The best movie scores/soundtracks

[The Sceneman]

Ive notice that this forum talks about movies quite a lot. So what are your favourite movie soundtracks?

Some of mine:

Batman
Mission to Mars
The Warriors
Full Metal Jacket
Broken Arrow
The Assassin

[FlameOfCallandor]

Run Lola Run
Pi
Swingers

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm surprised you listed Pi, but not Requiem for a Dream.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Requiem music is fucking fantastic in the movie, but i cant really listen to it by itself.

[Mr. Gundam]

Regardless of it's off-Broadway origin, I nominate Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

[xnikki118x]

Run Lola Run
Pi
Swingers

When we were in high school, James's German class watched Run Lola Run for a few days. Then some pansy-ass kid told his parents about it, who complained to the teacher, and they had to stop showing the movie.

/random

[The Fake Shemp]

Disregarding the usual John Williams recommendations and the usual big names (Horner, Elfman, Zimmer, etc.), my three favorite and probably most underrated composers are Ennio Morricone, James Newton Howard and Basil Poledouris.  Morricone's work on spaghetti westerns and The Untouchables is unforgettable, Howard's score for Unbreakable is my favorite of the past decade and Poledouris clocked in some of my all-time favorites with Conan The Barbarian, Quigley Down Under, RoboCop and The Hunt for Red October.  The score to Conan the Barbarian alone should put him in the same league with all-time greats.

[Ichirou]

Disregarding the usual John Williams recommendations and the usual big names (Horner, Elfman, Zimmer, etc.), my three favorite and probably most underrated composers are Ennio Morricone, James Newton Howard and Basil Poledouris.  Morricone's work on spaghetti westerns and The Untouchables is unforgettable, Howard's score for Unbreakable is my favorite of the past decade and Poledouris clocked in some of my all-time favorites with Conan The Barbarian, Quigley Down Under, RoboCop and The Hunt for Red October.  The score to Conan the Barbarian alone should put him in the same league with all-time greats.

Agreed! I think Morricone's best work is The Legend of 1900/La Leggenda del Pianista sull'Oceano, and he's done a bunch of other amazing soundtracks to spaghetti westerns besides the Leone ones (my favorites are his themes for The Great Silence, The Mercenary, and Vamos a Matar, Companeros!).  He's done a lot of other kitschy/awesome soundtracks too, like Machine Gun McCain, Slalom, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, The Hellbenders...I love his work, even when he repeats himself.

[The Sceneman]

Yeah Ennios real good thats why I said Mission to Mars.

Giorgio Moroder is sweet too

[Ichirou]

Yeah Ennios real good thats why I said Mission to Mars.

Giorgio Moroder is sweet too

I dig Bacalov too.  He did Il Postino and Django.

[Robo]

I'm not usually a big fan of listening to original film scores out of context, but Air's The Virgin Suicides is probably my favorite.  Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet's score to The Fountain is pretty damn good too.  I think I like it more than the ones for Pi and RfaD.

As for soundtracks, there are a ton of good ones.  Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic, Snatch, Children of Men , Lost in Translation, The Harder They Come, and so on. 

[Solo]

I was gonna come in here and list my two usual favorites. Morricone has been covered, so I'll also offer up Bernard Herrmann (Many Hitchcock films, Taxi Driver, etc).

[Bloodwake]

I was gonna come in here and list my two usual favorites. Morricone has been covered, so I'll also offer up Bernard Herrmann (Many Hitchcock films, Taxi Driver, etc).

QFT.

Tarantino and Scorsese also have a good thumb for picking out good music for their films. It just seems to fit.

Morricone FTW, and I will go ahead and give kudos to Williams, because he's the fucking man.

[whiteACID]

Full Metal Jacket
Kill Bill
Dirty Dancing

[Saint Cornelius]

Dirty Dancing? 

My vote is for The Big Lebowski, of course.

[makaveli]

2pac live at the house of blues

[ToxicAdam]

Pulp Fiction

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Shogun Assassin.

[Tauntaun]

Gettysburg, Jurrasic Park, also this isn't a movie but Firefly has an amazing soundtrack. 

[Robo]

I can't believe I forgot about Explosions in the Sky's Friday Night Lights score.  Awesome album.

And I hate to bring this thread down to ANIMU FUCK, but Akira has a damn good score too.

[Himu]

2001.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

2001.

Well done, but stealing classical music doesn't really count.

[Himu]

True, but it's almost impossible for me to hear Thus Spoke Zaruthustra without thinking of that movie now.

[Cheebs]

Not my favorite, nowhere near my favorite buuuut:

John William's most under-rated score ever? 1941. Shitty movie but FANTASTIC score, one of his top scores really.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

I was gonna come in here and list my two usual favorites. Morricone has been covered, so I'll also offer up Bernard Herrmann (Many Hitchcock films, Taxi Driver, etc).

QFT.

Tarantino and Scorsese also have a good thumb for picking out good music for their films. It just seems to fit.

Morricone FTW, and I will go ahead and give kudos to Williams, because he's the fucking man.

[tiesto]

I'm not usually a big fan of listening to original film scores out of context, but Air's The Virgin Suicides is probably my favorite.  Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet's score to The Fountain is pretty damn good too.  I think I like it more than the ones for Pi and RfaD.

As for soundtracks, there are a ton of good ones.  Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic, Snatch, Children of Men , Lost in Translation, The Harder They Come, and so on. 

I heard there's some dubstep on the Children of Men soundtrack (missed the chance to see the movie in theaters )... that makes me even more interested in catching the movie. Glad to see Run Lola Run mentioned, that's def. one of my favorite movie soundtracks.