gots to be the good, the bad and the ugly. perfect movie, perfect score.

Singles? Does that count?

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shit's "unearthly"

I think you're thinking soundtrack.

Kinda cheesy to mention but the Empire's theme music from the Star Wars movies is pretty awesome.

Holds up even if the films don't.

Yeah. That's what I figured. In that case, I have always enjoyed the score from Requiem for a Dream.

However, the empire's music is great. No doubt about it.

Once Upon A Time In The West

close second: The Road Warrior

First thing that came to mind was Star Wars.

Have to give a vote to Vertigo.

Film Comment did a list of best scores fairly recently. I'm going to try to find that...

i always liked the soundtracks to alien and planet of the apes. but anything by morricone pretty much owns.

edit: requiem for a dream.

2046 (nothing even comes close. absolute brilliance)

Me And You And Everyone We Know (wonderful, whimsical, and all that)

3 Degrees Colder (another stunning and heartfelt soundtrack)

Ok, I found the list but its 101 film scores from 1933-2001 but they don't rank them like Entertainment Weekly does (too plebeian, no doubt), and there's no way I'm typing them all out.

ctrl-c ctrl-v

Are you high? That's cartoon music.

Lot's of great classic scores... I'll put up Last Tango in Paris

howd you come to that conclusion? i cant say i agree with you in the least. the score is tuneful, inventive, and groundbreaking.

Taxi Driver was an imitation or homage to (a great, powerful imitation) all the Bernard Hermann scores for Hitchcock... I like Psycho

Only "scores" on my shopping list are Amelie and Thumbsucker.

Re-Animator ripped off the Psycho theme too.

i'll add these as well....

Amelie
Good Bye Lenin
The Triplets of Belleville

"Until the End of the World"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174

I'm still blown away by that soundtrack.


As for a guilty pleasure score, "Last of the Mohicans"

Some of my personal favorites over the years:

Vangelis: Blade Runner
Brad Fiedel: The Terminator 2
Ennio Morricone: The Thing
Mozart: Amadeus
Bee Gees/various: Saturday Night Fever
Walter Carlos: A Clockwork Orange
Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks
John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Michael Nyman: The Piano
Isaac Hayes: Shaft
Prince: Purple Rain
Richard O'Brien/various: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Peter Gabriel: The Last Temptation Of Christ
John Williams: Star Wars
Grease OST
Requiem For A Dream
Pi movie soundtrack
2001: A Space Odyssey
Trainspotting
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Amelie

It's in a magazine, jackass.

ta-da!

But that didn't require copy and paste, did it?

for serious

1. King Kong (1933, Max Steiner)
2. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, Franz Waxman)
3. The Informer (1935, Steiner)
4. Things to Come (1936, Arthur Bliss)
5. The Prince and the Pauper (1937, Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
6. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Korngold)
7. Gone With the Wind (1939, Steiner)
8. Son of Frankenstein (1939, Frank Skinner)
9. Of Mice and Men (1939, Aaron Copland)
10. The Sea Hawk (1940, Korngold)
11. Rebecca (1940, Waxman)
12. How Green Was My Valley (1941, Alfred Newman)
13. First of the Few (1942, William Walton)
14. The Jungle Book (1942, Miklos Rozsa)
15. All That Money Can Buy (1942, Bernard Herrmann)
16. The Song of Bernadette (1943, Newman)
17. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944, Steiner)
18. Laura (1944, David Raksin)
19. Double Indemnity (1944, Rozsa)
20. Henry V (1945, Walton)
21. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, Hugo Friedhofer)
22. Captain From Castile (1947, Newman)
23. Forever Amber (1947, Raksin)
24. Green Dolphin Street (1948, Bronislau Kaper)
25. Odd Man Out (1947, William Alwyn)
26. Johnny Belinda (1948, Steiner)
27. Louisiana Story (1948, Virgil Thomson)
28. Oliver Twist (1948, Arnold Bax)
29. Scott of the Antarctic (1948, Ralph Vaughan Williams)
30. Madame Bovary (1949, Rozsa)
31. The Red Pony (1949, Copland)
32. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Waxman)
33. Night and the City (1950, Waxman)
34. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Alex North)
35. Death of a Salesman (1951, North)
36. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Herrmann)
37. High Noon (1952, Dimitri Tiomkin)
38. Viva Zapata (1952, North)
39. On Dangerous Ground (1952, Herrmann)
40. On the Waterfront (1954, Leonard Bernstein)
41. The Cobweb (1955, Leonard Rosenman)
42. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955, Elmer Bernstein)
43. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Rosenman)
44. Around the World in 80 Days (1956, Victor Young)
45. Auntie Mame (1958, Kaper)
46. Bell, Book and Candle (1958, George Duning)
47. The Big Country (1958, Jerome Moross)
48. Vertigo (1958, Herrmann)
49. Ben-Hur (1959, Rozsa)
50. The Magnificent Seven (1960, E. Bernstein)
51. Psycho (1960, Herrmann)
52. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Maurice Jarre)
53. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, E. Bernstein)
54. The Miracle Worker (1962, Laurence Rosenthal)
55. Taras Bulba (1962, Waxman)
56. The Cardinal (1963, Moross)
57. Tom Jones (1963, John Addison)
58. A Shot in the Dark (1964, Henry Mancini)
59. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1964, Ernest Gold)
60. Goldfinger (1964, John Barry)
61. A Patch of Blue (1965, Jerry Goldsmith)
62. Cool Hand Luke (1966, Lalo Schifrin)
63. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Ennio Morricone)
64. In Cold Blood (1967, Quincy Jones)
65. Far From the Madding Crowd (1967, Richard Rodney Bennett)
66. Two for the Road (1967, Mancini)
67. Wait Until Dark (1967, Mancini)
68. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968, Dave Grusin)
69. Planet of the Apes (1968, Goldsmith)
70. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Michel Legrand)
71. The Reivers (1969, John Williams)
72. The Wild Bunch (1969, Jerry Fielding)
73. The Last Valley (1971, Barry)
74. Lady Caroline Lamb (1972, Bennett)
75. The Three Musketeers (1973, Legrand)
76. Chinatown (1974, Goldsmith)
77. The Conversation (1974, David Shire)
78. Jaws (1975, John Williams)
79. The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976, Rosenthal)
80. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976, Addison)
81. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Williams)
82. Islands in the Stream (1977, Goldsmith)
83. The Stunt Man (1978, Dominic Frontiere)
84. Tess (1979, Philippe Sarde)
85. Altered States (1980, John Corigliano)
86. Gloria (1980, Bill Conti)
87. My Bodyguard (1980, Grusin)
88. Wolfen (1981, James Horner)
89. Conan the Barbarian (1982, Basil Poledouris)
90. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Williams)
91. Return to Oz (1985, Shire)
92. The Mission (1986, Morricone)
93. Batman (1989, Danny Elfman)
94. Queen of Hearts (1989, Michael Convertino)
95. The Grifters (1990, E. Bernstein)
96. Basic Instinct (1992, Goldsmith)
97. Bed and Breakfast (1992, Shire)
98. Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Patrick Doyle)
99. Angela's Ashes (1999, Williams)
100. The Horse Whisperer (1999, Thomas Newman)
101. Waking Life (2001, Glover Gill)


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