Favorite Film Score Soundtracks

[Rockox]

That, and Clint Mansell's "Lux Æterna." God, that song is everywhere.

[Der_Lex]

Even if Lux Æterna is everywhere, it's absolutely criminal that Mansell hasn't received an Academy Award for any of his work yet. Whether you love or hate The Fountain, it has one of the most beautiful scores of all time.

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZuQ_r3ROY

Hopefully his work in Mass Effect 3 will be just as good and he'll pick up some awards for that at least.

[Rockox]

The first time I heard "Lux Æterna" in the trailer for The Two Towers I thought it was awesome. The more I hear it, the more it kinda bores me.

"Death is the Road to Awe" is easily my favourite Mansell cue of all time. I recently re-watched The Fountain and I love the part that heads back into the main theme (at 3:19 in the video you posted) where Tomas in the movie says "Behold." It's all done so damn well.

[Rockox]

Ooo. They're releasing a remix album of Daft Punk's Tron Legacy score, with mixes from Moby, Crystal Method, Paul Oakenfold and a bunch of other artists. This was my favourite score of 2010, so I'm definitely picking it up.

http://www.earmilk.com/2011/03/20/da...kaskade-remix/

[Sayburr]

Well, let me put it this way...

... about ten years ago my father passed, during the eulogy a friend of mine from New York called and the theme from Indiana Jones filled the hall with a John Williams composition. I slid my hand into my pocket to turn off the phone and my mom leaned over and say, “Your Dad always did hate this part of a funeral”.

I still use that as my ring tone.

[Sableagle]

The only actual soundtrack I have is The Crow and I only really like tracks 1 and 14.

However, I have the James Bond 30th Anniversary Collection and the Classic FM At The Movies CD:

Superman
Back To The Future
Apollo 13 - The Launch
The Mission - Gabriel's Oboe
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - The Eternal Vow
Ladies In Lavender
Love Actually - Glasgow Love Theme
Ghost <== no, it's not Unchained Melody.
The Piano - The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Out Of Africa
Witness - Building The Barn
The Stepford Wives
Batman
Star Wars: A New Hope

Somehow, I don't think most of them would work in the game, although a lot of the stuff I found while searching youtube for the Batman theme on the CD might.

The James Bond themes disc, though? That should be in this game!

James Bond Theme
Goldfinger
Nobody Does It Better
A View To A Kill
For Your Eyes Only
Live And Let Die
All Time High
The Living Daylights
License To Kill
From Russia With Love
You Only Live Twice
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever

(It's an old disc, okay?)

Others since then that might work in-game:

The World Is Not Enough <=== I don't like the changed opening tune but at least he shoots ten times faster than Moore and doesn't obviously miss and there's actually a puff of smoke.

Tomorrow Never Dies

Goldeneye

Enough James Bond?

Okay, then.

I also want Jurassic Park, no matter how inappropriate the instruments we have are for that sound. Keyboard we have. The drummer could, perhaps, be persuaded to try the tubular bells. A flautist at the microphone works (seen that on youtube too) and then we just need the bassist on trombone and ... erm ... more than 4 players.

I would also buy The Raiders' March although, again, which instrument gets which part would be a bit hard to predict beyond the drums.

I'm pretty sure there's space on my HDD (I'm old-fashioned and it shows) for Requiem For A Dream too.

Also: Where Eagles Dare. If ever I'm a billionaire I am so making that flight. If you're wondering, it is apparently Glacier del Forno, South of the Majolapass, near San Moritz, Switzerland.

Das Boot ... what can I say? Get the miniseries as a series and watch it one episode per week the way we first saw it or get it as a 5hr movie and watch that. Either way, it's so atmospheric and so claustrophobic that the theme will haunt you and *ping* will never sound the same again. I'm not sure it's playable and I know it's not rock but ... I just can't help it. (The 2hr movie isn't anything like as good.)

[StealthRT1992]

The Crow soundtrack. Original Crow movie with Brandon Lee.

[Rockox]

Goddamn right I'm bumping this.

I just downloaded the complete score for Trevor Jones' Dark City, easily one of my favourite new scores in recent years. The soundtrack just has a great sense of urgency and even in the quieter moments the score has a driving, relentless quality to it. A few months back I also grabbed the complete score for Elliot Goldenthal's Alien 3, of which the original score was the first Compact Disc I ever bought. It still ranks up there as one of my favourite scores and it helped introduce me to a lot of atonal symphonic music. Also, it has a track where low brass sounds like barking dogs. Nuff said.

I mentioned it in the Mass Effect thread, but thought I would reiterate it here: Clint Mansell's contribution to the ME3 soundtrack was great, but it's a shame that, for whatever reason, he only has two tracks on the album and IIRC only really wrote one theme. It's a competent soundtrack, but I can only imagine how good it could've been had Mansell scored the whole thing. His score to The Fountain still remains his best work yet.

[GreatJedi7]

Hmm... I suppose the entire Lord of the Rings soundtrack.

And as far as video game soundtracks, pretty much any Zelda soundtrack, but Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask are standouts to me.