Movie soundtracks

[laurenmcoakley]

I own many soundtracks, including All 4 Harry Potter Movie 
soundtracks.  I enjoy certain soundtracks because of the mood hey put 
me in, like the "American Beauty" soundtrack is very nice and mellow- 
reminds me of dinner music.  I like The Lost Boys Soundtrack, as well 
as some other 80's movies (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles), when I'm 
feeling nostalgic (I was a teenager back in those days).  I love the 
Almost Famous Soundtrack, and I listened to The Father of The Bride 
Soundtrack going up to and including my wedding day...the list of my 
soundtrack collection, and the mood each one means to me is very 
varied.  Not all soundtracks are worth buying, however!  More than 
once I have watched a movie and loved at least a few of the songs to 
find that the songs are not on there, replaced with some crappy other 
songs that I didn't even recall in the movie!

My Harry Potter soundtracks seem to take me into many moods.  My most 
favorite is PoA, its upbeat songs, like Aunt Marge's Waltz (LOVE IT) 
and the The Whomping Willow and the The Snowball Fight are just tons 
of fun.  My favorite 'slower" song on this soundtrack is A Window 
Into The Past.  Very introspective.  Reminds me of the Lord of The 
Flies Soundtrack.

I must admit, I haven't cracked open yet my GoF soundtrack (well, I 
just popped it in for the first time, actually).  It's ok so far, but 
I'm finding the Quidditch World Cup to be a little (IMO) too bare.  

You must understand, I'm a music student from way back, and have 
probably had my views of music tainted by my very influential high 
school music teacher.  I am undeniably subjective when it comes to 
John Williams.  I think he is GENIUS.

So of COURSE I'd recommend the first two soundtracks too!  SS is 
(what I think) the rest of all the following HP soundtracks are based 
from.  The Prologue is the familiar Harry Potter opening song that we 
are all acostomed to hearing at the beginning of each film (except 
GoF, of course).  Harry's Wondrous World, track 2 is great- it is 
very upbeat- you feel like you are being carried off to some 
fantastic place.  And Hedwig's Theme is another one brought through 
all the different movie soundtracks.

I wonder though, if your preference if for GoF, then you might not 
enjoy the first two soundtracks, because the songs are much in the 
same style as JW (and therefore PoA).

Lauren

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Karen Chuplis <kchuplis at a...> 
wrote:
>
> I only have PoA and GoF of the Potter movies. I really like the 
> soundtrack for GoF. A LOT.  It saved my workday yesterday as I had 
to 
> edit a very boring customer service manual. It made it an enjoyable 
> task to have GoF in the background. I absolutely LOVE the 
Durmstrang 
> music. However, maybe my two favorite tracks are The Black Lake and 
> Death of Cedric. Hard to choose though because I love the Hogwart's 
> Hymn too. Such lovely suspensions in the cadences.
> 
> Does anyone recommend the first two soundtracks at all? PoA is 
good, 
> but its not as attractive to me as GoF.
> 
> I own lots of soundtracks and love listening to them, especially 
when 
> working or working out. I just usually get more gumption from them. 
I 
> actually love my Seabiscuit soundtrack almost above all others. I 
agree 
> that Star Wars was the "breakout" soundtrack. I wore that album as 
well 
> as Close Encounters OUT.  The key to recognizing themes, I think, 
is 
> just to do a lot of listening. Then when  you go back to the movie, 
> they will begin to pop out at you. I can't recommend an iPod 
shuffle 
> enough as an inexpensive way to keep two or three soundtracks with 
you 
> at all times :D
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 28, 2006, at 10:01 AM, geebsy wrote:
> 
> > I haven't bought an instrumental movie soundtrack since 1977 when 
I
> > bought the Star Wars double album because back then I had never 
seen
> > or heard anything like that movie and I needed to be a part of 
it.  It
> > sounds like many of you own HP soundtracks.  Do you find the music
> > something you really like and listen to?  I actually don't listen 
to
> > music much anymore except as background when I putz around the 
house
> > and then usually the satellite is tuned to the RockAlternative
> > station.  When I work out I listen to Talking Books.  I'm 
intrigued
> > how some of you have reviewed the music.  Anyone care to talk me
> > through some of the recurring themes I should listen to when I 
rewatch
> > the movies?
> >
> > Roxane
> >
> >
> >
> >
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