Which movie(s) do you think has the best soundtrack?
I think American Psycho has a good soundtrack and I listen to it occasionaly.
Yeah American Psycho does have a good soundtrack. Eyes Without a Face is great.
My vote is for Interstellar or some of the other Hans Zimmer ones
Dumb and Dumber
A Knight’s Tale
Just watched the whole movie. Absolutely loved it.
Godzilla 1998
Varsity Blues
More general answer than you expected, but…
I really like when the sound design in movies makes sense - it “plays” in radio, gramophone…
For example “Black hole sun” cover in first episode of Westworld is just brilliant and caught me off guard (I didn’t know what it is about).
Haven’t watched it yet, but I love Black Hole Sun. I’ll definately check it out
If you don’t know anything about Westworld - don’t read reviews…
The mindfuck from the first season is worth it when you go blind in to it. The soundtrack is making the vibe of it even more disturbing/disorienting.
The adjective for this type of music is “diegetic”. That’s sound which is occurring and audible in-universe, not just to the audience.
My favourite example of this is in Grosse Point Blank, when the GNR cover of Live and Let Die is playing non-diagetically, right until the moment Martin walks into the store, and suddenly a cheesy muzak version of it is playing over the shop radio. It’s beautifully done :-)
TIL, thanks.
I quite like the Interstellar soundtrack.
Thank you. I listen to that when I need motivation. Especially “No time for caution”
This is an old one, but:
The Mission, scored by Ennio Morricone.
I’m going to reframe this as who I think the best composers are:
Bernard Hermann, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, etc.
John Williams, E.T., Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, etc.
Akira Ifukube, most of the Shōwa era Godzilla movies
Shiro Shigasu, Evangelion, Shin Godzilla
As far as new work, I’m partial to Scott Stafford on Ultraman Rising. It came out on Netflix this past June and I was really surprised how good that movie and soundtrack were.
Pretty in Pink - Pure 80s.
Tombstone and Almost Famous for me
I am quite fond of the recent Dune movies’ soundtrack. Hans Zimmer can make a good bwowwwum, and a helping of One-Woman-Wailing :tm: also helps
Aside for that I would get into movie musical territory. A much derided subgenre that I adore.
The scene with all the bagpipes (not sure if it was the first or second movie) was badass. Up there with Mad Max guitar guy for cool film uses of instruments.
For anyone who didn’t see it, he did an interview about why and how it sounds like that.
Can’t believe no-one mentioned The Crow…
It can’t rain all the time.
Shrek 2, unironically
Also Sucker Punch and Tron Legacy
The album has been seen as presaging the dark ambient music genre, and its presentation of background noise and non-musical cues has been described by Pitchfork’s Mark Richardson as “a sound track (two words) in the literal sense”. -wikipedia
The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia’s post-industrial history. Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger; describing it both as a “sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place” and “beautiful, if you see it the right way.”[8][9][1] Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked “9 hours a day for 63 days” to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. -wikipedia
