Movie Scores

While I have a decent listening palette (don't we all think we do), I enjoy listening to movie scores.

What are some of your favorites?

I'm a big fan of the following composers:

John Scott-Man On Fire, Anthony And Cleopatra, Greystoke, etc...

Frederic Talgorn-Heavy Metal 2000, Robotjox, Delta Force 2 (only the orchestral parts), Le Brasier, etc...

Basil Poledouris-Conan The Barbarian, Robocop, Cherry 2000, The Blue Lagoon, Quigley Down Under, etc...

Elmer Bernstein-The Great Escape, Spacehunter, Ghostbusters, Magnificent Seven, Hawaii, Heavy Metal (the original), Stripes, etc...

It's very likely that this choice is trite at best but

Goblin- Suspiria

My favorite movie score has always been the one to John Carpenter's "The Thing".

Those are a couple of good ones. I really dig Ennio Morricone's score for The Thing as well. John C's scores for his other films are pretty cool as well.

In my opinion, John Williams make the best scores including many from Spielberg! Name any movie and he has done it!

LucasChad wrote:

In my opinion, John Williams make the best scores including many from Spielberg! Name any movie and he has done it!

His many Oscar nominations speak volumes about that.

I may be a little late on to a reply here but I'm new here and i got to post something .. so here's a list of some the best movie score or soundtracks IMO

of crouse the first will be Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer,Thief,Wavelength,Near Dark,Firestarter

Klaus Schulze - Angst,Manhunter,Body Love

Steve Moore AKA Gianni Rossi (Zombi) - Gutterball, Star Vehicle

Cliff Martinez - Drive,Wonderland

Libra - Shock

Goblin - Profondo rosso,Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead, Buio omega , Contamination , Tenebre

Patrick Moraz (Yes and The Moody Blues)- The Stepfather

Rick Wakeman (Yes) - The Burning and he also did that cool intro theme to Creepshow 2

Brian Eno - The Lovely Bones

John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13,Halloween,The Fog,They Live,Escape From New York

Ennio Morricone - The Thing

Tony Banks (Genesis) - The Shout

Keith Emerson (ELP) - Inferno,Nighthawks

Claudio Simonetti (Goblin) - Conquest,Demons

Fabio Frizzi - Zombie,Manhattan Baby,City of the Living Dead,The Beyond

Phil Davies and Mark Ryder - Trancers

Aman Folk Orchestra - Subspecies

Richard Band - Re-Animator ,Puppet Master

Carlo Maria Cordio - Troll 2,Aenigma

John Harrison - Day of the Dead,Creepshow

well that all i can think of right

I won't repeat any that have been said already, so I'll add:

Riz Ortolani- Mondo Cane, Addio Zio Tom, Cannibal Holocaust

Bernard Herrmann- Just about anything, but I'm partial to Psycho and Taxi Driver myself.

Howard Shore- Videodrome, Ed Wood, Naked Lunch

Walter Rizzati- House by the Cemetery

my favorite composer? oh that's an easy one. 'Danny Elfman' he's been my favorite since "Edward Scissorhands' came out in (1990) his music i dunno has a dark tone to it no matter what he does. yes he does lighter stuff,

but you can tell that it's got a touch of Tim Burton influence. and that's NOT a bad thing. and yes some of his stuff is better than other things he's done. but than NOT all composers have good scores for EVERY film they do ya know?