All time epic film soundtracks
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Ennio Morricone
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"He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been frequently cited by many in the film industry as some of the greatest film scores ever composed."
Need we say more?
From Wikipedia
"He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been frequently cited by many in the film industry as some of the greatest film scores ever composed."
peterperkins said:
Ennio Morricone
Need we say more?
From Wikipedia
"He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been frequently cited by many in the film industry as some of the greatest film scores ever composed."
Need we say more?
From Wikipedia
"He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) which have been frequently cited by many in the film industry as some of the greatest film scores ever composed."
Great films. Top scores.
There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig
Great lines as well.
smiller said:
Obvious?
Pulp Fiction.
Especially Uma Thurman waltzing to Urge Overkill
Tarantino has a great music history so his films are always good for a soundtrack. Pulp Fiction.
Especially Uma Thurman waltzing to Urge Overkill
Leon - (score) Eric Serra, fantastic classical pieces.
Donnie Darko - score and soundtrack - Great selection of 80s hits, and hauntingly wonderful classical pieces from Michael Andrews.
Trainspotting
Blade - Music from and inspired by
American Beauty and Forest Gump - both have great soundtracks - anything that features a Thomas Newman score (Finding Nemo).
The Wedding Singer - More great 80s tracks.
Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Good Morning, Vietnam.
Also scores from Danny Elfman, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and i'm sure Street Hawk will opt for Tangerine Dream.
And I love Carl Orf's Musica Poetica used in Badlands, True Romance, etc
Edited by Gretchen on Sunday 25th November 11:40
Easy Rider - even though they cut off Jimi Hendrix a bit suddenly.
Blade Runner - the music complements the mood of the film perfectly.
And I'll probably get knocked for this, but Lord of the Rings. The scene after Gandalf falls off the bridge is one of the most moving bits of soundtrack around; they way they reverse the normal mix by muting all the "real" sounds and bringing the soundtrack forward is just sublime (IMO).
Blade Runner - the music complements the mood of the film perfectly.
And I'll probably get knocked for this, but Lord of the Rings. The scene after Gandalf falls off the bridge is one of the most moving bits of soundtrack around; they way they reverse the normal mix by muting all the "real" sounds and bringing the soundtrack forward is just sublime (IMO).
Major Bloodnok said:
And I'll probably get knocked for this, but Lord of the Rings. The scene after Gandalf falls off the bridge is one of the most moving bits of soundtrack around; they way they reverse the normal mix by muting all the "real" sounds and bringing the soundtrack forward is just sublime (IMO).
No knocking for M. Bloodnok on that one 
Howard Shore's score for LoTR is majestic, and I chose "Evenstar" as one of the pieces of music used whilst the congregation was waiting for Mrs M to make her way to the altar at our wedding.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDULzrZSlhk
A wonderful piece of music.
Gretchen said:
and i'm sure Street Hawk will opt for Tangerine Dream.
I'm not streethawk, but I am a big fan of TD. Their soundtrack works are far from epic though. "Love on a real train" from Risky Business was good, even if a blatant ripoff of M18M section VII and the whole of the "Near Dark" soundtrack was good as well. Neither are up there with some of the other things mentioned in this topic though, the one I was going to choose (Ry Cooder / Paris, Texas) has already been mentioned.Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff