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Admittedly, though I love soundtrack scores, I don’t know many of the artists involved in them—except for Hans Zimmerman. Because, you know, he’s Hans Zimmerman. But my most recent favourite is the Shawshank soundtrack—Stoic theme, you just own me. I really love soft intstrumentals with some melancholy violin in there—ones that are sad are great, but ones that get awesome as they go (Like Requiem for a Dream’s main piece) are also amazing for building a mood. Recently, I got the Gymnopedie’s from the Dissapearence of Haruhi Suzumiya, which are beautiful but unfortunately very repetive, and I cannot wait for Super 8’s soundtrack to come out in this stupid country. Also, Daft Punk’s soundtrack for Tron was just awesome—they managed to keep their radass techno style and still do some seriously instrumental Amadeus style bussiness in there—I recommend CPU. Don’t even see the movie, just buy the soundtrack—the cover alone is more awesome than the entire film.
I think the one soundtrack piece that really made me feel something other than melancholy (which is a strangely easy emotion to evoke with music) was In the House-In a Heartbeat, which I heard originally in a scene in Kickass, and found out actually came from 28 Days Later. Listening to that song at night one repeat will really make you paranoid and scared for your life so just don’t do it.
I love soundtracks. My favorite composers:
- John Williams (so much) – Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) – John Powell (best known for the Bourne series) – Alan Silvestri (a lot) – Hans Zimmer (no man) – Klaus Badelt (PotC, along with Zimmer) – James Newton Howard – Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream)
My favorite soundtrack of all time is probably Jurassic Park, by John Williams, although the soundtrack to Lord of the Rings is very good.
Soundtracks are excellent mood music for writing.
Oh, I love soundtracks! My collection of movie soundtracks is relatively small, but growing. Most of it is Hans Zimmer (and Klaus Badelt in the case of PotC), but I do have Howard Shore (such great music in LotR!) and some John Williams. And then there’s all the stuff for which I don’t know the composers’ names…
I also listen to videogame soundtracks. In my opinion, Halo 3 soundtrack soundly beats most movie soundtracks out there.
Halo 3 soundtrack
Chrono Cross soundtrack > this
Why did I write Zimmerman? facedesk What the hell is wrong with me?
Chrono Cross soundtrack > this
Seconding.
Aside from the ones mentioned above Ian Eshkeri is worth a look. He composed the soundtrack for Stardust, and while all the tracks work beautifully with the movie, there are some which are just plain awesome all on their own. Like Septimus.
Oh man, Cutthroat Island has an amazing soundtrack. I actually saw the movie for the first time when it was on TV a couple of years ago and it wasn’t bad — not great by any means but certainly not deserving of its floppy status. The soundtrack is just ludicrously good though.
I’ve been listening to video game soundtracks since Mega Man 2 and other (mostly Capcom) NES entries, but it was Square’s SNES era games that really cemented my love of instrumental music. I didn’t get into movie soundtracks until much later for some reason.
Right now my soundtrack directory has:
Bourne trilogy (John Powell)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Wojciech Kilar)
The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard)
Die Hard (Michael Kamen #1-2)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
James Bond themes
King Arthur (Hans Zimmer)
Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
Narnia (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Klaus Badelt #1, Hans Zimmer #2-3)
Predator (Alan Silvestri)
Serenity (David Newman)
Signs (James Newton Howard)
Solaris (Cliff Martinez)
Starship Troopers (Basil Pouledouris)
Titan AE
Unbreakable (James Newton Howard)
Unbreakable (James Newton Howard)
High five, Leliel! I love the film, but the soundtrack is just beautiful.
Chrono Cross soundtrack > this
Seconding.
To be honest, I’d be willing to third that. :P I haven’t listened to all of the Chrono Cross soundtrack, but what I’ve heard of it is very, very good.
Yep, its soundtrack is the only way it really surpasses Chrono Trigger, although CT’s soundtrack is also freaking great(I’ve shed manly tears to Frog’s Theme more than once).
Not Film, but I find myself listening to Murray Gold’s Doctor Who OSTs for hours on end.
No one? NO ONE? Last of the Mohicans? No?!
It’s been years since I watched Last of the Mohicans. But the music, it is AWESOME. HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN?!
WHOA NELLY, Rocky. That’s impressive.
I don’t know if it classifies as a ‘soundtrack’, but some of the instrumental stuff in Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds is really inspiring psychodelic.
High five, Leliel! I love the film, but the soundtrack is just beautiful.
Shyamalan can produce crap for the rest of his life (and he may very well do that, at his current rate) but I will still love him on the merits of Unbreakable and Signs. Everyone loves The Sixth Sense, but I don’t remember that soundtrack at all.
Rudy
;_;
My favorite soundtrack that’s not an original score is easily Office Space, and it’s not even close.
Rudy is pure magic. It never ceases to amaze me how Jerry Goldsmith could hit so many different emotional buttons so perfectly.
Agreed. I love that movie wholeheartedly, but there’s just no way it would’ve worked without the music. It’s actually the first soundtrack I can remember listening to, since my dad would play it a lot when he’d drive me to school.
I own a couple of theme songs – don’t know if it counts, though.
Like so:
Superman
Star Wars
James Bond (original)
A-Team (original)
Knight Rider (original)
Veronica Mars (never watched the show, but that song is awesome)
Ginger Snaps
Halloween
Pirates of the Caribbean
Caprica (Zoe’s theme)
LotR – The Two Towers (trailer theme)
Castlevania (trailer theme for one of them, but I don’t know which one)
Rocky’s list beats mine, though. Hell, his list beats anything I’ve ever seen.
Rocky, I sincerely love how you geek out so much about movies and soundtracks. :)
I think it’s heartwarming.
Wow. I have to try that.
I like writing to the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. Cliche? I don’t care.
At the top of my list right now I have Unbreakable by James Newton Howard, Chevaliers De Sangreal and Time <3 , by Hans Zimmer. I guess One Day is there as well, but only because I like the second half of it.
I NEED MOAR. I’ve found it helps massively with writing. And sleeping. :)
I want the soundtrack to The Avengers. Because goddamn that was good scoring.
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