Favorite scores?

What's everyone's favorite movie scores? Just out of curiosity, thought it would stir up some great light conversation.

I think Alexander is an excellent soundtrack, as is Yared's Troy, but I can't just pick one soundtrack for all tiem for me. Here's my favorites.

Historical/Mythological/Religious Epic:

Troy by Gabriel Yared
The Ten Commandments by Elmer Bernstein
Alexander by Vangelis

Animated

Sleeping Beauty
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Anastasia
The Secret of NIMH
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Sinbad: Legend of The Seven Seas
The Prince of Egypt

Fantasy/Sci-fi/Comic Book

X2: X-Men United
Spiderman 2
LOTR
Star Wars quintology (all 5 scores not sure if that is the correct word)
Batman (Danny Elfman)
Peter Pan (James Newton Howard, 2003)
Dragonheart

Horror

The Omen
Psycho
Halloween
The Ring
The Mummy (Goldsmith, 1999)
Dracula (Phillip Glass, to the original 1931 version)
The Haunting (Goldsmith, 1999)
The Ninth Gate

Action

Armageddon
The Mummy Returns
The Scorpion King
Pirates of the Carribean

Romance

Romeo + Juliet (Armstrong)
Romeo and Juliet (Rota)
City of Angels
Ever After
Edward Scissorhands

Hm guess that's it!

The Sea Wolf by Korngold. (or is the Sea Hawk?)

Joe

My number one favorite - Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves!

I also love the soundtracks to Mr. Holland's Opus, Little Women, The American President, Seabiscuit, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sense & Sensibility, Dragon, First Knight, & Independence Day, to name a few.

Pleased to meet a fellow Kamen fan!

I should add Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves to the list as well, and The Three Musketeers, and Mr. Holland's Opus as well, and X-Men.

Titanic
The Black Stallion
Day of the Dolphins
The Omen
White Squall
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Cat People

Well, I would have to think really hard but two I can think of right now would be
Sound of Music and Oklahoma.

On the Waterfront
West Side Story
Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Natural
The Mission
The Last Emperor
Amelie
Beauty and the Best
The Red Violin
Frida
Out of Africa
Schindler's List
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
Doctor Zhivago

Herm (sk8ngnutt)

Hmmm, let's see...


Star Wars (all five, soon to be six)
Gladiator (even when it was overused during the 2001 skating season)
Band Of Brothers
Lord of the Rings
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Schindler's List
Born on the Fourth of July
JFK

I hope someone uses the music from Van Helsing. Hmm, Evgeni as Dracula? Veeery nice. :yes:

I also like Pirates of the Caribbean. Would've loved to have seen Sasha Abt skate to it. *sigh*

The music from The Village is gorgeous, too.

Laura

Ooh, I love film scores:

1. "The Mission"
2. "Titanic"
3. "Armageddon"
4. "Cold Mountain"
5. "Speed"
6. "Glory"
7. "Gladiator"
8. "The Time Machine"
9. "Sense and Sensibility"
10. "West Side Story"
11. "Romeo and Juliet" - Rota
12. "Spartacas" - Khataturian
13. "Forrest Gump"
14. "Kill Bill Vol. 1"
15. "Blackhawk Down"
16. "The Last Temptation of Christ"
17. "Rudy"
18. "Somewhere in Time"

OMG how could I have forgotten The Village?! I'm slipping!

The Village is gorgeous, and terrifying at the same time. I love it! It's Howard's best, BY FAR.

The Sixth Sense, Signs and Unbreakable are all amazing scores too.

I've only heard hte songs from West Side Story, even though I have the movie there didn't seem to be much of a score to it. But maybe it was just very subtle.

Beauty and The Beast is also a great score. Gotta love Menken. I like most of his scores.

Van Helsing! That's a great score too! And Harry Potter series is turning out very well too!

I've forgotten so many of my favorites I'm shocked at myself LOL.

I'm so passionate about film scores!!!

1. Unfaithfull
2a. Dragonheart
2b. Legends of the Fall
3. Chocolat
4. Working Girl
5. Sleeping Beauty (although I am hesitant to characterize it as a film score as it is basically thematically the same as the Tchaikovsky ballet)
6. Last of The Mohicans
7. Little Women
8. Far and Away
9. Gone with the Wind
10. The Truman Show
11. The Mission
12. American Beauty
15. Labrynth
16. A River Runs Through It
17. The Godfather
18. Patton (an odd choice I know, but my high school band played it so its got sentimental value to me)
19. ET
20. Terms of Endearment


I'm sure I will think of more!!!

And I did!...

An Affair to Remember
Amistad
Jaws!!!
10 (an excuse to include bolero on the list)

I'll also add Lord of the Rings, Band of Brothers, 1492 (I haven't seen the movie, but I the music), Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful,
Gettysburg, A Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, & Fantasia. I wish I had the music from the Danny Kaye movie "Hans Christian Andersen" (I can't get the song "Wonderful Copenhagen" out of my mind).

I love Broadway musicals! My favorite roadway musical scores are Camelot (Broadway cast with Julie Andrews, please), the Sound of Music, Oklahoma, The King & I, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, & Gigi.

Re: Disney scores (besides Fantasia) - I love The Little Mermaid, Mulan, & Beauty & the Beast the most.

I am very grateful to skating for exposing me to many soundtracks that I might not otherwise have discovered.

The Color Purple
The Grifters
The Witches of Eastwick
Aladdin
Gladiator (mainly because it reminds me of the 2001 Worlds, where someone skated to it about every 15 minutes or so..... )

I won't officially count Kubrick's films since he never used original scores ("Too much great music in the world to try to do better with something new"). However, the way Kubrick used everything from "The William Tell Overture" ("Clockwork Orange") to Ligeti ("2001") prompts me to put Kubrick at the top of my list of directors who really knew how to score their films with existing music.

As for original scores:
Badlands
Rumble Fish
My Life as a Dog
Unfaithful -- Would love to see a SP to the music from the first adultery scene. If I had a similar encounter with Olivier Martinez, I'd be shaking naked too!
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
The English Patient
The Thin Blue Line (Glass)
Catch Me if You Can
Road to Perdition
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Casanova (Rota)
The Piano (Nyman)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Starman
Mountains of the Moon
Hair
West Side Story -- the Bernstein re-recording
Blue Velvet
Lawrence of Arabia
Casablanca
Psycho
Stop Making Sense
Sid and Nancy
This is Spinal Tap

Rgirl

Reading these lists gives me goosebumps......I love them all. Let me add the music from "High Road to China", "Out of Africa", probably my all time favs..........42

Sure glad to see you back, R Girl. Did you get the email I sent you some time back?

Rgirl said:

As for original scores:
Unfaithful -- Would love to see a SP to the music from the first adultery scene. If I had a similar encounter with Olivier Martinez, I'd be shaking naked too!

Rgirl

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Hahahahahaha!!! I am also dying to see someone skate to this score!!! Have you noticed how much they steal the dramatic main theme and put it in trailers for upcoming movies? Its also used in the opening of "cold case files" on cbs.

I'm surprised more people have put down the soundtrack to Titanic. Like the movie or hate the movie, it had a beautiful score.

I started my list and by the time I was half way through I realized that I had listed over 300 film scores. I really must get a life.
Below are my top favorites by composer.

John Williams
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Cowboys
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Hook
Schindler’s List
Angela’s Ashes

John Barry
Dances With Wolves
Chaplin
Zulu
Casino Royale
Robin and Marian

Dmitri Tiomkin
Red River
The High and the Mighty
Giant
The Unforgiven
The Sundowners

Basil Poledouris
Quigley Down Under
The Hunt for Red October
Wind

Michael Kamen
Highlander
Mr. Holland’s Opus
X-Men

James Newton Howard
The Prince of Tides
Stirs of Echos
The Emperor’s Club

Victor Young
The Light That Failed
China
The Uninvited
The Quiet Man
The Country Girl

Max Steiner
The Charge of the Light Brigade
They Died With Their Boots On
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Adventures of Don Juan (also used in Zorro the Gay Blade)

Henry Mancini
Days of Wine and Roses
Charade
The Pink Panther
The Great Race
The Molly Maguires
Lifeforce

Jerry Goldsmith
Seven Days in May
Medicine Man
Logan’s Run
Congo
The Ghost and the Darkness
Mulan
The 13th Warrior

Maurice Jarre
Lawrence of Arabia

Dave Grusin
Tootsie

Elmer Bernstein
The Man with the Golden Arm
Some Came Running
The Rat Race
From the Terrace
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Hallelujah Trail
Hawaii
Thoroughly Modern Millie

James Horner
Vibes
Field of Dreams
The Rocketeer
Thunderheart
A Far Off Place
Legends of the Fall
Ransom
Deep Impact
The Four Feathers
The Missing

Trevor Jones
Excalibur
Mississippi Burning
Arachnophobia
Brassed Off
From Hell

Randy Newman
Ragtime
The Natural
You’ve Got Mail

Marc Shaiman
The American President
The First Wives Club
Sleepless in Seattle
The Addams Family
When Harry Met Sally

Nino Rota
La Strada
La Dolce Vita
8 ½

David Hirschfelder
Elizabeth

The Who
The Overture to the Rock Opera Tommy

Nigel Westlake
Babe
Babe; Pig in the City

These are a few of my favorite themes! Do I like every cut on the record, tape, CD - no but on the whole these represent the type of CDs I play over and over again. (These and my classical, jazz, "easy listening" and broadway/film musical records, tapes, and CDs.) I really do need to get a life.

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