yousonuva
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Post by yousonuva on Jul 12, 2005 16:13:37 GMT -5
Conan The Barbarian. Still think it's the best musical score ever written for a movie. I paid $35 for the CD. I never pay $35 for a CD!
Then maybe Star Wars and or The Man With No Name Trilogy.
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Post by KGB on Jul 12, 2005 21:21:36 GMT -5
It's absolutely Jerome Morass' score to The Big Country.
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Post by carolina on Jul 12, 2005 23:21:07 GMT -5
John Williams is amazing, but besides the Star Wars films? I like the Harry Potter scores a lot, too. this is a difficult decision.. there are SO MANY great films with even greater scores. in my eyes, the music definitely makes the movie.
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Post by losingmydignity on Jul 13, 2005 0:23:31 GMT -5
I love Morricone and I guess his best score for me is Good Bad and the Ugly....
Bernard Hermann's Vertigo is tied with that one.
But mostly I like when a director doesn't use any music at all, or only in a few key moments like Robert Bresson does...it's incredibly effective to have no music at all and just let natural sound and the images carry the emotion!
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Post by TomServo69 on Jul 13, 2005 0:27:29 GMT -5
The whole "Man With No Name" Trilogy scores by Morricone.
My fav is "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" though.
Servo
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Post by Shep on Jul 13, 2005 8:05:58 GMT -5
I love Morricone and I guess his best score for me is Good Bad and the Ugly.... Bernard Hermann's Vertigo is tied with that one. Great choices. Morricone's score in "Once Upon A Time In America" breaks my heart everytime. "A Clockwork Orange" is probably my all-time fav.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jul 13, 2005 8:33:39 GMT -5
Vangelis' score for Blade Runner is a strange favorite of mine.
And the music for Amelie is strangely charming, too.
Also, a techno score for a little known movie: Love and Death on Long Island. Simply amazing.
And Ben Hur's score is always a classic, too.
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Post by dash on Jul 13, 2005 8:52:15 GMT -5
hrmmm... well, i'm going to go with a less popular composer and say john carpenter. i dig all the scores he does for his films, especially HALLOWEEN and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS.
also, the group GOBLIN does incredible work for all the films they work on, especially SUSPIRIA. great great band.
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oh... i almost forgot... TANGERINE DREAM. even though i only know them doing one soundtrack for the film LENGEND, still, it was *the best* film score i ever heard. absolutely breathtaking.
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Post by Melting Manos on Jul 13, 2005 9:20:42 GMT -5
Mine would probably have to be the Halloween score. That movie would not be nearly as good as it is without it. It's nothing fancy, but it's very effective and adds a nice amount of tension to the film.
Another one I really like is the score for Jaws. John Williams really outdid himself with that one. That is another case where the film would have suffered without it. It's funny when you think of how much music really can add to a film!
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Post by snoozer328 on Jul 13, 2005 16:56:12 GMT -5
One of my favorite movie scores is from Risky Business. There's some great stuff there.
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Post by Gemini Man on Jul 13, 2005 20:15:21 GMT -5
Conan The Barbarian. Star Wars These were the first ones I thought of when I saw the thread title.
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Post by bonfiregal on Jul 14, 2005 1:06:27 GMT -5
I tend to think in terms of composers and ones I really like. But as for singular movies I have to go with Michael Nyland's The Piano. It's haunting and, no, not all of it is piano music!
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Post by absorbinesenior on Jul 14, 2005 12:29:31 GMT -5
Philip Glass's score for Koyaanisqatsi is my favorite.
A_Sr.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 14, 2005 13:29:09 GMT -5
My favorite is still James Horner's work in Glory.
But Horner, like Williams, has a nasty habit of copying himself on every score he does. So if you've seen Braveheart, you've heard the Glory score.
The Third Man's zither soundtrack is also great.
I'm a big fan of old 80s scores. For some reason, Back to the Future, Better Off Dead and Fletch come to mind as having fun scores/soundtracks.
And I'm not sure these qualify, but The Blues Brothers, Spinal Tap, and A Hard Day's Night all had great soundtracks.
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Post by bonfiregal on Jul 14, 2005 15:24:35 GMT -5
My favorite is still James Horner's work in Glory. But Horner, like Williams, has a nasty habit of copying himself on every score he does. So if you've seen Braveheart, you've heard the Glory score. I agree, Sampo! Glory is fantastic, as wonderful as the movie itself! And as for Williams, yes, you can always pick out his scores after a few bars. A few other composers are like that too...Randy Newman comes to mind as well as John Barry.
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