God, I know we're talking about soundtracks here, but I watched Forbidden Zone with a friend who loved it. What a long 90 minutes that was. Shockingly boring.

A far better Forbidden in my opinion, both as a film, and for its soundtrack:

TEXAS CHAINSAW was on vinyl. Yes.

Another favorite of mine is Les Baxter's spaghetti western funk for HELL'S BELLES. So great.

Haha... Forbidden Zone BORING? I can see you maybe not getting into it or not liking it, but ... boring? Wow.

Anyway, here's a really obvious one that no one's mentioned yet:

wow. good call atsonic... havent thought about that since high school!

Well yeah, I mean it isn't boring in the way that some other films are, just one that I really couldn't wait to end, and just got bored silly waiting for it to.

Wow, sluuurp
mentioned it the other day in films ahead of their time as an honorable mention that didn't make the list

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haha forbidden planet is the shit.

Forbidden Planet OST is amazing.
Some other favorites:
Logan's Run
Saragossa Manuscript (WHOA, is this good; this piece of vinyl is one of the jewels of my collection)
The Shining
The Fog has some cool parts
Rosemary's Baby

Some more will spring to mind later I'm sure; being at work isn't helping me think too well.

I love the way that, really and truly, the Forbidden Planet soundtrack is nothing more than a series of sound effects. It's like one of those BBC Radiophionic Workshop albums. One of the greatest things to fall asleep to.

Another good sci-fi one I think:

The Beatlejuice soundtrack was fucking awesome, gotta love those Harry Belafonte songs. Also StarWars obviously, but goddamn hot damn is it still so moving.

Royal Tennanbaums
Life Aquatic
Yellow Submarine
& Batman Returns are my other choices!

Lucifer Rising - Bobby Beausoleil

Also The Dark Knight was very good too, it cut out in the right parts just like in No Country For Old Men.

Yes!

You probably know this, but Jimmy Page originally did the music for this. I can't imagine his being any better than Bobby's...

the Proposition is great. I want the Jesse James soundtrack too.

this.

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any morricone- but honorable mentions go out to the dollars trilogy, sicilian clan, and many more that i have yet to hear.
julieta delnspiriti, and almost any nino rota OST
the wicker man
the 3rd man
brazil
from russia with love
superfly
and many more....

...or anything by Mothersbaugh for that matter!

The soundtrack to "Eraserhead" is simply incredible - Alan Splet and David Lynch did an amazing job on that.

Agree also with the choices for "Dead Ringers" and "Superfly". "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is simply peerless. Kenneth's Anger's films always have great soundtracks - he pretty much invented the concept of a "pop" soundtrack with "Scorpio Rising". To my eternal embarrassment, I actually managed to fall asleep during a screening of "Lucifer Rising" (at the end of a non-stop Anger retrospective in Hoxton). Must check that film out again as soon as possible.

I recall the soundtrack to "Tetsuo I" as being pretty phenomenal too.

It's not. I've heard it. Still pretty cool though; there's a copy of it at my work, but I can't afford it.

Speaking of Lynch, Toto did DUNE.

Okay I am going nuts over Bollywood composers right about now. Satyajit Ray, Shankar, Jaikishan, Ali Akbar Khan, Jyotitindra Moitra.. DAMNN. Anywhere I can get my hands on some more of this sort of thing, chaps?

wow, nice to see this thread return. But it's almost too large a subject to tackle. My wife's entire music library is pretty much made up of movie scores/soundtracks/whathaveyou. There's some amazing ones.

anyway. 2 I think everyone should own off the top of my head:

1. Les Baxter - The Dunwich Horror
2. Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain

straight up.

My favorite soundtrack of all time is Goblin's for "Beyond the Darkness".

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pretty much anything by Goblin is worth picking up. Mmm. Ever hear their score for THE ENTITY???

Irréversible

yes

and yes

I didn't know they'd released a soundtrack album of Irreversible. Interesting.

Although i've only been able to watch the film once. i don't know if I could deal with the sounds that accompanied it. That film screwed me up for a good few days.

didnt boredoms minus eye do the soundtrack to ichi the killer?

ill be the 100th person to say lynch...alot of godard's work with soundtracks is worth mentioning...if only for the fact that he slices the tunes up and arbitrarily begins and ends segments of them whenever he feels like it...a woman is a woman, week-end, probably others

pi?

yep

my favorites are

underground
time of the gypsies
the thabor goes toward the sky(or something like that)
superfly
the house by the cemetary
suspiria
rockers
the harder they come

Soundtracks that stand-out for me are: Psycho 3 (the main theme was sampled by Aim for Cold Water Music - its beautiful yet slightly creepy, so unusual for a derivative horror-film!), Susperia, Midnight Cowboy (probably my favourite, actually), Betty Blue (main piano theme, and weird fairground music), Irreversible (the queasy-sounding loop and distorted beat) then the more obvious choices: A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Manhattan, Once Upon A Time In America.

Christiana F. too if I can name one soundtrack which isn't original. It uses lots of Bowie's ambient songs from Low and Heros to good effect.

eraserhead
morricone's a man with no name trilogy
lucifer rising

goblin was fucking awesome. so wierd. those were soundtrack that without them, the films wouldn't be half as good as they were. me personally, tenebre>suspiria, film and music wise.

have you heard sublime frequencies bollywood string guitar soundtrack? its like indian surf psychedelica
really bizzare and cool album

Obvious as all hell but whatever...



Love the Dead Man pick, and Life Aquatic, and Suspiria. The Forbidden Planet and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly(own this one on record) soundtracks are winners too.

I'd add the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. And the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind soundtrack.

No but the words 'indian surf psychedelica' all together like that are getting me excited.

I used to have the soundtrack to Cabaret. I love that movie. I wish I still had that record.

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