This thread was inspired by recent cd releases and board comments.
A Listener's Guide to the Eighties
REQUIRED listening (you should see the films also):
BACK TO THE FUTURE E.T.: THE EXTRATERRESSTIAL BODY HEAT BLADE RUNNER ALTERED STATES KOYANASQAATSI WOLFEN THE NATURAL THE UNTOUCHABLES RETURN TO OZ
Some more excellent scores: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK; INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE THE RIGHT STUFF; CAT PEOPLE; CHARIOTS OF FIRE; STARMAN; CONAN THE BARBARIAN; TRON; CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD; STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER; THE MISSION; THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS; DRAGONSLAYER; HAMMETT; TESS
Television: MIAMI VICE; THE EQUALIZER, V: THE FINAL BATTLE
I know I left off many excellent scores. Please feel free to post your own recommendations bruce
!>The 80's were the last decade that I really loved any scores by Barry and Morricone. 2. There were quite a few excellent electronic or mostly electronic synth scores
Surprised you left off Raiders of the Lost Ark, that should definitely be on any 80's list.
Other scores I would add, some are better than the movies themselves.
Rambo: First Blood Part II Karate Kid I-III (especially for the final cues in each score) Tootsie Black Rain Innerspace Gremlins Labyrinth Midnight Run Die Hard Predator The Burbs Big Beetlejuice Batman Willow Robocop Silverado Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Superman II Clash of the Titans Poltergeist Robocop Explorers Psycho II Silverado Spacecamp Cocoon Young Sherlock Holmes The Last Starfighter Condorman The Dark Crystal The Goonies Big Trouble in Little China
Well, Who Framed Roger Rabbit - you definitely need to see it. And listen this great score too! Hope that Intrada & Disney one day will release complete version of this true jam!
By the way, years ago I was not soundtracks fan at all (it was probably 15-17 years ago, when I saw Roger for the first time). But I fell in love to Silvestri music. And as it's was with that fantastic symphonic & jazz sound, I thought that Alan Silvestri is old, wise and serious composer, like John Williams (with glasses and white beard). Can you imagine my reaction, when I realized that he also scored some fully electronic scores, Predator... And he was not so old as I thought )))
