Your favourite music movie?


Just for fun.
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.

Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!

The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....

Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.

Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.

Simply perfect for the movie.

Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
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Showing 6 responses by fleschler

Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score but not composed specifically for film. Mary Poppins was composed specifically for film (not at the level of Nevsky, just an example). I would pick Bernard Herrmann as the number one composer of film score music for the depth and breath of his compositions. My favorite composers of film scores include both Bernsteins, Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Tiomkin, Goldsmith, Mancini, Rosza, Newman to name those who wrote many great scores. Even the little known Erich Zeisl wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice, a great score. How about Victor Young for the Wizard of Oz? Many great songs and score in that one. I forgot to mention all original movie scores and songs Gershwin wrote in Shall We Dance and Damsel in Distress (not broadway musicals). All those great Disney movie original scores and songs. 10 best is tough to pick, 200 best is more like it (Rocky Horror Picture show-also a musical not written for film).
Unfortunately, Singin in the Rain was written for a The Hollywood Music Box Revue and recorded several times prior to the movie where Cliff Edwards made it super famous (so not written for a soundtrack/movie). The Pinocchio song was a film original as great as Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
I absolutely agree with Cabin in the Sky and Wizard of Oz.  I do like many Morricone film scores as well.  The music of Braveheart just don't seem as memorable but is a good film scores as well.  Eraserhead and Good Night and Good Luck used already published music and the former had unique sounds, no Bernard Herrmann level composition for sure.   Most younger people have not heard or seen the classic film scores of the 1930s to 1980s.  I have among my large music collection, 400+ film soundtracks, mostly LPs.  I have eliminated many more because I can sit through them as listening music only (I have about 300 more that I need to remove from my home).
Some of my favorite jazz infused soundtracks include The Sweet Smell of Success and the Man with the Golden Arm.  The most memorable opening soundtrack is for The Killers (dum de dum dum).
Wow, someone mentioned my late friend and composer Aminadav Aloni for Once soundtrack he composed in 1973.  He was a leader among composers of Jewish choral music in the second half of the 20th century.  This was an unusual film experience for him.