Great music from movies

[bowfinger]

This might belong in the music forum but this is just as much about movies as music and this forum is much more crowded

Anyways I'm looking for some good music from movies.

I'm not talking about music like
Will Smith - Men in Black
Celine Dion - My heart will go on

More like:
Gary Jules - Mad World
Pearl Jam - Reign over me
U2 - Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
(from dusk till dawn, can't remember artist) - Dark Night
BOB DYLAN - HURRICANE CARTER
limp bizkit - take a look around
etc. etc.

So many knowledgeable movies fans on this forum so help me out plz

[Lindsey]

I love threads like these, since music is such an important part of my life. I actually created a thread a while back entitled That Perfect SONG, to that Perfect SCENE HERE. There's a ton of great song in there... some of my favorites:

Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealer's Wheel (Reservoir Dogs)
Sister Christain by Night Ranger (Boogie Nights)
Slow Ride by Foghat (Dazed and Confused)
Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann (Blow)
The Midnight Special by CCR (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Freebird by Lynyrd Skynrd (The Devil's Rejects)
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash (Dawn of the Dead remake)
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve (Cruel Intentions)
Cherry, Cherry by Neil Diamond (Anchorman)
Walk Like a Man by the Four Seasons (Heart and Souls)
Stand By Me by Ben E. King (Stand By Me)
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon by Neil Diamond (Pulp Fiction)
Hold on I'm comin by Sam and Dave (American Gangster)
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greembaum (Forrect Gump)
For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield (Forrest Gump)

There is sooo many more but these are my all time favs.

[xseanymacx]

Bjork - Beauty in the Breakdown

Possibly my favorite movie song ever.

[bigred760]

All the songs in Pulp Fiction and Swingers.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I'm a little confused as to what you're asking so I'll cover both possibilities.

The Best Original or Popularized Songs:
"A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles (A Hard Day's Night)
"Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles (A Hard Day's Night)
"Help!" - The Beatles (Help!)
"Ticket To Ride" - The Beatles (Help!)
"Purple Rain" - Prince (Purple Rain)
"When Doves Cry" - Prince (Purple Rain)
"Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock)
"Love Me Tender" - Elvis Presley (Love Me Tender)
"Lose Yourself" - Eminem (8 Mile)
"Fight the Power" - Public Enemy (Do the Right Thing)
"Born To Be Wild" - Steppenwolf (Easy Rider)
"Rock Around the Clock" - Bill Haley & The Comets (Blackboard Jungle)
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
"I Believe I Can Fly" - R. Kelly (Space Jam)
"Mrs. Robinson" - Simon & Garfunkel (The Graduate)

Best Uses of Great Music:
"Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones (Full Metal Jacket)
"The End" - The Doors (Apocalypse Now)
"Stuck in the Middle With You" - Stealers Wheel (Reservoir Dogs)
"Misirlou" - Dick Dale & The Del-Tones (Pulp Fiction)
"Let's Stay Together" - Al Green (Pulp Fiction)
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison (Blue Velvet)
"Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith (Dazed and Confused)
"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever)
"The Sound of Silence" - Simon & Garfunkel (The Graduate)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (Wayne's World)

[FireCaptain4]

Le Big Mac covered everything I was going to mention...

As far as score soundtracks go, one of my favorites is what Thomas Newman did for Road to Peridition.
Also:
Cliff Martinez for Solaris
Johnny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood
Hans Zimmer for The Last Samurai

Also, two of my favorite soundtracks I just remembered:
"Goody Two Shoes" - Adam Ant (Hot Fuzz)
"Village Green Preservation Society" - The Kinks (...)
"Caught By The Fuzz" - Supergrass
"Solid State Easy Action" - The Fratellis
"Zombi" - Zombie Nation (Shaun of the Dead)
"Mister Mental" - Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (...)
"Don't Stop Me Now" - Queen
"You're My Best Friend" - Queen

[xseanymacx]

The score from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

[JohnLocke2342]

The Lord of the Rings has some of the greatest scores ever written. Even Enya went off for Fellowship of the Ring.. beautiful soundtrack.

The Coasters - Down in Mexico (Grindhouse: Death Proof)

[biff_debris]

Two words. JERRY GOLDSMITH. My faves are the scores for Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes, but there's also Total Recall, The Omen and Outland.Yeah, he did some other ones, too ;D

[FireCaptain4]

Originally Posted by xseanymacx

The score from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

I honestly can't believe I forgot Requiem for a Dream! Good pick.

[FireCaptain4]

Originally Posted by JohnLocke2342

The Lord of the Rings has some of the greatest scores ever written. Even Enya went off for Fellowship of the Ring.. beautiful soundtrack.

The Coasters - Down in Mexico (Grindhouse: Death Proof)

I agree that LOTR had a memorable soundtrack, but its not the kind of stuff that I would go out and buy to listen to. It's perfect for the movie, but thats pretty much it for me, except for the Shire theme from Fellowship of the Ring, that tune is "Giggidy Giggidy, Al-right!

[salo]

The Braveheart soundtrack always hit a nerve. (I've even heard a trance/techno remix of it.) I remember Alive had a memorable soundtrack (about the footballers eating eachother in the Andes). Natural Born Killers had a good soundtrack too, especially the placememnt of 'Take the Power Back' in the jailhouse.

[Monotreme]

Not very much to contribute here, but on the topic of great classical music soundtracks, one must mention the following:

Philip Glass for The Hours
Clint Mansell for The Fountain
Thomas Newman for American Beauty
Hans Zimmer for Gladiator

Also, in terms of compilation albums, i.e. movies that just have damn good soundtracks:
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 1
Forrest Gump
Dazed and Confused
Snatch
Juno

[Homyrrh]

Originally Posted by JohnLocke2342

The Lord of the Rings has some of the greatest scores ever written. Even Enya went off for Fellowship of the Ring.. beautiful soundtrack.

The Coasters - Down in Mexico (Grindhouse: Death Proof)

That scene was great, song was even better.

"All Along the Watchtower" in 'Forrest Gump' was good.

In terms of scores, some of the older WWII flicks were really good, namely 'The Great Escape' and/or 'Patton'. Jonny Greenwood's work on 'There Will Be Blood' was spectacular, and the credit composition by Haydn (might have been Bach...?) was REALLY nice.

[Homyrrh]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Not very much to contribute here, but on the topic of great classical music soundtracks, one must mention the following:

Philip Glass for The Hours
Clint Mansell for The Fountain
Thomas Newman for American Beauty
Hans Zimmer for Gladiator

Also, in terms of compilation albums, i.e. movies that just have damn good soundtracks:
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 1
Forrest Gump
Dazed and Confused
Snatch
Juno

'Gladiator', from which 'Pirates...' was ripped off of (same guy though, I don't know if that counts...), has some great, really appropriate scoring.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by Homyrrh

'Gladiator', from which 'Pirates...' was ripped off of (same guy though, I don't know if that counts...), has some great, really appropriate scoring.

Well it's not exactly the same guy... The first "Pirates" was scored by Klaus Badelt, although the guy collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the score - incidentally Badelt also worked with Zimmer on the score for Gladiator, so I guess it's most accurate to say that it's the same TWO guys. Still, some parts of the score ARE strikingly similar. Gladiator rules though.

[Homyrrh]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Well it's not exactly the same guy... The first "Pirates" was scored by Klaus Badelt, although the guy collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the score - incidentally Badelt also worked with Zimmer on the score for Gladiator, so I guess it's most accurate to say that it's the same TWO guys. Still, some parts of the score ARE strikingly similar. Gladiator rules though.

I concede.

[xseanymacx]

300
Snatch
Layer Cake
28 Days/28 Weeks Later
Gangs of New York

"Shipping up to Boston" - Dropkick Murpheys. From THE DEPARTED.

[Monotreme]

Originally Posted by Homyrrh

I concede.

Glad we got that all settled then

Another really great classical score is this year's Oscar winner Dario Marianelli's score for Atonement.

[Spock]

I love Morricone's music on all of Sergio Leone's movies.

Magnolia's Save Me (I think this was the name) was awesome too.

[adamjohnson]

Dead Man
The Fountain
Vangelis

[Sigur509]

Score:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
The Fountain
Lord of the Rings

Songs:

Garden State
Wicker Park
QT films
The Last Kiss

[athf1980]

Scores-
most scores done by John Williams & Danny Elfman
LOTR
Braveheart
American Beauty
many others

Songs-
Lose yourself by Eminem
Miss Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel
Classic rock usage in anything-I'm a sucker for classic rock used in movies. The best usage is Free Bird at the end of Devils Reject & Forrest Gump soundtrack.

[a7xfan]

'what time is it?' - high school musical soundtrack

[simonyalex]

The score from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM amazing

[movie2cats]

I too have to say that Requiem (and The Fountain for that matter) is one of my favourite scores. I also noticed no one has given Steve Jablonski his due credit for Transformers here yet, so there it is. As far as songs go, Dead Can Dance's piece from The Mist goes nearly unrivaled in my book.

[bigred760]

I love the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans - particularly at the end when the three good guys go after Magua and Alice. Awesome music.

[Fl0ydend]

Lost in Translation. I love Kevin Shields so yeah.

[MovieMan50]

Team America had amazing music including the songs in it

[echo_bravo]

Originally Posted by xseanymacx

The score from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

Dude, hell yeah! I could listen to that score all damn day.

[bowfinger]

Keep them coming guys

tracks I used so far: (but many of the tracks not listed I already had, example Shipping up to boston)

Bob Dylan - The Man In Me
Gary Jules - Mad World (Donnie Darko Soundtrack)
George Baker - Little Green Bag (Reservoir Dogs Theme)
Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Jim Carrey - Don't You Want Somebody To Love
jonny cash - johnny cash - folsom prison blues
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In
Leonard Cohen - Natural Born Killers - The Future
Patti LaBelle - Stir it up (Beverly Hills Cop)
Scarface Soundtrack - Push It to the Limit
Sopranos- Theme Song - Woke up This Morning
Statler Brothers - Counting Flowers On The Wall
Steeler's Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Team America - Everyone Has AIDS
Tito & Tarantula - Dark Night - From Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack
Wu Tang Clan - Kill Bill Theme Song

Even though there are some great themes out there (like braveheart and Requiem for a Dream) I'm mainly interested in songs.

[copious]

Originally Posted by simonyalex

The score from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM amazing

Yes it is! It's called "Summer Overture" by Clint Mansell and it is by far freaking incredible! One of the best scores I've ever heard!

Have you ever heard Paul Oakenfold's "Zoo York"? It's a sampled version of the song off his Bunka album. It's pretty good.

The Garden State Soundtrack is one of my fav's.

I might be the ONLY person to think this but F it, I REALLY like the song "Cry Little Sister" by Sisters of Mercy off The Lost Boys Soundtrack. I LOVE that song!

[john_rambo]

Soundtracks:

Rocky Movies

Forrest Gump

Any Tarantino Flick

Space Jam (ya i said it)

Song Usage:

Love Reign O'er Me - Reign Over Me

Stuck in the Middle with You - Reservoir Dogs

Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Superstar - Tommy Boy

Holiday Road - National Lampoon's Vacation

[Cyd V]

Love Buzz - nirvana - mad love

something in the way - nirvana - jarhead

master of puppets - metallica - old school

the opening song in judgment night

everybody knows - leanard coen - pump up the volume

the gremlins theme song! lol

the song in southern comfort

civil war - gnr - cool hand luke

society - pearl jam - into the wild

hotel california - big lebowski

everything in Clockwork Orange

Sweet Emotion - aero smith - dazed

sympathy for the devil - gnr - interview with the vampire

jumping jack flash - the stones - mean streets

105th street - jakie brown

rawhide theme song - the blues brothers

big wind - brownie mcgee sonny terry - highway 61

got me wrong - alice in chains - clerks

Eric clapton's score - the Hit

Teenage wasteland - the who - summer of sam

i'll add more to this later..

[acFour]

I'm a big fan of the score in Pirates of the Carribean. It's very, very beautiful.

[Backstabba]

Thread over.

[Freddy Krueger]

Originally Posted by xseanymacx

Bjork - Beauty in the Breakdown

Possibly my favorite movie song ever.

You mean "Let Go" by Frou Frou? Are you talking about the song from Garden State?

[auge_28]

The Lair of the White Worm

I know it is weird but I loved the violin song about the guy that killed the D'Ampton Worm.
I have not heard it in years but I remember thinking this song rocked in a nifty kind of way.
Anybody else remember it?

[Time2Watch]

Originally Posted by Monotreme

Not very much to contribute here, but on the topic of great classical music soundtracks, one must mention the following:

Philip Glass for The Hours
Clint Mansell for The Fountain
Thomas Newman for American Beauty
Hans Zimmer for Gladiator

Also, in terms of compilation albums, i.e. movies that just have damn good soundtracks:
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 1
Forrest Gump
Dazed and Confused
Snatch
Juno

The Forrest Gump and Juno soundtracks are the best. I usually own the soundtrack and the movies. I just like to have it all. I already have both the Forrest Gump movie and CD and the Juno CD, now I just gotta go out and get the movie.

[Cyd V]

what was the name of the clasical song at the end of there will be blood?