I've never been in this part of the chat boards and decided that my first post should be to ask you all what your favorite movie soundtracks are (EXCLUDING MOVIE MUSICALS GUYS!!!).
Here are my favorites:
Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1
Wonder Woman (2017)
Star Wars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
I have tons of favorite motion picture scores, but two that automatically come to mind are from the films, "Steel Magnolias" and "Crimes of the Heart" - both composed by the brilliant Georges Delerue.
I also love Elmer Bernstein's score for the film, "Far From Heaven".
Another soundtrack favorite, while not technically a traditional musical - but one that features excellent songs and performances by Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn and Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline is the soundtrack to "Coal Miner's Daughter".
A Home At the End Of the World
Harry Potter - 1st movie
Star Wars - Original
The Mission
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Falcon and the Snowman
FM
AMADEUS for me. It's so brilliantly performed!
Ennio Morricone - “Cinema Paradiso”
John Williams - “Star Wars”
Dave Grusin - “On Golden Pond”, “Heaven Can Wait”, “The Firm”, “Tootsie”, et. al.
Animated non-"traditional musical" scores:
Over the Garden Wall
The Garden of Words
Dick Deadeye (gleefully bizarre psychedelic Pythonesque Gilbert and Sullivan cartoon)
Live action film scores:
Star Wars original trilogy box set
Beetlejuice
Halloween 1 and 2 (plus "Silver Shamrock" from Halloween 3)
Song scores from movies:
Velvet Goldmine (double disc version)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Digimon the Movie (many a millennial kid's first Rough Guide to 90's alternative pop: Fatboy Slim, LEN, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, etc.)
Genesis Live 1973 (concert film but still)
Blade Runner and Henry V (with Kenneth Branagh) are my go-tos.
Hey Kids!
Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Williams - Empire Of The Sun
Moross - The Big Country (quite possibly "perfect"
Gold - Ship Of Fools
Moroder - Midnight Express
Morricone - Days Of Heaven
Herrmann - Vertigo
Bource - The Artist
to name a few.... (interesting query..
Philip Glass isn’t for everyone but I’m fond of his scores for The Hours, The Fog of War, Notes on a Scandal, and The Truman Show.
I also like Racheal Portman’s scores for The Cider House Rules and Grey Gardens (for HBO).
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/17
The Lord of the Rings movies are beautifully scored.
I love the scores to “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “The Heiress”, and “Gone With the Wind”.
”Jackie”, from last year, had a phenomenal score.
The soundtracks to “We Bought a Zoo,” “127 Hours,” “Brother Bear,” and “The Help” are all so beautiful and have helped me through so many hard times. Especially WBAZ. That soundtrack is AMAZING. Listening to one of Jonsi’s songs is like flying.
1962 version of "Mutiny on the Bounty". Here is the overture.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
Somewhere In Time. Starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Score by John Berry. Just beautiful.
The Sound of Music
Once upon a Time in America
Pretty Woman.
The Color Purple
Jurassic Park
Edward Scissorhands
The Cider House Rules
Young Sherlock Holmes
E.T.
Beetlejuice
Love, Actually
The Hours
Titanic
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
The Shipping News
Empire of the Sun
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Empire Strikes Back
Batman (1989 Tim Burton score)
Notes on a Scandal
Back to the Future
Aside from musicals, I love the score to "The Bounty" by Vangelis.
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