Trevor is a stud for sure.

Since we're in that mode how about one of my favorite drummers from one of my favorite bands: Stewart Copeland.

He's done some killer soundtracks. (Wall Street, 9.5 weeks etc).

Mark Knopfler's soundtrack for Local Hero is a classic. The soundtrack album is not the best: it only includes the cues as they were used in the film, so some pieces get chopped up strangely that way.

Also, some of the synth stuff sounds pretty dated now, but it still works very well in the context of the movie.

Most of Knopfler's soundtrack work has been very good - and I'll never understand why Willy DeVille's "Storybook Love" was used (instead of something by Knopfler) over the closing credits of The Princess Bride.

I definitely second Hustickerdu's opinion of the Solaris soundtrack; for me, it pretty much made the movie (well, along with Jeremy Davies' performance).

Post edited by: nickbenn, at: 2005/10/30 01:29

Has anyone heard of X-ray dog? They're a company that does music for trailers and such! They have awesome music!

http://www.x-raydogmusic.com/sounds.htm

You can listen to some samples (try the orchestral one), but I'll be turned into jello if I don't know how to get ahold of the actual music!

Ever hear Trevor Rabin with Yes? Those recordings go back to the origins of Spazz and Zentherstick. Good stuff.

One of my favorite "soundtrack" albums is for a film that was never made, nor intended to be made.

Building on his Music for Films series, Brian Eno released an album with U2 about 10 years ago, called Passengers, Original Soundtracks #1. That's it - it was not listed as "by Brian Eno", or "by U2", or even "by U2 & Brian Eno" - just Passengers, Original Soundtracks #1 (usually, for classification purposes, the artist name is considered to be "Passengers").

It has some great music on it - most of it would indeed have made perfect movie music. There is also a strangely compelling guest performance by Luciano Pavorotti, which fits surprisingly well with the rest of the album.

Not only a pretty amazing album, which would have been perfect as film music, but also one of the best U2 albums. At the time, they were reportedly trying to break free of their musical past, and do something very different. While this album might not be as far removed from Achtung, Baby and Zooropa as they were trying to get, it's ten times the album that Pop (released a year and a half later) was, and U2 hasn't written music at this level since (in my opinion).

Wow - weird. The system let me post that last one, but apparently my login expired while I was in the process of posting. So I had to log in again, but it still won't let me edit that one (even though I can edit older posts of mine).