Your ideal soundtrack

Good Afternoon fellow composers,

I was thinking this morning while looking to buy some soundtracks. some of them i bought for just one song, and that is not so economical. So if you had to put your soundtrack with the best of the best, what would you put?

What song would you put in it?

which songs would go into it?

In order to make it the best soundtrack ever!!!

The Red Violin

scored by John Corigliano.

'nuff said.

A mix of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Pirates, Signs, Lady in the Water, Star Wars, War of the Worlds, and Star Wars.

Could anyone post a preferable tracklist. Basically i want to found out, if i am missing some important scores. thanks

1. "One Summer's Day" from Spirited Away

2. "Dragon Boy" from Spirited Away

3. "Diva Dance" from The Fifth Element (just for the odd vocal effects)

4. "Vois sur ton Chemin" from Les Choristes

5. "Les Avions en Papier" from Les Choristes

6. "L'Amour Des Escargots" from Microcosmos

7. "Microcosmos" from Microcosmos

8. "Tinkerbell" from Peter Pan

9. "Liberi Fatali" from Final Fintasy VIII

10. "Aeris' Theme" from Final Fantasy VII

11. "March of The Cards" from Alice in Wonderland

12. "Back to the Future" from Back to the Future

13. "Prelude" from Ben-Hur

14. "Overture" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

15. "Mad Martigan's Theme" from Willow

16. "Catch Me If You Can" from Catch Me If You Can

17. "Introduction" from Edward Scissorhands

18. "Cookie Factory" from Edward Scissorhands

19. "The Grand Finale" from Edward Scissorhands

20. "Main Titles" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

21. "Death of Anna" from The Red Violin

22. "End Titles" from The Red Violin

23. "This is Neverland" from Finding Neverland

24. "Main Title" from Spider-Man

25. "Spider-Man 2 Main Title" from Spider-Man 2

26. "Neodammerung " from The Matrix Revolutions

27. "Spirit Of The Universe" from The Matrix Revolutions

28. "Vide Cor Meum" from Hannibal [composed NOT by Hans Zimmer, but by Patrick Cassidy] (this was to be an instrumental tracklist only, but this piece is just too ridiculously beautiful)

29. "Main Title" from To Kill A Mockingbird

30-37. "One Last Look" + "VFD" + "Curious Feeling of Falling" + "An Unpleasant Incident Involving A Train" + "Attack of The Hook-Handed Man" + "Taken by Surpreeze" + "Drive Away" from A Series of Unfortunate Events

38.0 "In Memoriam" from Les Choristes

Not including songs (except n

Les Avions en Papier reminds me of dreams I had as a child. Happy memories.

I'm just going to have to say that the perfect soundtrack for me is the sound track to "Le reve" by Benoit Jutras.

"3. "Diva Dance" from The Fifth Element (just for the odd vocal effects)"

I love that song!! It's brilliant.

Not just for the odd vocal effects, but for the general feel of the piece - it's great.

Personally, I believe that the best film scores are those that use the orchestra to the fullest. For example, John Williams and Howard Shore, Elmer Bernstein and Ennio Morricone, and all of those other guys are amazing orchestrators. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to film scores. They must stand on their own as individual pieces of music. I don't give a scraggy what anybody else says either, but a good score that can stand on its own often does keep an otherwise crappy film from being a stinker.

Probably one of the best big epic film scores is Ben Hur, without a doubt, followed by Lord of the Rings.

I can't stand fuckin Media Ventures. Sure, they often have some awesome concepts, but it gets really retarded and unnecessary when they mutate the orchestra with unwanted and cliched synthesizers, lisa gerrard vocals, totally unnecessary exotic instruments, and electronic percussion.

Notice just how similar Pirates of the Carribean and Gladiator sound? As well as King Arthur? Each track does have a couple memorable tracks, but in general, it's all the same half assed, mind numbing repetitive chord progression completely lacking in any modulation whatsoever.

YES! I SAID IT!

Very interesting Monkeysinfezzes! I could relate to your stand point, but i will not check the Media ventures team right off.

When it comes to muisc, and especially music in the movie -it is portrayed to provide emotion and add a parallel story. If you go into psychoacoustic, you will understand the angle from which Hans zimmer operates. He choses certain frequencies that subconcesly derive certain feelings from our inner self. It is music with rots of science.

The one remark i do have to made on your last thread is that hating somebody and something is a bad thing. imagine if everybody was doing what john williams and Howad shore are doing. It would not be interesting.

By the way, i consider Harry Gregson-williams in the rank with john williams. also Klaus Bedelt-He is a Pirate-masterpiece.

"The Battle" from Chronicles of Narnia by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Also... I have to agree with narator Lazareous,

I think the use of the Full Orchestra is great, but a film score is worthless if it does not add to the mood of the film. Which is exactly what the synths add to the emotion. Plus, synthesizers are not "unwanted" and "cliched", to certain people in the world maybe... but I personally think the fusion of synth and orchestra was great turn in the film scores.

It appears that Monkeysinfezzes really hates Hans Zimmer as well as his soundtrack to Gladiator. Lisa gerrard vocals are great in Gladiator, it worked really well. I think some of your comments about electroacoustic artists are very insulting. Just because they work with a style in which you can't appreciate doesn't mean their music is terrible. Why do you think they are well-known today? Picasso's art wasn't anything near Da Vinci's work, but he's famous too... for his style. (Though I'm not an art enthusiast.)

I stopped being a John Williams maniac pretty much after Jurrasic Park. His stuff is nice, but I don't like it as much. I've heard so many people feel disgusted towards a main genre of music just because they don't appreciate songs from that category. What happens next is you hear them ranting about how... "Rap sucks" or... "Technos are scraggy". Well? Do rap and techno suck? Of course not, it's those people who can't appreciate that music sucks.

I suck at appreciating death-grunge-vocaled metal.