Essential original movie soundtracks for the prog fan.

[alucard]

Lindsay Cooper : Rags

[dropforge]

All the usual suspects (Tangerine Dream, Goblin, Frizzi, Vangelis, Carlos) will get covered (nice to see Myrow's & Seagrave's Phantasm get a mention), so here's a track from Christian Bruhn's music for Timm Thaler. The CD's come down in price, too, so jump on it if you can dig it.

https://www.amazon.com/Timm-Thaler/d...ds=timm+thaler

[Udi Koomran]

Bernard Herrmann — The Day the Earth Stood Still
Nino Rota — Casanova
Jerry" Goldsmith - Planet Of the Apes
Ennio Morricone Milano Odia
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Gong Continental Circus

[chalkpie]

Nino Rota — Casanova

Hmmmm......I guess I need to check this out. I adore The Godfather 2 OST.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Bernard Herrmann — The Day the Earth Stood Still

If you ever get to watch this series, it features not only the greatest performance of a living (!) actor (Sean Harris), but one of the most intriguing soundtracks of all time since the early Dr. Who.

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Buffalo 66.

[Burley Wright]

Pekka Pohjola's Everyman aka Jokamies

[hippypants]

Body Love--by Klaus Schultze
Jerry Goldsmith--The Planet of the Apes
Louis and Bebe Barron--Forbidden Planet
Lost Themes--John Carpenter
Beyond the Black Rainbow soundtrack

[Progbear]

[Udi Koomran]

Will do man !
btw :Richard we really need you over at the Morricone thread man !

If you ever get to watch this series, it features not only the greatest performance of a living (!) actor (Sean Harris), but one of the most intriguing soundtracks of all time since the early Dr. Who.

[Facelift]

Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (David Shire).

If 12-tone funk isn't progressive, I don't know what is.

[PeterG]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Danny Elfman yet. Granted, he's done plenty of herky jerky, playful soundtracks for comedies and family films and tongue in cheek/kitsch B-movie sci-fi and horror tunes.

BUT Some of his darker, twisted, less comic (but not necessarily always 100% serious) soundtracks are wonderful. I'm thinking for example of Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Batman, Nightbreed, Darkman, Dolores Claiborne, Sleepy Hollow, The Wolfman, Dark Shadows.

[GuitarGeek]

If you ever get to watch this series, it features not only the greatest performance of a living (!) actor (Sean Harris),

You obviously haven't seen Orphan Black.

[Trane]

Of course, I suppose that we're not talking of musical movies' OST here.

Because that would exclude Tommy (which is a full-blown musical movie), but not Quadrophenia (which is a "real movie with plenty of great music)

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in terms of musical movies, here is only two of them that I consider proggy:

JC Superstar
and Milos Forman's Hair : the bradway musical was already quite good, but the film's music is soo much stronger with that amazing bass player

Opening and closing scenes:

[alucard]

Teiji Ito : Music for Maya Deren
John Zorn : Film works

[interbellum]

Picnic at Hanging Rock-don't know if this was ever released as a soundtrack but there is quite a bit of eerie mellotron choir in it.

Yes, indeed. When I finally saw this film again after so many years (bought the 3dvd-version) I searched for the soundtrack, but I don't think it's there.



There is a CD with some of the music of this film, but that concerns a George Zamfir-track.

Here's a nice interview with Bruce Smeaton, the composer of those Mellotron-based tracks: http://www.runmovies.eu/?p=2784

[AdventAlan]

Greetings,

One of my favorites (and relevant too IMO):



Cheers,


Alan

[Svetonio]

[Phlakaton]

Some music SHOULD be in film. This is a nice edit with Fiery Gun Hand!

[Svetonio]

[Udi Koomran]

Mabeth - Roman Polanski - Third Ear Band

[Dave (in MA)]

Lisztomania

You don't suppose there's a reason that they made Daltrey's sword flesh colored, do you?

[Oreb]

Not prog, but would be very appealing to fans of symph-prog:

Jerry Goldsmith, Legend - far, far better than the Tangerine Dream music and a lovely mix of orchestra and electronics. A classic IMO,

Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings - all three as a single work - fine development of motifs,

John Williams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and A.I. - again, very advanced combination of orchestral and electronic textures. Make sure the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" recording is the complete one,

James Horner, The New World - beautiful stuff, with JH's frequent collaborator on keyboards and programming Ian Underwood, of MOI fame

[iguana]

honorary mention: TOTO’s soundtrack for “dune”. don't yell at me.

[Gorillclub]

TRON (1982 ) wendy carlos stunning soundtrack ! (but forget the track by Journey ...)