Here is my list:
A Clockwork Orange
Blue Velvet
Blade Runner
Lost Highway
Cradle Will Rock
Time Of The Gypsies
Once Were Warriors
American Pie
Schindler’s List
The Red Violin
Tin Cup
The Color of Money
Dracula (the Frank Langella version)
Desperadoes
Falling from Grace
And the Northern Exposure TV show
Titanic.
Natural Born Killers
Despite the fact it include bits of dialogue from the film which is usually pretty annoying.
Amadeus
And any movie with composer Danny Elfman
From,
Anake
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Magnolia
Immortal Beloved
For nostalgia’s sake…Top Gun
Less obvious ones…
Galaxy Quest
Wing Commander
Godzilla (the american one)
Heavy Metal (not the outdated hair-metal score, but the orchestal one)
Ghost Story, a 1981 soundtrack that I still haven’t grown tired of listening to.
If you’ve got an ear for creepy, ethereal orchestral sounds then this one’s for you. I completely agree with the three reviews listed at the Amazon link above. The audio samples they offer don’t do it justice, except possibly for the first one.
…scores from films made before 1980:
The Big Country (Moross)
Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Morricone)
A Streetcar Named Desire (North)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Mancini)
King Kong (Steiner)
Two English Girls (Delerue)
Ben-Hur (Rozsa)
The Lion in Winter (Barry)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Korngold)
Z (Theodorakus)
Cool Hand Luke (Schifrin)
Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith)
Not to mention anything by Bernard Herrmann (*On Dangerous Ground, Vertigo, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Citizen Kane, Psycho, The Day the Earth Stood Still, *etc.)
And the greatest film score ever: Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
All of John Williams music for Star Wars.
The Power of One
The Mission
I just remebered the Forest Gump sound track has a lot of good music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s
Oops, forgot The Big Chill
[ul][li]American Grafitti -Excellent collection of late 50’s to early 60’s tunes.[/li][li]Valley Girl -Solid collection of 80’s music, the highlight being I Melt With You by Modern English.[/li]Basquiat -And this one has the best collection of 70’s music around.[/ul]
*Edward Scissorhands
*Forrest Gump
*Man of La Mancha
*Batman Forever (so I never saw the movie, but I bought it because of Seal’s “Kiss By a Rose”)
*Gettysburg
Ones that would probably be really cool but I don’t own:
*Titan AE
*Last of the Mohicans
*Austin Powers
Where do they get the music for ER? One time they played a song during a scene where a baby was being baptized in some pretty place in the city, a premature baby that died soon after the baptism. It made me cry.
The soundtrack of The Rock. Great orchestral score!
John Williams and his Star Wars stuff
Forrest Gump
and, best of all:
The Blues Brothers
Gotta go with
Beatlejuice
Nightmare Before Christmas ("Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws? I wanna do it! Let’s Draw Straws!)