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Your favourite film soundtrack composers. Name them and shame them.

John Barry
Ennio Morricone
Nino Rota
Angelo Badalamenti
Masamichi Amano
Goblin
Barry Gray
Yoko Kanno
Henry Mancini
Giorgio Moroder
Yann Tiersen
Vladimir Shainsky


There are more, of course, but that's it for now.

Riz Ortolani
Zdenek Liska (did a lot of stuff for Švankmajer
Alan Splet
Clint Mansell
Wayne Bell

John Williams
Angelo Badalamenti
John Barry
Bernard Hermann
Howard Shore
Jack Nitzsche
Herbie Hancock

whoever says "john williams" is out of the club.

Penderecki
Komeda
Gert Wilden
Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab
The Barrons (Forbidden Planet soundtrack)
John Carpenter has some good ones, namely The Fog
Morricone
Goblin

mine:

morricone
mancini
danny elfman (not so much lately)
walter/wendy carlos
alan silvestri (for back to the future alone)

What did he do? I don't really follow film at all, so I can't contribute to this thread, but I'd be interested to hear what Mr P does with a soundtrack. Has anyone seen any films with Takemitsu scores? I've heard odds and sods of these, and they're often very good indeed.

Yes!!! Hearing his soundtrack work was such a massive surprise when you consider how crap PWEI really were. Fun, yes. but crap.

I namechecked Penderecki solely on the soundtrack for The Saragossa Manuscript, which is one of my favorite soundtracks ever.

His stuff is all over the new Lynch film and it works pretty well.

I know Takemitsu did the Woman in the Dunes soundtrack but I can't recall it all that well. I'm pretty sure he scored some other Teshigahara films, namely Pitfall and Face of Another. The score for Pitfall is ace and it is an ace film.

I think he did some bits and bobs for some Toshio Matsumoto short films but I haven't been able to identify which ones. Some of those have ace soundtracks but, as I said, not sure who did what.

Uh, actually it'
s the reverse.

If one does not list "John Williams," then they are automatically a poseur.(onthis subject)

OOOpspsy, i ForGOT

Vangelis

The music in the original Star Wars trilogy was great. He is a very talented composer.

The only composers who have made compelling enough scores for me to know them by name are Ennio Morricone and John Williams.

Hitchcock movies have great scores too, but I don't know who did them.

that's more a case of publicity, when you get hired by every oscar nominated, blockbuster would be movie, it's hard to go unnoticed.

I don't who you all are talking about.

Alls I know is I saw this movie the other day, a musical called Phantom of the Opera. I didn't check the credits, but whoever wrote the music for that is great!

Oh, and Bernard Hermann, who did some Hitchcock stuff and Taxi Driver among others.

Splet
Carpenter (esp. Assault on Precinct 13)
Badalamenti
Morricone
Barry
Schiffrin

My list isn't going to be particularly original compared to everybody elses

Ennio Morricone
Walter/Wendy Carlos
Gyorgi Ligeti (the best parts of 2001 are by him, and the outtakes are even better)
Henry Mancini
Goblin (for sure, I don't even need the movies!)
Phillip Glass
Isaac Hayes
Curtis Mayfield
rza (good call Diesel)
Michael Nyman
Burt Bacharach
John Lurie