What's the best soundtrack ever?

[bif]

[asthmaticeog]

1. Once Upon a Time in the West

[Arkham House]

5. A few suggestions--

"Vertigo", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", both the Olivier and Branagh versions of "Henry V", and John Williams' score for the George C Scott-Suzannah York "Jane Eyre".

[Hissyspit]

34. I STILL have never seen "Devil and Daniel Webster." It never comes

on TV. I know there is a Criterion DVD version, but it is expensive (as all the Criterion discs are).

[Common Sense Party]

23. I'll offer some different choices: Repo Man.

Some Kind of Wonderful.

Breakfast Club.

Say Anything.

(See a cheesy 80s trend here?)

[asthmaticeog]

54. Repo Man's an AWESOME soundtrack. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

84. I'll second that.

[derby378]

89. Got the REPO MAN disc in my gear bag right now

Thought the remix of Iggy Pop's title track was lacking, but otherwise, it's a great CD.

I love the acoustic version of Circle Jerks' When the Shit Hits the Fan better than the original electric version. And it's on the RM disc, and it's all mine.

[Hissyspit]

36. That's what I was gonna put!

Love it...

[no name no slogan]

71. Ennio Moriconne is God

I can't spell his name, but I like his work.

[redqueen]

73. Ennio is awesome.

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. Oh Brother Where Art Thou

and Cowboy Bebop.

[Shine]

8. I second "Oh Brother Where Art Thou!"

Great stuff!

I also put in a bid for "Sleepless in Seattle"

[Broken_Hero]

27. I support O Brother...:)

a few more...

Wedding Singer
Dazed and Confused
Braveheart
LOTR SoundTracks.
Last of the Mohicans snd track...to name a few...:)

[blondeatlast]

52. Definitely "O Brother, Where Art Thou." Incredible stuff. nt

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

76. Fifthed. Have you seen "Down from the Mountain"?

Well worth checking out if you haven't:

On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producers so loved the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? that they brought it to life as a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame. Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen loved it so much that they hired famed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker to record the show for posterity. The concert that unfolded that night was one of the greatest musical moments in the annals of Music City. Performers: John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Union Station, Colin Linden, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, The Whites.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284067/

[sakabatou]

87. Which OST?

1, 2, 3, Movie, Mini-disk, live, or box set disk (1-4)

[MiniMandaRuth]

101. Hmm.... any, I guess.

Yoko Kanno is a genius.

[sakabatou]

103. OST 2 is the worst of the OSTs IMO

[bif]

3. I'd say "Braveheart".

[Floogeldy]

4. It's a toss up between . . .

"The Last Of The Mohicans" (1992 version with Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe), Randy Edelman & Trevor Jones; and "The Day The Earth Stood Still," Bernard Herrmann.

[FuzzySlippers]

9. I gotta agree with you on "The Last of the Mohicans".

I also love Ennio Morricone's score for "The Untouchables".

[Floogeldy]

11. I'll check it out.

Damn, I looked up Ennio on IMDB and he has definitely stayed busy. Thanks. :)

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. CB4

Straight Outta Locash
A crazy mothafucka named Gusto


Oh, how I love that movie.

[DS1]

94. I'm black ya'll! and I'm black ya'll! and I'm black ya'll! and I'm

blackety blackety black black ya'll! and I'm black ya'll!

[ghostsofgiants]

7. If documentaries count, The Decline of Western Civilization

Otherwise, Donnie Darko had a pretty cool soundtrack. And the score for Fight Club is great as well.

[WCGreen]

10. West Side Story......

[barb162]

17. yes, without question

[barb162]

19. I watched "The Big Country" on TCM a few weeks ago

and that has a magnificent score by Elmer Bernstein I believe

[AllegroRondo]

62. Also the best selling album of all time, until

Michael Jackson's Thriller knocked it off. Now its not even in the top 20 anymore.

[leftofthedial]

12. The Border

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Ever? Dunno.....

Some favorites of mine: Richard III.....West Side Story.

[LaraMN]

14. Pulp Fiction.

or Natural Born Killers. :bounce:

[HEyHEY]

15. Lawrence of arabia

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Such an easy question - HAIR!!

Just kidding. The best soundtrack ever is WOODSTOCK.

[Floogeldy]

18. I'm sorry.

"Hair" doesn't have a soundtrack and "Woodstock" is a documentary.

You need to read the question again and I spank you so mercifully. :spank: :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Um Hair is a musical so yeah there would be a soundtrack

and your question doesn't say no documentaries.

[Hissyspit]

32. "Hair" was a movie in 1979. There is a soundtrack.

And since when do documentaries not have soundtracks? There were lots of songs in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

[proud2BlibKansan]

61. Thanks

Can you make Floogeldy stop spanking me? :)

[GalleryGod]

46. Treat Williams movie version of the Groundbreaking Broadway play

indeed follows the "soundtrack" faithfully..it is the video aspect of the adaptation that fails miserably. Saw it on Broadway,Summer, 1969. Ticket? $9.50 !

[Fox Mulder]

20. Queen of the Damned

[WilliamPitt]

22. Rushmore

[WCGreen]

24. That one is really good....

Just like Garden State.....

[XNASA]

65. All of Wes Anderson's movies have excellent soundtracks. nt

[NMMNG]

25. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Angelo Badalamenti is pure genius.

[Magrittes Pipe]

59. The Black Dog runs at night.

[NMMNG]

105. I am the Muffin

[Archae]

26. This one!

[Heidi]

28. The Big Chill,

Kundun and The Big Lebowski.

[Archae]

29. Another one!

"Forrest Gump."

[Wetzelbill]

30. Almost Famous..... Goodfellas.... Forrest Gump

[Nicole]

31. Forrest Gump

I love the mix of pop, rock, motown & folk music that covers several decades.
Plus the Forrest Gump Suite is beautiful.

[6000eliot]

33. Times Square

I wish I could find it on CD.

[blondeatlast]

53. Damn--did that rattle the nostalgia bones!

Still voting for "O, Brother, Where Art Thou," but TS was a great flick with a great soundtrack.

[redqueen]

68. Nice one...

Not the best IMO, but I still love it .

[TheBaldyMan]

35. American Graffiti

so many 50's R&B classics.

[BrotherBuzz]

37. Rockers

The Inner Circle - We A Rockers
The Maytones - Money Worries
Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves
The Heptones - Book Of Rules
Peter Tosh - Stepping Razor
The Inner Circle - Tenement Yard
Junior Byles - Fade Away
Bunny Wailer - Rockers
Gregory Isaacs - Slave Master
The Upsetters - Dread Lion
Kiddus I - Graduation In Zion
Burning Spear - Jah No Dead
Third World - Satta Massagana
Justin Hinds - Natty Take Over

The movie was just so-so but the music ROCKED!

[Skittles]

38. Rocky Horror

yes indeed

[Heidi]

41. One of my favorites!

:thumbsup:

[noonwitch]

113. It's definitely the most fun soundtrack!

The movie is silly, but the music is great.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

39. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Or Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

[Robeson]

40. A Clockwork Orange....

...but there are many as equally good.

[TimeChaser]

42. I'm listening to a soundtrack right now...

... some of the duel songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena.

[GalleryGod]

43. Got to be Bernstein & Sondheim for....

West Side Story.
You said, "ever"..the rest is rock n' roll reguritation...I remember when they were all "pick hits of the week".

[LynneSin]

44. The Mission!!

[Orsino]

45. Conan The Barbarian?

My wife likes it loud in her headphones when cranking out computer code.

I prefer Riverdance or the Buffy "Once More With Feeling" CD.

[HughBeaumont]

47. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[nuxvomica]

48. Of original orchestral scores, "Dances with Wolves", IMHO

Otherwise, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

[Lochloosa]

49. Shaft.

:7

[Lochloosa]

50. The Big Chill

[erinlough]

98. First one that came to mind. n/t

[erinlough]

99. I love Sleepless in Seattle. n/t

[PassingThrough]

51. Purple Rain

[otohara]

95. I Second That

Purple Rain, Purple Rain....

[rbnyc]

55. Dead Man (nt)

[Burma Jones]

56. Cannery Row

Lots of Dr. John Boogie Piano....

Also quite fond of:
O Brother
Lebowski
Babe
Casino Royale
Taxi Driver

[CBGLuthier]

70. Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver would get my vote. I am hard put to think of any movie that combines such a great romantic theme and wonderful menacing themes at the same time.

It was the great Bernard Hermann's last and possibly, Psycho aside, his best.

[wildhorses]

57. sound track to Garden State was good...not saying the BEST

mind you but, damn good all the same and I was kinda partial to Romeo and Juliet

[sbj405]

115. I was going to post the same re: Garden State

Good stuff :thumbsup:

[Rowdyboy]

58. Since my favorites have all been taken, I'll say "Jesus Christ Superstar"

"I don't know how to love him" is just one of the exceptional pieces from this Webber work.

[Inspired]

102. Agreed

[philosophie_en_rose]

60. Man of La Mancha

Best. Soundtrack. Ever.

[bigwillq]

63. Pulp Fiction (nt)

[XNASA]

64. Nobody said Morricone's "The Mission"?

That's it. I'm outta here.

[Kire]

79. they did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4808858&mesg_id=4810320

Morricone's 'Battle of Algiers' was pretty good, too.

[cemaphonic]

86. Good to see such Morricone love here.

I'll throw in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, especially the main title and "Ecstasy of Gold."

Koyannasquatsi is great too, probably one of the last good pieces that Philip Glass did before he went totally paint-by-numbers.

[tigereye]

90. Koyannnasquatsi would get my vote

wow. I've never heard anyone dis Glass like that.... latest stuff too accessible for ya? ;)

or are you a composer? And welcome to DU, BTW.

[cemaphonic]

100. Glass

Heh, if that's the harshest dig you've ever heard on Glass, you haven't talked about him to enough people;)

The thing that I really find impressive about him is that he was able to build up a completely original and captivating rhythmic and structural language from scratch in the early '70s, and then weld it onto traditional Western harmony. I especially love Einstein on the Beach and Music in 12 Parts. But at a certain point in the '80s, he settled on a recognizable "sound," (triplet arpeggios, pulsing strings, certain types of chord changes, etc.) and dropped a lot of the rhythmic complexity and variety that gave his earlier music its life. It still often works in context (as in soundtracks), and I find it appealing at a surface level, but it is not very interesting IMO.

Still, he's one of a very few popular artists that are keeping the whole Western instrumental music tradition from turning completely into a static museum, so I think he's pretty cool overall.

[tigereye]

111. that's probably true

my husband was a big fan of his, I like his choral work to some extent, but the overly repetitive quality of some of his compositions does not intrigue me as much as more variety might.

I suspect that the people I know probably aren't as well versed in even avant-garde classical composition to critique a lot of his work.

[Ryano42]

66. Orchestrial: Star Trek the Motion Picture...

That music (the Cloud!!!) during a thunderstorm as a teen... :cry: EEK!

[RedSpartan]

67. Glory

[Ryano42]

75. Absolutely!

So Stiring and almost hymnal to it...the Harlem Boys Choir is an amazing sound.

<goosebumps>

[redqueen]

69. The Last Temptation of Christ (Passion)

Blade Runner
Natural Born Killers
Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction
I Dreamed of Africa
Kill Bill


Too hard to choose.

[tigereye]

91. Blade Runner has a great sound

hey RQ!

[redqueen]

106. Hey tigereye!

:hi:

I wish that Vangelis guy would stop being such a douche and release the actual score!

[blindpig]

72. Apocalypse Now!

Well, best soundtrack album anyway. For the most effective use of soundtrack, A Clockwork Orange, with Excalibur a strong second.

[RagingInMiami]

97. Apocalypse Now was a great soundtrack

[arwalden]

74. Car Wash

[blondeatlast]

81. I Wanna Get Next to You is the most unappreciated love song ever.

And the whole thing sounds fresh today--and the movie's fresh too.

Even my 9 year old son loves both the movie and the soundtrack.

[WeRQ4U]

77. It's not THE best, but "Judgment Night" was pretty good.

I liked the Teenage Fan Club - De La Soul track "Fallin'"

[Lucy - Claire]

78. Dirty Dancing.....

My fav chic flick of all time.

[WeRQ4U]

80. Almost Famous or I am Sam

both of those were pretty good.

[LSK]

82. Singles

[Ivan Sputnik]

83. Spartacus

Alex North.

[Rabrrrrrr]

85. Conan the Barbarian

Amazing music, and perfectly welded to the onscreen action. I don't thnk there is a better music/movie marriage ever done.

[grace0418]

88. Buena Vista Social Club or O Brother Where Art Thou?

I love them both.

[tigereye]

92. the soundtrack from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

is also quite, quite beautiful.

[jeffrey_X]

93. Good Morning Vietnam!

...

[peacefreak]

96. Divine Secrets of Ya Ya....

better than the movie. Produced by T-Bone Burnett who also did O Brother.
Songcatcher
Pleasantville
get honorable mention on my playlist.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

104. But I'm a Cheeleader!!!

Awesome soundtrack

[BlueIris]

107. "The Village." ROBBED of an Oscar, kiddies.

Still bitter about that one.

[SaveElmer]

108. Last of the Mohicans...

I thought was great...especially the last 10 minutes of the movie..

Also Gettysburg was very good!

[Metta]

109. sunshine, the wind in the trees, birds

and my wife's breathing.

[Montauk6]

110. I can't say what's "the best," so I'll give you my quirky list o' faves

Last Tango In Paris - Gato Barbieri
Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann
Psycho - ibid
Rocky - Bill Conti
On The Waterfront - Leonard Bernstein
Young Frankenstein - John Morris
Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Enter The Dragon - Lalo Schifrin
The Pawnbroker - Quincy Jones
The Piano - Michael Nyman
Coma - Jerry Goldsmith
Jaws - John Williams
Star Wars - ibid
Frantic - Ennio Morricone
The Crying Game - Anne Dudley
Exotica - Mychael Danna
Suspiria - Goblin

[momophile]

112. Pretty in Pink or Valley Girl nt

[bif]

114. I forgot "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler

Or however you spell his name