Movies and Soundtracks

[steveno]

movies and soundtracks (some good and some not so good)

1. Easy Rider – very good soundtrack but if you take the soundtrack and Jack Nicholson out of the movie it go from a 4 star movie to at best a 2 star movie.

2. Zabriskie Point – I kind of like the quirky soundtrack. I just can't figure out why the movie was made in the first place.

3. Platoon – the soundtrack is good but since it is an Oliver Stone movie how much reality there is in it is a good question.

4. The Blues Brothers – good movie and soundtrack

5. Chinatown – good movie and the trumpet solo at the end is the best

6. The Big Chill – good movie and soundtrack

7. American Graffiti – good movie and soundtrack

8. Once Upon a Time in the West – good soundtrack and one of the best westerns ever made

9. Victory at Sea – one of the best movies and soundtracks ever made

 

[RobertJ.]

Here's a couple I listen to all the time:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- Ennio Morricone

Waterhole #3- Roger Miller and Dave Grusin

Both favorites since I was a kid!

 

[rwsmith]

This is Spinal Tap....

....not a 'good' sountrack but definitely entertaining.

Top Gun - super great soundtrack

I'll go with 'American Graffiti' but add 'Grease'

Clockwork Orange - a lot of Wendy Carlos when she was Walter. Beethoven, Bach, Rossini, Purcell....and more.

2001-A Space Odyssey

The Sting

The Wizard of Oz

Fargo (That haunting theme, 'The Lost Sheep')

Amadeus

Fiddler on the Roof...

Batman (except for the Prince stuff)

Help/Hard Day's Night/Yellow Submarine and to a lesser extent Magical Mystery Tour

Macbeth - The Third Ear Band stuff.

Dirty Dancing - a lot of it anyway.

Wayne's World

Biopic movies- Walk the Line, The Doors, Buddy Holley and some others.

Tommy

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Wall


The School of Rock - "Ya hear that? He's stickin' it to the MAN!"

 

[Golddollar]

And what is really fun for me is singing karaoke to cuts from Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. Think of the scenes where they are singing Rawhide and Ghost Riders in the Sky.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Carter Burwell's scores for Fargo and Miller's Crossing have always stuck out for me.

 

[Pop's2]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Movie wasn't an Academy Award winner (lost money; poor reviews) but the soundtrack was pretty good.

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[Gulfecho]

Best movie/Best soundtrack!

 

[Geno44]

"The Great Escape" and "The Alamo" were pretty good!

 

[Tradewind36]

Forrest Gump is one of my favorites.

 

[walkin jack]

.Any movie scored by Ry Cooder (Southern Comfort, Crossroads, etc)
.Tin Cup
.Quigley Down Under
.The Magnificent 7
.Pretty Woman
.Pure Country
.Streets of Fire
.Road House
.Eddie and the Cruisers I & II
.Bridge on the River Qui (SP)
.High Noon
.Ferris Buelers Day Off
.All the James Bond movies
.An Officer and a Gentleman

 

[DWalt]

"Victory at Sea – one of the best movies and soundtracks ever made"

Before the movie there was a long-running TV series in the early 1950s, and the later movie was simply a condensation of the series. There were several LP versions of the series soundtracks, and for some reason they were big sellers back in the 1950s. Many liked the Richard Rogers score.

 

[robertrwalsh]

Streets of Fire.

 

[Absalom]

I notice that I seem to be in the minority with this, but I have never liked purported "soundtracks" to movies which actually consisted of nothing but a grab bag of pop songs that played for a few beats at some point or another in the film.

Since I was a teenager, I've been into the grand instrumental stuff actually composed for the movies:

Maurice Jarre's "Lawrence of Arabia"
Elmer Bernstein's westerns
Ennio Morricone
Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams
"Last of the Mohicans"
From the 90s Hans Zimmer's soundtracks for action movies like "Crimson Tide", "Broken Arrow", "Gladiator". On his "Pirates of the Caribbean", I don't even care much for the movies, but the music is epic.

 

[DWalt]

Henry Mancini did some great movie scores, like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, Charade, Days of Wine and Roses, and many others (my favorite being his soundtrack for "Two For the Road"), plus for many TV series, most notably Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky. Not many like him.

 

[jtcarm]

Here's a couple I listen to all the time:



The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- Ennio Morricone



Waterhole #3- Roger Miller and Dave Grusin



Both favorites since I was a kid!

I loved Clint's spaghetti so much as a kid, I bought the album by Hugo Montenegro.

My mother was, at various times, a concert-violinist, so that was probably my only music purchase she ever approved.

"Hang em High" was another good one of his.

 

[the ringo kid]

CLint's "Ape" movies also had great soundtracks. Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can. Burt Reynolds: WW And the Dixie Dance Kings-The Outlaw Josey Wales-A Bridge Too Far, Battle of the Bulge. Is Paris Burning-and The Bridge Over the River Kwai just for samplers. All great soundtracks. Ben Hur--ill stop now.

 

[doublesharp]

Honeymoon in Vegas

Honeysuckle Rose

Jackie Brown

 

[cmort666]

1. Objective Burma - Not really history, but good drama. Excellent Waxman soundtrack.
2. Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice - Great stories (despite the source material) and fabulous soundtracks.
3. The Wind and the Lion - Great period story and great soundtrack.

 

[rockquarry]

Three of my favorites have already been mentioned: "Great Escape", "Magnificent Seven" (Elmer Bernstein did both and he was the very best at movie scores) and High Noon. If someone already mentioned "Hour of the Gun", I missed it, but it should be included.

 

[Doug627]

"Southern Comfort" - Ry Cooder