The On Going Compendium of Excellent Soundtracks

[Qrazy]

If you hear a quality soundtrack whether it be on a videogame, movie, TV show or what have you, add it to the compendium.

[Acapelli]

are you differentiating between soundtracks and scores? or can they both just go in here?

[Russ]

Add the soundtrack from Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done to a list of my recent favorites: a mix of Ernst Reijseger's creepy original score and the several beautiful non-English language vocal selections that are featured throughout.

It's a very strange film, even by Herzog's standards. It's a perfect companion piece to his other cop/crime thriller, Bad Lieutenant, even though they're complete polar opposites.


Here's a good example (complete with a nod to both Lynch and to a musical number from Hable con ella):

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[Qrazy]

are you differentiating between soundtracks and scores? or can they both just go in here?

Just put both in.

[Skitch]

Ooh ooh! Here are some of the favorites from my collection...

Fight Club - Dust Brothers
Tron: Legacy - Daft Punk
Interview With The Vampire - Elliot Goldenthal
Conan The Barbarian - Basil Poledouris
Leon: The Professional - Eric Serra
Total Recall - Jerry Goldsmith
Sneakers - James Horner
Princess Mononke - Joe Hisaishi
A.I. - John Williams
Pi: Faith In Chaos - (various)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun

...and of course...

Akira - Geinon Yamashirogumi

[EyesWideOpen]

The Hanna soundtrack is the best soundtrack I've heard in a long time. It blows Tron Legacy out of the water.

[transmogrifier]

Collection of Songs:

Dazed and Confused
Casino
Stealing Beauty

Traditional Scores:

The Last of the Mohicans
The Lord of the Rings
Requiem for a Dream

Hybrids:

Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive
David Holmes - Out of Sight
Trent Reznor - Lost Highway
Trent Reznor - Natural Born Killers
The Dust Brothers - Fight Club
Michael Galasso - In the Mood for Love

[D_Davis]

The Hanna soundtrack is the best soundtrack I've heard in a long time. It blows Tron Legacy out of the water.

Totally. Daft Punk Morris Coded their music in for Tron - they didn't even bother to phone it in. Hanna's score is awesome.

[EyesWideOpen]

Totally. Daft Punk Morris Coded their music in for Tron - they didn't even bother to phone it in. Hanna's score is awesome.

I still don't quite understand the love for Daft Punk. I like the Tron Legacy soundtrack but the other three albums of theirs I own do nothing for me. The only reason I bought them is because everyone keeps telling me they're "the" electronic group and I like electronic music. Out of all the electronic music I've listened to their sound is the most boring and repetitive.

[[ETM]]

No one can be told why Daft Punk is awesome. If you don't hear it, you don't.
And they hardly "phoned it in" for Tron: Legacy - I've read in interviews that the sound guys were so impressed with the level of involvement from Daft Punk; they literally spent countless hours integrating and adjusting every single track so that it fits every scene perfectly. Creatively, they could have "went wild" like most expected them to, but I truly respect their restrained approach and the mix of pure electric and classic sound.

[D_Davis]

Their first album is great. After that, not so much. Although I love the animated film for Discovery, but that has more to do with Leiji Matsumoto.

[D_Davis]

Their score for Tron is dreadfully boring, dull, and entirely uninspired.

I don't care how long they spent mixing and mastering; the final product is below mediocre.

[D_Davis]

The best in modern-sounding scores is still tomandandy. Their work on The Mothman Prophecies, Mean Creak, The Hills Have Eyes, and The Strangers is masterful.

And the score for Valhalla Rising is also amazing.

[[ETM]]

Their score for Tron is dreadfully boring, dull, and entirely uninspired.

I don't care how long they spent mixing and mastering; the final product is below mediocre.

I still listen to it very often. I seem to like being bored by mediocre albums.

[Qrazy]

The Hanna soundtrack is the best soundtrack I've heard in a long time. It blows Tron Legacy out of the water.

This is because Chemical Brothers >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daft Punk.

[Qrazy]

I still don't quite understand the love for Daft Punk. I like the Tron Legacy soundtrack but the other three albums of theirs I own do nothing for me. The only reason I bought them is because everyone keeps telling me they're "the" electronic group and I like electronic music. Out of all the electronic music I've listened to their sound is the most boring and repetitive.

I agree, a select few songs aside, and am also a huge fan of electronic music.

[Skitch]

While I quite enjoy Daft Punk (especially Interstella 5555), I too would put quite a few groups above them.

[endingcredits]

Anything Morricone, especially The Battle of Algiers (1965).

[kopello]

One of my recent favorites:

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The whole score is just perfect.

[Acapelli]

This is because Chemical Brothers >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daft Punk.

god no

[Acapelli]

the tron legacy soundtrack is really boring though

[Ezee E]

the tron legacy soundtrack is really boring though

Minus two or three tracks, I agree.

[transmogrifier]

god no

No, it's true. The Chemical Brothers are great. Lost their way a little bit in the 2000s with a couple of crap albums, but Further and the Hanna soundtrack is evidence perhaps that once what was lost has now been found.

[D_Davis]

Further is fantastic.

[transmogrifier]

Further is fantastic.

Yep.