19QOS19 Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Possibly a topic already but I can't be bothered looking. Does anyone ever sit a listen to a film soundtrack? I don't mean songs, more the actual score. I've recently listened to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Braveheart and The Green Mile on Spotify. It's not until you listen to it without watching at the same time that you appreciate how good the music is. I could picture almost every scene by listening to TGTBTU and I felt sad listening to a piece in The Green Mile as it was the Coffey execution scene. Incredible that the brain associates the music to a scene when you don't think you're actually hearing the music at the time. So anyone else sad enough to do this and experience similar? [emoji38] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 31 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said: Possibly a topic already but I can't be bothered looking. Does anyone ever sit a listen to a film soundtrack? I don't mean songs, more the actual score. I've recently listened to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Braveheart and The Green Mile on Spotify. It's not until you listen to it without watching at the same time that you appreciate how good the music is. I could picture almost every scene by listening to TGTBTU and I felt sad listening to a piece in The Green Mile as it was the Coffey execution scene. Incredible that the brain associates the music to a scene when you don't think you're actually hearing the music at the time. So anyone else sad enough to do this and experience similar? Music can really make a movie. Some immediate examples of great scores/perfect for the situations are Heat and Gladiator. The score in those films is not only superb to listen to, but perfect for the scene setting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted September 29, 2019 Author Share Posted September 29, 2019 Funny you should mention Gladiator. The reason I stumbled across this on Spotify was because I was listening to Hans Zimmer music. Gladiator is indeed an excellent example. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 (edited) I have the soundtrack to Assault on Precinct 13 on my phone and I enjoy listening to it when I'm walking home from work on dark winter evenings. John Carpenter actually put a band together and went on tour playing his various film scores. He was in Edinburgh a few years ago and I really regret not going. Edited September 29, 2019 by tongue_tied_danny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 The wife's a big movie soundtrack fan; Gladiator and Braveheart are two of her favourites. Also Kevin Costner's Robin Hood film. Last winter, I quite enjoyed putting on Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to John Carpenter's The Thing when I was working late on my own. Turn off most of the lights and I could be at an Antarctic listening station, in the middle of a howling snowstorm, with a shapeshifting alien ready to jump out on unsuspecting paperwork filler-outers. I'm a fucking weirdo. Can also recommend Riz Ortolani's Cannibal Holocaust score, although the shop doesn't inspire jungle anthropophagy daydreams, alas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jupiter Jazz Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Blade Runner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Possibly a topic already but I can't be bothered looking. Does anyone ever sit a listen to a film soundtrack? I don't mean songs, more the actual score. I've recently listened to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Braveheart and The Green Mile on Spotify. It's not until you listen to it without watching at the same time that you appreciate how good the music is. I could picture almost every scene by listening to TGTBTU and I felt sad listening to a piece in The Green Mile as it was the Coffey execution scene. Incredible that the brain associates the music to a scene when you don't think you're actually hearing the music at the time. So anyone else sad enough to do this and experience similar? [emoji38] I've got The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on CD. Great for driving to on a long journey. Also another soundtrack I like is the one for Stranger Things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 As already mentioned the Halloween soundtrack is excellent as is the soundtracks for Terminator and T2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack is superb. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosser-fae-the-shire Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Restless Natives 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Betty Blue soundtrack is excellent, so is Once Upon a Time in the West. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearthammer Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 "From Scotland With Love" - Soundtrack by King Creosote. Absolutely superb. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Themes from Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa..both by John Barry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 I'm not generally into operatic stuff but I really enjoyed the soundtrack from Quartet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 4 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said: I'm not generally into operatic stuff but I really enjoyed the soundtrack from Quartet Bit like that as well but have to say the classical music in Barry Lyndon is stunning and really goes with the film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moniton Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 The mission - the film not the truly awful band. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 A large chunk of my childhood (you could probably say it was the soundtrack to my childhood) was spent listening to the Top Gun soundtrack as my Dad had it on in the car almost constantly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Neil Brand did a good series on cinematic music. BBC 4 on iplayer. Worth a watch. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b45h4 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Here's a few more that I like... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 On 01/10/2019 at 15:50, The Skelpit Lug said: Betty Blue soundtrack is excellent That just arrived at our shop before I clocked off for the week, so I'll be giving that a listen when I'm back in. Haven't seen that film since it was new out, but I guess the, err...visuals made me overlook the soundtrack 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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