Zabriske Point...The majority of which, is Pink Floyd tunes, and a couple of tunes by Jerry Garcia

I've always thought Peter Gabriel's music for the Last Temptation of Christ was brilliant.

absolute best: solaris (tarkovsky version)--just astonishing.

i prefer films with lots of silence.

i have a sentimental attachment to the soundtrack from liquid sky

seconding trickyy's mention of dead man.

the worst: winged migration (overwhelmingly crappy music made oll the worse because the filmmakers keep using it over bird songs, which were often mindblowing)
koyanasqatsi (spelling is mangled)---anything featuring philip glass, for that matter. i do not understand why he is famous.
anything featuring john williams, who i blame for the whole overorchestrated sub wagnerian bombast that infects big budget hollywood films. i loathe his music like few things on this earth.

Lots of good Scores here.

Brian Tylers score for Children of Dune is very good too :)

Lets see, I lost my virginity to The Passion, which is Peter Gabriels soundtrack to the Last temptation of Christ. So that gets very high marks in my book.

On the other hand, I can't believe I had to go three quarters of the way down the first page before I ran into Ennio Morricone and found it was a Spaghetti Western. Now, there is nothing wron with his work in any of the man with no name movies - it's all quite good, in fact - but his best, in my opinion, has got to be the score for The Mission.

For New Agey ambient stuff, the soundtracks for Gladiator and all three LOTR movies are outstanding too.

a short list of films that use sound in cool ways (not the same as the soundtrack):

mr hulot's holiday
closely watched trains
the truman show
last wave
the fast runner
tarkovsky's work in general
kurostami's work in general

Dragon

Conan The Barbarian

The Last Samuri

A Clockwork Orange

American Beauty
Requiem for a Dream
The Lion King
LOTR
The Hours

Ok Episode one was a pretty bad movie, but Dual of the Fates was one of the best songs in a movie EVER!!!!!!!

Schindler's List. Probably the best Ive ever heard.
Lord of the Rings trilogy. All three were great.
Gladiator had a good score, too.

Also, though it isnt a score per-say, its more than a soundtrack--The Graduate. Simon and Garfunkel stuff, and most of it was written specifically for the movie and it worked *so* well.

superfly by curtis mayfield. hands down. matter a fact, i think i´ll throw it on right now.

One of my favorites is Mr. Holland's Opus.

Gladiator, Romeo & Juliet, City of Angels, Last Samurai

Three come to mind immediately for me...one already mentioned, two haven't.

The Passion - Peter Gabriel's soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ
Trainspotting
Repo Man

I assume soundtracks to musicals are out? If not, I would suggest Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Edit - I didn't adequately read the original thread and included two/three soundtracks not scores. Just count The Passion then.

Howard Shore for The Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko's is also quite good, and for me, the score of The Shining in my opinion is the element that makes that movie so scary

DR. ZHIVAGO, Casablanca, that 80's theme for Amazing stories, Conan the destroyer.. hehe..

John Williams.. passion of christ.. sorry but i liked the music

the third man has some cool zither music. seriously, check it out.

and yes to lawrence of arabia and solaris

requiem for a dream
2001: a space oddessy
blade runner
buffallo '66
pulp fiction
resivoir dogs

2001
Requiem For A Dream
Matchstick Men
Starsky and Hutch
Resevoir Dogs
Donnie Darko
Batman Returns
Nightmare Before Christmas

Anything from John Williams, particularly the Star Wars films.
Any soundtrack from the LOTR films.
"The Battle" from Gladiator, and the rest of the soundtrack as well.

What, no Beetlejuice? I knew I had to buy the soundtrack halfway through the opening credits.

hmm....maybe the title edit I jsut did will help keep this on topic?

(sorry....but i've seen too many soundtracks listed....)

carry on folks....

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Once upon a time in the west-ennio morricone

Of course Star Wars and Indiana Jones - Williams
the Harry Potter movies - Williams
The Rock
the Austin Powers movies - George S. Clinton
GoldenEye (I can't remember the composer's name, but it was really well scored)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Back To the Future
Big Money Hustla$ (I don't like ICP either, but that movie was awesome)
The Godfather (who can forget the main theme)

as far as people go I like most of Danny Elfman's work, Howard Shore's LOTR stuff is great, but I think that my favourite is Klaus Badelt (Equlibrium, PotC, etc.)

the Nightmare Before Christmas the best lyric soundtrack as far as I'm concernd, tho.

Howard Shore also did a very good jazz score for The Score (DiNero, Brando). Definitely made the movie for me.

I'll have to jump on the Lord of the Rings movies soundtrack bandwagon. Amazing.

Catch Me if You Can score by John Williams was unforgettable and very jazzy (a plus for me). I don't think anybody mentioned Howard Shore's score to David Cronenberg's "Spider" starring Ralph Fiennes. That was the polar opposite of the Lord of the Rings, which should come as no surprise since he is so versatile.

Can you tell I'm a fan?

Ravenous
Halloween

Candyman, the first one, great score in that one...

The Stoic Theme of Shawshank Redemption, amazing! (The bit were the camera passes over the prison, close to the start)

I will have to go with Schindler's List. It's amazing!! :crazy: oh, and American Beauty!!!

fpr me nothing beats the soundtrack/score of 'noir' (an anime series abour assassin babes)