TV and Movie Soundtracks

[wiccachick_1]

I am a soundtrack junkie. I love them and have a pretty good collection.

Some of my favorite soundtracks are:

Cruel Intentions

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (some really great unique sounding bands including a hauntingly gothic "Transylvanian Concubine" by Darling Violetta)

She's Having a Baby (good eighties alternative pop songs in there)

Platoon (good sixties "fight the man" songs)

Pretty in Pink (who doesn't like a little OMD??)

[JackPeyton]

Have you seen the special feature on the DVD? it really goes into that nad how they chose the songs. its amazing.

[soapluva]

I love Shirley Bassey and the whole Bond thing too. I actually have Moonraker, Goldfinger and I who have nothing by Shirley Bassey on my ipod.

[LegalGirl82]

Toups~

It's the track "The Dragon's Heartbeat" from Randy Edelman's soundtrack for the film, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story".

It gets used in a lot of trailers...particularly "Forrest Gump".

[XxTaraXx]

The Virgin Suicides, Across the Universe, Dazed and Confused, and Almost Famous are some of my favorite soundtracks.

As far as tv shows go, Gossip Girl has a really good music team.

[EricMontreal22]

Sophia Coppola hiring Air to do Virgin Suicides was an inspired choice. They said they listened to some 70s electornic scores--like Moroder's American Gigolo one--for inspiration. Great moody stuff that works as well on CD as it does for the movie.

[JackPeyton]

The OC always had amazing CD's.

[Toups]

Thank you so much, LegalGirl!! Yeah, I noticed that it's used in a lot of trailers (and it's used a lot during the Olympics too) and I always wondered where the music was from.

It's so good.

[Toups]

The score from :45 to 1:05 - Is that from The Dark Knight?

What about from 1:09 to 2:02?

[Toups]

I just finished watching "No Reservations" and Philip Glass did the score. It reminded me of his "The Hours" score which I just totally loved. "The Hours" was the first movie I noticed Philip Glass. I simply love his piano pieces - it's so beautiful, haunting and sad. It's one of my favorite film scores.

[EricMontreal22]

Glass can be brilliant. But I think the criticisms about him repeatign himself have proven true. I did LOVE his short theme for the flop tv remake a few years back of Night Stalker.

[applcin]

I'm going back a ways but I really like "Grease" and "The Jazz Singer" soundtracks--as a Neil Diamond fan I can admit he sucked as an actor but those were some great songs for the film. Saturday Night Fever is another good one, luv me those BeeGees. And, as a Star Trek fan, I think, between all the tv shows and the movies, they had some great music...not just the themes but the music that would play during scenes--the original series, especially, had some memorable music--fight scenes had a certain theme, the Vulcans had another kind of music, a dangerous space object had another theme...

[Sylph]

May I recommend Eleni Karaindrou, who composes for Angelopoulos's films?

[EricMontreal22]

I don't even know any of his films! Just the name... Do you have examples of highlights movie/sound track wise?

[EricMontreal22]

Thank God It's Friday had by FAR the better disco soundtrack--Casablanca and Motown hired their best to score it and it kinda flopped--even with Paul Jabara (in a bizarre straight acting role) and his great song for Donna Summer, Last Dance. Diana Ross has an AMAZING disco song on there--Lovin', Livin', Givin' and the full four record set is made of great eurodisco songs--the movie is kinda fun largely to see Jeff Goldblum act as king of disco--and Terri Nunn who DOnna Summer's producer liked so much he gave her Take My Breath Away 7 years later.