Who are your favorite movie and/or TV composers?

[Archae]

My top 5:

John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park)
James Horner (Star Trek 2 and 3, Krull)
John Barry (James Bond theme, The Black Hole)
Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek The Motion Picture, NG, DS9 and Voyager)
Alexander Courage (Original Star trek theme)

[Floogeldy]

1. I am a world renowned expert on this subject . . .

. . . and believe me, ha ha ha, Bernard Herrmann. ;)

[Archae]

4. You'll like this at Crooks and Liars then.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/03.html#a8567

"Psycho" and "Vertigo."

[blondeatlast]

10. No doubt.

I mean, the music fo Psycho?

Dead-on perfect score. May that creepy theme live forever... :toast:

[Deja Q]

2. I agree with you on all counts but one...

Replace Jerry Goldsmith with Ron Jones (Star Trek TNG). Jones made TNG come alive - so it's no wonder he was axed; especially when we got to hear all the musical scores composed after his departure; Berman made a big mistake...

Goldsmith's TNG movie music never appealed to me; it's flat.

He's a great composer, but for Trek (V, VIII, IX, X) it's just not there apart from a few scenes. The Klingon theme is overused, and the fact TNG got its theme music from the original Star Trek movie didn't help at the time either. Indeed, in "First Contact", the music that's played as the Borg cube approaches Earth doesn't induce fear; it induces fits of laughter thanks to its unitentionally campy and trite tone.

For John Barry, any number of Bond films he scored (not just the Bond theme) are top notch; "The Living Daylights" being arguably his best.

[LouisianaLiberal]

3. Elmer Bernstein and Nino Rota

Bernstein wrote the music for The Magnificent Seven, True Grit, The Great Escape, Hud, Birdman of Alcatraz, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hawaii, The Shootist, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Trading Places, My Left Foot and The Age of Innocence.

Rota wrote the music for most of Fellini's movies.

And Stanley Myers, who wrote the guitar theme for The Deer Hunter.

[peekaloo]

5. Carter Burwell and Mike Post.

[swag]

6. Bernard Herrmann was pretty good

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002136/

Cape Fear, Taxi Driver, The Birds, and many more.

[Paladin]

7. Any of the Newman Family

n/t

[Cannikin]

8. B.T.

Monster (2003)
Zoolander (2001)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

9. Angelo Badalamenti, who's scored most David Lynch films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Badalamenti

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Angelo Badalamenti, Clint Mansell and Jon Brion.

[Ivan Sputnik]

12. John Williams, Alex North, Bernard Herrmann

and Vic Mizzy!

[Patiod]

13. I've got "The Rockford Files" as my ringtone

SO has Quantum Leap - I guess that makes us Mike Post fans!