, R&B, disco. They used great songs.

[Skittles]

7. Body Heat

hauntingly beautiful

[Mme. Defarge]

8. Self-delete

[hlthe2b]

32. I love so many of John Barry's scores...

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Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Born Free, Chaplin, Somewhere in Time....

[Skittles]

86. he was amazing

absolutely amazing

[Tinker Trebucet]

9. Tangerine Dream "Thief" (1981)

[TexasBushwhacker]

65. Sorcerer had a great soundtrack by TD too n/t

[Binkie The Clown]

10. I'm sure I'm the only one that will say...

Dave.

Soundtrack by James Newton Howard.

Can't say why, but I just like it.

On edit: I almost forgot The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao by Leigh Harline who also scored Pinocchio, and wrote When You Wish Upon a Star.

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Loved that movie.

Why do I keep thinking about Alec Baldwin?

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Haha. n/t

[radical noodle]

14. Showing my age now...

Exodus

[Charles Bukowski]

15. Original Score: E.T.

Assorted Popular Music: Trainspotting

[forgotmylogin]

16. I'm very fond of Brazil.

I also like Requiem for a Dream, and Poltergeist.

[The Wielding Truth]

17. Dr. Zhivago, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sound of Music, and Time Machine 2002.

[msongs]

18. a hard day's night - the United Artists soundtrack not the british lp nt

[Leghorn21]

20. "The Last Emperor", "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Rocknrolla"! n/t

[roscoeroscoe]

31. right there with you

on 'Last of the Mohicans.' Absolutely beautiful.

Let me add:
Black Hawk Down
Gladiator
Falcon and the Snowman

the Falcon soundtrack has the wonderful collaboration between Pat Metheny and David Bowie, 'This is not America.'

[hlthe2b]

33. Oh, yes. "The Last of the Mohicans" is a great score.

good movie, too

[applegrove]

21. "Hair" the movie is mine.

[fNord]

96. Awesome soundtrack....

Great play/movie too......

[world wide wally]

22. The Graduate

[whathehell]

23. Coming Home. n/t

[global1]

24. West Side Story....nt

[JustAnotherGen]

25. Three Way Tie

Unfaithful, Pretty in Pink and Luhrmann's Great Gatsby

[shenmue]

26. Pretty in Pink

[BainsBane]

41. I loved those John Hughes movies

The Breakfast Club was my favorite.

[smirkymonkey]

137. Yes!! I love that soundtrack!

The best!

[shenmue]

144. :)

[BeyondGeography]

27. Bernard Herrmann belongs in this thread

North by Northwest, e.g.

Vertigo was another masterpiece of course:

I'm a huge fan of Elmer Bernstein/Mockingbird as well.

[pressbox69]

72. All Herrmann scores are great.

Citizen Kane and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir are two more.

[BeyondGeography]

80. Cheers, pressbox...here's what Welles had to say about that

Orson Welles followed Eisenstein’s practice on “Citizen Kane,” hiring the young New York composer Bernard Herrmann. For the final sequence of the film, which shows the destruction of Rosebud in the fireplace of Kane’s castle, Welles had Herrmann’s cue playing on the set. He later said that the score was fifty per cent responsible for the film’s success.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/sound-and-vision/amp

[GWC58]

28. I'd say

Forrest Gump.

[chelsea0011]

29. Guardians of the Galaxy. They picked some great songs. Looking forward to II.

[Docreed2003]

38. Great soundtrack...listen to it all the time!

[Croney]

30. The Sound of Music.

[hlthe2b]

34. Yup... Terrific

[GeorgeGist]

36. Streets of Fire.

[ProfessorGAC]

128. Oh Yeah

That's a really good choice from an underappreciated allegorical movie.

[Va Lefty]

37. Yellow Submarine

[BainsBane]

39. Apocalypse Now

[FSogol]

40. Immortal Beloved, Waking Life, Repo Man, and Sid & Nancy

Immortal Beloved was about Beethoven,

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Waking Life was a wild movie, animated using rotoscope and the music style was Nuevo Tango. Highly recommend.

Both Repo Man and Sid & Nancy were punk rock.

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[jpak]

42. Trainspotting

[shenmue]

45. Yes!

[bif]

43. "Field of Dreams" "The Natural" "The Mission" "Local Hero" So many great ones.

[Heartstrings]

44. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction

[Coventina]

46. Elmer Bernstein's "The Magnificent Seven". Ennio Morricone: "The Mission"

[cemaphonic]

63. There's probably at least a dozen Morricone soundtracks that should be here

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Battle of Algiers
Once Upon a Time in the West (and America too)
Duck, You Sucker!
Untouchables

[Coventina]

67. Agreed. He is a very underrated talent.

Agree with all your choices!

[spiderpig]

89. Cinema Paradiso

[Paladin]

47. "Vertigo," "Silverado," "Lawrence of Arabia," "West Side Story," "Forever Amber"

And many others. No way I can pare it down to a single favorite, having some musicianship in my background.

[Mme. Defarge]

54. OMG, Vertigo!

I went nuts when I heard strains of it in The Artist. It took me right to the scene where the Jimmy Stewart character is talking to "Judy". IMO it is Hitchhcock's masterpiece.

[Paladin]

57. You and I think alike.

My wife and I were watching the thoroughly charming "The Artist," and I remember turning to her and blurting out, "My God, that's from 'Vertigo.' How perfect."

And I agree with you: "Vertigo" is the best thing Hitchcock did, in a long and distinguished career.

[Zorro]

48. Guns of Navarone

[Stuart G]

49. One of the greateset ever.....Magnificant Seven, ... 1960.....

After seeing this film,,,I bought my very first 45rpm record...which I still have..

thank you

.......time to go to the movies....:popcorn..

[Kahuna7]

51. Purple Rain. nt

[FrankfurtCat]

100. Yes...

Amazing soundtrack!

[riverbendviewgal]

52. Platoon

My era. My music.

[Freethinker65]

53. Koyaanisqatsi

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

55. Amadeus. Composer: Mozart.

Won 8 Oscars in 1984. Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score for his scoring of A Passage to India. In his acceptance speech for the award, Jarre remarked "I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year".

[Snackshack]

56. The...

The Patriot / Dances with Wolves 🐺

[Bayard]

58. YES! Forgot Last of the Mohicans

Wonderful music!

I also have the guilty pleasure of "Flashdance".......

[kairos12]

59. The Magnificent Seven--1960 version.

[hibbing]

60. Garden State n/t

[genxlib]

83. Bingo

That's what I came to say. My wife and I both loved that soundtrack

[TuxedoKat]

61. Witness

The music from the barn-raising scene always makes chills run up and down my spine. Sounds Copeland-esque to me; composer, Maurice Jarre.

[FakeNoose]

127. Witness soundtrack is awesome

I totally agree!
Love that movie, too.

[gelatinous cube]

62. Lord of the Rings

Howard Shore's music fits the world extremely well. Top two favorites are "Concerning Hobbits" and the Isengard theme.

[Brother Buzz]

64. The Big Chill

You Can't Always Get What You Want
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones
Courtesy of ABKCO Records, Inc.

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King, and Jerry Wexler
Performed by Aretha Franklin
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation

Gimme Some Lovin'
Written by Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood (uncredited) and Spencer Davis (uncredited)
Performed by Spencer Davis
Courtesy of UK Single Label

In the Midnight Hour
Written by Wilson Pickett and Steve Cropper
Performed by The Rascals
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation

When a Man Loves a Woman
Written by Calvin Lewis (as Calvin H. Lewis) and Andrew Wright
Performed by Percy Sledge
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation

Wouldn't It Be Nice
Written by Tony Asher (as Tony Ascher), Mike Love and Brian Wilson
Performed by The Beach Boys
Courtesy of Capitol Records

Quicksilver Girl
Written by Steve Miller
Performed by the Steve Miller Band
Courtesy of Capitol Records

The Weight
Written by Robbie Robertson (as Jaime Robbie Robertson)
Performed by The Band
Courtesy of Capitol Records

Bad Moon Rising
Written by John Fogerty (as John C. Fogerty)
Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Courtesy of Fantasy Records

Gimme Some Lovin'
Written by Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood, and Spencer Davis
Performed by Spencer Davis
Courtesy of Liberty Records

Tell Him
Written by Bert Berns
Performed by The Exciters
Courtesy of Liberty Records


Joy to the World
Written by Hoyt Axton
Performed by Three Dog Night
Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Written by Eddie Holland and Norman Whitfield
Performed by The Temptations
Courtesy of Motown Records and Jobete Music

My Girl
Written by Smokey Robinson (as William Robinson Jr.) and Ronald White
Performed by The Temptations
Courtesy of Motown Records and Jobete Music

I Second That Emotion
Written by Smokey Robinson (as William Robinson Jr.) and Al Cleveland (as Alfred Cleveland)
Performed by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Courtesy of Motown Records and Jobete Music

The Tracks of My Tears
Written by Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson (as William Robinson Jr.), and Marvin Tarplin
Performed by The Miracles
Courtesy of Motown Records and Jobete Music

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Performed by Marvin Gaye
Courtesy of Motown Records and Jobete Music

A Whiter Shade of Pale
Written by Keith Reid, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher (uncredited)
Performed by Procol Harum
Courtesy of Muscadet Records

[Upthevibe]

66. Wow!I forgot how great The Big Chill was. One not mentioned yet is The Big Lebowski.n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

84. Yep, I agree.

altho..I DID wear out one disc of Last of the Mohican's soundtrack.

[Brother Buzz]

85. I worn out my cassette of ROCKERS

Totally wore it out playing it on the road. Wish I knew how to put it into my Apple ipod white brick

Side One[edit]
"We 'A' Rockers" (Ian Lewis, Bernard Harvey) - Inner Circle
"Money Worries" (Wilson) - The Maytones
"Police and Thieves" (Junior Murvin, Lee Perry) - Junior Murvin
"Books of Rules" (Barry Llewellyn, Harry Johnson) - The Heptones
"Stepping Razor" (Joe Higgs) - Peter Tosh
"Tenement Yard" (Jacob Miller, Roger Lewis) - Jacob Miller
"Fade Away" (Earl "Chinna" Smith) - Junior Byles

Side Two[edit]
"Rockers" (Neville Livingstone) - Bunny Wailer
"Slave Master" (Gregory Isaacs) - Gregory Isaacs
"Man in the Street" (Coxsone Dodd) - Rockers All Stars
"Graduation in Zion" (Frank Dowding) - Kiddus I
"Jah No Dead" (Winston Rodney) - Burning Spear
"Satta Massagana" (L. Manning, D. Manning, B. Collins) - Third World
"Natty Take Over" (Justin Hines, Michael Roper) - Justin Hines & the Dominoes

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[MissMillie]

122. +1

somewhat showing my age here.

(It's a little older than I am, but I have older siblings.)

[smirkymonkey]

138. That was an amazing soundtrack!

I completely forgot about that film and its music!

Thanks for the reminder! I might have to see if I can find it on Netflix or Amazon Prime and re-watch it.

[smirkymonkey]

139. Most of Woody Allen's Soundtracks are amazing.

If you are a jazz fan. I don't love all his films, but I love most of the music!

A few...

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[Kennah]

68. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

[pfitz59]

69. Animal House

was ground-breaking

[Maru Kitteh]

70. Legends of the Fall or anything by Jack Horner.

*swoon*

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

71. Braveheart.

[TexasBushwhacker]

141. One of my faves n/t

[pressbox69]

73. Nevada Smith

By Alfred Newman

[flying rabbit]

74. Blade Runner

Vangelis.

[yuiyoshida]

75. Best Star Wars Music By John Williams

[Hoyt]

76. Easy Rider.

[BarbaRosa]

77. Pat Garret and Billy the Kid.

[redstatebluegirl]

78. The Big Chill

[TlalocW]

79. Beetlejuice

Harry Belafonte songs sprinkled among some of the funnest tunes Danny Elfman has ever done.

Plus, I discovered in college that if you have multiple competing stereos on your dorm floor, there is a ton of bass in those songs that cut through anything else to rattle windows.

TlalocW

[mainer]

81. Legends of the Fall

I love the fiddle solo by Jay Unger

[justhanginon]

82. Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh w/ film score by Patrick Doyle.

[CTyankee]

87. Gone with the Wind...

I llove that movie...

[flying_wahini]

88. Out Of Africa

I want it played at my funeral.

[TexasBushwhacker]

142. One of those where the soundtrack was better than the movie n/t

[retrowire]

90. Donnie Darko. nt

[FrankfurtCat]

112. Great choice!

[retrowire]

114. Ahthankyouuuu nt

[Tikki]

91. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979)

Tikki

[Iggo]

92. Jesus Christ Superstar. (n/t)

[FrankfurtCat]

109. So great!

[oasis]

93. The Big Country. nt

[csziggy]

94. "FM" - It had most of the best song tracks of the late 1970s

Side One

"FM" - Steely Dan – 4:52
"Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27
"Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller Band – 3:04
"Cold as Ice" - Foreigner – 3:20
"Breakdown" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – 2:44
"Bad Man" - Randy Meisner – 2:38

Side Two (Order of songs on inside jacket show side three songs before side two songs)

"Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles – 4:46
"Do It Again" - Steely Dan – 5:54
"Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs – 3:42
"More Than a Feeling" - Boston – 4:45

Side Three

"Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:51 (Live Version)
"Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:15 (Live Version)
"Livingston Saturday Night" - Jimmy Buffett – 3:10
"There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" - Dan Fogelberg – 5:41
"Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel – 4:49

Side Four

It Keeps You Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers – 4:13
"Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor – 2:43
"Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh – 8:05
"We Will Rock You" - Queen – 2:04
"FM - Reprise" - Steely Dan – 2:54
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_(soundtrack)

[Orrex]

95. Flash Gordon

[fNord]

98. The Doors

Shitty movie, great soundtrack. Although I must admit, Val Kilmer was uncanny.

[Tikki]

99. 'The Decline of Western Civilization'...(1979) and 'URGH! A Music War' ..(1980)

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[aquamarina]

101. Last of the Mohicans and

Chariots of Fire

[wishstar]

133. Cinema Paradiso

Ennio Morricone

[TheDebbieDee]

102. Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid...

Then Interstellar...

[Adsos Letter]

103. "Glory"

Don't know if it is the best, but I liked it.

[pangaia]

104. RAN - Toru Takemitsu

[Jamaal510]

105. "Barbershop 2: Back in Business"

Favorite song:

[SummerSnow]

106. The Time Machine (2002) Amazing Soundtrack

[Sedona]

107. Amadeus

[lisa58]

108. A Hard Day's Night

[longship]

110. So many great ones.

I like so many. Rather than select single films, I will select my favorite film composers.

The top slot has to be Bernard Herrmann. His Hitchcock scores are astounding, with Vertigo and North by Northwest at the top. And my God, Psycho and The Day the Earth Stood Still still chill one.

Honorable mentions go to Maurice Jarre and one I have not yet seen here, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Captain Blood, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood) who was, like Herrmann, a serious classical composer who found Hollywood to be fruitful. The Captain Blood score is as rousing as the film's action.

The only film I will specifically cite is 2001: A Space Odyssey because what Stanley Kubrick did with that film was extraordinary.

Nice thread!


Note: BTW, John Williams does not appear anywhere on my list.

[fNord]

111. The Highlander.....

Also: The Crow, lost Highway, Straight outa Compton, Dazed and Confused, the Sting, Across the Universe (The Beatles always sound better when someone else plays them,) Jackie Brown (all of Quintin's movies,) and if TV shows count, then Luke Cage.....

[FrankfurtCat]

135. Queen at their finest, in my opinion.

[FrankfurtCat]

113. 'Southland Tales" directed by Richard Kelly, best known for "Donnie Darko' has a great soundtrack...

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[Warpy]

115. "Oh Brother, where art Thou?"

The movie was OK Coen brothers fare. The soundtrack was amazing, not the Depression era retelling of the Odyssey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/

Yeah, my roots are showing.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

117. Akira

Kaneda's Theme still gives me the chills 25+ years since I first heard it.

[amerikat]

118. Until the End of the World.

Or the Blues Brothers(can't find a good vid for this one) or maybe Oh Brother Where Art Thou

[WinkyDink]

119. Best: "West Side Story." Favorite: "Saturday Night Fever."

[LeftInTX]

120. The most successful soundtrack is: Jaws

I think the main score consists of like nine notes. Whenever anyone hears the first two notes, everyone knows exactly what it is......it has the same recognition as the first four notes from Beethoven's 5th.

[AgadorSparticus]

121. I really enjoyed 7 yrs in tibet.

[NightWatcher]

123. Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party

It's from a cheesy foreign vampire movie but it's a funky jazz soundtrack. When I worked at a cd store back in the 90's, we'd play this 45 minute soundtrack and be able to sell a copy of it about half the time.

[JCMach1]

124. Brimstone and Treacle

[Bayard]

125. Say Anything

Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes". One of my favorite ever songs, and movie scenes.

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[greymattermom]

126. Forrest Gump

My generation's music

[ProfessorGAC]

129. Lots of Good Choices

I thought it would be cheating, but others used concert films, so i'm going to say "Bring On The Night". The formation and polishing of Sting and his Blue Turtles band. Interesting documentary and fantastic music.

[MuseRider]

130. Just because I just watched it again

I love the music in Meet Joe Black.

I love many others, much of what is mentioned above and I am not sure if I sat down and thought about it I would select this one as my very favorite but the music is just beautiful. My son and I watched it when he was home the other day just because the music is so nice.

[The Polack MSgt]

131. I have a clear favorite for a movie, not a concert film

Rush.

The movie was OK, not great, but OK.

But OMG the soundtrack.

The soundtrack was great take a look at the songs; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102820/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd

Eric Clapton also wrote and played the score - Seriously cool mood/background music and for the 90's it was as good as Eric's guitar playing got.

Probably best known as the record that first released "Tears in Heaven"

[TexasBushwhacker]

143. Ha! My brother had a bit part in it

He was unemployed at the time, had long hair and tattoos on his arms (not common in 1990). My mother heard about it and told him to go to the audition wearing a t-shirt. They took one look at him and said "Hired"! He got to work for a week and was in 2 scenes that ended up in the movie.

[forgotmylogin]

132. DONNIE DARKO

I'm not a music collector, but there was no "complete" album and it was the first time I assembled all the music from a movie into a playlist of my own.

[FrankfurtCat]

136. Takes me right back to the '80's-love everything about it!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

134. Road to Perdition.

I love all of Thomas Newman's scores, pretty much. ❤

[riverwalker]

140. Out Of Africa n/t

[bathroommonkey76]

145. Trainspotting.

[ailsagirl]

146. "My Fair Lady," of course!! A classic!!

[DFW]

147. Endless Summer

Yeah, I like surf music. When everyone was ga ga over the Dave Clark Five, for me it was the Ventures. I'm a nerd, so sue me!

[GoCubsGo]

148. "The Blues Brothers"

I also like the soundtrack to "The Blues Brothers 2000." The movie itself, not so much.

I would like to say that "The Closing of Winterland" has the best soundtrack, but it's a concert film, so I it doesn't really count.

[Duppers]

149. Impossible for me to choose.

Love too many.