Top 5 Movie Scores
This week, the Lodge started bantering about Vince DiCola versus Bill Conti in the Rocky movies... by the way, in my opinion, it's Conti by a landslide due to Eye of the Tiger being a Survivor song and not a DiCola penned tune. (Side note: my brother would listen to Eye of the Tiger before every basketball game he played in High School through College... it got him that pumped up to play.) So without further ado, let's discuss our Top 5 Movie Score lists.And we are not talking "soundtracks" with compilations of popular songs, but original scores by composers. For example, a score which narrowly missed my list, and would definitely be in my 6-10, is another John Williams classic in the original score to Star Wars. I'd rank these Williams soundtracks higher if you were able to listen to them more than once in a while before going insane because they can't get out of your head in a Barbie Girl kind of way. But you can't make this Top 5 without mentioning Star Wars. I'm not sure it's possible. Below are my favorites:
Top 5 Movie Scores
1. The Last of the Mohicans by Randy Edelman & Trevor Jones.Seriously, this is my favorite score of all time. It's on my iPod and everything. Plus, I revisit it at least once a month. This is an epic score with intricate, moving, and original pieces. There's just something about soarding violin's in soundtracks. Or maybe it's just the violin.
2. The Mission by Ennio Morricone.The Mission is an Academy Award-nominated score that is truly captivating with beautifully crafted works that reflect the culture and mood of the film, yet it easily transcends as stand alone music.
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark by John Williams.Honestly, John Williams is a movie legend that should get a lifetime acheivement Oscar for his overall work in the film industry. Of course, he already has 5 Academy Awards and probably doesn't have the shelf space for another. I love this score.
4. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly by Ennio Morricone.Morricone scores another spot on my list with the classic score to the iconic spaghetti western The Good, The Bad & The Ugly back in 1966. With a familiar whistle, you can picture the man with no name peering down at you. Unforgettable.
5. Brokeback Mountain by Gustavo Santaolalla.Gustavo Santaolalla's hauntingly beautiful penned score to last year's Ang Lee renowned Brokeback Mountain is my favorite score of the past 10+ years. I thought Santaolalla's score was intricate, sonicly pleasant, added a subtle texture that tremendously aided the film, and was truly original. Santaolalla deservedly won the Oscar.
posted by Unknown at 10:07 AM
17 Comments:
Gianfranco Reverberi, spaghetti western tracks rule, also inspired Gnarls Barkley.
One question Joe... Whats with the love affair with Brokeback?
Are you talking entire Albums or individual songs...cause there are quite a few left off this list.
1) Titans Score by Trevor Raibin.
Great musical piece during Remember the Titans
2) The battle Themes from Chronicles of Narnia and Braveheart
3) The Theme from Rudy.
Basically a score that when you hear the flute playing, you picture a perfectly trimmed football field, autumn winds, and a young man filled with heart,
5 feet nuthin'..a hundred and nuthin'
Train asking the difficult questions about his own sexuality...nice list 2.0...safe, but nice...Where's the North By Northwest?...and Empire trumps Raiders for Williams scores...and what about the Ghostbusters Love Theme?
Entire scores... so full albums was my criteria. Obviiously there are single scene pieces that stand out. But entire original soundtracks was where I came from. Braveheart probably would have been in my 6-10. Good call on that one, Goose.
I thought about Empire, Jimbo. It's my favorite movie of the series, but the originality and backbone of the remainder of the series was based on Episode IV, so Star Wars took the spot.
The Empire Score was a good call Jimbo.
Thats a tough list Joe becuase so many albums not only include a score, but also various songs released by popular artists.
I like the score from Hitch, only because you get "Now That We Found Love" by Heavy D and the Boyz.
Anytime you have a band that spells Boys with a Z...you've got something
Ya, you've got something. That's for sure.
But as I prefaced in my post, "we are not talking 'soundtracks' with compilations of popular songs, but original scores by composers."
Wait. timeout. Ghostbusters love theme?
Nice call on the North by Northwest Jim. - no wonder I can't quit you
Gotta agree with Braveheart. I love that soundtrack.
I'd have to give mentions for the original "Superman" score, and "Jaws" is classic. And to up the geekiness I'd include "Lord of the Rings". Plus Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had a simply stunning score.
Oh, come on Goose you know the GB love theme... You can hear it when they are breaking Weaver out of the Gargoyle suit at the end of the movie... Yes, I love that movie enough to recall the musical gem.... "That's a really big Twinkie"
No Bond scores?
Honestly, I've never really been a fan of any Bond score I've heard. Casino was pretty good, but nothing memorable.
Chris Cornell? really? I thought it was the worst part of the film
I'm not talking about the opening song, I'm talking about the score itself. The opening Chris Cornell song was indeed crap.
Plus, I missed the nekked ladies of the past Bonds in the Casino Royale opening title sequence.
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