Music part 1: soundtracks
What kind of music do I like? I’ll divide my list into three categories: soundtracks, popular, and classical.
A few months ago I started using iTunes. I’ve copied all of my CDs onto my computer, and bought a few new albums. I’ve also bought some single songs from iTunes — most songs are $0.99 and most albums are $9.99. In the lists below if I only have some single songs I’ll put the album title in square brackets.
I listen to a lot of soundtrack music, mostly from movies that I like a lot.
Composers I have multiple albums from:
- John Barry — Dances With Wolves, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, [The Lion in Winter…]
- Christophe Beck — Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score, Once More With Feeling
- Danny Elfman — Batman, Music For a Darkened Theatre (2), [Alice in Wonderland, Men in Black…]
- Michael Giacchino — Star Trek, Up, [The Incredibles, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol]
- Jerry Goldsmith — Star Trek I, Star Trek V, Star Trek: First Contact, Medicine Man, Air Force One…
- James Horner — Star Trek II, Star Trek III, Apollo 13, Avatar, Willow, [The Mask of Zorro, Cocoon…]
- Trevor Jones — Dark City, Labyrinth
- Michael Kamen — Brazil, Michael Kamen’s Opus
- Thomas Newman — WALL-E, American Beauty, [Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption]
- Howard Shore — The Lord of the Rings (3)
- John Williams — Jurassic Park, Star Wars I, Star Wars V, [Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark…]
- Hans Zimmer — The Rock, Sherlock Holmes, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, [Backdraft, Inception…]
Composers I have one amazing album from:
- Burt Bacharach — Casino Royale
- Angelo Badalamenti — A Very Long Engagement
- Klaus Badelt — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Elmer Bernstein — The Great Escape, [The Magnificent Seven]
- Terence Blanchard — Inside Man
- Mychael Danna — The Sweet Hereafter, [Monsoon Wedding, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus…]
- Tan Dun — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Cliff Eidelman — Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Henry Mancini — Pure Gold
- Dennis McCarthy — Star Trek: Generations
- Ennio Morricone — The Mission, [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]
- Nicola Piovani — Life is Beautiful
- John Powell — How to Train Your Dragon, [Hancock]
- Leonard Rosenman — Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Alan Silvestri — Back to the Future Part III, [The Abyss, Forrest Gump, Captain America, Contact]
- Yann Tiersen — Amélie
- Vangelis — Blade Runner
Other composers worth mentioning:
- Peter Best — [Crocodile Dundee]
- Benoît Charest — [The Triplets of Belleville]
- Patrick Doyle — [Henry V]
- Greg Edmonson — [Firefly]
- Ilan Eshkeri — [Stardust]
- Philip Glass — [Powaqqatsi]
- Harry Gregson-Williams — [Chicken Run]
- Dave Grusin — [The Goonies]
- Nicholas Hooper — [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
- Maurice Jarre — [Witness]
- Clint Mansell — [Requiem for a Dream, Moon]
- David Newman — [Serenity]
- Randy Newman — [Toy Story, Pleasantville, Awakenings]
- James Newton Howard — [Lady in the Water, Salt]
- Basil Poledouris — [Quigley Down Under]
- Nino Rota — [The Godfather]
Soundtracks of popular music by various artists form only a small part of my collection. But here are six such soundtracks that I like:
- The Best of James Bond: 30th Anniversary Collection
- La Bamba
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Shrek
- Strictly Ballroom
- The X-Files: The Album