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Top five film soundtracks

The thread earlier today about Dead Man's Shoes (awesome soundtrack BTW) got me thinking about my favourite film soundtracks. Anyone got a list of their top five? I mean scores here BTW - not songs chucked into a film

Mine:

5 - Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann). Genius - the best of Herrmann's collaborations with Hitchcock. Fell in love the moment I heard it when I first saw the film donkey's years ago
4 - Lady In The Water (James Newton-Howard). Ridiculously underrated film - and a beautiful, understated score with some truly haunting moments
3 - Picnic At Hanging Rock (Bruce Smeaton). Not for the panpipes (though they're great) but for Bruce Smeaton's achingly beautiful incidental music. There's a piano and choral piece that's played during a scene when Michael climbs the rock to rescue one of the girls that is out of this world
2 - The Machinist (Roque Baños). Strange choice this one, but I must have seen this film 20 times and the music grows on me more with each viewing. It's absolutely perfect - probably the best example of a soundtrack perfectly suiting a film with the exception of...
1 - Once Upon A Time In The West (Ennio Morricone). Perfect - in every way. The piece played when Harmonica confronts Frank is the best piece of music ever written.
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  • Angel Heart - Courtney Pine
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Ennio Morricone
    Deliverance - Duelling Banjos
    Shrek
    Angelas Ashes - esp The Dipsy Doodle
  • Gladiator
    Enemy At The Gates
    The Thin Red Line
    Kill Bill (Volume 1)
    The Dark Knight
  • Once Were Warriors
    Reservoir Dogs
    Judgement Night
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Psycho
  • edited September 2010
    Oops didn't read the thread properly just ignore me. Celebratory beers again.

    Sorry these are very girly and can never do a top 5

    Stand By Me
    Dirty Dancing
    Footloose - Cheesy but played constantly when a nipper
    City of Angels - Goo Goo Dolls, Iris one of my favourite songs of all time
    My Girl
    Armageddon - Aerosmith
    Dare Devil - Evanescence, My Immortal another on the top of my list
    The Full Monty

    Edited for musical scores erm

    Lord of the Rings
    Star Wars
    Pirates of the Caribbean
    War of the Worlds?

    I should know more my fella keeps forcing me to listen to certain ones.
  • Chris Evans plays the opening bars from Jurassic Park every morning about 8.15am

    For some reason it gives me goose bumps and put a smile on my face.

    Apart from that it's Henry's favourite - The Song Remains The Same ;-)

    I come from the land of Ice and Snow................
  • Trainspotting

    Stand by me

    Pulp fiction

    Reservoir dogs

    Shrek (any of them)
  • casino

    forrest gump

    the wanderers
  • The Proposition
    Beau travail
    Dancer in the dark
    Black cat white cat
    Nostalgia
  • Not in any particular order:

    Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
    The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (original film not the remake) - David Shire
    Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
    The Third Man - Anton Karras
    The Ipcress File - John Barry
  • anything by Hans Zimmer or Craig Armstrong
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  • Two of my favourites are:

    The Godfather

    Oh Brother Where Art Thou
  • The Harder they Come

    Almost Famous

    Forest Gump - no, really

    Oh Brother where art thou?

    American Grafitti
  • The Lord of Rings

    Amazing Grace

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Brick

    Away We Go

    All brilliant films, all brilliant soundtracks
  • edited September 2010
    Bedazzled soundtrack 1967 Dudley Moore Trio (for the proper Bedazzled movie)
    Dudley Moore's soundtrack perfectly captures the mood of this glorious late 60's movie, at the times the music is so beautiful it renders the listener incapable of speech. It has jazz, pop, ambiance and style. The little man was a genius. It's also a bugger to find too!

    Have to agree with Tom Hovi regarding The Taking of Pelham 123, pure class. I would also add Isaac Hayes Shaft soundtrack too.
  • 1. Magnificent seven
    2. Blues Brothers
    3. Rocky
    4. Once Upon A TIme In America
    5.Reservoir Dogs
  • The Blues Brothers
    Superfly
    Quadrophenia
    Once Upon A Time In America
  • Blade Runner / Vangelis
    The Mission / Ennnio Morricone
    James Bond / Various
    Star Wars / John Williams
    Buffalo 66 / Vincent Gallo/Various
  • OST

    1 - Donnie Darko
    2 - American Beauty
    3 - Jaws
    4 - The Piano
    5 - The Battle of Britain

    Compilations

    That'll be the day
    American Grafitti
    This is Spinal Tap (although this could also be in OST)
    The Blues Brothers 1
    A Hard Days Night / Help
  • [cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]OST

    1 - Donnie Darko
    Yeah - that would have been at number six. Awesome, eerie soundtrack. One of the best pieces of music in the film isn't actually on the soundtrack as it's not written by Michael Andrews - the choral piece when Donnie and his girlfriend go to the cinema and he leaves her there while he burns the kiddie fiddler's gaff. Managed to track it down on a 'complete' soundtrack released a couple of years ago.
  • Jackie Brown
    Bullet
    Shawshank Redemption
    Summer Of Sam
    Goodfellas
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  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • Can't believe no-one has mention the 80's "brat pack" movies:

    Pretty in Pink
    The Breakfast Club
    St Elmo's Fire

    Add to these:

    War of the Worlds
    9 1/2 weeks.
  • My fav at the moment is "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels!"
  • edited September 2010
    also........

    Get Carter - Roy Budd
  • Lock stock is a good shout!

    Also Gladiator, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, The Dark Knight, Trainspotting
  • If you like the more instrumental / orchestral soundtrack stuff, you might be interested in this concert
  • Trainspotting (only one other vote??)
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Das Boot
    West Side Story
    War of the Worlds
  • Casino Royale (the 1966 version - superb Burt Bacharach score)
    Psycho
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Graduate
    Taxi Driver (probably not one of Bernard Herrmann's best but in the days before home video buying the soundtrack Lp was as close as I could get to owning the movie)
  • [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]OST

    1 - Donnie Darko
    Yeah - that would have been at number six. Awesome, eerie soundtrack. One of the best pieces of music in the film isn't actually on the soundtrack as it's not written by Michael Andrews - the choral piece when Donnie and his girlfriend go to the cinema and he leaves her there while he burns the kiddie fiddler's gaff. Managed to track it down on a 'complete' soundtrack released a couple of years ago.
    I'll have to check my ost cd when I get home
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