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what are your favorite movie soundtracks.

I am looking to get into more movie soundtracks that sound that survive musically without the movie. I am not interested in soundtracks a that take a bunch of pop offerings a that are basically a collection of pop hits/songs but are origional soundtrack recordings that can be listened to all by themselves.

Some that I have tried with various amounts of successs are Glory, Schindler's List, Dances with Wolves, and Murder in the First.

I do not care for opera, rap or country but everything else is an open book.
bianchi27
nglazer
846 posts
 
Brideshead Revisited. The film was mediocre (compared to the BBC TV production) but the score is brilliant and moving.

Also, of course, The Piano. Michael Nyman is an illustrious contemporary composer of sophisticated but listenable quasi-classical music.

Last, The Mission. Very exciting. Great audio audition CD as well.

Neal
rodman99999
6,126 posts
 
Mo' Better Blues! Great movie AND soundtrack!
frogman
7,437 posts
 
"The Pawnbroker", great Quincy Jones jazz score.
"On The Waterfront", Leonard Bernstein score. What else need be said?
mike60
275 posts
 
Bladerunner -- I bought it and the music is great but the recording is flat. What a pity.
phaelon
1,049 posts
 
For me, the right score can make a movie, and the "Basic Instinct" score fits like a glove. It’s beautiful and chilling at the same time.
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