What's ya favourite score!?!

[Pupp]

Another vote for Vangelis' Bladerunner work
John Williams' Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back (try the Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Telarc recording of this if you want to see if your speakers are any good)
Pretty much everything written by Craig Armstrong

[Turn7]

Rollin said:

Long Good Friday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9SG-zYvPjk&fea...

Gets my vote.

[Hoofy]

GetCarter said:

Hoofy said:

Oh, you mean soundtrack?

Out of interest, no he didn't. He meant score. I write scores, I don't write soundtracks.

What's the difference, then?

[onomatopoeia]

Hoofy said:

What's the difference, then?

Score = music composed for the film, such as the things I mentioned
Soundtrack = existing music (often popular songs) used in a film

So, to use Risky Business that I mentioned earlier as an example, the inclusion of "In the air tonight" in the film at the start of the train scene is soundtrack, then it goes into TD's score. Relevant section of the film, which someone has helpfully put onto youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcM2Eo9kBk

[Hoofy]

onomatopoeia said:

Score = music composed for the film, such as the things I mentioned
Soundtrack = existing music (often popular songs) used in a film

So, to use Risky Business that I mentioned earlier as an example, the inclusion of "In the air tonight" in the film at the start of the train scene is soundtrack, then it goes into TD's score. Relevant section of the film, which someone has helpfully put onto youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcM2Eo9kBk

Oh, right. So "OST" is a bit misleading most of the time?

[GetCarter]

Hoofy said:

GetCarter said:

Hoofy said:

Oh, you mean soundtrack?

Out of interest, no he didn't. He meant score. I write scores, I don't write soundtracks.

What's the difference, then?

The score is the original music written specifically for the film/Tv prog etc. The soundtrack is the entire 'soundtrack' including other music, sound FX etc. The Americans sometimes get confused about this talking about 'original soundtracks' (It's obviously original!).

Wiki says: "A film score (also sometimes called background music or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects"

[Hoofy]

GetCarter said:

The score is the original music written specifically for the film/Tv prog etc. The soundtrack is the entire 'soundtrack' including other music, sound FX etc. The Americans sometimes get confused about this talking about 'original soundtracks' (It's obviously original!).

Wiki says: "A film score (also sometimes called background music or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects"

Ah.

It doesn't help, in addition to people using "OST", that googling "music scores" doesn't produce film scores but notes for music in general.

[vdubbin]

I liked both the soundtrack and the score written for Drive. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8

[Hackney]

Another vote for Amelie.

Angelo Badalamenti's work is usually very good (most Lynch films)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8Y-XxaAog

Cinema Paradiso
Hans Zimmer's work on True Romance (You're So Cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ab1l2TwFp8

Ry Cooder's work on Trespass was good, although not sure if it was score or soundtrack.

And not forgetting Danny Elfman
Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNktasBOTI

Or

The Odd Couple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syt8qQUbzVc

And of course
Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible (and many others)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0wtBQ4KnQ4

Damn this is hard, there are so many.

[MocMocaMoc]

Fight Club had an awesome score to it, by the Dust Brothers I believe.

The first Alien film, too.

[XM5ER]

Sump said:

Go on then, blurt it out.

For me it's got to be Hans Zimmers Batman trilogy. However I think he really nailed it at around the 6 minute mark of this :

IMO not just for the music but also for the use of silence (seriously), it really adds to the tension particularly in the second film.

One of my all time favourites is Solaris, without the soundtrack it would be nothing like as good a flick.

[trig9k]

Sunshine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRDty052c2c&fea...

[Trophybloo]

The Piano
That is all.....

[XKjimmy]

John Hopkins score for 'Monsters' Especially Camp fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bompFfbSa5c&fea...

Eric Serra's score to The fifth element, I particularly like this piano theme in 'Koolen'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOh7gjbR-qU

Thomas Numans score for 'American Beauty' In particular-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al21Vtlsg4A

Gustavo Santaolalla's score to 'Beautiful' -Epilogue'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhr5F1cll3U&fea...

Edited by XKjimmy on Saturday 6th October 01:37

[susanq]

The Mission
Blade Runner
Once Upon a Time in America
The Piano
and
Bilitis

[qube_TA]

Scores that make the film:

Blade Runner
American Beauty
Risky Business
Titanic
Gladiator

[Seeker UK]

Best complete scores:

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer ("Wages of Fear")
John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13
Roy Budd - Get Carter
Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry


But the est individual track specially composed must be

Propellerheads - Back Seat Driver (from "The World is Not Enough")

[entropy]

Can't believe nobody mentioned Apocalypse Now!

Miami Vice (TV show)

Akira

Ghost Dog

Full Metal Jacket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVv1XsGMv-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay59Lc0Ort4

Platoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEUAoCwv2c

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

my favourite score...

fife 4 forfar 5


or

Shed 7 Maroon 5 ( end to end stuff)

( ill get my coat)

[anonymous-user]

Sunshine, Blade Runner, Cinema Paradiso and Risky Business here too. Especially fond of complex layered synth and string music. Also like A.I, The Thin Red Line, Heat and Traffic.Nankyuko Monogatori for a bit more Vangelis and, dare I say it, Legend!