Game/movie soundtracks you recommend?
While I work I listen to heavy metal (i'm a metaller at heart) but the music can be too 'energetic' and if I just want to chill and read a lengthy article etc I stick the oblivion game soundtrack on - one of the best ambient kinda soundtracks i've found.
Others I really like are the baldur's gate and neverwinter night soundtracks but i'm just wondering if anyone has any other recommendations I could check out?
Others I really like are the baldur's gate and neverwinter night soundtracks but i'm just wondering if anyone has any other recommendations I could check out?
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LOTR
Gladiator
Conan the Barbarian
Pirates of the Caribbean
GATTACA
The Insider
Last of the Mohicans
anything by Ennio Morricone
Damn, stole mine! Well anything Clint Mansell is attached to an Aronfsky film... I can't recommend or not recommend "Doom: The Movie" sound track. But yeah Moon was cool, but I think his pinacle was with the Fountain, just perfect, every single song.
Another one would be from the Flaming Lips "movie" Christmas on Mars. The soundtrack is like a throw back to stuff like wizard of Oz, but with a sci-fi, possibly final fantasy, twist. It was pretty amazing too.
gears of war OST
Bioshock
Dark Knight/Batman Begins
Saw (only instrumental, not the nu metal stuff they shoved on afterwards..)
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Games;
EVE Online (chilled out electronic, very good - there's about 4 hours of it, too)
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (fantastic original music and some good liscenced metal and industrial tracks thrown in)
Films;
Fight Club (electronicy stuff, some ambient some more intense)
Pi
Reqiuem for a Dream (more electronicy/orchestral stuff - both by Clint Mansell)
Equilibrium (mostly ambient orchestral stuff)
Pretty much anything by Hans Zimmer
Other great ambient stuff;
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts 1-4 ($5 download off their site, good stuff)
Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Black Earth (both of them dark, ambient stuff - ex-metal band turned "doom jazz" - I'd recommend it)
If John Murphy is so great why did they use a Clint Mansell song for the trailer?
Edit: Adding more constructive stuff.
Talon suggested Ambience, so I'll add in Lustmord, it's soundtrack evil stuff, very awesome, hes on myspace with some samples.
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61858
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All the Silent Hill soundtracks (Especially SH1! Scary nightmare industrial)
Resident Evil 2 and 3
God of War 1 and 2
Metal Gear Solid 2,3. and 4
Doom 64
Quake 1,2 and 4
Dead Space
Alice
Manhunt 1 and 2
Movies
Gladiator
The Crow and anything from Graeme Revell
Batman 1989
Batman Returns 1992 Anything from Danny Elfman from 1985 to 1996
Saw Soundtracks anything from Charlie Clouser
Evil Dead Trilogy 1,2,and 3
Predator 1 and 2
Aliens
Tetsuo the Ironman
The Fog 1982 anything John Carpenter
Fight Club
Seven
Nuff Said!
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The Fountain
Mass Effect.
I normally don't listen to video game soundtracks but Mass Effect's score was really good.
battlenet radio.
LOTR
Bourne
hmm mass effect have to check that out.
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Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Dark City
One Hour Photo
Halloween (the John Carpenter version)
The Dark Knight
Blade Runner
2001
TV
Battlestar Galactica
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God do i miss lucas arts.
Edit: just saw defacto's post. If you like this stuff, give ennio morricone a try too, even better watch some westerns, "The good the bad and the ugly" or any Clint Eastwood movie is a great place to start. They really don't make movies like that any more.
Movies:
- Escape from LA
- Mortal Kombat (score, original, annihalation, more kombat)
- The Crow
- Batman & Robin
- American Psycho
- Bill & Teds bogus journey
- North Shore
- Real Genius
- Charlie Browns X-Mas
For games:
- Kane & Lynch
- Super Mario 64
- Half-Life 1 & 2
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Doesnt matter if you know/care about the game, the sound track is amazing, imo.
And legend of mana.
(galbadia hotel for Phantom Dust OST, just google it, doood)
Hell.
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Also, Trainspotting has a solid OST.
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P.S. Secret of mana was the shit
me too funnily enough, Max Richter can be a wee bit cheese at times though
from me
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Also, The Watchmen movie had a really unique soundtrack, its a collection of songs you really wouldnt think fits the genre but it does in a distorted and strange way.
Also, (laugh it up :P ) World of Goo's soundtrack is awesome, especially considering it was composed by one guy (one of two who worked on the game) - one of the best indy games ever.
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Theme of the universe?
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But I highly recommend checking out anything movie soundtrack related to Clint Mansell.
The highlights of his soundtracking include movies by Darren Arronofsky:
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
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The Fountain
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The Wrestler
He also recently did the score for the movie Moon.
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Heres a couple more songs from them anyways that are great as well.
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Edit: Also adding in the guitar songs from Stalker. Was pretty awesome when the NPC started strumming away.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGocPHsc8Ls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfy8CEd_50w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtHTroVWPM
http://www.ocremix.org/
If you like rockin' epic music the Lord of Vermillion sound track is pretty awesome (Nobuo Uematsu!):
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I also just listen to old game SPC's since there aren't any lyrics to distract me and I get nostalgia waves all day
http://secretofmana.planets.gamespy.com/soundtrack.html
All mine are from movies:
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Bladerunner
Any of the -qatsi trilogy. (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqatsi, Naqoyaqatsi) this is all Phillip Glass stuff
One of the best tracks:
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Oh, and it's a great movie as well.
Betrayal@Krondor
World of Warcraft
Diablo2
Oblivion
Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Bros. 2
Double Dragon (Billy Theme)
Chrono Trigger
Movies/TV:
Battlestar Galactica
Last of the Mohicans
Braveheart
The Rock
Star Wars
Jungle Book (Disney)
Robinhood (Disney)
Robinhood (live action)
Far and Away
Lord of the Rings
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Something's Gotta Give
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
The Sound of Music
Singing in the Rain
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
My Fair Lady
Annie
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As awful as the film was, the soundtrack Danny Elfman composed for Marky Mark's Planet of Ape Love was pretty damn good.
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And wrapping it up with a bit of uplifting world music, here's the theme to Civilization IV.
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Oh and ghouls and ghosts!
Nice! Some of my favourites there. Solo Piano by Philip Glass is also pretty good...
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The film was a bit meh, but the soundtrack is awesome, with this track featuring on more film trailers than I care to try and list
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Any time i hear on the news that someone chopped someone else up and sauteed part of their brain, i always wonder if they they saw that movie and took it a little too literally.
http://open.spotify.com/user/rickstirling/playlist/33xMMKvedbylPvRbuT77qg