Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites


 I love the cinema and some of my favourite albums are from films, TV and shows. There seem two basic variants, a score written for the film and compilations of existing tracks, used in the film. So what are your favourites? I'll start.

 Original scores:

  Hard to avoid Hans Zimmer and why would you want to.

   Hans Zimmer, "The thin red line"   Not his best known, but a great score.

   Honourable mention:

    Korngold, "The Sea Hawk"

Compilation scores:

   "Dead man walking" A really great film too.

    Honourable mentions:

      "Philadelphia"

      "The Sopranos" That's the original from the first series

 I am sure you can all think of better ones.


david12

I always think of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid because of Knocking On Heaven's door, but in all honesty I have to say (and this although I really like and respect Bob Dylan's writing and singing) the rest of his work on that left me a bit cold.  But I guess if a sound track produces a Knocking On Heaven's Door . . . it doesn't matter what else is there or not there.

Maybe a year or so ago I watched Talladega Nights (the Ballad Of Ricky Bobby)  for the fourth or fifth time and I really really really enjoyed the music that time.  (I think before I just really enjoyed the music.)  Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, a different version of a Lucinda song I cannot think of off the top of my head. . . .

 

Along with liking the movie, I always loved the music in Jurassic Park by John Williams and is one of those relatively rare iconic scores that really helped define the movie a la Star Wars and Rocky just to name a couple. Recently I pulled it up in high res on Qobuz and really enjoyed it as it has the ability to take you on a journey through the movie even without the visuals. Plus, just listening to the music on its own reveals how much beauty there is in it, and to me it really stands on its own as a wonderful piece of music and is well recorded, which is always a nice bonus.