"Underrated soundtracks ?" Topic

I found a DVD copy of Red Sonja for little more than the change in my pocket. Now it's a stinker with some stuff that might be a great idea in a game, but the feature that really stood out was the soundtrack. And it's a blast, it's not on the same level as the one for Conan, but it's Ennio Morricone going full fantasy epic and it's pretty good overall, the opening trumpet music hearkens back to his Western days, but has a clear fantasy tinge. It's extremely catchy too.

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So underrated soundtracks, got any to share ?

Not sure about underrated or not, but…

Conan (as you already mentioned)
Blade Runner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Cold Mountain

I guess it all depends on your perspective.

Chalfant

The soundtrack of Alexander is great. (Pun very much intended)

Sunshine has a fantastic soundtrack (only good thing about the movie)

Gettysburg
Army of darkness
original Lord of the rings (1970's)
Excalibur

Could a soundtrack be overrated and underrated at the same time? Then I would say:
To Live and Die in LA
Patton
A Bridge too Far
Les Miz

However, I have painted hundreds if not thousands of figures listening to the above plus these gems;
Last of the Mohicans
Glory
Conan the Barbarian
Sharpe

The Rocketeer. A terrific, uplifting main theme, solid action scene bits, and two classic romantic '30s dance songs, too!

FM (but I guess that was kinda the point)
Gettysburg
A Charlie Brown Christmas (some songs are played regularly but the entire work is awesome)

Less Than Zero.

Speed Racer soundtrack by Michael Giacchino is just pure brilliance! One of my top CDs in the car for long driving trips ^,^

Starting with the Introduction track wherein they play the first 3 notes of the primary Speed Racer theme. You have now been introduced. As the movie goes along, more and more of the theme gets added, but it's well into the movie before the full theme rips loose.

The original series had quite a lot of different music, all of which are well worked into the movie arrangements too.

Here's one track: YouTube link

Not sure what you mean by underrated.

Gettysburg
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Graduate
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning Vietnam
American Hot Wax
American Graffiti
The Buddy Holly Story
The Doors
Help
A Hard Days Night
The Glenn Miller Story
Bird
Lawrence of Arabia
FM
Jersey Boys
Memphis Belle

I have more that I like but not sure if they are underrated.

I dislike the term "underrated", and I wish it would just go away. What does it mean? I like it but Mikey doesn't?
Having said that, I find that the music really enhanced the action in;
Last of the Mohicans, final chase scene. Best ever mating of action with music.
Game of Thrones, "The Light of the Seven", where Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor with wildfire.

Underrated?
Major Dundee (the original by Amfitheotrof)
Lionheart (the 1987 medieval piece. Jerry Goldsmith)
The Train Robbers (The John Wayne movie. Dominic Frontiere)

Bonus points for anyone who can find my an instrumental version of the Major Dundee March or The Train Robbers main score on CD.

In Harms Way.
The Blue Max.

I agree. That is nice lively theme music to Red Sonja.

I listen to a lot of classical music. Everyone knows the names Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. But what are the names of modern classical composers. Few people know, but they have probably heard their music, because contemporary composers write for the movies.

Conan – Basil Poledouris
Star Wars – John Williams
Last of the Mohicans – Dougie Maclean & Trevor Jones
Aliens – James Horner
First Knight – Jerry Goldsmith

Excalibur – (19th century composer Richard Wagner and Carl Orff)

I am thinking the intention was soundtracks for 'obscure' movies. Like Krull or Captain From Castille.

A very poor war movie (but an interesting and beautifully made film) The Thin Red Line has an excellent soundtrack. Especially to paint miniatures to.

Hah!
I think that one of the most annoying things about The Thin Red Line is the music.

I like the Guardians of the Galaxy sound track myself

blue max
stargate
Conan
braveheart
star wars
lorf of the rings
2001
heavy metal

One composer to look at: bernardherrmann.org

Wrote the music for Ray Harryhausen movies

Joe vs the Volcano

Any Guy Ritchie movie

I'm not sure how "underrated" a lot of the above are considering all the Oscar and Golden Globe nominee soundtracks there are included…

If you're looking for hidden gems I'd suggest perhaps looking at documentary soundtracks. The BBC and National Geographic seem to be especially strong in this area (possibly b/c of the resources they've got to apply.)

Along these lines you might try the National Geographic "Mars" soundtrack – it's a little plodding and atmospheric and so not to everyone's taste, but that's true of many interesting things.

The Crow
Batman and Robin

Kagemusha, Ran, Seven Samurai. You can see where I'm coming from but they all have really good soundtracks nonetheless.

My favorites right now are
Last of the Mohicans
Gladiator
Magnificent Seven

Oldie but goodie, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Band of Brothers
Blue Max

The Sound of Music, or maybe Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. So much to sing along to.

To play during games,or paint to:
Wayne's Alamo
Major Dundee
Khartoum
The Warlord
The Horse Soldiers
Zulu
Lawrence of Arabia

Henry V (1989)

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures original soundtrack

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I have this and its amazing for Fantasy RPG or wargames background music.

The Long Riders (music by Ry Cooder).

Ron

"Underrated" is such a highly subjective term, and since this thread appears to have morphed into a list of everyone's favorite miniatures and wargaming-related soundtracks, here are mine:

Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (1953) – Fumio Hayasaka YouTube link
The Magnificent Seven (1960) – Elmer Bernstein YouTube link
Yojimbo (1961) – Sato Masaru YouTube link
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Maurice Jarre YouTube link
Zulu (1964) – John Barry YouTube link
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) – Ennio Morricone YouTube link
The Lion in Winter (1968) – John Barry YouTube link
Patton (1970) – Jerry Goldsmith YouTube link
Shogun (1980) Maurice Jarre YouTube link
Conan the Barbarian (1982) – Basil Poledouris YouTube link
Henry V (1989) – Patrick Doyle YouTube link
Rome (2005) – Jeff Beal YouTube link
The Avengers (2012) – Alan Silvestri YouTube link

Bridge Too Far, youtu.be/AWL184ZcSxA
Donnie Darko, youtu.be/ZZyBaFYFySk
The Social Network, youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4
Natural Born Killers, youtu.be/XpLKNclOtLg
Scott Pilgrim, youtu.be/7wd5KEaOtm4
The Matrix, youtu.be/vKQi3bBA1y8
Control, youtu.be/p15-hIIACvY
Grosse Point Blank, youtu.be/IJ7AXKWmWOg
The Harder They Come,
youtu.be/imGkQdE7N2s
24 Hour Party People, youtu.be/HFiyEegpKUM
This Is England, youtu.be/CXDNsPRTANw
Snatch, youtu.be/ni4tEtuTccc
Rude Boy, youtu.be/Sl9j49bvANs

Sorry, those weren't very military related!

'All You Need is Cash' YouTube link not the best of movies but some exelent songs.

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