The best and worst movie music.

[Gothic]

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The music that is playing in the closing scene of 'The Mist', The Host of Seraphim by The Dead Can Dance, really fits the mood. It has appeared in about half a dozen other movies as well but I think this is it's best usage.

[Richard1978]

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It used to be common to use stock music in films & TV, often turning up in odd places.

The track used as the Grandstand theme was used for an American programme about roller coasters narrated by Vincent Price. This used to be used as a filler programme, once replacing some rained off sport.

[Powdered toast man]

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The music that is playing in the closing scene of 'The Mist', The Host of Seraphim by The Dead Can Dance, really fits the mood. It has appeared in about half a dozen other movies as well but I think this is it's best usage.

That ending with that music stayed with me for days. Goosebumps every time.

[victorbrunswick]

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It used to be common to use stock music in films & TV, often turning up in odd places.

The track used as the Grandstand theme was used for an American programme about roller coasters narrated by Vincent Price. This used to be used as a filler programme, once replacing some rained off sport.

The strangest use of stock music that I'd ever seen was the Indiana Jones theme in a Korean-language documentary about the Korean War.

[sf1378]

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I can't stand 'Chariots of Fire' - its when Colin Welland shouted out at the Oscars: 'THE BRITISH ARE COMING!' That does it for me...and its out of place with the period of the film...I did like the music in Unforgiven and like others have said, The Mist, very haunting. Tommy is a great one, but then you cannot beat The Who!

[Sly]

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I really like Quadrophenia and Tommy. I am a massive The Who fan, so that a given really.

Even though I'm not a fan of musicals, I really like Grease's music. Saying that, I think it's a terrible terrible film, it's the music that makes it. If you were to take the music out and just have the story, I don't think it would be as fondly remembered as it is. I actually had an argument with my missus that if you muted the sound for the song parts and just watched through subtitles that the film wouldn't hold up. She ended up turning the film off before it got half way through when she realised I was right.

[Cartimand]

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Favourite and most memorable movie music has to be Witchfinder General, Deathstalker II, Blood on Satan's Claw, the Spaghetti Westerns or Moroder's Midnight Express. Also quite liked the French soft-porn genre music of Emanuelle and Bilitis.

Always loathed disco music, so Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive are the films whose soundtracks I would give a very wide berth to!

[victorbrunswick]

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Not a particularly great film but what a great score!

Ennio Morricone -- Strength Of The Righteous

Al Capone Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g7-jPmKS0I

[darren]

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I dont like the music at the end of freddy's revenge it just does not suit the film.
if anyone has heard they will know what i mean.

[Cartimand]

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On the subject of music not suiting the film, I love Mike Oldfield's music, but his brilliant Tubular Bells was so wrong for The Exorcist.

[sf1378]

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Bloody hate Quadrophenia....Phil Daniels character just needs a dam good hiding - petulant nerk... I was glad when the symbolic bike going off the cliff meant the moody so and so and bought it...anyhow, all the characters were nasty and unlikeable.

[victorbrunswick]

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From Chariots of the Gods (1972)

The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra -- Reminiscences Of The Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0oi0tvxZi0

[DemonEyeX]

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I was glad when the symbolic bike going off the cliff meant the moody so and so and bought it.

I don't think that he did.
For a split second you see him standing as the scooter goes over the edge.
Also, & probably more importantly, at the start of the film you see him walking away from the cliffs.
The movie is kind of a loop, i.e. It begins at the end, & ends at the beginning.
I may be wrong, it could have been made that way to leave it open to interpretation, but as far as I am aware Jimmy lives.

Sorry SF, I know you didn't like him.

[darren]

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never heard this till now.
very nice.

From Chariots of the Gods (1972)

The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra -- Reminiscences Of The Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0oi0tvxZi0

[dwain-dibley]

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roadhouse
the warriors
the wanderers
ironman 1&2