Quote: (08-02-2016 10:10 AM)Mercenary Wrote:
Quote: (01-14-2014 01:06 PM)Haig Wrote:
I love the majority of John Carpenter's soundtracks but the one that sticks out for me is Big Trouble in Little China.
Agreed, most music from his films is pure kick ass.
A few examples:
The Thing
Escape from New York
The Fog
Totally agree. In addition to being an amazing director, John Carpenter is highly underrated as a composer. The music for "Escape From New York" is just about perfect when it comes to establishing that mood of a technologically advanced yet dystopian and ultimately doomed society.
How about these awesome, but old school soundtracks:
Harold and Maude- In my opinion one of the best soundtracks of all time, with Cat Stevens at his peak, before the Muslim thing.
Taxi Driver- Composed by the master, Bernard Herrmann, who you all know from "Psycho," but who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Martin Scorcese.
Midnight Cowboy- a bit of a mish-mash, and very late 60's psychadelic, but anything with Harry Nilsson, John Barry and Toots Thielemans (who was a renown guitar player, a harmonica virtuoso, and I shit you not, a master at whistling) is OK in my book.