Favorite Movie Music

[Nobody Special's wife]

MIne is GRease I just can't get enough of it lol

 

[Myrrdin]

Favourite.......

The only soundtrack album, I ever hunted through record shops for...... Ridley Scott's, Bladerunner.
Closely followed by Top Gun and Twin Peaks

 

[Gaucho]

Movie soundtracks, hmmm? Lots to choose from and, no, movies that use pop songs as their soundtrack don't (or shouldn't) count. That said, a couple of standouts for me would be:

Dances With Wolves - John Barry (who also gave us the best of the Bond themes, Goldfinger, for example - are you listening, BrainyBeauty?)

The Natural - Randy Newman (one of my all-time favorite composers)

But if I had to pick a winner, it would be:

Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith (also responsible for the best of the Star Trek themes). That music never fails to give me chills.

btw - If there is anything sexier on this planet than Dusty Springfield singing "Son of a Preacher Man", I don't think my heart could stand it. Every time I hear that song, it's instant, raging lust for any woman in the vicinity.

 

[TN_Vixen]

That Nick Cage movie Angel something? With Meg Ryan? Love that soundtrack.

"Boogie Nights"

"Dr. Doolittle"

"Purple Rain"

"Pulp Fiction"

"The Full Monty" (You can keep your hat on.. ba ba ba bababa" - great song to do a striptease to, trust me!)

-- many others, I go for soundtracks right after watching the movie.. expecially Boogie Nights. Recently saw Charlie's Angels and they had some groovy 70's music in that film that's probably on the soundtrack w/Destiny's Child's "Independent" Have been thinking about picking that one up soon.

 

[Expertise]

One of my favorite things to do is light a fire get a good book a glass of wine and put on the sound track to BraveHeart. Very soothing

 

[TN_Vixen]

Exp

the only thing that sounds better than that is to be sitting next to you in my fleece robe with my white socked feet on your lap as you rub my feet and we exchange passages of the books we are reading.

 

[Expertise]

and then Spiderman said....

that sounds especially appealing this afternoon Vixen. Its damn cold here.

 

[TN_Vixen]

well, at least..

you don't have to sit in stirrups today with a harsh light pointed at your poodletytoo and ....... stuff. hehe

I'd take the cold over that any day.

 

[Expertise]

podleytoo!!!???

Thats right up there with Hoo-hoo dilly and snoosh maybe even on a par with wizzo

 

[TN_Vixen]

LOL

just trying to find *some* humor in it, y'know.

*nudge - wink*

 

[Expertise]

Oh my, I could LAUGH and lick, and LAUGH and lick....

 

[CelestialBody]

Can I say...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The zither music in The Third Man. I am not sure it is music, as much as a sound effect, but the repetitive high-pitched wail during the shower scene in Psycho.

I logged on just to post "the zither from The Third Man". Was ever a piece of music used so well to the establish the mood of the film? A jaunty tune with a slightly sinsiter tone, always hoping, but never quite succeeding, in lulling you away from the grisly goings-on with the memories of beer gardens, love and folk dancing.

It's music, all right, a very famous piece now. The "wail" is just a section of the work, the rest is very melodic.

 

[jcgirl]

soundtrack to "Tommy"

Nothing more sinister then listening to the way Jack Nicholson sings that

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Re: Re: Re: Favorite Movie Music

But best of all from the sound track!!!

"We walk the narrow path, beneath the smoking skies. Some times we can barely tell the diference between darkness and light. Do we have faith in what we believe. The truest test is when we cannot, when we cannot see. I hear pounding feet in the, in the street below, and the, and the women cry, and the, and the children know, that there, there is something wrong. Its hard to beleive that love will prevail. It won't rain all the time. The sky won't fall forever. And though the night seems long, your tears won't fall forever..."

Can I love you too?

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Movie soundtracks, hmmm? Lots to choose from and, no, movies that use pop songs as their soundtrack don't (or shouldn't) count.

.... ahhhh well Gaucho ... i beg to differ dear ... the thread title here is Fave Movie Music ... not Fave Movie Scores .... so to me that would imply any piece of music (and oh yes darlin' that includes pop ... lol) from a movie ... particularly relevant when it reminds one of a favourite scene ... at least that's my interpretation ...

and ummmmm Vixen dear ... that Nic Cage movie .. it was the first CD i mentioned in my post .... called "City of Angels" ... luv it ...
____________________
If God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?
~U2~

 

[Comshaw]

It's rather hard to pick only one, but if i had to it would be the sound track from "Forrest Gump". Being an almost old fart that one covers the music of my life.
Well "Dirty Dancing" isn't bad either. And "2001" and "Stand By Me". Hell I better stop now, I'm digging a big hole here, but suffice it to say a darked room, a glass of wine, my lady and "I've had The Time of My Life ", filling the air around us. Aw yes. Can't think of a better place to be!
Comshaw

 

[Svedish_Chef]

I forgot to mention Cruel Intentions... and when Colorblind is on...

 

[RonG]

I spent a few more minutes thinking about this yesterday. I imagined being in a dark theater with my eyes closed and what movies "sounded" the best and three came to mind, in addition to what I listed earlier.

Diva - the music during that frenetic chase scene on the motorcycle is like a runaway roller coaster.
The Long Good Friday - yeah, it's a gangster movie but the rush of music when Bob Hoskins realizes he has been abducted in that car is a tremendous adrenalin rush of paranoia and fear.
Koyaniquaatsi - I am not sure I spelled it right but this is the movie with the Phillip Glass score about life out of balance. All visual images and music that alternates between soothing and exhilarating but is never boring.

I know there are plenty of movies where pop songs are stuffed in but, quite frankly, I have always though Disney did this better than anyone else.

The barn raising sequence in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is outstanding choreography. It's funny, those folks on MTV don't dance with axes in their hands . . .

One pop song was a perfect fit for a movie that I can think of - the use of "Same Old Song" by The Four Tops in Blood Simple. The line of "It's the same old song/With a different meaning since you've been gone" fits the plot but when it went to video they took it out and replaced it with something irrelevant in order to put it on the soundtrack or somesuch (maybe a copyright issue?)

 

[R Nitelight]

Eddie And The Cruisers.
Maybe it's a Jersey thing.

 

[Gaucho]

.... ahhhh well Gaucho ... i beg to differ dear ... the thread title here is Fave Movie Music ... not Fave Movie Scores .... so to me that would imply any piece of music (and oh yes darlin' that includes pop ... lol) from a movie ... particularly relevant when it reminds one of a favourite scene ... at least that's my interpretation ...

Izzy, mon cher, I agree that the title of the thread leaves open the question. However, you'll notice that CL listed two movie themes (Gladiator and Tom Jones) as her favs. And my personal bias is such that it applies only to music written expressly for a movie, rather than pop tunes that were grafted on, mainly in an effort to sell a soundtrack.

And while I like all of the soundtracks that have been mentioned, they don't conjure up a movie scene for me the way the themes (or scores) that I mentioned earlier do.

Another example of a great movie score is Lalo Schifrin's work in the original Dirty Harry. His use of a fuzz bass in that score to this day sets my pulse racing.

Tell you what, Izzy darling, let's you and I get under the covers and listen to Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man". Something tells me it won't be a scene from Pulp Fiction that comes to your mind...

 

[Skibum]

Having had some more time to think about this I have a few to add. Most of them John Williams compositions.

The Star Wars theme.

Superman.

Star Trek.

Jaws.

And almost any title song from a James Bond movie.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Pop Movie Tunes

Originally posted by Gaucho And my personal bias is such that it applies only to music written expressly for a movie, rather than pop tunes that were grafted on, mainly in an effort to sell a soundtrack.

... oh yea ok ... well i could see if you say that is your personal opinion ... we all have different opinions, n'est-ce pas?

but well what about "pop songs" that are written exclusively for the movie ... i.e., "If God will Send his Angels" by U2 for City of Angels, or "Streets of Philadelphia" by Springsteen ... or geez the whole soundtrack to She's the One by Tom Petty ... and so on ...
____________________________
I'm sliding under the covers with you, Gaucho luv ..

"Bein' good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I try
When he started sweet-talkin' to me
He'd come'n tell me "Everything is all right"
He'd kiss and tell me "Everything is all right"
Can I get away again tonight?
The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, ooh, yes he was"
~Dusty Springfield~

 

[Gaucho]

You see what I mean, Iz? Not a whiff of Pulp Fiction in sight. From my point of view, it's more like the Tunnel of Love, if you know what I mean.

Damn! That's another pop tune, isn't it? Oh, well. Who wants to think of movies at a time like this anyway?

"How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealin' kisses from me on the sly
Takin' time to make time
Tellin' me that he's all mine
Learnin' from each other's knowin'
Lookin' to see how much we've grown..."

 

[Lost Soul]

I always felt the theme to Wyatt Earp was great but was lost with that film which never found it's place in history.