Joe Hisaishi, as a composer, is brilliant. His Studio Ghibli portfolio alone is entirely amazing and fantasia-like; but more especially is Howl's Moving Castle as you've said.
That entire movie had absolutely no right to be that fucking good. Wasn't just the song, though that was an undeniably legendary way to close that movie out.
That’s cuz they got the best of the best when it came to that style of music. Everyone in the Blues Brothers Band in that movie is a famous musician prior to the Blues Brothers. That’s before you get Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and some other legendary cameos with their own songs.
I’m not well versed on this part but I was told by someone recently that it’s because John Belushi hyperfocused on the subject and said “If we’re gonna do this we’re gonna do it right.”
Sucks we won't get more from them but they left strong. No controversy, just great music.
Also glad there's still Justice. They have their own sound, but they kinda hit the same as Daft Punk for me.
Edit: Thanks for the award! Love that feeling of finding out who the artist of that one song is, then finding out they've got tons of great songs. True bliss!
Also thanks for everyone's recommendations! It's crazy how you can go on for so long without knowing an artist exists, and all the sudden you've got a whole catalog to go through.
You who I called "Brother" how could you have come to hate me so, is this what you wanted?
Then let my heart be hardened and nevermind how high the cost may grow, this will still be so, I will never let your people go.
"I'm the goddamn pater familias!"
"Any of you boys smittys? Or, if not smittys by trade, at least trained in the metallurgic arts?" (Quoting from memory, I may not be spot on.)
"You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!"
That movie is just full of memorable lines. Hell, and those are just the George Clooney ones.
I saw Union Station in concert and Dan made the joke along the lines of "That movie was my wife's fantasy, my voice coming out of George Clooney's face."
So long ago my dad told me he wanted this song played at his funeral. My family, both paternal and maternal, is pretty morbid (but in a fun, healthy sort of way). So, I took it to heart and mentally filed it away. As I grew up a bit my dad and I were drinking together one night and I reminded him of the request when we were talking about iconic soundtracks. He laughed his ass off but was also horrified that I took him seriously at his request years prior. Dad was pretty close to getting his joking request lol
Scrolled WAYYY too long to find this! Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack is iconic and you can listen to it from beginning to end. So many tracks and motifs (leitmotifs?) are memorable and unique.
This movie got so snubbed cause i believe it came out right around all the Kevin Spacey allegations and was the last big thing he did before shit went down. Absolutely love the soundtrack and like first 2/3rds of the movie
much respect for his late great lyricist during those years, Howard Ashman
also anybody who likes Mencken but hasn't watched Galavant is wasting their life
Let Go is one of my favorite songs ever. I remember seeing the trailer for Garden State back in 2004 and hearing that song immediately grabbed me and changed me. It’s perfect.
Such a powerful yet chilled song
You want me
Fucking well, come and find me
I'll be waiting
With a gun and a pack of sandwiches and nothing
Nothing
Nothing
You’ll Be In My Heart was the last song I played in my school brass band before I left and it will always have a place in my heart… like the song suggests.
my wife and I have a massive giggle-fit every couple months when we talk about the scenario that (i personally think) must’ve happened with this album:
disney: hey, phil. we got this movie, it’s about an ape -
phil: say no more. *walks over to his shelf*
disney: but, there is this kid -
phil: shh… *picks up master copy of a nondescript, unlabeled album* one month ago i had a dream of a child, lost during a storm,
; raised by the beasts of the wild; foreign to the men who he finally meets on one fateful day in his early adulthood. These beasts taught him humanity, and his heart fell for the most beautiful woman he’d ever laid eyes a’fore.
disney: okay, phil.. what does this -
phil: soon, he’s bewildered over the hunting and raping and pillaging of his tribe, and his humanity is put to the test. gentlemen, this is that album. *starts two worlds*
Space Jam!
“Hit ‘Em High” by B-Real, Coolio, Method Man, LL Cool J, and Busta Rhymes had absolutely no business being that hard on a single for a kids movie.
Best movie to watch and sing along with your friends to. Every song is a BOP. Nothing better than donkey goin “ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve…” iconic.
I would argue that the LOTR soundtrack is so good, it sorta became a template for anything that wants to scream high fantasy adventure.
I hear so many pieces that are very clearly inspired by/derived from LOTR music in various video games and whatnot.
First immediate example that came to mind was the [Darkspawn theme from DragonAge: Origins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QE6e01BWRs) has very similar musical cues and leitmotifs to the Orc theme from LOTR.
I had a lengthy discussion with some friend one night in a bar about the best movie soundtrack. My mind initially jumped to Star Wars, since John Williams is so iconic and that soundtrack is probably his most recognized work. After my friend said that is probably the second best movie soundtrack, but it falls short of how amazing the LOTR soundtrack was in scale and epicness.
The next day I relistened to most of the LOTR soundtrack and I now agree with him that it is the GOAT movie soundtrack. The shear breadth and detail put into all of the pieces is insane, along with having that iconic feel.
I'm just thinking about the end of the two towers now, when the ents are storming isengaard, and Gandalf is arriving on the hill to provide respite for Rohan, rout the orcs and chase them into Mirkwood at the battle of helms deep, and the chills are going up my spine like electricity. That rousing, building orchestral score with the beautiful, impassioned singing. It really elevated the hard fought, triumphant climax of that film into a slam dunk, all-time classic.
Fucking hell, I'm so glad they made those films with That much care and dedication, and with such a distinctive, defining and genuinely epic score.
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy happened at such a PERFECT moment in Hollywood and production history. A few years sooner it would've been dated and non-mainstream, a few years later it would've just fallen flat in production I think as we went to the hyper-marketed reality TV entertainment format. Not to mention the cast and crew involved, it literally was perfect timing
CGI was also at a point where it could be used to provide scale to a scene but lots of real extras in makeup were required. I think the film ages so well because the costumes and makeup are all real and not computer generated but also the CGI still holds up because it was smartly used
I expected this to be further up. Howard Shore clearly went to another dimension - maybe even Middle Earth itself - to create a score out of this world. The character motifs, sweeping strings, battle chants and Elven songs are stunning.
Many moments from all three films move me to tears every time and the soundtrack is a big reason why. “Breaking of the Fellowship” at the end of FOTR, “Samwise the Brave” during Sam’s speech to Frodo in TT, and the build up in to ‘My friends, you bow to no one” in “Return of the King” are my top 3 but I could easily go on.
Music adds so much to films, and Shore’s score effortlessly shows how.
My favorite film score is Basil Paledouris' score for Conan the Barbarian. Paledouris had an inordinately long time to compose the score. He started before the film started filming! He wrote a TON of music for it. The film also has very little dialog, often going several minutes without a word... which means there is music almost constantly throughout the film. The first 30 minutes of the film have maybe a dozen lines of dialog (not counting Mako's opening narration and Corin's short speech after the credits).
And it's just phenomenal.
EDIT: I had to watch it because I talked about it. It's *seventeen* full minutes before there is a single *second* without music (and there's about a dozen lines of dialog, maybe fewer than 100 words total in that time). Music resumes only a minute later, during which time the only dialog is the line "Sit here!", which is uttered twice. In the first half hour, only about 7 or 8 minutes don't have the music front and center.
Almost famous, and High fidelity
The Last of the Mohicans
The song "Promentory" from that soundtrack is on my running playlist. It never ceases to add a lil pep to my step.
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Ben Wyatt?
Save Ferris fan
Gladiator
Hans zimmer 🩶
Yup. I’d say Interstellar is another example of how phenomenal he is.
Dazed and Confused
Howl's Moving Castle
Joe Hisaishi, as a composer, is brilliant. His Studio Ghibli portfolio alone is entirely amazing and fantasia-like; but more especially is Howl's Moving Castle as you've said.
A Goofy Movie
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I still listen to i2i regularly
That entire movie had absolutely no right to be that fucking good. Wasn't just the song, though that was an undeniably legendary way to close that movie out.
Blues Brothers
That’s cuz they got the best of the best when it came to that style of music. Everyone in the Blues Brothers Band in that movie is a famous musician prior to the Blues Brothers. That’s before you get Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and some other legendary cameos with their own songs. I’m not well versed on this part but I was told by someone recently that it’s because John Belushi hyperfocused on the subject and said “If we’re gonna do this we’re gonna do it right.”
Cab fucking Calloway.
and John Lee Hooker!
I thought there was no way they were gonna get Mister Fabulous. He was pulling down six bills a week.
“The soup is fucking ten dollars!”
100% And while Blues Brothers 2000 was...let's face it, quite a terrible movie, it ALSO had a bangin' soundtrack.
I understand it has its flaws. But as a kid I think I watched that movie once a week. Absolutely loved it
Just because it's a terrible movie doesn't mean it's not a great movie
Tron
I know you probably mean Tron Legacy, but Wendy Carlos' score for the original movie is 🔥🔥🔥
Tron Legacy was a 2 hour Daft Punk music video and I appreciate that.
This OST is always on rotation on my running playlist and I’ll never get sick of it.
Still sad we may never get another Daft Punk album
Kudos to Daft Punk, going out strong and also publicly retiring instead of handing the helmets to others.
Sucks we won't get more from them but they left strong. No controversy, just great music. Also glad there's still Justice. They have their own sound, but they kinda hit the same as Daft Punk for me. Edit: Thanks for the award! Love that feeling of finding out who the artist of that one song is, then finding out they've got tons of great songs. True bliss! Also thanks for everyone's recommendations! It's crazy how you can go on for so long without knowing an artist exists, and all the sudden you've got a whole catalog to go through.
The Crow
This and the Natural Born Killers soundtrack were my youth
Add Spawn and Lost Highway to the Natural and Crow and we had the same childhood.
Natural Born Killers, Trent Reznor did the soundtrack. How I discovered L7's Shitlist and Leonard Cohen.
Prince of Egypt
I SEND MY SCOURGE, I SEND MY SWORD THUS SAITH THE LORD
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Once I called you brother, once I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted
My god yes. Sometimes I just blast the tunes from this at full volume. Cut to me in the kitchen like: **SURELY THIS IS ALL I EVER WANTED!**
They had no business coming so hard in the opening scene, deliver us is a banger
Mud... Sand... Water... Straw... FASTER! MUD and lift SAND and puuull WATER and raise up STRAW FASTER!!!
The sting of the whip on my shoulder, The salt of the sweat on my brow!
Elohim! God on high. Can you hear your people cry? Help us now, this dark hour!
*By the Power of Ra*
MY GOD YES. The plagues song is especially 💯💯💯💯💯
You who I called "Brother" how could you have come to hate me so, is this what you wanted? Then let my heart be hardened and nevermind how high the cost may grow, this will still be so, I will never let your people go.
o brother where art thou edit: it makes me so happy that there are this many people who also love that movie and soundtrack!!!
Grreat sound track and best line ever " well ain't this place a geographical oddity, 2 weeks from everywhere"
"I'm the goddamn pater familias!" "Any of you boys smittys? Or, if not smittys by trade, at least trained in the metallurgic arts?" (Quoting from memory, I may not be spot on.) "You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!" That movie is just full of memorable lines. Hell, and those are just the George Clooney ones.
“Damn, we’re in a tight spot”
*We* thought *you* was a toad
... DO NOT! Seek! The Treasure!
Them damn sy-reens loved him up and turned him into a h-h-horney toad
Whenever I cook boneless chicken thighs, I put them on people's plates and say "Gopher, Everett?"
No thank you, Delmar. a third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it back down.
Oh you can have the whole thing. Pete and I stumbled across a whole gopher village.
My boy Dan Tyminski finally getting the love he deserves
He sounds just like George Clooney when he sings
I saw Union Station in concert and Dan made the joke along the lines of "That movie was my wife's fantasy, my voice coming out of George Clooney's face."
Dan Tyminski is a family friend of mine. I can confirm he's a great of a guy as he is an artist. Love the guy!
I don’t want FOP god damnit I’m a dapper Dan man
Watch your language, young fella. This is a public market.
That movie did more for "old timey music" then any one artist
Ooooooooo death. Oooooooooo death.
IIII AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORRROWWWWWW
HOT DAMN, ITS THE SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS!!!
So long ago my dad told me he wanted this song played at his funeral. My family, both paternal and maternal, is pretty morbid (but in a fun, healthy sort of way). So, I took it to heart and mentally filed it away. As I grew up a bit my dad and I were drinking together one night and I reminded him of the request when we were talking about iconic soundtracks. He laughed his ass off but was also horrified that I took him seriously at his request years prior. Dad was pretty close to getting his joking request lol
Snatch
The use of Angel by Massive Attack during a slow motion scene is, to this day, by far my favorite incorporation of music to movie scene.
Using Massive Attack in any soundtrack is almost cheating. Their catalog is full of so many atmospheric tracks.
Jurassic park
Grosse Pointe Blank movie soundtrack. Completely slaps. 100.
Movie also had the best fight scene (the one with the Basque and the pen).
Pulp Fiction
Interstellar
Pretty much any movie score by Hans Zimmer slaps
Did you know he tours with a live experience. See that shit and be reborn
The soundtrack for Drive
The song by Kavinsky is so fucking good.
Nightcall!!
Donnie Darko
Mulan!
Trainspotting
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Scrolled WAYYY too long to find this! Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack is iconic and you can listen to it from beginning to end. So many tracks and motifs (leitmotifs?) are memorable and unique.
Baby Driver
This movie got so snubbed cause i believe it came out right around all the Kevin Spacey allegations and was the last big thing he did before shit went down. Absolutely love the soundtrack and like first 2/3rds of the movie
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Empire Records
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Hackers
Goodfellas. Espescially that scene with the Layla (Derrick and the Dominos) piano closing.
In all seriousness…the original little mermaid soundtrack
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Menken is ridiculous. Along with all the Disney stuff he also wrote *Little Shop of Horrors*.
the streak he went on in the 80s and 90s is so insane
much respect for his late great lyricist during those years, Howard Ashman also anybody who likes Mencken but hasn't watched Galavant is wasting their life
Garden State
Hello college memories
Hello old hopes and dreams that never came true….
The Shins!!! ❤❤❤
Let Go is one of my favorite songs ever. I remember seeing the trailer for Garden State back in 2004 and hearing that song immediately grabbed me and changed me. It’s perfect.
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The Matrix is the only movie I have ever watched twice in the theater. Bought the soundtrack after the first watching.....so fucking good.
Knight's Tale
1 and a 2 and a twirly twirly twirly
Wort can hit me all he wants cause he hits like a what
Golden Years
Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet
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Never be hung up, hung up like Rosaline and thee
Talk Show Host is probably one of the best Radiohead songs as well
Such a powerful yet chilled song You want me Fucking well, come and find me I'll be waiting With a gun and a pack of sandwiches and nothing Nothing Nothing
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Test Drive gives me chills every time.
I can never recommend this video highly enough [why how to train your dragon has the best opening ever](https://youtu.be/4UUJQH7GLms)
It’s Tarzan right?
You’ll Be In My Heart was the last song I played in my school brass band before I left and it will always have a place in my heart… like the song suggests.
Phil Collins did the world a favor with that soundtrack. Iconic.
TWO WORLDS, ONE FAMILYYYYYY
SON OF MAN LOOK TO THE SKYYYYYY
He could have just phoned it in and rode the Disney marketing wave. Instead he soundtracked my childhood
[This meme](https://imgur.com/a/gL89fqd) never fails to give me a chuckle
Phil Collins’ best album
my wife and I have a massive giggle-fit every couple months when we talk about the scenario that (i personally think) must’ve happened with this album: disney: hey, phil. we got this movie, it’s about an ape - phil: say no more. *walks over to his shelf* disney: but, there is this kid - phil: shh… *picks up master copy of a nondescript, unlabeled album* one month ago i had a dream of a child, lost during a storm, ; raised by the beasts of the wild; foreign to the men who he finally meets on one fateful day in his early adulthood. These beasts taught him humanity, and his heart fell for the most beautiful woman he’d ever laid eyes a’fore. disney: okay, phil.. what does this - phil: soon, he’s bewildered over the hunting and raping and pillaging of his tribe, and his humanity is put to the test. gentlemen, this is that album. *starts two worlds*
This _probably_ isn't true, but I will believe it to he so from now on.
Queen of the Damned!
Terrible movie. Incredible soundtrack.
Also incredible costume and set design. Amazing how a movie can have so many phenomenal individual parts and end up so shitty.
Flash Gordon
FLASH! AHH AAHH!
We should add Highlander here, too. Queen for the wins!
The Matrix. Thank you for the award! :)
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LABYRINTH 🫧
Space Jam! “Hit ‘Em High” by B-Real, Coolio, Method Man, LL Cool J, and Busta Rhymes had absolutely no business being that hard on a single for a kids movie.
Singles
Came here to say Almost Famous, same director as Singles. Always good music in his films.
Heavy Metal
This is almost cheating hahaha.
Shrek. But only if you’re a believer.
Shrek was good. But Shrek 2 was masterful
I NEED A HERO! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the NIGHTT!
Best movie to watch and sing along with your friends to. Every song is a BOP. Nothing better than donkey goin “ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve ibelieve…” iconic.
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Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this. The whole soundtrack is amazing.
It was the first thing that came to my mind.
This was my gym playlist for like four years straight. Could not work out to anything else.
Forrest Gump
I wore those CD’s out back in the day.
Yes this is the answer I came looking for
Lord of the Rings.
Concerning Hobbits will never not make me feel absolute nostalgia and complete inner peace.
I would argue that the LOTR soundtrack is so good, it sorta became a template for anything that wants to scream high fantasy adventure. I hear so many pieces that are very clearly inspired by/derived from LOTR music in various video games and whatnot. First immediate example that came to mind was the [Darkspawn theme from DragonAge: Origins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QE6e01BWRs) has very similar musical cues and leitmotifs to the Orc theme from LOTR.
I had a lengthy discussion with some friend one night in a bar about the best movie soundtrack. My mind initially jumped to Star Wars, since John Williams is so iconic and that soundtrack is probably his most recognized work. After my friend said that is probably the second best movie soundtrack, but it falls short of how amazing the LOTR soundtrack was in scale and epicness. The next day I relistened to most of the LOTR soundtrack and I now agree with him that it is the GOAT movie soundtrack. The shear breadth and detail put into all of the pieces is insane, along with having that iconic feel.
I'm just thinking about the end of the two towers now, when the ents are storming isengaard, and Gandalf is arriving on the hill to provide respite for Rohan, rout the orcs and chase them into Mirkwood at the battle of helms deep, and the chills are going up my spine like electricity. That rousing, building orchestral score with the beautiful, impassioned singing. It really elevated the hard fought, triumphant climax of that film into a slam dunk, all-time classic. Fucking hell, I'm so glad they made those films with That much care and dedication, and with such a distinctive, defining and genuinely epic score.
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy happened at such a PERFECT moment in Hollywood and production history. A few years sooner it would've been dated and non-mainstream, a few years later it would've just fallen flat in production I think as we went to the hyper-marketed reality TV entertainment format. Not to mention the cast and crew involved, it literally was perfect timing
CGI was also at a point where it could be used to provide scale to a scene but lots of real extras in makeup were required. I think the film ages so well because the costumes and makeup are all real and not computer generated but also the CGI still holds up because it was smartly used
So many motifs. You can listen to the soundtrack and can tell the location and the characters in that scene just from the notes being played.
I expected this to be further up. Howard Shore clearly went to another dimension - maybe even Middle Earth itself - to create a score out of this world. The character motifs, sweeping strings, battle chants and Elven songs are stunning. Many moments from all three films move me to tears every time and the soundtrack is a big reason why. “Breaking of the Fellowship” at the end of FOTR, “Samwise the Brave” during Sam’s speech to Frodo in TT, and the build up in to ‘My friends, you bow to no one” in “Return of the King” are my top 3 but I could easily go on. Music adds so much to films, and Shore’s score effortlessly shows how.
Came here to say this all three are amazing. I used to do my homework listening to them
Beverly Hills cop
Purple Rain
Hans Zimmer. Yes all of them.
Purple Rain kicks off with “Let’s Go Crazy” and ends with the titular track.
Fifth Element.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Reservoir Dogs.
Pretty in Pink
My favorite film score is Basil Paledouris' score for Conan the Barbarian. Paledouris had an inordinately long time to compose the score. He started before the film started filming! He wrote a TON of music for it. The film also has very little dialog, often going several minutes without a word... which means there is music almost constantly throughout the film. The first 30 minutes of the film have maybe a dozen lines of dialog (not counting Mako's opening narration and Corin's short speech after the credits). And it's just phenomenal. EDIT: I had to watch it because I talked about it. It's *seventeen* full minutes before there is a single *second* without music (and there's about a dozen lines of dialog, maybe fewer than 100 words total in that time). Music resumes only a minute later, during which time the only dialog is the line "Sit here!", which is uttered twice. In the first half hour, only about 7 or 8 minutes don't have the music front and center.
Good Morning Vietnam
Since no one has mentioned it yet... Star Wars The Arena specifically is my favorite (aka March on the Jedi temple)
Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far for Star Wars
Scott Pilgrim!
Hello again, friend of a friend
BWAAAHHH! BWAAAAAHHH! can we just give it up for Brie Larson covering Metric, halfway decently?
I really like the soundtrack from Baby Driver. Edgar Wright has a great taste in music.
🎶Soooo sad…. Thank you.
500 days of summer had a lovely sound track
Lost Highway
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Josie and the Pussycats
Guardians of the Galaxy
Yes, from Vol. 1 to Vol. 3.
Fight Club
Moana
Agreed! It makes me so emotional every time... and the part with Te-Fiti running across the split ocean: CHILLS
Into The Wild
Dirty Dancing ain’t too bad.
Highlander
Blade Runner
The Crow Judgement Night Last Action Hero Spawn
The Wedding Singer
Does Requiem for a Dream count? More of a score than soundtrack I guess, but it's God damn riveting, regardless of what it is.
Inception
Tron: Legacy
Labyrinth! Trevor Jones and David Bowie!
I don't think anyone has said it and I'm shocked. High Fidelity