I've been listening to nothing but movie soundtracks the last couple of days. Whether it's an original score or a compilation album, I just love listening to music from movies.
Here are some of my favorites:
Lost in Translation: The album is mostly moody electronic and electronic rock (with the notable exception of a Japanese folk song). Kevin Shields has the best tracks, but pretty much everything is good on this album. The one thing that is unfortunately missing is Scarlett Johansson singing "Brass in Pocket" from The Pretenders. You have to watch the movie for that.
Flash Gordon: The songs Queen wrote for Highlander are better known, partly because most of the stuff on the Flash Gordon album is instrumental, but there was never a full album released with all of the Highlander tracks. Plus Flash Gordon is just so much more awesome than Highlander. I'm not much of a fan when it comes to Queen, but I could listen to "Flash's Theme" for hours. And from the way he sampled it in "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" on It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy's Terminator X must have liked it too.
Juno: If you didn't like the movie you won't like the soundtrack, so just stop reading if that's the case. Kimya Dawson is the most prominent artist on the album. I had never heard of her before, but the songs are beautiful. They're like children's songs, with a silly, sometimes deadpan humor. "Tire Swing" is probably my favorite song, but "So Nice, So Smart" is good too. Oh, and "All I Want Is You" by Barry Louis Polisar.
Full Metal Jacket: This soundtrack is part 60s rock, part original score. Kubrick went through most of the Billboard 100s of the 60s to find the period songs. "Wooly Bully" and "Surfin' Bird" alone make the album worth listening to. The original score was done by Kubrick's daughter Vivian (under the pseudonym Abigail Mead) and has great pieces too, especially "Ruins" and the 30sec "Transition".
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Jul 11 2008 07:50 am
Dazed and Confused, Transformers: The Movie, South Park
The South Park movie (and soundtrack) is one of the few good things I have to say about that show nowadays.
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
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Jul 11 2008 12:04 pm
Dazed and Confused is without a doubt the best film soundtrack ever. I don't know if they made one for Forrest Gump, but the music in that movie kicks ass. Spider-Man is a decent soundtrack. As far as scores go, all the Star Wars movies together. And musicals, The Wizard of Oz FTW
I agree with Dazed and Confused, Transformers: The Movie, and Forrest Gump (ross, they did make a soundtrack and its everything you'd hope it is, and its a double disc). Rocky IV is also great.
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Jul 11 2008 01:54 pm
Anything by Ennio Morricone, particularly The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A Clockwork Orange
2001
The Rock
The Godfather
Donnie Darko
Pan's Labyrinth
That's all I got for now...
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Jul 11 2008 01:57 pm
Yeah, those are all good. If we are talking about an original score, I gotta go with Star Wars. But talking just songs, I'm sticking with the ones I mentioned above.
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Jul 11 2008 04:03 pm
Shit, I gotta get a hold of the Forrest Gump soundtrack then...I also forgot to mention 'Across the Universe' and all those compilations Disney put out like 10 years ago
Wizard of Oz is poop as far as musicals goes. Don't ask me why I know that but my ex was OBSESSED with Musicals. Singing in the Rain has a much better soundtrack than that "Wiz"
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Jul 11 2008 04:37 pm
learn English, dickweed. And fuck off with your 'Wizard' hatin'
'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' is one of the greatest songs ever written ever.
learn English, dickweed. And fuck off with your 'Wizard' hatin'
'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' is one of the greatest songs ever written ever.
Fuck English. We're Americans. Every language is based of something else. Why can't we adjust it to our liking? My cousin told me I didn't speak in proper English. I told her to get out of here and go to England if she wanted that shit. I had over 100% in my English I class freshman year, which was almost entirely grammer based. Parts of speach, sentence structure and shit. Fuck it. I'm American. I'm gonna slang it up.
I thought I'd post this. I know some here like this kind of music while others don't. Its okay for me, but I like the song and like what they've done with it. I don't know what the fuck is going on with this video somebody made. But its the first I found that wasn't a live version and hard to hear.
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Jul 11 2008 04:59 pm
I love that cover of it. Yeah, when I was in Grade 8, my English teacher told me that I could skip English for the rest of my life and be set. Fucking requirements.
I was just trying to insult Douche for insulting my tastes
I love that cover of it. Yeah, when I was in Grade 8, my English teacher told me that I could skip English for the rest of my life and be set. Fucking requirements.
I was just trying to insult Douche for insulting my tastes
I know, I was just heckling you. I find it completely unfair that in my school, some of the kids in the gifted program got to test out of classes or skip them altoghether. In the mean time, I was never given that choice. But I'm glad I took that class. I did learn a lot. I don't know if I'd be set for life though. Its been so long, I can't remember all of the rules. For example, I think I incorrectly used 'its' in that last sentnece. But I can never remember which gets the apostrophe between the possessive and the contraction. To me, they should both have one. But I know one of them doesn't. So I just never use one.
I took a college course that briefly touched on grammer. A lot of what I didn't remember came back to me. Once I have a little refresher I'm set for a while. But after a while of ignoring grammer, I let some of it slip. I make it a point to use semi-correct grammer. But I don't worry too much about it being perfect.
But back on topic, I really like that cover. I like most of their covers.
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Jul 11 2008 06:09 pm
Reign Over Me (that movie with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle)
Once (the indie film with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us.
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Jul 11 2008 06:52 pm
crookshow wrote:
2001
Listening to it right now. 'Epic' is the only appropriate word.
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Jul 11 2008 07:27 pm
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there was never a full album released with all of the Highlander tracks.
I thought that was "A Kind Of Magic?"
I really like the "Not Another Teen Movie" Soundtrack, because it is all covers of 80s songs, done by newer bands like Marilyn Manson, Goldfinger, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.
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Jul 11 2008 08:15 pm
braveheart is a pretty tight score. and spiderman. and lord of the rings: two towers
Print is dead.
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Jul 11 2008 08:20 pm
So's Willow
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Jul 12 2008 05:00 am
Knyte wrote:
Quote:
there was never a full album released with all of the Highlander tracks.
I thought that was "A Kind Of Magic?"
Not quite. A Kind of Magic had most of the songs from the movie, but not all. From what I can see the songs missing are "Hammer To Fall", "A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling" and "New York, New York".
"A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling" was released on the B-Side of the "A Kind of Magic" single. "Hammer To Fall" appeared on the album The Works two years earlier. "New York, New York" however has never been released. (There is a small clip of it at the end of "Don't Lose Your Head" on A Kind of Magic, but that is all.)
