Favorite Movie Soundtrack

"Xanadu" and "Children of Sanchez" in addition to some great ones you all have already mentioned. :)

Some one-track greats that come to mind are "Midnight Express" and "Axel F."

"La Dolce Vita", "Amacord" by Nino Rota.

Dr. Zhivago

Any of the Spaghetti western themes, the best of Ennio Morricone is an enjoyable CD.

The Choir, Brassed-off, Talk to Her

Eddie and the Cruisers

Almost Famous

"Performance" and "Falcon and the Snowman"

-The Mission
-The English Patient
-Tous Les Matins Du Monde

Thief by Tangerine Dream and LeValle or Clouds by Pink Floyd

For best song on a soundtrack - "Love on a real train" by Tangerine Dream from the soundtrack for Risky Business

three in the attic-sidewalk records

Walt Disney's remake of Fantasia,the original is still a classic.

The Magnificent 7 movie soundtrack

Grosse Pointe Blank

Try the soundtrack from the movie Diva.
It was a great French movie with English subtitles. Very cool. An exciting new wave very cool sounding and looking film.
Mitchell

Streets of Fire.

I always liked the "Jaws" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" soundtracks. It helps that the films are two of my all-time favorites, but I always thought that the music stood well on its own. John Williams is one of the most brilliant film composers I've ever heard. His resume is staggering.

Matti - there are at least 2 votes for Gladiator. One is mine from 2 days ago. But it's good enough to mention again. Good call.

No votes for Gladiator? How could that be?

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

"Garden State"... great movie too!

Magnolia (with Aimee Mann)

I'll second Performance and The Harder They Come, and add To Kill a Mockingbird.

1]the strauss piece in "Year of living dangerously"
2] the mission
3] constant gardner
4] the last waltz

"Philadelphia" - various artists
"Beloved" Rachel Portman
"Gladiator" Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard
"General's Daughter" Carter Burwell
"Passion" Peter Gabriel

"Falcon and the Snowman" 1985, Pat Metheny (David Bowie on one cut). "Performance" 1970, Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, Randy Newmann (Mick Jagger on one cut). Both great!

I actually liked it myself. I was more or less referring to the general consensus. I'm also one of the few NOT bored with Tarkovsky's 1972 version.

"Streets Of Fire"

Its interesting the reaction to Solaris. Voted one of the worst movies of the year . It was on my top 5.

I'm really enjoying the works of Cliff Martinez especially the soundtrack for the mediocre Solaris.

-> Les Triplettes de Belleville

Marco

I see I totally misread your post, I must have been sleepy.
It is interesting that you photographed her. You just never know who is going to catch on in Hollywood, I imagine she was too far offbeat for most :)

Phil

Philojet - no, bad seguae on my part. Just responding to Richingoth's post as an aside. I wonder what she's doing these days. Last film on IMBD that she did was in 1990.

Marco

Gone With the Wind, the classic film score by Max Steiner, performed by Charles Gerhardt conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra in RCA's Classic Film Scores series. A great score, a great performance, and great sound (engineered by the legendary Kenneth Wilkinson). Not to be missed.

Jax2, Anne Carlisle was in Garden State? I will have to watch it again. She was quite attractive when Liquid Sky was made, it is an old favorite of mine that I watched about 1 year ago. She seemed to really enjoy her dual role in Liquid Sky. The music is a hoot too, though quite good, REALLY deliberately campy sounding. Almost like Clockwork Orange music with Sci Fi overtones.

"Lawrence of Arabia" is my favorite movie soundtrack hands down. A genuine masterpiece from the creative genius of Maurice Jarre. The only complaint I have with the original soundtrack album is its brevity. I wish someone would issue the complete film score., I also have the LP version performed by the Philharmonia, but so many of the tempi are just not right. It is very good for the most part. But the stirring overture, main title and end title with exit music are not in the same league with the original. I am glad, however, that I have both the original film soundtrack and the Philharmonia versions.

I've been listening to the soundtrack to "Garden State" recently: fantastic soundtrack...great movie too!

Richingoth - I photographed Anne Carlisle several times back in the late 80's...she actually did become (or always was) a fashion model with Ford. I enjoyed Liquid Sky, but I bet it'd be totally bizarre to see it now so many years later.

Marco

Good post. Requiem was an incredible soundtrack and the movie was an all time fav for me. That and Magnolia are about my favorites lately. I liked the "Gladiator" soundtrack. It is recorded about as well as anything.......ever and it was performed by Lisa Gerrard { spelling ? } of " Dead Can dance " ; a fabulous group as well . Hey Slappy , you keep staying up all night reading archives and creating good debates and I may be calling you soon for set up suggestions.

Thomas Crown Affair(original), A Taxing Woman, Casino Royale, Le Bal, Seconds, 30 is a Dangerous Age Cynthia

'The Harder They Come' - Jimmy Cliff, Toots etc..

Shipping News, Final Fantasy, Mulholand Drive...

LIQUID SKY from 1983
(the only soundtrack LP I own, besides Yellow Submarine).
Here is the plot (from Amazon.com):

This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands on the roof of a grungy penthouse apartment inhabited by androgynous model Anne Carlisle and her drug-dealing lover Paula E. Sheppard (the former child star of Alice, Sweet Alice). As explained with deadpan gravity by hilariously naive alien hunter Otto Von Wernherr, the UFOs congregate in areas of intense heroin concentration and feed off the highs of addicts. This alien has found a better high: orgasms. Russian émigré Slava Tsukerman's punk sci-fi feature takes the alien in alienation seriously, charting the mental disintegration of Carlisle as every sexual partner dies in climax and she turns herself into a heroine-chic angel of death. Easily the strangest to come out of the New York indie explosion of the early '80s, this low budget classic is talky and overlong at almost two hours, but remains an imaginative use of bargain-basement effects (heat aura photography, stop motion animation) for a tale of a most unusual alien encounter. Tsukerman co-composed the minimalist electronic score (in the Laurie Anderson vein). Carlisle, who cowrote the film, also appears as a surly gay male model. --Sean Axmaker

I second the "Glory" nomination. WOW!

Fantasia.

The Killing Fields..

Lawrence of arabia, Patton, Zorba the greek, Smoke, the Civil War

The Big Night, Alfie, Casino Royale, Brassed Off, The Russian Ark.

I second"Until the End of the World"and raise you with
"The Crow"

My two favorite movie sound tracks are 'The Commitments " and " From dusk till dawn". The both make you want to dance, just in different ways.

Southern Comfort. Ry Cooder swamp music soundtrack. I don't think the music from this movie was ever released. I saw one track on the Cooder 2 disc anthology cd.