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richardh 
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 Posted: July 28 2013 at 07:02 |
I wanted to include Monsters Ball in my list but it has two people composing and playing. Great ambient soundtrack though.
However if Simon and Garfunkel is allowed then maybe...
Also I second the David Lynch suggestion for Eraserhead. Claustrophobic and scary.
Reminded of John Carpenter's The Thing which was composed and performed by the man himself. Superb soundtrack which would be No 6 on my list.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 17:22 |
 mongofa wrote:
The Graduate - Simon and Garfunkel
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OMG, how did I miss this one?
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 16:20 |
Whoa! Awesome post, Jude111! Great List! Thanks for the detailed reasoning for your choices. Diva, Stalker, Solaris, 2001, and Vanilla Sky are all awesome soundtracks, though three of the five use a variety of people's compositions. I was really thinking more of soundtracks in which all of the music is composed and performed by one artist--like Solaris, Blade Runner, and John Williams, Hans Zimmer, james Newton Howard, Ennio Morricone, etc.
Also, Guldbamsen: Big thumbs up to Morricone!
Edited by BrufordFreak - July 27 2013 at 16:22
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Barbu
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mongofa
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 13:44 |
Not in order
Eraserhead - David Lynch and Alan Splet Fargo - Carter Burwell The Conversation - David Shire Chariots of Fire - Vangelis Papathanassiou Once Upon a Time in the West - Ennio Morricone The Graduate - Simon and Garfunkel The Social Network - Trent Reznor The Third Man - Anton Karas Blood Simple - Carter Burwell The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone
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AlexDOM
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 13:17 |
Tron Legacy- Daft Punk I love the Top Gun Soundtrack with various artists Sucker Punch- various covers Dredd- forgot the composer...
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 08:36 |
Oh and huge shout out goes to Danish experimental musicians Peter Peter off of the famous Danish post punk band Sort Sol (Black Sun) and Peter Kyed for their eerie ambient feedback monster of a soundtrack they did for Valhalla Rising. Together with the movie, it's like a long hazy dream with shifting images of natural beauty and man made horrors. Love that flick.
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 08:29 |
Anything by Ennio Morricone really....
I'll have to think about specific releases though, but he is without a doubt THE most innovative and brilliant of the famous movie composers imo. Any film supported by the back draft of Morricone's haunting, and at times rather playful music, naturally improves as a direct consequence of that. Even past his "golden days" of spaghetti westerns, you get the majestic beauty of The Mission - a soundtrack that not only rivals his best work, it additionally had a fluid stream of images equalling the music's greatness.
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richardh
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 08:19 |
1. Nighthawks - Keith Emerson 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone 3. Firestarter - Tangerine Dream 4. Blade Runner - Vangelis 5. Alien - Jerry Goldsmith
can't really get beyond 5 without repeating the artists
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 08:10 |
The.Crimson.King wrote:
I seem to recall the soundtrack to the old tom cruise movie Risky Business and that Tangerine Dream did some tracks on it  |
They recorded a couple of new tracks - The Dream Is Always The Same and Love On A Real Train and also reworked some of Tangram Part One and Force Majeure Part One. The soundtrack album also features others artists.
If you want those original tracks they can be found on the excellent TD compilation Dream Sequence.
TD have done a few decent soundtracks. My favourite is Firestarter which will be on my list.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 23:19 |
I seem to recall the soundtrack to the old tom cruise movie Risky Business and that Tangerine Dream did some tracks on it
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 23:07 |
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I'll add more as I think about it. But for now:
Blade Runner - I saw this in the movie theater at 14 (tells you how old I am). I was already a huge Floyd fan, and I was absolutely convinced that the music was by Floyd. When the credits rolled around and it said Vangelis (whom I had never heard of), I figured it was an alias. (I'm still surprised that others can't hear how Floydian the music is.) Spielberg's E.T. came out the same year; everyone in my family was in tears after the film but me. I hated it. (Don't tell my wife.) Blade Runner was the great sci-fi film of that year and any year, imo.
Diva - French film from 1981, scored by Vladimir Cosma. Some of it might be a bit cheesy, but I love even those. Great moody electronic music. Great film too.
Stalker - Another sci-fi film, this time by Tarkovsky, scored by Edward Artemiev. It's been ages since I've seen it, but some of the tracks really helped heighten the creepy mood. That scene when the protagonists are kind of sunk in the ground and the camera very slowly pans across a creek or river... Still freaks me out just thinking about it.
Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) - It's not prog, but what can I say, I have a soft spot for this film musical, LOL. Scored by Michel Legrand.
2001: A Space Odyssey - those Ligeti choral pieces are still frightening
Solaris - Not the Tarkovsky original, but the superior re-make (in my opinion) by Soderberg. Cliff Martinez's score is haunting.
L'ange - made by Patrick Bokanowski, scored by his wife, the composer Michèle Bokanowski. I'd be shocked if anyone else here has seen this. It's a classic avant-garde movie made in France in 1983. A bit hard to find as well, but well worth it if you like this sort of thing.
Vanilla Sky - The problem is that the official soundtrack doesn't contain many of the songs that appear in this movie. This American sci-fi film from 2001 (a remake of the Mexican film Open Your Eyes, which is usually considered to be better) featured many new pieces from albums that weren't new enough to be considered masterpieces yet: Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place from Kid A (also from 2001) and I Might Be Wrong (from Amnesiac), Sigur Ros's Svefn-g-englar and Njosnavelin (at the time called The Nothing Song, and which wouldn't be released till 2002), REM's Sweetness Follows from Automatic for the People (also wouldn't be released till 2002), Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, and other electronic music that was quite uncommon for an American film: Leftfield's Afrika Shox, Chemical Brothers' Where Do I Begin, tracks by Thievery Corporation and Underworld...
Edited by jude111 - July 27 2013 at 14:10
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 21:37 |
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None are my favorite, but here I ll go for Blade Runner.
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 21:05 |
Conor Fynes’ recent review of Vangelis’ amazing Blade Runner soundtrack got me thinking of a great
thread/discussion idea (though it's probably already been done): Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of Original Music Composed by A Single Composer
My Ten: 1. Blade Runner - Vangelis
2. Thief - Tangerine Dream
3. Last Samurai - Hans Zimmer
4. Paris, Texas - Ry Kooder
5. Last Temptation of Christ – Peter Gabriel
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence--Peter Gabriel
7. Pi – Clint Mansell
8. The Fountain – Clint Mansell
9. Star Wars – John Williams
10. Rocky – Bill Conti
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