Film Soundtracks…

Didn't we just do this?

I have always said that no movie soundtrack more completely meshed so beautifully with the filmed storyline as Ragtime. I loved it.

"Party Monster" - a perfect mix of vintage and electroclash tunes.

Taxi Driver

Royal Scottish National Orchestra recorded the complete score..

Joker from 2019 was fucking amazing.

R2, R4 I have the soundtracks to both those films and still play them on occasion.

The soundtrack I still have on in the background on a regular basis is The Hours.

Almost 40 years later, I still listen to the Mission soundtrack several times a year.

This feels like cheating but "The Good bad and the ugly" must ve named plus it gives me an excuse to post the Danish National orchestra's take on it that was so excellent it went viral

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Portrait of a Lady

Don’t Look Now

Out of Africa

The Color Purple (1985)

OH MY GOD! R10! You took mine, I am typing and your choice is right there. (Very surprised that someone agrees)

Portrait of a Lady- that closing track I have on my Iphone- its beautiful.

We did just do this, but playing along...

ANYTHING by Ennio Morricone

One of the greatest ever, Cat People !!

Psycho

Vertigo.

In 1975, little gayling me recorded The Wizard of Oz onto 4 sides of a cassette disc using a simple recorder and handheld mic - and imagined the movie in my mind through this recording year-round. I can replay the entire, beautiful soundtrack in my mind still. It's an incredibly complex and beautiful score, all the more amazing as it's 86 years old. When the CDs came out 25+ years ago I use those now, but not as frequently..

Call me a sap, but the soundtrack " Steel Magnolias" gets me every time, because it perfectly allows the listener to visualize summer in small town America.

Sap!

Bad maple syrup!

Dave Grusin's piano soundtrack for "The Firm" was the standout of that film.

One From the Heart

R16- One soundtrack that I think is LONG out of print that I would love is also Georges DeLerue- The soundtrack for Crimes Of The Heart- I really find that soundtrack very evocative and beautiful, and not that disimilar from Steel Magnolias (a movie that I despise)

I like Crimes of the Heart much better

I like Places in the Heart much better.

I like the opening from Heart To Heart much better than ALL OF THIS SHIT!

R22 has a Hasty Heart.

Murder...

Drive (2011)

Apologies to all, as I missed the thread where this was recently in play.

R12, I also love anything from Ennio Morricone!

They shoot horses...

Resonato Bigganosa Ellis Islandiniz.

The Naked Maja

Everything in "Nashville."

The movie, of course.

I do love the melodrama and beauty of Pino Dinaggio who did all of Brian Depalma's films- Carrie, Blow Out, and that beautiful opening to Body Double--Linked here-

And of course the epic Dressed To Kill~

'Avalon', by Randy Newman. It's out. of print and only select pieces are available on Spotify. It is occasionally available on eBay.

It's a lovely, lovely score. (It's also a very underrated movie.)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

I mentioned Ennio Morricone, but I should have selected "The Mission", which is arguably the best soundtrack ever written, and a personal favorite other than 'The Mission', is 'Cinema Paradiso'.

There's also Nino Rota's soundtracks to The Godfather movies.

Ben Hur by Miklos Rozsa

Bugsy Malone

Valley Girls

Oklahoma

Carousel

Lost Horizon

No...really.

Really?!

What can I say, r39? It's fun background music. You can't beat Bacharach.

Interstellar

Moulin Rouge

The Mission

and The Phantom of the Opera

R34–Morricone. I alternate between Days of Heaven, The Mission and 1900.

Holy cow the Crimes of The Heart soundtrack is on Youtube-

KOYAANISQATSI

Lawrence of Arabia

Midnight Cowboy

Summer of 42

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Singing Nun

It has pretty songs.

Rushmore

The Insider

Sister Act

Unfortunately, with many of my favorite film musicals, I prefer the b’way cast album over the movie soundtrack. Like My Fair Lady, South Pacific, even Funny Girl though the star remained the same in both.

R42

Damn! How did I forget 'Days of Heaven'? It's #2 between 'The Mission" and 'Cafe Paradiso.'

Badlands

A Room With A View The English Patient Phantom Thread

Oh Em Gee ... this seems like the consummate Datalounge soundtrack to me!

The Godfather. Many decades later and I'm still not tired of it.

I think the score for To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the greatest ever written. But the score I go back to over and over again is Jerry Goldsmith's The Trouble With Angels.

One of the all-time toughest Oscar votes must have been 1962’s original score—between Maurice Jarre’s Lawrence of Arabia and Elmer Bernstein’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

For r56, and fans of…GYPSY!

I thought R58's clip would be the scene with Gypsy Rose Lee in The Trouble With Angels.

I have too many heady memories from that time to listen to it now, but the soundtrack to the Wim Wenders movie "Until the End of the World" from the early 90s really haunted me.

The real GYPSY! visits St. Francis, per your request.

OK: so many mentions of The Mission - I know why DL feel like home to me!

A few other soundtracks I adore: Out of Africa Somewhere in Time Dances with Wolves Amadeus Brokeback Mountain Moulin Rouge Paper Moon Transamerica

Reality Bites

Joy Luck Club

The Pillow Book

The Secret Garden

Atonement has a really good score

I have the soundtrack to the TV series "Brideshead Revisited" and listed to it all the time. It runs through my head a lot. Also, the soundtrack for "Maurice".

Schoundchracksh!

I love listening to film scores. They're great to listen to while I work on projects at my desk. Some of my favorites:

The Cider House Rules

Inception

The Assassination of Jesse James....

The Rocketeer

Field of Dreams

How to Train Your Dragon

Grand Canyon

The Pacific (mini-series, not a film, but still great music)

Two for the Road

Charade

Chocolat

The English Patient

The Tourist

Out of Africa

Oh Industry!

I have the whole soundtrack from Lolita 1962.

Wonderful John Barry collection

Help!

Sophie’s Choice

Peggy Sue Got Married

The score is simple, corny and manipulative as is the movie but damned if it doesn’t get the job done in evoking memory and nostalgia.

Donnie Darko

Diva (1981)

The Talented Mr. Ripley has an excellent score

Not a "score" soundtrack per se, but as far as collection of songs, nothing beats Flashdance, hate the movie, always did but the girl power punk/pop/rock of the very early 80s is EVERYTHING. Such an underrated soundtrack.

Lulls you in like a soft pink Donna Karan cashmere sweater that slowly slides of a creamy shoulder.

The Prince Of Tides by James Newton Howard

R11, it’s one of my favorite soundtracks of all times. It’s beautiful.

yes r37! Valley Girl perfectly evokes its time. Love it still.

Valley Girl really did capture the new wave punk wannabes of the time.

I was one of those wannabes—in the South Bay. (The Fleetwood was the local band scene.)

The Shipping News Silverado Wyatt Earp The Player Shakespeare in Love Under the Tuscan Sun Lawrence of Arabia The Pink Panther Grand Canyon Cocoon Medicine Man

An Unmarried Woman

CHINATOWN

Any love for the soundtrack from Silent Running, by the late-great Peter (P.D.Q. Back) Schickele?

Un poco

Mothra's Song

Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky (Live at NYC)

Once Upon A Time in America

I've posted before about Paper Moon. I was 13 when it came out and I asked for the soundtrack for my birthday. How could my parents have NOT known I was a little faggot? And Ryan O'Neal made me tingle down there. And Madeline Kahn was priceless. And P.J. Johnson as Imogene was FAB. And all the amazing period songs on the soundtrack are just, well, FANTASTIC. I'll stop now.