Post a movie soundtrack you love.

[Gothic Sponge]

I love Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack. Regardless of how you feel about Star Trek, you should check out this great work by Jerry Goldsmith.

[Princess Turandot]

1. I like the Sense & Sensibility soundtrack..

mostly because I liked the song so much that they wrote for Marianne to sing soon after they arrive at their cousin's home. I'm not sure who sings it in the movie; Jane Eaglen sings it on the recording.

I also liked the soundtrack for 'Interview with A Vampire'.

I like the Star Trek movie sound tracks. They required monumental music and got them. (I don't have copies of them; however I have seen most of the movies many times, except for ST 5.)

[Aristus]

29. If you want to know what inspired the 'monumental' music for Star Trek,

just listen to 'Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity', from Holst's "The Planets".

"The Planets" seems to have inspired a number of film soundtracks by John Williams.

'Mars, the Bringer of War', sounds an awful lot like "Star Wars".

'Saturn' sounds like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", to me. Anyone agree or disagree?

[MuseRider]

2. I was watching

Meet Joe Black the other day and the sound track caught my attention. I have no idea who did it nor have I heard any of it again but it certainly got my attention. Also Henry V by Patrick Doyle. I also enjoy Danny Elfman. Many that I like but do not have and can't remember to post about.

[curse10]

3. English Patient by Gabriel Yared

Good stuff

[Longhorn]

4. Out of Africa.

In fact, I need to buy that CD!

[lastliberalintexas]

15. You might also enjoy Somewhere in Time

They are both by John Barry, and they both remind this musically uneducated lay person of Puccini.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. A real obscure one:

the Soviet Ukrainian-language film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, which also gets my nomination for the film that most deserves digital restoration because of the (once) brilliant colors of the costumes, folk art, and scenery.

The soundtrack is instrumental and vocal folk music of the Carpathian mountains, and the magical realistic plot concerns a young man coming to terms with the death of his first love.

[FuzzySlippers]

6. The Untouchables.

I love Ennio Morricone's music. It's so lush. I also loved The Last of the Mohicans. Not sure who did that.

[TrogL]

7. Inferno - Keith Emerson

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Conan the Barbarian - the music is incredible

A perfect blending of story and music in that movie; and the music totally stands on its own merits, too, as utterly listtenable.

One of the most perfect soundtracks ever written, and an amazing bit of real music as well.

[MuseRider]

9. Wow

who would have thought that? I don't think I ever saw any of those movies. Maybe I should order the soundtracks. I always like your choices.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Thanks for the kudos!

Basil Poledouris did the music for Conan the Barbarian - he also did the music for Hunt for Red October and Robocop and many other movies.

The music for Conan totally fit the world in which Conan is placed - some timeless, ancient place of violence and magic. Just perfect.

Sadly, Amazon doesn't have any samples online.

But if it means anything, of 104 reviews for Conan on Amazon, only 6 didn't give it five stars, and one of those doesn't really count since that review was just asking a question.

[doubleplusgood]

16. Poledouris is great

Yes, "Conan the Barbarian" really is a fantastic score, along with "Red October" & "Robocop"...I have all three.

[ironflange]

11. The Birds

:evilgrin:

Just kidding.

[non sociopath skin]

12. The Nino Rota soundtracks for Fellini's movies ...

... especially "The White Sheik," "Juliet of the Spirits" and "Amacord". Like the movies themselves, they make me nostalgic for a time and place I never actually knew.

The Skin

[CBHagman]

13. "The Mission" by Ennio Morricone.

I am still deeply moved by that haunting, evocative music.

At this point I can pretty much recognize a Patrick Doyle soundtrack, but my favorite is still Henry V. However, I liked the fact that he did a traditional overture for Much Ado about Nothing, with the various themes worked into it. And Sense and Sensibility was also delightful.

As for Basil Pouledouris, I believe he did the soundtrack for Lonesome Dove, which I simply loved.

[Fleurs du Mal]

14. Bernstein - On the Waterfront/Herrmann - Psycho

[doubleplusgood]

17. so many to pick from

Impossible to pick just one...

Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo, North by Northwest, Obsession, Day the Earth Stood Still, Fahrenheit 451

Alex North: Viva Zapata, Spartacus, Cleopatra, The Bad Seed

Elmer Berstein: Great Escape, Magnificent Seven

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic

Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible

John Williams: Just about anything

Jerry Goldsmith: Papillon, Boys from Brazil, The Omen, Twilight Zone (TV)

[MuseRider]

18. Just heard a good one

tonight. My son gave me the DVD of City Of God since he loved it and I had never seen it. Good Brazilian music by Antonio Pinto and Ed Cortes.

[LifeDuringWartime]

19. requiem for a dream

requiem for a dream - i cant remember who wrote it at the moment, but was performed by kronos quartet

the LOTR trilogy also has amazing music

[Seabiscuit]

20. Peter Gunn

Not classical, but some of Henry Mancini's best and most memorable work.

[pippin]

21. Saw De Lovely recently

while on a cruise. Movie about Cole Porter. The music was wonderful! Just about everybody in the contemporary music scene sang a Cole Porter song including Ashley Judd, Robbie WIlliams, Natalie Cole, Diana Krall (I love her) Sheryl Crow to name a few who made cameo appearances.

[Poiuyt]

22. The Big Country

Western with Gregory Peck.

Also Magnificent Seven and Guns of Navarone.

Man, so many good ones!

[TrogL]

23. The Qatsi trilogy

http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/

KOYAANISQATSI
POWAQQATSI

and

NAQOYQATSI (which I haven't seen yet)

Music by Phillip Glass

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. I'll second every one of those!

[Lithos]

26. Those are very good

Quite enjoyable indeed!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

24. Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky".

It turned me on classical music about 10 years ago.

[Sparkly]

27. I can tell you two that are heard lately in the modern dance studio

where I dance, fwiw:
"American Beauty"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003XACV/qid=1110855296/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-4042859-7824148
and
"Shall We Dance" (especially #2 and #12)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006213IU/102-4042859-7824148?v=glance

One that I thought was good (not heard in the dance studio, yet!)
"Requiem for a Dream"
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=UZ36Tq6BZi&EAN=75597961126&ITM=1

[kwassa]

28. Get Shorty, (not classical, but jazz sounding)

A hypnotic little riff, that caused us to go out and buy it and play it.

I don't like most movie soundtracks, either, and am no fan of John Williams.

[tjwmason]

30. Amadeus and The Talented Mr. Ripley

In both cases music was allowed to speak for itself. Very different (Mozart and Jazz) but both possesing great integrity.

[Allenberg]

31. Titanic

Movie sucks, but Hymn of the Sea and Nearer My God to Thee are quite good.

[La Coliniere]

32. All Bernard Herrmann scores are worthwhile,

even those he composed for B pictures like "Twisted Nerve", "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", "Sisters", and "On Dangerous Ground".
I've come to really appreciate the late Jerry Goldsmith's score for "Basic Instinct". The film is a tawdry mess but I've never been able to resist the impact of both Sharon Stone's and the music's sensual edge.
Angelo Badalamenti's scores for the David Lynch's films "Blue Velvet", "Wild at Heart" and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" are incredibly evocative mood pieces that help create the strange, surreal moods Lynch is always aiming for.