Film Music Thread

[PaperThinWalls]

Share and discuss anything related to music used in the movies (e.g. scores, soundtracks, themes, songs, etc.).

 

To start things off, I'll begin with this synth classic by Giorgio Moroder that opens Scarface:

 

[Ziggy Vercetti]

[Creepia]

I will say that John Williams didnt really do anything that spectacular in The Force Awakens. The film made great use of old themes and songs, but nothing really brand new or outstanding.

 

Shame really.

[PaperThinWalls]

^ Yeah, surprisingly unmemorable and uninspired at times, but I do like this piece:

 

[AlterNation]

Duel of the Fates is probably my favourite Star Wars track ever. I love the absolute crap out of it.

[Oresama]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1mbKjV5OChA

The Vengeance Trilogy in general has great music.

Edited January 3, 2016 by Φresama

[ZEF]

I agree with Creep, loved the movie but definitely walked out of the cinema feeling pretty underwhelmed at the Force Awakens' soundtrack.

 

On the other hand, I haven't seen it yet but I've heard the soundtrack for The Hateful Eight is pretty mind blowing. Not a surprise if true considering it's Tarantino though.

[Kirky]

My favourite Star Wars theme is either Duel of the Fates or this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIl7-rDOuTM

 

My favourite music from any movie is this:

 

 

Whole song is great but the beginning and from around 1:20 really gets me every time.

Edited January 3, 2016 by Kirky

[PaperThinWalls]

^ I'm a big of the music he composed for the first two Home Alone films. Underrated stuff.

 

The Vengeance Trilogy in general has great music.

Beautiful; yet another reason to watch the film!

 

 

I agree with Creep, loved the movie but definitely walked out of the cinema feeling pretty underwhelmed at the Force Awakens' soundtrack.

 

On the other hand, I haven't seen it yet but I've heard the soundtrack for The Hateful Eight is pretty mind blowing. Not a surprise if true considering it's Tarantino though.

Oooh, the score is the thing I'm most excited about! A new score by Ennio Morricone is always a welcome treat, especially when it defies expectations. Apparently instead of delivering Tarantino a western score, he gave him a horror (and to some degrees giallo) score. Sounds exciting. I absolutely love his work in Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage:

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bczne9WZpb0

[Mustacio]

Boom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhPxLGhkok

[Phantasmagore]

I barely noticed the soundtrack in The Force Awakens.

 

I like the soundtrack of Django Unchained, especially Django and Trinity. The John Legend song was pretty good too.

 

The Social Network's soundtrack is awesome. It really augmented what was already a great movie.

[Kman]

Really enjoyed the soundtrack to this

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_-3pop7EQ

[PaperThinWalls]

^ Straight out of the school of John Carpenter.

[Generations]

I'm a sucker for anything Ennio Morricone. I grew up with my dad always watching the old Sergio Leone westerns. That music is just untouchable IMO.

[PaperThinWalls]

So this past October I watched the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment, for the first time -- and I gotta say, while I wasn't too enthusiastic about most of the songs (and frankly the film itself), there were three in particular that I felt were just as good, if not BETTER than the best songs from Rocky Horror, which is saying something because there are some phenomenal songs in that movie.

 

 

 

[PaperThinWalls]

Two clips featuring Ry Cooder's hauntingly, soulful slide-guitar score from Paris, Texas. If you've not seen this Wim Wenders' film, seek it out ASAP -- it's on Hulu.

 

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iS-k1Dd30Nw

[Gamevolt]

Basil Poledouris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onGWF8mz1Zw

[PaperThinWalls]

 

The perfect song to open and close the mysterious, disturbed world of Lost Highway. Its hypnotic rhythm mashed with the repetitious imagery of the road lines zooming by sets the mood just right.

[PaperThinWalls]

 

Little known cult movie from 1980 that features the music of Oingo Boingo back during their theater troupe days when they were called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. Ideally I would show the footage from the movie, but unfortunately I cannot since some of the material is a bit much for this forum. This audio-only clip of the opening theme (sung by Danny Elfman) will suffice I suppose but if you like what you hear, go straight to YouTube and look up the footage yourself, especially if you're a person who likes transgressive cinema with an Underground comix sensibility.

[Fried]

[PaperThinWalls]

^ I like how Lynch redefines a sweet, melancholic song about longing for loss love into a creepy, insidious song about obsession and control. I always felt that Roy Orbison was a good sport for accepting Lynch's use of the song -- although I'm sure Orbison's renewed fame that came afterwards certainly helped matters.

 

Staying on Blue Velvet, in addition to its use of old pop songs (Rossellini's sultry, haunting rendition of "Blue Velvet," in particular I adore) and Angelo Badalamenti's beautiful orchestral score, I am quite fond of this original track sung by Julee Cruise:

 

 

Originally, Lynch wanted This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" for the film, but he was unable to obtain the rights so he and Badalamenti created this wonderful tune instead. Over a decade later, though, Lynch did eventually get the rights and used it in Lost Highway.

[Fried]

What I really love about the Roy in Blue Velvet is that for me it's not just Lynch turning the song from one extreme to another it's that it opened my eyes that maybe Roy's songs were always more deep than what they appeared to be on the surface. Great soundtrack all around, probably still got it on tape somewhere.

[PaperThinWalls]

Oh yes, I concur. There seemed to be something there from the beginning, even if Orbison didn't consciously know it.

 

Another Orbison song Lynch put into great use is "Crying," which he reimagines as a Spanish a cappella song in Mulholland Dr.:

 

[Fried]

That one doesn't seem to work for me. To be honest I'm not really into film too much but my brother works in film so I'd often get the opportunity to go through his collection of (back then) VHS and his soundtrack collections; Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and all that.

 

One movie I did see and that had a deep impact on me was Baraka from 1992.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEb1iZ2JYHI

 

[PaperThinWalls]

Not a fan, eh? Maybe it's a context thing if you haven't seen it.