The best and worst movie music.

[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!

[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.

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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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[stud1al]

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I have two major pet peeves about movie music...1) Instead of a beautifully done score the soundtrack is nothing more than an off-the-shelf compilation of various pop artists.2) Modern contemporary music in a period film instead of music either from the period or a score that's evocative of that era. Two notable examples that come to mind are Moulin Rouge (set in the early 1900s) and Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights (Hip Hop in 1950s Havana???)

I totally agree with you.Another example was the Kirsten Dunst version of Marie Antoinette. The modern pop music in that completely put me off.Wasn't a great film to begin with but that made it worse.

[darren]

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[QUOTE=DemonEyeX;167892]Quite possibly the scariest soundtrack of all time.


NICE TO KNOW SOMEONE HAS HEARD OF IT.
a lot of people have not heard of it.

Other are to some of the clint eastwood westerns.
films a fistful of dollars and a few dollars more.

here is some beautiful supergirl music.
http://youtu.be/r56yFhT_lxY
http://youtu.be/TlI9I-FhVME

[CitizenKeyne]

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Well in my opinion one of the best films ever made also had the best sountrack ever made, not many sountracks can ber listend to in a stand alone ... so ladeis and gentlemen I give you the Movie Quarophenia and the stunning soundtrack by The Who ... how often can oyu listewn to a soundtrack and know exaclty what would be going on on the screen ? Got ot be the proper soundtrack no some of the later cheapo releases

The BEST one byt a country mile !

[victorbrunswick]

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I'm a big fan of John Carpenter soundtracks, 'Assault on Precinct 13' in particular.
Also the band known as Goblin, best known for their Italian horror movie soundtracks.

Dark Star (1974)
John Carpenter's very first movie.

[DemonEyeX]

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suspiria

Quite possibly the scariest soundtrack of all time.

I did like the music in The Thing

Gotta agree with that, by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

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No offence to fans but cannot stand Vangellis, nor John Carpenters own music in his films...I did like the music in The Thing - the main theme is haunting...ET is nice too...

[Sly]

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The Titanic OST by Celine Dion is horrid.

[Powdered toast man]

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Vangelis's scores on Blade Runner, Alexander and Conquest of Paradise are just amazing. Also the ending to Runaway Train where a slightly re-worked Vivaldi piece(Gloria in et terra pax) is absolutely chilling and incredibly moving. I also love anything that uses 50's-70's stock music by composers such as Werner Tautz, Heinz Kliessing, Laurie Johnson, Syd Dale etc.
Barry Gray's 'Zero-X theme' from Thunderbirds are go is probably my all time favourite tune from any movie.