london’s observer gives their list of the 50 greatest film soundtracks here (or read below). do you agree? what’s missing? please, do weigh in. I, for one, would like to see brazil on there, among others.
from the observer:
the 50 greatest film soundtracks
from psycho to singing in the rain, slade in flame to shaft, our star-studded panel of big screen connoisseurs select the greatest soundtracks in cinema’s history
1. the wizard of oz, composer: herbert stothart. songs by harold arlen / ey harburg (1939)
2. psycho, bernard herrmann (1959)
3. star wars, john williams (1977)
4. pather panchali, ravi shankar (1955)
5. a clockwork orange, wendy carlos (1971)
6. a fistful of dollars, ennio morricone (1964)
7. the adventures of robin hood, erich wolfgang korngold (1938)
8. alexander nevsky, sergei prokofiev (1938)
9. shaft, isaac hayes (1971)
10. lift to the scaffold, miles davis (1958)
11. singin’ in the rain, arthur freed / nacio herb brown (1952)
12. trainspotting, compiler: danny boyle (1996)
13. high noon, dimitri tiomkin (1952)
14. blade runner, vangelis (1982)
15. 2001, compiler: stanley kubrick (1968)
16. american graffiti, compiler: george lucas (1973)
18. fire walk with me, angelo badalamenti (1992)
19. paris, texas, ry cooder (1984)
20. on her majesty’s secret sevice, john barry (1969)
21. dougal and the blue cat, narrator: eric thompson (1972)
22. gone with the wind, max steiner (1939)
23. the godfather, nino rota (1972)
24. west side story, leonard bernstein (1957)
25. slade in flame, songs by slade (1974)
26. the third man, anton karas (1949)
27. the graduate, simon and garfunkel (1968)
28. the pink panther, henry mancini (1963)
29. toy story, randy newman (1995)
30. round midnight, herbie hancock (1986)
31. ghost dog: the way of the samurai, the rza (1999)
32. trouble man, marvin gaye (1972)
33. rosemary’s baby, krzysztof komeda (1968)
34. head, the monkees (1968)
35. alfie, sonny rollins (1966)
36. the italian job, quincy jones (1969)
37. once upon a time in america, ennio morricone (1984)
38. one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, jack nitzsche (1975)
39. north by north west, bernard herrmann (1959)
40. crooklyn, various (1994)
41. deliverance, eric weissberg and steve mandel (1972)
42. don’t look now, pino donaggio (1973)
43. casablanca, max steiner and hugo w friedhofer (1942)
44. on the waterfront, leonard bernstein / stephen sondheim (1954)
45. reservoir dogs, various (1992)
46. the magnificent seven, elmer bernstein (1960)
47. snow falling on cedars, james newton howard (1999)
48. the wicker man, paul giovanni (1973)
49. dirty harry, lalo schifrin (1971)
50. the devil in miss jones, alden shuman, (1973)
from the observer, sunday march 18, 2007:
i like the you and me et al soundtrack. doctor zhivago too.
and also cul de sac. komeda rules! this is hp by the way.