Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Surely none of us only listens to film/TV music. I'm keen on jazz, classic rock, '80s/early '90s hip-hop, and some country and pop. Classic rock can't be beat, with the usual assortment of groups including Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Nine Inch Nails...

How about you?

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The rare chance I'm not listening through film music scores, I'm listening to either pop rock, or 80s synth.

Outside of my 90-minute analog-cassette and full-CD anthologies of treasured individual songs which I've compiled periodically since 1986, here are the separate non-film-music albums and classical pieces to which I still return with the most pleasure:

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: their '60s albums, especially Tijuana Brass Vol. 2, South of the Border, and Herb Alpert's 9th [my love of these LPs helped feed my adolescent transition toward Ennio Morricone with FISTFUL OF DOLLARS]
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
The Beatles: Abbey Road
L.V. Beethoven: piano sonatas Moonlight, Pathetique, and Appassionata; Symphony No. 7
Leonard Cohen: esp. I'm Your Man; The Future
Nat "King" Cole: Love Is the Thing
Sam Cooke: 28-song anthology The Man and His Music
Claude Debussy: The Girl With the Flaxen Hair; Clair de Lune
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
The Drifters: The Drifters' Golden Hits
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
Enya: esp. Watermark; The Memory of Trees; The Celts; Shepherd Moons; A Day Without Rain; and Amarantine
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
The Four Tops: Anthology
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Philip Glass: Dancepieces; Songs From Liquid Days
The Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Quincy Jones: Quincy Jones Plays the Hip Hits (Big Band jazz that incidentally includes my favorite cover of Gold's EXODUS theme)
Scott Joplin: his piano rags as performed by Joshua Rifkin (or orchestrally by the Southland Stingers); the opera Treemonisha (the 1975 Deutsche Gramophone recording)
Franz Liszt: esp. Mephisto Waltz; La Campanella; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Liebestraum; and Les Preludes
Dory Previn: Mythical Kings and Iguanas; We're Children of Coincidence and Harpo Marx
Maurice Ravel: The Bolero
Diana Ross and the Supremes: Anthology
Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon solo: Graceland
Frank Sinatra: September of My Years
Cat Stevens: esp. Mona Bone Jakon; Teaser and the Firecat; Tea for the Tillerman
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life; Hotter Than July

What's this -- this thread is up for three days, and nobody else bothers to identify or recommend other music that more of us might discover?

Warren Zevon - John Hiatt - Ry Cooder (A bit of crossover there) - Billy Joel - Nick Lowe

IRON MAIDEN. Very cinematic.

I listen to mostly classical music, I don't know how much exactly but probably more than half of what I listen to falls into the general domain of classical music, from Bach to Brahms to Penderecki.

The rest is film music, jazz, rock/pop, techno, industrial, house, whatever....

Ravel is my favorite classical composer -- I love "Daphnis et Chloe" (a huge inspiration on Goldsmith's Legend and other fantasy scores), "Mother Goose Suite", "Pavane", "Valses nobles et sentimentales" (can't stand "Bolero" though!).

Debussy -- "La Mer" (another big influence on film music), "Trois Nocturnes".

Takemitsu -- "Toward the Sea II", "Tree Line", "A String Around Autumn".

Corigliano -- "Creations", "Promenade Overture", "Elegy for Orchestra", "Voyage for Flute and Sting Orchestra".

Messiaen -- most of his organ works ("La Nativite du Seigneur: Dieu parmi nous" is one of the most extraordinary things you'll ever hear).

I'm also a big fan of some of Vangelis' non-film music, like "Rosetta", and like portions of "Direct", "Mask", and the album of Greek hymns he recorded with Irene Papas, "Rapsodies".

Predictably, I also enjoy concert works by some "film" composers -- Kamen's "Concerto for Saxophone", Williams' "Five Sacred Trees", and some tracks on Barry's "Beyondness of Things" and "Eternal Echoes".