Soundtracks and film scores - what's in your collection?

[John in Covina]

Hi Gang!

It seems we have so many film buffs and music lovers in the the group. I was thinking about my collection of music from the movies and was wondering if any of you also find that there are films that you just gotta have the music?

Also, do you get the one for those songs or do you get the ones where it has the film scores or both?

Please name some favorites!

For me I have the James Bond title tracks and several score cds.
The cd with the film score for "Total Recall" is awesome.
For great renditions of some of my favorite music to a fine film I can highly reccomend "The Cotton Club" whole heartedly.

What's in your collection?

 

[Haversack]

The composer whose film work seems to top all of my favourite soundtracks is Maurice Jarre: _Is Paris Burning?_, _The Man Who Would Be King_, _Lawrence of Arabia_, _Doctor Zhivago_. Not Golden Era, but classic. I do wish that TMWWBK's soundtrack was availible on CD however. From the Golden Era, I also favour Eric Wolfgang Korngold: _The Sea Hawk_ and _The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_; Max Steiner: _Casablanca_ et al. What I tend to like are films and music which evoke a particular time and place. Miklos Rosza is also good at this.

Haversack.

 

[John in Covina]

Wanted Dimitri Tomkin!

I don't think I have any of Dimitri Tomkin's music in my collection, but know he did so many memerable scores. i just saw there is a set called
"The Alamo" with all of the essential DT title tracks. Some list!

 

[moustache]

Favourites

Here are my favourite soundtracks #'s 1 to 10

1-Tous les matins du Monde(All the mornings of the world)
2-The Music Teacher
3-Death in Venice(Visconti)
4-Amadeus
5-Crouching Tiger,Hidden dragon
6-Lawrence of Arabia
7-Remains of the day
8-Road to Perdition
9-A river runs through it
10-Braveheart

JD in Vancouver,Wa

 

[Doctor Strange]

I've got a pile of Bernard Herrmann CDs, but all my other soundtracks (John Barry, John Williams, etc.) are on old reel-to-reel tapes that are probably useless - I haven't had a working deck in over a decade.

And speaking of more recent efforts, I think Howard Shore's massive (nearly 12 hours if you count the extended editions!) Lord of the Rings scores are outstanding! They're a big part of the success of those films (not that they aren't first-class in lots of other ways).

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Oh man, do I have to be the first one to write "March From Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

The Aviator Soudtrack is marvellous too; speaking of Howard Shore.

The Love Theme from "Cousins" is a singular piece of romantic intensity.

"Por Una Cabana," my version by Iz- Pearlman; "Scent of a Woman" would be pantimime without it.

"The Third Man Theme" and soundtrack was the soundtrack of Venice for me, and Daisy. -Also Beethoven's 7th.

 

[carebear]

James Horner's stuff gets me no, matter how familiar it becomes, I think it's the pipes.

Last of the Mohicans and Legends of the Fall particularly. It's probably partly due to watching them enough that the music evokes the visuals.

The Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack worked so well, in part, because it was the music we mid/late 80's grads had in our Walkmans.

 

[lindylady]

At the top of my head, I believe I have the soundtracks for:

James Bond- The Very Best of Bond
Dirty Dancing
various Disney animated films
Jurassic Park
Troy
Top Gun
Transformers: The Movie (hey, I can't help that I was born in the 80s lol )

While I listen to mostly early jazz, blues, and 30s-40s standards, I must admit that I will have to add some vintage film scores to my soundtrack collection.

 

[Feraud]

There is a nice two disk compliation called Paramount Pictures' 90th Anniversary Memorable Scores.
It includes works from composers such as John Williams, Miklos Rozsa, Waxman, Mancini, Morricone, etc. A very nice addition to any collection of film scores.

The End of the Affair, The English Patient, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Shine, Last of the Mohicans, are some of the individual film scores I have.

 

[GOK]

James Horner's stuff gets me no, matter how familiar it becomes, I think it's the pipes.

Absolutely! Haunting stuff that makes the hairs on your arms stand on end...ummm, not that I have any, you understand! lol

Legends of the Fall particularly

Yes! And Willow!

I have to admit to owning soundtracks to Pirates of the Caribbean (1st one), plus Gladiator. There are some great bits in those. I also love the OST for American Grafitti - evokes many fond memories. I'd love to get hold of the one for Excalibur too (though I admit I'd skip through Carmina Burana).

ETA; how did I forget the Glenn Miller Story? I am a prize numpty!

 

[lindylady]

Absolutely! Haunting stuff that makes the hairs on your arms stand on end...ummm, not that I have any, you understand! lol



Yes! And Willow!

I have to admit to owning soundtracks to Pirates of the Caribbean (1st one), plus Gladiator. There are some great bits in those. I also love the OST for American Grafitti - evokes many fond memories. I'd love to get hold of the one for Excalibur too (though I admit I'd skip through Carmina Burana).

ETA; how did I forget the Glenn Miller Story? I am a prize numpty!

Oh, thanks for reminding me! I also have Pirates of the Caribbean. Those scores are very sweeping. Makes me want to get up and learn the quickstep!

 

[Nick Charles]

De-Lovely
Aviator
From Dusk till Dawn
Holiday Inn
Blue Skies
White Christmas
Devil in a Blue Dress
Mambo Kings
Young Guns II
LA Confidential

 

[Quigley Brown]

Am I the only one with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack?

I love soundtracks.

I have the Burt Bacharach ones: Butch Cassidy, Casino Royale, What's New Pussycat...

Kubrick films: 2001, Clockwork Orange, Lolita

All That Jazz
Cabaret
Grease
Thomas Crown Affair (the original)
quite a few James Bond films (Dr. No is my favorite)
Diva
Picnic
Run, Lola, Run
Talented Mr. Ripley
Comedian Harmonists (excellent!)
many more

 

[Steve]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
The scores from the original Star Wars films.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Those are the ones I have in full, the rest are just single tracks such as the James Bond theme, The Pink Panther, Get Smart, and "Knock on Wood" from Casablanca.

 

[Lady Day]

A few of my favorites...

About a third of my tunes are scores from soundtracks.

This one is a classic.

I have always loved this flick. The tunes are great too!

Pretty much anything by Eric Serra, but this is one of my faves.

This was when Elfman peaked in my opinion.

LOVE this soundtrack.

Same for this one!

Ditto on this one!

YAY!!

Of course


Thats all for now, but there are tons more.

Later all

LD

 

[Lady Day]

Run, Lola, Run

LOVE that one too. Wore it out! You know the same trio (Pale 3) has a new score coming out for the film Perfume Cant wait!!

LD

 

[John in Covina]

Muy Bueno!

Aviator
From Dusk till Dawn
Mambo Kings
LA Confidential

*******
WOW!

The first 3 are ones I have considered adding to my collection, and the Mambo Kings has the best version of "Perfidia" being sung by Linda Ronstadt.

LA Confidential: I have the CD for the film score music and the other CD with the popular music soundtrack.

 

[Mojito]

Eclectic and not too discriminating!

The Last Unicorn - America
Titanic - James Horner
Glory - James Horner (also love some of his work on The Name of the Rose and various others)
Gettysburg - had to order this one by some convoluted process from overseas - this was in the dim, dark days before the internet was just a click away
Out of Africa - John Barry, Mozart etc
Chicago - (erm...do musicals count?)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Corpse Bride - Danny Elfman
The Doors

So, in short - all over the map.

 

[Lady Day]

The Last Unicorn - America

I forgot about that one! Listened to it just the other day. Man, I felt 9 years old again lol


LD

 

[LizzieMaine]

I spent many years as a young'un taping favorite film scores off TV with my trusty cassette recorder -- I was then, as I still am, a huge fan of the early '30s Warner Bros. musicals, and still have a cassette I recorded off a late-night local TV showing of "Footlight Parade." Now that I can see the films of that era in bulk via TCM and DVD, I've realized just how much the distinctive musical style added to the entire Warner studio product during that era, not just the musicals. There's no mistaking a mid-thirties WB film for the product of any other studio -- and if anyone ever wants to do a CD tribute to Leo F. Forbstein and the Vitaphone Orchestra, I am the gal to produce it!