20 greatest movie soundtracks: The Times

[vincenzo]

Also Jerry Goldsmith's Alien score (the best horror film soundtrack ever in my opinion) and Bronislau Kaper's brilliant Mutiny On The Bounty music.

[HUGHJAMPTON]

name='vincenzo']Also Jerry Goldsmith's Alien score (the best horror film soundtrack ever in my opinion) [/B] music.

I'm partial to Jerry's score for the original Planet of the Apes

[vincenzo]

So many great Goldsmith scores. Among my other favourites of his are The Omen, Logan's Run, Our Man Flint, Papillon, Stagecoach and The Blue Max.

[Freddie Freeloader]

Nice to see appreciation of Jerry Goldsmith.



His appearances in London were always auspicious occasions.

Scoring sessions with the great Hollywood composers bring smiles and goose-bumps to

the most jaded and cynical of studio musicians.



I may have posted this link before but I urge all you Goldsmithians to watch

this interview with the great man.



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7ICPKcqJc]YouTube - Jerry Goldsmith - Archive Interview (entire)[/ame]

[Santonix]

None of the the great film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, like The Sea Hawk, or The Adventures of Robin Hood. Nor any from Max Steiner or Miklos Rozsa.

[Rowdon]

name='christoph404']Including the Bee Gees and "Saturday Night Fever" and Prince "Purple Rain" on that list says it all, whoever compiled it is not worth taking seriously.

I agree. They are both fine soundtracks of their kind, but should be in a separate list as they are collections of songs, not film music.



And yes, I said "soundtrack" because I think that it's become the common way of referring to the music played during a film, and nobody actually confuses it with the sound track. However, it's a bit tiring when you want the soundtrack (as in score) of a film, and the only CD available is the collection of ubiquitous Motown hits they've tacked on to it.

[judylou]

Dr. Zhivago ?

Zorba the Greek ?

Guns of Navarone ?

Around the World in 80 Days ?

[CC1]

No Deerhunter

[vincenzo]

name='CC1']No Deerhunter

Stanley Myers's Cavatina theme was originally used in the excellent 1970 film The Walking Stick.

[CC1]

name='vincenzo']Stanley Myers's Cavatina theme was originally used in the excellent 1970 film The Walking Stick.

It was also used on a BBC Radio Two show 'Late night Extra' during a regular 'pen friend slot' introduced by someone called Julie Dawn. Anyone remember that show or Julie Dawn?

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

name='Steve Crook' date='05 April 2010 - 03:35 AM' timestamp='1270434946' post='410887']

You're quite right, the soundtrack is everything you hear in the film including sound effects and dialogue where the score is just the music.

Correct... when strictly concerning usage actually within the film-business. However, when talking about CDs released to the public separate from the film (as surely in the case of this appalling list), 'Soundtrack' is short for 'Original Soundtrack' which means a release of music recordings actually used in the film (or adaptations made and recorded by the composer on the scoring stage at the same time as the film was scored, but often with a diminished orchestra... which often happened with Goldsmith albums), whereas 'Score' or 'Original Score' indicates a re-recording of the music used in a film at a later time and performed by different musicians.



('Source Music' being music played within the actual world of the film... that characters themselves would be able to hear).



EDITED to correct spelling.