soundtrack junkies

Re: soundtrack junkies


not weepy, but one of the best, both in the movie and outside, on cd: underworld's track from 'trainspotting'! ;-)

hello tribal. I am not sure if this is what you were asking but music from the following movies come to mind: Platoon, Woman in Red, Amadeus and Immortal Beloved.

I tend not to go for weepy movie soundtracks but, you know one of my favorites is Empire Records, a close second is Pretty In Pink...I think those are more feeling good soundtracks.

Favourite soundtrack - CDs ...

Tarantino's are good! Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown ...

I thought the Menace II Society soundtrack (dunno which director - didnt see the movie, it didnt play here) had some of the best hip-hop tracks of the time.

Spike Lee's soundtracks are sometimes pretty good, too .. I like the "Crooklyn!" CD, but I loooooove the "Malcolm X" CD. Loved it for years. So nice, so comforting. Best songs: the Ink Spots' My Prayer (jawohl), or, Ray Charles' That Lucky Old Sun ... or no, Ella Fitzgerald's Azure. <nods>

Talking in that direction: I like the "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack ... And I played the "Mystery Train" soundtrack a lot, too. And another favourite is the soundtrack to a TV series (dunno if that counts): "The Singing Detective". I've had it on tape for fifteen years now ... tape's gone pretty old. It's very dear to me.

(I promised myself to buy the CD, as soon as I had random money left over, for soooo long ... last week, I got a CD-voucher. Went to the shop: they dont have it anymore! Cant order it anymore, either. Only a three-CD box with all kinds of other, "related" tracks, too - its not the same thing <nods>.)

I love the "Blue in the Face" soundtrack because of the talking bits. "no mushrooms, no onions - I don' want no onions on that ****, you hear me?! If I find any onions on it, I' gonna bring that **** back - word!".

Last mention: Soundtrack to Kusturica's movie "Underground". Black Cat, White Cat's pretty good, too, but Underground is unsurpassable. Blast of breathless Balkan fever - rambling hyperspeed Gypsy folk for the techno age. And the funny thing is, I always kinda suspected it was for export - so it was cool to be in a Macedonian living room and see them circle-dance with the music turned up to boom ;-)

O Brother I wanted to get...must put that on a list somewhere. Pulp Fiction is another good one.

Sountrack or movie music threads pop up once or twice a year, tribal, and welcome to A2K.

Some of my favorites which I own on CD:

"The Big Country" Jerome Moross
"Krull" James Horner
"Raise the Titanic" John Barry
"The Lord of the Rings" Howard Shore
"The Blue Max" Jerry Goldsmith

I've got O Brother, great soundtrack. Mrs. cav owns Trainspotting and The Mission, and LOTR:Fellowship....I forget what else. They're all good.

Actually, cant find that many (just used Search on "soundtrack") ...

There's Best musical scores in film?, but Kuvasz made verrry explicit he meant "scores", and that's not "soundtracks", folks; and there's Swinging Scores, which is, well, specifically about swinging scores ... <grins>
Couldnae find any others.

While not technically a soundtrack, David Helfgott's recording of Rachmaninov's third symphony, which was conveniently released soon after 'Shine' came out, is amazing, absolutely brilliant.

Here's just one of them:

SWINGING SCORES

No matter -- the is a very active part of A2K and it's getting near Halloween so I'm sure someone will come up with a scary movie thread.
It's not been that long I don't think but it's always fun -- like "What Film Would You Watch On Halloween Night?," or in that vein. There's an thrad that was just active regarding "Jaws," et al that would be kind of overlapping but not to worry.