That Daft Punk Tron: Legacy soundtrack.
Gladiator is definitely up there. That or LOTR
It follows. Disasterpeace did an amazing job on it.
Choosing is too difficult, it all depends on your mood in a given moment.
Some favourite OSTs:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Blade Runner
- Ghost in the Shell 1/2
- Pulp Fiction
- Scarface
- Trainspotting
- Six-String Samurai
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- The Matrix
- The Terminator
- City of God / Cidade de Deus
- StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops / Keruberosu: Jigoku no Banken
- Guest from the Future / Gostya iz budushchego (technically a mini-series)
- The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! / Ironiya Sudbi, ili si Lehkim Parom
Judgment Night - definitely wins in a debate about the biggest disparity between the quality of a film and it's soundtrack.
Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!
My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:
- I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
- It's been three decades since I've seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).
My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn't get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!
Admittedly not original compositions, more a "greatest soul hits of the 70s" compilation.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Second place is Man of la Mancha
Kinda partial to the Spawn soundtrack too, just because orf was pretty unique at the time
Moon by Clint Mansell this soundtrack guided me through hundreds of hours of log reading from support tech days through sysadmin days.
It just falls to the background after a few minutes and becomes trance like.
Picking just one is difficult. But the one soundtrack I've listened to from start to finish the most must be Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris.
My local symphony regularly screens movies while playing all of the score, and I would LOVE if they would do Conan. Sadly, I think it's unlikely, but I can dream! As far as I'm concerned, it is the Platonic ideal of an epic fantasy score.
Natural born killers OST
Snatch is a fun one.
π is also very good.
Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield
When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes's Shaft title track get all the attention, but it's basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn't hold up nearly as well.
But Super Fly is a whole album's worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Also my favourite movie.
Fight Club.
That Dust Brothers soundtrack stands well enough on its own.
It's a close call between Highlander Batman (with Michael Keating) And the blues brothers
Once (2007)
I can't answer what my favorite is per se, but two of the most memorable scores I can think of are for Swiss Army Man and Ravenous.
I believe Daniels tapped the band Manchester Orchestra to do the music for Swiss Army Man. For whatever reason, they chose to have Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe sing on the soundtrack and the lyrics are usually just narrating what is happening on screen. case in point. It's a lot of fun.
Equally avant-garde, but substantially more "challenging", shall we say, the score for Ravenous is very striking and idiosyncratic, as befitting the film it's accompanying. Also written by a popular musician, in part at any rate. Michael Nyman, the second composer, said Damon Albarn (of Blur and, later, The Gorillaz) wrote about 60% of the tracks and he composed the remainder. Several of the tracks were performed by people who had never played their assigned instruments before in their lives, to create a deliberately off-putting soundscape. Others are traditional period marching songs befitting the frontier America setting. Some are based around electronic loops and samples. And others are very traditional, pleasant (if ominous) orchestra pieces. It's really a wild listen. Check it out for yourself.
I'll throw another vote for Ravenous. That movie has been a huge part of my life and in no small part thanks to the soundtrack.
It was the last movie I saw with my dad before he passed and it was a great one to discuss over a cup of coffee after.
The recently highdef releases we're great.
Man, I literally wound up listening to that entire playlist last night after I posted the comment. I've only seen the film once, probably a decade or more in the past at this point, so I really only had the overall impression of the score in my head. It's even better than I remember it.
Also, I put together that Nyman also composed the score to Gattaca, which is another very stirring soundtrack. I can hear elements it in the more traditional portions of Ravenous.
Oh man it’s so hard to choose. Can I make a short list instead?
- Any Other Name (American Beauty)
- The Beast (Sicario)
- End credits of (The International)
- Joi (Blade Runner 2049)
- Tell Me What That Is (Wind River)
- Thesaurus Tuus (A Ghost Story)
- The Alien (Annihilation)
- Herald of the Change (Dune Part One)
- Challengers (Challengers)
- Transmutation at a Distance (Arrival)
Transformers: The Movie (1986).
- Dare
- The Touch
- the awesome Lions cover of the theme
- and of course, Dare to Be Stupid
Hand covered bruises - The Social Network.
Lately, I keep coming back to Jóhann Jóhannsson's soundtrack to Arrival.
The Crow (1994)
Poor Things was soooo unique and brilliant!
I love Bernard Herrmann's score for 'Vertigo'. It's one of the great mystery film soundtracks, filled with so much suspense and intrigue.
Reservoir Dogs
Tarantino has a good feel for scores in general, but this one is perfect.
Paris, Texas. Pure desolate vastness, pain and longing and loneliness. The whole soundtrack is out of this world. Absolute pitch-perfect genius by Ry Cooder setting the tone for what is also a phenomenal film in its own right.
A Clockwork Orange
There are so many great ones, but the one I think would be irreplaceable is dances with wolves.
Not my favorite because I don't really pick favorites but I remember that forgettable vampire movie, the one with Aaliyah, had a pretty good soundtrack. If you like early 2000s rock.
