Posted on 12/14/2009 7:05:28 PM PST by Perdogg
Soundtrack albums are the hidden pleasures of pop. Composed and performed to accompany moving images, they're emotional enhancers. This dramatic quality, coupled with the depth of sound-field in full cinema reproduction, ensures that many soundtracks stand apart from their parent films as a listening experience.
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I also like Poledouris; Quigley Down Under is so different...it sounds like it’s being played by a band in the park. I’ve looked for the Robocop soundtrack in the stores for years; I guess I’ll have to order it off the internet.
Danny Elfman.
That guy is good.
“As Good As It Gets”
The Lark Ascending is beautiful. You really should see if you can get some of his stuff on CD through your local library. Beautiful stuff, and it stays with you--I'm in my 40's and have been listening to Lark and the Tallis Fantasia since my teens and am still in love with them. Toward the Unknown Region, Job: A Masque for Dancing, Dives and Lazarus, and his music for Christmas...tons of excellent music. You're in for a lot of great listening, he rarely disappoints.
Thomas Newman's cousin is Randy Newman--check out his The Natural--and his brother is David Newman--check out his score to Serenity.
He saved "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" the Oompa Loompa songs were worth the price of admission. Plus he's a conservative, just listen to the lyrics of Oingo Boingo's "Capitalism". He sounds just like a Freeper.
Horner also claimed to have never heard of Jerry Goldsmith before he started film scoring in the late 70’s, which is pretty funny since he once dated Goldsmith’s daughter.
He’d been scoring long before Lost in Space—check out the Mystery Science Theater movie DADDY-O—it sounds like an Elmer Bernstein ripoff.
Poledouris's Quigley is indeed terrific, but it's got a bigger orchestral sound than you might recall. His Big Wednesday is like a symphony for surfers. He was a big yachtsman, and his score to Wind is just now being re-released with another score, so look for it if you like his nature scores.
His other incredibly score is for Lonesome Dove, one of the best western scores ever.
Speaking of Elmer Bernstein, I loved The Ten Commandments. The Lord of the Rings (by Howard Shore) wasn't bad either.
The best place to hear them is Permanent Waves on Live365.com
Band of Brothers
Pulp Fiction
Hard to believe
For something simple yet very hard to beat
High Noon
(I only recently discovered that there is no known family relation of Elmer to Leonard. For decades I thought they were brothers.)
Let's add a couple of old classic soundtracks:
Aleksandr Nevsky. Prokofiev. (Mentioned by me on the recent best-movies-before 1950 thread.)
Anna Karenina (1948 version) Constant Lambert.
LOL! I was born in 1963, and I knew who Goldsmith was by the time I was 10 years old.
Yes, but you’re an honest person, Horner was merely a film composer, and you know, how well known was Goldsmith in the late 70’s? He’d only won the Oscar for The Omen back in 1977.
I’ll second the Mohican music (and High Noon).
I love (and have never been able to find recorded)..
Requiem For A Heavy Weight
I like “The Full Monty” soundtrack, both the songs they borrowed and the mucic written for the movie. Anne Dudley’s score framed the scenes perfectly.
I could never figure out Oingo-Boingo. And I am a fan of a wide range of jazz, Zappa, classical, ...all kinds of stuff.. funk, .. Help me out!
Soundtracks in the 1970s were huge sellers, some sold better than the underlying movie. One wag writing in Rolling Stone said “soundtracks outsell everything but ABBA.” :’)
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