Great Soundtrack
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
2001 AD–The Waltz scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY
Also: 2001 AD, A Space Odyssey–The Dawn of Man Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEaGQb6dJk
Star Wars: A New Hope
LOTR trilogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK76_fMJIwo
Transformers 1, or pretty much anything by Steve Jablinsky
Cinema Paradiso, also Ennio Morricone, and of course The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. All of Ennio Morricone are great.
I also love Blade Runner, by Vangelis. All of his movie soundtracks are also great.
Zulu has a powerful soundtrack.
Really love No Time for Caution from Interstellar.
https://youtu.be/zg5QMysuSYg
Watchmen. The film includes, The Times They are A’Changin, Hallelujah, 99 Luft Balloons, and The Sounds of Silence.
Country Strong. My daughter and son-in-law danced to “Give in to Me” as their first dance at their wedding. Beautiful!
The Mission by Ennio Morricone mainly because the music provided the perfect enhancement for the mood of the film.
Star Trek (2009)
None of these suggestions is going to beat Basil Poledouris’ Conan the Barbarian soundtrack. Not referring to the “official”/abbreviated album, but the full music score in sequence with the movie.
“Who’s Minding the Mint?” (about 1965). My family still stifle laughs in church if they play “Yes, We Gather at the River”.
Don’t disagree with what I’m seeing. But also The Ten Commandments (1956). Don’t forget 1933’s King Kong. Some have said it was the first movie to show just what a soundtrack could do for the pace and impact of a movie. And it is a great soundtrack if you listen to it.
Dave:
I’m sure some of the oldest movie soundtracks (like the overtures in stage productions) originally helped mask backstage noises the sound technology at the time couldn’t eliminate. The old “Dracula” (1931?) had a memorable track.
Quincy Jones supposedly made a name for himself as a producer of musical scores with this film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFEK-UKkfk&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RiIAKcQTHdm-bfQn3wsAXZ_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEP7OCfttdc&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhAmjx8V79DdVCfdbI1mwQb
Dvorak: New World Symphony also used in Flash Gordon movie.
Father Spitzer’s Universe on EWTN says man realized his conscience around 70,000 years ago. He began burying his dead.
I seem to recall this had an engaging soundrack. Haven’t seen it in 40 odd years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFP6JMb4Ag
Smetana: Moldau hear the water flow.
Tom, if I recall, the 31 Dracula didn’t have any soundtrack, but the opening credits feature the theme from Swan Lake. Which is probably why you see that attached to Halloween soundtracks and the like. Nothing about that says horror movie or Halloween, but that Dracula used it during the opening credits.
Another one: “o brother where art thou”..do the YouTube search, but here’s the full sound track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWO876jxLRU
Lots of great ones here. I’m most partial to Dr. K’s first two posts, from “2001.” It’s hard, IMO, to do a borrowed score any better than Kubrick did for that film, although it would be interesting to hear the score originally commissioned from Alex North, which Kubrick discarded in favor of the classical pieces. The soundtrack album (an LP, of course, CD’s being another ten years or so away in 1968) actually inspired me to start paying serious attention to classical music. But no, Gyorgy Ligeti is still not on any of my play lists. 😉
No one’s mentioned musicals. Or is that excluded from consideration?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLTJ8hrxlM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNiuDuEVllc
Musicals are definitely included.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAbJGItAa4
I’m a Dapper Dan man!” Soggy Bottom Boy’s soundtrack is enjoyable, as Dr. Kurland mentioned. The opening song for The Baghdad Cafe is interesting. Soundtrack for Waking Ned Devine, also the Irish musical Once.
The soundtrack for the Titanic movie is good too.
Completely forgotten that scene. Lots of engaging songs in that film, but that wasn’t one.
Disputes about taste Art are a fool’s errand.
There are a lot of great movie soundtracks. There is a group that has played many numbers from the movies. They have a channel on YouTube FIMUCITÉ (Tenerife International Film Music Festival).
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Here is music from the movie “The Mummy (1999)” by Jerry Goldsmith:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcSJIK6q4o
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They have done many others including “Conan the Barbarian”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFtiUoq6TE
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Basil Poledouris also did “The Hunt for Red October” Here is his “Hymn to Red October” with translated lyrics:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRG1UixHvos