My top list... and not in order:

1. A.I.
2 Mission to mars
3. Galadiator
5. Both releases from Pleasantville (instrumental and rock)
6. LadyHawk

and of course Close Encounters and most of Jaws.....though both have just those action or suspense tracks that I can live without.

My top number one is Bernstein's instrumental Heavy Metal! a bit hard to find but well woth it!

I should have the Battlestar soundtracks but just havn't got around to it yet.

1) Star Wars(1977)
2) Superman The Movie
3)Star Trek The Motion Picture
4)On Her Majesty's Secret Service
5)Raiders Of The Lost Ark
6)Batman(1989)

North by Northwest
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Clockwork Orange
Chinatown
Taxi Driver

Streets of Fire
Thief
Escape from New York
The Buddy Holly Story
O' Lucky Man

Oh yeah....Superman is a good one so is ST the motion picture.

If we're including "soundtracks" (popular songs heard in a film, whether previously released or not) together with "scores" (incidental music written specifically for a film), isn't that apples and oranges? Anyway, here are my faves:

King Kong 1933
Things to Come
Forbidden Planet (if "Electronic Tonalities" count)
Vertigo
Psycho
Mysterious Island
Marnie
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Superman 1979 (best John Williams score, IMO)

Yep, I'm a big Bernard Herrmann fan.

Rocky 1&2
Shocker
Streets of Fire
Suspiria
Halloween
Phantasm

Can't believe no one has mentioned "2001" - how clever to use the Blue Danube Waltz for spaceships! -- and of course there's the opening "sunrise" from Also Sprach Zarathustra that has become a part of our culture from then onward.

Other favorites:
- Alexander Nevsky
- Close Encounters
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Amadeus
- Hilary and Jackie
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Blues Brothers
- American Graffiti
- Pulp Fiction

1.that Thing You Do!
2. Help
3. A Hard Days Night

Run Lola Run is good for the exercise bike. The same thing happens every time however.

INPO:

Most of John Williams' stuff (esp. "Krypton"). Much of Danny Elfman's (esp. "Beetlejuice").

"Citizen Kane"

"Experiment in Terror"

"Taking of Pelham 123"

"Frankenstein the True Story"

Standing-on-desks music from end of "Dead Poet's Society"

"The Poseidon Adventure"

Everything the Eurythmics did for "1984"

"Terminator" (esp. as done by Kunzel's Cincinatti Pops)

Scores to Hammer's "Evil of Frankenstein" and "Phantom of the Opera"

"Fearless Vampire Killers"

"Brain of Blood"

The Klingon movement from ST:TMP.

The recurring TOS bits heard when Apollo is doing his fade-away speech, and when the Constellation in Doomsday Machine is first seen

End credit music from "The Exorcist"

I would have to say

1) Enter The Dragon
2) The Ghost & Mr Chicken
3) Any of the Matt Helm movies

STAR TREK II
STAR TREK TMP
STAR TREK III
-Stealing the Enterprise esp.
SUPERMAN (1977)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Return of the King
-track 4 (The White Tree - when the beacons of Minas Tirith are lit),
-track 7 (The ride of the Rohirrim),
-track 16 (The end of all things)
STAR WARS
ALIENS

A few favorites...

The Incredibles
King Kong 1933
Original Planet of the Apes
Sleepy Hollow
Patriot
Jaws
Thunderball

Jeez, I could go on and on...
does Rocky horror Picture Show count? Don't dream it, be it...

BTW - Zorro - Taxi Driver - what a dramatic, haunting, mezmerizing score.

Day the earth Stood Still
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Videodrome
1941
American Graffitti
Help
5th Element
Ghost World

does Rocky horror Picture Show count? Don't dream it, be it...

Right on Chris! Great fun soundtrack! While in my punk rock dayz I saw that flick 22 times at the egyptian theater in Seattle when it was fun!

The 'Leaving home' theme from Superman is a great one.....loved how they used it again in the new film.

I forgot Feild of dreams as well.

I wish there was one for Fandango...groovy list of tunes in that fil including the two Pat Metheny tunes used at the end.

Ferris Bueller.

does Rocky horror Picture Show count? Don't dream it, be it...




It's just a jump to the left!

.......and then a step to the right! :tongue:


I see some movie scores kinda like modern works of Impressionist or romantic period composers like Debussy, Stravinsky and Moussorgsky.

Back then these movie themes would have been BIG hits.

Mostly I get most of those artist listed above from the TOMITA cd's I have.....great model building stuff.

Is there a soundtrack to OFFICE SPACE with more flare?

I've got a lot of them, but one is "Beyond the Twelve-Mile Reef."
A pretty much unheard-of score from the 1950s but written by Bernard Herrmann and featuring much of the music that was later used in the first season of "Lost in Space."
And I'm very fond of the four releases of LIS music, particularly the first and second seasons. They bring back a lot of memories.
Anyone got the "Man from UNCLE" scores? Those are great, too!

Jeff

Beyond the Twelve-Mile Reef is the first movie I remember seeing Robert Wagner in. Sponge fishermen in Florida, what's not to like. Found a copy in a bargin bin awhile back, one of my guilty pleasures.

Superman 1997
The Mummy 1 and 2
Back To The Futures
Xanadu
Grease
Jaws
Meatballs

Favorite scores? Got all day, do ya? :p Seriously, there's so much I respond to it can't be boiled to to even ten or fifteen. But here are a few lesser-heard-of favorites.

Futureworld! No, really. Fred Karlin's score deserves a better movie to accompany. A few years ago, an obscure label out of Austraila (and repped in Japan!) put out almost the complete score on CD...O, rapture! Included are all of Karlin's electronica pieces from Westworld.

D.O.A. The unloved 1988 remake by Chaz Jankel. Just my luck, I have the vinyl LP and no player. Missed the CD release.

The Company of Wolves

Firestarter Tangerine Dream, music that works beautifully without the film. Especially at the beach. At night.

Suspiria, Inferno, various themes from Cat O' Nine tails, Opera, Tenebre, Phenomena, Deep Red, Trauma, Non Ho Sonno, Il Cartaio...generally, Dario Argento has great taste in music. Some of those, though, I don't love the entire scores but just some of the themes. Argento had a brief, lamentable infatuation with haevy metal...no offense to metalheads, but it ill-suited the movies and he didn't even pick good metal.

Re: Jaws..."Preparing the Cage/Shark Cage Fugue" always has me in a spell. There are so many from John Williams...

Danny Elfman? Batman Returns! And I include "Face to Face" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.



...and I've really gotta see Phantom of the Paradise again.

Back To The FutureDefinitely on my list. For me, it's the "it's a small world after all" of movie scores (and I don't consider that a bad thing). This morning, while I was searching for a parking space, I saw a Delorean here on campus. The theme started up in my head again and hasn't stopped yet.

Qapla'

SSB

This morning, while I was searching for a parking a space, I saw a Delorean here on campus. The theme started up in my head again and hasn't stopped yet.

The horror...

the horror...! :eek:




:jest:

Hey Troy,I just remembered a couple more.

Logan's Run
Original Planet of the Apes

..I wuz a Big Logan's Run Fan!

The horror...

the horror...! :eek:




:jest:


you think thats bad I saw a delorean painted red

Logan's Run


..I wuz a Big Logan's Run Fan!

I'm still a big Logan's Run fan!

One of my favorite Goldsmith's alongside Masada, Alien, and Patton.


And For John Barry - Out of Africa.

I remember when I bought my ALIEN soundtrack I was bumbed that it did not include the end title cut....I like that number...I think the composer was Hanson and the song was called the 'romantic'?

^Jerry Goldsmith was furious with Ridley Scott for replacing the end title track he originally wrote for Alien with Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony. I must confess, much as I love Goldsmith's work, the Hanson piece really moves me. Beautiful, haunting stuff.

Heavy Metal
2001
star wars
Rocky Horror (118 times)
Flash gordon(love anything by queen)
Metropolis, 1980s release by giorgio mordor
Now dont laugh....Iron Eagle

^Jerry Goldsmith was furious with Ridley Scott for replacing the end title track he originally wrote for Alien with Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony. I must confess, much as I love Goldsmith's work, the Hanson piece really moves me. Beautiful, haunting stuff.

In fact, I had always thought that Goldsmith was absolutely brilliant for adapting his score for the movie Freud to Ridley Scott's film. It's so utterly perfect and inspired. It was only a few months ago I learned that that too was at Scott's insistence, replacing the music that Goldsmith had written specifically for Alien. While I can understand why Goldsmith was hurt by it, I have to ageree with Scott's choice in that and "Romantic" for the closing titles. And I agree with you both on how moving that track is, particularly in context of the film.

At least I bought the album before seeing the movie, I didn't have to be disappointed on that point.

Original Star Wars
Fellowship Of The Ring
Silverado
The Rocketeer
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Extended version)
ST-TMP
Conan The Barbarian
Die Another Day

Just finished watching The Illusionist and quite liked the score to that film.

The Mission
The Right Stuff
Mishima
Diamonds Are Forever (if I had to pick one Bond)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Jaws
Star Wars
Patton
North By Northwest
Charade

The Mission
The Right Stuff
Mishima
Diamonds Are Forever (if I had to pick one Bond)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Jaws
Star Wars
Patton
North By Northwest
Charade
Why did I suspect CHARADE would be on your list, Carson? If that is your real name.

"Carson Dyle" is an alias; my real name is Bartholomew. ;)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Conan The Barbarian
Predator
Dark City
Excalibur
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

tough one. theres so many.
right now I'm thinking of:

'O Brother, Where art thou'.
'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'.
'The good, the bad and the ugly'.

American Grafitti is one of the greatest film soundtracks ever,
but I'm a goofy hot rodder, what do I know. :tongue:

...and I've really gotta see Phantom of the Paradise again.

My wife/then girlfriend was a huge Paul Williams fan. One week-end when she came to visit me in Baltimore we found a little out of the way movie theater that was showing it. I'd be suprised if there were 12 people in the theater on that Friday night.
A few years later I took her to see him in concert. We got autographs and pictures with him, but I didn't think to bring the album to have him sign it...

Phantom of the Paradise. Lots of good songs, and some goofy ones. Carburetors, that's what life is all about.

Airwolf
Dallas
Highlander TV series
Yes I know these are all tv shows, but what the hey.

Dances with Wolves

Pulp Fiction
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Kill Bill
Taxi Driver
Outer Limits theme music

Listening to the Exorcist soundtrack...good thing Friedkin didn't go with Lalo Schifrin's music - the unused tracks aren't bad, just very similar to much "horror" music. Had it been used, without a doubt the movie would have been diminished if not wrecked. You'd have to hear it to know what I mean (esp. the rock ballad, yeesh).

Anything by John Williams and Danny Elfman is always welcome, as are individual favorites like "Phantom of the Paradise" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", but currently "Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dean Man's Chest" is burning up the CD player in my car. :thumbsup:

Good choices, to be sure.

For the most part, I'd have to summarize my response w/"anything that touches my fancy". I like the sweeping scores sometimes, I like the rock-anthem type scores other times and sometimes I like industrial. Just depends on whether the soundtrack/score fits in w/the overall theme of the movie and the scene.

North by Northwest
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Clockwork Orange
Chinatown
Taxi Driver

Definitely all at the top of my list. To these I would add:

A Patch of Blue
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Greatest Story Ever Told (Newman)
Once Upon a Time in the West
East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant
The Wicker Man
The Man With the Golden Arm
Princess Mononoke (and other Miyazaki flicks)
I Love You Alice B. Toklas
The Graduate
Goodbye Columbus
Shaft
Superfly

And how could I forget:

Midnight Cowboy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Romeo and Juliet (Zefferelli)

Hi. My favorite movie soundtrack score has to be "You Only Live Twice" : The begining opening score: Space March by John Barry..