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ST-One

ST-One

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What grand, bombastic, epic, action-ladden, operatic soundtracks/scores would you guys recommend?
I mean older and new ones.

I only recently bought the 'Lost in Space' (the movie) OST and can not overstate how great this music by Bruce Broughton is.
The Jerry Goldsmith version of the OST for 'Timeline' is also pretty good.
For pure action I recommend highly the OSTs for 'Live Free or Die Hard' and 'AvP 2'.

Since I'm always on the lookout for good movie-music... what would you recommend?
 
I recommend Basil Poledouris' Starship Troopers soundtrack for a good military action score. Also James Horner's Aliens soundtrack. I think Jerry Goldsmith's music for First Blood is great, too.

One should also check out Bear McCreary's BSG soundtracks. They're some of the best scores ever produced for television.
 
NCC-1701 said:
I recommend Basil Poledouris' Starship Troopers soundtrack for a good military action score. Also James Horner's Aliens soundtrack. I think Jerry Goldsmith's music for First Blood is great, too.

One should also check out Bear McCreary's BSG soundtracks. They're some of the best scores ever produced for television.
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I have the 'Starship Troopers' and the 'Aliens' OSTs :) I never felt that Rambo had such great music but I will check it out.

As for BSG... The season 1 CD is very good, but from the season 2 CD I only really liked Prelude to War, that's why I'm very reluctant to get the season three disk...
 
ST-One said:
from the season 2 CD I only really liked Prelude to War
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Really? I think Something Dark is Coming and Pegasus are just perfect. They never fail to give me goosebumps actually.

BTW, are you only asking for "military" action scores? Because there are a whole lot of soundtracks I'd suggest without this restriction.
 
NCC-1701 said:
ST-One said:
from the season 2 CD I only really liked Prelude to War
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Really? I think Something Dark is Coming and Pegasus are just perfect. They never fail to give me goosebumps actually.

BTW, are you only asking for "military" action scores? Because there are a whole lot of soundtracks I'd suggest without this restriction.
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I'm really into action scores, yes. I do prefer the fast-paced scores/single tracks. But when there is a choir added to the mix, like in 'Neodämmerung' from The Matrix Revolutions OST, then that is perfection, in my mind ;)
 
Canadave said:
You might like Murray Gold's soundtracks for Doctor Who, based on this thread so far.
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I listened to a few excerpts at Amazon just now... mhmm, sound not bad, but it lacks a bit in strength... at least those few minutes I listened to...
 
BSG season 3's soundtrack is awesome, and would be well worth the buy. The other one I would suggest is the Bourne Ultimatum soundtrack., as it is a very well done piece with lots of fast moving songs.
 
Definitely Children of Dune. Simply outstanding soundtrack. Music from it even pops up in movie trailers these days, most recently Indy 4.

Re: BSG season 3, eh, can't really recommend it myself. I recently bought all four CD's for a friend and ended up making a compilation CD of all my favorite tracks for myself, and ultimately only one track from season 3 made it onto it, "All Along the Watchtower".
 
Evil Twin said:
Definitely Children of Dune. Simply outstanding soundtrack. Music from it even pops up in movie trailers these days, most recently Indy 4.

Re: BSG season 3, eh, can't really recommend it myself. I recently bought all four CD's for a friend and ended up making a compilation CD of all my favorite tracks for myself, and ultimately only one track from season 3 made it onto it, "All Along the Watchtower".
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I bought The Children of Dune a few weeks ago - but haven't really listend to it so far. :)
 
I suggest Craig Armstrong for some action-pack film scores. Particularly, Kiss of the Dragon, Plunkett & Macleane and The Bone Collector. Also Hans Zimmer's Batman Begins is currently one of my favorite action soundtrack.

Here are suggestions:

Jerry Goldsmith's "Total Recall"
Toto's "Dune"
David Arnold's "Stargate"
James Horner's "Aliens"
 
In terms of big bombastic scores, the "Pirates" soundtracks by Hans Zimmer are great, particularly "The Kraken" from "Dead Man's Chest". As far as "rousing" scores go, David Arnold's scores for "Independence Day" and "Stargate" were very good. My personal all-time favorite movie score (as people here whom have read my posts can tell you) is Vince DiCola's (he also did the score for Rocky IV) rock/synthesizer score for "Transformers The Movie(1986)" although much of the score, unfortunately, is NOT commercially available but the latest re-release of the soundtrack does have some of his best compositions from the movie.
 
MikeGainer said:
I suggest Craig Armstrong for some action-pack film scores. Particularly, Kiss of the Dragon, Plunkett & Macleane and The Bone Collector. Also Hans Zimmer's Batman Begins is currently one of my favorite action soundtrack.

Here are suggestions:

Jerry Goldsmith's "Total Recall"
Toto's "Dune"
David Arnold's "Stargate"
James Horner's "Aliens"
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Thank you for these suggestions :)
This Craig Armstrong seems to be a very good composer; while looking for the scores you mentioned I found that he also wrote for Elisabeth - The Golden Age, a great film with some great music.

Total Recall and Aliens I already have (both as extended/complete versions), the Stargate score I constantly forget to buy (and I love Arnold's ID4 score) - thank you for the heads-up :)

butlerd said:
In terms of big bombastic scores, the "Pirates" soundtracks by Hans Zimmer are great, particularly "The Kraken" from "Dead Man's Chest". As far as "rousing" scores go, David Arnold's scores for "Independence Day" and "Stargate" were very good. My personal all-time favorite movie score (as people here whom have read my posts can tell you) is Vince DiCola's (he also did the score for Rocky IV) rock/synthesizer score for "Transformers The Movie(1986)" although much of the score, unfortunately, is NOT commercially available but the latest re-release of the soundtrack does have some of his best compositions from the movie.
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Ah, yes the Dead Man's Chest score is fantastic better even than Badelt's score for The Curse of the Black Perl; too bad Zimmer's score for At World's End is so dull in comparison.

I love the combination of rock, synthesizer and a full orchestra but I'm very, very cautious with synthesizer only scores... unfortunately Amazon doesn't have any excerpts to listen to...
I'd like to buy the Steve Jablonsky score for the new (although bad) Transformers live (CG ;) ) action movie, but that thing costs over 65 € and I'm not willing to spend that much money even on a good score :D

Thanks for your suggestions so far. :techman:
 
Jerry Goldsmith's 13th Warrior
James Horner's The Rocketeer
Hans Zimmer's Mission Impossible II(if only for the track called "Injection")

Oh! David Arnold's score for Cutthroat Island! Superb score that almost no one knows about.
 
Caliburn24 said:
Jerry Goldsmith's 13th Warrior
James Horner's The Rocketeer
Hans Zimmer's Mission Impossible II(if only for the track called "Injection")

Oh! David Arnold's score for Cutthroat Island! Superb score that almost no one knows about.
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Thanks :)
Arnold, Goldsmith and Horner - can't go wrong with them :D
 
Kegek said:
ST-One said:
What grand, bombastic, epic, action-ladden, operatic soundtracks/scores would you guys recommend?
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Howard Shore's scores for Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King.
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These I have, of course :techman: THAT is great music.

Edited to add:

The score for The Golden Compass by Alexandre Desplat seems to be very good - I just listened to a few excerpts...
 
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