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CrabDan

568 posts

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Ross1988 said:
Any score by Clint Mansell, especially Moon.
Agreed. I think this is one of the best things he's ever done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P9J737FHg&fea... (I've found a version with the game footage included, to add context)!

The Amelie soundtrack by Yann Tierson is also completely birlliant,

rhinochopig

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16,050 posts

67 months

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CrabDan said:
Ross1988 said:
Any score by Clint Mansell, especially Moon.
Agreed. I think this is one of the best things he's ever done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P9J737FHg&fea... (I've found a version with the game footage included, to add context)!

The Amelie soundtrack by Yann Tierson is also completely birlliant,
Prefer Welcome to Lunar Industries myself; again used to good effect for a computer game ad here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOOOAN9e9w

captainzep

11,447 posts

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The score in Heat stands out to me, Moby's music just seemed to fit the film so well.

Also the mix of opera and 80's Jean Michel Jarre synth in 'The Year of Living Dangerously' was great. Still haven't worked out why there isn't some remix of L'enfant.

Also have a softspot for the scores in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, as they seemed to be amongst the first mainstream UK films to use pacey dance music at a time when I was clubbing and liostening to the same.

944fan

1,920 posts

54 months

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captainzep said:
The score in Heat stands out to me, Moby's music just seemed to fit the film so well.

Also the mix of opera and 80's Jean Michel Jarre synth in 'The Year of Living Dangerously' was great. Still haven't worked out why there isn't some remix of L'enfant.

Also have a softspot for the scores in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, as they seemed to be amongst the first mainstream UK films to use pacey dance music at a time when I was clubbing and liostening to the same.
Yes Heat is very good. I really like the music played when Hanna is in the helicopter and gets into the car to chase down McCauley on the freeway. "New dawn fades" or something I think it is called.

dontfollowme

630 posts

102 months

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944fan said:
Yes Heat is very good. I really like the music played when Hanna is in the helicopter and gets into the car to chase down McCauley on the freeway. "New dawn fades" or something I think it is called.
Yeah that is Moby's cover of New Order's new dawn fades. In the same film Moby's god moving over the face of waters is used to great effect at the end.

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Famous Graham

26,537 posts

94 months

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captainzep said:
The score in Heat stands out to me, Moby's music just seemed to fit the film so well.
Talking of which, although not a score, the use of Extreme Ways at the end of the Bourne films is spot on.

Raddors

186 posts

17 months

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The Insider.

Lisa Gerrard just does something for me (not like that) on film scores. Also on the scores of Man on Fire, GLadiator, Layer Cake.

tj2002

411 posts

62 months

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Drive. Lovely 80s, synthy stuff, really made the movie for me. Nightcall and A Real hero particularly stand out on the album

R1gtr

1,056 posts

23 months

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TheHeretic said:
'Last of the Mohicans' was a decent soundtrack.
^^^^^^Winner, especially the last scene, amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tiKM4fxY1U
Intense, powerful, turn it up loud.

toppstuff

8,347 posts

116 months

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Tron Legacy is good.

Dunclane

993 posts

38 months

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+ 1 for Lisa Gerrard and Moby. I also love A-Ha's Living Daylights, great driving track!

Crossflow Kid

4,615 posts

60 months

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Famous Graham said:
Talking of which, although not a score, the use of Extreme Ways at the end of the Bourne films is spot on.
And Ready, Steady, Go by Paul Oakenfold for the Mini chase.

The Hypno-Toad

7,001 posts

74 months

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+1 for
Amelie
Moon

& then add.

Oceans Eleven
The Draughtsmans Contract (which is a VERY strange film.)

and then this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRwj6XieKY

Darkly sinister. Which doesn't really make sense at the begining. But when you hear "He says he saw the devil in the harbour, killing many men..."

Sprouts

805 posts

58 months

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Yann Tiersenn, Amelie

Charlie Foxtrot

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84 months

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Once Upon a Time in the West. It's not a theme, it's not a tune. It's a mini opera using leitmotif and given greater importance than the dialoge.

Many films employ similar methods to the score, Star Wars being my second favourite, but this film is the best.

Sprouts

805 posts

58 months

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Anything Michael Nyman did for any of Greenaways films. And Wonderland, by Michael Winterbottom.

Zwolf

22,321 posts

75 months

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I think it's either Howard Shore's score for Silence of the Lambs or Nino Rota's for the Godfathers in top spot.

But then I think of many others already mentioned that are also great. Most recently I've found the scores to Batman Begins and The Dark Knight brilliant too, but they've been dulled by noticing a few other scores sounding very similar from both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard in other films.

Mind you, the same is true of John Williams and his are hardly crap - to pick a single one of his, it would be The Empire Strikes back and not solely for the Imperial March. paperbag


zetec

3,186 posts

120 months

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I'm watching the documentary now,

Chariots Of Fire

Ross1988

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52 months

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Glad there is some more Clint Fans, 'Dead reckoning' at the end of Smokin' Aces was pretty good as well.

I like Brian Eno, this piece on Top Gear was pretty spectacular.

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

Sorry, I know it's not a film, but as this is PH I thought it would be welcome.

Famous Graham

26,537 posts

94 months

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zetec said:
I'm watching the documentary now,

Chariots Of Fire
Good shout. Bit of a one hit wonder for Vangelis, though
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