Here's a sample of my favorites. [video=youtube;TSDm-cvxHP8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDm-cvxHP8[/video] [video=youtube;QO253RicE-E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO253RicE-E&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;hlqQD6C4lfg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqQD6C4lfg&feature=related[/video]
Speaking of soundtrack music, check out Two Steps from Hell on YouTube. Great workout music that pops up on TV a lot. Recently heard it on Mountain Men. [video=youtube;EptSSXNHIfg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EptSSXNHIfg[/video]
Here's an iconic theme and perhaps one of the most memorable films of Vietnam. [video=youtube;335T7bOU7B4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335T7bOU7B4[/video]
Kind of an obscure movie/composer..... but I have always been a HUGE fan of what John Brion did for I heart Huckabees. The entire score was brilliant and really helped highlight the movie. http://youtu.be/LGoh5GgEOtY
Another score I am really really drawn towards is the score for the movie Ravenous. Kind of another obscure reference, but the music in the film is as important as the actual script. It is strange, compelling, mysterious and beautiful. Done by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn (from Blur). http://youtu.be/vLt98WxrYAw
I'm not into the traditional "scores," but one modern score that has always stayed with me is the work that the french duo Air did on Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. The script was pretty weak, even though it was based on a highly reviewed novel. The only thing that carried the film was the original score by Air, but it was a good enough of a job that I still think back to that movie some times just based on the amazing music and the imagery that Coppola put with it. [video=youtube;M9Bqu81QrIA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Bqu81QrIA[/video]
I haven't seen the movie, but I enjoyed the music out of context. I'm a fan of Albarn's in general and tend to keep an open mind to his work. He's really one of the most under-appreciated artists out there, probably because of the negative connotations that will follow someone after being in a Brit-pop band, or maybe even because the Gorillaz have always been easily digestible by the top 40 charts. Have you heard his score for Monkey: Journey to the West? Aside from scores, Albarn also did some great work producing Amadou and Mariam's Welcome to Mali. I've always got "Sabali" on loop. I actually found out about it after Damian Marley and Nas sampled it with "Patience," but after listening to Welcome to Mali, I can't go back and listen to the Marley and Nas version. Albarn just did it too perfectly the first time.
I haven't seen or heard any of the others that you mentioned. I will have to get on that. I feel so strongly about his work on Ravenous that I would check anything out that he has worked on. I also highly recommend Ravenous if you feel like you might be into a creepy, but slightly tongue in cheek, 1800's cannibal movie....hehe
Not sure how I forgot about this one. I am a huge Air fan. I loved that movie when it came out, but recently rewatched it and was a bit underwhelmed. However, the music is absolutely brilliant. Those French bastards.
If you're looking at guys who wrote for many major motion pictures and whose songs everyone knows, there's the Sherman brothers. Those two wrote the music for the major Disney movies over the decades. Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Winnie the Pooh, etc., etc., etc. I mean, has anyone here not heard the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?"
i like the stuff rza has been doing elfman is a legend clearly john williams is iconic for sure, the success of those movies helps to imprint them in your memory though i liked neil youngs noodling on "dead man"
I am also a really big fan of the stuff that David Lynch uses in his films. This track is by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch. This scene is....um......strange and dark. For some reason everytime I hear this song....I just want to do bad things. WARNING, there are boobs in this scene. http://youtu.be/vLt98WxrYAw
