What's your favourite film soundtrack?

As BBC4 launches a new series on the sound of cinema, we'd like to hear from you about the film soundtracks that mean the most to you

Writing in the Guardian this week, Neil Brand, presenter of BBC4's Sound of Cinema, says: "Most memorable movie music announces itself, whether with the blast of trumpets that begins Star Wars or the low, febrile string notes that usher in Jaws; whether the electronic hammer blows of Blade Runner or the unexpectedly lyrical solo piano that opens the Coen brothers' True Grit. These are the pieces we remember, the stuff we can hum along to, so engrained in us that it seems to have existed for ever."

The BBC, as part of it's Sounds of Cinema season, is currently polling listeners to find the greatest ever soundtrack, with a shortlist of 20. Is your favourite on this list?

8 ½ 'Otto e Mezzo' (Nino Rota)
Apocalypse Now (Wagner)
Billy Elliot (Swan Lake music, Tchaikovsky)
Bombay (AR Rahman)
Dark Knight Rises Suite (Hans Zimmer)
Django Unchained (Luis Bacalov / Riz Ortolani / Morricone)
Grease (various)
Lawrence of Arabia Main Theme (Maurice Jarre)
Mary Poppins (Sherman brothers)
Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith)
Psycho (Bernard Herrmann)
Sholay (RD Burman)
Sound of Music (Richard Rogers / Oscar Hammerstein II)
Star Wars Main Theme (John Williams)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone, arr. David Arnold)
The Third Man (Anton Karas arr. Cox)
The Wizard of Oz (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Herbert Stothard)
There Will be Blood (Jonny Greenwood)
Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)

We'd like to hear from you about the music soundtracks that have had the greatest impact on you. Let us know about your favourite via the form below, and we'll publish a selection of responses in the coming days.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/13/what-favourite-film-soundtrack?

Gladiator.

1.Easy Rider soundtrack

2. Grease

3. Sound of Music

Favourite movie score, Star Wars

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack

Apart from Star Wars, not one of those ones would I normally listen to.

Agree with Iridium that Gladiator is awesome. Not sure if it is my favourite, but it is definitely close and gets a regular cycle in my playlist.

Others would include
- Band of Brothers (not a film but mini-series admittedly, but one of the best easily.)
- Braveheart
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Last of the Mohicans (Cora particularly)
- Willow (Elora Danan, about 2 minutes in = awesome)
- Master and Commander (love that duet scene)
- The Princess Bride (probably more sentimental than in real quality, but as an extremely simple soundtrack with few instruments, it is very effective).
- Saving Private Ryan (not Band of Brothers good, but still good).

There are plenty of mainstream action ones that are really good that and so hard to skip as well, like Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park and even Titanic (not action I know).

To be honest, video game soundtracks are often just as good if not better. Some of my favourite soundtracks are from games like Journey, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate, Uncharted etc.

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lion king also...Halo?

Oh and 8 mile, get rich die trying.

Edited by iridium1010: 13/9/2013 11:43:15 PM

Mmm, Mortal Kombat theme makes me want to fight... or does a pump class or something.

You're right, Lion King was pretty cool.

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Edited by chillbilly: 14/9/2013 12:05:37 AM

Anything by Hans Zimmer is pretty good, these especially.

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Oh yeah, this is definitely amongst the best.

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The Lion King, that soundtrack is just perfection.

Best soundtrack in video games ever:
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Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
Purple Rain

Edited by Joffa: 14/9/2013 12:42:09 AM

Twilight had an amazing sound track.

In terms of a soundtrack of mixed artists, it's be the best I've heard.l

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The use of that theme in these 9 minutes of film, freaking blows me away every time. Particularly at around minute 6, when it focuses on Alice when those deep bass notes, amazing.

Damn this topic. Now I can't stop thinking about film tracks and the list to choose from keeps getting longer.

Indiana Jones
You've got a friend in me - Toy Story
Superman
Space Odyssey
Chariots of Fire
Mission Impossible
Pink Panther
ET

Game of thrones.

Main theme or Rains of Castamere?

Master & Commander is my favourite.

Blackhawk Down is great.

Lion King fo sho. Movies by Cameron Crowe always have an eclectic mix of good music, Vanilla Sky being my favourite.

Forgot about Purple Rain, was amazing. Romeo + Juliet is great too

main, but the rains of castamere was great also(thanks got wiki)

Master and commander...epic film.

From Blade.

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Edited by iridium1010: 14/9/2013 01:48:50 AM

The Drive soundtrack is pretty cool.

Footloose
Dirty Dancing

Inception
The Dark Night Rises
Tron Legacy

Romeo + Juliet's is pretty good.

The best film soundtracks are the ones where you don't even notice the music, it's just a part of the storytelling rather than sitting there noticing the music.

Wanted, GWTDT, Band of Brothers, Inception, The Social Network all do that really well.

Most of these aren't classics, but definitely my favourites:

Man on Fire (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Deja Vu (Gregson-Williams)
Bourne Identity/Supremacy (John Powell)
The Da Vinci Code (Hans Zimmer)
Gladiator (Zimmer)
Senna (Antonio Pinto)
The Island (Steve Jablonsky)

From an Aussie perspective, I also thought the original Underbelly soundtrack was amazing. Well in Burkhard Dallwitz!

The Great Gatsby

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