Movie Soundtracks that should be on every shelf.

[Ephemerid]

For shame!  No mention yet of Takemitsu's haunting score to Akira Kurosawa's Ran!  Just for the scene at the third castle alone even! 

I seem to recall really liking Michael Nyman's soundtrack to Gattaca.

Also:

Peter Gabriel's Passion (the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ)

28 Days Later (especially for the "East Hastings" segments by Godspeed You Black Emperor!)

And yes, Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack is good one, very original (he was my first real musical hero as a kid & inspired me to record music).

[orbital]

l (he was my first real musical hero as a kid & inspired me to record music).

Mine too  -with my Yamaha PSR-70 I think it was- I recorded a full album on cassette manyyears ago, which I found just recently in a closet. I found a walkman and recorded the whole thing on my computer as mp3. Horrible horrible stuff, but obviously influenced by Vangelis 

[Jupiter]

Has anyone mentioned the Taxi Driver soundtrack? Bernard Hermann is wonderful. Includes the sickest use of the harp on a movie soundtrack

[pjme]

Morricone

Thanks- there are some very lovely moments in this film - I remember a sequence with doves flying away....Zumurud & Aziz!

[Haffner]

The Omen soundtrack, Jerry Goldsmith.

Another great one.

[gomro]

Here are mine, though this was VERY difficult to stop at 5:

1. King Kong: Max Steiner
2. Psycho: Bernard Herrmann
3. The Ten Commandments: (A very young) Elmer Bernstein
4. Alien: Jerry Goldsmith
5. From Russia With Love: John Barry

Now that my list is complete, I am going to go "Doby the House Elf" on myself, for leaving the likes of Franz Waxman's Bride of Frankenstein, John Williams's Minority Report, and Shore's LOTR's works off my list. 

Only 5? O.K....

The Andromeda Strain - Gil Melle'
Koyaanisqatsi - Philip Glass
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone
Suspiria - Goblin
Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream

[Bogey]

I am seeing a bit of play for Ennio Morricone's music....which does my heart good.  If you already did not catch this link on the non-classical thread I posted, you may want to give it a listen as Andy Trudeau briefly discusses the 3:10 to Yuma music in which Marco Beltrami's efforts are compared to Morricone's.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19251328

Also, here is Morricone during and after the 79th Oscars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0dOrmOOhk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1I6U56gjE

[Bogey]

Also:

Peter Gabriel's Passion (the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ)

Excellent disc to have on the shelf.

[shive1]

The Sea Hawk (Korngold)
Braveheart (Horner)
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Korngold)
Gone With the Wind (Steiner)
...and last but not least, perhaps surprisingly, Airplane (Bernstein). I really like the cheesy quality Bernstein came up with for this film. It fits the idea of the movie perfectly, but yet, if given a chance, is really very good.

[Bogey]

...and last but not least, perhaps surprisingly, Airplane (Bernstein). I really like the cheesy quality Bernstein came up with for this film. It fits the idea of the movie perfectly, but yet, if given a chance, is really very good.

Surely I should know about this one....

[71 dB]

Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream

After I discovered Tangerine Dream I found out that ironically I haven't seen any of the many movies they have scored. Michaels Mann's 'Thief' is one that interests me.

[knight66]

Do try Vaughn Williams' Symphony No 7, Antartica. It is partly based on the music he wrote for the film, 'Scott of the Antartica'.

Mike

[The new erato]

I'm not much into film music (not that I don't see that it can be VERY good) - but I like Shostaovichs music to Hamlet a lot, and Prokofievs music to the Eisenstein films are classics (though references to them probably are buried somewhere in this thread already).

[Ephemerid]

After I discovered Tangerine Dream I found out that ironically I haven't seen any of the many movies they have scored. Michaels Mann's 'Thief' is one that interests me.

They did the original theatrical release of Ridley Scott's Legend-- however, I thought the director's cut, with the first sundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith to be better (at least I thought it fit the film better at any rate).  But that's one you might want to check out...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm not much into film music (not that I don't see that it can be VERY good) - but I like Shostaovichs music to Hamlet a lot, and Prokofievs music to the Eisenstein films are classics (though references to them probably are buried somewhere in this thread already).

Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible are among my favourites, too. Forgot to mention them...

[Norbeone]

Goldsmith's score to Planet of the Apes is great.

And, as I've mentioned, Elfman's score to Batman Returns.

Some of Goldenthal's tracks to Heat are nice too.

[Bogey]

Goldsmith's score to Planet of the Apes is great.

This would easily crack my top 10.

[Haffner]

Surely I should know about this one....

Bill, you were fishing for this:

let's leave Shirley out of this.

[Haffner]

Has anyone mentioned the MASSIVE Conan the Barbarian soundtrack? A must have.

[Bogey]

Bill, you were fishing for this:

let's leave Shirley out of this.

Has anyone mentioned the MASSIVE Conan the Barbarian soundtrack? A must have.

Briefly mentioned on the first page of this thread Ange.  I always wanted to get the rarer recording that had 4 extra tracks, so and in the end own neither. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Conan-the-Barbarian-Poledouris-16-Tracks-Varese-OOP_W0QQitemZ350027514199QQihZ022QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The Destroyer one can be very pricey:

http://cgi.ebay.com/CONAN-the-Destroyer-Rare-SDK-CD-Varese-Poledouris-MINT_W0QQitemZ140210418971QQihZ004QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

So I can sleep better at night Ange, please tell me that you have picked up the re-published Robert E. Howard works that they have been putting out.

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Original-Adventures/dp/0345461517/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205118447&sr=1-2