Conference bookie::movies

    
    Spielberg's "Duel"
    

    "Superman The Movie"
    "Somewhere In Time"
    "Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan"
    
    Geez there's so many!
    
    Michael

    "Patton" compositions by Jerry Goldsmith
    "BladeRunner" from Vangelis (the original Soundtrack to come
		out June 14th)
    "2001"  Ligeti, Strauss, and Strauss (If it must be Richard, let it
		be Wagner, if it must be Strauss, let it be Johann.  :-)
    "Barry Lyndon"  Schubert, Beethoven's 7th, 2nd movement, etc.
    "A Clockwork Orange"  Carlos' interpretations of Beethoven
    "Koyaanisqqatsi" (yeah, spell that)  Glass
    "Twin Peaks"  Badalamenti
    "Wings of Desire" dir. Wim Wenders, various artists
    "Until the End of the World" dir. Wim Wender, various artists
    "The Andromeda Strain"  Gil Melle'  (a bit avant garde)

monty

    
    	"Spring Break"
    
    
    							GTI

I could list a lot of great soundtracks but I have three favorites:

_The Ghost and Mrs Muir_  Benard Herrman    A very beautiful and haunting
score for one of my favorite films. On Varese Sarabande.

_Kings Row_   Eric Wolfgang Korngold   Possibly the best score of one of
the industries greatest composers. Not what you'd expect given the type of
film this is. Of course you also wouldn't expect the film to be as good as
it is given the type of film it is. :^) On Varese Sarabande.

_Twin Peaks_  Angelo Badalamenti   Assuming a television soundtrack qualifies.
IMHO the best score ever for a TV series and the best ever TV series. 

I'm tempted to list Tim Burton's _Batman_ but it's not quite up there with
these three.


Randy


PS   I'm not including scores for musicals here, I'd make that a separate
catagory entirely.

    What about the music from the Star Wars movies.

    
    I hesitate to say this, but the soudtrack to 'Valley Girl' has some
    really good 80's punk-pop on it - the Plimsouls rule!
    
    					- Jimbo

    I would say my favorite soundtrack must be Prokofiev's score for 
    Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky".  
    
    I think I have seven different recordings of this.
    

    
    I can't find anything sound about listening to any of these tracks.
    
    I'd rather lose my gonads laughing at the Life of Brian.			
    
    Music and sound effects compliment the visuals. Give me great dialogue
    any day. If I want sounds there are herds of them already out there recorded
    for aural pleasure by artists with that specific purpose.
    
    As for pop in the pictures, its pap on the radio so spare me...
    
    Iain
     

    
    "Somwhere In Time"
    
    "Out Of Africa"
    
    "Dances With Wolves"
    

    "Good Morning Vietnam!"
    

    The Lion in Winter (Barry)
    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Hermann)
    Catlow (great banjo)
    Duel at Diablo (Hefti)
    To Kill a Mockingbird (E. Bernstein)
    Schindler's List (Williams)
    The Accidental Tourist (Williams)
    The Red Pony (Copland)
    The Big Country (Moross)
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Grusin)
    Guns of Navarone (Tiomkin) 

    "Quigley Down Under" has a nice rousing soundtrack, which I am
    endeavoring to purchase.  Done by Basil Poulidorous (sp).  Really cool,
    really non-Conan. 
    
    "Star Wars" (at least the first two movies) seems to pretty much define
    the full-blown motion picture score and I really liked them.  "Jaws"
    holds a nice, special place in my heart, too, just for it's
    genre-defining da-dum, da-dum.  Besides, it was the first soundtrack
    I ever purchased, right after I saw the movie.  (I wonder how I
    afforded it, considering I had to be only 11 or so at the time. And
    while records seem to cost, oh about $7 back then, being 11, I wasn't
    exactly in the peak of my Earning Years--like I am now.  Not.  :)
    Oh well.  Mysteries lost to history).
    
    I really liked the soundtrack to the movie "Swashbuckler", which had
    great, well, swashbuckling music.   Jerry Goldsmith did that one, I
    think.  
    
    For Fairy Tale surrealness, you can't beat Danny Elfman's 
    "Edward Scissorhands".  
    
    Half of my CD collection (and vinyl) are soundtracks, so I'm not
    including quite a few favorites.
     
    I think I liked soundtracks more when they weren't laden with Top 40
    hits and were well, the score to the movie.  Now, 
    
      
    Cheers,
    
    kim
            
    

    Danny Elfman's  BATMAN is a beautiful soundtrack   (not Prince's Trash)
    Somewhere in Time  definitely
    Cliffhanger  has beautiful background music
     
    

    Another vote for "Quigley", and throw in one for "Conan" as well.
   
    One that I found recently on CD after a 10-year search - "The Three
    Musketeers" (1970's vintage). 

    Some that I can remember from my collection of soundtrack albums
    (dating myself no doubt!)...
    
    	The Sound of Music
    	Born Free
    	The Endless Summer
    	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    	The Blues Brothers
    
    Karen.

"Exodus" sound track was excellent

I find that one of the first things I notice about movies is the 
background music  (even before how good or bad the acting happens to 
be).  It annoys me so much that people in the theatre always seem to 
start gabbing whenever there is no dialogue on screen - is it just me 
or does everybody else get stuck sitting in front of the "talkers"??

I rented "Reservoir Dogs" recently and then HAD to go out and buy the 
soundtrack - great music and some classic dialogue 

A "score" that I adore is "The Man from Snowy River" - I think that one 
of the best ways to judge the music is if you can remember the scene of 
the movie it applied to, and listening to this CD I can almost feel 
myself galloping over the mountains of Oz.


John Berry has written many wonderful scores, but I guess my favourite 
would be "Dances with Wolves" - great music for a great movie.


Chris

    Re .7
    
    My god, somebody else at DEC likes the Plimsouls?!?!?
    
    I tought I was alone........ (in a past life I was a groupie)
    
    Marilyn

    This should probably also go in the guilty pleasures topic, but I love
    the soundtrack to "Flashdance", and "Thank God it's Friday".
    
    I guess I live in the past.   ;^)
    
    Marilyn  
    

    A good soundtrack can make a poor film "look" better !
    
    Here's some of my favourite soundtracks...
    
    BACKDRAFT
    ROBOCOP
    THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
    PREDATOR 2
    DANCES WITH WOLVES
    GLORY
    FRANKENSTEIN/BRIDE/SON
    ALIENS
    ZULU
    TERMINATOR
    LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
    BLADERUNNER
    
    Ta
    
    Vince...

    "Harold & Maude" (all Cat Stevens music (back when he was still a cool
    guy))
    
    "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
    
    "Wild At Heart"
    
    "Hairspray" (John Waters)
    
    And - ALL Spike Lee movies.
    
    Steve
    

    two all time favourites:
    Dawn of the Dead
    Suspiria
    Both by italian group Goblin 
    
    and a bonus:RoboCop
    
    henri

Went to see Mavarick last night - was surprised to see that Randy Newman 
composed the music - it was very good.  One of my old favourite soundtracks 
was for "Rags" (I think that's the right name - feel free to correct me) - 
it's been so long since I lisented to it.... I'll have to go into my album 
collection and find it again.

Randy was also on Letterman last night and it sounds like it's a pretty 
tortous job to score a movie.

Chris

    _Married to the Mob_ soundtrack is wonderful, but I can't find it
    anywhere on CD.
    
    The soundtrack from _Until the End of the World_ is truly magnificent.

    
    	I forgot to mention "Saturday Night Fever".
    
    							GTI
    

    If I remember right, the Italian rock group Goblin includes director
    Dario "Renaissance Dude" Argento.
    
    Could the "Rags" memory actually be of "Ragtime", which Randy Newman
    scored?  
    
    Newman's "Maverick" work disappointed me; I was hoping for a "Long
    Goodbye" type of approach, with a dozen different versions of the TV
    theme song, and a special appearance by Caroliner Rainbow.
    
    Ray

    I thought Elfman did a great job on "Pee Wee's Great Adventure"

NO ONE MENTIONED PRETTY WOMAN SO I WILL.

AN OLDIE, PLANET OF THE APES

AND ONE FOR MY WIFE WHO STILL ADORES THE PRINCE PURPLE RAIN SOUND TRACK.
SHE'S PLUM NEAR WORE OUT THE CD!

>>  re .28  Could the "Rags" memory actually be of "Ragtime", which Randy    
 Newman scored?  


Yes, you are correct sir!

This topic has really go me thinking.... there are SO many wonderful scores. 
How about "Glory" with the choir getting louder and louder as the troop 
sbegan to attack the fort?  Another one... "Sophie's Choice" - haunting and 
sad.

Chris

    Three cult classics:
     MOVIE              Soundtrack
    ----------	        -----------------------------------------
    Hell Hole  		music by Spinal Tap  (highly underated band)
    Taxi Driver      	sultry 50's sounding jazz, dialogue 
    DUDES	     	mixed metal collection (Anyone have this?)
                        It's not longer in print.

    
    	Yup, I have "Dudes".
    
    	Megadeth, Steve Vai, and others that I can't recall because I
    	haven't heard it in awhile.  But I do remember it was quite
    	good overall.
    
    							GTI
    

    Liked these:
    		Star Wars
    		Footloose
    		Top Gun
    	        Batman
    		Streets of Fire - Can't beat Ry Cooder !
    
    Davie.

    
    
    Benny and Joon
    Cal
    

    It just has to be ;
    
    "Betty Blue"
    
    just the best ever!!!
    
    G.
    
    

    re a few.
    I don't think Argento was a member of Goblins, more
    like "special guest" making the soundtrack to
    Dawn of the Dead and Suspiria (dir. by Argento)
    
    henri
    

    
    	And Steve Vai's work in "Crossroads" ROOLED!!
    
    
    							GTI

    unfortunately,its not available on the lp.You have to get the movie for
    the guitar duel.
    
    
    
    						ian
    
    
    
    

    
    	I did.  8^)
    
    	But before I did, I checked out the soundtrack for the duel,
    	and did notice that the entire soundtrack was by Ry Cooder.
    	Not that that's a bad thing, mind you, but it wasn't what I
    	was looking for.
    
    	I keep the tape forwarded right to the beginning of the duel
    	and that's usually the only part I watch, although I do like
    	the movie.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    
       Where can i sell my soundtracks? [on L.P.] i no longer
       play records after C.D's came out & i have loads of sondtracks
       lying about not being used,stuff like all the John Carpenter films
       "Halloween" "Escape from New York" etc etc & Speilberg's "1941"
        "Jaws" "ET" the list goes on.
         
                                  Cameron. 

    Re .41: There's a conference COMET::RECORDS, especially for LPs; topic
    1000 is the "for sale" note. [There's also the HUMANE::CLASSIFIED_ADS
    conference, if you want to reach a more general audience.]
    
    Another possibility: check out your local phone book for dealers in
    used LPs. Some of them are considered collectors' items - and even 
    if you don't have any of those, you might find a buyer for the ones you
    do have. Better than just giving them away.
    
    [I had some luck with some of mine a few years back, at a plain old
    yard sale; I included "LPs" in the list of items in the newspaper ad,
    and some guy showed up before opening time to look through the stack. I
    had a few fairly choice oldies among all the dreck, and he offered me a
    decent (would have been better if I'd wanted to bargain, but I didn't)
    price for the whole lot.]
    
    -b

    
    
    I've been looking for the soundtrack to "Frankie and Johnny" for ages
    but have just found out it's no longer available, does anyone have a
    copy of it i could borrow or buy?
    
    
    
    
    
    				Ewan

    
    Cat People
    The Last Emperor
    
    Ian.

    Bull Durham -- wish I could find it somewhere

    
    "Who's Afraid of  Virginia Woolfe"  1966
    
    "The Fox"  1968      
    
    "John & Mary"  1968
can't find these on vinyl or tape...... Does anyone know where to get them?
    

    Not off hand, but there's a whole newsgroup devoted to movie
    soundtracks.  If you've got a newsreader, try rec.arts.movie.music.  
    
    
    kim

    
    Two of my favorites which I'm surprised no-one has mentioned:
    
    - The Natural
    
    - Last of the Mohicans
    
    Both of these are original scores (vs. just replaying old hit records).
    
    -Joe
    

    The Big Chill
    The Blues Brothers

    
    James Newton-Howard's soundtrack for the motion picture
    "Grand Canyon" 
    
    

    "Little shop of Horrors"
    
    (he sure looks like plant food to me)

    Forrest Gump...should be a good one.
    

    
    Eric Serra & Maurice Jarre have done a lot of good moviemusic
    
    The Big Blue
    Nikita
    Dead Poets Society
    Living Dangerously
    ...

           
        
    The 1970 movie "They Call Me MISTER Tibbs" was the sequel to the movie 
    "In the Heat of the Night" in which Sidney Poitier was casted as
    detective "Virgil Tibbs".
    
    The title theme from "They Call ..."  was a very attractive tune.
    
    did anyone know who was the composer ?
    
    -sl.
    

    Anyone know if you can get the soundtrack to "Ragtime" on CD these days?
    I seem to remember Randy Newman won (or at least was nominated for) an
    Oscar for it, but I sure can't find it in Australia. I already have it
    on vinyl, but it's a bit of a scratchy old copy. Sure would like to
    update ...

    
    
    
    yeah that is a great soundtrack, "Ragtime" that is.
    Haven't Noticed it on CD yet but I haven't checked lately.
    
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    
    Not sure if I should start this area of discussion here but thought it 
    might be better than starting a new note considering it has to do with
    soundtracks. Moderator - please let me know if this should be a new
    topic......
    
    I don't know about you folks, but I'm pretty tired of movies being
    developed to "fit" a soundtrack. Almost every night when I do get the
    opportunity to watch some t.v. I see an add for a movie and the first
    thing the commercial plugs is the soundtrack.  And not to get into
    another type of rathole, but 9 out of 10 the soundtracks involve Rap
    music or music by Rap artists.  What happened to creating a good
    movie and working on finding the appropriate songs for them.  Same
    thing with movie posters:  XYZ movie FEATURING XYZ ARTIST on the
    SOUNDTRACK.
    
    Soundtracks used to be a plus with a good movie, now you can get a
    "good" soundtrack and a poor quality movie.
    
    Has anyone else noticed this or am I standing on my own on this one?
    Just curious to know what others think....
    

    Oh good heavens I thought it was just *me*!
    
    
    
    E

    
    re: -.1, -.2
    
    Oh, no, it's not just you.  I guess it's one of the inevitable
    irritations of being in a minority.
    
    DFW

    Some soundtracks I've got...and how I rate 'em...
    
    	The Last Action Hero - 'bout the whole album is good, artists
    include Alice in Chains, AC/DC, Queensryche, DefLeppard, Fishbone
    & Cypress Hill. If you're into Heavy Metal/Grunge/Hard Core Rap!
    
    	The Crow - Another decent album, artists include Nine Inch Nails,
    The Cure, Helmet & Stone Temple Pilots.
    
    	Clerks - Great Movie, O.K. soundtrack. Got it mainly for the Alice 
    in Chains tune "Got Me Wrong" and it's got little cuts from the flick
    like the scene about hermaphrodidic(sp?) porn.
    
    	Dumb & Dumber - O.K. soundtrack. Artists include Green Jelly, Dead
    Eye Dick & The Crash Test Dummies. And some *WRETCH* dance tracks...
    
    	H.A.G.O.,
    
    		 J 

    I don't think it's so much that the movie is being developed to "fit"
    the soundtrack, but that the current trend is to try to populate your
    soundtrack with things which will sell on the radio.  Especially for
    the popular young demographic -- Dangerous Minds comes to mind.  On the
    other hand, it works for nostalgic purposes, too.  In that case, we
    have Forrest Gump and to a lesser extent, Mr. Holland's Opus. 
    
    Having a "cool" soundtrack is probably perceived as a way to draw in
    viewers.  It is also a very good way to sell records (CD's if you
    prefer). 
    
    Another trend is to release a soundtrack of music "from and/or inspired
    by".  I think this started with all those Madonna songs from Dick
    Tracy, only one or two of which were actually IN the movie.  Also,
    Prince (the Artist Currently Known As Some Weird Symbol) did that for
    Batman.  The soundtrack for Speed did that.  And for the Crow.  Even
    less successful movies (like Virtuosity, which wasn't that good of a
    movie, nor did very well) initially put out a soundtrack album which
    was basically a bunch of songs.  Needless to say, Disney does that all
    the time -- the Lion King even had the Elton John version of the same
    songs which were in the movie, "popularized".  
    
    Now, there's a subset of folks who want to see the SCORE on the
    soundtrack, and fortunately, what happens is that usually you get both
    the "soundtrack" to the movie and the "score" to the movie.  Speed,
    Forrest Gump, the Crow, Mr. Hollands Opus, Batman, and so on have all
    done that.  These are generally what *I* buy, me liking the score to a
    movie more than "songs from and inspired by".
    
    So anyway, I don't think there's all that many movies developed AROUND
    a soundtrack, but I do believe that what the soundtrack ends up being
    is geared for marketing purposes.  As a result, the "With Songs By Your
    Favorite Artist!"  and the separate released of a soundtrack album and
    a score album.  At least somebody still puts out the scores.  
    
    
    
    kim 

    
    	RE: .61
    
    	I think you might like "Judgment Night" also, will all the
    	songs being done by a combination of metal/rap artists,
    	including Helmet, Ice T., Slayer, Anthrax.
    
    
    	And does anybody remember the conversation from "The Big
    	Picture", with Kevin Bacon discussing the soundtrack of
    	his upcoming movie with the producer?  The producer wanted
    	to fill the movie with "10 or 12 hit songs" and Kevin want-
    	ed no music at all?
    

    
    Judgement night has an awesome soundtrack,if not one of the best I've
    ever heard
    
    
    re-1
    
    nit..Anthrax wasn't on it! 8)
    
    						Ian

    
    	Oops, I must be thinking of, ummm, another soundtrack whose
    	name I can't quite recall at the moment.
    
    	Must be "Airheads" or "Demon Knight".
    

    
    I don't think they were on "airheads" either maybe it was "demon
    knight"??
    
    
    							ian

    When you say the 'score', are you talking about an actual recording of
    the score?  Or the sheet?  
    
    I ask because I bought the soundtrack (which really *isn't*!) for
    Crossroads and was bitterly disappointed.  What I really wanted was the
    SOUND TRACK!
    
    
    If you get my drift.
    
    
    E Grace

    
    I prefer Soundtracks that are not just a collection of potential
    or proven hits from various bands.  "The Big Chill," "The Crow," 
    "Last Action Hero," "Born  On The Fourth Of July" - they're all the
    same to me - unrelated songs by unrelated bands trying to be forced
    into a movie.  I don't care how good any individual song is, if it's
    not designed for the movie, leave it out.
    
    Some notable deviations from this trend include: "To Live And Die in
    LA," the superb, custom set of songs from Wang Chung and "Pee Wee's Big
    Adventure," a true classic from Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman.
    
    Still, the best soundtracks are the ones that just set the right moods:
    "Alien," "Jaws," "Raising Arizona," "Eraserhead," etc.
    
    - Sean
    

    
    	Wait, wait, wait ... Danny Elfman is from Oingo Boingo??
    
    	I DO learn something new every day.
    
    
    	RE: E Grace
    
    	I looked at the "Crossroads" soundtrack before I bought it,
    	to make sure it had all the Steve Vai stuff on it.  Well, it
    	didn't, so I didn't end up buying it.  But I did get the
    	movie on VHS, so I keep it wound up to the beginning of the
    	duel and just watch that part over and over.  8^)
    

    
    RE: .63 (SLAB)
    
    	Thanks for the suggestion...I think my buddies got it so I'll have
    to swindle it from him one way or another.
    
    RE: .68
    
    	"The Crow" soundtrack suits the movie just fine if ya check out the
    lyrics to some of the tunes...
    
    Alot of the other soundtracks are simply promo albums for new bands who
    wanna get their tunes into the market somehow. Or the peole who decide
    what tunes go on the soundtrack try to pick tunes that everybody likes.
    ie, "Forrest Gump", "Dazed & Confused", "Wayne's World". No one wants
    to buy an old album in order to get that "one good tune" when someone
    has put'em all on a soundtrack for ya! 
    
    	H.A.G.O,
    
    		 J 

    RE: .69
    
    sigh.  I had not caught the whole movie, so I didn't know (really) what
    to look for on the CD.  I wondered, but thought maybe I just didn't
    know the name of the duel.
    
    feh!  That was the the whole point!
    
    
    E

    
    
    
    John Williams has composed some of the best scores for movies:
    
    Star Wars ( all of them) 
    all the Indiana Jones movies
    Empire of the Sun
    Superman
    Jaws
    
    just to name a few!
    
    Chris
    :)

    Has anyone mentioned Streets of Fire? It bills itself as a rock and
    roll fable. It stars Diane Lane as a rock and roll singer, Rick Moranis
    as her annoying agent, Michael Pare as the tough good guy, and Amy
    Madigan as the tough good guy too. None of them sing on the soundtrack. 
    The movie is OK-to-good, and the music is excellent. Dan Hartman's 
    "I Can Dream about You" is from this film.

    Lisa

    
    	I think this was on last week, but I missed it.
    
    	I do remember that the soundtrack was very good, especially
    	"Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young".
    

    
    Was that the infamous "7 minute fight scene with sledge-hammer"
    (Channel 56) movie, or am I confusing it with something else?

>    Was that the infamous "7 minute fight scene with sledge-hammer"
>    (Channel 56) movie, or am I confusing it with something else?

    You got it. The bad guy was Willem Dafoe. Bad. It had several good
    songs that could stand alone but fit very well into the film. One of
    them was a clever one done a capella in the film but filled out with
    background musicians in the soundtrack called "Countdown to Love."
    Robert Townsend was in the group that did this in the film, one (if
    not the) first of his movie roles.

    Lisa

    
    
    re- Shawn...I could have told you the "Vai" duel wasn't on the
    soundtrack.I bought it about 5 years ago and was greatly disappointed.
    
    
    
    					Ian

    
    	Oh, I knew that about 10 years ago when I went looking for the
    	soundtrack in Worcester.  8^)
    
    	It's mostly the Ry Cooder blues tracks.
    

    
    My dear old ma bought the soundtrack in an attempt to get hold of the
    duel but was greatly pi$$ed off.  Any idea where I can get hold of it?

    
    	Buy the movie on VHS, or whatever format you use over there.
    

    
    	Ouch!!  8^)
    
    	Actually, I was serious.  I don't think you're going to find
    	"The Duel" on any soundtrack, since it's not on the 1 that's
    	dedicated to the movie.
    
    	I have "Crossroads" on VHS, so I see no reason why you can't
    	buy it also ... be it PAL or NTSC or whatever.
    

    
    you can buy it on a Euro-format....I had it!
    
    
    						Ian

    
    re .82
    
    I had a feeling you wuz gonna say that but I'd hoped it might have been
    available on a recording somewhere (perhaps on a steve vai album?).  I
    guess not.
    
    Mind you, it might not be so good when you just hear the recording,
    some pieces just seem to work when they're set to a movie scene.
    
    Actually, while I'm on the subject - can anyone nominate a piece of
    music that goes great with a movie scene but sounds lousy on your
    stereo?
    
    
    I.

    Somewhere Out There
    
    
    E

    
    	RE: .84
    
    	Buy the movie, preferably recorded in stereo, and transfer it
    	to a good-quality audio tape through your stereo system.
    

> Buy the movie, preferably recorded in stereo, and transfer it
> to a good-quality audio tape through your stereo system.

	I'd also recommend using a "Hi-Fi Stereo" VCR (assuming the
	tape says "Hi-Fi Stereo" on it), than a plain old "dolby
	stereo" VCR.  The Dolby tracks are not much different than
	those on a standard audio cassette (small tracks on the edge
	of the tape), but Hi-Fi Stereo is somehow encoded over the same
	width of the tape as the video and gives an audio dynamic range
	I believe in the 80db range, almost as good as an audio CD.

    
    
    
    re .85
    
   >> somewhere out there
    
    James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt, " An American Tale"
    
    Chris
    :)

    Well, at least I don't have to worry about not having the duel from
    CROSSROADS anymore.
    
    The theatre I'm working at right now (I'm an professional acter as well
    as a computer geek!) was burgled, props were taken, my clothes (and
    other people's) were rifled through, the CD player on stage, and all
    the CDs -- including my own -- were taken.  
    
    
    )*8
    
    
    Irma Thomas CDs are *not* easy to find!
    
    E Grace Noonan