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I think my favourite one is Arizona Dream. A damn good thing. Especially the second take of "In the dead car". Actually all the soundtracks of Emir Kusturica's films are great. I like as well those of The Boat that rocked and Forrest Gump. Recently I watched "Wonder Boys", I think the soundtrack was pretty good too. I am a big fan of "Hair" but I don't think it counts as a soundtrack. And hats off to the Shrek soundtrack for always adding a song from Nick Cave or Tom Waits :P

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Really more of a score than a soundtrack, I'm a big fan of Angelo Badalamenti's score to Mulholland Drive. Then again, I love all of the music that he created for David Lynch's movies and TV shows. I also really dig the Vangelis score on Blade Runner, the music is easily one of the best parts about the movie. Ennio Morricone typically does a great job as well, but I would say that The Thing was his high water mark.

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Re: Soundtracks

It may still be my favorite Diabolical Masquerade release' date=' although I like all their stuff. It's been a while since I listened to it. I know it was a big joke to them, but actually I think it's cool to try to write an album as a movie score. It's a different framework for your songs. A different sort of flow.[/quote'] I thought it was a cool idea, and I love the way the recurring themes and flow are played out. Ravendusk is probably my favorite, but it's because those melodies are just so damn good. It sounds like early Katatonia as pure black metal, and early Katatonia is some of my favorite music ever. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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HELL YES, my second favourite behind Star Wars. The Hobbit was pretty sick in the soundtrack department as well.
I was actually really disappointed with The Hobbit soundtrack. While "The Misty Mountains Cold" theme was great, it seemed like a huge percentage of the music used was recycled from the trilogy. "Okay, Bilbo's going to see The Ring now, cue the mournful violin solo from Fellowship!" I did like the songs though, even though I thought they were a little ill-placed initially.
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I've never cared for soundtracks unless they had several songs that were only available on said CD. The exception to the rule being movie specific soundtracks aka scores. The exception to that would be: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Radio Sunnydale and Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More With Feeling. :D Repo! The Genetic Opera was pretty badass as well.

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