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Originally Posted by potatobroth

Magnolia is my favorite film soundtrack (not exactly a score but great none-the-less.)

The score for Magnolia is just as wonderful and beautiful as Aimee Mann's songs. Jon Brion's work as a composer has really an interesting thing to watch in the past couple years. Espcially in light of his work on I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Punch Drunk Love. His work is so varried between each one of those films, but also incredibly wonderful and amusing to suit each story/film.

I too will be picking up Breaking and Entering. (Honestly, who won't around here?) And I'm very curious to hear the soundtrack judging from those little bits and 'troupes' as Yared described them on that BBC interview where Rick and Karl added a few extra notes here and there. It's very interesting to hear the bits played on the piano because the moment you hear them, you can start to distinguish the additions from Rick and Karl. Hearing the music in a larger sense with more musicians should be fun too.

There are a few soundtracks, or rather film scores that rank among some of my favorite listenings. As someone already mentioned Hermman's work with Hitchcock particularly on Vertigo. Then there is the work that Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke produced for Michael Mann's film The Insider. It always kind of irked me that Lisa received praise for the work she did on Gladiator with Hans Zimmer when it wasn't nearly as good as the vocal and sound work of The Insider. But I'm digressing and not trying to disaprage Ms. Gerrard's work in anyway, just annoyed by the all around monkey clapping that went on for Gladiator when her work was far superior in The Insider.

Another great piece of music that I often revisit from time to time is Jerry Goldsmith's score for LA Confidential. The man has done TONS of film scores, but I find myself listening to this one from time to time when I'm reading a book by James Ellroy. It just has that fit and vibe to Ellroy's writing.

Another piece of Goldsmith music that I really enjoy is Chinatown. Both LA Confidential and Chinatown work as companion pieces to me in a geographic sense obviously, but also in how they convey a mood and feeling of the film and era of which each is respectively set.

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I've already forgotten some more composers that others mentioned, mainly Cliff Martinez and his wonderful work on Solaris.

But then I also forgot Angelo Badlamenti and all the amazing and varied work he's contributed to so many of David Lynch's projects.

(This post could probably be in the treatment forum)