Favorite Instrumental Movie Score?

[Earth_First]

American Beauty.

[davidinalameda]

1. Harry Potter

love everything about those movies

and it's John Williams

[redqueen]

2. Blade Runner

[DS1]

14. Good answer!

Notch this movie down in the 'stoners movies' thread, too

[redqueen]

22. You like it too?

It really irks me that Vangelis wouldn't release the songs as they were in the movie. Jerk.

[DS1]

24. Love the visuals

I'm a big fan of the little details in things, BR has a lot of them

[fertilizeonarbusto]

34. Wrote three papers in college about it

The score is magnifico.

[livinginphotographs]

42. Mine too.

I have three versions of it on CD.


me <-----weird

[redqueen]

51. That's not weird.

Okay, maybe it is... but I'd do it too, if I could afford to.

[FrankBooth]

3. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

So cheesy it is great.

[redqueen]

10. Ooh that's not cheesy! Ennio's a wonderful composer!

[AllegroRondo]

44. That part when they first find the graveyard is the best

I believe its called "amor del oro", "the love of gold" (pardon my awful spanish)

[redqueen]

46. I love a lot of his stuff

I really do think he's a great composer. That movie is just one fine example.

[terrya]

4. "Out of Africa" - gorgeous John Barry score.

[redqueen]

15. I love the African songs on that soundtrack.

Obiero is one of my favorite songs...

[ET Awful]

5. Schindler's List n/t

[Sequoia]

6. 2001: A Space Oddity

[Richardo]

18. So: the Kubrick movie or the Bowie song?

:)

For me: the Kubrick movie.

[sui generis]

7. Last Temptation of Christ

absolutely the soul of the movie

on edit: although an atheist I do have a flight of imagination that IF there had been such a person as this Jesus character he would have probably been pretty down to earth and human and not so much what the story of his story has evolved to be. This statement has everything to do with intellectual curiosity and nothing to do with awe of the divine.

[redqueen]

16. YES! Peter Gabriel is a GENIUS!

:bounce:

[sui generis]

28. you have great taste!

another chinese fortune cookie moment brought to you by sui.

:yourock:

[Tempest]

29. Gabriel's best work was on Rabbit Proof Fence

I have everything Gabriel has ever put out.

From The Lamb Lies On Broadway to his work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Youssou N'dour.

The only other concerts I've seen more than Gabriel is U2, but only by one concert (11).

My collection of Gabriel, including his work with World Record artists numbers over 150 CDs.


I've always been a fanatic of his work.

[redqueen]

30. WOW!

Can I come over? ;)

I really love his World Music stuff. If not for Gabriel I might not have heard N'Dour's stuff, and he's amazing.

[Tempest]

31. I'll have to ask my daughter first

She's very particular about that. ;)

[fertilizeonarbusto]

19. You are SO right

I put myself to sleep with track # 10 every night.

[sui generis]

23. awesome -

I gave it to a friend some years ago and he returned it saying it was "creepy". He wasn't prone to meditative excesses; but it does transport me.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

35. To me it's in the same category as the score in "Gandhi"

which is what I liked best (along with Ben Kingsley) about THAT movie, in that neither was nominated for an Oscar for score-and both had lots of work in it by (awed hush, please) Ravi Shankar.

[sui generis]

36. gosh you ARE an old geezer

:evilgrin:

of course I have no idea whatsoever, I swear, what you're talking about.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

37. never saw "Gandhi"?

Well, Sonny-boy let me tell you about my hot affair with Lillian Gish-twenty-three skiddoo! *cough cough choke*

[sui generis]

39. I can't believe it

You had an affair with my granddaughter? (hack cough hurrrrrk sound of lung tissue hitting brass spitoon).

[codegreen]

8. The Seven Samurai

and Gattaca

[txaslftist]

9. Jaws...dadump....dadump....datadatatata........

scared you, didn't I.

[Earth_First]

13. Yikes!

[pres2032]

11. Dragonheart

best score ever

[kiki]

12. Akira.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

17. Two

"The Adventures of Robin Hood"
"The Lord of the Rings"
Three more:
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"The Last Emperor"
"Witness"
Best One No One Really Ever Mentions:
"The Stunt Man"

[Tempest]

20. Midnight Express

The Last Temptation of Christ
Rabbit Proof Fence

[peekaloo]

21. Fargo

[Democrat 4 Ever]

26. Chariots of Fire

Out of Africa and Steel Magnolias. Love them all, can't pick a favorite. Listen to them all the time.

[Richardo]

25. The French Connection

Don Ellis was the man.

[Beaverhausen]

27. Shawshank Redemption

Thomas Newman's score is just amazing.

[Ivan Sputnik]

32. Spartacus

by Alex North. Another great one by North: "Cleopatra."

Another fave: "Vertigo" by Bernard Herrmann

[LynneSin]

33. "The Mission "and "Il Postino"

I have both soundtracks and listen to them on occasions

[BigMcLargehuge]

38. Godzilla (Akira Ifukube)

I like all of Ifukube's work on the Godzilla series.

I also like Masaru Sato's work on the Yojimbo and Sanjuro films.

And Richiro Manabe's score for Godzilla vs The Smog Monster

[dean_dem]

40. Donnie Darko

It fits the movie almost too well.

[frylock]

41. enter the dragon..

Lalo Schifrin is my favorite. His work on Dirty Harry is also quite good.

[bpcmxr]

43. A lot of my faves have already been mentioned here, but I'll add

Cliff Martinez's scores for Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and Solaris - beautiful, haunting stuff.

[NewJeffCT]

45. Lord of the Rings - the Fellowship of the Ring

The first movie is still my favorite of the 3.

[FlashHarry]

47. Conan The Barbarian!

I love Basil Poledouris' score! Ah, to have been a fly on the wall when John Milius and Oliver Stone were writing that screenplay!

[Book Lover]

57. I second that!

"Civilization and Theology" is some of the lovliest music Poledouris ever did.

[GOPisEvil]

48. Last of the Mohicans

[FuzzySlippers]

50. Me too!

I was just going to say that.

[saltpoint]

49. AMERICAN BEAUTY is a great choice, Earth First.

I would go with that one, or maybe one of these:

John Williams' WHERE EAGLES DARE (Richard Burton, clint Eastwood WWII thriller)

or

Jonathan Cauette's TARNATION (more a soundtrack of the director's life-themes than a composed score)

Great question.

[rbnyc]

52. Dead Man!!!! (nt)

[MonkeyFunk]

53. Excalibur! Best usage of Carmina Burana in a movie yet.

Knights in silver armor riding to battle to "O Fortuna" was genius.

[dean_dem]

54. One more from me: Bubba Ho-Tep

Such a funny movie with such a moving soundtrack.

[Allenberg]

55. Either

The Godfather or The American President

[Mrs. Venation]

56. West Side Story

Fabulous music!

[Jessica]

58. October Sky. n/t

[KitchenWitch]

59. Field of Dreams

the score really added to the ambiance of the film

[desertalien]

60. Everest

Full of great George Harrison stuff.

[sendero]

61. Something not written by...

... Danny Elfman.