In re movie soundtracks -- I mentioned Cliff Martinez’s "Traffic" score (my staple, go-to soundtrack if I can’t think of anything else), but some others worth mentioning:
- Most anything by Vangelis created for a film score. "Blade Runner" is just the tip of a mountainous iceberg.
- Ditto Tangerine Dream.
- Ditto Yoko Kanno.
- Brian Eno, "Music for Films" (vols 1 & 2) -- This is kind of a cheat, but Eno intended for this music to be used in films, and they have been, so I suppose they count. They’re also entrancing stuff.
- John Powell’s unnerving score for "United 93" helped propel one of my first truly successful writing projects to completion.
- I strongly suspect the "Man of Steel" score is going to figure heavily into that long-in-gestation superhero story if it ever gets out of the idea phase.
- John Powell’s unnerving score for "United 93" helped propel one of my first truly successful writing projects to completion.