Soundtrack Music
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 - 6:20pm
Ok, I've been listening to the genius that is Zach Braff and the Garden State soundtrack since it came out. Somehow the CD always seem to get more cycles than anything else in the house. Obviously downloaded the soundtrack from "The Last Kiss" as well and listening to it right now pretty much all the time.
What other good soundtracks am I missing out there? And where can I find Zach Braff's ipod playlists? The guy has excellent taste in music.
"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
I haven't bought a soundtrack that wasn't an OST since The Crow. That one was pretty good, though.
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baggachipz: Who cares about Japan, let them have their silly pointless dog games and countless re-hashes of anime-based dragon princess super lucky crapitty crap.
Why not just get the albums of the artists that were featured on the Garden State soundtrack? I have all of them and they are most excellent. Also, the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou soundtrack is awesome.
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Someone showed me this to find similar music:
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MaxShrek .. The reason you keep falling, is there is no bottom.
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That reminds me of a movie review I saw for Last Kiss a week or to go, which stated that Braff's movies are "little more than Ipod playlists with a weak plot attached."
Seriously, though, just go to a used record store with a pad and paper, most non-corporate shops these days have an "Indie" section, just write down the names of all bands in that section. Or even easier, just google "indie rock." The current indie scene makes a profit by pushing bands that all sound exactly alike (much like corporate rock, ironically), so the actual names of the artists or bands doesn't really matter, just the genre.
[edit]: not that there aren't a few indie bands that I listen to, I'm just disgusted with how bland is popular at the moment. I few actually good and unique artists: Why? (particularly his Oaklandazulasylum album), Nuetral Milk Hotel, Ladytron, Passage, The Faint, etc...
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Amelie?
Oh, and Macross Plus...
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Last of the Mohicans.
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The Spawn Soundtrack was interesting. They took nu-metal or hard rock bands and paired them with techno/industrial groups. Definitely hit or miss on some songs, but I dug the experiment overall.
1. (Can't You) Trip Like I Do - Filter & Crystal Method
2. Long Hard Road Out Of Hell - Marilyn Manson & Sneaker Pimps
3. Satan - Orbital & Kirk Hammet
4. Kick The P.A. - Korn & The Dust Brothers
5. Tiny Rubberband - Butthole Surfers & Moby
6. For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Irony Of It All) - Metallica & DJ Spooky
7. Torn Apart - Stabbing Westward & Wink
8. Skin Up Pin Up - Mansun & 808 State
9. One Man Army - Prodigy/Tom Morello
10. Spawn - Silverchair & Vitro
11. T-4 Strain - Henry Rollins & Goldie
12. Familiar - Incubus & DJ Greyboy
13. No Remorse (I Wanna Die) - Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot
14. A Plane Scraped It's Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon - Soul Coughing & Roni Size
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Two of my personal faves (off the top of my head):
Hedwig and the Angry Inch ([url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D4738714%2526id%253D4738742%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30]iTunes US[/url])
Sexy Beast
If you want to branch into game soundtracks, I recommend:
Darwinia
Gitaroo Man
Jet Grind Radio
Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
Rez
Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory ([url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D41224934%2526id%253D41224955%2526s%253D143455%2526partnerId%253D30]iTunes Canada[/url], [url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D41224942%2526id%253D41224955%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30]iTunes US[/url]) ('cause I love me some Amon Tobin)
Armored Core 2 ([url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D64905187%2526id%253D64905228%2526s%253D143455%2526partnerId%253D30]iTunes Canada[/url], [url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D64905187%2526id%253D64905228%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30]iTunes US[/url])
and any of the Wipeout series ([url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D78577263%2526id%253D78577420%2526s%253D143455%2526partnerId%253D30]Wipeout Pure on iTunes Canada[/url], [url=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=1*O/XWxGUIY&offerid=78941&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D78577353%2526id%253D78577420%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30]Wipout Pure on iTunes US[/url])
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Pipe Threader Manual wrote:
I'll echo Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou from luna-- that's a pretty good one.
Snatch is awesome, probably my favorite.
If you like disco-era music that's pretty light on the actual disco music, Boogie Nights (both discs) is great.
Broken Flowers is an interesting mix of older music that you've never, ever heard.
As Podunk said, The Crow was pretty good. The second soundtrack was decent, also.
Pi has some interesting electronica.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were pretty good.
Rushmore, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Natural Born Killers (for some reason, I don't like this one as much anymore), Dumb and Dumber, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Koyaanisqatsi (hard to find), Dune, Clockwork Orange, and just for kicks, Purple Rain.
Check 'em out on iTunes, buy them at your local used CD place.
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LobsterMobster wrote:
Forest Gump is the only one that really comes to mind. There's been a few I felt that way towards, just can't think of them right now.
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The soundtrack from Stubbs the Zombie may actually be right up your alley. It features modern indie rock bands covering music from the 50s and 60s. And while we are talking about covers, if you like the Beatles at all you MUST check out the soundtrack to I Am Sam, which is an eclectic mix of musicians doing Beatles covers.
If you don't mind a little bit of twang, the soundtrack from Brokeback Mountain features some beautiful steel guitar work. I generally skip the tracks that are not by Gustavo Santaolalla when I listen (as I mostly cannot stand country music) but even still the soundtrack is worth many a listen.
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Quentin Tarantino movies usually have great sound tracks. Other movie sound tracks that are my favorites
All the LOTR
Heavy Metal
Repo man
Go for their eyes boo
Here's a few movie soundtracks that I like:
The Crow
Office Space
Star Wars
The Replacement Killers
and if you like the Garden State soundtrack, you might want to check out the Elizabethtown soundtrack. They're very similar in style.
As far as game soundtracks go, I'd have to say Battlezone is my favorite. I remember back in the day, when you didn't have to have the CD in the drive to play the game, games like Quake II would play the CD Audio of whatever CD was in the drive. That was always good music to frag to.
Other game soundtracks that were good:
Gran Turismo 3
GTA: San Andreas
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Beer For Ben
Yep, that one is great as well. My type of music.
"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
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Best. Soundtrack. Evar.
As for Instrumentals..
That one's really high on my list. Right along with Gladiator and Braveheart.
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Kelly Rowland (from Destiny's Child) sang the most beautiful version of "I'm Beginning to See the Light". So far, I could only find that song as a part of Mona Lisa's Smile's soundtrack.
Good Bye, Lenin's soundtrack is good, but which one of Yann Tiersen's isn't? Yann Tiersen is responsible for the music in Amelie, and that movie introduced his music to me. Ironically, I still don't have Amelie's soundtrack.
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
Hackers (if you like that kind of music) always helps me when I need to buckle down and crank out some code.
Desperado is fun.
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Katamari Damacy Soundtrack
Batman Begins
Yo Yo Ma plays the best of Ennio Morricone
Gattaca
Dances With Wolves
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The Sounds of the Sounds of Science by Yo La Tengo
That's a great suggestion. Morricone is pretty much required listening for anyone who likes film music.
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baggachipz: Who cares about Japan, let them have their silly pointless dog games and countless re-hashes of anime-based dragon princess super lucky crapitty crap.
Just to offer something a bit different, soundtrack to Frida is fascinating. If you are into Spanish/Mexican music, that is. Lots of singing there sends shivers down my spine. And, from a totally different part of music spectrum, soundtrack to Judgement Night was my favorite a looong time ago. The best crossover album ever. Besides that, I definitely have to add Blade Runner as a required listening, it's Vangelis at his non-pompous best.
It's not Wandering Toast. Except in TF2, where it usually is.
I thought of another one-- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Great instrumental soundtrack.
Blade Runner is good, but if you put it on with someone else in the room, they'll think you're trying to put a move on 'em. The beginning is swanky!
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LobsterMobster wrote:
OH HELL YES
That Helmet / House of Pain track makes me want to punch someone in the face.
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baggachipz: Who cares about Japan, let them have their silly pointless dog games and countless re-hashes of anime-based dragon princess super lucky crapitty crap.
I can't believe no one's mentioned the Blade Runner soundtrack.
Heathens. All of you!
If that's not a joke, you are officially the Lord of the Skimmers.
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baggachipz: Who cares about Japan, let them have their silly pointless dog games and countless re-hashes of anime-based dragon princess super lucky crapitty crap.
Are you asking for recommendations for movie scores (for which all of the music is 100% original - see Star Wars) or compilation soundtracks (i.e. collections of licensed music)?
Of the former I could recommend many, of the latter I have few.
Compilation soundtracks has my current interest, but you guys have me listening to scores now as well. GWJ=bad for my wallet.
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If you haven't already, check out Holst's Planets.
I always feel guilty with Zimmer because so often his stuff is nabbed from his betters. Still fun, though.
Also, the soundtrack to that weird Robin Williams movie, Toys.
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Many good scores have already been noted, but I'll add a few:
American Beauty - Thomas Newman
Crash - Mark Isham
Nearly anything by A.R. Rahman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
Whale Rider - Lisa Gerrard
Game soundtracks: Myst, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, Myst V:End of Ages, Metal Gear Solid 2
Enjoy!