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Hey all,

I have recently gotten really interested in quality movie soundtracks like the just released Star Trek. What are some of your all-time favorites? Thanks.

E.T.

One of my favorites is James Horner's score to "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". Lots of powerful, broad and energetic maritime-flavored goodness, it has.

Going in a different direction, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's work on "The Dark Knight". A very thick, layered and complex soundtrack, I'd call it.

The Shining

Star Wars, E.T., Jurassick Park .... John Williams lol

The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Vertigo
Pyscho
Batman (original)
Gettysburg

A few others, as yet unmentioned, with some merit:
most any by Ennio Morricone, but particularly Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables and particularly The Mission;

RVW did some really good filmscoring - Scott of the Antarctic (of course) along with the 49th Parallel come to mind;

The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein wrote a whole lot more than a Marlboro commercial for that one, also good are The Great Escape and in a completely different vein, To Kill A Mockingbird;

Richard III - the Olivier version, music by Sir William Walton;

Things to Come - music by Sir Arthur Bliss;

Henry V - both the Olivier (Walton again) and Branagh (Patrick Doyle) versions.

Hook, Starwars, Et, Batman (1989), plus video game soundtracks like final fantasy 1-10, and all dragon warrior(quest) games.

That's easy: Alexander Nevsky.

How can this ? be on a Tuba board with out Close Encounters of a Third Kind being listed. It was this movie that convinced many of us that there must be other intelligent life out there since they communicated with the sound of a Tuba.

One of my favorites is Silverado. Great score by Bruce Broughton. Pretty good movie also.

Glory (James Horner)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Bernard Hermann)

Planet of the Apes!!!

This has to be my all-time favorite movie soundtrack, it was a terrible movie though lol!

BIG John Williams fan (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Superman)

Gladiator

Batman The Dark Knight

300

The Last Star Fighter

Star Trek (just about all of the movies)

Gettysburg/Gods and Generals

Shaft (the original)

Brokeback Mountain

Requiem for a Dream / The Kronos Quartet
Mostly variations on the same theme, but the sheer intensity of the music will make you smile at some scenes, cry at others, and tense up in horror during the final montage.
Fight Club / The Dust Brothers
You'd never know it by watching the film (the music is mostly used as ambient sound, very quiet and in the background), but this is one of the most eerie and well-suited scores I've ever heard. The whole thing is done in trip-hop (dark electronica) style, which adds to the contemporary urban feel of the film.
Planet Earth / George Fenton
Technically this isn't a movie, but the score for the Planet Earth BBC series is astonishingly good. I've always been a sucker for a good nature show, and George Fenton accompanies the gorgeous cinematography in Planet Earth immaculately. The range of emotion in his orchestrations is appropriately awe-inspiring for such a show. If you're going to buy one of the soundtracks I've listed, buy this one. You won't be disappointed.

Sorry to ramble on. I'm a huge film nerd, so this topic sort of jumped out at me.

If you're into movie marches (like I am), how about

Ace High March by Ron Goodwin from Battle of Britain also called the Luftwaffe March.

Midway March by John Williams, played during the credits of Midway.
There is a good band transcription that should be in every community band's summer reperatoire.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Sea Hawk- Erich Korngold

"The Mission" music by Ennio Morricone

"Platoon" music by Samuel Barber (Adagio for Strings)

-Almost anything by Erich Maria Korngold, including all his movie music and symphonic and operatic output.

-Morricone's "Mission" and "Untouchables".

-Bernard Herrmann's "North by Northwest".

-Miklos Rosza's "Quo Vadis", "Ivanhoe", "Plymouth Adventure".

-Angelo Badalamenti's "Mulholland Drive".