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Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites

 I love the cinema and some of my favourite albums are from films, TV and shows. There seem two basic variants, a score written for the film and compilations of existing tracks, used in the film. So what are your favourites? I'll start.

 Original scores:

  Hard to avoid Hans Zimmer and why would you want to.

   Hans Zimmer, "The thin red line"   Not his best known, but a great score.

   Honourable mention:

    Korngold, "The Sea Hawk"

Compilation scores:

   "Dead man walking" A really great film too.

    Honourable mentions:

      "Philadelphia"

      "The Sopranos" That's the original from the first series

 I am sure you can all think of better ones.


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immatthewj
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I always think of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid because of Knocking On Heaven's door, but in all honesty I have to say (and this although I really like and respect Bob Dylan's writing and singing) the rest of his work on that left me a bit cold.  But I guess if a sound track produces a Knocking On Heaven's Door . . . it doesn't matter what else is there or not there.

Maybe a year or so ago I watched Talladega Nights (the Ballad Of Ricky Bobby)  for the fourth or fifth time and I really really really enjoyed the music that time.  (I think before I just really enjoyed the music.)  Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, a different version of a Lucinda song I cannot think of off the top of my head. . . .

 

immatthewj
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. . . maybe Forrest Gump.

immatthewj
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I was listening to Leonard Cohen this afternoon and thought of Natural Born Killers.  I am late to a lot of parties, and I did not discover Leonard Cohen or The Cowboy Junkies until Natural Born Killers came out on VHS.

immatthewj
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Rushmore.

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