The Big Lebowski, love the movie and any soundtrack that starts with Dylan’s Man In Me can’t be bad.
- It’s De-Lovel performed by Robbie Wiliams
- Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) performed by Alanis Morissette
- Begin the Beguine performed by Sheryl Crow
- Let’s Misbehave performed by Elvis Costello
- Be a Clown performed by Kevin Kline, Peter Polycarpou and Chorus
- Night and Day performed by John Barrowman
- Easy to Love performed by Kevin Kline ( American release omits this track )
- True Love by Ashley Judd and Tayler Hamilton
- What is This Thing Called Love? performed by Lemar
- I Love You performed by Mick Hucknall
- Just One of Those Things performed by Diana Krall
- Anything Goes performed by Caroline O’Connor
- Experiment performed by Kevin Kline
- Love for Sale performed by Vivian Green
- So in Love performed by Lara Fabian and Mario Frangoulis
- Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye performed by Natalie Cole
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow performed by Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline, Cast, and
Chorus - In the Still of the Night performed by Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd
- You’re the Top performed by Cole Porter.
- Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
- A Child’s Claim to Fame - Buffalo Springfield
- No Regrets - Tom Rush
- Old Man - Neil Young
- Shooting Star - Bob Dylan
- Reason to Believe - Tim Hardin
- Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John
- Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
- Slip Away - Clarence Carter
- Waiting for the Miracle - Leonard Cohen
- Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan
- Watching the Wheels - John Lennon
- Philosophers Stone - Van Morrison
A great soundtrack and worth the time for a spin…
Top tracks:
Together We Will Live Forever from The Fountain
Lux Aeterna from Requiem For A Dream. This track was reproduced as Requiem For A Tower from Lord of the Rings. I quite like the London Music Works version. Although the Geek Music version is also quite powerful.
City of Angels
- If God Will Send His Angels - U2
- Feelin’ Love - Paula Cole
- Red House - Jimi Hendrix
- Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
- Mama, You Got A Daughter - John Lee Hooker
- Angel - Sarah McLachlan
- Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
- I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
- I Know - Jude Cristobal
- Further On Up the Road - Eric Clapton
- An Angel Falls - Gabriel Yared
- The Unfeeling Kiss - Gabriel Yared
- Spreading Wings - Gabriel Yared
- City of Angels - Gabriel Yared
Another soundtrack I have enjoyed over the years…
What about a Japanese composer? Quite a unique experience and very immersive
Last two albums I have purchased (& enjoying immensely) were soundtracks:
Favourites include:
and as already mentioned, both Bladerunner OST’s are wonderful!
cheers!
Everybody’s Talkin’ is a fabulous song and hearing John Barry’s harmonica theme tune can still give me shivers.
My favourite is The Lion in Winter by John Barry. Great menacing liturgical sounding opening.
Two other favourites are The Omen and Alien, both by Jerry Goldsmith. The Omen is like a black mass with other themes woven in and Alien is rather avant garde. Its quite easy to see how he got from one to the other as well - there is s style that runs through both of them.
All sound very good on the sound system, and have been improved recently when i got rid of the last cheap SMPS in the setup - it sounds less scratchy now so brass comes through smoother.
The Omen heavily features Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana if I remember correctly. Wonderful stuff.
I would say that a ‘real’ film soundtrack is one of music written especially for the film (feel free to disagree). Compilations of existing songs (e.g. Pretty Woman or Pulp Fiction) might be nice compilations and a way of discovering new music but surely not much more than that. Similar for films where existing classical music is used (e.g. Excalibur and 2001). JMO, of course.
For me, no-one can touch John Williams - how about this for a body of work:
- Jaws (1975)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Close Encounters (1977)
- Superman (1978)
- Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- ET (1982)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) [least said about the film, the better]
- Hook (1991) [ditto]
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Harry Potter (2001 et seq)
…and his less famous scores are of no less quality:
- Earthquake (1974)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- Far and Away (1992)
- Rosewood (1997)
- Sabrina (1995)
- Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Tintin (2011)
And there’s his non-film work too, much of which is extraordinary, but that’s maybe for another thread. I saw him conduct the LSO several times in the mid-90s which was a gob-smacking occasion.
Mark
I totally agree, I prefer them over compilations.
Jaws still sounds great! Nice list by the way! I do like John Williams too.
I would like to mention some other soundtracks that he composed:
Catch me if you can
Memoirs of a geisha
@SJT Alien is very nice!
I believe it’s compulsory to have a good audio system to fully enjoy soundtracks otherwise you won’t appreciate their true essence and character.
“Tous les Matins…….” a favourite of mine.
I know the latter, but not the former so I will investigate that on your recommendation, Merci beaucoup.
Another few favourites:
For me it depends on my mood. Film music is written to evoke emotion. Some of the greats that have not been mentioned for me include:
Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia;
Jarre - The Mission;
Morricone - Spaghetti Westerns;
Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven;
Schifrin - Bullitt;
Gregson-Williams - Wonder Woman;
Poldouris - Conan the Barbarian;
Poldouris - Starship Troopers;
Horner - Wrath of Khan;
Horner - Aliens;
Zimmer - Batman v Superman;
Zimmer - Gladiator;
Zimmer - Inception;
Barry - Bonds;
Barry - Dances with Wolves;
Barry - Zulu;
Serra - The Fifth Element;
Daft Punk - Tron;
Giacchino - Star Trek;
Giacchino - Rogue One;
Goldsmith - Star Trek the Motion Picture;
Doyle - Thor;
Elfman - Batman;
Rozsa - Ben-Hur;
Rozsa - El Cid;
Well, that’s one of my playlists!
M
Geoff, i recommend you enjoy the films! [don’t worry - English subtitles]
On the subject of Gerrard Depardieu and films with fantastic classical music, it maybe a bit tricky finding a DVD of Tours Les Martins Du Monde for less than the boxset below which presently costs 15 quid on Amazon, however with the boxset you also get the superb film Le Cononel Chabert, which has a fine selection of Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Rauber. (The only caveat of buying this 4 dvd boxset is despite it being worth the money for two brilliant films mentioned above, the other two films are a bit odd and probably best left in the box IMHO)
Another compilation classical goodie ^ plus interesting film too
Excellent list, although The Mission (1986) was scored by Ennio Morricone.
One that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Jerry Goldsmith’s extraordinary score to Planet of the Apes (1968) which combines serialism with much unorthodox instrumentation. Spotify has the complete version but unfortunately doesn’t let you have Escape from the Planet of the Apes as well so you miss Goldsmith’s funky time-signatured opening credits (4/4 - 7/8 recurring!).
Mark