squarepusher Movies with Good Music

[Danny O Flannagin]

Post some movies with good music.

 

Off the top of my head, Children of Men had Aphex Twin and King Crimson

 

Lost in Translation had Squarepusher and My Bloody Valentine

 

Dont remember specifics but Layer Cake's soundtrack seemed to fit well

[Friendly Foil]

Are we talking original soundtracks or just licensed tracks?

The use of Aphex in Children of Men was pretty embarrassing. "Look at this silly hippie listening to silly weird music. Look at him go lolz!" What a stupid useless scene in an otherwise okay movie.

 

Anyways. The music in Stalker was pretty cool. Same with Inland Empire, Drive and Oldboy, but to be honest, I find a lot of movie soundtracks to be extremely generic. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places but there seems to be more good game soundtrack than movie soundtracks atm.

[Danny O Flannagin]

Oh also the obligatory Koyaanisqatsi for original score and Shawshank Redemption had a pretty good original score

[logakght]

coraline

the secret * of kells

most danny elfman stuff

tekkon kinkreet

ghost in the shell

angels egg

[Danny O Flannagin]

 

The use of Aphex in Children of Men was pretty embarrassing. "Look at this silly hippie listening to silly weird music. Look at him go lolz!" What a stupid useless scene in an otherwise okay movie.

I kinda liked that scene because it was surprising to hear Aphex twin in a movie and it added to character development. it wasn't that long a scene anyway so no complaints

[Ifeelspace]

The soundtrack to pretty much any John Carpenter movie

[Npoess]

Blade Runner

[triachus]

 

[Herr Jan]

My favorites:

 

Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon), Manic (Aphex, Squarepusher, Broadcast, etc. Good movie as well), Pi (autechre, etc), Man With the Movie Camera (Cinema Orchestra, amazing soundtrack with amazing images), Decoder, Forbidden Planet (essential) and ofcourse the obligatory Scarface and A Clockwork Orange.

 

If you want to discover some amazing obscure 50's/60's/70's/80's (italian/german/whatever) soundtracks, check channel 4 (the dream machine) of Intergalactic FM (best radiostation in the world) - https://intergalactic.fm/#

[Danny O Flannagin]

My favorites:

 

Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon), Manic (Aphex, Squarepusher, Broadcast, etc. Good movie as well), Pi (autechre, etc), Man With the Movie Camera (Cinema Orchestra, amazing soundtrack with amazing images), Decoder, Forbidden Planet (essential) and ofcourse the obligatory Scarface and A Clockwork Orange.

 

If you want to discover some amazing obscure 50's/60's/70's/80's (italian/german/whatever) soundtracks, check channel 4 (the dream machine) of Intergalactic FM (best radiostation in the world) - https://intergalactic.fm/#

I don't recall any of the music in Scarface. Didnt really stand out

[Tauhid]

all Werner Herzog films that were scored by Popol Vuh, particularly Aguirre: The Wrath Of God.

Blade Runner

Europa

There Will Be Blood

Alien

the Man With No Name trilogy.

[Herr Jan]

My favorites:

 

Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon), Manic (Aphex, Squarepusher, Broadcast, etc. Good movie as well), Pi (autechre, etc), Man With the Movie Camera (Cinema Orchestra, amazing soundtrack with amazing images), Decoder, Forbidden Planet (essential) and ofcourse the obligatory Scarface and A Clockwork Orange.

 

If you want to discover some amazing obscure 50's/60's/70's/80's (italian/german/whatever) soundtracks, check channel 4 (the dream machine) of Intergalactic FM (best radiostation in the world) - https://intergalactic.fm/#

I don't recall any of the music in Scarface. Didnt really stand out

 

Best montage track ever...! Not really, but Giorgio Moroder's tracks are cool.

 

I did forget to name the score for Donnie Darko (also the soundtrack has some cool 80's tracks, but the ambient score is an old favorite of mine).

[andyb]

My favorites:

 

Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon), Manic (Aphex, Squarepusher, Broadcast, etc. Good movie as well), Pi (autechre, etc), Man With the Movie Camera (Cinema Orchestra, amazing soundtrack with amazing images), Decoder, Forbidden Planet (essential) and ofcourse the obligatory Scarface and A Clockwork Orange.

 

If you want to discover some amazing obscure 50's/60's/70's/80's (italian/german/whatever) soundtracks, check channel 4 (the dream machine) of Intergalactic FM (best radiostation in the world) - https://intergalactic.fm/#

I don't recall any of the music in Scarface. Didnt really stand out

 

Best montage track ever...! Not really, but Giorgio Moroder's tracks are cool.

 

I did forget to name the score for Donnie Darko (also the soundtrack has some cool 80's tracks, but the ambient score is an old favorite of mine).

you don't remember this from gta iii also

 

[luke viia]

The Hired Hand

 

 

[awepittance]

Total Recall, Tron (original), Aliens, The Explorers, Assault on Precinct 13, Dawn of the Dead, Fright Night (original), Terminator 1, Predator & Predator 2, Star Trek 2: the wrath of khan, Midnight Express, Sorcerer, Thief, Firestarter

[logakght]

there is a fb group for obscure old OST /groups/SDTK.LIB.JUNKIES/

[J3FF3R00]

all Werner Herzog films that were scored by Popol Vuh, particularly Aguirre: The Wrath Of God.

I stopped by to say this.

I love Popol Vuh.

 

 

Others:

Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch has that awsome, dirty guitar solo score by Neil Young.

Sling Blade's sndtrk (Daniel Lanois) has a great ambient country electro vibe.

 

Other than that, Ferris Bueller's Day Off has the best soundtrack (unreleased) of all time.

[Mindphaser]

The Fountain

Lost Highway

Escape from New York

Suspiria

Easy Rider

[Guest]

dirty harry soundtrack is beyond dopeness

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdAfz2jgmY

 

This particular track sampled by nwa

 

[Npoess]

Anything Ennio Morricone

[Guest Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald]

Suprised nobody has mentioned Fantastic Planet or Les Maitres Du Temps yet, Rene Laloux had an awesome ear for film soundtracks.

[beerwolf]

Southern Comfort - Ry Cooder

 

Great, great track to listen to stoned. You can literally taste the swamp

 

[soundwave]

Original

Preadtor

Batman (Tim Burton)

Back to the Future

Robocop

Phantom Menace

Blade Runner

1492

Runaway Train

2001

The Keep

Tron Legacy

Thief

Serbian Film

Sexy Beast

Solaris

Big Trouble in Little China (and and any other Carpenter soundtrack)

 

 

 

 

licenced

Boogie Nights

Big Lebowski

Trainspotting

Watchmen

Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas

Goodfellas

Pye

Heat

Drive

Manhunter

Rocky IV

[beerwolf]

Always loved You're So Cool by Hans Zimmer which is of course the main track to True Romance.

[Npoess]

Even though some might consider it a very average movie (I really love it though). Four Brothers actually has one of the best movie soundtracks I've ever heard. Lots of Motown and Marvin Gaye in it.

 

The intro scene where there's a car driving through Detroit with Marvin Gaye over it, is worth watching the movie for alone.

 

Remeber hearing these two in it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usl-h5f-8W0