[Dagon]

Some more suggestions:

- Aguirre
- The Shining
- Body Double

[siforster]

Couple of fun/interesting/hatstand Japanese filmy suggestions:

Survive Style 5+ (soundtrack to this is AMAZING, much better than any film featuring Vinnie Jones has any right to be. It's also 100 quid+ on CD)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yN7DfMAzcQ[/video]


Electric Dragon 80,000v (soundtrack provided by the film's director's band, also featuring the star Tadanobu Asano - and yes, I know that the soundtrack CD came with the DVD but it didn't have this bloody track on it...)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSRaxdwrHs[/video]


EDIT: Versus is also a contender, killer soundtrack even if a fair portion of it (sadly not during the attached trailer) is extensively sampled from Squaresoft games - Legend Of Mana's soundtrack being a particular source...
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfhuVlbM-4[/video]

[devilwidget]

In my post-RSD stupor, I can't help but muse over what soundtracks I'd love to appear over the next year...
here goes (in order of greatness)

1. Phantasm
2. Shutter Island
3. The Fountain
4. Casshern
5. Infernal Affairs
6. Buffalo 66
7. In the mood for love
8. Hitman 2 (game)
9. Punch Drunk Love
10. In the Mouth of Madness

Theres a bit of talk on this forum about over-saturation of the market. My 2 cents - its not so much an over-saturation of OST's, but rather of 80's synth-heavy OST's. They're great, but there has been an awful lot of them over the last couple of years...

Anyone agree with any of my list (or even better, know if they are being released!)?

[Re-animated Cat]

@devilwidget: totally agreed on The Fountain and In the Mood for Love (actually I'd add 2046 too - make it a double package!).

The Fountain is happening.

As for Shutter Island, the best parts of that soundtrack are the Max Richter tracks, which are from his 2004 album, The Blue Notebooks. Get it.

[siforster]

Casshern's available on CD, but like most older Japanese soundtrack CDs it went out of print quickly and now fetches prices in the stupid bracket.

Two other Japanese soundtracks that deserve a wider audience, and both from the same director (Shunji Iwai) who knew how to mix music and cinema:

Swallowtail Butterfly
Possibly my favourite film of all time, certainly one that squeezes more into one film than any other! Starring pop chameleon Chara (sort of a bit like the Japanese Bjork, certainly as mad. Married to Tadanobu Asano), it's sort of about immigrants in Japan forming a band and generally going a bit spare everywhere else. Funny, violent, silly, heartwarming and utterly heartbreaking. The band - Yentown Band - went on to be successful in their own right.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frf9mCblGHY[/video]
EDIT: Ooh, that's an unflattering still.


All About Lily Chou-Chou
This one's just mindbending. Iwai created a fictitious pop star in Lily Chou Chou (actually Salyu, and about as mad as Chara), set up an internet forum, and based the characters and much of the story on real people and their comments on the site. So, a film soundtrack that was created long before the film was written...
Again, Lily and her band had great success - rightly so - reforming a while ago after her song being used on Kill Bill Vol.1's soundtrack (sadly not on the OST record). The film is also brilliant but a bit emotionally heavy-going (it pulls no punches about coming of age in Japan), although it's good fun (and rather surprising) to try to work out each character's online persona (or vice versa).

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAbJ2LZn_HU[/video]

[Darren LD1984]

@discosucks Been listening to these all week, man. Thanks again, you're a legend!

[DISCOSUCKS...]

My pleasure @Darren, great to hear the love spreading for the less well-travelled parts of Carpenter's musicography

If In the Mouth of Madness gets a vinyl release this year, I will happily buy everyone on here a drink!

[horizontalfilm]

I just watched "Footprints on the moon" ("le orme") yesterday! I really love the score!!! Does anyone know if it was ever released? Sorry if anybody allready mentioned it, but the search engine didn't find anything related

[DeepDownHeavy]

I can't say definitively but I don't think it - "Le Orme" - was, or has been, issued. I checked Alessandro Tordini's book - "Cosi Nuda, Cosi Violenta" Which only lists "Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero" as notable releases by Nicola Piovani (not mentioned in his filmography here either weirdly). Nothing listed on Discogs either...

[horizontalfilm]

Hey DeepDownHeavy!

Thanks for your reply and looking it up!!! Still a pity

[Darren LD1984]

If I ever run into you in the real world, the beers are on me!

[Darren LD1984]

Did a quick search here and it didn't pop up, so not sure if it's been mentioned, but it would be amazing to see Pino Donaggio's score for Tourist Trap get a new pressing.

It's a relatively new discovery for me, film-wise. It popped up on my radar when it was shown on a double-bill with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and after checking it out, I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before. it's a mental movie, but what an incredible score!

[chandler75]

"Tourist Trap" is a great movie, especially the beginning. Very creepy but also great fun. I think it's probably the best Donaggio score I've heard. I would welcome a reissue.

[philball1974]

I would really like a vinyl copy of Zero Dark Thirty. A really great score.

[Garmonbozia]

After seeing Jodorowsky's Dune, I would like someone to put out the score to Jodorowsky's Dune.

[hncreature]

Been watching the 60's TV show It Takes A Thief...would love a soundtrack for the show

[philball1974]

Would love to see a pressing of Jon Hopkins how I live now. Great soundtrack

[orbtastic]

I'd like to see more Bernard Herrmann, specifically some of the Harryhausen films, they're really good.

I ordered the Hitchcock set from Soundtrack Club in Germany but man alive, their customer service is ridiculously poor, I've had nothing from them at all and I've sent them about five emails. The money's left my bank... Anyone dealt with them before?

[Bub]

Wish they released Thrashin'

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoECn8asxdA[/video]

[static14]

Listened to my cd of Tangerine Dream's soundtrack for The Park Is Mine tonight for the first time in years. This needs a release on vinyl.

[tim28212]

agree, and also think The Keep and Miracle Mile would be nice on vinyl.

[Bub]

Wow I totally forgot about that movie (The Park Is Mine). Gonna have to revisit sometime.

[4000days]

+1 for Thrashin', for nostalgia if not for anything else - that was one of my favorite movies as a kid - I even spray-painted "Ramp Locals" on my ramp to pledge my allegiance to the fictional gang I so badly wanted to be a part of.

[Dr.Funtime]

AMERICAN BEAUTY

PASSION: Last Temptation of Christ

To Live and Die in LA

Endangered Species

Manhunter

…….

[jdubtxn]

This one Dr. Funtime? http://www.discogs.com/Wang-Chung-To-Li ... ase/330594