I love music.  and always have...

I have always found it fascinating that good musical scores can enhance a move and make it more exciting... think back Jaws... ET....  Spiderman....  Dr Zhivago.... Ben Hur..... The 10 Comandments....  Sound of Music...  Fiddler on the Roof...   The Exorcist... and many many others...

The other night though I was watching a B- movie - the Transformers  and WOW!  I was struck by this movie music that was just overpowering... I forgot about the movie... and concentrated on the music.... WOW!  Just too good.... anyone else ever have such an experience?  or am I alone in my love of Movie Themes...?

It is called cinemagic.   One of the better channels on XM.  They play all movie music.

It is real cool.

I've got many favorites-

The entire soundtrack of the movie Rent rocks me,

and musical soundtracks- omg-I love the soundtrack from Aida- listen to it a couple times a month, Phantom of the Opera- amazing, Like you, Sound of Music is on my ipod, and many amazing singles from various movies and musicals.  I can immerse in them for hours.

I have Sirius satellite radio and I would LOVE a station like that. Occasionally "Sirius Pops" channel 86 will play a movie score; but having one devoted to just that would be great.

 Although the title Star Wars theme has been overplayed there are several very beautiful movements at different points in the movie score.

The Goldfinger soundtrack has some classic brass ensemble work, and thanks to Dan Akroyd & John Belushi; the Blues Brothers forever instilled "Blues" into my soul.

Ferris Buellers Day Off
American Grafitti
The Godfather I
Lost Boys (can't stop playing that CD soundtrack)
I can't remember the name - but the "angelic music" from Natalie Woods last movie - about capturing the dying experience on a computer
Apocalypse Now
Deep Throat...oh wait, that was the slurping sounds!

come to mind -----they are : Ennio Morricone's score for "The Untouchables", Lalo Schiffrin's score for "Dirty Harry" & Jerry Fielding's score for "The Wild Bunch". Btw,  speaking of "The Wild Bunch", there's someone who posts on this board known as "Tector Gorch"; that's the name of the character that the late, great Ben Johnson played in "The Wild Bunch".

Great score writers can be as good of composers as great pop song writers.  They just ply their craft differently.

Think of how groundbreaking Jerry Goldsmith's score for "Planet of the Apes" was, for example.  Of course, it isn't something you will just put on as background music like you would a pop CD, but it is crafted better than many, and was visionary in terms of the sounds produced for it.  Same things with Newman's "American Beauty" soundtrack, to name a more recent example.  To quote Kevin Spacey's character in the movie, "Spec...tacular!"

The thing is, it is easier for a soundtract to just overpower a movie (like the "Transformers" soundtrack, for instance) if the movie isn't as memorable as the music.  Godo example for me is a soundtrack by one of thge best scorers of the 90's, Christopher Young, for a movie called "Bright Angel".  Small indy movie with the awesome Lili Taylor, Dermot Mulroney, and Sam Shepherd (among others), the movie was very uneven (although it had moments), but the soundtrack was superb.  Still playing it by itself 14 years later.

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Death Proof - well what could be better than hot ladies, cars and music. It reminded me of my time in the great state of Texas. I love Texas.

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Pink Floyd's The Wall.

What a great soundtrack.

What a terrible movie.

The album wasn't written with the idea of being a score for a movie.  The album was done in 1978 and early 1979, and the movie was done in 1981 and 1982.

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Call it what you want but she knew how to beat my drum!!

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I thought it was so 9 million more people could hear Howard Stern every day.

Or better yet, so that I could make a few bucks on the stock, so that I could afford another young lady for an afternoon.

Besides that, the movie isn't all that bad.

I like Watercolors. It's all smooth jazz, great for driving and/or sweet passionate kissing.

It certainly was far and away better than the cinematic coat hanger abortion they made of the rock opera "Tommy".

The only thing keeping their rates reasonable is the competition, if they merge look for the monthly rate to go to $20 or more.

I thought that competing with the crap on free radio should count, but them I remembered that they competed with CD's and ipods.

Nobody MAKES me subscribe, and when the price changes, I can change my mind to.  I think the monopoly argument is pretty hollow.