Your 5 favorite movie scores?
 

I am a filmophile, I watch at least one movie a day, and more than two on the weekends. One thing I like about movies is the music that comes in it, that makes he films great. Although I don't know the names of the scores, here is teh top 5 movies I have seen where the Music was awesome

1. 2001: Space Oddesey

2. Star Wars

3. Indiana Jones and the Lost Temple

4. Eyes Wide Shut

5. Matrix Reloaded

Post your top 5 movies with the greatest music.

I'll give it a shot although I'm not huge on soundtracks .. :p

1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Star Wars, the old ones
3. Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Fight club
5. Hum .. Lord of the Rings trilogy?

I dont remember the musci from edward.. I shall watch it again

Danny Elfman is fucking good at what he does, the film score often makes a Burton film

Don't know if I've got five at the moment, but a few of my faves are Braveheart, The Crow, and the LOTR trilogy.

Edit: Gotta add Gladiator to this list.

Is this some fifth Indiana Jones movie I've never heard of?

^One of the best scores ever!

^I agree .. I think it's the most haunting soundtrack from Elfman!

Another I could have mentioned (although I wouldn't put it on my list) is American Beauty. I really like the song "Any Other Name" that Thomas Newman made for that movie. Also a very haunting tune. :)

1. The Hours - Philip Glass

2. The Fountain - Clint Mansell

3. Life Aquatic - Seu Jorge (Get this album, its amazing. All acoustic Bowie covers by the Brazillian singer Seu Jorge)

That's my top three.

Those songs are good but don't forget the actual score itself which is really good and was done by Mark Mothersbaugh.

Requiem For A Dream (Clint Mansell)
See: top to bottom, however Lux Aeterna is best known

Gladiator (Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard)
See: "Now We Are Free"

The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer and James Newton-Howard)

Off the top of my head I can't come up with much more at the moment.

Zamfir's "The Lonely Shepherd" is one of my favorite tracks (featured in Kill Bill: Vol. 1)... after the break, when it's just pan flute, and then the music creeps in and that trumpet (?) starts up-- that part is insanely sick. I could listen to it over and over.

"Briony" from the movie Atonement is catchy as hell. The typewriter is hypnotic.

Gustavo Santaolalla "The Wings" (featured in some *** movie) is excellent.

Requiem For A Dream has a great soundtrack, I love the the remixes of Lux Aeterna, Winter Overture is my favorite. The Ghost tracks are good too.

Oh, and I can't leave off... ANY music featured in a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.

Original film scores:

Cliff Martinez - Solaris
Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Kate Rusby, John Mcusker - Heartlands
John Harrison - Day of the Dead (1985)
Tangerine Dream - Thief
Eric Serra - The Big Blue
Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver
Goblin - Suspiria
The Who - Mcvicar
Thomas Newman - The Salton Sea
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream
Vangelis - Bladerunner
John Carpenter - Escape From New York

Compilation soundtracks:

Lost Boys
The Crow
Once
2001 : A Space Odyssey
Leaving Las Vegas
This Is England
The Harder They Come
Goodfellas
The Color Of Money

Sorry. I know it isn't five!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone)
Suspiria (Goblin)
Requiem For A Dream (Clint Mansell)
The Party (Henry Mancini)
CQ (Mellow)

Goblin's scores for Argento's films are freaking FANTASTIC.

Michael Giacchino's "Cloverfield Overture" deserves a mention. I don't remember much about the music from the rest of the film, but the end title music is easily my favorite piece of film music from last year. It was like Akira Ifukube was back from the dead.

Michael Giacchino is great. He does the music for Lost and it works well for the show but it's also good to just listen to. He can make some great harmonies.

Mothersbaugh's music is perfect for Anderson movies but I could never really see myself listening to it (without watching the moive).

2001: A Space Odyssey
Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Slumdog Millionaire
Royal Tenenbaums
Lost In Translation

Oh man, I love both the soundtrack to Life Aquatic and Bottle Rocket. That boop-beep-boop sounding song from diving scene with the headsets in Life Aquatic is freaking awesome.

Ping Island Lightning Strike/Rescue Op is great jogging music.

I love the boop-beep-boop! I guess I was thinking more of the Royal Tenenbaums Mothersbaugh which is great for the movie but gets slightly repetive.


Amazing

Uh, sort of deviating, but I really like the Twin Peaks soundtrack.

The Twin Peaks soundtrack is brilliant. And it isn't really deviating that much, there is a film score as well. In fact most of Lynch's films have great scores (courtesy of Angelo Badalamenti). Other than David Lynch related stuff I really love Nino Rota's film scores and Popol Vuh’s work with Werner Herzog.

Popol Vuh is pretty great.

In no specific order:
1] The Fountain
2] Waking Life
3] Baraka
4] Slumdog Millionaire

I could only think of 4.

Not a full soundtrack...
 

... but recently, I've been listening to the music that's going along with the HD version of the Star Trek trailer. I believe it's called "War Begins" and has been remixed to a version called "Down With the Enterprise" (remixed by Two Steps From Hell)

Blade Runner
Harold & Maude
O Lucky Man
Forbidden Planet
THX1138

Been listening to The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack lately... it's pretty amazing. Howard Shore is fantastic.

it's nothing without Julee Cruise's voice ... from Blue Velvet to Industrial Symphony no.1 ... and Badalamenti made the ride at the beginning of Mulholland Dr unforgettable.

my best scores:
01- Amelie by Yann Tiersen
02- Underground by Goran Bregovic
03- Atonement by Dario Marianelli
04- Les Choristes by Bruno Coulais
05- Goodbye Lennin by Yann Tiersen
06- The Hours by Philip Glass

couldn't put less than 6.

Lion King - score
Incredibles - score
Moulin ROuge - ingenius
they are my top 3... matrix is awesome thought :) burly brawl is AWESOME!!!!!!

althought my film scores come pretty close :P