Great, and I mean GREAT music moments in movies.

[CanuckAmok]

You know when the music is just as powerful/memorable as the images and dialogue?

The first four which spring to my mind are:

"Give UP" from "Magnolia". It's ALMOST sappy, but not quite.

"Baba O'Reily" montage in "Summer of Sam". The power of the Who and the power of Spike Lee's knack for the visual...

"Where is My Mind?", at the end of "Fight Club". Kaboom.

"In Your Eyes", in "Say Anything". What teenaged girl didn't fall in love with John Cusack balancing that boombox on his head?

[nytemare]

1. "Barber's Adagio" in Platoon, and Elephant Man.

It was also used in Amelie.

[-..__...]

2. "Singing in the Rain" from a "Clockwork Orange"...

Okay... the Gene Kelly version was good too, but let me see him trying to dance with Doc Martins on?

The lip-sync scene to Roy Orbisons "In Dreams/Candy Colored Clown" in "Blue Velvet" with Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper was pretty good too.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Many moments in Field of Dreams

That score was amazing...

[JimmyJazz]

16. The entire score of Walker (lousy movie) is also amazing.

I can send you some downloads if you'd like.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Sure that would be cool!

[SeattleGirl]

28. What was the song/artist playing

while Costner's character was headed out to find Thomas Mann? It was an instrumental. Love that piece!

[misanthrope]

40. "Jessica" by the Allman Bros. Band*nm

nt

[SeattleGirl]

41. Thanks misanthrope!

Thought it was Allman Bros., but could not for the life of me recall the name of the song.

[SeattleGirl]

43. Guess what's on the teevee right now?

Field of Dreams!

[SeattleGirl]

44. And here's the song!

[KitchenWitch]

85. That was the Doobie Brothers I believe

Forget the name of the song...

[bertha katzenengel]

4. In Amadeus:

In the beginning, when Salieri is describing to his confessor the music he'd heard at the Royal Archbishop's palace... "like a rusty squeezebox. And then . . . high above it . . . an oboe . . . a single note, hanging there, unwavering . . . until a clarinet took it over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight . . ." oh, god, no wonder that's one of the best movies ever made.

edited to add this photo of F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri

[SeattleGirl]

29. That part still gives me goosebumps!

The whole movie/soundtrack does.

[tonkatoy57]

53. Mozart's Grand Partita

for winds.

As a clarinet player it's always been one of my favorite pieces. It's a real, honest to goodness masterpiece. It's just as mature, complex, and beautiful as any of his compositions but because it's a wind piece it doesn't get played that much.

I'm like you, I was bowled over when I first saw this scene with Salieri's voice over while you see Mozart conducting the Grand Partita.

Check out the recording of this piece performed by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. They are, for the most part, the principal wind players from the Concertebow Orchestra.

[Mad_Dem_X]

58. Wonderful scene

from a wonderful movie, filled with many great music moments.

[tjwmason]

74. That surely was a wonderful moment - also the Requiem at the end.

As Mozart is being buried, his unfinished funeral Mass being played.

To highlights of a musically wonderful film. Also, worth noting that they didn't change a single note of his music; it's all original.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. Rachmaninoff's Variation on a theme from Paganini, in Somewhere In Time

That fabulous music just made that movie.

Certain soundtracks also:
The Sting
Patton
Amadeus

[CanuckAmok]

19. Did someone say "Somewhere in Time"?!

Richard! RICHARD!! RI-I-I-I-I-CHARD!!!! AWK! AWK!"

[DemoTex]

6. "Good Morning, Vietnam"

AFVN redux. I was post-Cronauer, but I knew AFVN-star Cris Noel very well. She dated the married flight surgeon of NAF Cam Rahn Bay. She often partied with us at the famed NAF Cam Rahn "O" Club. She often made risque remarks on the air about Capt. Wendell E.'s door knocker .. a carved 15" penis with complete lower works (the balls actually did the knocking, the crank was the handle). It was a sight. She was too! Vietnam was rock-and-roll. Rock-and-roll was Vietnam.

[CanuckAmok]

9. Cronauer was a real person?

Ed McMahon voice> I did not know that. </Ed McMahon voice

[DemoTex]

11. Still is, as far as I know.

Last I heard, Adrian was living in Pennsylvania. He had really done a gig in Crete, too, before getting stationed in RVN. Robin Williams was fairly true to the life script of Adrian Cronauer. There is a cameo in the great movie Hamburger Hill of Adrian Cronauer's famous wake up call: "Gooooood Morning Viet Nam!" It was as real as a stonk of mortar rounds.


The Hog, Cam Rahn Bay NAF 1971

[HEyHEY]

7. Search and destroy in The Aquatic life

When Bill Murray loses it and starts shooting all the pirates... a bit cliche' but damned funny.

[HEyHEY]

8. Oh, and basically ALL of Lawrence of Arabia

[The Jacobin]

82. I can't tell you the number of times I have sung

"I'm the man who broke the bank at Monte CAAAAARRRRRRRRRLO!" when walking through a deserted open space.

What a great movie - I need to pull that DVD out again.

[CanuckAmok]

10. Hmm..."Stuck in the Middle with You".

n/t

[rurallib]

12. a couple bars of "Cocaine" in Farenheit 9/11

as Michael Moore comments on young GWB's absences from the Alabama Air National Guard

[Mad_Dem_X]

59. LOL! Priceless

One of those, "Did I just hear what I *think* I heard?" moments.

[asthmaticeog]

13. Breakfast Club -

The scene where the five detained kids whistle "The Colonel Bogey March." Transcendent.

[Archae]

14. 2001: A Space Odessey.

'Nuff said.

[sasquatch]

15. About every scenen in the Big Lebowski

IMHO

[Initech]

33. I love the cab scene

Where they're playing "Take It Easy" by the Eagles and the Dude says "Man, I've had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles man!"

[JimmyJazz]

18. The entire score of "Last of the Mohicans"

[wildhorses]

48. I know that's right

I LOVE THAT MOVIE...

[jpgray]

20. A lot of the tunes from Alexander Nevsky are fucking brilliant

Even though it was a cheesy propaganda film in some ways, Eisenstein was such a genius, and Prokofiev's score is so absolutely superb that it's very enjoyable even as it drags around. The music backing Alexander's entry into Pskov is just one of the most incredible moments of musical catharsis I've seen in film. Also the backing for the Teutonic knights is effectively malevolent and properly evocative of nasty Roman Catholic imperialism.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

87. Oh yeah!

The Battle on the Ice! That entire scene when the knights are charging to a vocal crescendo.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Rebekah Del Rio singing Roy Orbison's "Crying" in Mulholland Drive

[enigmatic]

22. "Wise Up" in Magnolia is classic

The other movie that just jumped out at me was the music of "Desperado"; Los Lobos and The Latin Playboys songs were perfect for the visuals..

[tuvor]

23. Dream Academy's Please Please Please in Ferris Beueller's Day Off

Yeah, the Smith's tune.

When they were getting sucked into the Seurat painting.

Oh, yeah, and Ferris lip-synching Danke Schoen.

Can you believe there was no soundtrack album for that movie?

[tuvor]

24. Dean Stockwell lip-synching Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet.

Creepy as hell.

[Mad_Dem_X]

60. "Candy-Colored Clown, Paul"

My friend and I used to quote that all the time.

[ghostsofgiants]

61. I forgot about that one

Good call.

[giant_robot]

25. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

The Cars' "Living in Stereo" while Judge Reinhold had a...er...*personal* moment. Cracks me up everytime!

[charlie and algernon]

26. Jurassic Park, two scenes

the music in the scene when they first see the dinosaur, is incredible in it's majesty and it fits perfectly. the second is when they see the tricertops. the music is simple, almost a variation of "it's a small world" and it's brillant. it captures perfectly grant and elle's wonderment of being up close and personal "the most beautiful creature i've ever seen."

[Clintmax]

46. I liked those too!

The entire score to Jurassic was great...I had to go buy the CD.

[kid a]

27. Miniture "Stonehenge" lowers onto Spinal Tap stage #1

[Aristus]

30. The closing montage in "Local Hero".

Music by Mark Knopfler. Heartbreakingly wonderful.

[Initech]

31. The night club scene in Collateral

I normally hate techno but the club music that's in that night club scene in Collateral was fucking awesome!

[CanuckAmok]

36. OOH, that made me think of the Vampire Rave from Blade I.

New Order's "Confusion (PPR remix)", and just as it hits the crescendo, the sprinklers open up and the ravers are doused in life-giving blood...

[Democrats_win]

32. "Live and Let Die" during exciting chase scenes.

Oh and "My Heart will go On" from Titanic.

[Blue-Jay]

34. Reservoir Dogs + "Stuck In The Middle With You" =

Creepy brilliance!

[Graf Orlok]

35. Most everything in the movie "Nosferatu" (1922)

I'm serious.

Scariest. Soundtrack. Ever.

[xmas74]

68. It's a good movie.

And the soundtrack really sets it all up for you.
*big vampire fan-will watch anything w/ one in it*

[Merrick]

37. "A Perfect Day" - Lou Reed In Trainspotting,

"Oh Yoko" - John Lennon in Rushmore
"Head Over Heels" Tears For Fears during the high school hallway secene in Donnie Darko

[Robeson]

38. Tangerine Dream's soundtrack on "Thief", turned a regular movie...

...into an atmospheric movie, which elelvated the entire thing into a good movie.

[fishwax]

39. Layla (the piano return) in Goodfellas

when they're finding all the bodies as the DeNiro character is getting nervous ...

[msanthrope]

62. And the "Gimmie Shelter" montage over the last day of freedom...

[fishwax]

63. Scorsese always has a lot of great scenes like that

it's one reason I'm always so enthralled with his films.

[Tikki]

42. "Ocean Man" (Ween)...segue song into closing credits of.....

...The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie...


Tikki

[hippywife]

45. The entire Alan Parson's soundtrack to

LadyHawk. Totally carried the movie from scene to scene! First soundtrack I ever bought.

[taterguy]

47. cheesy but . . .

The opening sequence in Billy Jack

[MissMillie]

49. The Magnolia moment

Is actually "Wise Up" and it's fabulous.

I also love the scene in Sleepless in Seattle when Hanks calls a woman for his first date since his wife died, and the music playing in the background is "Back in the Saddle"

[taterguy]

50. Waaaaiiiiit a minute . . .

You make me want to SHOUT!
Otis Day and the Knights ruled

[flvegan]

51. The entire "Pink Floyd The Wall"

Granted, one was made from the other, but I appreciate both more having also enjoyed their counterpart.

[ALago1]

52. Very end of Dr. Strangelove: "We'll Meet Again"

So haunting but beautiful in a strange way...

[terrya]

54. There's a moment in "Out of Africa"

When Robert Redford's character takes Isak Dinsen (Meryl Streep) in his airplane. They fly over this incredible looking scenery accompanied by some of John Barry's most gorgeous music. It was a very nice moment.

[bbernardini]

55. The "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock Ya Tonight" reunion at the end of "Spinal Tap"

Doesn't it just make you want to weep with joy?

[atomic-fly]

56. I like the ending of Lost in Translation...Just like honey!

Just like Honey

Not a classic, but very warm.

[taterguy]

57. too obvious?

The Jaws score

[CitrusLib]

64. The scene in Return of the King when Gandalf and Pippin enter Minis Tirith

The music building as they ride to the top of the city and then the paneramic view from the top as the music hits the crescendo. Awesome!!

Pippin singing while Faramir is leading the soldiers of Gondor into a suicide mission.

Aw hell. The music from the entire trilogy was so fucking good.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

78. I liked the love scene on the Rivendell bridge between Aragorn and Arwen

"I choose a mortal life".

Visually that scene looked like something out of an old book of fairy tales. The music with Enya's enchanting voice was overwhelming, one of the most captivating scenes in any movie.

[khashka]

65. Almost all of A Clockwork Orange

almost all of Moulin Rouge.

All that Jazz, where his ex wife, mistress and daughter sing to him while he's dying (Bob Fosse was God!)


Khash.

[CBGLuthier]

66. O Fortuna/Carmina Burana towards the end of Excalibur

Almost a cliche now but Excalibur did it first.

Mad Love from the end of Donnie Darko

The driving in the rain sequence from Psycho where the music creates ALL of the suspense.

Beethoven's ninth, second movement, montage sequence from A Clockwork Orange.

The entire Bernard Herrman (sp) soundtrack from Taxi Driver which he finished one night and then went home and died.

The music, I think it was Ligetti when the second monolith is found in 2001: A Space Odysey.

Wendy Carlos's version of the Deus Irae used at the beginning of The Shining.

The organ arrangement of Beethoven's 7th, second movement, used for the opening of Zardoz.

OK, I am into movie music a bit too much I guess.

[Shine]

67. Simon & Garfunkle singing "Mrs. Robinson", in "The Graduate"

in that scene when Dustin Hoffman is driving in his little GM going down the freeway...

Did anyone mention that one, yet?

My two cents,
Shine

[AllegroRondo]

69. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

near the end, when they finally find the cemetary, and Ugly is running through it trying to find the marker with the correct name - out of thousands of markers that extend to the horizon.

Ennio Moricone wrote the soundtrack, the tune played at this point is titled "amor del oro", or "the love of gold".

[CBGLuthier]

72. yes, yes indeed

and also the final music (all of it actually) from Once upon a Time in the West.

Morricone is a god. He has scored 533 movies since 1961. It boggles the mind sometimes how much great music he has written.

I could not imagine Leone's films without Morricone's music.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

70. 2 moments in the movie "Glory" with the same theme music

One is where the regiment, finally wearing their uniforms, marches through the streets going off to war and the crowds come out to cheer them. The other is the moment when the regiment marches towards Fort Wagner between lines of white Union troops, as we approach the climactic last charge.

Another worth mentioning is the Love Theme From El Cid. El Cid is one of my favorite films of all time for its sheer entertainment value. The moment when the Rodrigo and Chimena realize they love each other and can't live without each other and that hopelessly beautiful Spanish sounding music comes on it just makes me thankful I have ears to hear.

[DerekG]

71. A few sf/fantasy references

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"--The majestic Jerry Goldsmith music that accompanies the fly-by inspection of the refitted Enterprise.

"Legend" (Director's Cut)--Another Goldsmith triumph: a sweeping ballet chronicling a maiden's slide into darkness.

"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"--John William's operatic "Duel of the Fates," set to the battle between the Jedi and Darth Maul.

[Magrittes Pipe]

73. In "Goodfellas," when they're killin' Billy Batts....

The sweet strains of Donovan's "Atlantis" serve as a glorious counterpart to the violence.

[Lisa]

75. scenes while the band is rehearsing, from "The Commitments"

Particularly the parts where the individual musicians are trying to practice, as they cope with overcrowded quarters, boisterous family members, etc.

[Left Is Write]

76. "American Girl" in Silence Of The Lambs.

[KyndCulture]

79. That's what I was gonna say!!! yes definitely. nt.

[UncleSepp]

77. Hunt for Red October, when the crew is singing

Still gives me chills. Of course, the moment from... "Up Periscope", is it, where they all sing "Louie Louie" is pretty good too!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

80. The balcony scene in Zefferli's Romeo and Juliet..

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love is deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

[Rabrrrrrr]

81. Every fucking moment of "Conan the Barbarian"

Best soundtrack ever!

[Az]

83. The end of Runaway Train

When Mannie atop the train rides off into the distance still defiant.

Seven Samurai the graves.

From The Keep, the confronation between Molasar and the SS officer.

Lord of the Rings, fleeing the Balrog.

[The Jacobin]

84. "Needle In The Hay" - The Royal Tenenbaums

When Richie changes his appearance deliberately and dramatically while Elliot Smith's Needle in the Hay floats in the air is amazingly haunting:

needle in the hay

your hand on his arm
the hay stack charm around your neck
strung out and thin
calling some friend trying to cash some check
he's acting dumb
that's what you've come to expect
needle in the hay

. . .

[DisgustedTX]

86. Tiny Dancer - bus scene - Almost Famous

Complete shift in 3 minutes.

[MrScorpio]

88. The Pool party in Boogie Nights

And the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now