Film Soundtrack/Score

[Caprice]

Theres been some Film scores that i truly loved. American Beauty is my faviorite, Thomas Newman pure genius. Of course Fight Clubs Dust Brothers did a good job aswell.

Now for soundtracks i could go on quite a while for my faviorite.


But whatever they release for Breaking and Entering, im going to buy it. Whether they realese it online or i have to get off my butt to buy it, i will own it.


(im trying to say, Underworld, theres a market for the score!)

[dubman]

it will have been about 5 years since i'll have bought a one, but i didnt think underworld were going to make one when i swore off of the soundtrack...

i should celebrate it by buying the ones for amelie and royal tenenbaums while i'm at it...

[potatobroth]

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

[votingfloater]

Oh, I'm sure this will be released at some point. I'm dying to hear it too. I got a bit confused and thought you meant the sheet music when you said "score".

(Though it would be funny to see how someone would transcribe Underworldy type processed electronic stuff for the sheet music. Come to think of it, how are Karl, Rick and Gabriel managing with this? I mean, I guess there's an orchestra's worth of stuff going on and they must have some way of keeping track of where the UW stuff fits in with this.)

I quite like soundtracks - but not those cack ones where a bunch of stuff is crowbarred into it just to make money. Ugh. Bernard Herrmann though... now you're talking.

[grady]

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.

edit

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)

[suicidalpenguin]

I bought the Octane soundtrack - one of the last works Orbital did before they released the blue album and split up.
It was absolutely awful - One decent song on it & the rest sounded all the same
Having said this, i will be buying this one when it gets out.

[Jafs]

I've re-listened to the Blue Album recently and I must aaaaaaaaaaaargh what happened

[Leon]

Requiem For A Dream has a great soundtrack, really trippy, spooky.

[adam]

The Thin Red Line

Solaris

Assorted Danny Elfman works - Beetlejuice, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Mars Attacks

Donnie Darko

Thin Red Line is my fav, though.

Oh, Marco Beltrami is pretty sick, too.

Also, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

*note to self: go buy Beltrami.

[patrick]

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