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Following on from the `Judgement Night` thread, I was saying that it`s not often that a film produces a soundtrack that holds it`s own as an album.

You seem to get a choice for the most part of buying the soundtrack of just the film score (with the signature song tagged onto the end perhaps) or a bunch of singles and filler tracks from various artists that make the album into an ill fitting compilation.

Anyone agree?
And what soundtracks do you think manage to pull it off.

Here`s some of my choices that I listen to again and again, as I think they hold up as classic albums in their own right:

Betty Blue
Blade Runner
Blade II
Judgement Night
Reservoir Dogs

Little Shop of Horrors
A Nightmare before Christmas
....obviously musicals should always `get it right` if the songs are good enough.

J.

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I liked the Kill Bill soundtrack, and oh Romeo must die!!

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Natural Born Killers. Best. Soundtrack. Evar.

Trent Reznor redefined the genre with that one (IMHO, of course)

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Anything by John Williams, the late, great Jerry Goldsmith, Klaus Badelt, John Barry, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman or even James Horner usually stands up on its own. Of course the fun with Horner is spotting where he`s cut and pasted from another score ;)

Favourite scores:
Star Wars (A New Hope)
Superman The Movie
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Pirates Of The Caribbean
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die

I could go on for ages. Modern scores are such a let-down. There are some corkers - David Arnold never disappoints - but then you get a flick like Tomb Raider which was screwed by having a podcast for a soundtrack.

J Mark Oates

I quite like the Untouchables` score. Actually anything by Ennio Morricone is pretty listenable.

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James Horner usually stands up on its own. Of course the fun with Horner is spotting where he`s cut and pasted from another score

James Horner was great, but has sucked for a long time.

Howard Shore is a great composer and it`s obvious that Lord of the Rings is his masterpiece of music.

Klaus Badelt is a Hans Zimmer clone, and not half as good. He literally stole huge chunks of the M:I-2 score and slotted it into Equilibrium. And Pirates of the Carribean was a fun but completely soulless score (much like the movie).

After listening to the Revenge of the Sith score, it just further shows that John Williams produces the best work, and has done since the 70s.

And if you`re talking Bond movies, what about On Her Majesty`s Secret Service? Or even Goldeneye? 8)

ah yes, but Hans Zimmer even has moments of `homage` to others...noticeably in `Gladiator` which is a blatant rip-off (although I`m sure he admits this himself) of Holst, Wagner, Stravinsky and Shostakovitch....although if composers didn`t have influences they would be hard pressed to come up with original ideas every time. (Can never forgive Mr. Zimmer for coming up with that damn `Going for Gold` theme tune :¦ )

I`m quite partial to a bit of Bernard Herrmann (`North by Northwest` being a great example) and Erich Korngold - can`t get much better than `The Sea Hawk`. There are a loads of Hollywood scores from the 30s and 40s written by European emigrees who had their training in `serious` music (a term which I hate by the way, as it implies anything else isn`t!). which deserve to be heard `outside` the film.


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See I thought this thread was more soundtrack and less original scores. Otherwise its a duplicate of the one in the music thread.

Like the Lock, Stock one. thats pretty cool. James Brown, Lee Scratch Perry and so on.

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Well, if it`s soundtracks then Grosse Pointe Blank is great 8)

Trainspotting`s not bad either.

And Transformers: The Movie ;)

in that case..forget everything I`ve said :-)

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