Movie Soundtracks

Just thought Id give you all 'heads up' to ''Oh Brother Where Art Thou?' which is on Sunday night telly at 10pm I believe.

You get to hear an oscar winning soundtrack album, with she-of-golden-throat (no thats not her porn name) missssssssss Alison Krauss!

Check it out !
Chris

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Whats everybody elses favourite movie soundtrack album?

NNB 'Gladiator OST' is in the classical charts.. and has had good reviews, anyone heard that one?

 

Cheers for the heads up on that. Somehow seem to keep missing it when it's on Sky, so will have to suffer endless advert breaks instead.

As for favourite soundtrack album, that's a tough one. It's probably out of these:

The Wonder Boys
The Blues Brothers
Pulp Fiction

and all the others that I can't think of right now.

 

Yup, O Brother's a fantastic flick with a soundtrack to match. Great stuff.

The Gladiator soundtrack is actually rather good. I mean, it's nothing particularly original or profound, but in terms of entertainment, it's good enough fun. The best thing is to play it on a high quality hifi that knows how to go loud (and deep - the bass is quite impressive). On the right system, with the volume cranked, it is extremely intense.

Other favourite soundtracks of mine:

(musical scores)

• Donnie Darko
• Blade Runner, by Vangelis
• Braveheart, by James Horner (the battle music is really impressive on a good, loud system, 'a la Gladiator)
• Fargo/Barton Fink, by Carter Burwell (both scores come on one CD)
• Requiem for a Dream, by Clint Mansell (& the Kronos Quartet)
• Pi, by Clint Mansell
• Lord of the Rings, by Howard Shore (not heard ROTK score yet, but the first two are great)
• Fight Club, by the Dust Brothers
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, by Tan Dun (and Yo-Yo Ma)
• Amélie, by Yann Tiersen
• Edward Scissorhands, by Danny Elfman
• American Beauty, by Thomas Newman
• anything by John Williams (e.g. Jaws, Star Wars/Empire/Jedi, Indiana Jones, Schindler's List, etc, etc)
• anything by Ennio Morricone (e.g. The Mission, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West)
• anything by Joe Hisaishi (scores most of Miyazaki's animated films, e.g. Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbour Totoro)

(soundtracks with songs featured in the movie)

• Pulp Fiction
• Kill Bill
• Romeo + Juliet
• O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Batman Forever
• The Million Dollar Hotel
• 8 Mile
• Ghost Dog
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• The Jackal
• The Matrix
• Trainspotting
• Top Gun

Notice that a movie doesn't have to be particularly great to have a great soundtrack.

Dunc

 

Picked up the new Alison Kraus live CD, a very good listen

 

I like American Beauty...not the sound track that contains the pop records etc, but the one by john (?) newman...real class!

and donnie darko of course...which I'm yet to buy!

 

Cheers for the heads up on Oh Brother - will defo check that out.

Soundtracks I like:
Blues Brothers
Boogie Nights
Heavy Metal (pure class!)
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Risky Business (loadsa Tangerine Dream!)
Schindlers List
Shine
Streets of fire (80s cheese!)
ThE LoSt BoYS

 

The Eraserhead soundtrack is a classic. Not sure if it's still available.

-- Ian

 

The Soggy Bottom Boys rule!

Auric

 

Some of my fave soundtracks (in no particular order):

Once upon a Time in the West
Amelie
Until the End of the World
Romeo + Juliet (the Baz Lurman version)
9 1/2 weeks
Pump up the Volume
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Bladerunner
Trainspotting
Twin Peaks (the TV series)
Heat

Michael.

 

The nightmare before christmas - awesome
Still crazy - great (except for jimmy nail )
Pulp fiction - very good
28 days later

 

Yes, I like that one too, and I often play it for itself rather than because it reminds me of the film, which I think is the hallmark of a good score album. He also wrote the score for Solaris, which initially I didn't like, but now after a couple of playings I like even better. The sound quality is better too (there's quite a lot of hiss in the AB soundtrack).