Anyone big into listening to soundtracks?

I've listened to soundtracks since I was a kid. Just a few I listen to on a regular basis:

Superman the movie
Victory
Star Trek TMP
Star Trek TWOK
That Thing You Do!
The Muppets
The Rock
Somewhere in Time
Pretty much anything by John Williams
 
Anyone else LOVE this one?

Freedom Fighters by Two Steps from Hell, used in the trailer for Star Trek. This totally blew my mind when I heard it. Listened to it nonstop for a good month.

I pictured it as being awesome music for the epic zombie movie that World War Z should have been if they actually followed the book...

Cadeus said:
Anybody know where I could find a copy of the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1985 film: CREATOR?
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Is this it? Disregard the slideshow of Vincent Spano...
I don't know if you could piece it together by downloading the YouTube videos as MP3s.

I'll keep ay eye out. Has a nice sound.
 
Father said:
I remember getting my first movie score/soundtrack: it was The Empire Strikes Back... ON VINYL!!! I listened to it a ton.

Later in life I got back into that brand of music with Robocop and Total Recall.

In the last 10-15 years I've progressively stopped listening to almost anything else but soundtracks.

The majority of college was the BSG series, The Fountain, and a few others.

So how about it?
Throw out some of your favorites.

I've probably listened to Inception more than any other album. Love the Nolan Batman scores. The Thing (2010), Prometheus, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Hancock to name a few.
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Big into soundtracks? That's pretty much all I listen to. My favorites are John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, a little Alan Silvestri, David Arnold, Brian Tyler, and Murray Gold.
 
I have the last few Zimmer movies- all 3 Batman films and Inception- along with a variety of John Williams songs (but no single album).

Not a movie soundtrack, but I'm guessing some of you might like Two Steps from Hell.
They make "production" music, basically trailer music but it can be found in tv shows as well. I got their new album on itunes, pretty good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TwoStepsFromTheMusic
I really like Skyworld, El Dorado, Winter Spell, and Blackheart. Blackheart was used in a playstation 4 add I would see all the time on youtube and I had to find out the song, which led me to getting the whole album.

Zach Hemsey is good as well. Probably most known for the music for the Inception trailer (Mind Heist) and the Town (Redemption).
Zack Hemsey
 
Two Steps from Hell is fun stuff. I use those tracks for my demo reels all the time. :)

However I find it's like popcorn, tasty but no substance. :lol
 
Michael Bergeron said:
Two Steps from Hell is fun stuff. I use those tracks for my demo reels all the time. :)

However I find it's like popcorn, tasty but no substance. :lol
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I have several of their albums, and I love it.

I can see how you would see it as popcorn, though. These guys put out hundreds of tracks, and unlike movie scores where the music is tailored to the scene, the people who do trailers have to pick existing music that they feel is germane to the trailer itself. Granted, there are specific pieces done by Two Steps From Hell that were written for a specific trailer (Down With The Enterprise comes to mind), but for the most part those same musical cues wind up getting reused elsewhere.

When you think about it like that, it makes their music that much better when a song can be used in the trailers for three or four different movies over the course of five or more years.
 
Fiction Engineered said:
I have several of their albums, and I love it.

I can see how you would see it as popcorn, though. These guys put out hundreds of tracks, and unlike movie scores where the music is tailored to the scene, the people who do trailers have to pick existing music that they feel is germane to the trailer itself. Granted, there are specific pieces done by Two Steps From Hell that were written for a specific trailer (Down With The Enterprise comes to mind), but for the most part those same musical cues wind up getting reused elsewhere.

When you think about it like that, it makes their music that much better when a song can be used in the trailers for three or four different movies over the course of five or more years.
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That's what I meant. :thumbsup

It's fun but because it isn't tailored to a scene it doesn't have any emotional link for me. No meat. :)
 
Father said:
Is this it? Disregard the slideshow of Vincent Spano...
I don't know if you could piece it together by downloading the YouTube videos as MP3s.

I'll keep ay eye out. Has a nice sound.
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:confused Is what it? Did you mean to post a link?... You can download youtube videos as mp3's?!? Show me this magic! :D
 
You know what bugs me? Music used from movies in trailers for movies that have nothing to do with the original movie. There are tons of examples, but my first (and bitterest) encounter:

Forever Young used the music from The Rocketeer in the trailer. I was 11 at the time and The Rocketeer was my favorite movie (Jurassic Park not having come out yet). I was watching TV and commercials popped on. Some familiar music caught my ear. I see a trailer for a movie about a frozen pilot - it HAD to be a sequel to The Rocketeer!!! YAY!!! I was totally convinced that it was a sequel - even after I read the blurb about it. Odd that they didn't call it a sequel... oh well. I was so excited I told my Dad about it... and he let me in on the terrible, terrible truth - it wasn't a sequel to The Rocketeer. Lame.
 
I enjoy sound tracks. Occasionally I will here a section of the sound track, then have to find it in the movie. Which is quite challenging sometimes. Generally speaking if I liked the movie, I try to get the sound track.
 
My favorite composers are John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, and Koji Kondo. I love movie score soundtracks more than the music-featured-in-movie soundtracks. I don't buy those. Anyway, the few "complete" that I own.
- Avengers
- BTTF trilogy
- Tron Legacy
- POTC trilogy
- V for Vendetta
- Zelda, OoT & 25th anniversary disc
- LOTR trilogy, complete recordings
- Jurassic Park
- Casino Royale

If I don't buy the complete soundtrack, I tend to buy individual songs. Sometimes I've purchased so many that I would've been better off buying off the entire soundtrack and end up doing so. I think that happened with Casino Royale. lol
 
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Definitely listened and still listen to a fair few soundtracks, though more just a certain score from movies, but some I listen to are:

* Highlander (Okay, anything Queen)
* Last of the Mohicans
* Labyrinth
* Star Trek (J.J's) - Especially Labor of Love
* Sunshine - Especially The Surface Of The Sun
* Braveheart
* Back to the Future's
* Gladiator
* Harry Potter's
 
Hobo Wan Kenobi said:
Ok I have to admit to this one..... Back in the day I used to listen to the Top Gun and Miami Vice sound tracks aaaallllllllll the time. :wacko
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Well then this will make you feel better.

I listened to the Footloose soundtrack so much I wore out the tape. I think I was in elementary school. To me they were just catchy songs. I think my dad was worried I was running around singing, "Let's hear it for the boy."

:)
 
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