What movie do you know where the soundtrack definitely made the movie great. By this I mean the movie was directed to fit the music.
'The Good, The Bad, The Ugly' is the one that comes to mind for me. And "Once Upon A Time in the Old West' any others?

Kill Bill - Greatest Movie Soundtrack ever!

Da 'Blues Brothers'......If'n It wern't fer da music.......It wouldn't ave' made It..........:D :cool: :cool: :lurk:

Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho !


cheerio

Have to admit that I don't watch a lot of movies, but I have agree with Reel 2 Reel on the 'Blues Brothers'. The only other soundtrack that comes to mind -

O Brother, Where Art Thou?


-Dave

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pulp Fiction...personally, I didn't think the movie was all that great. But the soundtrack kicks....

I also think the score for the first Batman movie added hugely to the effect. I listen to a lot of Danny Elfman's stuff....

Excalibur....Wagner playing to an English Legend :scratch2:

Crossroads. Not the Idiotic Bionic boobed Britney BS one..

"Pulp Fiction...personally, I didn't think the movie was all that great. But the soundtrack kicks"

I have the Stratocaster that played the songs in the oldies music when Travolta and that chick were dancin in that club. Watch the credits for the band...The Centurians.

A true Rock and Roll Fantasy!!!

Music by The Blasters, The Fixx, music by Jim Steinman...

Michael Pare, Willem DaFoe, Rick Moranis... lotsa scenery chewing acting in a surreal rock and roll environment... what more could you ask for?

I don't know about MAKING the movie, but a couple of my favs that if you don't own, you SHOULD are Victory at Sea, Scent of a Woman, and Apocalypse Now. That, and pretty much ANY John Williams score.

Forrest Gump is nice stroll through time with a great piece by Alan Silvestri.

Some others that I grew up with, that deserve at least an honorable mention, The Breakfast Club, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Pretty much anything that had the 'brat pack' in it.

Cheers,
Russ

I read an interesting piece of trivia the other day, Danny Elfman - who has done some awesome movie soundtrack work, he is probably second to John Williams in movie soundtrack success, was in the 80's band Oingo Boingo, if I remember correctly he was the lead singer ;)

"Deadmans Party" is one of my fave 80's tunes :D

Ill have to agree with grumpy.

The only problem is that the soundtrack
and the album are not one in the same.

Heavy Metal

2 great songs with the same title on the same record.

Maybe It's just me but how about The Big Chill , Help, Easy Rider,
Yellow Submarine?, Elvis's movies - not!!!:eek:

Carl

Sgt. Pepper's....


:lmao:



.......sorry, I couldn't resist....

Once Upon A Time In The West. The score was written before shooting started and since the dialog was all voice over it was shot unmiked with the music playing while the scene was being shot in important scenes. That way the actors and even the horses could move in time to the score.
I just found this out from the extras on the DVD and the logic of it just blew me away. And though I have noticed it in other movies I think that this might be the first example in a major movie of different themes being used for different characters and you would only hear a variation of that theme when that character was on screen. The earliest use of this that I have seen is Mr Hulot's Vacation, which is a very funny French movie from the 50s. I think Leone was starting to use it in The Good The Bad And The Ugly, but it didn't really come together till the last part of the movie. I'll have to watch that one again.
Victory At Sea, Gone With The Wind, the Star Wars scores, The Red Violin and others that slip my mind where the score was completly of music written just for the movie.
Where previously recorded music is compiled for a movie how can anyone forget Barber's Agagio for strings in Platoon, the Doors in Apacolypse Now and Hendrix is in every movie about Viet Nam.
Pulp Fiction (I love the movie too) Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Desparado, and one that I can't wait to be released on DVD is The Hunger, a great movie with fantastic music.

The Magnificent Seven. In a class all by itself. Anybody can throw together a bunch of oldies and call it a soundtrack. Elmer Bernstein outdid himself with The Mag 7.

The ORIGINAL "King Kong" is also a good one. I have just purchased it on cd, and it is great. Max Steiner was the composer.
I recently heard it on public radio. I didn't hear the intro by the announcer, but I recognized the score. At the end of the piece the announcer said it was at one time broadcast live from "The King Kong Room" in The Empire State Building. I knew I had to have that piece of music right then and there. 27 years I lived in N.Y.C. and never visited The Empire State Building. If I knew The King Kong Room was in existence, they wouldn't have been able to stock enough rum for me. I would imagine it became The Rainbow Room. The King Kong Room sounds much classier.


Richard Rogers "Victory at Sea" is a good score, but only the original, performed by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.

Toasted Almond

We all know the difference between a Soundtrack and a Score, right?

The soundtrack to "Goodfellows" is great too, although it didn't make the movie (it's a great flick in itself).

Everytime I hear "Layla" I get a visual of those guys in the garbage truck.

Maybe I don't know the difference. Fill me in.

Toasted Almond

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I couldn't resist. :) I am big with Orchestral movie Scores and I wanted to clear the matter up of Movie soundtracks. Alot of movies had "music" soundtracks and then the "Score" Soundtrack. Some movies never made it onto CD soundtracks, music or score, period. For example, the Dave Grusin composed score for "The Goonies" has never been released on any format. I absolutely love that music, and why hasn't Grusin ever released that on CD? One of my most desireable soundtracks that has never been released was the music in the movie "Showdown" with Billy Blanks. My list of favorite Movie soundtrack "score" composers are:
John Barry-Most Notably "Raise The Titanic"
James Newton Howard- "Wyatt Earp"
Bill Conti "Lock-Up"
Vangelis most notably "Chariots of Fire" and "1492-Conquest of Paradise"
John Williams- ummmm, Star Wars and "E.T."
Mark Isham
Bruce Smeaton-most notably the "Iceman"
Dave Grusin-Most notably "The Goonies"
Ennio Morricone
David Foster- Most notably "The Secret of my Success"
Basil Pouledouris-most notably the "Conan" movies
Alan Sylvestri-Most Notably "Rocky"
Eric Serra
James Horner
Rupert Hine-Most notably "Better Off Dead"

So, for me, those are the soundtracks that made the movie :D

Anything by Wes Anderson, especially Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.

There are so many scenes in Rushmore that are perfectly shot to the music, especially the revenge sequence between Max and Herman to the tune of The Who's "A quick one, while he's away".

Also, Harold and Maude. A great movie made all the better by Cat Steven's soundtrack.

St. Elmo's Fire, or any movie with a Tangerine Dream soundtrack.

"Brief Encounter." Incredible use of Rachmaninoff's Concerto #2. Nothing else comes close to using an existing score to set the tone of the movie. And there's "Warsaw Concerto" which actually was written for the film "Dangerous Moonlight." And how about "The Third Man" with Anton Karas' zither?

But I guess the people in this thread aren't acquainted with true classic movies.

And I'll agree with "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly."

Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Resivore Dogs, Almost Famous, Forest Gump, American Beauty, Breakfast Club, Oh Brother where art tho, The Departed.
Martin Scorsese and Quintin Tarantino usually make great soundtracks to if not help narrate then at minimum time stamp a movie and its vibe.

The Sound of Music
While being a very good movie to start with. the music made it even better...........

The teen angst movie "Times Square" had a great soundtrack featuring Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Joe Jackson, Pretenders, Lou Reed, Suzy Quatro, XTC, the Cure and lots of other good stuff from the early '80's.

Another teen movie, "Pretty in Pink" had a soundtrack featuring INXS, Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Smiths, Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson.

"Coming Home," the anti-Vietnam drama starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight featured mostly music from the Stones "Beggar's Banquet," one of my all-time favorite albums. I think this movie is responsible for the feelings I still have whenever I hear "No Expectations."

Dazed and Confused
Dukes of Hazzard Movie (2005)
High Fidelity

Paris Texas.

-a clockwork orange
-the shining

Ive heard that Dmitri Shostakovitch wrote many scores for russian film during the communist era, though i havent seen any i bet they'd be interesting.

Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, Silverado, Across The Universe, Lord Of The Rings, Ben Hur, Star Wars, Silent Running, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Third Man, The Day The Earth Stood Still. Not only did these soundtracks support these films with perfect synergy, but they were so well written that they stand on their own as pieces that one can enjoy listening to as music. Miklos Rozsa even made a separate composition, "The Spellbound Concerto," using themes from the soundtrack. There are other soundtracks that were very effective in the film, but you wouldn't want to listen to them, like Jaws and Psycho.

-a clockwork orange
-the shining

Ive heard that Dmitri Shostakovitch wrote many scores for russian film during the communist era, though i havent seen any i bet they'd be interesting.

Damn, you beat me to it.

I'll add Barry Lyndon.


And one that changed my life:
Repo Man - the first time I ever heard hardcore, which was an eye opener for a 14 year old living in a small MS town. First music that ever "spoke" to me.

Planet of the Apes ... from the opening, dissonant notes, foreboding of everything out of whack in an upside down world ...

-a clockwork orange
-the shining

Ive heard that Dmitri Shostakovitch wrote many scores for russian film during the communist era, though i havent seen any i bet they'd be interesting.

I'm not sure about DSCH, but his colleague Sergei Prokofiev wrote several good ones. His cantata Alexander Nevsky is drawn from a score he wrote for an Eisenstein film. His Lt. Kije Suite also started its life as film music.

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Grease
The Big Easy
The Harder They Come
Saturday Night Fever
Stricktly ballroom
All That Jazz
New York, New York
Cabaret
Bagdad Café
The Commitments
Little Shop Of Horrors
La Bamba
Woodstock
Mermaids
Thank God It's Friday
Young Blood
The Third Man

"dolph"

FM
Spinal Tap
West Side Story
Purple Rain
Sgt. Pepper
The Matrix


I can go on forever..

I'm not sure about DSCH, but his colleague Sergei Prokofiev wrote several good ones. His cantata Alexander Nevsky is drawn from a score he wrote for an Eisenstein film. His Lt. Kije Suite also started its life as film music.
I was just about to mention Alexander Nevsky. The movie is a must see, although the audio quality is poor. Stalin had a grudge against Eisenstein and made sure he got the oldest recording equipment available for use on the film. The soundtrack is begging to be restored.

"The Informers". Soundtrack was good, the movie...not so much. (Did have a fair amount of eye candy though..)

There's also a lot of Thomas Newman soundtracks I like. Too many to list actually, though "The Player" comes to mind.

Anybody mention "Almost Famous" yet?

Simon & Garfunkel: "America" (Paul Simon) – 3:37
The Who: "Sparks" (Pete Townshend) – 3:48
Todd Rundgren: "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" (Rundgren)– 3:51
Yes: "I've Seen All Good People: Your Move" (Jon Anderson) – 3:33
The Beach Boys: "Feel Flows" (Carl Wilson, Jack Rieley)– 4:44
Stillwater: "Fever Dog" (Nancy Wilson) – 3:10
Rod Stewart: "Every Picture Tells a Story" (Rod Stewart, Ron Wood) – 5:55
The Seeds: "Mr. Farmer" (Sky Saxon) – 2:51
The Allman Brothers Band: "One Way Out" (Live) (Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 4:59
Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Simple Man" (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) – 5:56
Led Zeppelin: "That's the Way" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 5:37
Elton John: "Tiny Dancer" (John, Bernie Taupin) – 6:15
Nancy Wilson: "Lucky Trumble" (Nancy Wilson) – 2:42
David Bowie: "I'm Waiting for the Man" (Live from Live In Santa Monica '72) (Lou Reed) – 5:43
Cat Stevens: "The Wind" (Stevens) – 1:40
Clarence Carter: "Slip Away" (William Armstrong, Marcus Lewis Daniel, Wilbur Terrell) – 2:32
Thunderclap Newman: "Something in the Air" (John Keen) – 3:54

I am one more for GoodFellas, also. Eddie and the Cruisers, and Amadeus. I know I have others, just can't remmeber right now.

American Graffitti - The exhilirating opener "Rock Around The Clock" and the bittersweet closing "All Summer Long".

Plus a lot of good stuff in between, and a great movie to boot!

I don't know about MAKING the movie, but a couple of my favs that if you don't own, you SHOULD are Victory at Sea, Scent of a Woman, and Apocalypse Now....

I think the scene at the end accompanied by "The End," by the Doors was one of the best marriages of music and film I can remember.:thmbsp:

Music made the movie. Gladiator

Wizard of Oz

and while we're at it ... any number of old musicals where it was all about the soundtrack and a familiar boy/girl plot thrown in ... and choreography and costumes!

42nd Street
Gold Diggers series
Broadway Melody series
Fred & Ginger movies

An American In Paris
Singing in the Rain
Music Man
Oklahoma
South Pacific

Planet of the Apes ... from the opening, dissonant notes, foreboding of everything out of whack in an upside down world ...
+1 gave the movie it's eerie vibe.
How about Escape from New York, Halloween and The Thing. John Carpenter composed the soundtrack for these iirc.

Every soundtrack/score makes the movie. Ever watch one with the volume off?

Every soundtrack/score makes the movie. Ever watch one with the volume off?

No country for old men

My favorite soundtrack album (and a pretty hard one to come by in any format): Better Off Dead, I love all the 80's synth tunes on that album, Rupert Hine did an excellent job with the music.

A great movie soundtrack that's never been released in any format: Ferris Beuller's Day Off. There are some great tunes in that film, including a really cool instrumental cover of The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" by The Dream Academy (it plays during the scene when they're in the art museum).

Film scores that I really enjoy: Back to the Future, Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, Tron, Brassed Off.

True Stories (the music in the film...no true soundtrack exisits on cd or vinyl?)
The Big Lebowski

MOVIE - Legend - BAND - Tangerine Dream

The whole soundtrack of Almost Famous

The Crow (Part I) The Whole Soundtrack

Gladiators - all

etc

Aliens...........

Brill!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jGrL7U09Y

The Lion King
Moulin Rouge (one of the few musicals I like)
Hoosiers (the music didn't make the movie, but it sure helped a lot)

The most epic score I have heard for a movie is
The 13th Warrior
It is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kguy5if4sPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2Ra0oN_eU&feature=related

Aliens...........

Brill!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jGrL7U09Y
agreed
I have both Alien and Aliens soundtracks

The Abyss

A Clockwork Orange.

Boy did I really wake up this thread, lol! Great soundtracks mentioned by everybody! I have a few more that came to my mind:
1. The Never Ending Story
2. Labyrinth
3. Teen Witch-not the dumbass TV show but the actual movie with Robyn Lively
4. Howard the Duck-Thomas Dolby & Lea Thompson with Cherry Bomb kicks ass!
5. Star Trek IV, sticks out from the rest of the usual ones, it is a truly unique and moving score by Leonard Rosenman
6. Crocodile Dundee- yeah man! hehe. Love that song that was playing when they were in the club where The chick is walking down the stairs with a Alphabet outfit on, awesome! Sadly that song was not on the soundtrack and I have tried exhaustively to find it with no luck.
7. Batteries Not Included, Rhumba & Jazz
8. Indiana Jones, most notably the Temple of Doom with Kate Capshaw singing the Opening song, Anything Goes
9. Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac, with Southern Pacific
10. Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose- the Black Widow Theme especially, heheh!

Boy did I really wake up this thread, lol! Great soundtracks mentioned by everybody! I have a few more that came to my mind: 4. Howard the Duck-Thomas Dolby & Lea Thompson with Cherry Bomb kicks ass!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/specvtacular/Album%20Covers/HTDSTs.jpg

Explorers
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/specvtacular/Album%20Covers/P1010032.jpg

sweet, Zeromancer! I have the CD!:D
Also pictured are 9 more from my collection. :)

That Goonies CD you see is the Limited Archival pressing of the Actual Score by Dave Grusin, not the music one, and the Twister one is also the Score by Mark Mancina, heh