# Best Soundtracks/Scores of Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987 "2000-12-17T04:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/1 "2000-12-17T04:43:46Z")
Here is my list: A Clockwork Orange Blue Velvet Blade Runner Lost Highway ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/2 "2000-12-17T04:58:25Z")
Cradle Will Rock Time Of The Gypsies Once Were Warriors ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/3 "2000-12-17T05:44:21Z")
American Pie Schindler’s List The Red Violin ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/4 "2000-12-17T05:47:32Z")
Tin Cup The Color of Money Dracula (the Frank Langella version) Desperadoes Falling from Grace And the Northern Exposure TV show ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/5 "2000-12-17T07:02:23Z")
Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/6 "2000-12-17T11:08:35Z")
Natural Born Killers Despite the fact it include bits of dialogue from the film which is usually pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Anake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Anake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anake)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/7 "2000-12-17T14:12:06Z")
Amadeus And any movie with composer Danny Elfman From, Anake ---
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/8 "2000-12-17T14:45:51Z")
Braveheart Last of the Mohicans Magnolia Immortal Beloved For nostalgia’s sake…Top Gun ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/9 "2000-12-17T14:51:01Z")
Less obvious ones… Galaxy Quest Wing Commander Godzilla (the american one) Heavy Metal (not the outdated hair-metal score, but the orchestal one) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/10 "2000-12-17T15:13:14Z")
[Ghost Story](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003TE9/qid=977065109/sr=1-1/104-9198618-9118329), 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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/11 "2000-12-17T15:16:31Z")
…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) ---
**Author:** ![Mundo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mundo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/12 "2000-12-17T16:13:41Z")
All of John Williams music for Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/13 "2000-12-17T16:16:40Z")
_The Power of One_ _The Mission_ ---
**Author:** ![Mundo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mundo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/14 "2000-12-17T16:20:11Z")
I just remebered the Forest Gump sound track has a lot of good music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/15 "2000-12-17T18:40:33Z")
Oops, forgot The Big Chill ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/16 "2000-12-17T19:19:56Z")
[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] ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/17 "2000-12-17T19:27:59Z")
\*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. ---
**Author:** ![stormy652](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stormy652](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stormy652)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/18 "2000-12-17T20:04:12Z")
The soundtrack of The Rock. Great orchestral score! ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/19 "2000-12-17T20:17:53Z")
John Williams and his Star Wars stuff Forrest Gump and, best of all: The Blues Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987/20 "2000-12-17T22:38:09Z")
Gotta go with Beatlejuice Nightmare Before Christmas ("Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws? I wanna do it! Let’s Draw Straws!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soundtracks-scores-of-movies/45987.md?page=2)