Saturday Night Fever imo.
Honestly, you'd have to give
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 a listen. Don't care about the film but so much classic rock. Then there's
Speed 2: terrible movie, great soundtrack album.
Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer and Thief soundtracks are stone cold classics.
As a synth nerd I'm also just a huge fan of electronic soundtracks from the 70s and 80s in general. I'll drop some more of my faves in a bit.
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 12, 2024, 02:06 AMHonestly, you'd have to give Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 a listen. Don't care about the film but so much classic rock. Then there's Speed 2: terrible movie, great soundtrack album.
I was thinking more along the lines of soundtracks made for the film rather than a bunch of songs used in the film if this makes sense.
SNF was all songs made at that time and some for the film wasn't it?
GOTG2 is not the same imo. I'm sure there are plenty more great soundtracks where they used a bunch of classic songs.
Don't ban me though just my opinion :love:
@jimmy jazz I believe all the Bee Gees tracks were made specifically for the film. But at least some of the other tracks like Disco Inferno were older tracks that weren't directly related.
Edit: Oh, yeah I reread. Yeah all of the tracks were definitely contemporary disco tracks from 75-77 or so, so yeah, i got you.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Nov 12, 2024, 02:18 AMTangerine Dream's Sorcerer and Thief soundtracks are stone cold classics.
^ I used to have that album, Lexi, and although I never saw the movie, the photo on the cover looked so intriguing:-
(https://data.tangerinedreammusic.com/Data/BildArchiv/zuordnung/00922_big.jpg)
BTW, the greatest movie soundtrack is Paris, Texas : I thought everybody knew that ;).
It's an album of languid guitar instrumentals, with just one song with vocals: a masterpiece in OTT mournfulness, with lyrics that begin:
"
I am so far away from the floor that I was born on...
... I am so alone and so sad...
... I would like to cry, I would like to die - de sentimiento!!"
( My choice comes labelled as "O.S.T.", so I hope it gets approved by the Jimmy Jazz Soundtrack Police. )
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 12, 2024, 02:26 AMI was thinking more along the lines of soundtracks made for the film rather than a bunch of songs used in the film if this makes sense.
SNF was all songs made at that time and some for the film wasn't it?
GOTG2 is not the same imo. I'm sure there are plenty more great soundtracks where they used a bunch of classic songs.
Don't ban me though just my opinion :love:
So what you're asking for is best film
scores, is it? The music, rather than, as you say, a bunch of songs? If that's correct, and you want the thread title changed to reflect that, just shout.
In terms of scores then, my go-to would be
Wicker Man OST goes hard except for that goddamn Maypole song shut the fuck uppppp "on that tree there was a limb and on that limb" omg stahpppp
Drive soundtrack is pretty up there for me.
I also love The Scorpion King soundtrack and Queen of the Damned. They got so many spins from me when I first got them.
My vote is for Vangelis' score to Blade Runner.
Tragically it was many years before the original score was available as an official consumer release. All prior editions had contained the 1982 New American Orchestra – Blade Runner (Orchestral Adaptation Of Music Composed For The Motion Picture By Vangelis) recordings which did not appear in the film.
This was rectified on Record Store Day in 2013 with the Audio Fidelity press of the soundtrack. This limited edition red translucent wax numbered LP was the first-ever vinyl pressing of Vangelis' original Blade Runner score.
For those unable to secure the LP, the other noteworthy edition is an unofficial but high-quality bootleg box set titled, Vangelis & Various – Blade Runner - Esper 'Retirement' Edition (25th Anniversary Culmination) and spans 5 discs of CD and DVD material.
Here's my copy of the LP:
(https://i.imgur.com/6PEZAnel.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AVlmiEYl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8WnwEdil.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/EX6Kyrml.jpg)
And here's the Retirement Edition:
(https://i.imgur.com/J9ZDuBMl.jpg)
Yes Vangelis does some great movie soundtracks, though I think my favourite of his is either the music from Carl Sagan's
Cosmos - Heaven and Hell - or his soundtrack to the documentary
Apocalypse des Animaux.
Here are some tracks from my favourites 🙂 not very original, so you probably know them well.
Any Other Name by Thomas Newman
The Asteroid Field by John Williams
Willow's Song by Paul Giovanni and played by Magnet
Ice Dance by Danny Elfman
John Williams music for ET was exceptional.
Who doesn't like a bit of Hans Zimmer's 'Cornfield Chase' during Interstellar. Or am I being too boring?
Howard Shore's "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was also a powerful soundtrack. Oh my good Lord.
But my personal favourites off the beaten track are (yes we're heading into the realms of disco at times):
Clint Mansell is my favorite soundtrack composer. He's composed the scores for so many great films.
To name just a few, Black Swan, The Fountain, Ghost in the Shell (2017), Moon, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, San Junipero (Black Mirror), and many others.
The Pi soundtrack was critical to my musical development.
Taxi Driver OS FUckin T
is phenomenal and 75% of why I loved that film so much
feels like a fever dream
I got into Clint Mansell because of Dead Reckoning used in Smoking Aces.
My first exposure to his music was his Requiem for a Dream score being used in an old YTMND page lol
I'm slipping a TV soundtrack into this movie thread. Yes you've guessed it, Starsky & Hutch! But very importantly, it's the score from the
first season composed by Lalo Schifrin (in 1975?). Subsequent seasons were not as gritty imo, and became more silly and too much "circus clown juggling on a uni-cycle" type of sound.
3 favourites are Running, Silence, and Rooftop Chase. It's good to listen to them one after the other, as this is probably their sequence in the series (i.e. running away from something, then hiding, then being chased or something).
This is original top notch stake-out/ heist/ car chase funk... C:-) :pimp: :guitar:
RunningSilenceRooftop ChaseSome other good ones are in the Full Score
I watched an episode not long ago and was quite surprised by how comic and slapstick it was not. I remember as a kid watching it and enjoying it, but whether I happened to catch a darker episode or not, it wasn't fun at all, and people got literally killed. I remembered it being all fun and games, cops and robbers, and perfectly coiffed hairdos, but this was dark and downbeat. This in an era where the A-Team would slam into a mountain in a helicopter and emerge coughing and waving smoke away, and when McGuyver could create a batallion of tanks out of three paper clips and a rubber band!
'Greatest Film Soundtrack Album'? Do musicals count? If so, the soundtrack to Mary Poppins wins in a landslide because I love every song.
I never owned soundtrack albums to 'Border Radio' and 'Empire Records' but I thought the music complemented the movies.
Sooo...my cousin had a soundtrack album back in the day from the TV series 'Dark Shadows'. This was always the played during preteen seances or attempts at a haunted house in a basement.