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Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites

 I love the cinema and some of my favourite albums are from films, TV and shows. There seem two basic variants, a score written for the film and compilations of existing tracks, used in the film. So what are your favourites? I'll start.

 Original scores:

  Hard to avoid Hans Zimmer and why would you want to.

   Hans Zimmer, "The thin red line"   Not his best known, but a great score.

   Honourable mention:

    Korngold, "The Sea Hawk"

Compilation scores:

   "Dead man walking" A really great film too.

    Honourable mentions:

      "Philadelphia"

      "The Sopranos" That's the original from the first series

 I am sure you can all think of better ones.


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Wish I had started this thread, but glad the OP did!  

Here is a list of fine TV and Motion Picture Soundtracks in no particular order.

  • The Patriot - One of the very Best Mel Gibson films with a wonderful soundtrack extremely well recorded (sweet).  Appropriate to the movie but stands well on its own worthy of a listening session.
  • Elizabeth - The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett IS Elizabeth both in this sequel and in Elizabeth.  Beautiful musical themes and performance along with beautiful sound quality.  Sweet strings and great dynamics.
  • Glory - Another soundtrack recording triumph with a wide, deep, deep soundstage, glorious choral voices and kick butt bass.  I have this on CD and 180 gram vinyl.  Those deep bass attacks will help inform you as to the quality of your vinyl set-up.
  • Gladiator - Great film, compelling music that helps establish the grandeur of the movie scenes.  This recording is often used as a system showpiece, with good reason.
  • Star Trek The Motion Picture and Star Trek Generations.  Great sound with the iconic themes specific to the Star Trek franchise. Dramatic musical moments both dynamic and intense as well as soft and touching.
  • Game of Thrones - Seasons 2, 4, 6  Ramin Djawadi has managed to immerse himself in the world of Westeros.  Very well performed orchestral themes, excellently recorded with individual songs that integrate the GoT lietmotifs yet present as individual songs.
  • Alias - Yes, the TV series that put Jennifer Garner and Bradley Cooper on the Hollywood map.  This is fun stuff as the sound quality is excellent with the music being an appropriate mixture of orchestral and electronic with awesomely tight, deep bass.
  • Gettysburg - If ever there was a soundtrack that expressed the anguish and yet the heroism of significant Civil War moments this is it with a nod to Glory mentioned above.  It's hard when watching the movie's depiction of Pickett's Charge to concentrate on the visuals as you get so swept up in the grandeur of the music.
  • Superman Returns - I pull this disc out all the time.  You can picture the movie as you listen to it, but you can revel in the dynamism of the music without ever having seen the film.  Indeed the music puts the movie to shame.  Crystal clear, open and dynamic sound.


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