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Soundtrack/composer recommendations

jaguar ride

jaguar ride

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I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with what I'm looking for. I've talked to other people about this and what I'm NOT looking for is something like the Jurassic Park soundtrack.


I bought the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly soundtrack as well as The Alamo soundtrack a couple years ago and they've really grown on me (especially The Good, The Bad...). Yesterday I bought One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and liked it instantly.

I'm hoping some of you might have recommendations for similar soundtracks, or good records by people like Ennio Morricone or Jack Nitzche and others that I haven't heard of. Weird is not out of the question either.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me out here!
 
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I really like the two CDs from Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. (especially the latter).

Angelo Badalamenti makes some uniquely strange and engaging music.
 
If you can dig a more electronic side of music, Tangerine Dream did some pretty great soundtracks for many movies. I have CD copies of their work on "Sorcerer" and "Miracle mile" and both are rather good on their own merits:yes:

Also, if you like the soundtrack to "The good the bad and the ugly" and can stand a slightly-cheesy cover version, The Hugo Montenegro versions are kinda neat...nowhere near the Morricone originals, but a different flavor to try out.
 
A few amazing soundtrack albums:

Morricone's "Once Upon A Time In America"

"Wings Of Desire" (This one's even got a few songs from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

The three CD set of Vangelis' "Bladerunner" music

"The Falcon and the Snowman" by Pat Metheny

"Black Orpheus" by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa
and

"Slaughterhouse Five" by Glenn Gould
 
Try Con - Air soundtrack , they say it's one of the best ones out there
BTW , which the good bad & ugly soundtrack you have exactly?
 
These soundtracks are wonderful music:
Ben Hur
Vertigo
Spellbound
Lord Of The Rings
Laurence Of Arabia
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Sweet And Lowdown
 
Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab ‎– Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9gdlh-ZJo
 
LeeVing said:
Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab ‎– Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party
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The music on this is really good actually. See if you can find the Lucertola Media version which came out first on CD [ltd. edition 500 copies]. It's called "Three Films by Jess Franco" and has more music than other subsequent versions.
 
Another Tangerine Dream effort THIEF is spectacular.
Batman by Mark Elfman
The Film Scores of Bernard Herrman/ Salonen conducts The Los Angeles Philharmonic. Alot of Hitchcock
 
With my very limited knowledge, here's a couple I enjoy.......
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Butterfly - SoundTrack -- CD

Ennio Morricone - Composer - Conductor

1982/2008 Daggored Records

It had been out of print for more than a decade, but Dagored Records has brought the film score to BUTTERFLY back into circulation. Pia Zadora's breakout film (as well as Orson Welles's final one), BUTTERFLY has become a cult favorite since its release in 1982. Zadora, who won a Golden Globe for her performance in the film, also appears on the soundtrack, offering her provocative vocals on "It's Wrong for Me to Love You." But BUTTERFLY is most notable for being scored by Academy Award-winning maestro Ennio Morricone. More subdued and ambient that much of Morricone's other work, BUTTERFLY once again demonstrates the Italian composer's breadth and scope.

Track Listing
1. Butterfly, film score: Main Theme
2. Butterfly, film score: Hot Tin Tub
3. Butterfly, film score: Silver On The Sage
4. Butterfly, film score: Waiting Montage
5. Butterfly, film score: Here For The Wedding
6. Butterfly, film score: It's Wrong For Me To Love You
7. Butterfly, film score: Girl On My Porch
8. Butterfly, film score: Bye Bye
9. Butterfly, film score: Pokin' Moke
10. Butterfly, film score: Back In The Hills
11. Butterfly, film score: Main Theme


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We All Love Ennio Morricone -- CD

Various Artists

2007 Sony Classical

Amazon.com

The names on this tribute testify to the extraordinarily wide appeal of the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone: not many people could get Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones, Renée Fleming, and Metallica on one disc. And while the artists come from very diverse genres, the album holds together well. Things start off on a syrupy note with Dion's "I Knew I Loved You," a ballad from 1984's Once Upon a Time in America (to which Alan and Marilyn Bergman added lyrics in 2006). But fortunately the CD quickly recovers and goes on to survey most of Morricone's styles, from the dissonance of his spaghetti Western scores to his mod period to his lush orchestral vistas. Metallica goes all out with guitars blazing on "Ecstasy of Gold," a track they've used as a concert intro for years, while Brazil's Daniela Mercury and Eumir Deodato breeze through "Conmigo," and the French-British combo Vanessa and the O's resuscitate the pure '60s pop of "Je Changerai d'Avis," once performed by Françoise Hardy. As for ballads, listen for soprano Renée Fleming, who surpasses her previous pop-crossover attempts on the fragile "Sail Away." Morricone himself couldn't stay away: he wrote interstitial music to create seamless transitions between the tracks, and conducts three instrumental cues. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

1. Knew I Loved You - Celine Dion
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Quincy Jones featuring Herbie Hancock
3. Once Upon a Time in the West - Bruce Springsteen
4. Conradiana - Andrea Bocelli
5. The Ecstacy of Gold - Metallica
6. Maléna - Yo-Yo Ma
7. Come Sail Away - Renée Fleming
8. Gabriel's Oboe - Ennio Morricone
9. Conmigo - Daniela Mercury featuring Eumir Deodato
10. La Luz Prodigiosa - Dulce Pontes
11. Love Affair - Chris Botti
12. Je Cangerais d'Avis - Vanessa and The O's
13. Lost Boys Calling -Roger Waters
14. The Tropical Variation - Ennio Morricone
15. Could Heaven Be - Denyce Graves
16. Addio Monti - TaroMonti - Taro Hakase
17. Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
 
The original Time Machine soundtrack from Russell Garcia, Midnight Cowboy from John Barry & North By Northwest from Bernard Herrmann are all favorites of mine.

I would also highly recommend the Dirty Harry & Magnum Force soundtracks from Lalo Schifrin.
 
Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Now I just have to track some of these down...

I completely forgot about the music from Twin Peaks, that's a top priority for me now.
 
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