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Much as I love John Williams' themes for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, I've gotta go with Basil Poledouris soundtrack to "Conan the Barbarian". I just don't think a movie score has ever fitted the mood of a film and character so well. I'd give William's score for "Superman: the Movie" the nod for runner up.

Anybody else got any favorites?

Perinquus wrote:Much as I love John William's themes for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, I've gotta go with Basil Poledouris soundtrack to "Conan the Barbarian". I just don't think a movie score has ever fitted the mood of a film and character so well. I'd give William's score for "Superman: the Movie" the nod for runner up.

Anybody else got any favorites?

1st place:Star Wars. (Duh.)
2nd place:Indiana Jones.
3rd : Supreman.
4th:Star Trek: DSN9 Oh, yeah. riiight.

The Lord of the Rings.

The music for the expanded scene of the Elves headed for the Gray Havens is my personal favourite.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:The Lord of the Rings.

Dammit.
Missed that.
Ok.
Revised list: 2nd: LOTR
3rd: Indie
4th: Superman
1st is the same.

Wars and Lord of the Rings for me... if I can find LOTR bits on WinMX! All I can find is the Animated Edition soundtrack!

You could just buy it. That's what I'm doing.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:You could just buy it. That's what I'm doing.

And give the RIAA Nazis your money? NOPE! If I do ever buy music again, it's going into the CD Burner!

LoTR is nice...mine are

Superman and Star Wars(the Imperial March) though top the list.

I always really like the Mars theme from Gustav Holst's The Planet suite. It's been in a ton of movies, usually when the evil mothership appears. Very cool. Makes you want to grab your sword and shield and go kick some butt.

Besides SWs, I really like the music from the original Superman too, especially the theme when we first see the Fortress of Solitude.

I forgot about Akira by the Geinoh Yamashirogumi, one of the best collections of musical compositions ever written.

Starship Troopers is actually pretty cool, despite how much the rest of the movie really sucked..

I would have to say mine go in order from

1. star wars
2. lord of the rings
3. star trek

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones (esp. Last Crusade), Back to the Future, Star Trek (esp. DS9's opening theme, season 1 only).

LOTR, Superman, Star Wars, Robocop

'The Princess Bride'

The song "I Will Never Love Again" is one of the most painfully beautiful songs I have ever heard.

I really like all the theme music from Stargate:SG-1. The main theme, and even the little tidbits from the bumpers.

I also really like the music from Blade Runner. I always liked Vangelis, and the music really helped set that noir feeling of the movie. The soundtrack has a few little snippets of dialog from the movie too.

One of my all time favorites was the music from the Flash Gordon movie. In short, Queen rocks. Silly movie, but awesome soundtrack. I wore out one of those tapes in the fourth grade, the left channel eventually disappeared from playing it on a crappy tape recorder. Actually, any Queen soundtrack music is fairly good: Highlander and Iron Eagle(?) come to mind.

Remember that One Vision song? Listen closely to the last part, where they sing "One Vision" to end the song. Listen to the delay/reverb, and although they say one vision, the echo is of them saying 'fried chicken'. Hilarious.

FLASH! Aaah-ahhh, savior of the universe!!!

Yeah, I know, about as cheesy as you can get, but I really liked it! I didn't say it was good, just that I liked it

Drewcifer wrote:Yeah, I know, about as cheesy as you can get, but I really liked it! I didn't say it was good, just that I liked it

It's cool, I liked it too Queen rocks! The Highlander opening theme was fucking awesome. "I am immortal, I have in-side me blood of kings!"

Kosh_The_Vorlon wrote:Starship Troopers is actually pretty cool, despite how much the rest of the movie really sucked..

I love that score too, it had abit of RoboCop to it.

Anything Williams, Goldsmith, Silvestri, Horner, Poledouris does kicks ass.

I love them all!!!

THEHOOLIGANJEDI wrote:

Kosh_The_Vorlon wrote:Starship Troopers is actually pretty cool, despite how much the rest of the movie really sucked..

I love that score too, it had abit of RoboCop to it.

Anything Williams, Goldsmith, Silvestri, Horner, Poledouris does kicks ass.

I love them all!!!

Almost forgot David Arnold, the best new composer of the 90's.

Drewcifer wrote:Remember that One Vision song {by Queen}? Listen closely to the last part, where they sing "One Vision" to end the song. Listen to the delay/reverb, and although they say one vision, the echo is of them saying 'fried chicken'. Hilarious.

That's only true on the album version; the single version has the 'proper' delay going

Dalton wrote:...Queen rocks! The Highlander opening theme was fucking awesome. "I am immortal, I have in-side me blood of kings!"

Yeah, that song is blood stirring

Freddie Mercury wrote:Here we are / Born to be kings /We're the princes of the universe.
Here we belong / Fighting to survive / In a world with the darkest powers.
And here we are / We're the princes of the universe.
Here we belong / Fighting for survival / We've come to be the rulers of your world.
I am immortal / I have inside me blood of kings

{and later in the song}

Fighting and free / Got your world in my hand
I'm here for your love and I'll make my stand
We were born to be princes of the universe
No man could understand
My power is in my own hand

I always really liked another song from that movie/album, "Who wants to live forever"

Brian May wrote:There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams, yet slips away from us

Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live forever?
There's no chance for us,
It's all decided for us,
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us.

Who wants to live forever,
Who dares to live forever,
When love must die.

That would be one of the worst things about being immortal in a mortal plane: watching those you love pass and knowing that it would always be so.

Lord of the Rings (Expaned Animated Version)
Star Wars et all (John Williams)
Blade Runner (Philip Glass)
Lord of the Rings (New Version)
2001 a Space Oddessy (Even if I don't like the movie)

Star Wars and Highlander are my favourites.

The theme from Dragonheart is beautiful. And all of John William's work.