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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: keno on June 03, 2008, 09:19:30 PM
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Does anyone have any hidden gem type (or just plain favorite) film scores to recommend? Things i 've enjoyed are like Donnie Darko, In the mood for love, & Magnolia, naturally. (& also am differentiating from non-original 'soundtracks' a la Pulp Fiction, etc.)
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The score to Errol Morris' "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control". Kinda like Phillip Glass, but not quite as academic.
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A Zed & Two Noughts.
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Yeah ^^^.
Get Carter by Roy Budd.
The Long Good Friday by Francis Monkman.
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Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood is a recent favorite.
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Twin Peak: Fire Walk With Me by Angelo Badalamenti
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Mulholland Drive and Ennio Morricone's Crime and Dissonance are two of my favorites.
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Mulholland Drive and Ennio Morricone's Crime and Dissonance are two of my favorites.
Pretty much anything by Morricone is great, especially the Mondo Morricone box that came out a few years ago that has a lot of his obscure work.
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the soundtrack to "Ravenous" by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman.
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Vertigo and Taxi Driver are both great scores and are by Bernard Herrmann. As for Philip Glass, my favorite score of his is for Mishima.
I wasn't a fan of the music of two of the movies previously mentioned (A Zed and Two Noughts and There Will Be Blood).
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the soundtrack to "Ravenous" by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman.
That's a great one. Good call.
I like most of Badalamenti's scores (the Lynch but also stuff like City of Lost Children and Secretary), Koyaanisqatsi (Philip Glass), La planète sauvage (Alain Goraguer), Out of Sight (David Holmes), Nenette et Boni (Tindersticks), Paris Texas (Ry Cooder), Sling Blade (Daniel Lanois), most of Cliff Martinez' work for Steven Soderbergh (Traffic and Solaris especially), The Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer), Ulysses' Gaze (Eleni Karaindrou), Virgin Suicides (Air). And obviously Bernard Herrmann. Loved Greenwood's score for TWBB. Good music.
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Recently, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Friends.
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Recently, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Friends.
I vigorously second this. SO so good.
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Also, Goblin's score for Suspiria is always a classic. And I've always been partial to Howard Shore's score for Ed Wood, too.
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Also, Goblin's score for Suspiria is always a classic. And I've always been partial to Howard Shore's score for Ed Wood, too.
Ak! I was about to add Suspiria! I second your contribution, Pat K.
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I really like the score to the 70's film Days of Heaven. It's got a lot of acoustic guitar work by Leo Kottke.
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The Holy Mountain has a really great score. "City of Freedom" is now one of my mixtape staples.
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Ennio Morricone says it all not just the weterns, but his crime ones are just as fantastic.
Also I really like the soundtrack to Blow Up by Mr Herbie Hanccock
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I really like the score to the 70's film Days of Heaven. It's got a lot of acoustic guitar work by Leo Kottke.
I love the opening credits of that with the old photos and St Saens' "The Aquarium" playing.
Ak! I was about to add Suspiria!
A friend and I were actually talking about that score via email recently, and he made me laugh when he wrote: "That movies lives and dies by 'NA NA NA NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA NA NA NA - *witches* - NA NA NA NA...'"
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I really like the score to the 70's film Days of Heaven. It's got a lot of acoustic guitar work by Leo Kottke.
I just finally saw this over the weekend and I agree that it is excellent.
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Lalo Shifrin is one of my favorites....
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/cat.jpg)
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/dragon.jpg)
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/bullit.jpg)
avoid his more recent stuff (Rush Hour 1 and 2, etc.)
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Contempt: Georges Delerue
Mosquito Coast: Maurice Jarre
Blade Runner: Vangelis
All the goblins stuff for 70s-era argento
Dead Man : Neil Young
Aguirre: The Wrath of God : Popol Vuh
Alien : Jerry Goldsmith
Silence of the Lambs : Howard Shore
Blue : Brian Eno
Chinatown: Jerry Goldsmith
and plenty more
TRON: WENDY CARLOS
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I like the Nino Rota scores for various Fellini films. "Juliet Of The Spirits" comes to mind.
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For those of you that do like the Zed & Two Noughts sndtrck, you ought to check out And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices by Michael Nyman & Alexander Balanescu (http://www.amazon.com/Do-They-Zoo-Caprices/dp/B00000JC7X). It's great.
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Don't forget synthesizer specialist Giorgio Moroder's 1983 Golden Globe nominated score for Scarface.
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Lalo Shifrin is one of my favorites....
Me too! I was just about to throw his name onto the pile.
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Kind of an obvious one, but still a favorite of mine:
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The Phillip Glass score for Koyaanisqatsi. If you can get the import (cover looks like picture above), do it. It is a re-recording, so subtle differences exist. But the benefit is that it includes "Organic", which is missing in the original 1983 version.
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Cool topic.
Ry Cooder- Paris, Texas (slide guitar desert music)
Robin Gutrie- Mysterious Skin (mellow shoegazery guitar stuff)
Air- The Virgin Suicides (spooky analog keyboards)
George Delerue- Jules et Jim (gorgeous)
My favorite Ennio Morricone is Once Upon a Time in the West. Just killer stuff.
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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis also did the soundtrack to The Proposition. Nick wrote the movie, so natch.
I really liked it.
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Anybody remember the Neil Young score for... 'Dead Man' (?)
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Ooh yeah, the Dead Man score is another good one. Neil Young just making spooky Crazy Horse guitar rumblings. Sometimes all the dialogue from the movie is a little too much though.
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little known fact actually all the dialogue was improvised by peter frampton
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Coffy! Score by Roy Ayers who's one of my favorite jazz artists.
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I don't care how many people badmouth it, I still like Alan Price's score for O Lucky Man.