I'm bored so here goes: (in no particular order)

Batman Forever (very cool)
BladeRunner & Cosmos (Vangelis is one hellish musician)
Country w/ Lange & Shepherd (Beautiful piano work)
Eyes Wide Shut (Jocelyn Pook does some neat stuff)
Gladiator & The Insider (Lisa Gerrard - awesome)
Natural Born Killers (good from start to finish)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Country done right)
This is Spinal Tap (Actors that ARE good musicians)
Tommy (I want Ann Margeret then...and now)
Vanilla Sky (also good from start to finish)

Honorable mentions:
Brian Eno (too many films to mention), Ennio Morricone (same as Eno)
Tangerine Dream (Thief, Sorcerer, and many others), YoYo Ma (Croutching Tiger...)
1st two songs from Koyaanisqatsi (P. Glass), Kronos (Requiem for a Dream)

That's it....I'm done

edit>well, not quite.... add Body Heat (opening number is the best jazz tune I've ever heard)

edit 2> add Baraka (beautiful imagery & music) & Grease (Olivia hits it on the softer stuff)

Xenno

In alphabetical order:
Aliens
Batman
Crouching Tiger
Dances With Wolves
Gladiator
Mission Impossible 2 (Hans Zimmer's orchestral score)
Se7en (Howard Shore's orchestral score)
Star Wars (Episode 4)
The Cell
The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Matrix

Angus
Empire Records
Say Anything
Singles
So I Married An Axe Murderer

.hack//SIGN (Yuki Kajiura)
1492 - Conquest Of Paradise (Vangelis)
A Beautiful Mind (James Horner)
Blade Runner (Vangelis)
Forrest Gump (Various)
Ghost In The Shell (Kenji Kawai)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shiro Sagisu)
Princess Mononoke (Joe Hisaishi)
The Lord Of The Rings (Howard Shore)
Vision Of Escaflowne (Yoko Kanno)

and a lot of theme songs by Megumi Hayashibara

1. Tommy: The Movie

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Purple Rain
Velvet Goldmine
Immortal Beloved
Shortcuts
The Mambo Kings

I forgot about PurpleRain (great ST)

Also forgot Blue Velvet in my list

Xenno

In alphabetical order:

* Blade Runner
* Conan The Barbarian (1982) (favorite of all time)
* Dracula (1979)
* Dune
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

There are others, these just come to mind at the moment...

* Magnolia
* West Side Story
* Hair
* Dune
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hair is a good one (I didn't think of it)... the first Superman is a great one too (& others by John Williams)... imho, nothing equals the brilliance of the Conan The Barbarian soundtrack (Basil Poledouris) though -- check it out if you never have...

Last Action Hero

just one for now...

1. the song remains the same



mike

Akira
Kundun
Ghost in the Shell
Passion
Black Hawk Down

Here's my most beatiful playlist. It has a lot of soundtracks :

1 Tomb Raider 1 theme (Tomb Raider I (the game, not the movie) soundtrack)
2 Brian Eno - Prophecy theme (Dune soundtrack)
3 Jo Hisaishi - Fukai Nite (Nausicäa soundtrack)
4 Kenji Kawai - Nightstalker (Ghost in the Shell soundtrack)
5 Kenji Kawai - Floating Museum (Ghost in the Shell soundtrack)
6 Jo Hisaishi - Kushana no Shiriaku (Nausicäa soundtrack)
7 Vasilisk - Thorn
8 QNTAL - Unter der linden
9 The Lengendary Pink dots - Home
10 Masahiro Ikumi - Mima no theme (Perfect blue soundtrack)
11 Jo Hisaishi - Nausicäa no requiem (Nausicäa soundtrack)
12 Haim Saban and Shuki Lévy - Esteban dans la ville (Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or soundtrack)
13 Hans Zimmer - Following Tzipporah (The Prince of Egypt soundtrack)
14 Vangelis - Rachel's song (Blade Runner soundtrack)
15 BBE - Universal flash
16 Yamashiro Shoji - Mutation (coda) (Akira soundtrack)
17 Vasilisk - Sacred dance (remix)
18 Yamashiro Shoji - Requiem (Akira soundtrack)
19 Tomb raider theme (A capella) (Tomb raider II soundtrack (the game, not the movie))

Last of the Mohicans
The Wall
Crossroads

Here's a list of my favourite soundtracks (in no specific order):

- 101 Reykjavik
- Akira
- Amelie from Montmartre
- Blade Runner
- Ghost in the Shell
- Metropolis (2001)
- Pi
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Crow

imagine.

Blade Runner (Vangelis)
L'Apocalypse des Animeaux (Vangelis)
1492 - Conquest of Paradise (Vangelis)
Tatort - Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (Tangerine Dream)
Thief (Tangerine Dream)
Exit (Tangerine Dream)

Anything by Danny Elfman.

hi,

Jade (with Linda Fiorentino, song is "The mystic's dream" - Loreena McKennitt)

take care

Trickos,

I noticed you've got BlacK Hawk Down listed. Is it good start to finish? Lisa Gerrard sings in a few tunes, doesn't she?

Looks like Blade Runner is the favorite so far.

Xenno

I don't know but horror movie themes are best, halloween, The exorcist.

i'm surprised none of the anime listers listed cowboy bebop (the seatbelts, mostly). it has imho far and away the best soundtrack in anime. another usual favorite that hasn't been mentioned yet is flcl (the pillows, also mostly). previously, i was under the impression that yoko kanno was the most beloved anime soundtrack writers, but it seems that i was mistaken... i also really liked the soundtrack to road to perdition for some odd reason.

I'd have to say Braveheart.

Babylon 5

titanic - my heart will go on.

Favorite soundtrack? Can I say authors? Without any order:
Vangelis (1492, Blade Runner, Mutiny in the Bounty, Chariots of fire, Missing, long list here...), John Williams (Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones... long list too), Ennio Morricone (The mission, all that "western music"...), Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman (The last of the Mohicans), Danny Elfman (Batman...), Maurice and Jean Michel Jarre, Michael Nyman, Jan Hammer, Hans Zimmer, Kitaro... And Mike Oldfield (The exorcist, The killing fields), Mark Knopfler (Local hero), Peter Gabriel (Birdy)...
Jeje, sorry, I like sountracks.

*Anithyng Badalamenti and Lynch are involved in.
*Pi (3.14159...)
*Sea of love (mainly because of Tom Waits's song of the same name)
*Ghost dog (i'm not into hip hop that much, but this one is solid)
*Dancer in the dark
*Amelie Poulain
*Himmel uber Berlin (Carny is oneofmyalltimefavorites)
*Hackers (nice lineup)

Can't recollect anything more ATM


And what about another great one: Bodyguard's I will always love you

Minority Report (great one)
Lord of the Rings
Titanic
Matrix
Dead Poet Society
nearly everything from John Williams (Star Wras, Indiana Jones, Jaws...)

Gladiator, Robin of Sherwood (the series), Pulp Fiction, Transformers the Movie, Back to the Future.

I like Macross Plus soundtrack

I forgot to mention a few favourites:

- Cité des enfants perdus (City of the Lost Children, Angelo Badalamenti)
- The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola's classic masterpiece)
- Trouble Every Day

Pink Floyd Live in Pompeji
Crystal Voyager
City of Angels

From Yoko Kanno, I prefer Escaflowne OST. Brain Powerd is cool too.

Hummm... My favorite soundtrack of all time is probably Chariots of Fire (I really enjoy Vangelis, so I like 1492 and Blade Runner as well)

(No, it isn't More... or Obscured by Clouds )

Besides, I would like to mention "The Last Emperor" (David Byrne + Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Dances With Wolves
The Untouchables (Morricone, I think)
The Godfather
Forrest Gump (Wanna a piece of cho'colate?)
Heaven & Earth (Kitaro)
...

Purple Rain
Judgement Night
Small Soldiers
When The Wind Blows
Labrynth
Out Of Sight
PCU
Last Action Hero
Natural Born Killers
Obscurred By Clouds
Breakfast Club
Pump Up The Volume
Decline of the Western Civilization Pt. II


Just some that came to mind

Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti
Blade Runner
For A Few Dollars More - Ennio Morricone
Fist Full Of Dollars - Ennio Morricone
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Ennio Morricone

- Million Dollar Hotel OST
- Twin Peaks OST
- Requiem For a Dream OST
- Lost Highway OST
- Fight Club OST
...

>>I don't know but horror movie themes are best, halloween, The exorcist.

The only tune I remember from it is Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", was there more good stuff in it besides that?

Speaking of animated shows - some of the music in "Samuri Jack" is very cool.
Of course, not much beats Marge & Homer's version of the "All in the Family" theme.

Xenno

edit> How could I forget Twin Peaks (or vitually anything by Badalamenti w/ Lynch & Julee Cruise)

Trainspotting

...nothing else even comes close

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Mission Impossible 2
The Million Dollar Hotel

Ah, so games are allowed too?

Then, my favorite ST of all time is Chrono Cross, by Yasunori Mitsuda.

weeee *plays FFT right now*
i really should have bought more consoles, now i have to catch up on square games big time (fft, chrono cross, ffx, .......)

oh well. as far as movie soundtracks are concerned I particularly liked those:

Magnolia (Aimee Mann)
High Fidelity

I can imagine that Princess Mononoke has quite a nice soundtrack as well..

Heh. I agree that Miyazaki is a fantastic filmmaker. But, IMHO, Joe Hisaishi's soundtracks plain suck. I don't think he's a great composer. And I simply can't stand Nausicaä's soundtrack.

(Spirited Away has some nice tunes though)

A Life Less Ordinary
Singles
Great Expectations
Reality Bites

All great OSTs. But only the first and last were great movies.

The Blues Brothers

I agree with fewtch, in the fact that Conan the Barbarian is the best movie soundtrack I've ever heard (although I'm still mad at the horrible job of mastering that was done on the album. It sounds like it was recorded in the 50s, not the 80s). John Williams soundtracks are okay, except that he rips a lot of stuff off from composers like Holst, Mahler, Wagner, and Dukas, to name a few. (Listen to the end of Holst's Mars, Bringer of War if you don't believe me). As far as game soundtracks go, Chrono Cross takes the cake (I even went so far as to run the audio output from the PS to my computer to record many of the songs. If anyone knows of a better way to rip PS audio direct, I'd love to hear it).

Hey Tim,

You haven't heard the Conan soundtrack on vinyl by any chance have you? I'm wondering if the mastering is any better with the vinyl release... since it was the early 80's, mastering for digital was in its infancy...

Cheers,

fewtch

Several proggies convert from Sony ADPCM (XA) to WAV.

One nice option is PSMplay.
http://segu.psxemu.com

But they are all based on reverse engineering (I think), so maybe the PS native decoder has better quality (even recording through line in)

Anyway, the best way to get CC's soundtrack is buying the CDs
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...6644211-4971327

I have them, and like them a lot.

Regards;

Roberto.

Thanks for the advice.

@fewtch - Sorry, I've only got the CD. I was only 2 when the original came out, and my old 60s turntable broke a few years ago, so I gave up on vinyl after that. It would have been cool if they would have done a new digital performance of it for the 20th anniversary this year, but what are you gonna do?

I know it would be best to actually buy the soundtrack, but I wanted the songs right away! And it was good practice using line in recording.

Just a matter of taste. I like it very much.

Pi