Movie or TV soundtracks.
What do you like? What's good?
I was remembering or maybe misremembering the soundtrack to the 1995 film Kids.
I have this recollection of grainy lo-fi and hip-hop that I loved at the time and might catch up with again today.
Can't remember the actual film particularly.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFE01B548D5C72C9
What you got?
Trainspotting soundtrack?
Easyrider? The film has dated terribly but the soundtrack has some classics on it
Pulp Fiction. I know Tarantino worked hard on all the soundtracks to his films but I love PF and so love the way each track selected works.
Withnail and I, because 70's music. And because if we're in the car and 'Voodoo Chile' by Hendrix comes on, then without fail my wife will say 'what's going on?' and I'll say 'I'm making time'
And Baby Driver.
The Wonder Woman STs are particularly fantastic. Particularly ww84.
Hans Zimmer still killing it.
Noticed he jumped in on the Maverick soundtrack too.
The soundtrack for the Peacemaker TV show was awesome. Favourite film soundtracks probably Grosse Point Blank and Blues Brothers.
Judgment night, springs to mind.
Movie was average at best but the soundtrack was ambitious. Slayer and Ice T? oh go on then.
Anyone remember The Mission with De Niro and Jeremy hammy Irons?
The soundtrack is particularly haunting yet infectious
Vestan Pance
😂
Takes me back!
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Wayne's World
The Crow
Miami Vice (the 2006 one)
The Matrix
Batman (the Michael Keaton one) - Prince did the whole soundtrack, I think this was before he changed his name to gold squiggly symbol.
And Top Gun (the original) surely has to be in there.
Grosse Point Blank and Guardians Of The Galaxy for me, please. 🙂
+1 for Grosse Point Blank. Add in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and The Blues Brothers.
The Mission
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Good Morning Vietnam
Rainman
The Deer Hunter
Boogie Nights
Top Gun
Trainspotting
The Holiday program that use 'Here comes the Sun'
Ski Sunday
Grandstand when they were doing the round-up - most memorable for me was 'Boys of Summer'
Before Requiem for a Dream
Most stuff by Morricone
+ The Midnight Cowboy
+1 for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Amélie
Pi is good too,also written by Vestan Pance
Oceans 11 - David Holmes, with a bit of Elvis thrown in
Movern Callar - APhex Twin, Lee Scratch Perry, Velvet Underground, Can etc. Makes for a great compilation.
Suspiria - great soundtrack by Thom Yorke
Oh 2 of my faves - Southern Comfort (Ry Cooder) and Dead Man (Neil Young) - fab guitar playing on both (as you'd expect 🙂 )
Love this too, by Rival Consoles
This is arguably the most-instrumental (geddit?) soundtrack to a film...
My fave movie soundtrack...
Hanna (chemical brothers) soundtrack is great. Its the soundtrack that helps me remember the film
Donnie Darko. A lot overplayed now, but at the time it was superb.
Ah the joys of a good soundtrack.
On the other hand, a house with 2 young girls in and we currently have the new Matilda soundtrack pretty much on loop. It worked well in the film which I was surprisingly impressed with. But when you've heard it 10 times in the same day with out of tune sing-alongs...
Still, it makes a change from whatever the last one was. Probably Encanto. I know all those songs far better than a grown man should.
This is an amazing compilation/ piece of work
Hanna (chemical brothers) soundtrack is great. Its the soundtrack that helps me remember the film
I don't think I saw the film but currently enjoying the soundtrack to the Hanna series.
There was some cracking music in that SAS Rogue Heroes recently. A lot of punk.
Though I often thought it was too modern for the supposed setting, not that, that should matter, and it doesn't of course.
Great soundtrack in the main.
Pan's Labyrinth.
Absolutely amazing music, the only time I've gone and bought the soundtrack CD after watching a film.
Sit down in a darkened room, lie back with decent headphones/speakers, turn the volume up a bit and just get transported away for a while. Quite an experience. Don't think any music has affected me quite so much!
Another one I'm partial to.
Some of these are films that have been scored, some are films that come with a playlist 🙂
I quite like the way the soundtrack on American Graffiti was done - in that its just a playlist, but the music is IN the film rather than laid over it - its coming out of car stereos, drifting out of windows and do on, so its music that both the audience and the characters in the film are hearing.
The Wire is a bit like that, theres not much music in it but what there is the characters on screen would be able to hear it too.
Singles soundtrack is great
Paris Texas - Ry Cooder
I quite like the way the soundtrack on American Graffiti was done – in that its just a playlist, but the music is IN the film rather than laid over it
Diegetic music.
Might be worth a thread of its own. It does definitely add something when you're sharing the music with the characters on screen.
The Worlds End.
Lilo & Stitch
Good Morning Vietnam?
I was in my teens when it came out and loved the music. The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Canned Heat and James Brown what's not to like. (maybe cheating a bit as it based on a Radio show)
They had a pretty good composer doing the music for "Amadeus".
+1 for Morricone (though I'm an amateur oboist and not terribly keen on Gabriel's Oboe).
I've played quite a bit of John Williams in orchestra and he's a safe pair of hands.
Can't ignore Blade Runner can we?
Oh and there's some great stuff on the soundtrack to The Big Lebowski.
Nobody has mentioned Highlander then?
For TV, the Battlestar Galactica reboot had a great score.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
No love for Lost Boys? Some proper 80's soft rock.
List of tracks here:-
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/soundtrack
There was some cracking music in that SAS Rogue Heroes recently. A lot of punk.
Add in Peaky Blinders too then. Although as others have said, some are soundtracks and some are playlists of great music, choosing how the music fits the action at the time is a skill, as well as just the playlist being great.
Diegetic soundtracks, I didn't know that..... but it's a reaffirmation of Baby Driver again.
From recent times from music scored for a film / TV - White Lotus. I'm going to say series one, because I like the South seas inspiration which I assume isn't carried over to S2 (set in Italy) and i haven't seen S2 to comment yet.
Very chilled, but the soundtrack to Ex Machina by Ben Salisbury and that Geoff Barrow off of Portishead is cool.
It's got a [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(soundtrack) ]Wikipedia[/url] page.
Any film scored by Morricone. Especially the spaghetti westerns.
The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover.
Koyannisqatsi
Manhattan. Especially the start to Manhattan, with Allen talking over Rhapsody in Blue. Several Woody Allen films have great music in them.
A hundred men and a girl, with Deanna Durbin.
The musicals starring Fred Astaire.
A lot of the music in the early tv cartoon version of Tom and Jerry
A lot of the music in the early tv cartoon version of Tom and Jerry
Can you imagine the fun the musicians had?
Oh and speaking of having fun.
They had a pretty good composer doing the music for “Amadeus”.
Who was that then? 🤔😉
Also +1 for Lost Boys
And I forgot Last of the Mohicans, although, tbf there's way too many yo mention. Apocalypse Now as another for example
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
I remember when a game version of Blade Runner was released for the spectrum. The developers got into difficulties over licensing the name of the film - so it was instead the game of the soundtrack album which luckily had the same name 🙂
Not a film but a TV soundtrack - I liked that in Treme - a series principally about music and food - that the dialogue is deliberately a bit low in the mix and the music a bit high, so it forces you to turn the telly up a bit to hear what people are saying and when the music comes back its nice and loud and sets the viewing in a bit of celebratory atmosphere
Apocalypse Now as another for example
All the Vietnam films have great soundtracks, but Full Metal Jacket is another absolute belter
Big soft spot for Sucker Punch
Really love Run Lola Run though.
+1 for Grosse Point Blank.
Great film, great soundtrack. And of course :
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
