Favorite (non-John Williams) movie score.

Definitely the Rocky theme. Seeing it used in recent New Progressist Party(I'm a statehooding Puerto Rican) caravans just makes it even more beautiful.

And the Edward Scissorhands theme... hell, I'm a sucker for ANYTHING gothic

 

I can't remember if I posted or not in this thread but I have quite a few I like and of course they're the full bootleg/promo scores too...the OST's for these scores just suck in comparison...

David Arnold
Independence Day

Don Davis
The Matrix Trilogy

Jerry Goldsmith
Air Force One
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek V The Final Frontier (OST of course)
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Nemesis

Dennis McCarthy
Star Trek Generations (OST)

Mark Mancina
Twister (OST)

James Horner
Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan (OST)
Star Trek III The Search For Spock (OST)

Danny Elfman
Spider-Man (OST)
Spider-Man 2 (OST)

Those are the non John Williams scores I really like the most. Again the ones that aren't marked OST are their full bootleg/promo scores. But they're better than their OST counter parts.

Trent

 

Danny Elfman did a great job in Batman Returns.

 

Han Zimmer - Gladiator
James Horner - Troy
Howard Shore - LOTR Trilogy

 

Thomas Newman's score for Road to Perdition is beautiful; the Celtic airs of "Rock Island, 1931", the impish "Meet Maguire", and the sombre "Rain Hammers", just to name three. It complements the spectacular film perfectly. On the whole, a fairly melancholy soundtrack, but I like some depressing orchestral music every now and then.

Goodbye, Lenin! score, Yann Tiersen's, is a bit happier and jauntier, with tracks like the frantic "The Deutschmark Is Coming", with its frenzied woodwinds, which helps convey the chaotic atmosphere of the rapid change to West German money (the film is set in East Germany, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall). However, tracks such as "Summer '78" help balance the silly with the more sober.

Walter/Wendy Carlos' electronic, futuristic soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange is great too, the remixes of Beethoven with synthesisers are especially joyful to the ear.

 

Anything by Basil Poledouris(Robocop, The Hunt for Red October, Starship Troopers).

 

I agree with you guys on LOTR, but why has no one mentioned Children of Dune by Brian Tyler? I've been listening to it obsessively for about nine months now.

 

I always liked Elmer Bernstein's score from "Stripes" starring Bill Murray. Very catchy stuff.
Parts of the score from "K-19 the Widowmaker" had some emotional moments for me.
I also like certain cues from the first 5 Star Trek films. "Generations" had a few good ones too.

 

the matrix trilogy. i actually like the matrix trilogy score better than the star wars scores, or anything by john williams.

 

The Last Samurai - Hans Zimmer
Gladiator - Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard

 

Titanic - James Horner

Take out "My Heart Will Go On" and the fact that it's tied to a vastly overrated and sappy movie, and the score is really awesome.

 

The entire LOTR trilogy is awesomely sweet...
also, The Perfect Storm is great if you can get over the composer's constant self-cannibalization from other scores he's done (plus the damned John Cougar Mellancamp song).

Outside of that, I must say ELFMAN!

Sleepy Hollow is among his best work. It also features no less than three Sith Lords.

 

Children of Dune
The Rock
Speed
Total Recall

 

The Lord of the Rings music by Howard Shore is amazing. I also like the Spider-man and Matrix trilogy music.

None of these are even close to John Williams' greatness though.

 

Oh yeah, David Arnold's Independence Day soundtrack is really good too. Another personal favorite.

 

Children of Dune. Absolutley.

 

well. You may have heard me say this already but without a doubt my favorite is Philip Glass' music in the 'qatsi' trilogy (for those unfamiliar, also wrote music for 'The Hours' and 'Kundun'). Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi. Not your traditional movies. There's no dialogue, only images and music. perhaps not your traditional soundtrack, but some of the best movie music ever written, IMO. because Glass was not limited by having to tell a story that is already told by dialogue - he gets to create the story along with the unfolding spine-chilling images. mmm. tasty for my ears.

 

the music in the Matrix trilogy by Don Davis and Juno Reactor, the music in the LotR trilogy, and the music in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

 

Lord of the Rings, Return of the KIng.

 

Scores with what I consider the first serious Score composer, Niklos Rozka. Ben Hur and El Cid for example.
The Last of the Mohicans.
Pirates of the Carribean.

 

especially Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer.

 

Hans Zimmer/Howard Newton - Batman Begins

Jerry Goldsmith (By far)- First Contact, Inssurection, Nemesis.

John Powell - The Bourne Supremacy

Howard Shore - LotR Trilogy

 

Hans Zimmer's (all of 'em) and Klaus Badelt's pirates of the caribbean

 

Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Alamo: 2004 version
Both Spidermans
Master and Commander: The far Side of the World

 

The rock - Hans Zimmer
Hellraiser - Christopher Young
Van Helsing - Alan Silvestri