What are your top 5 Original Soundtracks or Scores

[Amish Trooper]

Does it bother nobody else when you determine to hunt down the soundtrack of an outstanding movie and find that the tracks on the album have been altered from the score used in the film?
Case in point: The NeverEnding Story

Speaking of which; I just learned that this one's getting a reboot in 2012! Who's excited with me?

That drove me nuts about the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack bnut I still liked it.

 

[MARK M3]

Star Wars(1977)
Jaws
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Logan's Run
Batman 1989

 

[ThrowingChicken]

Requiem for a Dream
Jurassic Park
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Fight Club
Star Wars

 

[DARTH SABER]

ConAn the barbarian
King kong (1933)
The Good the bad and the ugly
Raiders of the lost Ark
The Right Stuff

 

[0neiros]

I Agree with all the choices here. My shout out goes to the "Where Eagles Dare" Soundtrack. If you've never seen it, Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, Killing Nazis, and business is a boomin. The Entire soundtrack was remastered by the composer Sam Goodwin and released a few years ago. Check some of it out, The opening theme is just Majestic.

Really nice Montage, Fan Done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dMkreSUyLI

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

^ right on! Fantastic theme that. Good that Goodwin's been mentioned.

I'm having some more. Time we had Lalo in here. And more Goodwin.

Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin

Magnum Force - ^

Dirty Harry - ^

633 Squadron - Ron Goodwin

Jason and the Argonauts - Bernard Herrman

Star Trek TOS - Courage, Duning









Star Trek TOS - Courage, Duning et al

 

[stmike73]

50 posts and NO ONE has mentioned "Last of the Mohicans?"

It is to weep.

Standby I just found he thread. I couldn't believe anyone had mentioned either.

Mine in no particular order:

Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined Series)
LOTR: Return of the King

and...

Last of the Mohicans

 

[confusion]

The Mission by Ennio Morricone (I can listen to this soundtrack all day, every day)
Once (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova)
Garden State
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pretty in Pink

 

[wannab]

Superman
YouTube - Superman - John Williams - Boston Pops 5/26/2007

The Cowboys
YouTube - The Cowboys - John Williams and Boston pop orchestra live 93

The Day the Earth Stood Still
YouTube - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Prelude/Outer Space/Radar

Capricorn One
YouTube - Jerry Goldsmith - Capricorn One (1977)

Towering Inferno
YouTube - The Towering Inferno

Some others worth mentioning...
Papillon
The Last Samurai
Mary Poppins
The Pink Panther
The Sting
The Godfather
Planet of the Apes
Lawrence of Arabia
The Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape



Doug

 

[Nibenon]

Wow. it seems 99.99(99)% of you forgot something drastically altering to the world...
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (oo guess what the next one will be)
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (*end rambling*)
Dead Man's Chest
The Mummy

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

^ Lol... I didn't forget them; I was well aware of them when I decided to leave them off my list, heh heh...

 

[Carson Dyle]

Star Wars (if I had to pick one John Williams score).

Goldfinger (if I had to pick one John Barry score).

Star Trek: TMP (if I had to pick one Jerry Goldsmith score).

North By Northwest (if I had to pick one Bernard Herrmann score).

Batman (if I had to pick one Danny Elfman score).


It's really tough though, narrowing it down to just 5. I'm a big film music buff, and I've always got a playlist going for when the mood strikes me. At the moment, the list looks like this...

I'm constantly adding and deleting stuff. What's interesting is that, with the exception of a few albums, I'll seldom listen to an entire score all the way through, preferring instead to randomly shuffle my way through my favorite tracks.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Damn, no sooner had I posted this than I learned of John Barry's death...

Noted film composer John Barry dies - CNN.com

Along with Williams and Goldsmith, Barry helped form the triad of great action-adventure film composers of the late twentieth century.

He will be greatly missed.

 

[rodneyfaile]

I had to lump all the John Williams tunes into one so I could have room on the list for others.

1 everything John Williams, especially Superman
2 Blade Runner (Vangelis is THE MAN!)
3 Little Shop of Horrors (watch part of this movie, and the tunes are stuck in your head)
4 Pulp Fiction
5 Rocky

honorable mentions to Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Big Chill, Blues Brothers, and Forrest Gump

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Kind of hard to narrow it down to 5, but here goes:

1. Glory

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Tie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (The Expanded Score) & Star Trek: The Motion
Picture

4. Superman: The Movie

5. Willow

 

[Nexus6]

In order:

1. Conan the Barbarian
2. Blade Runner
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
4. The Fifth Element
5. Inception

Honorable Mention:

Firefly
Reign of Fire
Red Planet
Tron: Legacy
Star Trek: Enterprise

 

[Toshi Chris]

No particular order:

- The Fountain
- The Fifth Element
- Tron Legacy
- Indy Jones Trilogy (there was not 4th Indy movie, far as I'm concerned)
- Star Wars Trilogy

Best TV Series Soundtrack? Easily Bear McCreary's BSG Season 3 soundtrack. Amazing.

 

[TheMechanic]

My top 5 in no particular order-
-Harry Potter and the Chamer of Secrets
-The Rocketeer
-The Empire Strikes Back
-Last of the Mohicans
-Raiders of the Lost Ark

And about 100 others...

 

[EdBogie]

Aw man, only five? This'll be tough.

The Village - James Newton Howard (all time favorite, it's what first got me hooked on film music)
Serenada Schizophrana - Danny Elfman
The Fountain - Clint Mansell
Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
The Ring - Hans Zimmer

Honorable Mentions:

Lady in the Water - James Newton Howard
Alice in Wonderland - Danny Elfman
Black Beauty - Danny Elfman
Signs - James Newton Howard
Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep - James Newton Howard
Defiance - James Newton Howard
King Kong - James Newton Howard
The Last Airbender - James Newton Howard
How to Train Your Dragon - John Powell
Last of the Mohicans - Trevor Jones & Randy Eldman
Coraline - Bruno Coulais
The Shipping News - Christopher Young
Wolfman - Danny Elfman
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
Dead Man's Chest & At World's End - Hans Zimmer
Up - Michael Giacchino
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Harry Gregson-Williams
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Howard Shore
A Beautiful Mind - James Horner
The Happening - James Newton Howard
I Am Legend - James Newton Howard
Mulan - Jerry Goldsmith
Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - John Williams
The Illusionist - Phillip Glass


I could go on for ages, I'm rather obsessed with film scores, there's so much to love. :]

 

[NoTsOsErIoUs]

Nearly five pages and no one has said it, so I will.

A Clockwork Orange by Wendy Carlos.
Kubricks film may be visually startling but it's taken to another level with the help of the music. Music that became almost like an extra character in the film.
Carlos was at the forefront of a new electrical musical technology with this soundtrack and in collaboration with Bob Moog, was constructing the instruments almost as they were being played.
Some seem to think it hasn't aged well and that the use of technology has dated it, personally I still think it's as fresh and vital today as any interpretation of "Classical" music.
I own loads of film soundtracks but this one is always on my personal player whereas others come and go in rotation, this is a constant.
Real-bloody-horrorshow, by bog in his heaven!