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Poll Question: Who Made The Most Memorable Film Scores?
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I am beginning to hate John Williams. His stuff is so repetitive and similar.
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Originally posted by CaptainQuark CaptainQuark wrote:

From the list you supplied, I'd have to go for Horner, but you forgot Basil Poledouris! He's the guy that did the music for Conan the Barbarian. Cr@p film – great music!
 
Conan The Barbarian, its music could not be better!!! Freaking awesome...
 
But i'll pick John Williams...
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nice thread, the poll should have been bettered. i think herrmann is the best, just check this amazing list - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002136/ -, but i voted my preferate - jerry goldsmith, because of his score for Ridley Scott's Alien, which is my alltime favourite score. i also think mr. Scott is the recent director with the best usage of film music - he had Vanghelis for Blade Runner (...........) and 1492, and Hans Zimmer for Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Thelma and Louise,  Matchstick Men and Hannibal.
 
i'm glad nino rotta and eric serra were also mentioned.
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From the list you supplied, I'd have to go for Horner, but you forgot Basil Poledouris! He's the guy that did the music for Conan the Barbarian. Cr@p film – great music!
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Originally posted by cuncuna cuncuna wrote:

    From the list, Bernard Herrman, but my favourite would be John Carpenter. Those all keyboard soundtracks are quite interesting and work pretty good on his movies, wich he also writte, direct, produce, perfomrs the gathering, sweeps, built the studio...




Oh haha just saw you liked Carpenter too. That halloween title song is addicting huh?
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What about John Carpenter from the Halloween series LOL
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    From the list, Bernard Herrman, but my favourite would be John Carpenter. Those all keyboard soundtracks are quite interesting and work pretty good on his movies, wich he also writte, direct, produce, perfomrs the gathering, sweeps, built the studio...
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Randy Newman.  The score to "The Natural" is one of my all-time favorites.
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John Williams
Enio Morricone
Eric Serra close third
Percussion, sir!
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    Morricone, followed by Hermann, and then Elfman.
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Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Jan Kaczmarek
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A superb composer - one of may favourite ECM releases of recent years was Tomasz Stanko playing the music of Krzystof Komeda - his soundtracks for Polanski were exemplary.
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For me it's Michael Kamen

To see an overwiew of his work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kamen
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Morricone!
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Morricone without contest. But where the hell is Howard Shore?
My top 3
1) Ennio Morricone
2) Howard Shore
3) Nino Rota
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Bernard Hermann for sure,
 
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Ennio Morricone.

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Hans Zimmer.
 
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I like Michael Nyman (The Peter Greenaway film soundtracks) and Zbigniew Preisner (for his involvement in Kieslowski's films -- especially for "Three Colours: Blue"). I don't find one particular Nyman work that memorable though -- I recognise his style immediately, but no particular piece sticks in my head that much.

Philip Glass is another one whose filmscore works I've enjoyed.  Might get flamed for this, but I like Giorgio Moroder too (especially his Midnight Express and Cat People scores). I find Moroder memorable.

Klaus Doldinger did a great soundtrack for Das Boot, I think.  Extremely memorable.

Toto did one of my favourite filmscores for Dune -- I also find it memorable.

And, of course, there's Vangelis.  Blade Runner is one of the best soundtracks in my opinion, as is The Bounty.

But another favourite is Ennio Morricone (particularly for the Mission).

Check this out from my favourite easy reading film magazine --> http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/filmmusic/


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Jan Kaczmarek
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Originally posted by marktheshark marktheshark wrote:

These are the top legends in this genre I can come up with off the top of my head.


Nice poll: here's some more top legends:

Nino Rota (my favorite)
John Barry
Krzysztof Komeda
Henri Mancini
Francois Lai
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