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Poll Question: Who Made The Most Memorable Film Scores?
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

This time I'll be patriotic and vote for Morricone - an amazing, distinctive, hugely influential composer.
 
 
 
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If one really knows the history of film scores, this poll is lopsided, since Bernard Herrmann all but invented the genre, and his body of work is so amazing that no one can touch him.
 
Besides writing the scores for almost all of Hitchcock's films (specifically including Psycho, The Birds and North by Northwest), here is just a short list of his other scores: Citizen Kane, Jane Eyre, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Naked and the Dead, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Cape Fear, Fahrenheit 451, Taxi Driver, Obsession, and at least half a dozen episodes of The Twilight Zone.
 
And that's just for starters.
 
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P.S.  The best score Morricone ever wrote was for The Mission.
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Points: 4202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2006 at 05:03
Originally posted by marktheshark marktheshark wrote:

These are the top legends in this genre I can come up with off the top of my head.


Nice poll: here's some more top legends:

Nino Rota (my favorite)
John Barry
Krzysztof Komeda
Henri Mancini
Francois Lai
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I like Michael Nyman (The Peter Greenaway film soundtracks) and Zbigniew Preisner (for his involvement in Kieslowski's films -- especially for "Three Colours: Blue"). I don't find one particular Nyman work that memorable though -- I recognise his style immediately, but no particular piece sticks in my head that much.

Philip Glass is another one whose filmscore works I've enjoyed.  Might get flamed for this, but I like Giorgio Moroder too (especially his Midnight Express and Cat People scores). I find Moroder memorable.

Klaus Doldinger did a great soundtrack for Das Boot, I think.  Extremely memorable.

Toto did one of my favourite filmscores for Dune -- I also find it memorable.

And, of course, there's Vangelis.  Blade Runner is one of the best soundtracks in my opinion, as is The Bounty.

But another favourite is Ennio Morricone (particularly for the Mission).

Check this out from my favourite easy reading film magazine --> http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/filmmusic/


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Ennio Morricone.

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Bernard Hermann for sure,
 
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Morricone without contest. But where the hell is Howard Shore?
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Morricone!
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For me it's Michael Kamen

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2006 at 16:22
Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Jan Kaczmarek
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Krzysztof Komeda Clap
 
A superb composer - one of may favourite ECM releases of recent years was Tomasz Stanko playing the music of Krzystof Komeda - his soundtracks for Polanski were exemplary.
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    Morricone, followed by Hermann, and then Elfman.
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John Williams
Enio Morricone
Eric Serra close third
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Randy Newman.  The score to "The Natural" is one of my all-time favorites.
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