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Originally Posted by _____V_____
We have pretty much covered all known bases of the horror genre, except for a few. Going through the Compilations when I was doing the image-link updation (for almost all of them), I was struck with 2 separate compilation ideas.
Top 100 Horror Movie Soundtracks
and
Top 100 Non-Horror Films
For the Movie Soundtracks, I doubt if we will have 100 OST albums defining quality, depth and popularity equally in the genre. So it would be better to go with a top 100 list of individual/single soundtracks than entire OST albums. What say?
For the Non-Horrors, all of us have proved time and again that we love all our films (with a particular fondness of horror films, but of course). Yet, as a movie-based website forum (majorly), not having a top 100 non-horror film list is criminal.
For the annals of cinema history is dotted with some superb examples of film making in every other genre - action, fantasy, drama, war, western, adventure, sci-fi, mystery noir, etc. Even musicals have left their mark in cinema history (who can forget that wonderful Singing In The Rain or Mary Poppins?) Don't you think it's high time that we sat down with our collective tastes and chiseled out 100 of the absolute best in cinema as a whole?
So HDC, which shall it be?
Or shall we pursue both?
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Love the idea, V! As is sometimes the case
... I want to make sure I (and everyone else) understand what you're talking about. You wrote, "For the Movie Soundtracks, I doubt if we will have 100 OST albums defining quality, depth and popularity equally in the genre. So it would be better to go with a top 100 list of individual/single soundtracks than entire OST albums."
Defining/Requirements for "single track":
(For others reading this, "OST" is Original Sound Track.) When you say, "better to go with a top 100 list of individual/single soundtracks than entire OST albums", you mean single tracks that appear on a Movie Soundtrack Album, right? And so, three examples of this would be:
- 1. Movie Theme Song: "Original Halloween Theme" from Halloween
- 2. Song "Sung" in Film: "Sacred Springs" from Mothra vs. Godzilla
- 3. Film Score/Background Music/Incidental Music: "The Murder" from Psycho
- 4. (wouldn't recommend) Commercial Song on Soundtrack, a Song Clip Heard in Film: "Partytime" from Return of the Living Dead
Which types should we include?
I would suggest only the first three types be included because, a commercial song from a soundtrack (often a track from a regular commercial music album, as in the case of "Partytime"), is a rather separate entity from the film, sometimes only plays a couple seconds in the film, and sometimes is not heard in the film at all. I think any piece of music from a film really needs to be specifically bound to it.
Compilations?: Horror Film or Non-Horror Film or All Film:
I think the amount of single tracks for a Horror Film music compilation is likely more massive than you might imagine (the 3 examples above). I would recommend restricting to just Horror films. After that's completed, a Non-Horror could be attempted, and would be vast amount of material (imagine multiple single tracks for every film).