Most riveting film music.

[Christina Lee]

I have just finished watching the Star Wars trilogy and I always thought the music was fantastic! especially at the intro. I also loved the theme music from The Three & Four Musketeers, Superman, Dr Zhivago, the Indiana Jones films and Laurence of Arabia. it is impossible to name all of them, but these are a few of my favourite. I am also very much looking forward to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Star Wars Episode II.

[Lamoreux]

There's no question about John Williams' incredible contributions to the films he has scored; the Indiana Jones trilogy, Superman, Jaws, the Star Wars films (although the repetitive 'Imperial' theme in The Empire Strikes Back becomes a bit numbing by picture's end).
For myself, I'm a James Horner fan. I love the way he utilizes winds and percussion for unique and unusal musical sounds.
If you want to go back several decades, Bernard Herrman is the man. He brought the films of Ray Harryhausen to life with his incredible music scores.
I too am looking forward the 'Attack of the Clones" and "Lord of the Rings", but concerned about what will happen with the music. The advances in hi-fidelity (Dolby, THX Digital, et al) have added tremendously to the music, but taken away as much from the sound of human speech. How often do you find yourself straining forward to hear the dialogue, only to be blown back in your seat by sudden bouts of thundering music. When they solve this problem, film-going will be a far more enjoyable experience; and the music more appreciated.

[Colin Bushby]

I have collected film music (soundtracks) for about 25 years now, and my favourite LP has to be 'The Shining' followed by 'The Good The Bad And The Ugly' then ' Midnight Express'

My favourite music from Mr. Lee's films is almost any early Hammer theme, I can't think of one in particular, they all seem to sound very similar, yet different. I have just started to collect Cd's on these. I just love listening to them, it has to be in the dark though. They bring back so many memories of staying up late on Friday night's in the 70's to watch the 11'O'clock horror movie.

Just thought of another one, Excaliber, a piece called ' Ride of the Valkires' or something like that, it's brilliant.

All this talking of music has put me in the mood to put ' The Wizard Of Oz' on, bye......I'm off to see thw Wizard.......

.....if I only had a brain.

Cheers
Colin

[Sylvain Descoteaux]

there are so many soundrtracks that i love,
right now i am listening a lot to both the scores from `CONTACT`by Alan Silvestri, and GLADIATOR From Hans Zimmer.
I love the music of BRAVEHEART a lot too, and Ennio Morricone was always a favourite of mine since i was introduced to his work the first time i saw

[Maria Silbermann]

I like John Williams' music. I thinks he received some inspiration (consciously or unconsciously) from Wagner and Ralph Vaughn Williams. At any rate, it's great music!
MariaS

[Lamoreux]

Sylvain has a great ear!
Just the mention of it brought back the memory of the TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA score! And Komeda's score for FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is totally haunting; I'm hearing it in my head as I type and can see Alfred leaping across the snow covered parapits of Castle Kroloff. Morricone's score for EXORCIST II was wonderfully evil (despite the fact it was accompanying a completely awful, silly movie).
Has anyone seen the 1931 DRACULA with it's new string trio score? I've watched it twice and cannot decide if I like it or not. I guess I'm just used to the silence of the original.

[Old Soul]

There are so many great theme music from the movies, it

[Joe Skinnell]

Actually I'm really surprised Jacob didn't post this already . Most of the music listed above is excellent, well written and performed. I occasionally like to listen to film soundtracks in the car on long trips. For that, nothing beats the soundtracks by GOBLIN from various Dario Argento films. Personal favorites would include: TENEBRE, ZOMBIE, PROFUNDO ROSSO & DAEMONIA'S TRIBUTE TO DARIO ARGENTO. Of course when your blasting past a semi on the Pennsylvania Turnpike headed to Pittsburgh for the MONSTER BASH nothing beats the theme from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. :1devil:. Come on, admit it. We all have done something one time or another and in the back of our heads was Da da da daaaaaaaa, da da daaa. Da da da DAAAAAAAAAAA, da da da daaa. :lookaroun

[cutshaw]

Howard's Shore's work on THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS is, in my opinion, the score of the year.

As for favourite film music, there's so many wonderful soundtracks I'd bore everyone to death if I listed them all. But among my very favourites would be Basil Poledouris' CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Jerry Goildsmith inspired work on THE OMEN trilogy, James Horner's COCOON and John Barry's SOMEWHERE in TIME. But there are many, many others.

Reviewer at http://www.filmmusic.uk.net/

P.S. I love Goblin too!

[Sylvain Descoteaux]

Somewhere in time!
That is so true, i forgot about this one, this is indeed a magnificient one!

Sylvain

[SoulMan]

I'm a fan of Thomas Newman's music, he did the Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty and The Green Mile. Especially on Shawshank and Green Mile I love the way he uses very little instrumentation but its still a very big, sweeping sound. I like Carter Burwells music for the same reasons, he did Being John Malkovich and Gods and Monsters, it must be the piano tinkling that makes me think of them both.

Euan

[Jacob Remery]

Actually I'm really surprised Jacob didn't post this already . Most of the music listed above is excellent, well written and performed. I occasionally like to listen to film soundtracks in the car on long trips. For that, nothing beats the soundtracks by GOBLIN from various Dario Argento films. Personal favorites would include: TENEBRE, ZOMBIE, PROFUNDO ROSSO & DAEMONIA'S TRIBUTE TO DARIO ARGENTO.

Joe is correct.....
Goblin/Daemonia all the way for me, when i listen to soundtracks.
Or the brilliant soundtrack from The Wicker Man.

(for the rest it's heavy metal, but that's way of topic ;) )

[John Farrell]

some of my favorites in chronological order:
Adventures of Robin Hood--Eric Wolfgang Korngold;
Hamlet--Sir William Walton;
On the Waterfront--Leonard Bernstein;
Dracula--James Bernard;
Guns of Navarone--Dimitri Tiomkin;
Man for All Seasons--Georges Delerue;
Good, the Bad and the Ugly--Ennio Morricone;
Where Eagles Dare--Ron Goodwin;
Patton--Jerry Goldsmith;
Golden Voyage of Sinbad--Miklos Roza;
The Omen--Jerry Goldsmith
The Wrath of Kahn--James Horner;
Adventures of Baron Munchausen---Michael Kamen

Rocky

Just about every James Bond film (especially whichever ones had "Nobody Does It Better," "Goldfinger," and "Live & Let Die" -- but the THEME is great, too!)

The Pink Panther

Rocky Horror

Amadeus!!!

Little Shop of Horrors

Men In Black (a couple of songs)

Sound Of Music

Flash Dance

Dangerous Minds

Star Wars

Romeo And Juliet

Wizard of Oz

Sister Act II (Not all of it!)

and these are cheating, but Forrest Gump and The Big Chill.

Oh, and to really, really cheat... La Boheme! Just watched that.

[John Farrell]

I just found this in the current issue of Commentary magazine, a rare article about the background and life of Miklos Rozsa, one of my favorite film composers. Fans of Mr. Lee who are into film music will remember Mr. Rozsa for scores as varied as The Golden Voyage of Sinbad to Eye of the Needle. Like James Bernard, Rozsa has a certain signature style--very exotic.

In any case, check out this link for a rare treat:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/teachout.htm

Best,

John F