Outstanding Original Score - best movie soundtracks

[Michi]

What would be movies without it's music?

It amplifies and carries along the feelings the pictures alone can't convey.
I hardly can express it's value.

I love so much the great artistic compositions made for great movies and all the many orchestra instruments playing together which result in a great acoustic experience.

Here is a list (not complete) of some of the greatest composers of movie soundtracks:

• Hans Zimmer
• Danny Elfman
• Alan Silvestri
• James Horner
• John Williams
• Jerry Goldsmith
• James Newton Howard
• Ennio Morricone
• John Powell
• Klaus Badelt

What are your favorites and what touches/touched you the most and perhaps changed your life?

I start with a great score from the movie: "The River Wild", Original score by Jerry Goldsmith

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6NXS1wEz99U

and from the movie: "The Time Machine", Original score by Klaus Badelt

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lWXOaIwuP1I

[Wookie]

one of my favorites

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Gd1tHNdOjI

[Strat]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KbPnJ4PUf0Q

[HopSan]

What a wonderful thread idea!

I sent this before to an another thread, but this belongs also here.
After this beginning, you SHALL look the rest!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CdL__zuZvpA

[grapevine]

Vangelis: Alexander

Roxanne's Veil - my fav track

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AbuZQu5KBIk

[Mike]

From the 1995 crime thriller "Heat". The song is called Ultramarine and the artist is Michael Brook. All these years later this song still makes the hair stand up on my arms. Love that movie.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ITFyP9b7ius

[ExomatrixTV]

• Interstellar Main Theme - Extra Extended - Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UDVtMYqUAyw

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oYVgmoJl8zQ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ctykf8qh288

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZ2p1dWiFu8

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[thepainterdoug]

great Post

for me Ennio Morricone

[rgray222]

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - The the absolute best Christmas film you have never seen

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence isn’t as direct in its festivity or merrymaking as most Christmas films, but its radical empathy makes it a masterpiece that really has no equal. If you have not seen this film your soul is missing something that you don't even know you lost.

This unparalled masterpiece is played by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LGs_vGt0MY8

[Dilettante]

For me, it's Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3q7bT0v9IE

The film is well worth a watch.
Life changing, I might argue!

[Richter]

To Live And Die In L.A. ~ Wang Chung
Willem Dafoe at his very best in this magnificent 1985 action thriller by William Friedkin (The French Connection). A timeless masterpiece.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-YEv431AfAk

[madrotter]

Great thread! Got a few! In 1978 the movie Stunt Rock came out, it's all about stunt man Grant Page doing stunts, there isn't really any story, Dutch actress Monique van der Ven is running around shooting guns and there is footage of live performances by the band Sorcery with their pretty spectacular (for that time) show with lots of pyrotechnics, battles between the King of the Wizards and the Prince of Darkness.... The movie was first offered to Kiss, to The Eagles and Van Halen and they all turned it down, turned out that Sorcery, although very unknown, was a much better choice.... They were a great band and this is a great album that nowadays is quite rare and quite expensive, there's some breaks on it much sought after by producers and dj's....It's a cult movie now and I saw it in the cinema when it came out, I was 13 years old and a huge Kiss fan at the time

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bA9WAKZKIjU

[Richter]

Isaac Hayes - Shaft

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pFlsufZj9Fg

[Richter]

Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
Classic soundtrack and movie

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jLUYtTegbjg

[madrotter]

I'm a big fan of crime-jazz, a short lived jazz heavy genre in the late 50's early 60's, music for crime movies and tv series and one of the great movie score composers in this genre was the now very forgotten Kenyon Hopkins. I'm a huge fan, always trying to find his very, very rare albums and I mainly became a fan of his because of his three incredible late 50's early 60's horror jazz albums, he made loads of movie scores....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r5a2EMOWjfE

From the movie Mr. Buddwing:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lzj0K77jmyU

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cP4oqfUN4Y4

And some of his horror jazz:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6L-xE7g503E

[madrotter]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CyGOJZ9vdw

[DNA]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E8yVJIS4

I know I know...
But Richard O'BRIAN is a freaking genius.
He wrote the movie, the lyrics and the music.
Say what you will but O'BRIAN was speaking against transgender sex change operations when they became the craze back in 2015.
He went so far as to say the procedure doesn't make a man a woman but instead just creates a mutilated man.
This guy was a huge advocate for the gay community but in protesting the procedure he was suddenly called homophobic.
The effing creator of the rocky horror picture show homophobic???
Crazy...
Anyway the album alone is amazing and one of the best soundtracks of all time...

And it's stood the test of time in my opinion.

[madrotter]

Posted by DNA (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E8yVJIS4

I know I know...
But Richard O'BRIAN is a freaking genius.
He wrote the movie, the lyrics and the music.
Say what you will but O'BRIAN was speaking against transgender sex change operations when they became the craze back in 2015.
He went so far as to say the procedure doesn't make a man a woman but instead just creates a mutilated man.
This guy was a huge advocate for the gay community but in protesting the procedure he was suddenly called homophobic.
The effing creator of the rocky horror picture show homophobic???
Crazy...
Anyway the album alone is amazing and one of the best soundtracks of all time...

And it's stood the test of time in my opinion.

Nice one, never actually saw this! This one is great too, the score for the Australian documentary series on underwater life by Ron and Valerie Taylor. Music by Sven Libaek, came out in 1973 and I'm lucky to have the original vinyl, only 500 copies were made....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JY4VbeZoHig

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

In my own opinion, the greatest movie soundtrack ever written is Howard Shore's to the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings saga. Majestic, sweeping, ethereal, stirring, rousing, soaring beyond description... It's so far up there as the clear number one, it isn't even close.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IzQh2Lhv4vQ

[Harmony]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WiWWa-T0EIY

Doctor Zhivago - Lara's Theme (1965) (Stereo / HD)