Memorable soundtrack/scores in movies

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Got this idea from goinalltheway. We covered that Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, back to the future, Superman have memorable soundtracks. What other movies can you think of?

For me
- The Exorcist. Everytime I hear that soundtrack, my hair stands on end.
- Alien/Aliens. Subtle, yet unerving. You know something is wrong when you hear the score.
- Termninator 2. The metal sound in the soundtrack fits this movie perfectly.

[The Goon]

The definitive answer: Rocky. The opening theme, the training montage, the fight sequence. "Gonna Fly Now" is unmistakable.

[Frenzy1]

Star Wars, The Rock, Karate Kid

[troutman]

2001: A Space Odyssey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A...lm)#Soundtrack

Music plays a crucial part in 2001, and not only because of the relatively sparse dialogue. From very early on in production, Kubrick decided that he wanted the film to be a primarily non-verbal experience,[citation needed] one that did not rely on the traditional techniques of narrative cinema, and in which music would play a vital role in evoking particular moods. In this respect, 2001 harks back to the central power that music had in the era of silent film.

The film is remarkable for its innovative use of classical music taken from existing commercial recordings. Major feature films were (and still are) typically accompanied by elaborate film scores and/or songs written especially for them by professional composers. But although Kubrick started out by commissioning an original orchestral score from composer Alex North, he later abandoned this, opting instead for pre-recorded tracks sourced from existing recordings, becoming one of the first major movie directors to do so, and beginning a trend that has now become commonplace.

2001 uses works by several classical composers. It features music by Aram Khachaturian (Gayane's Adagio from the Gayaneh ballet suite) and famously used Johann Strauss II's best known waltz, An der schönen blauen Donau (in English, On The Beautiful Blue Danube), during the space-station rendezvous and lunar landing sequences. 2001 is especially remembered for its use of the opening from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra (or "Thus Spake Zarathustra" in English), which has become inextricably associated with the film and its imagery and themes. The film's soundtrack also did much to introduce the modern classical composer György Ligeti to a wider public, using extracts from his Requiem (the Kyrie), Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna and (in an altered form) Aventures (though without his permission).[15]

[Dion]

Eye Of The Tiger from Rocky 3

[looooob]

I guess there are soundtracks and original scores, which are different beasts

Tarantino pics often had good soundtracks, and the Singles soundtrack is good, and relevant to the movie

the music to the Mission was pretty cool

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I can't believe I forgot Star Wars. However, I don't remember how the karate kid soundtrack went.

[Looger]

scores: batman (danny elfman i think), apocalypse now

soundtracks: the crow, bill and ted movies

[Bobblehead]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

[Looger]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

wooohhh waaahhh wooohhh

cannot believe i forgot that one.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by looooob

I guess there are soundtracks and original scores, which are different beasts

Tarantino pics often had good soundtracks, and the Singles soundtrack is good, and relevant to the movie

the music to the Mission was pretty cool

I second that. His music choices seem so out of place, but yet they fit perfectly, namely Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. The sound track for the latter even had the guy from the radion station in the movie "super sounds of the seventies" inbetween the tracks.

[HalifaxDrunk]

This is Spinal Tap
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
The Pink Panther
Fantasia
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

[Hanna Sniper]

Everything by John Williams, he's the man when it comes to soundtracks

[Dion]

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Woodstock

Tommy

[The Goon]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

I don't remember how the karate kid soundtrack went.

You've either got the Zamfir panflute or Peter Cetera singing Glory of Love (Karate Kid II).

"I am a man who will fight for your honour..."

[Agamemnon]

Jurassic Park, Back to the Future

[Red Mile Style]

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

Back to the Future

Man, is there a "This guy doesn't know good music if he snorted a line of it" smiley?

If so, insert here>

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Red Mile Style

Man, is there a "This guy doesn't know good music if he snorted a line of it" smiley?

If so, insert here>

You have a problem with Back to the Future?

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Red Mile Style

Man, is there a "This guy doesn't know good music if he snorted a line of it" smiley?

If so, insert here>

No respect for Huey Lewis and the News?

Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
The Godfather
James Bond

[Agamemnon]

Back to the Future ruled...