The Soundtrack Thread — Page 2

My Soundtracks that I Own:

Indiana Jones the Complete Soundtracks Collection

Star Wars

Jurassic Park

The Best of Bond

The Empire Strikes Back

Blade Runner (3-disc)

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lord of the Rings: FOTR (same as Frink)

Titanic

Chicago (don't judge)

The Phantom Menace

E.T

Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone

Forrest Gump

Swing Kids (never even heard of this movie)

Grease

Saturday Night Fever

Gladiator

I would also like to get the soundtracks for Alien, Planet of the Apes, 2001, ROTJ, and possibly Moon.

The SW soundtracks of course, though I usually only listen to ABC's versions now.  Also Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I really like the first three Harry Potter soundtracks.  That's one thing the later movies are really missing, that wondrous John Williams vibe that made the early ones so great.  Prisoner of Azkaban in particular is a phenomenal score, and 'A Window to the Past' is one of the best things he's ever written.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZB9nPMvS4

Also have Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien, the complete 2-cd Intrada set.  An incredible, mostly atonal work, filled with amazing and inventive sounds that perfectly represent the frightening and foreign imagery.  It's pretty much a crime against music in general that this score was cut up and hardly used in the movie itself--I think it would have been a much better film if they had gone with it as composed.  Goldsmith and Scott completely disagreed on what the tone of some parts of the movie should be, and were never able to resolve this in a satisfactory way, to the film's great loss.  The very end, in particular, would have been much better sounding like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nju3ZQnRyHI&feature=related&fmt=18

(apologies for less than stellar youtube sound quality, of course)

hairy_hen said:

Also have Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien, the complete 2-cd Intrada set. 

Can I have it? ;-)

My favortie soundtrack is  Aruther with Dudley moore. Footloose, The Cannonball run and the rocky films

bkev said:

 

Ziggy Stardust said:

]The Phantom Menace (free bin at Goodwill)

I fail to see a reason to have to justify this, it was the best part of the movie.

 

True. I'll revisit that part of my post.

This thread deserves a bump.  I've been listening to a soundtrack compilation I made a few years ago, and man I love it.  I will name specific soundtracks later, but for now I just want to mention the big names I love (and yes, I know they're popular and it's maybe too all-inclusive):

Danny Elfman

John Williams

Bernard Hermann

James Horner

James Newton Howard

Vangelis

Hans Zimmer

All fantastic composers, but I think Danny Elfman shines above the rest.  The man can convey so much emotion through music.  I especially love Edward Scissorhands.  Practically brings me to sissy tears!

Hans Zimmer and John Williams are the only ones out of those that I've heard of, and I love both of them (their music is great too).

I like the LOTR and Hobbit soundtracks, as well as that of Inception and of course, the Star Wars Saga (I don't have the AOTC soundtrack though, aside from a version with funny-sounding voices from the movie over top of it).

If you are watching a Tim Burton movie, you are listening to a Danny Elfman soundtrack.  The two are inseparable.  Batman and Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Beetlejuice, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!  He also frequently collaborated with Sam Raimi, such as in the first two Spider-man movies, though they grew apart after the second.  His music often incorporates vocals in a very instrumental way, not with lyrics, but with oohs and aahs.  Beautiful stuff.

James Horner has some pretty tunes, often stirring feelings of yearning for me.  Think of Don Bluth cartoons like An American Tail, Land Before Time, etc.  Also movies like Willow, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Field of Dreams, The Legend of Zorro, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.  Most famously, he composed the soundtrack for Titanic, including the once enjoyable, but so over-played that I can't stand it anymore, My Heart Will Go on.

Vangelis is more of an electronic composer, writing soundtracks like 1492 or the very famous Chariots of Fire (think of all those movies where you see someone running in slow motion, hear the music playing, and laugh at the reference to those guys in short shorts running along a beach in the original film).

James Newton Howard has created some good stuff, often exciting in my mind.  He has worked a lot with M. Night Shyamalan, so think of The Sixth Sense, Signs, etc.  He also composed for The Fugitive.  But his best move was his collaboration with Hans Zimmer on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, focusing on the more dramatic parts of the movie and utilizing more electronic music while Zimmer used more orchestration and focused on action.

Bernard Herrmann (oops, two r's) became familiar to me through my love of Alfred Hitchcock movies, and he composed for films such as Psycho (the famous screeching during the stabbing), North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much (even directing the orchestra during the assassination attempt), and my personal favorite, Vertigo.  You also might have heard him on The Day the Earth Stood Still.  I believe I read that Danny Elfman took inspiration from him, and it is pretty apparent.  This man was great.

I will try to list all the soundtracks I own.  Do video games count? Well I am listing them anyway.

The Star wars movie.

The Lord of the Rings movies

The Good,The bad,and The Ugly

Star Trek Vol.2 The Doomsday machine/Amok Time

Mass Effect 2 with all the downloadable extra music

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 3 with all the downloadable extra music

Man of Steel deluxe edition soundtrack

Star trek 2 The wrath of Khan

The Muppet Christmas carol

The Muppet movie

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Rocky

Batman

Doctor Who series 5 sound track

Doctor Who-The music

Once upon a time in the west

Final Fantasy 8 soundtrack

Go Simpphonic with The Simpsons

The Dark Knight

The Hobbit An unexpected journey

Star Trek The next generation Vol.2 The best of both worlds

Ghostbusters

The Muppets

Star Trek The motion picture

Thunderball

John Denver and The Muppets A Christmas together

Life on Mars

The Incredibles

Ratatouille

Star trek

Raiders of the lost Ark

The nightmare before Christmas

Oddworld Stranger's wrath

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Total Annihilation

The Witcher

Dune

I think that is all of them. Boy it didn't cross my mind how many of these things I had until I had to list them.

Everything that comes from Bear McCreary I buy without listening to it before.

Soundtracks are some of the best music out there. I've been listening to them for ages. The first one I ever had was The Phantom Menace, which is absolutely amazing. Disregard the film, that soundtrack is great. Me and my friends were randomly listening to it this past weekend, actually. Still good.

Of course now I own all of the Star Wars soundtracks, and they're all fantastic. I firmly believe Star Wars is the greatest film score of all time, and the AFI agrees with me. I can never get enough of that. Empire's up there too.

John Williams has to be my favorite composer ever. I also have all the Indy soundtracks. Last year I was given a vinyl of E.T. (another one of my all time favorites). It looks like this:

Since then I've been semi-obsessed with buying vinyls firstly because they look great framed, secondly because I can convert them to MP3s, and thirdly because they're really cheap if you know where to get them.

In the past year, I have bought the following soundtracks on vinyl (with prices ranging anywhere from $.99 to $6.99):

Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars (because why not), Amadeus, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange (actually my brother got this for me when he was in Scotland), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, New York New York, Julius Caesar, and Z. 

All great.

Also, on CD, I have over the years amassed a wide variety including, but not limited to:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Boogie Nights, The Master, all of The Lord of the Rings, both of The Hobbit, a lot of Hans Zimmer stuff like all of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Man of Steel, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

My second favorite composer is probably Ennio Morricone, so I got some of his stuff like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. An easy way of collecting good Morricone music is getting soundtracks to Quentin Tarantino films. I have Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. I also have Pulp Fiction, but that's Morricone-less. 

I'm also a big fan of Bernard Herrman, but I don't own any of his stuff (been looking for vinyls). I do listen to him regularly on Pandora and Youtube, though.

Anyway, that's all I'll say for now.

timdiggerm said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Rollercoaster Tycoon

 Was this actually sold? You can just get the wavs from the game folder.

 It comes free with the GOG download of the game. I couldn't get the game to install off of the disc on my 64 bit system but the GOG version runs just fine.

Oh and I did miss one,Fable 3. I love that game and it's soundtrack.

Just watched this cool German flick. I hope there's a good OST album.

I used to have the official soundtracks for Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.  I gave them to a girl...

A girlfriend who was very attractive and at the same time was into legend of zelda and soundtracks (And star wars for that matter!)... life was pretty grand at that stage of my existence...