Recommendations for musical or film soundtracks

[plastic penguin]

This is one area of my collection where there's a dearth.

Only currently have 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease'. Want to get 'War of the Worlds' but any other suggestions appreciated.

 

[Vladimir]

Pulp Fiction (VA)

Good Morning Vietnam (VA)

Trainspotting (VA)

Amélie (Yann Tiersen)

The Piano (Michael Nyman)

Blade Runner (Vangelis)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Ennio Morricone)

Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes)

Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)

 

[RuudS]

Once upon a time...

The essiental Ennio Morricone film music collection.

Beautiful cd.

 

[Paul.]

The Less Than Jake cover album of Greece is always good for a giggle (if you like the pop punk ska thing)

Monster

Scott Pilgrem

Tron Legacy

I will second Amélie

 

[BenLaw]

Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are all good. One of my favourite albums of any description is Eddy Vedder's Into the Wild.

 

[pauln]

Forrest Gump

The Commitments

The Blues Brothers

Jackie Brown (In addition to the above mentioned Tarantino movies)

Streisands Broadway and Back to Broadway albums for a taster of the musicals.

Les Miserables, Phantom, Sunset Boulevard - there's dozens.

 

[radiorog]

Easy rider

Pulp fiction

Resevoir dogs

Braveheart (a matter of taste this one)

Dead presidents

 

[unsleepable]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Hot Spot

The Thomas Crown Affair (both 1967 and 1999 versions)

And on a totally different front:

Spawn

 

[steve4232]

"Bullit" (Lalo Schifrin)

"The Mission" (Ennio Morricone) ......in fact anything by EM. I've just bought a 15 CD box set of film music, TV music and songs. Fantastic stuff.

"Diva" (Vladimir Cosma)

"1492" (Vangelis) ......200 times better than the lousy picture the music was squandered in!

Anyone else like "Pat Garret" by Bob Dylan?

"Blue Velvet" (Angelo Badalamenti)

I second the "Once Upon A Time In America" and "Once Upon A Time In The West" scores, again by Morricone.

Oh yes, and I agree that "Amelie" and "Blade Runner" are great too, BR especially.

 

[LDTM]

+1 for the Blues Brothers soundtrack.

The Committments too.

 

[peteAllen]

I'd second: Tron Legacy, Bladerunner, Good Morning Vietnam, 1492, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (and generally soundtracks to Tarantino's films)

Also:

- 2046 (and generally soundtracks to Wong Kar Wei's films)

- Frida

- Miles Davis: L'Ascenseur (the band improvised whilst watching the film, which featured Miles's girlfriend at the time)

- Tous Les Matins du Monde (beautiful old cello music by Marin & St Colombe)

- Lost in Translation

- Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run

- Bueno Vista Social Club (don't bother with the high res version though, as it's worse!)

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

- Swingers

- A Clockwork Orange (it heavily influenced Depeche Mode & the Synth Pop scene of the 80s)

- The Beatles & Elvis films, but that's cheating

- Passion (Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to Last Temptation of Christ)

Also I like the Wes Anderson & Woody Allen soundtracks, music by John Barry and some of Morricone's.

 

[ROTH AV]

Il Postino (The Postman) - Luis E. Bacalov, featuring readings of poems by Pablo Neruda.

 

[Vladimir]

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[mikegtar]

Paris Texas

Footloose (Vanessa Williams was Hot)

 

[steve4232]

If you're into weird experiemental sci-fi type soundtracks (for space fiction movies) try out Eduard Artemyev's "Solaris" or even "The Mirror" or "Stalker"

"2001" is cool, I agree! I've got an original 1968 MGM vinyl with its original film poster included.

 

[hoopsontoast]

Some of my favourites, although on some the Album/CD release is not that great in terms of an actual Album to listen to.

Tron Legacy

Oldboy (2003)

High Fidelity

Man on Fire

Thief

2001: a space odyssey

Lost in Translation

Drive

 

[chebby]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-Cappella-1990-Television-Show/dp/B000002H86

 

[Leeps]

The Painted Veil - well recorded, at times a vast soundstage with interesting Chinese textures with Erik Satie's Gnossienes as a backdrop. Quite mesmerising. I've heard this many many times and I never tire of it.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Village - I don't like the more jumpy tracks in this album (they REALLY freak you out), but the others ooze the delicacy and emotion captured by the Joaquim Phoenix / Bryce Dallas Howard relationship. Just beautiful.

Jane Eyre (the Fassbender/Wasikowska version)

oh yes and another vote for Daft Punk's Tron (somewhat different to all the above!!)

 

[Waxy]

Dead Man's Shoes

 

[Covenanter]

West Side Story - Original soundtrack

Evita - Original version

Rodgers and Hammerstein - Original soundtrack recordings, 4 CDs for £10 - you can't go wrong

Chris

 

[Vladimir]

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What?

 

[Glacialpath]

Hi Plastic Penguin how are you?

Depending how much you want Orchestra or songs from bands. I would recommend anything by Harry Gregson-Williams: Deja Vu being a great example.

Saving Privat Ryan by John Williams is very dinamic with some nice subtle moments and of course the big moments. Also all the other Spileburg classic movies, Indiana Jones, Star Wars. They all sound good

Danny Elfman is another choice. I love the soundtrack to the film "9" Teminator Salvation is also another one of his.

The Davinci Code and Angels and Demons are pretty heavy sounding. Independece Day is pretty cool. I really like the There Will BE Blood soundtrack.

Spotify has loads of them if you don't want to go buy loads of CDs or downloads.

Enjoy.

 

[rainsoothe]

"Moulin Rouge"

"The Book of Mormon"

"Wicked"

 

[Covenanter]

Hi Plastic Penguin how are you?

Depending how much you want Orchestra or songs from bands. I would recommend anything by Harry Gregson-Williams: Deja Vu being a great example.

Saving Privat Ryan by John Williams is very dinamic with some nice subtle moments and of course the big moments. Also all the other Spileburg classic movies, Indiana Jones, Star Wars. They all sound good

Danny Elfman is another choice. I love the soundtrack to the film "9" Teminator Salvation is also another one of his.

The Davinci Code and Angels and Demons are pretty heavy sounding. Independece Day is pretty cool. I really like the There Will BE Blood soundtrack.

Spotify has loads of them if you don't want to go buy loads of CDs or downloads.

Enjoy.

I love Saving Private Ryan and watching it even on my not so great surround sound is a truly visceral experience. However the music is so derivative of Aaron Copland I think the great man must be spinning in his grave and it puts me off a bit.

Chris

 

[steve4232]

Talking of spinning corpses and John Williams, has anyone else noticed how the main theme to the original Star Wars film borrows heavily from a section of Carl Nielsen's Fifth Symphony?