Favourite Movie Soundtracks?

[DP McCoy]

A soundtrack or score can quite often be an integral part of a part in the effectiveness of certain scenes in movies and indeed the movie as whole yet they can be often overlooked,so i was wondering what are your favourite movie soundtracks?
Here are a few of mine....

Platoon-This soundtrack contains some of the best recording artists of the era including Otis Redding,The Doors,Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin,however i find the use of Barber's Adagio for strings in key scenes of the movie to be truly haunting.

Halloween-If ever a soundtrack fitted a movie like a glove this imo is the one.This simple synthesizer based score both mirrors and enhances the on screen tension,terror and sense of impending doom.

Blade Runner-Vangelis's dark futuristic soundtrack gels with the mood and the ambience of the movie.Even now this score does not sound dated which is testement to the skill with which it was executed.

[alkytrio666]

Suspiria

Amazing Goblin score. Amazing.

[Unaboner3000]

I love the soundtracks of John Williams. A few of my faves of his are:

The Star Wars movies
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List

[The Mothman]

Suspiria

Amazing Goblin score. Amazing.

personally i think Deep Red had an even better score.


The Fog's score was bad ass too

[The Mothman]

how could i forget. Halloween.

the only score that is so awesome i actually have it on my ipod.


Untouchables had an awesome Ennio Moricone soundtrack too.

[The STE]

Soundtrack: Devil's Rejects
Score: Requiem for a Dream

[DP McCoy]

how could i forget. Halloween.

the only score that is so awesome i actually have it on my ipod.


Untouchables had an awesome Ennio Moricone soundtrack too.

Ennio Moricone's best work is The Good,The Bad and the Ugly imo,absolutely iconic.

[Antym666]

The Devils Rejects-I love me some classic rock.

I have to agree. The use of Lynard Skynards epic that is Freebird at the end was fantastic.

[Festered]

My favorite film scores-

Once Upon a Time in the West - Ennio Morricone.
Timeless.

Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin.
Cool jazz and a great prelude to his other best Dirty Harry.

Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann.
One of his best non-thundering scores.

The Blue Max - Jerry Goldsmith.
A score better than the film itself.

Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre.
Classic, and his scores for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Les Yeux sans Visage are great as well.


Best amalgamation soundtracks -

The Big Lebowski
Blue Velvet
A Clockwork Orange
Reservoir Dogs
Goodfellas


Best Horror soundtracks -

Sisters - Bernard Herrmann
Psycho - ditto
Carrie - Pino Dinaggio
The Fury - John Williams
Mars Attacks! - Danny Elfman (only thing good about that film)

[Elvis_Christ]

I'm a big fan of all the Carpenter stuff.

Bernard Herrmann is fucking amazing too. I love the Taxi Driver score and North By Northwest.

[re93animator]

Im a pretty big fan of movie scores. I pay a lot of attention to them when I watch something. A score depending obviously on how good it is can ruin a very good film or save a bad one for me.
Favorites:
Ravenous (Listen to this one all the time)
Jaws
Psycho
Once Upon A Time In America
The Shining
Good, Bad, Ugly
Predator
Star Wars
Godfather
Alien 1, 4 (Resurrection soundtrack = best of the 4)
The Thing (Nominated for a razzie award but I still like it)
Deep Red
Dirty Harry
Signs
Shawshank Redemption
2001
Taxi Driver
Species
Hellraiser
Saw
Requiem for a Dream
Schindler's List
Dagon
Dracula 1992
Philip Glass's new version of the 1931 Dracula

[neverending]

Goblin Soundtracks, as others have mentioned.
Louis & Bebe Barron's soundtrack for Forbidden Planet- it was a landmark recording in electronic music.
Vic Mizzy's score for The Night Walker
Donnie Darko
Krystof Komeda's Rosemary's Baby
Morricone- just about anything
Jerry Goldsmith was very prolific and wonderful
Same with Les Baxter
And Tangerine Dream
V for Vendetta
Akira Ifukubi did a lot of amazing work on Godzilla movies
Shino Sato for the original Ju-On

[roshiq]

The good, the bad & the ugly
For a few dollars more
fistful of dollars
Psycho
Halloween
Friday the 13th
The Exorcist
Suspiria
Star Wars

[monster123]

Psycho
The Strangers
Candyman
Halloween
Dawn of the Dead
Suspiria

[re93animator]

Psycho
The Strangers
Candyman
Halloween
Dawn of the Dead
Suspiria

Candyman, good call. Didn't hear or see The Strangers yet.
Dawn of the Dead. Which one?

[Nella]

Music score=
Requiem for a Dream
Halloween
The piano which is being played on the menu of Inside (2007)-Beautiful!
The Last Samurai

[novakru]

I still listen to these every now & then
The Crow
Danny the Dog
Queen of the Damned
Silent Hill
Tomb Raider

Rock and Rolla looks like something I may have soon...

[chaibill]

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Waking Ned Devine
Office Space

[Flinx]

The Lord of the Rings (all three movies) - Howard Shore

Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - John Williams

[sfear]

The Man With No Name movies (Ennio Morricone)
The Big Gundown (Ennio Morricone)
Planet Of The Apes (Jerry Goldsmith)
Anything by Bernard Herrmann, especially A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Mysterious Island, and The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad
Cider House Rules
The Piano
Any Beatle movie

[hacelikewhoa]

charlies angels haha

there's some smooth tracks for ya

[fortunato]

You all have given some great choices, and I feel my list could be pretty much compiled from selections from all of yours. However, I didn't see the Casper soundtrack on anyone's. I mean the cheese-fest with Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman. I thought James Horner's score was absolutely phenomenal. Especially that haunting recurring piano theme. Awesome.

[La Chat Noire]

Especially that haunting recurring piano theme. Awesome.

I used to get that theme stuck in my head for weeks whenever I watched Casper. Horner's compositions tend to have that resonating effect.

[Paul the Monk]

Most of the Tim Burton movies have good soundtracks in them. The Crow is another good one. I think Psycho was the first popular soundtrack, followed by Jaws and Halloween.

[trx1]

Shawshank Redemption
alien seris
tim burtons A CORPSE BRIDE my fav