Whats the best all time movie music?

Vanity | September 17^th2004 | Vanity

[StACase]

What's the best movie music of all time? John Williams and Star Warsor all the hits from Chicagohow about Joplin's rags from The Sting or the opening scene from 2001? I know I like the renditions of the Navy Hymn from The Perfect Storm you have to be hard hearted not to get a lump in your throat during that scene, and the rendition in The Crimson Tide. So Drama, musicals, Comedies, chick flicks, westerns, SciFi, etc. which movie has the best music? What's your vote?

[xp38]

I dare say no movie has ever been transformed by its music as much as Star Wars was. Scenes without the music looked incredibly lame. Absolutely no one had any idea they were working on a huge hit at the time but when Lucas started adding the music he was startled himself at the changes it made to his little space opera.

[ecurbh]

Well, I can't pick just ~one~ favorite, so here is my list, in no particular order...

The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
Dances With Wolves (John Barry)
Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein)
E.T. (John Williams)
Ben-Hur (Miklos Rosza)
Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
Batman (Danny Elfman)
The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Ennio Morricone)
Braveheart (James Horner)
The Man in the Moon (James Newton Howard)
First Blood (Jerry Goldsmith)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry)
A.I. (John Williams)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (John Williams)
Superman (John Williams)
Casablanca (Max Steiner)
Kundun (Philip Glass)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Tan Dun0
The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman)
Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)

[Tribune7]

Don't forget to give Lee Marvin proper credit.

Still can't figure out what the producers where thinking. Let's get Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood together and MAKE A MUSICAL!!!

AFAIK, that's the only time they appeared together.

[blue-duncan]

"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", "Benny Goodman Story" and "The Man with the Golden Arm".

[Polonius]

Ennio Morricone's score to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" ... just about everyone knows that music.

[CobraJet]

Saturday Night Fever - lol - Flame Away!

[MagnumRancid]

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And any thing scored by Ry Cooder.
Bump for The Long Riders and Last Man Standing.
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Southern Comfort as well. Not wild about the movie.

[ladyinred]

That's not a song from a movie, though, it's a well-known British hymn--Jerusalem--USED in a movie.

Really? I feel lied to. All the time it was called the Theme from Chariots of Fire!

[MagnumRancid]

ELP does a great version on Brain Salad Surgery.

[ladyinred]

I love the Theme from A Summer Place.

[StACase]

I don't care for any of the soundtracks you mentioned, except 2001, but the theme wasn't written for the film, so I can't count it.
Ennio Morricone is the best film composer of the 20th century, especially his music for Once Upon A Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, and my fave - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly.

Mine too!
B I N G O !

[BoomerBob]

I'm not afraid to admit my inner Bee Gee! Good call.

[Lockbar]

"(you'll never hear Stuck in the Middle with You the same way again)."

"I'm not going to torture you because I have to. I'm going to torture you because I want to!"

[MagnumRancid]

The best Music Movie is The Last Waltz!

[weegee]

Henry Mancini pre-1970 (especially his work with Blake Edwards, drama and comedy).

Also Ennio Morricone's complete score for The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Unlike his other films with Sergio Leone, the themes were written and the scenes were built around them.

Music in a film must complement the scenes and many of the soundtracks on this list (and that made the top of the survey published earlier this year) were written as hit songs and later used in the soundtrack of a film.

While Stanley Kubrick was original in his choice of score of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his score for A Clockwork Orange was more specifically crafted for the film even though both use classical music. 2001 is really dependent on the soundtrack since there is no dialogue for around the first 40 minutes and little dialogue for the last half hour.

[yarddog]

You are thinking of two diffenent songs.

Jerusalem was played at the funeral. While "Chariots of Fire" was composed just for the movie.

BTW the words "Bring me my Chariot of Fire" is mentioned in "Jerusalem".

[Temple Owl]

Theme from Red Dawn.

[BoomerBob]

Grease 2 anyone?

"We're gonna bo-o-owl to-night!"

[BurrOh]

"Patton"-classic

"Streets of Fire"-wicked fun

And to add another indulgence
"The Warriors"-with some classic R&B and the dearly departed Lynne Thigpen as the DJ.

[Tribune7]

I forgot that one!!!