Anyone else into Film Scores?

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Just curious as I've seen little mention of this but since I was about 8 I have been completely obsessed with Film scores. My musical tastes have developed since however the music I listen to is usually very cinematic or somehow invloved in a movie when I discover it.

I enjoy listening to John Williams film scores, I think his music is great. I like to listen to him when I read sometimes.

I'm very fond of Elmer Bernstein; especially Ghostbusters, which is my all time favourite film.

The Stanley Kubrick films are also great for their music scores; especially The Shining, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Spartacus.

Not terribly much, though there are some movie OSTs I listen to. The only movie score I listen to is the score to the anime movie Wings of Honneamise it's by mostly Ryuichi Sakamoto, my favorite composer. I'd probably be happy listening to any of Sakamoto's scores, he scored The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence I very much LOVE the title track to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

I do tend to like a disproportionate amount of music from anime, TV, and movie OSTs, but never really full scores. And it's only been lately that I've gotten into music enough to really appreciate instrumentals like that.

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Two of my favorite Sakamoto songs from movies he's scored.

I find myself listening more and more to long, atmospheric instrumental music (maybe we have less free time as we get older, so listen to music while doing other things? Instrumental music's good for that!) and film scores fit perfectly in that category. I've grown to appreciate classical/orchestral stuff more too, which helps.

John Williams' stuff is great...it wasn't until I looked him up on Wikipedia that I realised I'd been appreciating his music without knowing who'd written it! Seriously, the guy has written one heck of a lot, and for really well-known films too.

Like 1000Knives, I've got into anime OST in a big way in recent years. Yoko Kanno's the most famous name, but Yuki Kajiura's possibly my favourite. She's released albums with various vocalists under the names of See-Saw, FictionJunction and Kalafina, but her music has a haunting quality with a huge amount of depth and feeling. This one's possibly my favourite (Garan no Dou, from the fourth Garden of Sinners movie):

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I currently have music from the original Star Wars trilogy, the latest Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes movies, Tron Legacy as well as an album of tracks from various movies on my IPod.

I’ve also enjoyed music composed for video games such as the Halo series, Soul Calibre 4 and the track used for the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim game play trailer. Although their not movies I think in musical terms they are similar enough to be included.

Regarding the Tron Legacy soundtrack, what do my fellow WP members think of Daft Punk composing a movie soundtrack? Would you like to see other musical acts composing for movies?

In a way bringing a band like Daft Punk on board sort of made me think of the move HEAVY METAL. I would like to see more projects like that.


Also personally I was hoping for a DVD bonus where a bunch of TRON characters would do a version of Around The World.

Yes. Absolutely! I'm not a huge fan of Daft Punk, but I enjoyed the songs of theirs that I've heard so far. Their music seemed to fit the aesthetic and 'vibe' of the movie really well though, and added an extra level of coolness to it.

It's great when one artist or band (as opposed to, say, a composer who specialises in film music) does the entire score for a film - the end result is often refreshing and surprising. I'm listening to the 'alternative soundtrack' that 65dos did for Silent Running, and really wish I could see the film itself with their score accompanying it (it's a cult SF movie that I'd never even heard of before 65 announced they were planning the project!). Their music could work really well with a retro SF type of film, now I think about it. Jonny Greenwood's score for Norwegian Wood on the other hand is more orchestral - really rather odd, because it doesn't sound much like the Radiohead songs I'm familiar with either!

I agree that it has to be the right artist for the right movie; I can’t see Slayer working on the soundtrack to a romantic comedy.
Perhaps in the case of Jonny Greenwood he was approaching the project as a film composer rather than as member of Radiohead.

I like Ennio Morricone. He has composed countless wonderful scores. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. That's a good listen.

I also enjoy listening to Gustavo Santaolalla.

I love film scores, like that of 2001:A Space Odyssey(all the music pieces), any Ennio Morricone, some Mantovani, list go on. And TV scores and some video game scores too, like Red Dead Redemption.

I love Ennio Morricone's work on Sergio Leoni's Spaghetti Westerns and 'Once Upon A Time In America', the music is just as epic as the movies themselves. My favourite is The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

also Walter/Wendy Carlos' soundtrack to "A Clockwork Orange"!

The music by Ligeti is definitely my highlights in 2001 and The Shining

"Ligeti told us that when his music was first being performed in European new-music festivals, he had to hitchhike to the concerts. "I didn't have the money to buy a girl a cup of coffee." Then one day somebody told him, "Did you know there's a movie with your music in it?" Ligeti didn't know. Kubrick had simply ripped off his things for 2001. Ligeti duly sued Kubrick and in the end, he told us, received the grand sum of $3,000. "But do you like the movie?" somebody asked. "Yah, I really like it," Ligeti said. And of course, 2001 did for him what Sgt. Pepper's did for Stockhausen—helped make him famous beyond the esoteric circles of the European new-music scene. By the '90s, the two were the dominant figures of their generation, but by then Stockhausen was mostly out of sight, sunk in his mystical cycle of operas called Licht, or "light.""

Yes, I often listen to film scores (and video game scores). The scores from The Lord of the Rings gets played a lot on my ipod. Some of my favorite composers are Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer.

Elfman is a genius, have you seen Forbidden Zone which stars Danny as Satan which is directed by Danny's brother Richard?
Serenada Schizophrana by Danny Elfman is wonderful.