Music Banter - What is Your Favorite Movie Soundtrack?

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Come and See, for it's terrifying ambient/drone stuff mixed with classical.
Eraserhead, for it's droney, grating background ambience.
Bladerunner, because I love how Vangellis builds a really moody electronic noir soundtrack.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, because spaghetti western music is so ****ing cool, and because Ennio Morricone.

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Originally Posted by Overcast (Post 1595667)

28 Days Later Soundtrack

I'll second that, used to listen to that a lot.

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Originally Posted by EPOCH6 (Post 1595663)

Bumping for one I just remembered, Cannibal Holocaust.

Very very rarely do horror movie soundtracks genuinely contribute this much to stirring my guts up. Possibly more than any album I've ever heard, the Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack gets so far under my skin it's almost unbearable after a few minutes. The string section on most of these tracks is ****ing heart wrenching, and when it's not heart wrenching it's absolutely beautiful, which makes it even more unsettling, knowing the scenes those melodies were imposed upon. And under all of these sweeping string melodies you've got this resurfacing low frequency synth... bubbling and churning in the background.

I remember last year I was looking for some soundtracks to take in the truck on the highway, ended up taking this one, remembering that it was very compelling in some way, I lasted maybe two tracks before I felt like utter **** and had to shut it off. Amazing soundtrack for an extremely memorable film, an excellent example of a horror soundtrack that actually works.

Nice pick. In my opinion, I think that the soundtrack is often the most important element of a horror film that really contributes to making it scary. You can have a scary plot and a creepy ass atmosphere with the camerawork, but if you have ****ty sound design it all goes to waste.

I had read somewhere that people hated The Holy Grail when it didn't have a soundtrack, but when they added music to it, they did what us modern folk do and loved it.

I think it goes without saying for me.

Don't think anyone has mentioned The Departed or Boogie Nights, so either of those.

The Billy Preston theme song from the Split is one of the greatest movie themes of all time. But my favorite original soundtrack ever is really tough. The Lost Man Soundtrack by Quincy Jones is definitely up there. The Quiller Memorandum soundtrack, The Great Silence soundtrack, and the Revenge soundtrack by Jack Nitzche are all also very beautiful. Bernard Herrmann's soundtracks are also great, Taxi Driver, Sisters, Twisted Nerve.

You know what I think my favorite soundtracks are the soundtrack albums Elvis did: Loving You, King Creole, G.I. Blues, and Roustabout. Pretty much all the other soundtracks by him sucked a fat one but those four are four of the best records I've ever listened to.

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Originally Posted by Plainview (Post 1597300)

Don't think anyone has mentioned The Departed.

Yes! Loved that they used that version of Comfortable Numb. It's sloppiness fit the scene perfectly.

And of course.

The actual answer is probably Superfly, Trouble Man, or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I'm going to be more pretentious than any of you and say AKIRA by Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1589372)

Loved him in Best in Show too. His reactions out on the road meeting all of the men his once slutty wife had slept with were priceless.

Best in Show is far and away my favorite of those movies.

^Haven't seen Akira. Do you think pretentious people with no real interest/knowledge in that style would like it?

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1620219)

^Haven't seen Akira. Do you think pretentious people with no real interest/knowledge in that style would like it?

Besides Miyazaki films, this is the only anime film I own.