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post #1 of 24
3/10/04 at 6:49pm
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Ok everyone name off the soundtrack albums you have and what you're latest purchases have been. Maybe also what you want!

My have list: (albums/cds/tapes)

Star Wars: Episodes 1,2,4,5,6
E.T.
Jaws
Jaws 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Hook
Lawrence of Arabia
Saturday Night Fever
Batman
Purple Rain
LOTR: Fellowship and Two Towers
Mad Max
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
Ghostbusters
The Best of James Bond
Bond: Back In Action
You Only Live Twice
Tron
Falcon and the Snowman

Recent purchases

Midnight Cowboy
What's New Pussycat?

Looking(or wishing) to get...

Omen II
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Fahrenheit 451

Midnight Cowboy has an amazing soundtrack thanks mostly to John Barry. What's New Pussycat is a great early Bacharach endeavor. I mostly bought it for Warwick's "Here I Am" which is fantastic but I've grown to love most if not all of it. I guess I'm really into my 60's soundtrack phase.
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post #2 of 24
3/10/04 at 7:29pm
Bernard Herrmann scores I enjoy:

VERTIGO
PSYCHO
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
TAXI DRIVER
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
CITIZEN KANE
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

Soundtracks to Stanley Kubrick films:

2001
EYES WIDE SHUT
SHINING (on LP) (got into Gyorgy Ligeti thanks to these three soundtracks)
BARRY LYNDON
LOLITA
CLOCKWORK ORANGE (both versions, the film soundtrack and the complete score by Wendy Carlos)
FULL METAL JACKET
a rare LP copy of DR. STRANGELOVE

Howard Shore:

CRASH (excellent!!)
VIDEODROME
NAKED LUNCH
don't have any RINGS yet
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post #3 of 24
3/10/04 at 7:35pm
Have...

Star Wars 1,2,4,5,6 in a couple different versions.
LOTR Fellowship Two Versions
LOTR TT Two Versions
LOTR ROTK Two Versions
Generals Daughter
Last of the Mohicans
Lion King
Lion King Musical
Generals Daughter
Spawn
The Rock
Armaggedon
Braveheart
Passions
Dirty Dancing
Requiem For A Dream
Titanic
Return to Titanic
Gladiator
More Music from Gladiator
Heavy Metal
Matrix Revolutions
Long Walk Home
Snow Falling on Cedars
We were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
Mission Impossible
Airheads
The Lost Boys
Men Of Honor
Halo the game :-)
That is all I can think of off the top of my head.....

Wants
Bondack Saints is a must.....

R~
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post #4 of 24
3/10/04 at 7:54pm
The Thin Red Line
The Last Samurai
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Pearl Harbor
K-Pax
Traffic
Mission to Mars
Magnolia (soundtrack and score)
Punch-Drunk Love
Irreversible
Snow Falling On Cedars
Much Ado About Nothing
Far From Heaven
Indecent Proposal
The American President
Unfaithful

I hope to acquire the score to The Passion of the Christ soon.
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post #5 of 24
3/11/04 at 8:29am
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I hope to acquire the score to The Passion of the Christ soon.


If you are into that style of music, classical with chorals... It is awesome. Easily one of my favorites. The only complaint I have is that it is to short!

R~
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post #6 of 24
3/11/04 at 9:54am
No Mark Knopfler fans??!!

Local Hero
The Princess Bride
Cal

Very different from his Dire Straits output.
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post #7 of 24
3/11/04 at 10:18am
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If you are into that style of music, classical with chorals... It is awesome.
Well, I saw the movie, so I know what the music is like.
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post #8 of 24
3/11/04 at 10:19am
(off the top of my head)

My favs:
Star Wars (1,2,4,5,6) (multiple versions)
Conan The Barbarian
Braveheart
Gladiator
Boyz N the Hood
Last of the Mohicans
He Got Game (Aaron Copland score)
The Last Samurai
The 25th Hour
The Lord of the Rings (FOTR,TTT,ROTK)
Glory
The Untouchables
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Juice
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Rudy
Born on the 4th of July
Flash Gordon
X2: X-Men United

Top 5 I Want:
Scarface
Lawrence of Arabia
The Passion of the Christ
Jaws
Robocop
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post #9 of 24
3/11/04 at 1:30pm
another vote for : Naked Lunch (very acid jazz)

Clockwork Orange

I also like the 2 cds of Twin Peaks music.

I used to own One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but sold it...


Last I bought was the one created to coincide with the DVD of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" Terrif!


I hate "soundtrack cds" that are not accurate or representative of the music heard in a film, as when tracks are missing, or not in the order of appearance in the films.

Eg, The Crying Game, Blue Velvet, Wild Palms, etc.
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post #10 of 24
3/11/04 at 1:43pm
What a coincidence- I never buy soundtrack music, but I got an order from Columia House yesterday which included the soundtrack to Amadeus.

I also have Blues Brothers, Superfly and 2 South Park CDs.
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post #11 of 24
3/11/04 at 1:45pm
Star Wars Ep. 1, 4, 5, 6
South Park BLU
Dances With Wolves
back to the Future
The Terminator 1&2
Backdraft
Superman

I want Aliens
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post #12 of 24
3/11/04 at 6:39pm
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I hate "soundtrack cds" that are not accurate or representative of the music heard in a film, as when tracks are missing, or not in the order of appearance in the films.


Well John, better to have something than nothing is what I believe. Unfortunately all soundtracks don't get the Star Wars special edition soundtrack treatment with entire musical scores in order and missing or alternate cues to boot. Only a select few movie soundtracks, usually classic movie scores, get so much time and money spent on them to provide a complete listening experience.

The great thing about just about any soundtrack is that it features only the music unhindered by dialogue, sound effects, or editing(usually). Sometimes a movie will have a fantastic soundtrack but you can't tell until you actually listen to the soundtrack album because the music played at low volumes in the movie.

I absolutely love soundtracks and it's often the first section I hit in any record store. I never know what gem I might come across. Like the What's New Pussycat? soundtrack I recently picked up. Besides the great music it's an enhanced CD that features a movie clip if played on your computer. The LOTR soundtracks have extra stuff like that too. Two Towers soundtrack has cool wallpapers and other stuff. I'm glad they remastered all the Bond soundtracks too. That opened the way to make the new 5.1 mixes of all the Bond movies that will eventually hit stores.
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post #13 of 24
3/11/04 at 6:46pm
I am a big fan of score soundtrack music. It is my classical music. I have around 100 soundtrack CDs. Seabiscuit is my latest acquisition.
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post #14 of 24
3/11/04 at 6:59pm
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Speaking of classical music, I don't think I would have gained such a deep love and appreciation for classical music had it not been for my initial exposure to movie soundtracks, in particular Star Wars, which I first got back in 1978.

Or at least it would have taken much longer for me to finally arrive at listening to classical music had I not first listened to some wonderful film scores. Also, most of the time now I'm able to identify classical music influences on certain film scores and composers.
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post #15 of 24
7/28/10 at 12:37pm

My soundtrack collection has been growing for years. I went a little nuts at the La La Land Records booth at the San Diego Comic-Con, where I picked up:

 

Big Trouble in Little China - Limited Edition

Extreme Prejudice

Krull - Limited Edition

Bad Boys - Limited Edition

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

The Lone Gunment/Harsh Realm - Limited Edition (signed by composer Mark Snow)

Predators (signed by composer John Debney)

The Last House on the Left

Legion

I.Q. / Seconds - Limited Edition

Farscape Classics: Volume Three

The Big Empty

The Messengers - Limited Edition

Mars Attacks - Limited Edition

Cellular (signed by composer John Ottman)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (signed by composer Bear McCreary)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake)

Heroes (TV)

Zatoichi: The Best Cuts 1967-1973

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Limited Edition (don't ask :)

Batman - Expanded Archival Edition

Cabin Fever (signed by composer Nathan Barr)

Independence Day - Limited Edition 

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post #16 of 24
7/29/10 at 1:02am

Soundtracks in the Disney movies was the one I have been collecting for 5 years.
It may sound so childish but hey! its cool.

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post #17 of 24
7/29/10 at 12:09pm

Not at all, John. Disney film's have produced some wonderful scores - everything from John Barry's Black Hole in the 80's to Michael Giacchino's The Incredibles and Thomas Newman's superb Finding Nemo and WALL*E Scores have a place on my shelf!

 

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Soundtracks in the Disney movies was the one I have been collecting for 5 years.
It may sound so childish but hey! its cool.

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post #18 of 24
9/7/10 at 9:22am

I'm really digging the Inception sound track.  But am I wrong or is it missing what's considered the 'Main Theme'?  The closest seems to be the last 30 seconds on 'Waiting for a train' but that's not what most people are going to recognize, the music from the trailer.

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post #19 of 24
9/7/10 at 2:42pm

Ok here goes my Soundtrack collection:

 

Gladiator

The Last Samurai

Pearl Harbor

Pirates of the Carribean 1-3

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

The Da Vinci Code

Angels and Demons

The Thin Red Line

The Crimson Tide

Mission Impossible 2

Black Hawk Down

Hannibal

King Arthur

Sherlock Holmes

Inception

Star Wars 1-6

Harry Potter 1-6

The Lord of the Rings 1-3

Mamma Mia

Moulin Rouge

Slumdog Millionare

Fame (2009)

Titanic

Braveheart

Matrix 1-3

 

 

I have many more, but these are the biggest representatives of my collection.

 

I recently purchased the soundtrack to Step Up 3D and Taio Cruz's album Rokstarr

 

 

 

 

 

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post #20 of 24
9/9/10 at 6:54pm


John - did the soundtrack to Step Up 3D have any cues from Bear McCreary's score on it?
 

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I recently purchased the soundtrack to Step Up 3D and Taio Cruz's album Rokstarr 

 

 

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post #21 of 24
9/10/10 at 11:43am

Neil,

 

Unfortunately, no, it did not have cues from Bear McCreary's score.

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post #22 of 24
9/29/10 at 10:10pm

Wait, so the best soundtrack I've heard in years, Fernando Velazquez's Devil, doesn't get released as a CD or on iTunes or Amazon?  THIS IS PATHETIC =(

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post #23 of 24
9/30/10 at 5:54pm


There is nothing more disappointing that hearing a wonderful score and not being able to find it because it hasn't been released. A few years ago I discovered a film called Cashback - a magnificant film that I highly recommend - and the score (by Guy Farley) was not available. It was commerically released (very limited) sometime after I discovered the film, but I hate it when a great score isn't given an opportunity to find an audience.
 

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Wait, so the best soundtrack I've heard in years, Fernando Velazquez's Devil, doesn't get released as a CD or on iTunes or Amazon?  THIS IS PATHETIC =(

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post #24 of 24
12/4/10 at 2:05am

I have:

 

Trainspotting
Control
Stand By Me
Saturday Night Fever
Grease
My Best Friends Wedding
Transformers
Twilight
Pretty in Pink
Avatar
Say Anything
That Thing You Do
Gladiator
Dumb and Dumber
All have awesome music!
A Clockwork Orange
Singin' In The Rain
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Forrest Gump

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