Soundtracks you love

[Eire1978]

What are the soundtracks you really love?

These are the first ones that come to my mind now:

Road to Perdition - Thomas Newman
Cinderella Man - Thomas Newman
American Beauty - Thomas Newman
Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla
Jude - Adrian Johnston
Pride and Prejudice - Dario Marianelli
The Piano - Michael Nyman
Titanic - James Horner
Last of the Mohicans - don't remember lol
Jules et Jim - Georges Delerue
Michael Collins - Elliot Goldenthal

[delalluvia]

Star Wars (all of them except ROTJ)
Moulin Rouge
French Kiss
Gladiator
Amadeus

That I can remember so far...if I remember more, I'll post. 

[Kelda]

I'm very cheesy, I know - but I love love love the dirty dancing soundtrack.... I have both CDS!

(and I ahve to say after hearing High School Musical about 900 times as my niece is obsessed with it - thats growing on me too!)

[mvansand76]

I love the soundtrack to a little known film (at least I think it's little known) called White Squall. I also love to listen to the haunting score of the movie Sleepers...

And then there is that beautiful Brokeback Mountain soundtrack....

[saucycobblers]

I love the soundtracks to The English Patient and The Shawshank Redemption.

But the best ever is Saturday Night Fever. Case closed. 

[mvansand76]

Oh! Another great one is the soundtrack of Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi )... This is one of my all-time favorite movies, so incredibly beautiful....

[belbbmfan]

But the best ever is Saturday Night Fever. Case closed. 

    

What?? Grease doesn't get mentioned? 

[Scott6373]

My two favs

"Out of Africa"
"The Shawshank Redemption"  (from which some was lifted for BBM trailers)

[saucycobblers]

What?? Grease doesn't get mentioned? 

Phhhffft... Grease - purleeeze!! Not even in the same league as SNF!! *Nicky cackles loudly* 

[David In Indy]

I love the soundtrack to a little known film (at least I think it's little known) called White Squall. I also love to listen to the haunting score of the movie Sleepers...

And then there is that beautiful Brokeback Mountain soundtrack....

White Squall. Is that the movie with Jeff Bridges as the captain of a "school boat"? Sorry, I can't think of the word for it.

If this is the same movie you're talking about, the music is really beautiful.

I love the music from "St. Elmo's Fire", "Steel Magnolias", "Stand By Me", "Breaking Away", "The Rose", "Dazed and Confused" and like you Melissa, "Brokeback Mountain". 

[David In Indy]

I love the soundtracks to The English Patient and The Shawshank Redemption.

But the best ever is Saturday Night Fever. Case closed. 

Yeah, Saturday Night Fever is great Nicky!

God, and to think I used to dance to that music when I was a teenager.

Yep! I was a Disco dancer. 

[Cameron]

I agree 'Saturday Night Fever"  Great!!!

Grease!!!!! Awful

How about "Fame" ?  I still love that one!!!!!

[David In Indy]

I agree 'Saturday Night Fever"  Great!!!

Grease!!!!! Awful

How about "Fame" ?  I still love that one!!!!!

Hi Marlb42! Yeah, "Fame" was another good one.

I'm forgetting a bunch of really good soundtracks.

Did somebody mention "Amedeus" yet? That's another good one.

[Cameron]

And "Valley Girl" for great 80's music, and

oh yeah, I  "Sid and Nancy"

[delalluvia]

Let me second the

"Out of Africa" and "The English Patient" soundtracks and two more:

"Oscar and Lucinda"
"Blue Lagoon" the Brooke Shields version (yeah, the movie was cheesy, but Basil Poledouris did some absolutely beautiful soundtracks).

[Toast]

My favourite soundtrack album - and I had this on vinyl way back in the 1970s  is Bob Dylan's  music for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.     (Dylan acted in the movie, too.) The soundtrack that gave us the cllassic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Lots of guitars and Bob sounds OK too. Now I have the CD.

I saw Breaking Away listed as a soundtrack, but I've never heard it.
Must be perfect with all that "Italian" music.
Better look that one up.

Oh Yes
Shawshank Redemption and The Motorcycle Diaries too.

[Front-Ranger]

I've been listening to Knockin on Heaven's Door and Lay Lady Lay nonstop on The Essential Bob Dylan for a couple of months now! What a great album, and when I told EDelMar that Bob Dylan was in a Western movie, he didn't believe me!

[Toast]

Bob Dylan as the character "Alias" in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (from 1976) Believe it dude.

[belbbmfan]

I really liked A Room With A View.

O Mio Bambino Caro sung by Kiri Te Kanawa was very romantic and moving. Perfect in a Tuscan landscap.

[ffrn]

BBM of course! , Shawshank Redemption, Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves, The English Patient, Chariots of Fire and my favourite, Lawrence of Arabia.

[saucycobblers]

I really liked A Room With A View.

O Mio Bambino Caro sung by Kiri Te Kanawa was very romantic and moving. Perfect in a Tuscan landscap.

Ahhh, something on which we agree!  Great film, great soundtrack...

Just thought of another one. It's not really a great soundtrack, but it has some terrific songs - Boogie Nights starring the criminally underused Mark Wahlberg.

[RouxB]

Garden State-ran to Border's midway through watching the movie to get it.
BbM of course my favorite.

[skye28]

Ahhh, something on which we agree!  Great film, great soundtrack...

Just thought of another one. It's not really a great soundtrack, but it has some terrific songs - Boogie Nights starring the criminally underused Mark Wahlberg.

Love the Boogie Nights soundtrack. another great soundtrack is Notting Hill.

[Anya_Angie]

OMG don't get me started! I have 100 in my collection and pretty much ALL are my favorites LOL! But I will start off with my top 20:

1. The Ten Commandments (1956, Elmer Bernstein)
2. Anastasia (1997, David Newman, promo album)
3. The Village (2004, James Newton Howard)
4. Gladiator (2000, Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerard; this score is here for sentimental reasons, as some of you might guess LOL!)
5. Interview With The Vampire (1994, Elliot Goldenthal)
6. Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman, can't remember the year LOL)
7. The Secret of NIMH (1982, Jerry Goldsmith)
8. First Knight (Jerry Goldsmith)
9. Braveheart (1995, James Horner)
10. Munich (2005, John Williams)
11. The Mummy (Jerry Goldsmith)
12. Van Helsing (Alan Silvestri, LOVE how Russian it sounds!)
13. Harry Potter/Goblet of Fire (Patrick Doyle)
14. Harry Potter/Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams, amazing job by Williams, love how melodic and thematic it is)
15. Shakespeare In Love (Stephen Warbeck)
16. Hero (Tan Dun)
17. LOTR: The Return of the King (Howard Shore)
18. Troy (Rejected Gabriel Yared version)
19. Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla, expanded score)
20. The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman)

[SFEnnisSF]

I saw Moulin Rouge last night at the (infamous) Castro theatre.  I sat in the almost front row, and sang along to every tune! 

[Ellemeno]

I saw Moulin Rouge last night at the (infamous) Castro theatre.  I sat in the almost front row, and sang along to every tune! 

That's the row I sat in with you and Melinda for BBM! 

[mvansand76]

I was just watching figure skating on TV and they did a dance to the soundtrack of the Untouchables, first the main theme and then the death theme (the part where Sean Connery gets shot and dies...) and I got goose bumps! It's such an extraordinary and beautiful soundtrack!

[moremojo]

Here are twenty-eight which I have particularly enjoyed and/or been impressed by (listed alphabetically):

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Barry Lyndon
Beau travail
Brokeback Mountain
Bugsy Malone
Christiane F.-Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
A Clockwork Orange
Communion
Eraserhead
Eyes Wide Shut
Fantasia
Hairspray
Heavenly Creatures
Loads
Lyrisch Nitraat
Meet Me in St. Louis
Phantom of the Paradise
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Playtime
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Thundercrack!
Der Tod der Maria Malibran
2001: A Space Odyssey
Walkabout
West Side Story
The Wizard of Oz
Zardoz

[Kazza]

I don't have a top 10 or 20 as such but soundtracks that I love are:

Brokeback Mountain - of course. Just gives me goosebumps and can reduce me to tears.
Gladiator - It's just wonderful.
Last of the Mohicans - I partly hold this movie and it's soundtrack responsible for myself and my better half finally getting it together.
Cal - Small indie movie from years ago that Mark Knophler did the music for. Acoustic guitars with a celtic bent to to it. Very beautiful. If you like the BBM incidental music then give this a try.

I'm sure that there are more but these are the ones that spring to mind right now.

Karen

[Amber]

My choices run all over the place.

I love the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack of course!  Then there's Dirty Dancing (I'm right there with you, proud owner of the two disc set), and Six Days, Seven Nights (just love the tropical sound, especially on cold days!) although it is slightly cheesy.  I'm also a big fan of the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack - the movie and the stage show both.  Legands of the Fall also has an amazing soundtrack as well as Schindler's List although it's very haunting.  I also really enjoy the music from A Beautiful Mind.  And how can you go wrong with Chicago?  Great songs.  I also really enjoy the soundtrack to Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet, there is some great stuff on there.  I like the "indy" feel of the soundtrack for 10 Things I Hate About You and I adore the music from Love Actually as well. 

I'm one of those people who can hear a song on a commercial and instantly know what movie it came from.  The music just seems to stick with me long term.

[Anya_Angie]

I love James Horner! One of my favorites.

[David In Indy]

"The Color Purple"

Did anyone mention it yet? I love the music from that movie! 

[Front-Ranger]

My favourite soundtrack album - and I had this on vinyl way back in the 1970s  is Bob Dylan's  music for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.     (Dylan acted in the movie, too.) The soundtrack that gave us the cllassic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Lots of guitars and Bob sounds OK too. Now I have the CD.

I saw Breaking Away listed as a soundtrack, but I've never heard it.
Must be perfect with all that "Italian" music.
Better look that one up.

Oh Yes
Shawshank Redemption and The Motorcycle Diaries too.

I was listening to "Knockin on Heaven's Door" on the way home tonite. It belongs right up there with "Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament)" and "He was a Friend of Mine."

[Front-Ranger]

A recommendation for some romantic Valentine music:

Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone, a collection of film scores from Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more.

I've been listening to it for several days and am all mellowed out and ready for Valentine's Day!

February is also Morricone month in New York with showings of these films, and (the only thing I'll miss seeing on Feb 25) he'll receive an honorary Oscar.

[luigival]

A recommendation for some romantic Valentine music:

Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone, a collection of film scores from Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more.

I've been listening to it for several days and am all mellowed out and ready for Valentine's Day!

February is also Morricone month in New York with showings of these films, and (the only thing I'll miss seeing on Feb 25) he'll receive an honorary Oscar.

Good to see that good old Ennio still goes strong and this month will be "his" American month. He's been one of the most prolific soundtrack composers, and only now the Academy "remembers" to award him, after five nominations that went nowhere...
I'm just so glad because I love his music, almost all of it, and it's very difficult for me to select a specific soundtrack, but agree with you Lee, his romantic and mystic themes are probably the best.
I remember when I was at high school one of my schoolmates - Federica; I remember I had a remarkable crush on her! - whose mother was a music teacher, had known Ennio Morricone as they went to the same school in Rome. It's such a small world...   

[Front-Ranger]

Why am I not surprised that you are a fan of Ennio Morricone, luigi? There is a picture of him on the CD, he looks like an accountant, LOL!

[luigival]

Why am I not surprised that you are a fan of Ennio Morricone, luigi? There is a picture of him on the CD, he looks like an accountant, LOL!

My goodness Lee, yes Ennio Morricone may look like an accountant, but his music certainly doesn't sound as if it was written by one. Now I'll go back counting my beans...LMAO

[Juliette59]

I would like to add:
music and score from ER by James Newton Howard, It's so beautiful
Philadelphia esp. the track Mamma Morta by Maria Callas
also some very moving tracks on Miss Saigon [ saw it on Broadway NY]

[David In Indy]

I would like to add:
music and score from ER by James Newton Howard, It's so beautiful
Philadelphia esp. the track Mamma Morta by Maria Callas
also some very moving tracks on Miss Saigon [ saw it on Broadway NY]

Great choices Juliette! I love "Miss Saigon" too. 

[SFEnnisSF]

A few soundtracks I've bought over the years:

Lost Highway
The Fifth Element
Return To Paradise
Existenz
Muholland Drive
Red Planet
Bandits
Moulin Rouge 1 & 2

a few others, and of course BBM

[CellarDweller]

I'm seeing all these serious soundtracks......and now here's mine.

Saturday Night Fever
Flashdance
Footloose
Dirty Dancing
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oh, and Brokeback, of course!

[Front-Ranger]

Of course, there's Local Hero....the soundtrack made more $ than the movie did! Soundtrack by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame. 

[Luvlylittlewing]

A few of my favorites are, and in no particular order:

A Man and a Woman (1 and 2)
Blue Crush
Marie Antoinette
Superfly (yeah, I know!  )
O Brother, Where art Thou?
Trouble Man (I love that 70s old school jazz)
Scrooge (The musical)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Purple Rain
Garden State
The Fighting Temptations
Star Wars (all of them)
The Lord of the Rings (all)

[Front-Ranger]

So many excellent soundtracks here! I second friend Toast's nomination of The Motorcycle Diaries also by Gustavo Santaolalia. One time I renamed the songs from scenes from Brokeback Mountain, and now they have become a second soundtrack on my ipod!!

New soundtracks I love are the ones from Slumdog Millionaire  and 127 Hours, both by A.R. Rahman. They also have good music to work out to!