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     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2379 Registered: 03-2006 |
1) The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff and others 2) Pulp Fiction - Various Artists 3) 24 Hour Party People - VA 4) Ragtime - Randy Newman 5) Straight To Hell - VA 6) Something Wild - VA 7) Manhattan - VA 8) Dead Man Walking - VA 9) O Brother, Where Art Thou? - VA 10) Strange Weirdos - Loudon Wainwright III | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 537 Registered: 04-2006 |
just own the dead man soundtrack (neil young). it is quite good, but i prefer the soundtracks of pulp fiction, jackie brown and hear my song which my wife owns. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 77 Registered: 03-2007 |
Kikujiro - Joe Hisaishi Proof - Not Drowning Waving Somersault - Decoder Ring Lantana - Paul Kelly | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1824 Registered: 05-2005 |
Once upon a time in America Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels The Odd Couple Midnight Cowboy (pretty much helped shape my musical life) Monster's Ball Nuts in May Pulp Fiction Kes Withnail and I (though there's some orrible Kramer locking trem metal chords in there that I despise!) Oliver the musical West Side Story (I'm a shark by the way!) Grease Diamonds are Forever Shrek Get Carter | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 759 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jackie Brown's my favorite Tarantino ST, though he has yet to come out with a bum one. Same with (this guy yet again) Lynch - The Straight Story's my favorite there. Harder they Come West Side Story Something Wild Backbeat High Fidelity Ghost Dog American Graffiti Dazed and Confused Naked Lunch I was going to also say Stop Making Sense, but I don't actually own the CD...when I want to hear it I just put on the DVD. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 761 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hear My Song...wow, haven't thought about that movie in years...the very definition of a very charming shaggy-dog story | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1784 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Joe Strummer documentary one is fantastic. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 538 Registered: 04-2006 |
allen, i don't know what the meaning of shaggy-dog is but my wife and me liked hear my song very much and she bought the soundtrack immediately. but seems do me like million of years have passed since the film was released. also never noticed that they showed it on tv. to use the opportunity: surely i have more than the dead man soundtrack. how can i forgot curtis mayfield's superfly and isaac hayes' shaft. both albums are great, great, great... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 979 Registered: 08-2006 |
This thread has made clear to me that my soundtrack collection is almost non-existent. I have "The Harder They Come," of course, but almost nothing else. "He Got Game," the Public Enemy album associated with the movie, isn't a soundtrack. I don't even know if I'd count "Strange Weirdos" as a soundtrack. And lest it go unnoticed, I give Spence huge props for having (and admitting to having) the "Grease" soundtrack in his collection. Cheers, man! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 302 Registered: 04-2005 |
Alberto Iglesias - Hable Con Ella (Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her"). Features Caetano Veloso's "Cucurrucucu Paloma", which is simply stunning. Michael Nyman - The Piano. Such an integral part of the film. Member of the audience at premiere of film in Edinburgh to Jane Campion (director) "How can Harvey Keitel's character understand the note left on the fence post by Holly Hunter, if he is supposed to be illiterate?" Jane Campion: "Good point. I hadn't thought of that" There was once a wonderful documentary on Nyman, when he was commissioned to do an ad for a Japanese car manufacturer (he makes it quite plain that he will compose exactly what he wants and that it is a commercial transaction). The marketing director explains (in very florid terms) how the music should reflect exactly the thrilling experience of driving this particular car. Nyman just says "I can't drive. I have a bicycle". His music to Michael Winterbottom's very underrated 'Wonderland' is pretty great too. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 541 Registered: 04-2006 |
memeory gap, the second. michael nyman. the greenaway movies. i loved this stuff, but didn't listened to them since many, many years. don't know why. i should change this... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 343 Registered: 01-2006 |
As Andreas has mentioned above, Dead Man by NY is a superb soundtrack/soundscape to an amazing film. Also mostly anything by Angelo Badalamenti (David Lynch films) but mostly the Straight Story and Twin Peaks OST. Betty Blue is great too but haven't listened to it in ages. As is Lost In Translation, pity about the film though. Night On Earth by Tom Waits is great. Lots of Randy Newman as well, his first record is like a film score, amazing arrangements. Has anyone seen Where The Buffalo Roam? It was remade as Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Very funny film, Bill Murray doing Hunter S Thompson and Neil Young does the Soundtrack for this one too. Very hard to get a copy of this, a friend of mine has it on vinyl, ain't seen it anywhere since. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 763 Registered: 09-2006 |
Andreas, agreed on Superfly, agreed on how I can't believe I forgot it. Two shining examples Good Soundtrack/Lame Film: Less than Zero Tomb Raider A shaggy-dog story is one that usually takes the basic form of a joke but deliberately goes on for much longer, with a plot that takes many absurd and unexpected turns. It most often ends with a non-sequitur, anti-punchline. "Hear My Song" doesn't quite fit the definition because it does resolve itself for the most part, but the structure is there, and about halfway through the film the Adrian Dunbar character actually says to his companion "Ever have the feeling you're in the middle of a big shaggy dog story?" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 764 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rob, you should at the very least look into "Backbeat"...Thurston Moore, Greg Dulli, Mike Mills, Dave Grohl, Don Fleming and Dave Pirner playing the Beatles in Hamburg, as if somebody went back in time with a really good tape recorder. 35 unrelenting minutes that sound almost like punk rock. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 542 Registered: 04-2006 |
xy, i had that where the buffalo roam album on vinyl once ago. I sold it because it (in my memory) wasn't really good. btw: where do you downloaded the chrome dreams album? and you are right the first randy newman album would also fit as a score. it is a wonderful album like all the other related albums of that era (van dyke parks/harper's bizarre). they all must have been kind of strange in that hippie era (from the looking to the music). great, anyhow. allen, many thanks for the explanation. i have seen the film in german language and can't remember how they translated it. I think I should try to see the movie once again. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 344 Registered: 01-2006 |
Andreas, yeah it isn't a super soundtrack though I do like his workings of Where the Buffalo Roam throughout the film. I'll post the Chrome Dreams link on a new thread... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 765 Registered: 09-2006 |
Thanks for that link, XY... Repo Man Urgh! A Music War Year of the Horse pretty much counts too, I think. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 267 Registered: 05-2005 |
Head - The Monkees. Just about my fave movie too.... I remember when Repo man was just out and really trendy to see at the Dendy in Sydney. What was on the soundtrack? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 101 Registered: 10-2006 |
The only soundtracks I listen to regularly are probably: The Family Way Carrington The Western Films of Ennio Morricone Antartica Obscured by clouds | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 290 Registered: 05-2005 |
My soundtrack collection is pretty teeny, taking up a mere 2 inches on my shelves. O, Brother Where art thou? High Fidelity The Piano Romeo + Juliet (Baz L) Little Voice Ummm that's it. On a technicality, can I include Calexico - The Black Light, on the grounds that the first time I heard it, I thought it sounded like the soundtrack to the best spaghetti western never made?? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 303 Registered: 04-2005 |
Can't believe I forgot to add Yann Tiersen's music for 'Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain' Almost impossible to imagine the film without it, as it fits so well. The CD is a family favourite in our house. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 546 Registered: 04-2006 |
memory gap, the third. henry mancini - breakfast at tiffany | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2389 Registered: 03-2006 |
Didn't Mancini do the Pink Panther theme? That has to be some of the most immortal movie music ever composed...as is "Moon River"... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 768 Registered: 09-2006 |
Geoff: Iggy Pop - "Repo Man" Black Flag - "TV Party" Suicidal Tendencies - "Institutionalized" Circle Jerks - Coup D'Etat The Plugz (who later morphed into the Cruzados) - "El Clavo Y La Cruz" Burning Sensations - "Pablo Picasso" Fear - "Let's Have a War" Circle Jerks - "When the Shit Hits the Fan" Secret Agent Man - Plugz Juicy Bananas - "Bad Man" Reel Ten - Plugz Sort of a West Coast punk/hardcore K-Tel album... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 843 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'm only counting ones that I have on vinyl or cd. If I counted televison series, the Twins Peaks sountrack would have been high on my list. The Twin Peaks movie - Fire Walk With Me, did make my list though. 1. Wings of Desire 2. Urgh! A Music War 3. The Big Night 4. O, Brother Where art thou? 5. Grace Of My Heart 6. Magnolia 7. Das Boat 8. Twins Peaks - FWWM 9. Woodstock 10. Thursday Afternoon | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 548 Registered: 04-2006 |
hardin, yes, mancini did also pink panther, but i own just breakfast at tiffany and half of an double album (vinyl) with some of his greatest stuff. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 846 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ugh, I forgot 'Round Midnight, and also Elivator To The Gallows, both of which would make my Top 10 for sure. Not to mention they are both standout jazz albums with Dexter Gordon being the former and Miles Davis the later. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1565 Registered: 04-2005 |
A Clockwork Orange Velvet Goldmine The Royal Tenenbaums (and other Wes Anderson movies) Pulp Fiction 24 Hour Party People The Squid and the Whale O Brother Where Art Thou? The Kids Are Alright A Hard Day's Night Help! I would put Something Wild, but its best songs were in the movie only ("Spring Rain" and the Feelies doing "Fame"). I'm sure I've forgotten many other good ones. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1566 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh, duh: Hedwig and the Angry Inch! That's in the top three for me, definitely. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 312 Registered: 07-2006 |
yes, hedwig is unbelievable. i don't go in for scores much, but i do love the twin peaks ost as well as peter gabriel's passion. as far as regular soundtracks go i still dig trainspotting (both of them) and rate both marie antoinette and lost in translation pretty highly. and bless you spence for having the nerve to mention grease....i love stockard's little number. and just about everything else that woman has ever gone. <gush> | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 774 Registered: 09-2006 |
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut The batch of cover versions on the second half of the disc are patchy, but the actual songs from the movie are priceless. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 751 Registered: 10-2004 |
Liquid Sky, of course. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 268 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am humbled.....I forgot Hard Days Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour!!! There was also a very hippy singalong version of "Lost Horizon" that I remember thinking was pretty groovy when I was a lad.... Don't forget "Easy Rider" with I wasn't born to follow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1786 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't know about The Piano soundtrack, but the movie is one of the most excruciatingloy awful films I've ever seen. Insufferable muck. The Awakenings soundtrack by Randy Newman is my favourite by miles. It's long been unavailable, but I recently got a CD copy through a third party dealer on Amazon. My original cassette copy still plays fine too though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1787 Registered: 05-2005 |
How could I have forgotten The Last Waltz? Awesome. Listening to it right now. On DVD! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 717 Registered: 08-2004 |
Platoon Natural Born Killers The Dollars trilogy Team America etc etc | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2394 Registered: 03-2006 |
Seconding the big-upping of the Last Waltz and thirding the love for Hedwig. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thirding Last Waltz. I remember seeing it on TV when I was about 12, and was mesmerised. I used to sneak a listen to my brother's gorgeous vinyl boxed set copy of it, when he was out. I would have just classed it as a concert and not as a movie, but hey I'm with you... Agree too, about The Piano. I don't have the soundtrack, but absolutely love the music. Pádraig, I strongly disagree with you about the movie. I love that film. I could start enthusing about wonderful cinematography, and the stunning imagery, but I'm guessing your mind's made up. Suffice to say it's one of my favourites. I even bought the book! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 304 Registered: 04-2005 |
The problem with 'The Last Waltz' is that after reading Levon Helm's book, you realise what a manipulative s**t Robbie Robertson was and how him and Marty were such good (coke) buddies. I take it everyone knows that story about Neil Young and what was hanging from his nostrils during 'Helpless'! Still, some wonderful music. And superb kicking from Van the Man. I saw the film at the Glasgow Film Theatre when it first came out and I had to take my mum (she drove), as there was no way getting home that late at night. Needless to say she fell for Robbie and his hang-dog eyes. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 777 Registered: 09-2006 |
I did have problems with most of the interview sections of that movie, as everybody seemed so f-d up that what came out of their mouths was either incoherent, pompous or both. Infinitely agreed on the music, though. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1569 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yeah, same here. Robbie Robertson is so easy to hate (give that man a cock-punch!) and he's so unbearably smug in the film. (Somebody played one of his solo albums for me ages ago and my god, it was bad...guess everything he did sounded good to him because of all the coke.) But despite all that, it's still a good film, even when it's surreal (Neil Diamond and the Band?). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 778 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hedwig 2001: A Space Odyssey Barry Lyndon The Shining A Clockwork Doorhinge Eyes Wired Shut | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 102 Registered: 10-2006 |
I love the Van Morr sequence on Last Waltz, though he has to be wearing one of the most sartorially challenged outfits ever. But wow, does that track just drive along. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 850 Registered: 01-2005 |
Levon Helm made The Band a special group, he had authenticity in spades. Without him they would have come off as a bunch of wannabees. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1570 Registered: 04-2005 |
True, but on Dylan's "Royal Albert Hall" bootleg series CD, the Hawks minus Levon (some other guy filled in on drums) totally rock. I guess the other guys hadn't become overly self-satisfied and/or heavily medicated at that point. But I do agree Levon was the heart of the Band. The only non-Canadian, wasn't he? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 852 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes, the only one, I believe he was from Arkansas. I also liked his acting stints in The Right Stuff and Coal Miners Daughter. I don't have "Royal Albert Hall". | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1571 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael, you have to get that set. The acoustic side isn't that great--Dylan doesn't seem that into it--but the electric set with the Hawks is scorching...Dylan's most hard-rocking recording, I'd say (done more with energy and nerve than volume, unlike "Before the Flood"). And the fact that it's some of the best rock music ever but half the audience is booing makes it all the more amazing. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2397 Registered: 03-2006 |
And, when you get it, Michael, play it fucking loud! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Badalamenti- A very long engagement Tiersen -Amélie Poulain Popol Vuh - Aguirre Zimmermann - The thin red line Gabriel Yared- L'amant Aimee Mann - Magnolias Nymann- nearly everything Wim Mertens (Soft verdict) - Struggle for pleasure + Delerue, Sarde, etc. I quite like movie soundtracks... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1842 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU, I love Wim Mertens too, his Close Cover song is beautiful, I can't quite get over how beautiful that song is. Must get some back catalogue. |