Movie Soundtracks We Enjoy

[Anton D]

I am a sucker for 'compilation' style soundtracks.

Something Wild is likely my favorite. It even has some different mixes vs. the album versions.

Dazed and Confused fills me with nostalgia, for sure.

FM has seen a good amount of play in my life.

Gross Pointe Blank, too.

Rushmore made me happy, too.

 

[MoreWatts]

Posted this in a half-century retrospective I'm doing in the Jazz Music thread. Here's a link to the post just before this one there with links to posts about ~41 fine jazz albums from 1973.

Allmusic: “A blaxploitation masterpiece on par with Curtis Mayfield's Superfly and Isaac Hayes' Shaft, Roy Ayers' soundtrack for the 1973 Pam Grier vehicle Coffy remains one of the most intriguing and evocative film scores of its era or any other. Ayers' signature vibes create atmospheres and textures quite distinct from your average blaxploitation effort, embracing both heavy, tripped-out funk and vividly nuanced soul-jazz… Richly cinematic grooves, inventive and cohesive.”

This was Ayers’ ~12th of ~40 albums from 1963 to 2004. The short video is the film’s title sequence, sung by “Denise” (Dee Dee) Bridgewater.

Roy Ayers, Coffy - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

[VietnamRadioEnjoyer]

 

[Power Pop 23]

The score to the 1933 film "King Kong' by Max Steiner is generally credited with establishing the 'grammar' of film music composition.

Max Steiner Biographer Breaks Down How the ‘King Kong’ Composer ‘Established the Grammar of Film Music’

A new biography puts spotlight on "King Kong" composer Max Steiner; his score for the 1933 film "established the grammar of film music."

variety.com

The original score is available on the Internet Archive. A reconstruction of the score was recorded in the 1990's

Steiner: King Kong (CD review)

Steiner: King Kong (CD review). William Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.557799.

classicalcandor.blogspot.com

 

[bt3]

 

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[Power Pop 23]

Ma and Morricone makes for an entertaining 'double-blll' with Mutter and Williams

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYS8O7ZO9o2NbFsids6tC5y98PDXKuBsi

 

[bt3]

 

[Power Pop 23]

A fifteen (15) minute sampler of Bernard Herrmann's score to Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film, North By Northwest

The original soundtrack was recorded in stereo and has wide dynamic range

I believe some music services are streaming a file of the original soundtrack with 24-bit resolution

 

[Herbert]

Simon Fisher Turner is missing here - he started composing doing soundworld for Derek Jarman - his soundtracks work completely without the image and are an art of itself:

 

[Herbert]

A fifteen (15) minute sampler of Bernard Herrmann's score to Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film, North By Northwest

The original soundtrack was recorded in stereo and has wide dynamic range

I believe some music services are streaming a file of the original soundtrack with 24-bit resolution

But as the producer stated in the liner notes, one master tape was very much detoriated, unfortunately the "famous" cues like the beginning and the chase at Mount Rushmore were affected. This can be also heard in the video, the tracks affected sound much more muffled.
But the dawn of the digital era, labels like Unicorn - Kanchana released new recordings of Movie soundtracks,
using just stereo microphones hooked to a PCM recorder like Soundstram or Sony:

Bernard Herrmann / The London Studio Symphony Orchestra - Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1980 Vinyl release of "Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

P.S. I always loved Jerry Goldsmiths "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" from 1979. The sessions were recorded simultaneously with a Sony PCM hooked to a stereo mic
plus the "classical" setup / way, using multiple mics for closer recording of the orchestras' sections, recording this on multitrack tape - I assume this was to save time, so that the PCM-based soundtrack could be prepared independently of the movies' mixing.
La-LaLand records released the complete score in 2012, using the multitrack source - sounds much better!

 

[Matt_Holland]

Encanto.
My kids love this film and I’ve become a huge fan too. There’s a subtly dark tone underneath the catchy lyrics and fun melodies of many of the songs. And traditional Columbian styles pervade. Nicely produced too.
This is Disney at its best. Wonderful.

 

[D2013]

Gettysburg soundtrack

 

[Adis]

 

[concorde1]

 

[Somafunk]

Under The Skin - Mica Levi

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMnA1EwJ4YTVmW31Kvaxn1DpQiBVcGQ8R&si=1YTytw9xEZXfFGRt

Inception- Hans Zimmer

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbQkZ0-M4gS3vI9IkX8P5_jxLSoM7wrZ7&si=GJsN05um214plTcw

Any of the “Stranger Things“ soundtracks by Kyle Dixon/Michael Stein (Survive)

 

[Somafunk]

Just finished watching Oppenheimer so obviously I’m now going to listen to the score by Ludvig Gořanssen as its an astounding piece of work and perfectly captures the mood and emotion on screen. The film is a bloody good watch as well but I should have bought it rather than renting.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxA687tYuMWhfmujqXHctySWxFDLo3sYm&si=T6liTXuNDPhI9N3m

 

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[GaryY]

 

[GaryY]