Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites

TAXI DRIVER , Ben Hur ,The Sandpepbles, The French Connection, Pulp Fiction. 

John Barry Some where in Time and Out of Africa, the guy has so many Sound track Albums...

Banco De Gaia - Drippy

(PI π OST)

Banco De Gaia - Drippy

Ludwig Goransson - We Know What You Whisper

( Wakanda Forever OST)

Ludwig Goransson - We Know What You Whisper

Music from Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch

Thomas Newman - Road To Chicago

(Road To Perdition Soundtrack)

Thomas Newman - Road To Chicago

Thomas Newman - Rock Island 1931

(Road To Perdition Soundtrack)

Thomas Newman - Rock Island 1931

Heavy Metal soundtrack, especially All of You by Don Felder

The Graduate soundtrack, especially Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel

Casino Royale soundtrack, especially Look of Love by Dusty Springfield

Top Gun soundtrack, especially Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins

Peter Gunn soundtrack, especially Dreamsville by Henry Mancini

Saturday Night Fever soundtrack by the BeeGees

Rushmore.

Vangelis - L’apocalypse des animaux

Various/Roger Waters – When The Wind Blows

@danager +1 one of my favorite albums. Mostly unknown and unappreciated. 

One from the heart by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle

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.

Along with liking the movie, I always loved the music in Jurassic Park by John Williams and is one of those relatively rare iconic scores that really helped define the movie a la Star Wars and Rocky just to name a couple. Recently I pulled it up in high res on Qobuz and really enjoyed it as it has the ability to take you on a journey through the movie even without the visuals. Plus, just listening to the music on its own reveals how much beauty there is in it, and to me it really stands on its own as a wonderful piece of music and is well recorded, which is always a nice bonus.

One from the heart by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle

Life Aquatic. Seu Jorge

Jesse Stone

Cheers

. . . maybe Forrest Gump.

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. . . .

Clockwork Orange 

Some great ideas here. I agree with

Paris Texas

The Mission

Gladiator

Crouching Tiger

A lot of the others are new to me, next call Amazon.

• The Patriot - One of the very Best Mel Gibson films with a wonderful soundtrack extremely well recorded (sweet).  Appropriate to the movie but stands well on its own worthy of a listening session.
• Elizabeth - The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett IS Elizabeth both in this sequel and in Elizabeth.  Beautiful musical themes and performance along with beautiful sound quality.  Sweet strings and great dynamics.
• Glory - Another soundtrack recording triumph with a wide, deep, deep soundstage, glorious choral voices and kick butt bass.  I have this on CD and 180 gram vinyl.  Those deep bass attacks will help inform you as to the quality of your vinyl set-up.
• Gladiator - Great film, compelling music that helps establish the grandeur of the movie scenes.  This recording is often used as a system showpiece, with good reason.
• Star Trek The Motion Picture and Star Trek Generations.  Great sound with the iconic themes specific to the Star Trek franchise. Dramatic musical moments both dynamic and intense as well as soft and touching.
• Game of Thrones - Seasons 2, 4, 6  Ramin Djawadi has managed to immerse himself in the world of Westeros.  Very well performed orchestral themes, excellently recorded with individual songs that integrate the GoT lietmotifs yet present as individual songs.
• Alias - Yes, the TV series that put Jennifer Garner and Bradley Cooper on the Hollywood map.  This is fun stuff as the sound quality is excellent with the music being an appropriate mixture of orchestral and electronic with awesomely tight, deep bass.
• Gettysburg - If ever there was a soundtrack that expressed the anguish and yet the heroism of significant Civil War moments this is it with a nod to Glory mentioned above.  It's hard when watching the movie's depiction of Pickett's Charge to concentrate on the visuals as you get so swept up in the grandeur of the music.
• Superman Returns - I pull this disc out all the time.  You can picture the movie as you listen to it, but you can revel in the dynamism of the music without ever having seen the film.  Indeed the music puts the movie to shame.  Crystal clear, open and dynamic sound.

Almarg 8-26-2016

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" -- directed by Jacques Demy; music by Michel Legrand.

"Marry Me! Marry Me!" -- directed by Claude Berri; music by Emil Stern.

Both are 1960s French films. "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is pretty much unique among non-operatic films in that all of its dialogue is sung, not spoken, and it is also exceptional in terms of its use of color.

Also:

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
"My Fair Lady"
"West Side Story"